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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
CHOATE AND THE BABY.
The American Ambassadors Nail
Head Wit in an Address In
England.

Lately, at the opening of free library al
Acton, England, Hon. Joseph II. Choate,
the American ambassador to Great Britain,
delivered an address, and caused much
laughter by his impromptu references to a
baby who persisted in distracting the at
tention of the audience by making its voice
heard at the most inconvenent moments,
says the San Francisco Argonaut. The first
Interruption occurred early in the speech.
Mr.. Choate was saying: There is a spe-
cial provision for children in your library,
and [ think when men come to make a
choice of residence in Acton they will
not forget that fact" Here the baby
screamed in such manner as to drown the
words of the speaker. There was some dis
turbance, but Mr.. Choate said: Don't be
disturbed by the baby. Nobody knows bet
ter than my Lord Bishop that out of the
mouths of babes and sucklngs cometh wis
DOM" Things went fairly well after this,
the baby appearing to be hattered by the
reference, until Mr.. Choate was saying:
"There is book with which all of you
Here the baby walled loudly. Except, pos
sibly, the baby-are familiar" the ambassa-
dor went on; at is Ecclesiastes, and it says
that of the making of books there is no end
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
CREDIT SHE DIDN'T SEEK.
Embarrassing Position of an Absent-
Minded Woman Who Had Made
Mistake.

A lady who keeps summer boarding
house at the seashore near Boston went
down the other day to look the house over
and find out what must be renewed. She
found numerous umbrellas left by former
boarders, 5 the Boston Transcript, and
tying thei ogether, she took the bundle
to Boston % have them repaired. She
stopped in at Hovey's and laid the bundle
on the floor at her feet at the counter.
When she had made her purchase, she for
got her umbrellas, and absent-mindedly
picked up an umbrella lying on the coun-
ter, thinking it was hers, or not thinking
at all, and started off.
Then the owner of the umbrella, WON.
an standing next her, seized her and said
very sharply: "You have taken my UNI
breila!" Of course she apologized, feeling
much cut up about it, and went on forget
ting in her fuster her own bundle OF um'
brellas. The next day, on her way to Cam
bridge, she went to Hoveys and readily
recovered her lost package of umbrellas,
which had been kept for her. On the car
for Cambridge she noticed lady cycling her
very closely. Presently this lady leaned
forward and said to her, with elegant en-
phasis:
"You seem to have been more fortunate
to-day" d,
1t was the lady whose umbrella she had
taken the day before.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02

The people who are most dissatisfied
with this world have done the least
to improve it.
A woman is much more likely to
forget her birthday than to leave the
pickles behind when she goes to a
picnic.
The man who says has went
doesn't always do the complaining aft
err horse trade.
1t isn't the bravest soldiers boy who
shoots the biggest firecrackers.
She who has to make over papa's
"pants" for Willie should always bear
in mind that as We sew, so shall We
rip.
The man who cuts the pages of a
book with his finger doesn't under
stand why it is wrong to eat with his
knife.-Chicago Times-Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
Her Tip of No Avail.

A determined woman from the west Wis.,
tied Washington not long ago for the pur-
pose of interviewing a member of the cab
met on subject of interest to her. She
called, as it happened, just at the. time when
the frauds in, the Cuban postal department
were made public, and the majority of the
presidents advisers, absorbed in consider
ing the matter, had given, instructions that
they were not to be disturbed.
80 you refuse to take my card to the Sec
retary?" asked the determined lady of the
messenger.
at would be against my orders, and I
don't dare to-" replied the messenger, po-
litely.
The visitor turned away in high dudgeon,
but happy thought occurred to her and she
retraced her steps. Here my man." she
said, insinuatingly, "here is so cents. Now
will you take my card in?"
"I'm paid bigger salary than that to keep
your card out, madam" responded the
darby, shaking his head.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02

One of the young men who are
calling upon the public for statistics
for the United States census met with
an amusing incident the other day.
His district is in the suburbs of this
city, and calling at one house he
rang the bell several times with
out obtaining any response. AS
he was going out of the yard, how
ever, he noticed that the windows
were open, but screened, and as he
passed by one of these a feminine
voice called:
"Who's there? What's wanted?"
''I'm taking the United States CEN
sus," replied the enumerator.
I'm taking bath" came the
quick response of the unseen voice.
Somewhat disconnected by this r e.
ply, the enumerator announced that
he would call again.
"But can't | answer your questions
from here?' continued the bather.
Finding that there were only two
in the family, the enumerator thought
that she could. So, sitting down on
the grass beneath the window, with
his book spread out upon his knees
for table, he asked the required
questions through the window, and
as the answers came from behind the
curtain they were entered upon his
schedule. His questions: "Are you
white or black?" "Male or female ~
were answered with tone that in
Dictated that the enumeration ought to
know without asking. But then what
could the poor fellow do? He couldn't
see the fair espondent.-Providen
journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
LAST WORDS OF JOHN ADAMS.
Made to Order by Request, Accord
ing to Dick Thompson, Late
Secretary of the Navy.

Not long before his death l called
on Dick Thompson, for so he is best
known, and 1 listened with unusual
interest to his political "reminiscences,
dating from 1S4S, when he was in con-
gress, and running on down to his re-
tirement as secretary of the navy de-
partment," said Congressman Lands,
of Indiana, relates the New York Sun.
81 had asked him about John Quincy
Adams when the latter was a men,
Der of the lower house. After he had
answered, he said:
lands, l haven't much longer to
live, and l want to make little con-
fession to you. 1t is not important,
perhaps, but / am the only one living
who knows the secret, and L think 1
shall feel better to know have told it.
! was in the house when John Quincy
Adams had the attack which resulted
in his death two days later. L was one
of the four who carried him into the
speakers room. He never regained
consciousness. After his death we who
carried him out of the house met and
questioned one another until each con-
fessed that he had not heard Mr..
Adams say anything after we picked
him up. In those days the last words
of great men had an interest which
does not attach to last utterances in
this age. And so it was agreed that
inasmuch as Mr.. Adams had no chance
to say anything for himself that we
would make some last words for him,
commensurate with his worth.
"'I was selected to formulate some
thing suitable. 1t was no easy task,
but finally reported as his last words:
''This is the last of earth" One of the
four who had helped to carry him out
replied: 81 am content" These last
words were not intended to be cred
tied to Mr. Adams. The member who
said 81 am content" meant that he
was satisfied with my report, but I
did not so understand him at the time.
1 thought that the words were intend
ed as a sort of amendment and added
them. As they seemed quite appropri-
ate we concluded to let them stand,
and there they are as they have been
quoted for so years.
"Mr. Thompson was not a de-
stroyer. He was not the man to mar,
jostle or change, but but he assured
me that he wanted"to be put right on
this last words business. as he called
it, and tell you the story as he told
it to me. I suppose Mr.. Adams spoke
some last words somewhere, but they
were not the same which you and I
have heard about in our time"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Shears IN a steel mill in Gainesville,
Pa, cut SLAP of iron four feet wide
and two feet thick at one stroke.
Telephones have been placed in the
French hospitals for infectious mala
dies, so that the sick may converse
with their friends without danger of
communicating disease.
The most costly leather in the world
is known to the trade as piano leath-
er. The secret of tanning this leather
is known only to a family of tanners
in Germany, though the skins from
which it is tanned come almost en-
tirely from America.
One of the most important indus
tries of the Bahama islands is the
gathering of pink pearls. 1t is the
only place in the world where these
pearls are found. These pearls, when
perfect, bring very high prices, it is
said, ranging from $50 to $1,000.
1t is the humidity more than the
heat, in the Philippines, that hurts
people from Europe and America.
The thermometer, in the shade, rarely
ranges above so degrees. Humidity
does the rest-saps vitality and rem
ders men extremely susceptible to dis
ease.
A Philadelphia bridge building COM
pany has obtained contract for the
new steel bridge, across the st. Law
renee river at Quebec. The bridge
will be 1000 feet long and $50 feet
above the river, thus enabling the
largest ship to pass under. 1t will
consist of three spans, two of 500 feet
each and the center one of 1880 feet
The bridge will be 60 feet wide, con-
tanning roadway, four railway
tracks and walks on each side.
Vienna S Academic Sciences has de-
cided to collect Photographic records
and store them in one of the Vienna
libraries. The collection will include
first, specimens of every European Ian
guage and dialect, to which will be
added later all non-European Ian
guages; second, the finest contempor-
airy musical performances, with the
national airs and tunes of all races
and, third, speeches or phrases ut
tered by celebrated men. The acad-
envy is trying to find some more dur
able material than is now employed tc
take the impression of the sounds
and is experimenting with various
metals
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
Twain mt the Telephone.

While living at his home at Hartford,
Conn, Mark Twain was one morning deep
in the composition of some humorism from
which he expected good deal, when he was
called to the telephone. He told the servant
to receive the message and bring it to him,
party at the other end of the wire wanted
him. Provoked at the interruption, Mark
went to the telephone, and, after 'helloing"
for some time without an answer, he used
some language not generally seen in print,
but which was certainly picturesque. While
thus engaged he heard an answer in aston
ished tones and recognized the voice of an
as that you, doctor?" questioned Mr. Glenn
ems. 81 didn't hear what you said. My but
Ter has been at the telephone and said he
couldn't understand YOU"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
Test Of His Girls Love
} An Affair of the Heart with
D Serious Puzzle.
WAS about 40 years old. prosT

TIE WAS about 40 years old, prosper
Gus in appearance, good looking
as to person, intelligent of counte-
nance, polished as to manner, and in
all respects a really presentable fellow.
A party of four were talking around a
table on which sat a bottle or two
with their accompanying glasses, and
there was blue haze of smoke in the
room.
For a number of years." he said,
taking the lead in the conversation,
"there has been in my mind question
which has remained unsettled, and
am going to submit it to you for ad-
justment, as it were. have been hap
PLY married for ten years, and my wife
is a woman Of excellent judgment and
good sense, but l have refrained from
submitting the question to her for rea-
sons which will appear when you have
heard the story. When | was 25 years
of age | lived in one of the interior
towns of New York state, and, having q
good position there,;n a bank, was con
siderable of citizen, socially as we'll as
in other regards. | may say, l think
without egotisn, that l was the catch
of the town. Very naturally, then
when belle of the place and l began
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
Exploiting n Cemetery.

A sale of an unusual character has
just taken place at Beauval. The GENE
terry belonging to the commune was put
up for auction in consequence of its
having been discovered that it con.
tanned a rich bed of those phosphates
that have made the fortunes of the dis.
trict. The discovery of the phosphates
dates from ten years ago, and at that
time the bodies buriedwere dug up and
removed to another cemetery in order
that the old one might be exploited,
The law exacted delay of ten years
between the elimination and the work.
ing of the ground-Paris LIE Figaro.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
Dangerous to Call n Man Boer.

1t is expensive to call man a Boer
in Great Britain nowadays. The 9TH
er day young Irish girl painted 81
am a Boer" upon a gate belonging to
a nurseryman at Wick, near Little
hampton. Her reason was that the
nurseryman did not hang out a flag
in celebration of the relief of Mafe-
king, but this Peans of expressing
her displeasure cost her e lis Cd
in court. The chairman of the bench
said that he would not be called a
Boer for 6 100, adding that the de-
PENDANTS conduct might have led to
the prosecutor being lynched in the
present state Of public feeling-N. Y.
Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02

Charles Haddon Sturgeon, the nom
conformist preacher, was great pun
ster. One day, while an invalid at Men
tone, he was walking by the seashore
at time when the Mediterranean was
raging furiously. Suddenly he inter-
rupted the conversation and asked:
"What are the wild waves saying?" and
then he gave his own witty answer to
the question: "Let US (s)pray!"-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02

The efforts made by male students at
Syracuse university to have women stu
dents excluded from oratorical COR
tests have failed, as the faculty decided
that women have as much need of ora
torical accomplishments as men.-N.
Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
MetamOrphOsed.

1t takes only little thing in translation
asked the pundit to put into the Indian
vernacular the good old hymn: Rock of
ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in
thee was taken off his feet when he heard
his converts singing with pous fervor:
Very old stone, split for my benefit, let
me get under one of your fragments
San Francisco Wave
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
cures these troubles Of
women, and r'OhS men,,
situation of its fesy'OFS.

No woman need be with
Ouf the safest and SuseSf
advice, for Mrs. Pisslklsasss
c0us1SeES women free of
Charge Her address Is
Lynn, Mass
Can any woman afford
to ignore the medicine and
fhe advice that has cured
n million WOsn9m2
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-02
The
Pik1khak11


Is a proud and peerless
record. II is a record of
cure, of constant COM
quest over obstinate ills
of women; Ills that deal
out despair; suffering
that many women think
Is W0z1san'S natural hes,i-
fages disorders and dis
placements that drive out
hope.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Florence Hotel E. A. Goodkind.
Thompson; E. Miles, San Francisco; Geo.
NJ. Smith, city; A. Hamburger. New
York; P. S. Olson, Lonia, Mich; J. S.
Phinney, Chicago; May Arkwright. Hut
ton, Wallace; H. Karberg, Kalispel.
Ranhin House-Mrs. E. M. Mccarthy
and six children, Victor; NJ. NJ. Jenkins,
Sherborn, Mimi; S. A. Hoyt. Sherborn,
Mimi; James Hambly, Blackfoot; L. s.
Van Fleet, S~tevensville; w. Burns, Ham
ilton; Mrs. I. Dirston, Iron Mountain: T..
Robson, Stevensville; II. Manen, Port
land; George NJ. Kennedy, Clinton: AL
fred Snodgrass, city.
Missoula Hotel-W. e. Gleason, Flor
ence; Martin Cramer, Florence: Fank
rNelson and wife Potomac; Alex Dow
Alec; Harry Swan City: C. A. Wing,
Spokane; Thos. w. Ward. Garnet; C. F.
Judson, Garnet; J.. F. Dyer, Helena; T. c.
Fowler, Stevensville; j. D.. Richards,
Portland: T. S. Letterman. Portland; H.
G. Holley. st. Jocko; Geo. Bennett, Po-
tomac.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23
TO KILL THE DANDRUFF GERMS
Is THE ONLY POSSIBLE WAY OF
HAVING A PERMANENT
CURE.

If you see a woman OF a man with lux
uriant glossy hair, you may be sure
neither has dandruff to amount to any
thing. In nearly every case where women
and men have thin, brittle hair. they owe
It to dandruff. There are hundreds Of
preparations that claim" to cure dan
drum, but not one tells you that dandruff
is the result of a germ burrowing into the
scalp, and that permanent cure of dan
drum and its consequent alling and bald
ness, can only be had by killing the germ:
and there Is no other preparation that
will destroy that but Newbro's Herpicid0.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23
BUTTE SCHEDULE.
EAST.

EAST.
No. Is. Pacific Express from St.
Paul and Missouri River
points, arrives daily -. 100 pm.
NO. l. North Coast Limited
from st. Paul, arrives
daily +. j. =. .............. S:4s pm.
No. IA. Twin City Express, to
st Paul and Missouri
River points, leaves daily ITO pm.
NO. :. North Coas Limited"
to st. Paul daily. leaves 11:40 p. al
No. "a. Mixed, to Whitehall. II
daily except Sunday;
Bridges, Tuesdays,
thursdays and Satur-
days; Pony and Norris,
Mondays and Fridaya;
leaves N. P. local freight
depot . /. &. -. +. ............ 700 am.
WEST.
NO. 10. Copper City Limited, to
Hamilton and all coast
points, caves B., A. &
r. depot dealy 49,. ......11:25 am,
NO. !. North Coast Limited
to Portland, leaves daily S:5S pm,
NO. ID. Copper City Limited,
from Halimton and Port
land, arrives daily, B., A..
q t. depot :. ........... LIB r. m,
NO. Z. North Coast Limited"
from Portland, arrives 11:30 p. m
Note-That No. 2, the North Coast
Limited" eastbound train not shown, as
TINS train will not reach Butte until the
eVenlIg OF May 4th. On and after that
late the double train service will be in
erect on all portions of the line.
City Ticket Office: Corner r1ain and
Park Streets, Butte.
w. III. MERRIMAN. G. A.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23
Time Tables
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific

LOCAL TINE TABLE
Trains cave B., A.. & p. depot, Butte.
as follows: S:25 a. M, 11:25 a. M. 400 p.
M, 1000 p. m.
Trains cave Mo passenger station.
anaconda, as follows: $40 a. m. 12:45
p. M, 300 p. M, 7:40 p. m.
:lsEAT NORTHERN train leaves Ana.
cOnda:
40 a. m. Great Falls and Helena local,
via Butte.
40 p. m. Through train for all points
east and west.
ORTHERN PACIFIC Vain leaves
anaconda:
l2:l5 p. m. Pacific Express for Portland
and ali points vest.
9.uo p. m. Through train for all points
east and west.
OREGON SHORT LINE train leaves
Anaconda:
e'eo p m. for all point. east. west and
south. 1
tcket Cor sale for all points. local ana
through. on the Great Northern railway,
Oregon Short Line railroad n North
err Pacific railway, and their ccnnec-
tlono-
Steamship tickets for sale to all points
In Europe via the above lines.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Rev. D. B. Price of Helena is in the
city IN business connected with the pub
LEGATION of a UNCONVENTIONAL paper. ~
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

James A. Johnson of Carbon county
was in the city several days last week
visiting friends. !
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Ernest Edsall of Butte was in the city
Sunday. on a short visit and was greeted
cordially by his many friends. ~
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Hermann's Sons of this ity are max
ing preparations for a grand excursion
to Helena to take place on June 10. The
organization will take a special train
for the capital and will spend the day
in close communion with their Helena
brethren at the Usual pastimes INDUCED
in When Gremans get together and have
a c%ongenial day. Arrangements are now
being made for the event, which is slated
as the big affair of the season in local
lodge circles.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Louis Howard, one of the many young
men of Bozeman who have made a sue
cess in Butte, was in the city over Sun
day visiting with friends sSnd relatives.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Senator Tylor Worden today received
his credentials signed by Mr.. c. T. Bur-
ton, chairman and MIR. C. B.. Graham Sec
rotary, admitting him to his seat in the
republican convention at Philadelphia, on
the 10Th day of June.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Mrs. May Artwright Hutton, author of
1.-THE Occur d'Alene, or a Tale of the
Modern Inquisition in Idaho,'' is regis
tered at the Florence hotel and is on her
way home to Idaho from Denver, where
She has been in the interest of the publ
cation of her book.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

A bucking bronoho got in his fine work
yesterday afternoon in front of the Inter
Mountain Office, throwing his rider to the
ground after a few frolics and stiff-legged
jumps. The rider was unhurt, however,
and showed his grit by mounting again
as quickly as possible and managed to
stick on.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

Peter Joseph and John Delaware, Two
OF the Indians arrested Saturday night
were given ten days each for drunken
ness in Justice tHutchen's court yester-
day. This will have a tendency to make
the redskins more careful in their carou-
sails, as they have become accustomed to
being discharged for such ~OffenseS.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

what size Or description, call on Cobban
& Dinsmore, Missoula. They have ranch
es in the Bitter Roo valley from the
smallest to the largest, and at any price
to suit. Write; them.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

DR.. James A.. Henshall, at the govern-
naent fish hatchery in Rridger Canyon,
is an extraordinary man. Widely traV-
eled, learned in the sciences and lam
guage an adept in a thousand things,
and above all a lover Of nature. he has
done a great deal to make the calling he
pursues as fish commissioner an at
t~ractive and useful one. His long resi-
dence abroad and in the eastern part of
the country has done much to make DR..
Henshall known and admired among a
wide circle Of noted men, and a recent
ripple in the steady current of the doc
tors active career has made pronounced
the fact that he is a man very well
known indeed. He has recently written
a book Of poetry. 1t is written in a light
vein, and the exact verse tells the story
of the Argonants who went in quest of
the Golden Fleece. The translation of
Coldridge has been folloWed, with as
close a line as can be draWn when IAN
ancient epic is modernized by a hand
that has no v%eneration for the foibles of
the past. The Doc is now being praised
by eastern reviewers, who think the de-
scription of a modern prize-fight in the
stately verse of Apollonius Rhodius
about as droll an idea as they lave been
called upon to appreciate in many "a
long day. DIR. Henshall was at one time
with George Dewey on the old Pensa-
cola in the Mediterranean, and the book
is dedicated to the famous admiral. 1t
is the hit of the season if the reviewers
say what is true of it.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23

No man with q small family who has
to work for wage ought t. be without a
small five or 10-acre nome. CObban q
Dinsmore are Offering the best induce
ment in Montana for anyone to own their
own home. In the Orchard Home addi-
ton you can get a home On the lnontniy
installinent plan. Improved or uninlprov-
cd, { in quarterly payments. Address
them at Missoula.