Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-12
ROAST THE DUKE
MIGHT BE GOOD CHURCHMAN,
BUT Is A FOOL.
TROUBLED OVER THE BOER WAR
Long List of Dead and Wounded, and
Discouraging Reports of the
Invasion.

London. Jan. Especial Gable, AS
sociated Press.--Seldom has there been
such a universal condemnation of the
utterances of public man as greeted
the recent address OF the duke of Nor
folk to the pope, expressing hope of the
restoration of temporal independence OF
the pontff. Bitter as have been the
denunciations of the Italian press. the
comments of the London papers have
been quite as caustic.
Nothing could be more contemptible
than the duke of Norfolk's behavior"
says the Daily News. If the Italian
government had known he was visiting
Rome for the purpose of protesting
against their presence in their own
capital. they would have been perfectly
justified in stopping him at the front
gate. Not content with insulting the
king of Italy and the people of Rome.
his despica BILE address also condemned
the liberation of Italian Protestants by
the Italian government. 1t would be
difficult for an English Catholic to sink
lower
MYSTERIOUS INVASION.
History fails to furnish parallel to
the Boer invasion of Cape Colony.
whole month has elapsed since the re-
publicans crossed the Orange river. and
still Great Britain knows next 10 moth
ing of their numbers, whereabouts or
doings and still less Of the objects of
the inroad. The only thing known with
tolerable certainty is that they are pro-
crossing southwark. over some sparsely
inhabit tracts. where they escape OBJ
servation. Other large bodies are
traversing the very heart of the colony
The only logical explanation seems to
be the largely accepted idea that the
invasion forms part of a great organ
lied scheme of that great Napoleon of
war. Gen. De Wet. to strike terror into
the British colony, which unquestion-
ably is nearly denuded of troops. and
trust to the chapter of accidents to
achieve such success as will enable the
Beers to almost dictate the terms of
peace. The hating policy of the in
Vaders. however. seems to threaten to
defeat their aims and has enabled the
hastily enrolled levies of volunteers to
occupy vital strategic points. while there
are some signs that the gathering of
troops in the rear of the buryherS is
beginning to press them southwark into
the arms of the British moving from the
seaboard, instead of attempting to drive
them back again across the Orange
river, where they might be enabled to
rejoin Gen. De Wet.
In the meanwhile disquietips hints
are arriving of the alarming rapidity
with which the British army is wasting
away. The long lists of dead. wounded
and diseased bear out these stories.
while there are abundant signs that
the troops at the front are becoming
stale and discontented, and the general
evaporation at home is becoming more
acute and the public is becoming quite
skeptical of the competency of the gov
eminent to get the country out of the
Wretched tangle.
Movements at York House, Swicken-
ham, indicate that it is the intention
of the duke of Orleans to return to
England. whence he had been ostracised
since he congratulated Wilett, :he lin
ner on the caricatures grossly insulting
to Queen Victoria, which appeared in
Paris comic papers. The dukes mother.
the countess of Paris, is said 20 have
been in communication with the queen
and the prince of Wales in the hope of
patching up the matter.
The newspapers devote much space
to the late Philip D. Armour. Columns
of stories have been printed, mostly
apocryphal. as can be judged from a
sample from the Daily Chronicle, as
follows:
Mr.. Armour usually took six weeks
each year for driving in a coach
through England
1T costs me-" the writer quotes him
as saying, "a fraction under 60 a day
per head for myself and guests for
coach hire
The writer adds that Mr. Armour was
a careful but not a mean man, and this