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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15

Christian Science services will be held
in the Scandinavian Metho5ist Episcopal
church. corner of CopDer and ALASKA
street. on Sunday at t1:45 Q. m.: subject.
Reality Sunday school at ~: We'd
neslay evening testimonial meeting at s
O'clock. All are welcome.
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Very respectfully,
GEo. MooRMAN,
Adjutant General and Chief of staff.

The "New Lippincott" for June is
lucky enough to haye secured the first
sustained novel of Captain King (now
general by right of gallantry) since he
returned victor from the Philippines.
The novel is long one and is called
rays Daughter, title reminiscent
of Captain Kings most winning officer
-"Billy" Ray.
Miss Ray is stunning American
type, who goes out as a Red Cross
nurse, followed by two persistent suit
ors in the ranks. One of these is q
gallant lieutenant of volunteers, the
other private. They come into
strange contact on the journey west, in
Hawaii and at Manila, and out of the
mystery which shrouds the disappear
ance of the one arises the acceptance of
the other. There are lot of interest
ing characters who move through
scenes which we are all eager to visit.
General Kings Hawaii, Manila, trans
port-ship. and firing lire are more vivid
than a Geographic picture, with sun
light, color, emotion, love, and hate
thrown richly in. A new portrait of
General King accompanies his latest
novel,
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Asheville, N. c.

Few regions have been more richly
endowed by nature than that famous
section of Western North Carolina,
poetically termed the "Land of the
Sky" 1t has climate so dry and
health giving that has become known
the world over as a natural sanatarium
for the cure of all troubles of pulmon-
ary or bronchial nature.
Asheville, the centre of this beautiful
mountain -hemmed plateau, is the high
est city east Of Denver, and is busy,
thriving place of 1900 inhabitants,
with all modernisms Of city life. The
city lies just at the point where the
beautiful French Broad and Swannanoa
rivers join their crystal waters,
Within the city or in it's suburbs
many people of wealth have built beau.
tiful and expensive homes, and most
notable among them being the chateau
of George W. Vanderbilt, which, with
its great estate, has cost upwards OF
four million dollars.
Asheville is an all-the-year resort,
for the great mountains protect it in
winter from the cold winds, and its
summer climate is made delightful be
cause of its altitude.
For descriptive matter of Ashevillt
and vicinity call on any Southern Ry
agent, or write @. A. Benscoter, A. G.
?. A., Chattanooga, Tenn,
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"The country editor of today is a
different person. He is a good bust
ness man. He can set type but is
seldom found at the case. He en-
ploys compositors, or has ornamented
his office with type-setting machine.
The young, woman you see bending
over the ledger is also stenographer
and typewriter The country editor
now dictates his editorials and employs
q bright young man to write local news.
His newspaper is printed on an improv-
ed press, the power is furnished by gas
engine or electric motor, and the paper
IS folded by machinery.
"He owns his own home, keeps his
own horse and carriage, and has credit
at the bank. A pleasure trip of month
is likely to be offered at any time, and
he takes it gladly; while the young wo-
man who keeps the books and the
bright young man who writes local
news keep the paper in straight line.
The country newsper men of today
really mould the sentiment of the re-
public, and have done so for the last
fifty years. The metropolitan papers
can not successfully champion any
proposition that meets with the united
opposition of the country press. Great
movements either succeed or fail in
proportion as they are advocated or op-
posed by the people who live in small
towns and on farms, because the eve
nings of such people are devoted to
reading reflection, or to old-fashioned
visiting, which means an exchange of
views and frequent discussion. In
molding these views the country editor
! is the chief instrument"
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FITzPATRICK'S CLAIM
Killed by Cold Facts-the Governor Knew
Platform Contents,

EldtlOIm OOHlcHlS,
Nashville, Tenn, May 12,-The all
absorbing subject in political circles
today is the action of Hon. Morgan G.
Fitzpatrick in stating in the convention
yesterday morning that Goy. McMillin
did not indorse the committee plank on
expansion. This, it will be recalled,
was the first plank on the subject
brought into the convention, and the
opinion prevailed that it met the views
of Coy. McMillin. The announcement,
therefore, by Mr.. Fitzpatrick, after Mr..
Carmack had made his speech, that the
governor did not indorse it, created
surprise in the convention, and the
subject is being generally discussed
here today.
1t was generally understood that
Mayor Heiskel, of Knoxville, repre-
sented Gov. McMillin on the commit
tee on resolutions, and that he
knew what sort Of an utterance, on the
expansion question, the governor de-
sired. The committee on resolutions
completed the platform, as near as can
be ascertained, about o'clock in the
evening, and passed it around among
Gov. McMillin's friends for inspection.
| The story goes here that Hon. w. 7.
Murray, of Chattanooga, after con-
ference with the governor went to the
committee and suggested a change in
the verbiage OF the expansion plank.
This change was made before the re-
port went to the convention, and the
plank had therefore gone through the
hands of both Mayor Helskel and Mr..
Murray before the convention heard it
read. This fact leads to the inevitable
conclusion among politicians that Gov.
McMillin, i'll person, or through his
chosen representatives, approved the
plank, and but for Mr.. Carmack's at
tack on it, it would have been adopted
by the convention.
The American of this morning says
that the plank was originally written
by Hon. Albert T. McNeal. of Bolivar, a
personal friend of the governor, and it
is known that it was indorsed by all of
the governor S friends who were on the
committee.
The American has a significant edi-
torial comment, also on the result of
the convention. 1t is that "Gov. Nc
Mjllin has much more to do rs govern
or" and the context of the article
seems to indicate that the American
will demand that Gov. McMillin serve
two years more as chief executive of
Tennessee.
With the exception of one section, the
expansion plank as adopted was writ
ten by Congressman Carmack.
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CAUSES FOR DIVORCE.
Nearly 100000 Separations in Twenty
five Years

The crse of the nervous frai woman
who recently applied for divorce be-
cause cher husband went whistling
about the house in the morning when
the plaintiff wanted to sleep" has found
many parallels in the courts which
make specially of undoing that which
has been done. There have been in.
Vulnerable instances of the purposes oi
fryingpan and tlat-iron as sequence
to the question of responsibility fol
kindling the kitchen range, and men
have been known to wipe dishes when
they should have been driving the
horse car or chopping wood. These,
however, 90 under the head of obIec-
tionRble family rows, and are not strict.
ly refined in the moro elaborate idea Of
divorce causes.
Out in Topeka, Kan, where anything
under the sun might be expected to
happen, there was an unusual case the
other day. Elizabeth Haberman, 70,
years old, obtained divorce from hel
husband, who is 81 in the district court.
The couple had been mrried two years
and in her petition Mrs. Haberman de,
clared that it was impossible for her tc
live Happily with A. j. Hardeman be.
cause she chews tobacco" Both were
very feeble, and were assisted to the
court room by relatives.
There is an old-time belief that di
vorce will be granted in Chicago on any
old excuse; but without Offering any de.
Tense for Chicago, it may be said that
for frivolius divorce causes certain
cities near the metropolis are entitled
to a great of unfayorable attention. II
is not long since a court in Trenton al.
lowed a decree "because the defendant
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Some OF the remarkable causes for
granting decrees of divorce are to be
found in the following condensed para
graphs;
Defendant goes gadding about town,
leaving the children to go supperless to
bed.
Defendant would not permit plaintiff
to walk on the street with errelatives.
Husband says "My wife would not
walk with me on Sundays"
Defendant sleeps with razor under
his head, solely to ofnghten and distress
plaintiff.
Defendant has accused plaintiffs sis
ter of stealing, thereby sorely wound
ing plaintiffs feelings.
Plaintiff says defendant threatened
suicide and did then and there drink a
bottle of paregoric, which said action of
defendant sorely grieved plaintiff in
mind and body.
When defendant meets with financial
loss he lays it to plaintiff.
Plaintiff is subject to sick headaches,
that grew worse when she smells to.
bacco. Defendant uses tobacco and
thus aggravates her headaches.
Defendant was guilty of cruelty in
not providing a supply of water at his
house, and in not repairing said house
so as to make it comfortable.
Defendant pulled plaintiff out of bed
by his whiskers.
Defendant would not call plaintiff
early enough each morning.
Defendant quoted scriptures and re-
minded plaintiff in the language of the
Apostle Paul that she should be obedi-
ent to her husband.
Defendant comes in late at night aud
goes stamping up stairs with his shoes
on. New York Mail and Express.
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THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
How His Position in Life Has Been Chang
cd for the Better.

How His Position in Life Has Been Chang
ed for the Better.
Writing in Success, Chas. b. lands
says:
"Hwenty-fye years ago the lot of the
country editor seemed hard one. lie
was always in close quarters financially
because he was never a business man.
People Generally considered his life a
struggle for existence, and so it was.
His was a ceaseless grind. He wrote
or 'scissored' every sentence that ap-
peNred in his paper, put it in type him
self, placed it ON the press, and then
worked the newspaper off by hand.
With the assistance of his wife or
daughters, the papers were addressed
to the subscribers, and the entire edi-
tion was carried in basket to the post
Office by the editor. He had but one
companion i'll his trials, the small boy
with a dirty face and dirtier hands,
whose trousers were held in place by q
single suspender, and who was known
in town as the devil. The latter new
er received any salary for his years
work. In return for his labor and de-
votion, he secured the priceless privil-
ege of learning the trade. Little cash
was taken in by the editor, because his
family traded out the advertisements,
and thus absorbed the town circulation,
while the country subscribers balanced
accounts with green wood aud other
products of their farms, maple syrup,
sausage, sidemeat, apyles, potatoes and
feed, or the family horse or COW were
always considered legal tender. If, as
the days passed, the editor received
enough money to buy his printing pa
per and an occasional font of type, and
pay postage and Office rent, he consid-
cred himself quite lucky.
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State Peabody Institutes.

State Superintendent Morgan c,
Fitzpatrick has located nine State Pea.
body Institutes for the teachers of
Tennessee, SIX for the white teachers
and three for the colored. The insti-
tutes are located at the places with cor
responding dates;
Clarksyille, June II; Union City,
June, II; Jackson, June, II; Cooke
vile, June 18; Cleveland, July g;
Greeneville, July2.
For colored: Nashville, June III;
Union City, June II; Knoxville, June
II.
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Another of the men arrested for the
Cuban postal scandal has confessed.
Deputy Auditor W. H. Reeves gave up
$4, 500 he had obtained from Neeey
The scandal was the subject Of much
discussion in congress. A bill was in
troduced to provide for the extradition
of Neeley. The postoffice department
discredits the story that $4,000, 900 of
bogus postage stamps were printed at
Neeley's factory at Muncie, Ind. The
story is also discredited by Gen. Wood.
! The confession of Reeves is regarded
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24

For the first time since the civil war
the house has passed bill to pay con !
federate soldiers for losses growing out
of that war. The measure provides for
the payment of confederate soldiers
who surrendered at Appomattox for the
loss of norses and other personal effects
taken in violation Of Gen. Lee S capitu-
lation to Gen. Grant. The amount in
the original bill was fixed at 5000, 900,
but in the bill as passed is indefinite.
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diers and Sailors everywhere to form
themselves Immediately into local as
sociatious and apply to these Head
quarters by telegram or letter for pa
pers to organize in time to participate
in the great Reunion, to be held at the
"Hospitable City of Louisville, Ky, :"
and thus unite with their comrades in
carrying out the laudable and philan-
thropic objects of the organization.
1t will be the largest Reunion ever
held, and the splendid Reunion Com
mittee have provided comforts, pleas
ures and entertainments for the old
Veterans, Sponsors, Maids of Honor.
Sons and Daughters of Veterns, Mill
tNry Escorts, and all visitors of all
classes, upon the most magnificent
scale ever before attempted. Please
urge all Veterans, Sons and Daughters
and their families and friends to attend
without fail
Business of the greatest importance
will demand careful consideration dur
ing the Tenth Annual Reunion-such
as the best methods of securing impair
tial history, and to enlist each state in
the compilation and preservation of the
history of her citizen soldiery; the be-
nevolent care through state aid or
otherwise of disabled, destitute or aged
veterans and the widows and orphans
of our fallen brothers-in- arms; the care
of the graves of our known and un-
known dead buried at Gettysburg,
Fort Warren, Camps Morton, Chase,
Douglrs, Oakland Cemetery at Chicago
Johnson's Island, Cairo and at all
other points; to see that they are annu-
ally, decorated, the headstones pre-
served and protected, and complete
lists of names of our dead heroes with
the location Of their last resting places
furnished to their friends and relatives
through the medium of our camps,
thus rescuing their names from obliv-
ion and handing them down in history
to assist the noble Daughters of the
Confederacy" to complete the Monu-
ment to the memory Of Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of
America, and to aid in building monu-
ments to other great leaders, soldiers
and sailors of the South; to make such
changes in the constitution and by
laws as experience may suggest, and
other matters of general interest.
Rev. B. M. Palmer, d. D., the great
Southern Divine, who devoted himself
to ministerial Service in the Army of
Tennessee during the war, has con-
sented to deliver the oration, at the
opening exercises on May Both
Total number of camps now admitted
1864 with applications in for nearly one
hundred more.
Following is the list of camps by
states-Texas 241, South Carolina 1871,
Georgia 1877, Alabama 101, Arkansas
rs, Missouri 7S, Mississippi rs, Ten
nessee rs, Louisiana 81, Kentucky 50,
North Carolina 56, Virginia 40, Florida
81, Indian Territory "a West Virginia
81, Oklahoma 10, Maryland 10, Cali
fornia 4, New Mexico 3, Illinois 2,
Montana 2, District of Columbia 2,
Colorado q Indiana 1, Massachusetts, l.,
Ohio 1, Arizona 1.
Very respectfully,
GEO. MooRMAN,
Adiutant General and Chief of Staff
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at Havana as completing the chain of
evidence. Neeley is also charged with
violoting the customs laws by the im-
portation of printing paper. The lIa-
yana newspapers now ask scr an inves-
tigation of the engineering department
alleging that it has been more extrava-
gantly conducted than the postal de-
partment. 9
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United Confederate Veterans.

Sunday, June 3rd, will be the O9nd
anniversary of the birth of our beloved
Ex-President Jefferson Davis, and is
set apart for Memorial Ceremonies
to the memory of Mr.. Davis who was
born in Kentucky near by the scene Of
the Reunion, to the peerless "Daugh.
ter of the Confeaegacy," and to every
one of our heroic ofIic RS and private,
who have gone to join them around th,
Great White Throne.
Also to urge Ex-Confederate Sol
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OBJECTED TO A LIVE HUSBAND.

Former Congressman Ct. F. White,
of Illinois, last week received decree
separating him from his wife, Minnie
A., the well-kuown Christian Scientist
The plaintiff declared that his wife was
so devoted to her belief that she fre-
quently declared that she would give
up home AND family for them.
Recent United States records show
that nearly 400, 600 divorces were grant
ed by the courts of the within the last
twenty-five years. While amajority of
these were decided on the strength of
charges of whose serious character
there could be no question, hundreds
of divorces were granted on seemingly
trivial charges. One of the most inter-
esting cases to be found in the records
is that of a wealthy young woman's
who suffered restraint at the hands of
a guardian. Believing that as a widow
she could haye more control over her
estate and actions she drove one day to
hospital where her most ardent ad-
mirer was supposedly dying. She
rtartled him back to life by proposing
that he marry her, and whether it was
the novelty of the situation or the tonic
that the clergyman impaired, the bride
groom grew well from that time and
the bride grew disgusted When the
hero of the affair was able to get around
and boss things Madame Heire5s found
the yoke of husband more burdensome
than that of guardian and the courts
gave her a decree on the grounds of
cruelty and fraud.
A Milwaukee woman in her petition
for separation alleges that the defend
ant married her simply to make O
menial of her and that he forced her tC
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24
KEEP IT IN YOUR HOME,

And whenever the bowels fail to act
properly, take dose of LYONS LAXATIVE
SYRUP - 1t acts gently but effectually on
the kidneys, liver and bowels; will keep
your system always in good working order
and make your complexion clear.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24
LYon's Laxative Syrup,
Natures Cure 70; Consultation

DOES NOT GRIPE, If you do not like it
better than any laxative you have ever
used, your druggist will refunQ the
money. Good for children as we'll as
grown people.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24

j. W. Cowart was shot and killed by
his brother, j. S. Cowart, at Arlington,
Ga, last night. They were business
partners and quarreled over a settle
ment of their affairs.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24
DOTASH gives eolor

! a ." gives ''''''
Ea0or and Jiyaaacss to
all fruits, No good fruit
can be raised without
",.tash.
Fertilizers containing atleast
8 to 1922 of Potash will give
best results on all fruits. Write
for our pamphlets, which ought
to be in every farmers library.
They are sent free.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
90 Nassau ST., New York.
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nut The PLAINTIFFS bangs off by force.

cut the plaintiffs bangs off by force.
In Baltimore last December the petit
toner, who was twenty years older
than her husband, obtained divorce
because "the defendant would not let
her go to church"
An Ohio court gave a divoyrce to a
newly married pair because the hus-
band constantly bit his nails, thereby
affecting plaintiffs happiness and
health.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24
Do You Contemplate Going West7

Do You Contemplate Going West?
Do you know anyone who does? If so,
I will be glad to quote rates and sched-
ules, and furnish maps and informa-
tion free.
w. I. ROGERS, T. P. A.
Knoxville, Tenn
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Off to the Wooded Hills.

Several weeks since the PHILADELPHIA
Sunday Times presented its readers
with magnificent lithograph in twelve
colors by LIE Roy. The demand for the
issue exceeded the supply by many
thousand copies. The Times has Sc
cured another painting-a companion
piece to the firstly the same artist,
entitled "a Blooming Clematis, " which
is now being Autographed in twelve
coors, and which will be given away
free with the great outing number OF
The Times, Sunday, May 13.
Theet music is issued regularly with
the Sunday Times. On May 1s "Trip
ping O'er the Hills" by W. S. Milton,
regulation sheet music, with beautifully
coored title page, will be given free in
connection with the handsome litho-
graph. Place your order early and you
get
An Exquisite Picture.
Sheet Music.
A Magazine section.
A Forum Section.
An Amusement Section.
A Great Newspaper.
All for 5 cents with The Outing Mum
Der of The Sunday Times.
--r-s- -s--
Although the administration sue.
ceeded in preventing any preliminary
report being made by the Isthmian
commission, the members Of that com
mission have given their personal opin
ion of the investigation to the senate
inter oceanic canal committee, and
those opinions are all one was-in favor
of the Nicaragua route. This makes i
evident that the position taken by Boss
Hanna, that the senate should not ac
upon the Nicaragua canal bill until the
report of the canal commission is made
is merely delay. Another proof was
given by Hanna insisting that the com
mittee should grant hearing to til,
officers aud directors of the new Panama
Canal Company. Why should thos,
men be heard when this government
has sent, at great expense, an officia
commission of expert engineers to in
vestigate, and that commission ha
given its views to the committee
There is enough political dynamite il
this question to blow the Mckinley ad
ministration and the republican ma
iority in the house cutof existence, an
if Boss Hanna succeeds in preventing
the passage by the senate at this ses
sion of the Nicaragua canal bill the ez
plosion will certainly take place mex
n oYember.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-05-24

Nj IAVUI5IVB ICIVTt'
Sheet Music.
A Magazine section.
A Forum Section.
An Amusement Section.
A Great Newspaper.
All for 5 cents with The Outing Mum
Der of The Sunday Times.