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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22

Croker has already rounded the cor
ners, presenting the public with slices
of his fields for the convenience of
driving.
AT present the Moat house is shut up,
the blinds are down and Mr. Croker S
English factotun, Mr.. Usher, is on deck.
He is indefatigable in keeping the men
at work, in supervising the stables and
in looking generally after his masters
interests. Owing to the illness of Mr..
Cookers Old thenchman, David Nagle,
the responsibilities of Usher are greatly
increased.
Usher's duties are manifold and re-
markable. He does anything from pre-
pairing Mr.. Croker's bath and buttoning
his boots to mixing the food for the
dogs, experimenting the workmen. buy
ing the eatables and signing the checks.
No one at Vantage or Letcombe has
ever seen Mr.. Croker put pen to paper,
or seen any letter Or document with his
signature to it.
When at the outset of the war there
was a subscription for the soldiers
started at Vantage, Mr.. Croker sent
$50. 1t was announced in the list in
this form:
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22
IDEAL OF VANTAGE
CROKER'S PRINCELY PLACE AND
EXCLUSIVE WAY IN ENGLAND.
SPENDS HIS MONEY FREELY
The People Want to Erect Statue Of
Him-Refuses to Make Friends,
But IL Most Generous to
the Townsmen.

Vantage, Berks. Nov. 22.-Of the two
great men associated with Vantage,
King Alfred the Great and king Rich
ard the Boss the latter is easily the
favorite. king Alfred was born here"
said the landlord of the old-fashioned
Bear hotel to correspondent yesterday
''but Mr.. Croker has spent more money
in Vantage since he came here than we
ever gained by visitors to King Alfred
birthplace
Indeed, Vantage was ignored in the
arrangements recently made to celebrate
the King Alfred millenary, and in the
bitterness of his heart one district coun-
cilOr declared the other day at the week.
ly meeting, amid general manifestations
of approval, Mr.. Croker has been a big
ger benefactor to this town than ever
King Alfred was, and we would be only
doing right if we took down King AL
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22

Eaton than Mr.. Croker has provided Ior
his favorite cobs at Moat house. yer
these stables are now to be all puiieo
down and again removed.
Mr.. CrOkers notions OF elegance are
expanding. When he first came. over no
spent a good part of his time in the
stables and delighted to have them
handy, but now he is changing all that.
He still visits them regularly, but IN
lordly way that he must have picked up
from observation of the Duke OF Devon
shire.
In Mr.. Cookers kennels are SO or 6O
dogs Of choice breeds-bull terriers and
the kings favorite toy bull terriers pre-
dominating. These dogs have two men
and two boys to attend them, and Mr.
Croker has become SO much of dog
fancier that he intends to lay out a
splendid new kennel some distance from
the house.
Mr., Croker has three lots of stabling
at Letcombe, one where he keeps his fast
trotting horses and his sires, behind the
house; another a field away where his
brood mares and foals are housed, and a
third about mile and half of on the
Downs, where his yearlings are trained.
Then he has his other horses at Heath
house, Newmarket, under the care Of
Enoch Wishard He has about 30
horses now. The keep Of his string,
their entries, their travelling expenses.
and his expenditures upon them of all
kinds, cannot be less than $4,000 year,
and probably is good deal more.
Then he is developing at a rapid rate
the land hunger of the Irishman. He al
ready owns about $50 acres at Let
combe, and he is figuring on the pur-
114n %l1n Ilor tot nf q
acres more with a beautiful old Queen
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22
MIR. CROKER, per T. Usher,
Esq. $50.

So it can be imagined that Usher has
a good deal of patronage to dispose OF.
Mr.. Croker has attached this stolid
young Englishman to his service and
voted Tammany henchman.
OF America Mr.. Croker never talks
to his underlings. Once. indeed. he
did-when he. went rampaging round
! with a copy of the Sunday World in his
hand last year. asking who supplied
the information for the story of his
life at Vantage therein contained. He
warned everybody around him that II
they said word to any reporter about
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22

him or his concerns, instant dismissal
would be the penalty. The result Is
that any stranger who approaches to
look at Moat house is regarded with
profound suspicion, and notices are up
all around the place containing the
warning:
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22
Curious MOSQUITO.

In religious life there are some kinos
Of moral mosquitoes that are peculiarly
poisonous. One of them is the genus
Religio indifferences. which. being interr
rreted, is religious indifference. ThS
species is always buzzing around~every
church; and. when once it gets its pois-
onous bill into a church member, and
thoroughly inoculates him. there is MT.
tie hope of his recovery. ~ -
1t has done far more damage to the
church than persecution. slaughter. or
violent opposition.
Then there is the virulent variety
known as the Religio pique, or, in COM
non language, hufIiness and piaue.
Some people are particularly sensitive
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22
TRESPASSERS WILL BE
PROSECUTED.

The local people respect Mr.. Croker's
idiosyncrasies and pocket his dollars
In fact, except when business neces-
states it, they never see anything y
him. He spends very little time AZ
Moat house to enjoy the comforts p
has provided there. He usually
not always, goes down from Saturda
to Monday. and occasionally spends q
night there during the week when ne
wants to see one Of his horses tried. a.
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to the bites of this perniclous insect.
Raw portions OF their emotional anat-
omy are constantly exposed. on which
these mosquitoes love to settle and into
which they insert their poison. Such
persons feelings are constantly being
hurt. They are always being sEshted
or neglected or ill-treated, in their own
ina ginatiOn, and they take it out in do
ing nothing but nurse their Doison-in-
tected wounds, and become sickly weak
lings in the church family.
Another variety is the ReligiO critica.
sThi, species introduces a poison which
makes chronic fault finders and small
should critics. Whatever Is, is wrong
becomes their motto. They are great at
tearing down, but very poor at building
up. On the whole. the disease makes
them about the most worthless Chris
tians in existence.-Christian EndeavOr
World.
It dwells beneath q Circe's baleful
glance,
Or looks out calmly from Madonna
eyes,
A gift apart. to thrill. inspirt. entrance,
A wondrous spirit. clothed in different
: guise.
It's presence or in man or woman found
Means power to win us. though we
know not why;
. tone. a smile, q thing that holds us
bound.
A spell to drag us down or lift us high.
A. r. Morgan Dahlgren in Smart Set.
The MOnk-Five baby elks have beer
born here within the last four weeks.
The Cockatoo-By George! we'll organ
ize a lOdge.-Smart Set.
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The Monk-Five baby elks have been
born here within the last four weeks.
The CockatoO-By George! we'll organ
ize lOdge.-Smart Set.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20
TAE WARRIORS pEATH.

''What Is his bridge to Heaven?" they cried,
And the warriors held their breath,
AS the grizzled king of a hundred fights
Went down to the river of death.
what is his bridge to Heavey.?'' shay s=!sc,
rs it basti0aeG With buckles and spears.
And girGled with the iron blades
OF battles of bygone years?
"And what are the voices he hears in his
dreams?
Are they the clamors of fight,
Or the echoes of splendid victories that
come
AS he stands by the river at night?"
may, nay" and they stand by in wonder
and awe;
For all that he builds on there
Are withered blossom. babys shoe,
And lock of a woman's hair.
And the only voices he hears in his dreams,
AS the world dies out on his ears,
Are an old lOve-ballad, a baby's laugh,
And the sob of a dead Wife's tears.
Parsons Magazine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20
HE WAS CALLED.
But the Law stepped In and Prevent
cd Him from Being
Preacher.

The southern co1Ored man who car
ried my valise from the depot to tht
hotel was a man of middle age and
serious look, and 1 sized him up for 3
preacher, says writer in the Cincin
natl Commercial Tribune. AS we be.
gan talking 1 asked him how large q
congregation he had, and he replied;
"Hain't got none tall now, sah.''
'Gone out of the ministry"
Eyes, sab; yo' might dun say hal
gone out, bein' as I've no church nol
congregashun an dom preach no mo-
what was the trouble?'
"No great trubble, sab. 1 jest reckon
dat mistook bout it. 1 had dream
one night dat 1 was called to preach
an so L went at it."
"And didn't it pay, or what?''
"Waal, sab. dunno bout de pay. J
didn't git huff long to ak fur any pay.
was preachin' away an dom my best
when 1 dislibered dat 1 hadn't beer
called arter ALL
How did you discover that?' per
sisted.
"Why, Kurnel Johnson, he dur
swore out a warrant, constable dun
arrested me, an de judge he dun said
it was six months in Jail fur stealth
dat calf, an L only got out yesterday
1 might hev had a call, but between
Kurnel Johnson an de Lawd 1 got ali
mixed up an frown down, an L reckon
1 shan't work in de vineyard no mo-"
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trance and uAab1e TO force Shelr way
In, or even to make room for q most
importune female struggling on the
outskirts, hung on the words of an
orderly who, dispatched in further
search of Lieut.. Ray, was forcing a
way out.
"How is it going?" said he. "Why,
that young feller's just as good az
hanging himself. He admits having
had the pistol that did the business"
Ten minutes later Filipino serv.
ant went to answer an imperative
rap at the panel in the massive door
of No. 100 Gale San Luis DR.. Frank
had been early to gee his patient, and
had enjoined upon Mrs. Brent and
Miss Porter silence as to last nights
tragedy. Not until she was stronger
was Miss Ray to be allowed to know
of the murder of Private Benton,
''By that time," said he, 1--WE shall be
able to clear up mystery
hope"
The colonel had gone round to tho
police station. Mrs. Brent, nervous
and unhappy, had just slipped out
for ten seconds, as she said to Miss
Porter, to see an old army chum and
friend who lived only three doors
away. Miss Porter, who had been
awake hours of the night, had finally
succeeded, as she believed, in reading
Maidie to sleep, and then, stretching
herself upon the bamboo couch
oorOcS tho rOOno Voc rho ravf thin ~
she knew, aroused by voices.
Sandy Ray had entered so noise
lessly that she had not heard, but
Maidie had evidently been expecting
him. In low, earnest tone be was
telling the result of his search the
night before. She heard the words:
Connolly is down with some kind
of fever in hospital and hasn't seen
or heard anything of anyone even
family resembling Foster. Then
found your old friend, the brakeman.
Gen. Vinton has got him good place
in the quartermaster's department,
and he tells me he knows nothing,
has seen and heard nothing. Now
I'm going to division headquarters to
find Stuyvesant."
"And then" said Miss Porter, my
heart popped up into my throat and
I sprang from the sofa!" But too
late. An awful, rasping voice at the
doorway stilled the soft Kentucky
tones and filed the room with dread,
''Then you've no time to lose,
young man. It's high time somebody
besides me set out to help him. That
other young man you call Foster lies
dead at the police station-killerl by
your pistol, Miss Ray, and Mr.. Stuy
vesant goes to Jail for it."
ITO Be Continued
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20
The Mule in Hypnotism.

Max CarnaveauX, who gives eXhiEi.
tions of his power in hypnotism, has
decided that in future he will be more
careful in the selection of his. sub.
jects for experiment. One of his
favorite tricks was to persuade the
man who submitted to him for test
that he was a mule, and great merri.
ment always followed the mulish an.
tics of the victim while he was under
the hypnotic influence. But one day,
down in Lyndon, Kan, Mr.. Carna'
veaux, feeling unusually sprightly
and jovial, presumed a little too far
on the good nature and geniality OF
the mule pro tenn, and, carried away
by the strength of hypnotic sugges.
ton, the man under the spell sud
denly kicked out with great violencA
and struck the hypnotist in the hand,
fracturing one of the bones. For .
few weeks, therefore, there have been
no hypnotic experiments of any sort,
and Mr.. CarnaveauX has made up hia
mind to give up the mule trick and
rely on animals of more peaceable
and reliable dispositions.-You
Companion.
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Enclosures Reilly heard Benton's chat.
lenge and saw tall officer come up
to be recognized. They had some
words-the officer and the sentry
he couldn't tell what, but the officer
spoke excited like. and all of a sud-
den jumped away and started as
though to run, and No. "hollered''
after him. though Reilly didn't clear
ly understand what was said. SAT
all events he made him come back,
and THERE Reilly seemed greatly
embarrassed and glanced about the
room from face to face in search of
help or sympathy-''it seemed to kind
of rile the officer. He acted like he
wasn't going to come back first off,
and then the corporal came along
with the patrol and the officer had
to wait while Stamford was recog-
niZed, and the boys was sayin' Billy
had a right to stand the corporal off
until the lieutenant said advance
him. And we was laughin' about it
and sayin' Billy wasn't the boy to
make any mistake about his orders,
when we heard the lieutenant come
a-runnin' swift down t'other side the
street and then saw him scootin' it
for the open p'rade.''
"Did the witness recognize the of
ficer?-lid he see him plainly?"
"Yes, the electric light was burnin'
at the corner, and he'd seen him sew
eral tiues driving by the 'bar'ks.'"
Was the officer present-now?
eyes," and Reilly's face Redeemed
to meet the hue of his hair.
Reluctantly, awkwardly, pathetical-
ly almost, for in no wise did identi-
fication, as it happened. depend on
his evidence, the little Irish lad
turned till his eyes met those of
Stuyvesant, sitting pale, calm and
collected by the generals side, and
while the eyes of all men followed
those of Reilly they saw that, so far
from showing resentment or dismay,
the young gentleman bowed gravely,
reassuringly, as though he would
have the witness know his testimony
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20

passed them, and here the provost
marshal interposed with:
"Never mind what the patrol said.
Just tell what you the witness-did
next"
Scott continued that he and others,
with the lieutenant, officer of the
guard, ran back to No. 6's post, and
there stood the major with the pistol.
'When we asked should we search
the yards and alleys the major
nodded, but the moment he heard the
men telling about the running officer
he gave the lieutenant orders"
And again the provost marshal
said: ''Never mind" the major would
describe all that.
And the major did. He corrobora-
ted what Corporal Scott had said,
and then went on with what hap
/ pened after Scott was sent to alarm
the guard. Barring some opening of
shutters and peering out on the part
| of the natives anxious to know the
cause of the trouble, there was no
further demonstration until Scott
Snd others came running back. But
meanwhile something gleamingin the
rOadway-the Gale Real-about Is
PAGES from the corner and up tho
street-to the north towards ths
Bagumbayan-and close to the side
walk attracted his attention.
He stepped thither and picked up
this revolver. By the electric light
at the corner he saw that one clam
Der was empty. When the guard
came on the run and he heard of the
tall officer fleeing up towards the
Bagumbayan, the direction in which
the pistol lay, he sent Mr.. Wharton
Lieut.. Wharton--with a patrol in
puTE1zi:.
IKE inscription on the pistol re-
vealed its ownership and caused GER
tain suspicious that warranted his
action, he believed, in ordering the
instant arrest of the officer if found.
Maj. MacNeil went Ola to say he
had not yet made tie acquaint-
ance of Lieut.. StuyveSant, and did
not actually know when he gave the
order that it was Lieut.. Stuyvesant
who ran up the str3et"-and here
the major was evidently in painful
position, but faced his duty like a
man and told his story without pas
sion or prejudice, despite the fact
! that he declared the murdered man
to be one of the very best young
fellows in the battalion and that he
was naturally shocked and angered
at his death. F.,
Then the name of Private Reilly
was called, and a keen-featured lit
tie Irishman stepped forward. He
was one of the patrol. Corporal
Stamford, first relief, was in charge
of it. They had been hunting as far
over as the 'Knows-a-lady," and on
coming back No. told them of
some natives az the second house.
Corporal Stamford posted him
(Reilly) in the first yard near the
street to head off any that tried to
run out that way, in case they stirred
up mares nest, and took the other
''fellers" and went round by the
front. Nothing came of it, but while
they were beating up the yards and
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20

To Policy Holders in Old Line Com
panies: Beware of the confidence game
played by the pious Insurance Agent.
who wants to do you the favor of
switching you from your company to
his. All companies write numerous
plans of insurance and every plan costs
different price. You get value re-
ceived for any plan you buy, from any
Old Line Company When the con-
fidence man shows you a plan differing
from the one you have, which is part of
the game, and should you prefer this
particular plan write to the Agent OF
Company who insured you and get it,
and thereby save what you paid. Don I
be an easy mark There are millions of
dollars lost each year by policyholderS
being duped by confidence men.
n. O. WILSON.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20

the chain of circumstantial evidence
they plainly saw that every state
ment, even that of Stuyvesant him
self, bore heavily against him. A
lawyer, had he been represented by
counsel, would have permitted no
such admissions as he had made. A
gentleman, unschooled in the law,
preferred the frank admission to the
distress of seeing Mrs. Brent-and
perhaps others-called into that
presence to testify to his having had
the pistol with him when he left the
gallery.
Brent in his bewilderment had
blurted out his wife's words in the
hearing of the provost-marshaP
people late the night before, and he
and his household were yet to be
called, and when called would have
to say that though they passed and
possibly repassed through the salon
between the moment of Stuyvesant's
departure and that of their going out
to dinner. not one of their number
noticed even so bright and cleaning
an object as Maidie's revolver. True,
the lights were not brilliant in the
salon. True, the little table stood
back against the wall five or six feet
from the doorway. Still, that pistol
was prominent object, and a man
must have been in extraordinary
haste indeed to leave a loaded weap-
on Lying round loose" in the hall.
That was the way Thinking Bay
onets" argued it, and soldiers by tE4
score crowding the sidewalk and en-
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20
The Nerx Color.

Ottinger-My new golf cap is guina
to be of automobile blue.
Miss Henriques-l didn't know theTA
was any such shade as ''automoEtls
blue"
"Oh, yes! That is the color the All
becomes around an automobile wIe5
it breaks down with two gentlemen 70
it."-Puck.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20
comparatively Well FIXED.

Papa" said the beautiful girI
George and are two souls with ba;
a single thought"
"Oh, we'll, don't let that discourage
you" replied her father, kindly
''That's one more than your moths
and 1 had when we we're married, 40
Town anG CountrF,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-10
PER SONAL.

Rear Admiral Bob" Evans, Mt the
Middlesex Club dinner in Boston the
other night, alluded to the fact that some
of the people of Boston were so scared at
the outbreak of the Spanish war that
they moved all their silver back into the
country. Yes" said Rev Mr.. Cutler
when he got UP to speak, I'VE were re-
moving our silver, but it was only done
so that we could bet 16 to l on the navy"
And everybody laughed and applauded.
The one hundredth anniversary CT
Daniel Webster's graduation from Dart
mouth College is to be celebrated at that
institution on September "a and %, next.
The exercises will include speechmalSing
on Webster's college life and his charac-
ter-notably an address by Representa-
tive S. w. Mccall of Massachusetts-a
torchlight parade of the students and the
laying of the cornerstone of Webster
Hail. The alumni of Dartmouth will par
ticipate in the celebration.
AT the dedication of St Josephat's
Polish Catholic Church in Milwaukee, on
may y, Monsignor Martinelli will be pres
ont, Archbishop F. X Katzer will cele-
brate the pontifcal mass. Bishop Mess
mer of Green Bay, is to preach the GER
mon in English. The Polish sermon VIII
be preached by the Rev. Eugene Sed-
laczek of Chicago. The Rev. William I.
Grutza, the pastor of the new church.
will oversee all the arrangements, but
otherwise will take no part in the Gedi-
cation ceremonies
The German Crown Prince, who goes
to Bonn University at the end OF April
or early in May, will especially devote
himself to the study of law but will also
attend lectures on history, literature,
philosophy physics, chemistry, etc The
Emperor Williams third son, Prince
Adalbet, will join the training slip
Charlotte as a cadet for his first voyage
on April 10. The Charlotte will call at
all the German, Russian and Swed. sh
ports of the Baltic, and return to Kiel
for the regatta week