The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-28
STORIES OF The HOUR

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The birth of a daughter to the young
duke and duchess of Manchester has
broken up the house party at Kimbolton
castle. COnsuelO, duchess of Manchester,
who was Miss Yznaga. has gone to Taris.
and MIR. Zimmerman has also departed.
The young duchess is herself perfect
child Among the many stories related
Of her is one which is said to have taken
place in San Francisco Day after day
the local newspapers contained columns
concerning the movements of the young
duke and duchess. Such titled people
were a novelty on the Pacific coast.
The duchess ordered at the hotel where
she stopped that all the newspapers
should be brought to her door as early
an hour as possible, and she used to sit
up in bed reading them almost before the
sun had made it's appearance One
morning early the duke was awakened by
sohs. Hastily asking what was the mat
ter. he was met with the fearful reply:
There is nothing about us in the paper
= today.
THE popular phrase. Go way back
and sit down has been credited to many
SOURCES said music publisher to
writer on the view I OK SuH Dul the
true story has never been printed.
onc night about year ago several
t'o,orsd sports gathered in a saloon in
the tenderloin owned by negro and
patronlzed chiefly by men Of his own
race. In the party were Smithy, the
tenor and Bully, the tout Smithy came
from the West and dressed in the height
of fashion. while Buily's home was in
the South.
Bully had had quite a turn Of ill-luck,
and his attire suffered in consequence.
sm:thy began kidding him about 1t. Fin
ally Bully got angry. He sized Smithy
up from head t. foot for Few seconds
ard then sailed in:
"'Yo' am err dude, yo am, he began.
contemptuously. 'Yo' done come round
here an try t. yet de folks know dat yo'
am Twin on easy street.
Don't yO' fink, man, dat dem horses
am a gwine {, run TO- yo' in de snow dis
winter Yo' amt no steel rod. Yo' kin
git broke.
Say. Niger, do yo' see dat chair
,yonder by dat stove? Take nah advice
an 60 way back an sit down. an wen
,yo' st dere stay dere an don't come back
no more might. Understand, honey?"
"Srithy did so way back and sit down
and was not heard of the rest OF the
AN
was present. thought the phrase was
unique, and the next day he told Elmer
Bowman, a negro song writer, about it.
Johns thought it would make a goou
title for a song, so Bowman wrte some
verses which Johns put to musr In the
story Of the song Bowman stub to the
/ incidents that took place in the saloon
that night, and when the song was pub
! lshed it at once became popular.
THE phrase was used good deal by
the opposite political parties in the last
campaign. - '7fze5E
In the pension bureau, as chief clerk of
| one of the. divisions, is man by the
name of N. B. Strait. He came from
: Villa msport, Pa, and has been in the
! service for many years, says the Wash
! iiigton Star. A few days ago Pension
Commissioner Evans, with something on
: his mind rushed into the office where
/ this chief clerk is employed and in a
| loud voice exclaimed
can see Strait?'
I Now, there is young woman, pretty
and vivacious, who acts as stenographer
and typewriter for Mr.. Strait. She was
! husily engrossed in her work. She heard
the commissioners exclamation, but she
| didn't recognize the voice.
L uUtl \ wv WAetASI yOu Noh VI HUI,
| she replied. @F 81
But l want to see Strait" t. COM
missioner persisted, land l want to see
Straight right away"
This is not an opticians place." the
typewriter continued, and about this
time she looked around only to find the
commissioners face wreathed in smiles.
He had seen the humorous side of the
thing and WAS we'll pleased. The type
writer tried to explain, but Mr.. Evans
insisted that it was not necessary.
II have not been drinking even if I do
want to see straight" hs said.
One Of the clerks in the division was
listener to this bit of pleasantly and it
was through him that the story got out.
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Those persons who learnedly discuss
the "newness' of woman in the occupa-
ton of newspaper-making should be re-
minded that half century ago Harriet
Martineau, in addition to lecturing, or
ganizing clubs, book-making mot in the
races) and general philanthrOpic work,
was supplying regularly prominent
London newspaper with editorial lead
ers that were the most widely read and
commented on of any i'll England-over
1000 of them in all. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
is really entitled to 'go way back" and
SO forth-but nobody will look to her to
do it.
AS illustrating the scarcity of money in
Porto Rico, the Army and Navy Journal
relates that when a government check
for $2O49 arrived in Manila a few days
ago, in payment of the towns excise
collections for the preceding month, 1t
caused a genuine sensation. The city
employees and their immediate army of
creditors commenced to parade In front
of the mayor. who stood up holding the
check SO that all might see. Two thou
sand and forty-nine doliars! The mayor
told the people that the check could not
be cashed, as there was not money
enough In the whole town, not even II
all the business houses combined for the