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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-26

Inquire forenoon, 1854 ". Silver st.
$40 OO--'-room modern dwelling, North
Washington. ]?
S1I 5O-4-rOOm brick. Iron street.
;S55 00-7-room modern dwelling West
SIS 00-4-room dwelling. South Mon.
tana.
$50 00-6-room modern dwelling, Della.
ware avenue.
$50 00-Store room.
$50 0O-Store room.
$25 OO-4-room furnished dwelling, Ne
vada avenue.
$l3 00-3-room dwelling. West Side
Call and see the balance of our list OF
houses.
THE THOMPSON COMPANY,
Is West Broadway.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-26

FOR RENT-TWO ROOMS FOR
housekeeping. with large front room:
on ground floor. Corner of Park and
Montana.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-26
DENTISTS.

ELLIS BROTHERS THE FAMILIES
dentists. High grade work a speciality
at reasonable prices. Office at Balti
m,,re Block. Reception room g.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-26

FOR RENT.-VERYD DESIRABLE MOD
ern room dwelling on Wes. Side.
THOMPSON INVESTMENT co.
Is w. Broadway.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-26
2 Times 400
= One Cent Per Word.
DRESSMAKERS.

WEINBERG BROS. 4 EPSTEIN,
manufacturers and dealers In fash
ionable ready to- wear .ad!e garments.
Is to a. Owsley block.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23

According to Raoul Pictet, the ia
nous Swiss inventor, his latest dis
covery in regard to the manufacture OF
oxygen gas will revolutionizs the
metal trades of this country, and, in
deed, will have an important influence
on most of our industries. Briefly the
invention consists Of taking oxygen
out of the atmospheric air by phys
ical means, and not by q chemical
process as at present. The inventor
claims that by this process the cost OF
oxygen will be very much less than q
farthing per cubic foot, which, COM
pared with present prices, is in the pro-
portion of farthings to shillings. The
process will be applied to metallurgy
chemistry, lighting, and public health
For lighting purposes the oxygen Will
be mixed with water gas, and, 1t Is
said. will give a much better light at
much lower price. 1t has great heat
ing properties and can be used fol
smelling all ore containing gold and
other refractory ores. The process. II
Is said, will be much cheaper than any
present one for sanitary purposes. Thu
oxygen can be put into large rooms
schools, theaters, and SO forth, and BY
this means the air will be rendered
much purer.-Chicago Journal.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
PhilantIlronY in School Work

Chicago has the distinction of be-
ing the first city in the world to fur
nish free transportation for crippled
children of school age to a school OF
their own. The superintendent OF
compulsory education of the city in
investigating many cases OF absence
found that number Of children re-
NAMED from the school sessions both
on account of sensitiveness because OF
their deformity and because, in many
instances, they were unable to reach
the school without an attendant, an
impossibllity in families all the mem.
bers of which had to be breadwinners
The community had provided for the
schooling of these unfortunates, bul
the cost of transportation fell mainly
upon the parents and guardians, ex
cept when private charity furnished
the means. In a builulng in the stock
yard district, where the larger pro
portion of these children live, larg'
room has been set apart for them il
order that they may not be annoyed
and jostled by their healthy and bois
ferrous mates. A smooth running ON
nibus with an attendant plies dali.
between the school and the homes 0
the children, and Is crippled and com
paratively helpless children constitut
| the first class. Similar schools ar
contemplated in other parts of tn
| city. That the school boards of othe
cities will turn their attention fror
the jobbsry in books and the TRAN
| in positions of which they are too Of
ten accused. and enter into a nobl
emulation In the humanities with Oh
cago is devoutly to be hoped, eve
though their efforts should be criI
pled by the bartering OF school an
hospital appropriations in politics
| sorrup tion.-American Medicine.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
HUMOROUS.

Muggins-I believe that every man
should rule his own household. Bug
,ins-Humph. / guess you don't keep
servant girl.
Bookseller-Here is a copy OF the
Dairy Farm" Prospective Customer
How Is it bound? Bookseller-ln
'alf, Of course.
Philanthropist-Do you realize the
yalue Of an education? Sandy Rhodes
Sure. A man wild eddycation can
'ead de free lunch signs.
Blobbs-How did you like the melo-
lrama? Was anybody killed? Slobbs
No; the audience yelled for the au-
:hor, but he wouldn't come out.
What? Haven't you any postal
.ards?' she exclaimed. mo. ma'am,"
.eplied the drug clerk, absent-minded-
Y, but we have something just as
good"
Tom-And you say she Is a great
oelle? Jack-You bet. Why, she &C.
ually has four silk pillows stuffed
with hair from four different football
players.
Willie--Pa, what is burglar proof
;afe?" Pa-That merely means thai
when YOU find the safe blown open an6
:obbed it's proof that burglars have
leen at 1t.
There is a new song called. &c
Back and Sit Down" The stree
,ar conductor ought to write a parody
and call it go Away Up Front ant
Stand Up"
Wigg-A beggar struck me for
lime today on the plea that his wifi
aad just had new baby. Wagg-
Wanted you to contribute to the fresl
aeir fund. Ell?
| Caldwell-What Is food TO
I:hought?' Kidder-Some of the hasl
we have at our boarding house. /
keeps you thinking about its tngredi
ents for hours after you eat 1t.
80 you turned down the young bar
with the automobile poem," observe
he assistant, what did you tell him?
Il told him he needed more horse
sense in it," responded the editor.
Hoax-It's all we'll enough to tai
If keeping anarchists out of the cour
try, but they can't put a stop to a
pauper immigration. Joax-Of cours
aot; how could our heiresses get the
Titled husbands?
Sue-Mabel was terribly disappoin
ed last night. Belle-In what way
Sue-Why, Charley came around an
said he was going to tell her the "ol
Did story" Belle-and did he propose
5ue-No, he told her about Jonah an
, L the whale.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
WORN BY PASSING COINS.

mix about money burning holes in
,,Ols's pockets" remarked an OBJ
vr,nt stranger the other day, but
,,nHa case OF nick els burning holes
\ wood" He pointel to the front Of
b, ucEs! sellers window on one OF the
/ EsdunS as he spoke. The wood
vprk vas scooped out several inches
Isp where the intended passenger
uuslly shoves In his fare, and the cav
/ h vas twice as wide as 1t was deep.
That" said the observart man, lis a
rOrs graphic illustration IT what con-
t,ncy will do than all the lessons ever
Aught by the dripping Of water upon
rkI They used to tell w In school
hat q drop Of water would wear away
be greatest stone, but here we have a
auts picture Of what the constant
,hoing Of coins in and ont of that
kkst sellers window has done. You
I'LL notice that the wood Is worn out
V Gmoothly and evenly as IL it were
hne by the finest kind Of tools in the
lands Of the finest kind Of a carpenter,
Ihsrs isn't the faintest suspicion Of =
plInteT there. Millions Of niclIeis and
lines have passed and repassed
trough that window and heen showed
long that hardwood board, which was
lhnnally level and fiat IS street of
sVhalt, until they wore that cavity
Ehlch you now see there. | 10 not
nov that there Is any particular way
u showing the money between ticket
Aller and purchaser, but there must
n because the cavity Is shaped like
y Elongated saucer, demonstrating be-
snd any doubt that there must be a
Universal way for moving the coins
Aek and forward. have travelled q
pod deal, but nowhere have I seen
lacA q thorough object lesson as to the
hollow Of that board affords. To make
laVity like that the exchange Of coin
must have been simply enormous and
sTcHd the Imagination Of man to con-
'aVs It is one Of the greatest curl
&dsS Of the city. l doubt that 1t
ln an equal In the world. This Is the
va or sixth window sill on tho L that
nave noticed worn away by coins in
IaB way. At Forty-second, Thirty
aFd Twenty-third, and Fourteenth
Wses, on the Sixth avenue road, the
AalefS window lodges are especially
WI worn away by the passing OF coin.
aon't suppose that one New Yorker
ia hundred notices the fact as he
asaes forth for his t.cket.-New
'@k Mall and Express.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
The sultan's Little Joke.

An amusing story is told Of little
lest practised by the sultan at the ex-
pense of the medical experts. When
the plague broke out in his capital the
sultan asked II anything was known
rs to the cause. On being informed
hat 1t was found to be In the state OF
The drinking water be called at once
Tor six empty bottles which he had
filed In his presence, all from the same
one Of the palace wells, placed his
own zeal upon them, and then, without
iivulging their community Of origiD'
handed all six to . prominent analyst
To his Amusement, the report sent
{. that four of the samples contained
plague microbes. The fifth was merely
putrid water, and the sixth was quite
pure. Abdul Hamid merely shrugges
his shoulders and kept his thoughts
% himself. Mall Gazette.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
POLAR BEAR HUNTERS.
They Go Cunning for Walrus with Icy
Weapons.

they Go Cunning for Walrus with Icy
Weapons.
In his native home the polar bear
does not often meet with small boys
anxious to treat him to buns and 9th
er dainties. The consequence is that
Bruin has to devise many curious
ways of securing his food, and none
are more strange and interesting than
that related by two trustworthy trav-
elers in Finland, that country Of
strange sights.
They have known the polar bear
to take stone or huge lump Of
Ice in his forepaWs and from a favor.
able height, as a cliff or a precipitous
Ice hill, to hurl the missile down upon
the head of the walrus, an enormous
brute, often twice the size Of the boar,
and so stun him that Bruin could rush
in and complete the destruction at his
leisure, thus securing a months ra-
tons.
The most useful food Of the ice
bear, the Germans very appropriately
call this beast is the common seal
of the arctic regions. The latter is
the wariest animal Of the north, and
both Eskimo and polar bear need
their best strategy to catch it.
In the summer time, when the snow
Is off the ice of the ocean shore and
islets, the seals can be plainly seen
as black dots on the ice, probably
asleep, but always near their holes,
which lead down through the thick ice
to the water below, and into which
they can throw themselves by the
least movement. Bruin, seeing one
afar, walks up as near as he deems
safe and then begins crawling on his
wary prey.
The seal, If the weather be sunny
and pleasant, takes short maps, re-
lieved by shorter moments when it Is
scanning the vicinity for signs Of an
enemy's approach. During these times
the bear is very quiet and as still
as death itself, with eyes apparently
lclosed, though really a corner of each
is kept open, and in this way he
hopes the seal will take him for a
heap of snow, an appearance which
his coat readily helps him to as
sumo.
During the maps he creeps forward
with greater or less rapidity, accord
ing to his nearness to the seal and
consequent fear Of being heard OF
seen. When but 10 or IL yards away
and the seal is in the depths OF q
good nap, the bear PUSHES upon him
and with single blow Of his power
full paw knocks the smaller brute
senseless and so far away from the
hole that he cannot escape by tina,
way, even if the blow received Is not
Immediately fatal.
In winter time the ice is covered
with snow, and this is followed out
by the seal into snoWhouse, covering
the hole in the ice and connecting a
the top of the dome with an aperture
about the size of a shilling, called thu
. blow hole, for it is through this tina
the seal breathes when he is in wan
of fresh air.
, Here the bear watches for many
, ,ong hour, If necessary, and when tn
snorts of the seal are heard he crush
es in the fragile dome Of the snow
house with his paw, impaling the sea
on his curved claws and proceeds t.
practically demonstrate how pola
bears can subsist in an arctic winter
London Telegraph.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
THE COST OF WARS.
Conflicts of the Past Century Have Cost
Nearly 100000, 100000.

Conflicts of the Past Century Have Cost
Nearly $4,000, 100000.
A writer in the Home Magazine es-
estimated the cost of wars on the 18th
century to nearly reach the enormous
sum of 1900, 100000. Just how much
is a billion? he asks. It is one thou.
sand millions; but that fact is not eX-
pressive. There are only 3,155,673,60O
seconds in a. century--that is, Sc have
been spent on war for every second
of the century. If we take Archbishop
Usher's chronology, and consider the
world to be 1904 years old. we find
that the nations have spent on war
during the 10Th century at the rate OF
Sc a minute since the creation.
The most costly building in the
world is the Church of San Pietro, in
Vaticano, known to US as st. Peters
Rome. 1t has cost not less than $70,.
10000 since it's foundation stone was
laid, yet nearly 300 other churches
of equal cost could be built out OF
what the world has spent on wars dur
| ing the 10Th century. The costliest
building in this country is the Phila'
delphia building. which represents
nearly $3O,000,0O0; yet nearly 700
copies of this great pile could be
erected out of the money spent on wal
during the last hundred years. The
world spends upward of $3.50, OOO,0OO
year on education. If 1t spent 81 times
as much it would not equal the wal
expenses of the past century. The
population of the world is estimated
at 1906, 100000; the money spent OF
war between 1901 and 1900 would giv'
to each man, woman and child alive
today more than $13 as pocket money
If a man counted 200 q minute TO
10 hours a day, six days a week, h
would have counted 100000 in eigh
days three hours and 20 minutes. A
the same rate he would need 1888
days, three hours and 20 minutes t
count 100000, or rs years, 10
days, three hours and 20 minutes, no
counting Sundays. To count 10000
100000 would take 532 years $50 day
six hours and 40 minutes.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
Sequoia Gigantea.

The Big Tree (sequoia gigantea) Is
natures forest masterpiece, and, as far
as l know, the greatest of living
things. 1t belongs to an as.,ient stock,
as its remains in old rocks show, and
has a strange air Of other days about
it-a thoroughbred inherited
from the long ago, the aud lang syne
of trees. The Pacific. coags aifs general
is the paradise Of conifers. -iere near
ly all Of them are giants, and display
q beauty and magnificence unknown
elsewhere. The climate is mild, the
ground never freezes, and moisture
end sunshine abound all the year.
nevertheless, it is not easy to account
for the colossal size Of the seQuoias.
The largest are about 800 feet high and
thirty in diameter. Who of all the
jewellers Of the plains, and prairies,
and fertile home forests OF round
headed oak and maple, hickory and
elm, ever dreamed that earth could
bear such groWths-trees that the To-
miliar pines and frs seem to know
nothing about-lonely, silent, serene
with a physiognomy almost godlike
and so old thousands Of them still liv.
ing had counted their years by tens Of
centuries when Columbus set sail from
Spain, and were in the vigor of youth
or middle age when the star led the
Chaldean sages to the infant Savior'G
cradle? As far as man Is concerned
they are the same yesterday, to-day
and forever-emblems OF permanence
John Muir, in Atlantic.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23

elaborate menu Is out Of the question,
but we always give the insects all the
food necessary to sustain life, and
sometimes they actually fatten. Take
the wiggletail. This bit Of life has q
raVenous APPETITE, and feeds almost con-
stantly. The juices of vegetables not
only keep him alive, but they give him
strength and energy enough to develop
himself. Between the place in the jar
where he sucks the sustaining juices
into his system and the top of the
water where ne shoots his syphon
above the surface to get fresh air, he
Is kept constantly hustling, feeding at
one place and breathing at the other.
1t would be difficult to estimate the
number Of times wiggletail feeds dur
ing tWenty-four hours. The amount
taken on at any one time, If estimated
in weight, would run high into the
fractions. But, as small as he Is, it
means much to him. The winged in
sects that are put in screened cages are
easily fed. 1t is but little trouble, to
raise a mosquito, as far as the food
Is concerned. These insects also feed,
exteniVely on vegetable juices, con-
Stunning greater quantities, Of course,
than the earlier member of the family,
the wiggletail. l find that sugar is one
OF the best things in the world for
mosquitoes. They are fond of sugar.
In fact, they seem to have what is pop
ularly called sweet tooth The
sugar Is nutritive, too, and, while not
answering all the purposes Of animal
blood In the mosquito life, they never
theless thrive and grow fat and saucy
on the diet. My own particular pets
are never without 1t, and 1 rarely lose
one until his natural time to pass out
or until I decide to STAY him and
squeeze him into one CT the glass slides
in my workshop. Orleans
Times-Democrat.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
All for Love.

The Lake of Geneva is celebrated for
its swans. Two Of these birds were
observed to be greatly attached to each
other, being inseparaple companions
Their devotion was pointed out to VS.
itors. Recently the park authorities
introduced to the lake young female
swan of great beauty to whom the
male that had so long been noted for
his con]ugal fidelity immeoiateiy
transferred his affections. The DESERT
ed female swan shortly nfterward COM
mitted suicide by beating its brains OUT
against the quay, The body OF the i'm.
fortunate bird has been stunned ano
placed in the Geneva museum'-DS'
troit Free Press.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
Cause Of Autumn Foliage.

No phenomenon OF nature Is more
generally misunderstood than the col.
or change that takes place in the
leaves of plants in autumn. This is one
of those common things that most
people never think of studying, just
because they are SO common. But to
neglect them is to neglect veritable
mine of interest and beauty, to say
nothing of the information that lies
there ready for our seeking.
Ten persons out of IL, perhaps, be-
lieve that the leaves turn red. or yell
low, or purple, OF brown under the &C.
ton of frost, but the truth Is that frost
has nothing to do with the change.
II you will take the trouble to notice
the trees in September and October
you will see that the change begins
long before we have frost.
AS a matter OF fact, 1t is merely the
ripening of the leaves. Leaves are
green in spring and summer because
they have in the cells substance
called chlorophyll, which is made
green by the action Of sunlight. The
green is of pale shade in early spring
because the chlorophyll is not fully
formed. When that substance is fully
formed the green turns darker.
Toward the end of summer the chic
rophyll begins to decay, and then, be
cause it is not supplied as 1t is early
in the season, the leaves change colo
or ripen, the green producing sub
stance no longer being present Ex
actly why some leaves turn red, SOM
yellow and some brown Is not readil!
explained, except by what we know
OF the action of light in producing
colors. Some substances absorb tn
yellow and blue rays Of light and re
fleet the red; others absorb the re-
and blue rays and reflect the yellow
and so on. The scientific reason VIII,
some rays are absorbed and other
iare reflected is that the corpuscles o
the substance vary in size. This az
, plies not only to leaves but to all col
ored objects.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Counsel that favors your desires
leeds careful watching.
1t is always easier to forget bad
habits than to forego them.
The laws of friendship are austere
md eternal, Ct one web with the laws
If nature.
A woman condemns faults in an
)ther woman's children which she par
ions In her own.
No man can be brave who thinks
pain the greatest evil, or temperate
who considers pleasure the highest
sood.
He only is advancing in life whose
aeart is getting softer, whose blood
warmer, whose brain quicker, whose
spirit is entering into living peace.
! Right is right, in all simplicity, and
either the teachings of the great proph-
ITS are false, OF they ere to be reck-
oned with daily IN all the common
affairs of human life upon earth.
1t is hard to believe that others can
lot see what seems plain to US; but
We cannot see the sun at night; and
or all that it is qul,e plain to those
IN the other side of the world. Every
hing is in the position one happens
% occupy.
The habit of concentrating all the
powers for q certain time upon a def
1ite object is, not gained without dis
:ipline and practice. Many persons
meaning conscientiously to perform the
work that falls to their lot have, fol-
want of that habit never learned how
. do it with thoroughness and dis.
patch.
The safeguard against temptation IL
aot seclusion, but self-culture AS II
s not disinfectants which will most
certainly secure one against infection
out sound constitution, so 1t Is no,
Jules of life which will strengthen one
against temptations, but soul. One
must build up his moral deed and higt
thinking, by fellowship with pure
women and honorable men. The chic
aids in this regimen are literature ant
friendship.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-11-23
Tha Sceuters of Reyalty.

The ebony scepters Of the Pharoahs
or those Of nearer times OF holly or
apple wood, of which the kings of the
first French dynasties, and even
Charlemagne l. nself, were proud, are
things of the ptjt, says the jewelers.
Circular Weekly. In these times gold,
the most precious stones and the skill
of the chasers make Of the scepters
veritable WORKS of art.
The one of the Emperor William Is
the old scepter of Prussia, a heavy Or
namented staff of gold surmounted
with a globe upon which rests the
Prussian two headed eagle. The eagle,
whose outspread wings are adorned
| in precious stones, holds in the right
talon the trident of Neptune and in the
left battle sword, symbols of empire
on land and sea.
The one of the Hapsburgs, the an
cient scepter Of the Holy Empire, re-
@embles the ivory scepter OF the Ro-
mans, but it is of polished gold, with
chased handle 1t is surmounted
with a large globe, bearing the Haps
burg arms and crowned wit hthe out
spread eagle and cross. Ohio II. bears
the globe and Ohio w. adds the cross
The Car Nicholas II, has at Moscow
the simplest and most elegant OF scep
tiers, a long staff Of chased gold, sur
mounted with globe and the two
eagles of Russia, between which ar'
the arms of the Romanoff, incrustet
with precious stones.
England has no historic scepter.