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been attained the commander retired, like
C~incinnatue, to his farm and private life.
In his modesty he believed that he had
closed the door upon public affairs, but
the people had other claims upon him.
and by almost unanimous acclaim he was
recalled as first president, to institute the
beginnings of the government, in the do
ing Of which he was to set his name for
ever upon the new country.
1t is impossible in any brief space to
give a proper estimate OF Washington's
character. That he had a temper that
cabinet meetings. is a matter that can not
be enied He was a man who was par
ticularly sensitive to criticism and the ut
terancss of the opposition press often in
famed his passions. In spite OF this.
however. he was most magnanimous and
could bear no lasting resentment against
any man. Even those who ragged and
attempted to thwart him during the days
of the war he afterward helped to posi-
tions of emolument and distinction.
/ WashingtOn's mother was a great
trial to him, but he was a good son and
treated her most generously. She was
far from refined in her appearance and
was much given to smoking a pipe and
gambling. In her the irmness that
characterized the son appeared as unrea-
sonable obstinacy. but he bore with her
and through experiences that must have
tried his soul he remained always re-
spectful. gentle II affect.onate.
Much has been said in regard to
WashrngtOn's unbelief in matters of re-
ligion. but his position in relation to
spiritual things is one that is easily ex-
planned. He was an unbeliever. II he
was most tolerant of the beliefs of others.
VERY LIBERAL.
In his army days when the New Eng
and trOOnS desired tn h1lrr IN oA1u1, ~
the pope in celebration of Guy Fawkes
Day he interfered and expressed his sur
prise that the officers and soldiers should
nave been so "vo.d of common sense as
not to see the ~imprnpriety Of such a step.'
From the very first Washington threw
ms influence in favor of religion. and yet
no act OF his indicates that this position
was taken with a view to winning popu-
larity.
Memoirs and valet reminscences have
made more than one popular idol totter
on ITS pedestal. but this is not the case
with the immortal American patriot
whose 16Sth birthday is so soon to be
celebrated. George washington is one 81
the few characters in history who will
bear microscopic inspections. Under none
Of the innumerable side-iights which have
been thrown upon his character and per-
scnllity does his dignNy dws.ndle. Here
ard there we may find many minute de-
tails Of little things shat reveal to us
the man, but sven THIS trna Washington,
the man as he was Hsen and known by
those who lived with BIN, is molA lovable
than the localized c9fkature thar eulogy
has pictured. Put an the. f~actsf1ogether
and examine the man with all tha light
they throw upon tMR frail human en-
the great George Washinxtcn-7the one
o~vershadowing, heroic figure Of our
American life and history.
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ing characteristics that made him the

ing characteristics that made him the
founder Of the nation.
Washington realized is a character for
whom there is no place in a world Of hui
beings. Washington the real IS a
man Of whom no words of praise are too
great. AS has been said by Greene, the
historian. N nobler figure ever stood in
the forefront Of a nations life and his
birthday should be an eternal festival
wherever a free man speaks the English
language.
To one who reads of the early life Of
Washington it cannot but seem strange
that he should lave been chosen as
the revolutionary leader of the colonies.
1t is true that he had some military train
ing as a lad, but he had cast the excit-
ing experiences of this kin of life aside
to retire to the seclusion of his farm at
Mount Vernon. There his life was prosaic
in the extreme. but Washington accepted
it without a murmur
VERY AMBITIOUS.
He was one of the most practical Of
men, one of the least visionary of hui
man being, and in none of the diaries that
he kept at this time is there a trace of
the divine discomfort, he extraordinary
ambition or the genius that would have
been anticipated in a man destined to be
such a great leader of the people. That
the selection of Washington was a wise
one there is not the shadow Of a doubt.
The wonder is how the revolutionists
came to decide that he was the prOper
person to take m of the almost
hopelesrsly tangled affairs of the colonies.
The process of his selection is a matter
Of history. The divine inpiration behind
it all is what amazes.
The hesitation of Washington in ac-
cepting the command of the continental
army has often been described and the
words with which hn Gno11u occ,rn,o1 thu
office of commander-in-chief ring true Of
modesty: II beg it may be remembered
by every gentleman in this room that I
this day declare with the utmost sincert-
ty I do not feel myself equal to the COM
mand I am honored with" Washington
meant every word of this. but he was
willing to assume the responsibilities In
view of the unanimity of the appoint
ment.
If Washington was modest, however,
he was also brave. He was a good SOL
der even if he was not one of the most
brilliant generals. Devotion to the
cause for which he was fighting was his
inspiration, and by his patience, his en-
thusiasm. and his passion of patriotism
he at last inspired a whole nation to VIC
tory.
If there is one point that stands out
clearly upon the pages of revolutionary
history it is the fact that to Washington
belongs the cfeOlC OF aVlng acnleVeQ the
impossible. He led his men against the
British forces, but these were not the
only battles he was compelled to fight.
He was called upon to contend against
dissension in his own ranks, and at the
time when discords and dissatisfactions
threatened to cause the disruption of the
continental army. it was his personality
alone that saved the day. This is the
secret of his power; the real justification
of his fame.
HIS RETIREMENT.
After the great object of his life had
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township 8 north, range s west. bears
north Is degrees west 1898 feet. running
thence north 50 degrees 05 minutes east
1856 feet to corner Nc. 2: thence north 10
degrees SS minutes east 81 feet to corner
No. 3; thence south 50 degrees 05 minutes
west 1886 feet to corner No. 4: thence south
10 degrees 3S minutes west 80 feet to COR
ner No. 1 the place Of beginning, contain
ing an area of % acres from which IL
acres in conflict with surveys Nos. 1923
and 1853 are excluded and not claimed.
leaving in area Of 10 acres claimed by
applicant.
The location OF this mine is recorded in
the Office of the recorder of Silver Bow
County. on page A in book r of Lodes.
The adjoining claims are survey No.
1888, the Hub Lode, Erastus A. Nichols
applicant IN the north and survey No.
1929, the Caledonia lode. Joseph Rosen-
thai applicant on the east.
GEORGE D. GREENE,
Register. 3
JOS. II. HARPER.
u. S. Claim agent.
First publication Feb. s. 1900. y
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NOTICE FOR PuB1scATToN.
MINING APPLICATION NO. 417s UNIT
ed states Land Office, Helena Mon

MINING APPLICATION NO. All: UNIT
ca states Land Office. Helena Mon
tana, Feb. 9Th, 1900.
Notice Is hereby given that George e.
Moulthrop. whose postoffice address is
Suite, Montana. has this daxSaled an ap-
piication Tor a patent $50 linear feet, tie
same being for 20 feet in an easterly and
Jul Feet IN q westerly direction from the
point OF discovery on the Wedgewood
lode. mining claim, situated in Summit
valley (unorg.) mining district silver
Bow County. Montana. the position,
course and extent, Of the said mining
claim, designated by an official survey
thereof. as Survey No. 5S11 township No.
3 north, range No. 3 west, a notice Of
which was posted on the claim on the LIST
day of February, 1900. and being more
the official field notes and plat thereof on
file in this office, as follows, .to-wit:
Beglnning at the southwest corner, q
ssfanlte stone 4xSx1S inches set Is inches
deep with mound Of stone alongside.aand
marked 1851 for corner No. 1 from which
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ailwayTim Tables
Butte, Anaconda 4 Pacific
LOCAL TIME B

.& .tNWt
Trains leave B., a. = r. depot, Butte.
l0:4o p. m. La -
Trains leave Union passenger station.
AA.acSnda, 40 follows: $40 q. m.. 11:tS
=. M, . =. m. 7:1O p. N.
o "a NORTHERN train leaves AM.
$40 .. m: Great Falls and Helena local
via Butte.
~ p. m. Through train for all points
NORTHERN PACIFIC train ,e.vea
Anaconda:
Ao:4o a. m. Pacific Express for Portland
eno all points west.
100 p m. Through train Cor all points
OREGON SHORT LINE train leaves
Anaconda:
south
G tor sale for all points. local n
tnsou8n. on the Great Northern railway.
oregon Short Line railroad and North
| tons.
steamship tickets for sale to All points
IN Europe via the above lines.
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THE REAL LIFE
Of WASHINGTON
BY James Barton, Phi. D.

If there is any one day tina every self
respecting patriotic citizen delights TO
honor it is Wash-ngton's birthday. That
is one day in the year Of which he can
seize himself by the hand and tell him.
self that he is glad he is the citizen Of
a country that could produce a man like
Washington, and on this day he has
plenty Cf time in which to mediate upon
the merits Of the great man who has SO
long been recognized as the Father Of the
Country, for it is a national holiday and
he has no work to do. lse
AT no time during the past century
has the great George Washington been
brought closer to the hearts of the peo-
pie than he will be upon the occasion of
his next birthday.
The centennial of his death. which
was celebrated some two months ago,
tended to call the attention of all Ameri-
cans to the character of the man who had
done so much for the new nation and the
information that they derived at that
time will be still fresh in their minds
when they are called upon to celebrate
another anniversary of his birth.
During the past hundred years the
story Of the life of Washington has come
to be regarded too much in the light of
a legend. So much stress has been laid
upon the facts that he was a model citi-
zen, a perfect soldier, the one virtuous
man of the eighteenth century that peo-
PIE nave come TO look upon him as a
somewhat impossible creation of minds
too much given to eulogiz.ng their heroes
The paean of virtue nave been sound
ed so often that the legendary character
has taken the place of the real man who
actually lived and breathed the first ali
OF freedom more han a century ago.
THE REAL MAN.
To talk this way may seem like trea.
son. for today Washington occupies a
place in the highest ranks of the i'm
mortals, but, in spite of all this, it is i'm.
possible to avoid the expression of the
OPINION thai it would have been better il
the character of the first president haG
not been so much idealized in its trans.
mission through the years.
In other words, if we a been. per.
united to remember that Washington wa:
a man. with human faults and human
imperfections, his character would no
have suffered. for the inestimable virtue.
OF which he was possessed would stand
out IN marked contrast to the more hui.
man background. 1t we remember thaI
ne was pock-marked, that he was Tilted
by a fair Low Land maid, that he was
not always constant in mis- affections. anc
that he had a temper that now and ther
got the better OF him, we should realize
that the hero was a man like ourselves
and would marvel the more at the sterl.
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A FOR CRYSTAL.

The sparkle of crystal for the moment
rivals the simmer of silver on my lady's
toilet table. In trays, boxes, bottles,
everything to which It can be adopted APP
pears the cut and engraved crystal. with
Of course. more or less silver ornamental
ton, se&t
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GLOVES

With the heavy boots and gloves that
women are wearing come the wooden
gloves for country wear that are as sty-
fish and expensive as the other kinds, bu,
soft and comfortable.
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Standard Pullman. rirst-Class And
Tourist Sleeping Cars to Portland. -
fs.ul. Omaha. st. Joseph and 81. LOUIS
without change.
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w. II. MERRIMArS. q. A.. Butte.
Mont.
CHAs. s.. FEE, q. p. 4 T. A.. ct. Pau,
MINI.
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EAST Arrive Depart
No. l~2-Anaconda to ST
Pau. $500. 9ao p m 70 10 am
No. list Paul TO Ana
conda, daily. ......... IL 40 o m l1:5 p n
No. 34-Mixed, to White-
hall, daily, except Snn-
day; to Twin BridgesI
Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday +; to Pony and
Norris, Monday, We'd.
nesday and Friday 49,. 6:l5 p m SO an
WEST.
No. 1910 Portland and
all coast POINTS daily. - 10 80 q n
No. 14-From Portland
and all coast points,
daily 49,. H.. -. 9:45 p NIL
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21
KRUGERSDORP OCCUPIED
General Ketchner Has Marrow Es
cape From Capture.

London, June 2O.-Roberts this after
noon reported that Hunter has occu-
pied Krugersdorp without opposition
and that Methuen on June 10 routed
the Boer force which was opposing his
entry into Heilbron, in the Orange riv-
er colony. A Cape Town dispatch says
that Kitchener had narrow escape
from capture in an engagement at
Leeuw Spruit, June IA. He was sleep.
ing in repair train, when it was at
tackled, and many engineers captured.
Ktchener's sleeping car was at kopje's
station, when the Beers, under Dewet
suddenly opened rifle fire at 3 O'clock
a. m. Kitchener managed to reach his.
horse and galloped to Rhenoster, two
miles distant. The Beers numbered
900 with three guns. They burned a
culvert which was just rebuilt and de-
rallied train. The Beers alleged to
be hemmed in by Rumble began she'll;
ing Ficksburg yesterday. 1t is said
they apprehend force marching from
the north upon them and hence they
will endeayor to break thru to the
southwark.
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Bridge Contract is Let.

Keosauqua. June 49, (speciaD The
board of supervisors of Van Buxen
county We're in session yesterday to re-
ceive bids for the construction of a
steel span tubular pier bridge across
the Des Moines river at Selma.
The contract for the construction of
the bridge entire, ready for travel, was
awarded to the Western Bridge Co. of
Chicago, for the sum of $11.950 The
highest bid was S24,350, but the major
ity ranged from $4,000 to $4,000.
Fair, Williams & Co., of Ottumwa,
We're not far from the mark, their bid
being $4,000. The price at which this
contract was awarded was a great sur
prise, the general opinion being that il
would be impossible to get a reliable
company to build the bridge according
to plans for the amount of the appro
priation. $4,000. There We're eighteen
bids filed.
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Freshmen Opposed to s,rlke ..

Milwaukee, Wis, June 19.-The
twelfth annual convention of the in
ternational Printing Pressmen and AS
sistants' Union of America opened here
yesterday. About $50 delegates are in
attendance. In his annual report Pres
ident j. III. Bowman said it should al.
ways be the policy of the organization
to avoid strikes. The most Important
matter that the convention will be
called upon to consider will be the pro.
posed agreement between the Typo.
graphical union the bookbinders and
the pressmen.
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and noble responsibility. We endorse
the administration of William Nc
Kinley. Its acts have been established
in wisdom and in patriotism, aud
abroad it has distinctly elevated and
extended the influence of the American
nation. Walking untried paths and
facing unforeseen responsibilities. Pre-
sident Mckinley has been, in every sit
uation, the true American patriot and
the upright statesman, clear in vision,
strong in judgment, firm in action, al
ways inspiring and deserving the con-
fidence of his countrymen.
In asking the American people to in
dorse this republican record and to re-
new their commission to the republi-
can party, we remind them of the fact
that the menace to their prosperity has
always residen in democratic principles
and no less in the general incapacity OF
the democratic party.
The prime essential of business pros
perity is public confidence in the good
sense of the government and its ability
to deal intelligently with each new pro-
blem of administration and legisla-
ton. That confidence the democratic
party has never earned. 1t is hopeless
ly inadequate and the country's pros
perity when democratic success at the
polls is announced halts and ceases in
mere anticipation of democratic blum
ders and failures.
We renew our allegiance to the prin-
ciple of the gold standard and declare
our confidence in the wisdom of the
Legislation of the fifty-sixth congress
by which the parity of all our money
and the stability of our currency on a
gold basis has been secured. We rec
ognize that interest rates are potent
factor in production and business activ-
ity and for the purpose of further equ-
alizaing and lowering the rates of in
terest we favor such monetary legisla-
ton as will enable the varying needs
of the season and of all sections to be
promptly met in order that trade may
be evenly sustained, Tabor steadily en-
ployed and commerce enlarged. The
volume of money in circulation was
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never 50 great per capita as it is today.

never so great per capita as it is today.
We declare our steadfast opposition
to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. No measure to that end could
be considered which was without the
support of the leading countries of the
world.
However firmly republican legisla-
ton may seem to have secured the
country against the peril of base and
discredited currency the election of a
democratic president could not fail to
impair the country's credit and to
bring once more into question the in
tention of the American people to main
tain upon the gold standard as the
parity of their money circulation. The
democratic party must be convinced
that the American people will never
tolerate the Chicago platform.
We recognize the necessity and pro-
priety of the honest cooperation OF
capital to meet our new business con-
ditions and especially to extend our
rapidly increasing foreign trade, but
we condemn all conspiracies and com
binations intended to restrict business,
to create monopolies, to limit produc-
ton or to control prices, and favor
such legislation as will etfectually re-
strain and prevent all such abuses,
protect and promote competition for
securing the rights of producers, labor
ers and all who are engaged in indus
try and commerce.
We renew our faith in the policy of
protection to American labor. In that
policy our industries have been estab-
lished, diversified and maintained. By
protecting the home market the COM
petition has been stimulated and pro-
duction cheapened. Opportunity to
the inventive genius of our people has
been maintained at high rates, higher
now than ever before, and always dis
tinguishing our working people in
their better conditions of life from
those of any competing country. En-
joying the blessings of American COM
mon schools, secure in the right of self
government and protected in the occu-
pancy of their own markets, their con-
stantly increasing knowledge and skill
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Life Lost in Hotel Fire

South Bend, Ind, June 2O.-The Nor
rison hotel was destroyed by fire early
this morning. L. c. Smart, of Hudson,
Mich, was killed and Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Smith, Fred Myers, of Adrian, Mich,
j. r. johnson and Michael Lynch, of
South Bend, and William Allen, Of
Mnncje, Ind. We're seriously burned or
injured. A number of others were
slightly hurt. The fire is supposed to
be of incendiary origin. 1t started
about one O'clock and was almost inn
mediately followed by a terrific explo-
sion of gas. The loss is $25. 900.
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Wheeler Sent to Chicago.

Chicago, June 19.-Brig. Gen. Wheel
.er, Fighting Joe" is to be stationed
in Chicago. Word came last, night
from Washington that the veteran OF
three wars would relieve Brig. Gen.
Wade of the command of the depart
ment of the lakes. This will leave
Gen. Wade in charge of the department
of the Dakotas.
Gen. Wheeler is now in Washington,
and probably will start for Chicago
this week, as his orders are to assume
command Immediately. He will re-
main here probably until September
10, his Gath birthday, when he will
reach the age limit and retire from ac-
tive service.
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have enabled them finally to enter the
markets of the world.
We favor the associated policy of re-
so directed as to open our
markets on favorable terms for what
we do not ourselves produce in return
for free foreign markets. In the fur
Their interest of American workmen.
we favor more effective restriction of
the immigration of cheap labor from
foreign lands, the extension of oppor-
tunities of education for working chill
|dren, the raising of the age limit for
Child labor, the protection of free labor
are against contract convict labor, and
an effective system of labor insurance.
For American Commerce.
Our present dependency upon foreign
shipping for nine-tenths of our for
|eign carrying is a great loss to the
industry of4this country. 1t is also a
serious danger to our trade for it's sud-
den withdrawal in the event OF Euro
pean war would seriously cripple our
Expanding foreign commerce. The ma
tional defense. and, naval efficiency of
this country, moreover supply COM
|pelling reason for legislation which
will enable us to recover our former
place among the trade carrying fleets
|of the world.
The Pension Laws.
The nation owes debt of profound
gratitude to the soldiers and sailors
who have fought its BATTLES, and it is
the governments duty to provide for
the survivors and for the widows and
orphans of those who have fallen in
the country's wars. The pension laws,
founded on this just sentiment, should
be liberal and should be literally adj
ministered and preference should be
given wherever practicable with re-
spect to employment in the public SER
vice to soldiers and sailors and to their
widows and orphans.
We commend the policy of the re-
publican party in maintaining the eff.
cheney of the civil service in Cuba,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine
islands by employing only those whose
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Joliet Mills Resume Work.

Joliet, ILL.,, June 19.-Rod mills . and
3 of the Joliet plant OF the Illinois
Steel company started yesterday NOR
ming, giving employment to 600 men,
who have been out of work for several
weeks. Every department of the plant,
rod mill / alone excepted, is now in
operation, and 1000 men are at work
with every prospect OF continuous en-
ployment until fall.
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May Cali an Extra session.

Washington, d. G., June 19.-Persis-
tent rumors are afoat that President
Mckinley has decided to call an ex-
ira session of congress to deal with the
Chinese situation.
Ii war exists in China, growing out
of the destruction of the United States
and other legations, it will be neces.
sary to send more troops to China.
Owing to conditions in the Philip
pines no more troops can be withdrawn
safely. Therefore it will require au-
thority from congress to furnish
troops.