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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
MARK TWAIN'S FIRST LECIOhh.

Ainsley's Magazine: On Tuesday
evening, September 20, 1866, Samuel
Langhorne Clemens made his first ap..
p%earance in public at the Academy OF
Music in Pine street, San Francisco. He
had just returned from the
Islands, from where he had been writing
letters on the islands and the islanders
to The Sacramento Union. The appeance
of Artemus Ward some months previous
in San Francisco had aroused an ampl-
ton in Mark Twain to "go and do Ike-
wise" not for the fame that mlSnt
come to him, not from the money to be
earned, but from a spirit of pure MIS-
chievousness. Twain was one OF a CO.
terie of Bohemians which included Bret
Harte, Prentice Mu!ford and Charles
Warren %Stoddard, and I can imagine
how he chuckled to himself when he con-
cluded to ''learn a new trick and surprise
the boys He secured a hall and pub
lished a sort of Artemus Ward an
nouncement that he would deliver a lee
ture about his trip to the sandwich
Islands.
Commenting upon the announcement
the San Francisco correspondent OF d
n%eighboring newspaper wrote:
I'VE may expect either gay or grave
remarks, for, by recently published let
tiers, he very fully exhibited the re-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
PERFUMES LOVED
BY FAIR QUEENS
BY Annette Rierdon Reed.

Amsterdam, Holland.-It was at Sche-
veningen. a little coast spot that has
been dubbed 1.-THE Coney Island of Hol-
and that I first saw Hollands queen.
She had driven down from thePalace of
the Woods, that pretty place where the
peace commissioners met, and was doing
a bit of shopping, only a tiny bit, for they
do not display a great many wares at
S~cheveningen.
The young queen, who was, ON this
occasion, accompanied by her mother,
stopped at a little bazaar and there pur-
chased a bottle of cologne. 1t might
might have been a rare bit of sweet ex-
tract for it was in a small bottle and
was delicately labeled. The little vial
caught the young queens eye and she
alighted from the carriage and left the
cream-colored horses paving the ground.
This is not the first time the queen of
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sources of the. islands to the great salts
faction of our business community. His
lecture at this time will have a peculiar
interest, independent of his own rapidly
.augmenting popularity. from the fact
tina the queen (Emna) of said country
is now in our midst. Everybody is go
ing. and consequently a crowded audi
|ence will greet the maiden-I believe
lecture of the sagebrusher. He is not at
all an eloquent orator, and l fear as he
himself announces 1t, doors open at I:
the trouble Will commence at s o'clock "
THE roubl is over" wrote this same
correspondent under date of October 3,
1866. THE inimitable Mark Twain de-
livered himself last night of his first
lecture on the Sandwich Islands or any
thing else. Some time before the hour
appointed to open his head the Academy
lof Music Con Pine street, vas densely
crowded with one Of the fashionable
audiences it was ever my privilege to
witness during my long residence in this
city. The elite of the town We're there,
and so was the governor of the state
occupying one of the boXes-whOSe ro-
ltund face was suffused with a halo of
mirth during the whole entertainment.
The audience promptly notified Mark by
the usual Observation-Disclosures the au-
spicious o had arrived. and presently
the lecturer came siding and swinging
out from the left of the stage. His man.
iNA -
laugh from the assemblage. He opened
with an apology, by saying hat he had
partly succeeded in obtaining a band,
but at the last the party en-
gagged backed out. He explained that he
had hired a man to play The trombone,
but he, on learning hat he was the only
person engaged, came at the last mo-
ment and informed him hat he could
not play. This placed Mark in a bad
predicament, and wishing to know his
Ireasons for deserving him at that critica'
moment, he replied that he wasn't GO
ing to make a fool of himself by sitting
up there on the stage and blowing his
horn all by himself After the applause
subsided he assumed a very grave count
%enance and commenced his remarks
proper with the following well known
sentence: When. in the course of hui.
man events etc. He lectured fully ar
hour and a quarter, and his humorous
sayings We're interspersed with geo,
Graphical, agricultural and statistica
remarks, sometimes branching off ant
reaching Notwithstanding in the yer.
choicest language up to the very pima
Gle of descriptive power"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25

that the future czarina grew up more
English in sentiment and training than
many of her English cousins.
Princess Alix was called by this GU
rlous modification because Queen Victo-
ria found that the name of Alice was SO
badly pronounced by the Germans. The
little princess received in addition the
names of her aunts, Helena, Victoria,
Louise and Beatrice.
When Princess Alix was about ten
weeks old her mother wrote to the queen
of England: Baby is like Ella (Eliza-
beth, the present wife of the Grand Duke
Serge), but she has smaller features and
darker eyes, with very dark eyelashes
and auburn hair. She is a dear, lively
little thing, always laughing, and has a
dimple on one cheek, exactly like Erwin
cher brother" AS she grew up this
brightness of temperament remained one
of her most marked characteristics, and
for this reason in the family circle she
was always called the sunbeam, Or, Sun
n.y." a it was usually abbreviated. Her
early training was confided to an elderly
English nurse, Miss Orchard, who PROM
Used the Grand Duchess Alice. when she
lay dying, in 1878, never to leave Sun
n.y." and who went to Russia when her
charge-still sunny to her-was we'd
ded to the present czar.
After the loss of her mother and father
the grand duke died in 1S92-Princess
Alix became more serious. From child
mood she was fef1dfkd Die IOT a distinct
character and individuality of her own,
and this was shown six years ago in con-
nection with her entry into the eastern
orthodox church. For the last seven
centuries nearly all the czars have gone
| abroad for their brides, who in every in
stance AVE been baptized into the Rus
sian faith. In the case of Princess Alix
a difficulty arose. She refused to say
that her former religion was accursed;
| that her conversion to the Russian faith
| was due to her conviction that her own
| religion was not founded upon TRUTH"
as the law of the Russian church re-
| qulred. Never before has the Holy Sy-
nod of Russia had to face such a rafus-
al. Argument was in vain. II merely
| join the Greek church hat I may be OF
one faith with my future husband she
| said firmly. And the Holy Synod of Rus
STA had to make his highly important
and unprecedented concession to the
/ young German girl who not even for the
crown Of an empire would condemn the
religion of her forefathers. At her bap-
tism in Russian she received the names
Alexandra Feodorovna, and the car af-
tenward conferred upon her the rank OF
grand duchess of the empire. .
The firmness of character WWch the
czarina possesses, has never overshad-
owed the more graceful qualities or her
disposition. She is not stiff. but lively
graceful and "elegante' in the Partisan
sense of the word: she is sensitive, I'M
pulsive, sympathetic and witty.
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thought nothing of a dash into Turkey;
and the Sultan has made no attempt to
stop them. There are pages in the his
tory of the Black mountains that should
never have been written in the life OF any
nation, pages of blackness and ravage!
The sovereignty might be opera-bouf-
feis were it not for the fierceness of the
warlike retainers and their actual BRAY
cry in war.
Pince Nikita of Montenegro succeeded
to the throne on the assassination of his
uncle in 1860. He is about fifty-five years
of age, is very tall and somewhat stout.
His mustache and whiskers are trimmed
in the style affected by the late Alexander
II. His strength is prodigious, and he is
skilled in all sports. From the first the
king made an excellent ruler, we'll adapt
ed to the peculiar people he must govern.
Once finding his subjects unwilling to
perform manual labor, the prime fol-
lower the example of Peter the Great.
and spent an entire day in hammering
iron and shoeing horses thereby sue
cessfully proving to the Montenegroins
that it was not beneath the dignity of
a warrior to soil his hands by WELD
ing a hammer and bellows.
Prince Nikita next turned his attention
to shoemaking a trade which he could not
get any of his subjects to regard as com
patible with their dignity. He worked a
whole day mending shoes in a cobbler's
sHop' WHICH shaiheu HIS supJeclS anu III
duced them to learn s~hoemaking.
The Princes good points are offset by
his passion for gambling. and his drink,
ing which is at times heavy. AS soon "a
the Z o'clock dinner is completed tnt
prince and his friends adjourn to the bill
lard room, an the ground floor. where h
generally remains till near daybeak, play,
ing billiards first and then cards, a
which the prince loses considerabl esums
: A HARD VIEW,
The Russians do not greatly like thu
Prince OF Montenegro; and a caustic Rus
sian writer describing him wrote:
1T is said to be owing to his heav,
losses at cards that he is always 'har,
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The pistol shot Of an anarchist brings
the name of Montenegro to the lips, a
name which might never have been
known except for the beauty of one of
its children.
No such good fortune ever befell an
other monarch as that which has come
steadily to the King of Montenegro,
from the time he assembled his throne
which is located high in the Black
Mountains, to the present day.
The father of a large family, includ-
ing seven daughters, it was his dearest
wish to see one Of them married we'll.
Helene, the third daughter, was so
beautiful that even the warriors OF
Montenegro admired her; and her father
early decided hat she SHOULD be the one
who was entitled to a place in the world.
He set about gaining a position for her;
that he succeeded is shown by the fact
tina she is now queen of Italy.
Montenegro occupie a unique place IN
the history of nations. 1t is a small king
dom. no larger than the state of Rhode
Island. But it is located in the Black
mountains, at the very point where Rus
STA could be entered by a hostile army.
If Montenegro We're unfriendly it would
be easy for it to open its gateway to the
Turks, or to- the Chinese, or even to the
Germans. We're they inclined to invade;
and down the hosts could march right
QnIO the country u Tie RUSSIAN hCoi.
The kingdom of Montenegro has been
governed by an hereditary sovereign
whose title, like that of the Ruler of Mon
<aco, is simply Prince" At home he is
called the Chieftain. Montenegro has
only about 200, 900 inhabitants and of these
at least SO, 600 are warriors.
Yet Montenegro is hishly civilized. Get
tnije, where the royal palace is located,
is a handsome city adorned with fine
specimens of architecture, mostly OF
wood as it is difficult to get stone up into
the mountains, except the native stone
which is not generally used for bust
ness purposes. There are many hand
some STREETS and the country is by no
means unbeautiful.
THEIR OCCUPATION.
The principal occupation of the people
is hunting for there is very little ti!lable
ground in the Black mountains. The ami
mails that hound there are excellent for
food and much of the meat hat is sent
to ST. Petersburg is found In the King
dom of Montenegro. 1t is also a mining
country, but nom of the mines belong to
the crown consequently the king and his
family have always been poor.
There is a tradition that the warriors of
Montenegro have been in the habi of re-
plenishing their stores from the country
round It is certain that they have
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25

Holland has gon shopping for sweet
scents. She is e~xtravagantly o. of
perfumes and buys them by the whole
sale. h purchases eau de cologne by
the gallon and is probably the largest in
dividual consumer of the perfume. She
scents her fair skin with it night ami
morning. No French woman ever had a
greater liking for perfumery than she.
Her maids nave their hands lightly
dipped in orris water so that their pres
ence is pleasant.
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands uses
an entire champagne bottle of this ar
romatic essence of cologne every morn
ing, and so intent is the little majesty
on getting her fill of her favorite tot
lette vinegar that she has the bottle
| opened in her very presence, shifts 1T,
! assures herself of it's high quality by a
test over a lamp and then pours the
contents into the bath with her own
hand. OF course, this is not the regula-
tiion tub, but a large marble affair, built
into the floor and reached by five steps,
! so that the room beneath is only half a
story high.
Her majesty remains seven minutes
in the bath, using a certain soap, little
cented. Then she draw a waterproof
CAP over her hair and steps d a
shower where the finest bay rum takes
the place of water. After that she is
rubbed down by her old, round and big
armed nurse.
Wilhelmina has a beautiful. yet deli
cate c~omplexioin. which she believes will
take care of itself if regularly treated
as set forth and then left to it's own nor
NAL course. Preparatory to dinner, the
alter, reception or balls she uses a Turk
ish towel and plenty of warm water or
her face and neck, soap for the hands
only, day and evening.
- Up to the conclusion of the peace Of
Paris, which settled the latest unpleas.
antness between Spain and the United
States, the ladies of the peninsular cour
and her majesty Queen Christina in par
) ticular, used ylang-ylang to give thei
clothes and handkerchiefs a sweet odor
Indeed, they thought it their patriot
duty to do so. for ylang-ylang is one o
! the products Of the Philippines. When
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
LIE.

AS our story opens, the boy had cut he
cherry tree, his father had asked how
about this, and the boy had said:
Il canot tell a lie, father. / did it with
my little hatchet.'
Now the father leads the way to the
Woodshed.
This" says he, as, having arrived there
he raises the barrel stave aloft. sis going
to hurt me more than it will hurt YOU"
When the boy sees hereupon how easy
after all, it is to tell a lie, great is his
grin, in that he had not had more con-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
FORCED TO EXPRESS HIMSELF.

Puck: Mr.. Telemachus Smith-Delia. I
didn't know your parrot could swear.
Mrs. Telemachus Smith-Poor Polly. l
don't think she knew 1t, either, until you
fed her that ice cream.
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OPENED HIS EYES.

PHILADELPHIA Press: Neville looks mis-
cradle, doesn't he ~
Ress-Yes: what's the matter with him!
Ne~d-Disappointed in love.
Ress-Why, he married the girl he want
ed.
Ned-I know. That's Just It..
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A CHIP.

Mark--I saw that little boy of yours to-
day.
Borroughs-Did you? Think he's like
me?
Mark Very much.
Borrough-Do you really?
Mark-Yes. He asked me for some
money,
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RESOURCES.

Chicago Tribune: Will you give it up
now?' demanded the scorpion, administer
ing another sting.
"Never!!' shrieked the centipede, coming
back at its antagonist gameiy. "Never,
while l have a leg to stand on.'
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
STRENGTH OF NUMBERS.

Detroit Journal: HAS he backing i'll his
candidacy?"
"Oh, yes, the Patriotic Order of Shooters
of the First Shot in the Spanish war are
behind him. and they are very strong, nu-
merically, you know"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25

Poetic Son-Ah: father. Poets are born
Father (angrily)-Look here. you.Wrte
all the dern rot We want, but dom G,
blamin' mother n me fer it. We won't
stand it!
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BOUNDLEss POSSIBILITIES.

Puck: -Four hundred millions of people
in China! Just think of it,"
Eyes; and just think what the population
would be If they'd let a Chicago man a
the census"
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more than ever in owe whit heir Amer lean daughtr-in-law. In a private let
ter a friend of the princess says: eff IN ythingco could have been needed to cement
he tie between the princes and her r ussian relatives this event has filled the
gap" From hi first the Cantacuzne S were fascinated with the American
a ceiling which reaches to the pal ace o. the czar
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-09-26

jet by reason Of previous legislative ex-
perience, and an extensive mining prac.
tice; w. +. Grace, reelected representa-.
tive from Baker City, and George }. Bar.
fett, OF Granite, reprrsenta,ive.elect from
Grant, Gillian, Sherman, Wasco and
Wheeler counties. Mr.. Barrett has had a
mining experience Of IS years, and being
in dose touch with the owners OF eastern
Oregon, among whom he has operated the
pas, i've years, he will, in all PROBABILITY,
be called upon to champion the cause OF
the mining men OF his seclion.-Iele gram.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-09-26
FUTURE OF ALUMINIUM.
This Metal Will Soon be a Dangerous
Rival 10 Copper.

Aluminium is without doubt coming
metal. II Is already dsplacing copper In
many uses, and II may eventually prove
formidable rival Of even iron and steel.
IN less than forty years II has come down
In market price from thirty dollars per
pound to abou, aS many cents, and for al
most every practicable purpose It is cheap
er than all the common metals excepting
zinc, lead and iron. The methods Of man.
uiatture have been constantly improving,
andrxp"rrnCe has wrought many changes
In the preparing Of articles that IN cruder
conditions, were less favOrahly received.
IN the matter ol utensils for instance,
the rrolu,ts Ol a few years ago were too
lightly made aud were easily put cut OF
mIuum vessels can row be- had rs strong
and durable - that made ul copper. lis
advantages Hrr in lis combined lIghtncSS
and strength, It's easy wofkahi,ly, It's
thrlpars> and It's Abundance, the latter
being estimated aS thirty times aS much
rs iron IN bull, Tor the uses oi man. II IS
practically impossible to iiX the limit oi its
uscluln's>. In competition with copper
II Is aggressive, and one or the other viii
I've master oi the situation IN irW decades.
In electric equipment II Is already vipor.
ouSly dlspuIng the special claims OF
copper.
II has over sixty Der cent ot the con-
duclivty OF the red metal, and has equal
resistant qualities to weather influences.
IN review OF the aluminium industry by
Professor Richards, Il Is stated, that an
aluminium wire one.fourth as large again
IN diameter as a copper wire, weighs only
halt as much as the latter, and costs only
two.,hlrds as much. Long distance trans.
mission lines aud uolley.line feed wires
are being put in of aluminium as fast as
the makers can supply the metal. Over
tive hundred tons were used tor this pur.
pose last year, and probably double as
much viii be used this year. As five hun.
dred tons supplant one thousand tons Of
copper, II will not be long before the cop.
per industry will begin to feel the compe.
tition OF its new rival.
Fifteen years ago the entire output Of
aluminium the world over amounted to
only two and one'half tons. These are
strong statements but they are backed by
facts. and one need not to wear the man.
tie OF a prophet to foresee the sharp rival.
~ yet TO be between aluminium and cop.
per nor Is II likely that this rivalry will
stop at the old metal. The world may
yet see an Age Of Aluminium. .-E xchange.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-09-26

Rocky Mountain Sesnssy BY Day Light.
Day light stop over At Niagara Falls.
Through hrst.elass tourist sleeper from
Pacific Coast weekly for Chicago, Boston,
New York and other eastern points via
Rio Grande Western (Great Salt Lake
Route). Denver 4 Rio Grande, c. r. I.
4 P. and illinois Central to Chicago,
connecting In the Union Depot with Mich.
igan Central's similar car Tor points east.
For full particulars call on or address.
B. n. TRUMBULL,
Coml Agent Ills. Cent. r. r.
IA Third ST., Portland, Oregon.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-09-26

Saddle and beidls ios Sale.
In good condition and offered cheap.
Apply At THE MINER Office.
The evening times., 1900-05-26
THE HOUSE SEEKS LIGHT.
Votes 10 Call Upon Cabinet Officers
for Information.

The House today adopted three resolu-
tions reported from the Committee on In
sular Affairs, and which we're called up by
Mr.. Cooper, Cha.rman Of that committee
The first resolution taken up was that sub
mitted BY Mr.. Hay, on May l6. 1t fol-
lows:
whereas st is stated that E G. Rath-
hone, Director OF Posts in Cuba, made a Ie-
port &C the Postmaster General Of the Uni
ted States, On April % .9oO in which he
stated that Ihe postal accounts Of postal
officials IN CuEa were correct; and
Whereas Il is stated in the public prints
that the postal inspectors Of the Cuban
postal service had not made any inspection
on reports Of that date. Therefore.
Resolved hat the Postmaster General
OF the United States be requested to inform
the House OF Representatives whether e.
G. Rathhone. Director Of Posts in Cuba, did
on April % 1900 or thereabouts. make
such a report and what said report cen
tanned, and 10 further inform the House OF
Representatives whether such report pur-
Ported TO be based on reports made 10 E.
G. Rathbone by postal inspectors in Cuba.
and whether the Postmaster General has
any Information as 10 whether said postal
1 inspectors IN Cuba ever made sIch reports
10 E G. RathbOne, Director Of Posts in
Cuba"
The second resolution adopted was that
submitted on May Il by Mr Jones OF Vir-
ginia. calling for information concerning
the furnishing 10 officers in Cuba and Porto
Rico Of quarters The resolution follows.
Resolved. That the Secretary Of War is
hereby directed TO report TO the House Of
Representatives the following informa-
tiOn.
''FTrst-WheJher any officer OF the Army
Of the United States who is now, or who
has been, on duty either in Cuba or Porto
Rico. since the date of the declaration Of
war by the United States against Spain,
has had furnished 10 him. by any person
or authority, any quarters other than such
quarters as such officer is entitled Under
the law TO receive. II so. what is the
nan1e and rank OF each officer so furnished
with such quarters, and what quarters in
each such instance have been so furnished.
'sSecond-Wbat rent has been paid in
each instance Cor quarters thus furnished
TO officers of the Army during said period
either in Cuba OF in Porto Rico
'Third-What amounts have been ex-
pended in each instance in repairing, re-
fitting or improving any quarters occupied
BY any officer OF the United States Army on
duty in Cuba or Porto Rico during said
period. and for which officer in each in
stance was such quarters thus repaired.
reftted and improved.
'Fourth-What amounts have been ex-