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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1901
wAsH1NGToN's BIRTHDAY.

According to the old style, Washing
ton was born on February IL. l''-'
There is a difference of just thirteen
DAYS in the present year and century
between tn old styl and the new an"
the anniversary of Washingtons birth,
therefore. really falls upon February
81 instead of February %. although.
with one exception. every state III the
Union has designated the latter date
as a holiday. During the century Just
closed the difference between the two
STYLES was twelve days. but from the
BEGINNING of the present century up to
POO thirteen days must be added t.
the old style to bring the dates up to
the new style.
When Caesar constructed his calendar
on the basis that the months would
always keep company with the same
seasons, he took 365l4 days for the year,
and to make UP the fraction. an extra
day was added to February in every
year Invisible BY four. thus giving us
our leap year.
This year. as devised by Caesar was
liz minutes too long, and in the course
of 12S years the excess amounted to
exactly one day Under This arrange
ment, by the time the year 80 was
reached, the vernal equinox, which at
first fell on March p, came on March
81, and the confusion became worse UNI
til Gregory MIL in 1882 amended the
4 no Siy Ia
The vernal equinox fell in that year on
NIarch II, and the pope set it ahead to
March q. 1t was necessary then. in
order to adjust his calendar, 70 omit
ten days, and these were dropped fol-
lowing October 4. 1852. the 5th being
designated as the 18th. He made some
further adjustments. so that his Year
ds but 26 seconds longer than the true
solar year 1t would. under such an
arrangement. require 1000 years to bring
this slight difference up to a full day
Between Gregory's new style and
Caesars calendar, or the old style,
there was a difference in the sixteenth
century of ten days, accounting for the
time dropped in fixing the vernal
equinox as stated. This continued until
400, which was a leap year in the cal
endar of Caesar. but not in the Gre
gorian calendar one making February
consist of 30 days and the other of IS.
This brought up the difference between
the old and new style to eleven days
instead of ten. the Caesarian calendar
being left one day further behind. The
same thing occurred again in 1900,
which. under the new style, was a COM
mon year and under the old a leap year
Last year was again leap yea" accord
ing to the old style and again common
according to the new, SO that still
one more day was added to the differ
ence, and during the whole of the pres
ent century thirteen days must be add
ed to the old style to bring dates up tt
the new. Moreover, as the year POO
will be a leap year under both calen
dars, this rule holds good until 21o0
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
THE STATE PRESS.
WITNESS FEE BILL.

Pony acknowledgements Adj
kins has introduced a bill that
will appeal to everyone VINO mas
ever been a witness in justice
court or before a coroner's jury as
one that should become law. 1t pro-
vides for the payment of witness fees IN
Justice court cases. The law used to
cover such cases but on account OF al
legged professional witnesses IN Butte
the law was knocked out. The idea OF COM
polling man to travel fifteen miles, pay
the expenses of hiring team ana pay
his own board at an hotel. for glory and
for the benefit of another person, as mas
heen frequently done in this vicinity, is
enongh to make man attempt to defy
the law. The bill should be passed. Mi.
Adkins also introduced bill amending
the law relating to the fees OF county
clerks and recorders.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
GET IT OUT OF SIGHT.

Great Falls Leader: However, it is
we'll to get the money out of sight and
therefore out of mind, because as long as
it remained unapprOpriated or unappor-
toned 1t was an eyesore to both those
who claimed that it was bribery money
and to those who insisted that it was
merely the result of a conspiracy. The
whole people of the state will also re
joice because this amount of money has
been put out of their sight, it is to be
hoped. forever. Perhaps to use it for the
purpose Teaching the young idea NOR
ais is a good thing. At any rate it will
cease to be an object lesson of what a
rich man may do with the legislature OF
the state CT Nor tana. The money was
the direct result of corruption of some
kim and it is perhaps we'll that it be
used to teach the children of the state
interruption.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

when the difference will be fourteen
days.
England. largely through its dislike
of popes held to the old style until uhe
passage of the act adopting the he"
in 1851 The year was made to begin on
January /. instead of March %, and on
September ?, 1852. the day was desig-
mated the 14th of the month, the rule
applying to Great Britain and all of her
colonies. This made a difference of
eleven days in American chronology.
AS to the manner in which Washing
toms birthday became fixed, according
to The present custom. the New York
Times says:
1t has been a common but not uni
form practice to make the correction
once for all in the century in which the
date occurs and disregard uhe ever
widening error 1t is evident that IN
this way February % was fixed as
Washington's birthday. In the eigh-
teenth century, the century OF ms Dlruh
the difference between old ana new
styles was eleven days. He was born
February H. Adding eleven days, we
have the February -, 1852 This has
been kept as the sacred date. But 1t is
obvious that in succeeding centuries
with a constant increment of difference
February %. 1882. will have its true
anniversary. measured by the lapse uf
solar years. not on February -. but on
February %. which was the trie date
for the last century. then on February
a. which is the true date for the pres
ent century. and in POI on Fl bruary
- 1t would seem that the change
from twelve to thirteen first occurs in
this openingo year of the twentieth CEN
fury. and this is true Of all anniver-
saries of the year 1900 falling before
the 2Sth of February. for the calendars
kept on at their old interval of twelve
days until the old halted over. February
% while the new proceeded to March
l. But it is clear that February n,
1901 is the one hundred and siNty-ninth
anniversary of the birth Of George
Washington.
So far as observing the birth Of Wash
ineton is concerned. this is a matter of
slight consequence at most. But in re-
laton to contemporary history. it is of
sufficient Importance to be exact.
Should the anniversary be made a
movable feast day it may interest some
to know that in 1880 years the ami
versary of Washngtons birth will fall
upon July 4. which will give the boys
chance for such a celebration as will
make the Martians think there's some
thing doing down this way.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
ELECT A SENATOR.

The end of the Legislative session is
drawing near. and still the most impor-
tant matter before the legislature re-
main undetermined. After weeks spent
in discussion after taking thirty ball
lots the short-term senatorship seems
no nearer a settlement that it was at the
start Indeed. the belief is expressed in
some quarters that the deadlock will re-
main unbroken to the end of the session.
Every friend of Montana must hope
that such will not be the case Montana
is a great state. In area. in diversity of
resources, in its live stock industry, in
its wool industry, in its vast mineral
wealth, in its immense reduction works.
in it's fruitful fields, Montana overshad-
ows her neighbors. Upon these great in
terests of the stockman, the agriculture
alist, the miner. the manufacturer and
the merchant depend the future devel-
opment and prosperity of the state. Pro-
visicn has been made for giving Mon
tana, along With the other states, fair
representation in congress. For two
years, however, this state has had but
one senator. and it is worth bearing in
mind that however able, however elo-
! auent however industrious and inhuen-
tial one senator may be, he has, on the
| final test, but one vote. In the house of
representatives the state might as we'll
some will say much better-have been
! without representation at all as to have
been represented in the manner it has
/ been. Such condition ought not to
| prevail again. The lack of responsibility
to office of such a body as the fusionist
majority in the legisls ture is no doub
largely responsible for the situation tina
has arisen at Helena. Yet it is the sol
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

emn duty of those members to elect a
senate
The Inter Mountain correspondence
from Helena indicates that II those rus
ion candidates who. by a thorough DEM
onstration. must realize that they stand
no chance of election. would Withdraw,
the difficulty would probably be settled
at once. and a senator chosen by the fus-
ionists. If that be true, it is dlfhcult TO
understand why they remain in the race.
The interests of Montana ought to be
infinitely more important to them than
the esra tiflcation of so small an ambition.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
the CRUSADE EPIDEMIC.

The extraordinary performances of
Mrs. Nation in Kansas with her facile
Ratchet. and the still more remarka Bile
immunity from legal accountability she
has thus far enjoyed are vastly disquiet-
ing. They are so characteristic of the
unreasoning intensity of conviction
which takes possession of the elderly
female. and manifest such entire IRE,
sponsibihty of action in giving this con
vict.on expression. that no student of
human nature can fail to recognize 1t as
the ultimate development of well
fined tendency of feminine thought when
fostered by organizations having iur-
poses SO sharply localized that nothing
outside of what they seek to illuminate
is visible to their members Mrs. Nation
is not in any sense Il freak. She Is
simply a highly developed type of Il
large and growing class of women,
mostly of mature years, who have
worked themselves up to a pitch of en-
thusiasm in the advocacy of some par
ticular reform which makes them mono
maniacs on that one subject. She differs
from several millions of her congeners
chiefly in the possession of physical
courage If she was unique she would
be less interesting than she is.
But physical courage is not so rare
an endowment among women that Mrs.
Nations work began or VIII end with
her. Courage is in sense contagious,
and breaks out in epidemic form from
time to time. History has furnished
more than one example of this. and its
tendency TO repeat itself is proverbial.
In point of fact. the shrinking timidity
of the sex was always more or less ar
titicial. In these matters the women OF
the present generation are wiser than
their ancestresses. They may affect
graf nervousness in the presence OF mice.
spiders caterpillars. and such small
deer but they continually do things
which would tax the courage OF the
bravest of men. and seem to be quite
unconscious that they are doing any
thing remarkable. Mrs. Nation perhaps
has the courage of her convictions a
little better developed than most wo-
men, bur this is doubtless because her
| convictions are stronger. But since she
has shown how easy it is for deter
mined woman to have her way VI ct
arms in the Encouragement or anythlnS
| she disapproves there is reason to feal
| that the suppressed energy of the alleged
gentle sex. held in allegiance for centuries
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
PUT IT IN THE SCHOOL FUND.

Rozelnan Avant Courier:-Our Gallalln
county representative, w. {. Newton.
offered a good solution of what to do with
the $50. 900 turned over to the state treas
urer by the joint Investigating commit
tee of the last legislature, in his bill ap-
portioning the money among the schooi
districts of the state. The argument
that the state has no right to use the
money and the legislature no right 10
appropriate it, is untenable. Money
found belongs to the finder until some
valid claim to it is presented. rms
money belongs to the state until some
one else proves ownership, which thlne
is never likely to happen. If the right
full claimant should appear, the state car
refund the money and meanwhile it vii
have been put to good use.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
THE NEW COUNTIES.

Hamilton News: The county of Rose
bud was cut off old Custer county last
week by the legislature. This, with the
new county of Powell, or what was geo
graphically the big end of old Deer Lodge
gives Montana twenty-siX counties.
When the state was admitted eleven
years ago there We're but sixteen. This
is but one Illustration of the rapid growth
of the Treasure State in population and
wealth. Another decade will probably
double several times over it's population
but it is doubtful if many more new
counties will be created in that time. The
state is suciently cut up now it would
seem, i. -,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
The Spice ct Life.

1t was a beautiful evening in June.
The waters of the Drainage Canal purled
and rippled against the Prov of their
gondola, virtually as any other waters
might. The occasion invited condolences.
Did you marry your first love?"
asked the guest
YES" replied Helene. naively, while
her color deepened perceptibly, my first.
third, fifth, and seventh thus far! OF
course. I'm not in the least superstitious,
but there certainly is luck in odd num-
bars!'
AS the gloom gathered. the gondoliers
sang Italian love ballads, the abattoirs
used their smoke consumers. and. alto
gether, it was quite like Venice.--DetrOit
Journal
"How breezy" we exclaimed, in I'M
feigned admiration, as the child of lux
ury swept past us.
Yes; she doesn't have to raise the
wind for herself" sighed the tired shop
girl, not nbitterly.-Detroit Journal
1T cannot be-" sighed the maid. Il
respect you highly, Mr.. Hunniwell, but
we are incompatible"
well, l suppose it cannot be helped,
the young man replied, pocketing his
/ chagrin, and looking about for his hat
! Put 1t defeats all my cherished hopes
| had planned a house in which I fondly
/ imagined we might be happy. 1t was t6
! have had a pantry twice as large as the
ordinary size, with roomy closet ir
which to stow away the new cooking
utensils ana things that a woman nat
urally buys when peddler comes
/ aloag."
Stay, Harry" she said falteringly
Perhaps 1 have been too hasty. Civ,
| me a day or two to think it over 1t il
not impossible that-that''- Chicag,
| Tribune.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Blackstone-An innocent man may be
impeached. just as an innocent man may
be indicted. Johnson was impeached
and acquitted. as it required two
thirds majority to convict. Thirty-five
senators voted for conviction and nine
teen for acquittal, just one vote less than
the number necessary to convict.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

When Fatima discovered the headless
women in the forbidden chamber she was
not particularly surprised
What with his baby blue whiskers
and his pink and white complexion" she
protested. "how could my husband help
hut be a lady killer pray?"
Or course she would pretend to he
deeply hurt and angry. but secretly she
was extremely gratitied.-Detroit Jour-
No!
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
been authenticated No. it does not ac-
count for anything.

Economist-Rice is used far more ex-
tensively as an article of food than
bread. The recent Introduction of Ameri-
can flour in China and Japan has slightly
decreased the amount Of rice consumed,
but it is very small when compared with
the whole.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

The Colorado Springs (Col) Gazette
pleads that when the time for Captain
]. 3. Coshlan's retirement comes the
navy department ought to continue nm
on the rolls as lecturer on naval sub
jects to the American people. 1t says
he talks too we'll to be shelved.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Governor l.. NJ. Shaw of Iowa, who is
now in his second term. has assured his
party friends that he will not abain be
a candidate for his. office. Political
precedent the wishes of his family, and
his own deliberate Judgment, he says.
all lead to this decision.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

The Peabody institute of Peabody.
Mass, owns a picture of the late Queen
Victoria which she gave to George Pea
body in recognition of his great philan-
thropy. 1t is a half-length miniature.
framed in gold, is valued at $4,000, and
is inscribed, Presented by the queen
to George Peabody, benefactor of the
Door of London
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
p R SokaL.

1t is confidently believed in Illinois that
Governor Yates will appoint the Key.
Frank Crane, D. D., pastor Ole TRINITY
Methodist Episcopal church OF chicago
president of the state board of pardonS.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19


even tenor of their way is a misouota-
tion although in quite general use. The
words as they occur in Gray's "Elegy"
are The noiseless tenor of their way"
Subscriber U)-You are in error. There
has been no resignation. The cabinet is
composed as follows: Secretary of state
John Hay: secretary of the treasury
Lyman j Gage; secretary of the navy,
John ID Long; secretary of war. Elihu
Root: postmaster general, Charles EN-
Dry Smith; secretary of the interior
Ethan A Hitchcock; attorney general,
John w. Griggs; secretary of agriculture,
James Wilson.
Ellwood-Brooklyn does constitute a
part of New York city.
Noter-There is no law against pres-
dent holding more than two terms in
succession but the sentiment against it
is very strong.
7. w. G.--The next Worlds Fair will
be held at ST. Louis in 1903. 1t is in cele
/ bration of certain bit of expansion by
which the United States acquired Louis
lana territory, Thomas jefferson being
then president.
Reader-Barney I. Barnato did COM
nit suicide. He jumped FROM one of the
| Castle line steamers While returning to
| England from South Africa on June IA,
! 1897.
Inquirer-The story to the effect that
| Cecil Rhodes made his start in life
| through getting information on the wool
market from a shark caught in the har-
Dor near Melbourne is told by Mark
Twain in Following The Equator and
| Others According to Mark. Rhodes,
who was in dire want, agreed to help a
shark fisher haul in his lines in order to
get the price of a meal. They hauled
in a shark and in it's interior was found
/ a London or Liverpool paper of very re-
| cent date. The point in the story is tha'
| the shark had swallowed sailor paper
and all, in the English harbor and ther
made a bee line for Melbourne, so thai
! Rhodes got the stock quotations somt
weeks ahead of their arrival by packet
With this information, says Mark IVAN
Rhodes at once sought out the leaolne
wool broker in Australia, laid the in
formation before him and then bough
every pound Of wool in Australia, which
was subsequently sold at an Immense
profit In different forms, the story ha
been told a hundred times, but the yer
sion given by Mark Twain is the best o
the lot.
Amstersdam-The official report ha
not been published.
Republican-Your statement is correct
The duke of Manchester cannot retail
! his title and become a citizen OF tn
United States.
Curious-Mrs. Nation was born in Ken
lucky and as child was friend Q
, Senator Blackburn. The statement ma
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Finance-Pennies are legal tender to
the amount of IS cents In one payment
anywhere in the United States. -
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Mrs. H. A. w. Tabor has protested
against the suggestion that the legis-
lature of Colorado make an appropria
ton to pay the expenses of the funeral
of her late husband. the United States
senator She says she will have $50, 600
as soon as his estate is settled and can
easily pay the bills herself.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Hall Caine the English novelist likes
to be told that he bars a strong physical
resemblance to Shakespeare. He is said
to be as proud of this alleged likeness
as Senator Cullom is Of his fancied re-
semblance to Abraham Lincoln.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

United States Senator John w. Daniel
of Virginia is looked upon as certain to
be elected a member of the state con-
Stitutional convention. While it may
he true that the convention may be a
political graveyard. he lately wrote to
a member of the Virginia legislature. "a
man can die but once. and I can do no
better than die doing my duty"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Ellwood-Brooklyn does constitute
part of New York city.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Noter-There is no law against pres
dent holding more than two terms i
succession but the sentiment against
is very strong.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
ANSWER 20 CORRESPONDENT

Il. r. L.-Your friend is right THE
even tenor of their way is misquota-
tion. although in quite general use. The
words as they occur in Gray's "Elegy''
are The noiseless tenor of their way"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Curious-NIrs. Nation was born in Ken
lucky and as a child was a friend OF
Senator Blackburn. The statement has
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

I. w. G.--The next Worlds Fair will
be held at ST. Louis in 1908. 1t is in cele-
braton of a certain bit of expansion by
which the United States acquired Louis
lana territory, Thomas jefferson being
then president.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Amstersdam-The official report has
not been published.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Neutrality-suspicious. statement is correct
The duke of Manchester cannot retain
his title and become a citizen OF the
United States.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19

Reader-Barney I. Barnato did COM
nit suicide. He jumped FROM one of the
Castle line steamers while returning to
England from South Africa on June IA
1897.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-21
NEW-YORK CITY.

Features of the service tomorrow morning the
Madison Avenue Baptist Church will be the sing
ing by the quartet choir of a composition by
musical setting last words of President Nc
Kinley. and a funeral march, by the
author. dedicated TO his memory.
The mails from China Japan and Hawaii of the
following dates: Hong Kong. August q; Shanghai,
August %; Yokohama. August 81 and Honolulu,
September 13, arrived at San Francisco the
steamer Nippon Mari. and dispatched east
on September 10 p m Mails from Japan ar
rived at Tacoma the steamer Clavering and
due here September q. Mails for China Japan
and Hawaii will close the General Postoffice
advertised
Herbert Powell Rees sails to-day for LONDON to
take charge of the London branch of the Paul
Derrick Advertising Agency. American advertisers
have been watching the English and Continental
markets carefully and have decided that the field
is ready for the harvest
Memorial exercises commemorative the lives and
services OF the late Henry @. Fay and Edgar w.
Hawley will be held under the auspices of the
Brooklyn Sunday school Union and the Brooklyn
Young Mems Christian Association, in the Asso-
citation Building. No. 5O2 Fulton-st. tomorrow af-
ternoon Ais o'clock.
A young mems conference will be held in the
Calvary Baptist Church the evening of October
10. The meeting will be for the purpose of con-
siderirg the best method of solving the mission and
church extension problems in this city.