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pany broke into a roar of laughter.
Il know men who have frequently found
by actual experience that it is So"
-.
Nothing could be neater than his mot
inspired by the laying of the Atlantic
cable-"Columbus said there is one
world, there shall be two Cyrus w.
Field said there are two worlds, there
shall be one"
An Englishman to whom he was show
ing the Natural Bridge in Virginia asked
him if the story was veracious which
credited George Washington with
throwing silver dollar over the bridge
while standing on the ground below it.
Evarts measured the distance with his
eye, and then observed: "Well,, WASH
ington may have done so-you know
a dollar went further in those days than
it does now" Evarts, on being asked If
he ever made such a remark. said: mo;
have been unsupported. What I said
to the Englishman was that Washington
might readily have performed the feat,
since he once threw a sovereign across
the sea-"
At a dinner rendered by Bishop Pot
ter to T. b. Potter, a member of the
tinguished men answering to the name
Of Potter We're present. This fact
prompted Mr.. Evarts to tell the COM
pany of dazed clergyman who put up
the petition, 20 Lord. let us neveA forget
that Thou art the clay and we are the
POtters.
| At brilliant dinner many years ago
in Boston the guests of honor were a
leading Engljshman and a leading
! Frenchman. Mr.. Evarts presided with
one of them on his right and the other
on his left and began his after dinner
talk by observing that it was a nice
question whether the Englishman OF
the Frenchman was to be named the
pick Of humanity. "As for me-" he ad.
ded. glancing from right to left as hi
spoke, II prefer something-betweer
| the two"
When a popular young author cam,
to see him while he was secretary O
state in behalf of consulship for which
he was an applicant-sO at least the!
tell the story in Washington-Nr. Ev
arts congratulated him on the fam
which he had acquired; but hastenet
to add: although you have laurels o.
your brows. I suppose you can't brow
on your laurels."
His sly dig at President Hayes tenn
perance principles is still one of the ia
vorite stories at Washington. ''Whil
Hayes occupied the white house." sal
Evarts, 1.-The water at his dinners dowe
like champagne"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

swer to the nature of it's people. They
worked outward from the nature of it's
people. They were neither impaired
nor imported. We therefore see reason
for believing that the people of the
United States will not insist on the
preservation of the institutions which
give the fullest play to their national
character. to which operation the in
olvidual liberty of the citizen is essen
tial. In the fulness of time. when the
PEOPLE of our possessions shall have ac-
uured the education and the customs
fitting them for citizenship, the Amer
lean spirit diffused from the United
States may be the light that will guide
their way to membership Of a federal
republic which on this continent, in
Porto Rico, in the Philippines, and per-
haps in Cuba, shall cheerfully acknowl-
edge allegiance to Washington.
In considering the sources of the
great change which these four years
have wrought, many people are prone
only to see the national capital as Its
source. They say the president brought
it about as the chief of party which
he had tactfully disciplined to obedi-
ence to his wish. But the people of the
United States cannot wholly shift the
responsibility on the president. He is
but their chief magistrate after ALL
He acts only through congress. and
congress has repeatedly sanctioned his
course. and congress is freely elected
by the people of the United States.
The people have in no way parted with
their power to choose their representa-
tives. Their ability to choose con-
sress responsive to their will is unm-
paired.
The president can say truly that he
has not sought to separate himself
from the people. Indeed it would be
difficult to name president who has
more sedulously sought to catch the
drift of popular feeling. We often hear
of the presidents policy, but it may be
doubted if at any of the many critical
junctures of the past four years his
policy has been anything more than to
express the will of the people at the
moment as he was able to discern it
or as it presented itself to his eyes.
Neither by temperament nor training
is President Mckinley inclined to des-
potic measures. In nature he is kindly
and sympathetic. The courtesy of his
demeanor towards his political oppo-
nentS is not wholly tact. 1t is the eX-
preston of character naturally cour-
teous that of tolerant man of the
world, whose instincts are social. He
received his home political training in
: state whereof the governor has not
the veto power. 1t is not to wondered
at. therefore, if We find that his policy
in the final analysis, is to drift a little
ahead of the clearly defined drift o.
public opinion.
He is a president who administers
| through majorities, and the minority O.
| the American people who wish for any
change in our institutions, that would
make them any less republican thar
| they are, is so small as not to be worth
! counting in a census of the eccentrici
ties of public thought.-Boston Tran
| script. Independently
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12
FOUR WONDERFUL YEARS.

The four years which have elapsed
since President Mckinley on the 4th Of
March, 1897 for the first time took the
oath of office as chief magistrate have
been crowded with events of such far
reaching consequences, social and con-
stitutional. that it may be said that no
other four years in our history save
those from 1851 1866 have had an equal
influence on our national life. If the
four wonderful years in which Lincoln
held the helm of state witnessed the
solution by war of a Qestion at once
social and political that had inenaced
the safety of democracy as governing
principle, the period now ended has
seen the United States changed from
a compact, self -contained power to a
nation with far-off dependencies to be
governed from Washington, Dependent
cieS peopled with races alien to us in
blood. religion and social customs.
These people are not citizens, they
are unwilling subjects, and the United
States, which on March 4, 1897, had but
$4,000 trained soldiers in it's pay, has
today three times that number engaged
in asserting it's authority in islands sep
width of the Pacific. Since March 4,
1897, We have fought a foreign war,
acquired great possessions fond our
selves the associates of the powers of
the old world in China and contributed
our quota to the army which marched
to Pellin. We doubt if any nation in
the same time has undergone. with as
little warning. as great a trarSforma-
ton in the scope and character of it's
policy
Great as this change has been, it's
consequences have not been exhausted.
They have in fact only begun to mani
fest themselves. They will reach far,
and the end of their effect is not in
sight. That they will work great con-
stitutional changes may be admitted by
those who do not believe for moment
that they are or can be the first steps
towards the conversion of the republic
into an empire. A nation which for
more than century has governed only
itself cannot take up the government
of alien people without affecting it's
own constitution. however much the
words of its organic law retain their re-
semblance to the original text The in
evitable tendency of it's institutions is
CENTRIFUGAL so far as administration is
concerned.
Capitalization Of power becomes al
most the law of it's being, because the
readiest expression of rational needs.
, reacting from the dependencies to the
governing body. All governments draw
to themselves power. and the nice ques-
! ton now before this country is to so
| balance authority of the federal admin
istration as to give it such freedom as
it may need in governing dependencies
without giving it too much license in
affairs strictly local to the United
| States. While the prospect is one that
! demands caution, we are not inclined
! to be pesssimistic, for the reason that
we believe that republican institutions
| developed in the United States in an
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

F. Hopkinson Smiths argument in ia
vor of slavery-for that is what his pro-
tecst against Uncle Toms Cabin"
amounts tots pleasantly refuted by the
latest statistics from the south.
Thrty-five years ago only
fraction of one per cent of the
negroes could read AMI write; now
forty FIVE per cent can read and write.
There are 100000 negro children in
schools. There are 100000 negroes in high
er institutions. There are 10000 negro
teachers. Twenty thousand are pursuing
Industrial training. Two hundred and
fifty thousand volumes have been gath
cred into libraries especially for the ne
groes: 500 books We're written last year
by members of this race. There are go
negro lawyers and 500 negro physicians
in the United States There are three
banks managed entirely by negroes, and
| more than 400 newspapers and magazines
conducted by them. They own 100 900
farms of various acreage worth S400. 000.-
900. In addition to this, in villages and
towns they own property estimated at
1927. 900 600. Their personal property is
estimated at s165, 900, 900. Since the war
the negro has paid toward his own edu-
cation SIC, 1000 0C0 In the face of this Won
derful showing. Mr. Smith probably
wishes that he had confined his attention
to light houses and master divers, leav-
ing the negro question alone.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12
THE LAST LEAF.

I saw him once before,
AS he passed by the door,
And again
The pavement stones res0und
AS he totters DER the ground
With his cane.
They say that in his prime,
Ere the pruning knife of time
Cut him down.
Not better man was found
BY the crier on his round
Through the town.
But now he walks the streets,
And he looks at all he meets,
Sad and wan.
And he shakes his feeble head,
That it seems as if he said,
"They are gone"
The messy marbles rest
On the lips that he has prest
In their bloom,
And the names he loved to hear
Have been carved for many year
On the tomb.
My grandmamma has said
Poor old lady, she is dead
Long ago
That he had q Roman nose,
And his cheek was like a rose
In the snow.
But now his nose is thin.
And it rests upon his chin
Like staff,
And crook is in his back,
And a melancholy crack
In his laugh.
I know it is a sin
For one to sit and grin
At him here,
But the old three cornered hat
And the breeches and all that
Are SO queer!
And If I should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree
In the spring
Let them smile. as I do now,
At the old forsaken bough
Where I cling.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The reported intention of the German
government to substitute electrical power
for steam power wherever practicable
on all the government railroads in that
country is of vast Importance to cop
per producers. Should the substitution
be made, a tremendous amount of cop
per would be needed and the market
price of the red metal would be material
" enhanced The Copper Age is COM
ing if not already here.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12
TALK OF THE DAY.

Judge Gates, of Kansas City. tells this
story: my family being absent from
the city. I was taking my meals at
restaurant where negro boys are en-
plOyed as walters. In one corner of the
room is a dumb waiter. where orders are
called out to the cook in the kitchen
above. The waiter. following his GUS
tom, went to the open shaft and then
called out my order. ending with for
Mistah Gates He then turned to at
tend to some other duty. but had not
taken more than three steps when Pc
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The latest news from the bedside Of
former President Harrison is most Dis
couraging. 1t was hoped that his sp.en-
did vitality would pull him through, bui
this afternoons report as to his condi-
ton leaves little hope. Although re-
moved from active political life during
the past few years MIR. Harrison has
continued the practice of his profession
and easily takes rank With the great est
of American lawyers.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

Never in the history of Montana was
the republican party so harmonious so
enthusiastic, so hopeful as at the present
time The example set by the republic
can minority in the legislature and the
contrast of that example with the show
ing made by the fusion majority. pres
age a splendid triumph for republican
principles at the next election.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

NJ. Camille Blondel, the new French
minister to Mexico, has had varied dip
lomatic career. 1t began in 1880, when
he was appointed attache of the French
embassy at London. Next he filled Dip
lomatic posts at Berlin, Madrid and Mo-
rocco. He was charge d'affaires at Rio
Janiero at the time of the fall of the
Brazilian empire in 1889, when Dom Pc
dro was driven from the throne by a
bloodless revolution. Since leaving Bra
zil he has been at Tunis, Lisbon, Berne
and Rome.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12
"FARMER SMITH" NOW.

Rocky Mountain Republican,: Ex-Gov-
ernor r. B. Smith has an 80-acre farm
on the east shore of the Flathead lake,
that he is having cleared of its timber
for a fruit farm. He pays SIS dollars
per acre to have the land cleared. His
is a choice location. one of the best in
the region, and many are watching the
ex-governor's experiment with great in
terest. He is to-day one of Montana's
most Jealous fruit growers. $50
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The octopus hunters have lost another
sharpshooter Here is former Senator
Roger @. Mills, who was so picturesque
in his denunciation of wealth, plutocracy,
monopoly, etc, drawing down $4,000 a
month from the oil wells struck on his
farm at Corsicana, Texas. No one will
begrudge the ex-senator his good luck.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

City election rumors are already as
thick as smeter smoke in December. So
far. eight prominent democrats have
placed themselves in the hands OF their
friends for the mayoral nomination, but
the present incumbent is said to hold the
top hand, on that side of the fence.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

If the democracy spent 100000 in the
last state campaign, the republicans de-
serve all the more credit for coming so
near to victory without barrel"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

John B. Cleveland of Spratansburg, S.
c., has offered to present to the state
house of South Carolina a memorial
marble tablet to which is affixed a plate
of copper from the coffin of James Glenn,
of Longscroft, Scotland, who lies buried
in the ancient churchyard near Linlathr-
grow Castle. Mr.. Glenn was governor of
South Carolina from 1888 to 1855.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

1t seems scarcely probable In view of
the treatment accorded to the labor par
ty subsequent to the state campaign that
it's leaders will be in hurry for more
fusion in the coming city election.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

Now that the legislature has gone into
history why should not all the combat
ants get together and inaugurate the
era of peace and good will?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The republicans of Montana are unani-
mously of the opinion that the charges
now being filed by the democratic fac
tions against one another are correct
in every particular.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The constitutional provision giving the
several counties in the state equal repre-
sentation in the upper branch OF the
legislature seems to have been eminently
wise after ALL
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

that soldier around on his back without
indications of total collapse.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

After one year Of politics ending with
the adjournment of the legislature, there
is a fine opening now for two years OF
industrial activity and business pros
paritv.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The Immediate duty of republicans is
to register. Get this little matter dis.
posed of at once.
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culiar look spread over his face. The
next moment he had fairly jumped to
the opening and cried out: Say, thar.
William! Lookee heah! That order
amt for Mistah Gates: It are foah
Jedge Gates! An, say, thar! Make
them aigs fresh aigs!' After which he
drew a breath of satisfaction second
only to my own. So, you see, it really
pays sometimes to be judge"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The heir apparent to the persian throne
has sent to St. Petersburg for a tutor
who can instruct him in the Russian
language, and NJ. Shapahal, a distin-
guished scholar and politician, has been
chosen for the mission.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

The Montana state democracy seems t.
be going into the feud business again.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12
PERokALS,

Miss Beatrice Cameron (Mrs. Richard
Mansfield) has sailed for Italy, with her
infant son.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12
THE WIT OF EVARTS.

Once while secretary Of state, mo-
ticing that an unusually large number
of persons We're waiting to see him as
he passed through the department to his
private office. Mr.. Evarts turned to a
friend who was accompanying him and
remarked. This is the largest collec-
ton for foreign missions that ever
saw"
Among the guests at Washington
dinner at which he was present was
an eminent scientist. Late in the even
ing Evarts suddenly attacted the gen.
eral attention by saying to the scien-
fist: "ProfessoY should like to ask
you a question-why is it that the
liquid at the bottom of a bottle is more
Intoxicating than the liquor at the top?"
The scientist, all unconscious Of the fun
lurking in the question replied: "Well
I never had my attention called to that
fact. Are YOU sure that it is fact?"
YES" replied Evarts. with perfectly
grave face, while the rest Of the COM
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

Former Chief Judge Logan E. Bleck-
ley Of Georgia has matriculated at the
State university for a course in mathe-
MATES. He is seventy-six years old, and
engaged on book, part Of which treats
of branch of mathematics in which,
as he says, he has grow rusty
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

H. w. Chisholm, who died recently at
the age Of ninety three, was the father
of the English civil service. He was ap-
pointed in 1924 by Lord Grenville to a
junior clerkship in the bill department
of the exchequer, in which his father
was senior clerk before him. The office
hours in Mr.. Chisholms early days were
II to 2, bright outlook compared with
the 10 to through which the civil serv-
ant has now to suffer ennul. Mr.. CHS
holm retired in 1877, after fifty-three
years of service. He was the father
of Hugh Chisholm. for some time edi-
tor of the st. James Gazette, and we'll
known in London journalism.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

ED" Alvey. prominent Kentucky
gambler has been convicted and sem
fenced to two years in the Frankfort
penitentiary. Ex-Congressman Owens.
1.-The coolest man who ever sat in Ken-
lucky poker game" was retained by the
Social Purity league to prosecute Alvey.
One lawyer remarked when the verdict
was broughtin "When a man serves
sentence for gambling in Kentucky
we will quit drinking whiskey and burn
up the stock FARMS"
II see that Wisconsin finally has law
taxing bachelors"
'Sort O. single tax, amt it?"-Cleve.
land Plain Dealer.
Noting a suggestion that the British
colonies be called Kingdoms, "The Nom
treal Herald" says: "There Is not in
the world a more democratic COM
| munity. In Canada we have neither
the appanages of a court nor the sur
vival Of feudal nobility by which to be
Joined the past. We have only grow
| ing population of industrious freemen.
| knowing no castles or classes, and gov
| eminent that is truly by the people and
| for the people,"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

Game-"Here," sang out the Express
Bullet, as it entered the caribou's anato-
my, sis where get into the game!'-S
Detroit Journal.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-12

pany broke into roar of laughter.
Il know men who have frequently found
by actual experience that it Is so.''
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-01-03
Marketing Water,

The most successful farmers we
know are those who are marketing the
most water. In selling milk 81 per
cent Is water and butter 70 per cent. IL
1t Is garden vegetables we are produc-
ing, we sell in asparagus 40 per cent
water, cabbage 90 per cent, lettuce
931a per cent and potatoes 50 per cent
Or II fruit is our surplus crop, apples
carry "a per cent water peaches 80
and Strawberries 81. We do not know
of any way in which water can be
utilized better than In big watermel-
ons, and when man can realize 5000
or $500 an acre on this crop he Is
bound to make money If he pushes his
business. Grain eats up fertility very
fast When a crop Is grown. even II
the surplus products on the farm are
fed and manure is saved. grain farm
er must carefully fertilize his land II
he maintains its fertility. If any sort
of change is contemplated In farm
management, try and work In as much
water in the products as possible
Denver Field and Farm.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-01-03
PLAN FOR CABBAGE PIT.

posts should be put into the ground a
few inches at bottom and set on a fat
stone. For the roof find 1t best to use
good pine ! by IL and cap joint with
by @, nailed to ridgepole and the sill.
which Is convenient to take off when
filling the house. The heads can be
tossed direct from the wagon down TO
the men placing them in the pit. 1t is
also handy to clean and air In the
spring. The center post to support
ridgepole, as above mentioned, should
be boarded up on both sides, leaving a
three or four inch space between each
board up TO the roof, thus leaving a
good air space. Also have three venti-
lators six inches square made of inch
boards run up two feet above roof In
warm weather leave door open at end
and top of ventllators, which gives per-
feet circulation. OF course In severe
cold weather it Is closed as tight as
possible. At the end have one door
large enough to go in either side Of the
pit; also covered steps, with an outside
door. When severe cold weather sets
Ill, we cover lUt TOOI Will
strong horse manure. In our 80 years
experience we spent considerable mon
ey, to say nothing about loss Of thou
sands and thousands OF heads of cab
bage, experimenting. But the above
described building has given entire sat
isfaction.
Experience has taught US that no
matter how perfect the building may
be If cabbage is roughly handled and
not properly cured before storing 1t
will not keep. | find that it pays to
select only good sound stock for win
ter. 1t should be cut off the stump.
heads turned bottom side up to let wa
ter run out and head seal over where it
has been cut from the stump, which re-
qures at least five slours of sunshine
Our cabbage Is trimmed as close and
with as much care for storing as If it
were going to market Stump and
dead leaves only cause decay; besides,
they take up too much valuable space
and cause more labor to handle crop.
The size | have given you Is about
right for two acres of very large fiat
cabbage. 1t will hold three acres Of
ordinary Danish or the same of ordi-
nary fiat. concludes the grower who
presents this plan In Rural New York