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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02
iN YENTiOAS.

"I always think before I speak," an swered the young man; 'and in that way realize that haven't anything to say. Washington Star. Mrs. Oldun-I hope you and your hus- band live happily together. | Mrs. Strongmind-I should say we | do, I'd just like to see him try to live | unhappily with me.-Philadelphia Rec ord.
 Good man-My boy, don't you know that every cigarette is nail in your coffin?
 No, mister, cause I don't need any coffin. When I die I'm going to be ere mated.-Boston Herald. Guest-see here! This steak is all mighty small!
 Waiter-It is rather small, that's q fact! But you'll find that it'll last as long, till you're through eating it as a larger one.-Heitere Welt.
 Britannia rules the waves in war" we said to the Boer patriot.
 Indeed? I thought Britannia waiv- ed the rules in war" responded he, with some bitterness manifest in his peech,-Baltimore American.
 After all, it isn't the big troubles that bother fellow so much. It's the little things that annoy us most"
 That's right Why, they say hor- nets sting is only one thirty second of an inch long. Newark Call,
 Dr. Dosem-Troubled with sleepless- ness, eh? Is your trouble of long stand ing?
 Patient-Yes, and of long walking. The baby's had collie every night for the past three months.-Kansas City Star.
 Sufficient Evidence. Sambo-Whar you get dat chicken?
 Mark Anthony-N -Nebber you mind bout dat chicken. 'Taint yours.
 How you know 'taint?'
 Cause I found hit in youah coop."- New York Weekly.
 Mrs. Nation says that the man who smokes in this world will smoke in the next" remarked the reformer.
 T kind of thought SO myself" said the lover o, fthe weed. but to make sure l would like to take a few cigars with me, ,'-Yonkers Statesman.
 T once invented a flying machine" said the thoughtful man.
 Did you have any better luck than other inventors in that field?,''
 Yes. It didn't take me as long to find out that 1t wouldn't fy."-Wash- lngton Star.
 Mrs Goodson Answering ring)-- What is it. little girl?
 Mary-Please, nm, we've lost our kitty. She left yesterday, and we're hunting her. We want to know if you nave seen a cat by the name of Min erva go by your house-Puck
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02
4 ETC JOB 1ND SLOW WORK.

The government of the United States
 has bigger job on Its hands in re-
 deeming uncancelled stamps than it
 expected. When 1t was decided to re-
 peal the tax on bank checks, provision
 was made sor redeeming the unused stamps that were outstanding. It was
 estimated that there might be $5O0,000
 worth os them in the hands of barks,
 merchants and others. This prediction
 was based on the experiences of 1883, when the previous bank check tax law was repealed and when the amount paid out for uncancelled stamps was a little more than $550,000. When the packages of stamps came pouring in the officials were staggered by their size and number. They began to ar rive promptly July 1, when the law was repealed, and have continued ever since. There has been practically no let up in them, and the daily average is nearly 200. It is estimated that there are between 15,0o0,OOO and 2O,OOO,o0O check stamps on file at the revenue department. The packages are piled up ten feet high, for a distance of forty or fifty yards, the entire side of one of the long corridors ofthe department be- ing taken up by them.
 More than $500 claims for reimburse ment for bank check stamps have been received so far and the number ad- indicated is only little more than 400. This does not take into account however, the stamps for cigars, cigar cites and tobacco, which are handled n another division. At the present rate of progress the department will not nave settled the last claim for a couple of years or more
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

seven or eight years ago. Abroad it seems to have been taken up with
 some prospect of success, particularly
 by the Studien Gesellschaft, an associ-
 ation of the German electrical compa-
 nies, on the Berlin-Zossen line, and it
 would be far from surprising to see 1 the first success reached on the conti- 1 nent.
 l The reason for such state of things
 is not altogether obvious. It apparent
 ly is commercial rather than tech
 nical difficulty that stands in the way.
 and the difficulty seems to be a curious
 ly composite one. Are we to suppose that no one wishes to travel at such
 speed, or that, wishing it, the cost would be found to be prohibitlve.? Certainly we have seldom seen an l American business man who wished to | travel by a slow train if a faster were | available, and the agreements between
 railroads as to rates plainly show that
 the public considers the quicker routes
 desirable, even if the difference in time
 be only ten or fifteen per cent.
 The same argument against higher speed has been used against every ad- vance for half a century past and in every case competition has forced the
 improvement and the public has well
 comed it. As to the matter of cost, it
 is absurd to suppose that fast express
 trains would be running to-day If, eve rything considered, they did not pay. you cannot convince the American pub lie by any amount of Juggling with sta- tistios that the existing railroads are regularly running trains at loss out of philanthropic enthusiasm. Directly or indirectly, good service pays and it Is fairly demonstrable that the cost of electric service at one hundred miles an hour would not be largely in excess per passenger carried-of the cost of the existing fast express service be- tween large centers. Moreover, extra fares would be gladly paid for the sake of the time gained. Time is money to business man and if he could step aboard train in Chicago at, p. m. and be landed in New York at a. m. he would save an entire business day over the present trip. And the speed thereby implied would be considerably under the one hundred miles an hour that seems worthy objective point in fact, less than seventy miles per hour, including stops.
 Tn this hypothetical trip is perhaps the key to one of the problems of high speed traction. Most of the fast elec tric lines projected have been of mode rate length and hence the total saving of time would not be very great. It would be easily within the bounds of | possibility to establish running time | of an hour between Philadelphia and 1 New York, yet the saying over the | present trains would hardly be suff1- | cient to count for much. On the other | hand, line from New York to Wash ington or to Boston would be worth l the while, since business day would | be made available to the traveller from either terminus. A fortiori, the New | York Chicago line would meet real | Railway Journal
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02
4 SIGN OF THE TIMES,

The Rev. Dr. Hlllis of Plymouth Con
 gregational Church and the Rev. Dr.
 Cadman of the Central Congregational
 Church are announced as speakers at
 the New York State Convention of the
 Universalists this week. This doesn't t scare anybody, and 1t leads the Brook lyn Eagle to remark: Nowadays there are few orthodox clergymen whose the ology is not more liberal than that of the founder of Universalism, and even the original Unitaria would be sur prised at the liberality of the sermons preached by pastors of churches whose members fifty years ago would have no fellowship with them. There seems to be dawning appreciation of the fact that Trinitarianism and Unitarianism and Uniyersalsm are but different aspects of the same truth, and the man who stands on one side of the shield is not denouncing his brother on the other side because he makes a different re- port of what he sees.
 True as preaching, and truer than some preaching. What a change there has been during the last twenty years Heaven is now thought to be big enough to hold all who really want and strive to go there, and God Is thought to be merciful and considerate enough to ad- init all such to Heaven, even if many If them are "heretics."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02
LEAR MING.

Even if the British are not learning how to fight efficiently in South Africa they are learning how to take care of
 themselves there. There has been
 wounds and disease in the British army
 during the second year of the war. Hos
 rital service has been greatly improv-
 ed, and the death rate of officers has
 been much reduced, since the latter have learned some of the bitter lessons
 taught by modern rifles in the hands of
 Boer marksmen. During 1S99-1900 the
 death rate per 1000 of officers killed
 was 71. AS, and of officers who died of
 disease 29.O9. a total of 1OO.67. In 19OO-
 1901 the percentage of killed, was only 21.94 and of deaths from disease 15.03
 g total of 3697. In the Franco-Prus- sian war the percentage of officers killed was 6o.o and of deaths from dis ease, 15o3, is practically the normal late prevailing in the British army in foreign service in times of peace. The percentage of mortality among the rank and file has also been reduced in a marked degree. In 1S99-1900 the total percentage of deaths from wounds and disease was 5069, and in 1900-1901 3143 In the first year the losses among of ficers were excessive, owing to their reckless exposure and their failure to adopt ordinary precautions. The fig | ures again show that in battle the risk
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements One Cent a Word each in- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one In cents; one week. $320 one month, $10; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, n cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri- ages, Deaths, and Funerals, 50 cents each Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to be unobjectionable), and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

An interesting decision to the effect that common carriers are responsible for tie injuries done by drunken or by the Maryland Court of Appeals "If there is danger of anyone being in jured." says the court, "and the em- ployes fail to remove, subdue or over power the turbulent individual, after knowing that there is danger, or after they ought to have known that there was danger, if they had not exercised proper care, that failure is negligence, pany is liable.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

The government of New Zealand IS still pursuing the policy of buying back large estates from the proprietors and cutting them up into holdings for men Of small means. It Is successfully pro- viding allotments near the large towns that this may relieve poor men from the excessive. almost prohibitory, rents Of cities
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

of the officer is about double that of the private soldier. The present death Africa, from all causes, is about the same as that prevailing ordinarily ill Dublin, and is much less than that among Europeans in Calcutta.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

A movement has been started by grat eful teachers in the public schools Of Philadelphia to erect a monument to the memory of Lewis Elkin, who be- qlieathed nearly $200O,000 as pension fund for indigent teachers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 1b CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH &3F SIx MONTHS, $8 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

"One of them miners brought in nugget as big as a potato" exclaimed Bronco Bob.
 'Yes, sir!" chimed in Three Finger Sam; "an almost as valuable. Wash jngton Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

notified of the shipment of the first lot of Luger automatic pistols to this coun-
 try. If they prove to be what official reports have said they are, enough of them will be purchased to supply the
 whole army. If the pistols are by all odds the best in the world they will readily reveal their good qualities to the officers and men who are to be provided with them. The shipment now on the way to this country will be distributed to every post with directions that the officers shall see that they are tested in the seyerest manner.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

M 1HA WEEkLY JOURNAL.
 Issusd Thursdays, One Dollar a Yoar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

The center of population in the Unit ed States Is on the farm of James Marr. i've miles south of Columbus, Indiana. It has been located by careful measure Ements made by Professors Miller and Cogshall of Indiana university. Astro- ironically, the spot lies at 39 degrees, 9 minutes and s6 second latitude. and S5 degrees longitude.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

The Harvard University library has
 recently received through l.. Wiener the second largest collection of books Iih the Slovak language in the world aSlovak is a dialect of Bohemia spoken by nearly two million and a half in- 8habitants. The collection at present
 contains about 1000 volumes, and from these MT Wiener expects to secure Afnaterial for history of the Slovak language. The money for the collec- lion was given by Assistant Professor 'CoOlidge and the library.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

The largest funeral on record in Kutz-
 town, Pennsylvania, was that of Dr. 5J. S. Trexler, which occurred the other
 day. Before his death he provided
 that every one attending his funeral lbhould have a free dinner, and over a
 Thousand persons availed themselves of his offer at the two leading hotels, where arrangements had been made to xeed the multitude.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

The Ohio State Board of Medical Reg Aetration and Examination has been placed on a firm foundation by deci- sion of the Supreme court of the State which establishes its right to pass upon the competency of Ohio medical insti- atuttons The board had refused to is- sicine to the holders of diplomas from certain college which applied for a writ of mandamus, compelling recognition. The court sustained the board
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-02

a Investigations made by the depart 1885 the level of Great Salt Lake, Utah,
 has fallen fourteen feet. This recession
 of the water has laid bare tract of Hfxty thousand acres, or about ten SHquare. miles, which was, during the
 civil war period, entirely covered by
 water. At points the present shore line g3f the lake is nine miles beyond where dfaWa6 in the sixties.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
$(E3soIR;Ir1!N!y!d
y, NEWS

quently I want to have my say in the
matter. l know that the Kid can beat
Terry or any one else he meets of his
weight. There Is no longer any doubt in
my mind on that score. Bus he has
fought more men and harder men than
Terry or any other fighter did during the
past year. Like a piece OF machinery. 1t
needs oiling to do it's work. Resting and
building up after hard course Of train
ing is just the same to fighter as oil
is to machinery. In word. we want to
overhaul and oil the machine before it is
again set in motion. Now, do you grasp
my meaning? This fellow is great Kid.
The people of Denver never until recently
recognized his worth. l always knew
what was in him. 1t was only the oppor-
tunity that we always lcnged for. When
that arrived we made good In day or
two we will announce our future plans
and then adhere to them"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
As FLOOR WALKER
ASSUMES A NEW ROLE.
HELPS WEARY NET! AND WOMEN
Government Official Aids Patrons of
Uncle Sam in Dspositlng Their
Holiday Packages in the
Proper Recepracles.
HELPS WEARY MEN AND WOMEN

Postmaster George w. Irwin in the
capacity Of floor walker!
That is what the holiday rush means
for him. AS he promenades around ms
40 by 100 feet Enclosure in the lobby OF
the postoffice, directing, instructlng, cor
recting and assisting the throngs VINO
are sending Christmas and New Years
presents away, he makes an ideal public
servant.
That's not the place to put that pack
age" he whispers to a tall man, who Is
vanly trying to push a big package
through slot in the storm door.
Here's a pen, Madam!" This to an
irate old lady, who is expressing her pub
lie opinion of the stinginess of uncle
Sam.
This is the stamp window" and a
sweet-faced young woman smiles her
thanks.
And the genial postmaster continues
his rounds, manifesting personal inter-
est in each and all.
The postoffice business is 10 per cent
greater than it was last year; last week
the outgoing registered mail averaged
about 1000 pounds per day." said Mr..
Irwin.
THE money orders taken out averaged
about $2500 per day, and between $12OO
and $1,000 per day for those paid out
Yet there is never a hitch. The vast
amount of mail is handled with conven-
fence and dispatch, and in very short
time after reaching the local office, 1t Is
distributed throughout ale city.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
OIL FOR EVERYONE
FLUID MAY COME IN PIPES FROM
KINTLA LAKE.
PREDICTION BY CHAS. EMMONS
Columbia Falls Man Says That in a
Year or So Butte People Will Have
Only to Turn Faucet to Get 8"
What They Want.

In a year or so you people here In
Butte will just turn the faucet. and help
yourselves to ali the oil you want. piped
across the state from kintla Lake
Such was the prophecy uttered by
Charles Emmons of Columbia Falls. yes
terday al the Butte.
"All that country from Flathead Lake.
clear north across the Canadian line is
just stepped in oil, he added.
Mr.. Emmons is one of company,
which has recently organized to develop
the oil properties now creating so much
interest in Northwestern Montana.
The company is known as the kint1a
Oil company having a capital stock 5Vf
ST. 000, 900. and is organized undcr the Laws
of the state of Arizona. Besides Mr..
Emmons it consists of the following
members: o. NJ. Holmes and j. Fl. Cal
derhead of Helena. j. b. Holmes of New
York and P. w. Francis, an eminent oil
expert of California.
Their principal claims ere situated
along the North Fork of the Fiathead
river, not far from the properties of the
Butte Oil company.
THE oil of that section is of very
high quality" said Mr.. Emmons. 1T
has a paraffine base which makes it
particularly valuable.
You may depend upon it. those Oil
fields constitute no small part of the fu-
ture resources of this state
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26

Jack Wade and Jake Goodman have
agreed to fight again. The articles have
not been signed yet, but at a meeting
held in Helena both men agreed to meet
in the ring on date to be set next week.
Just where the fight will be held is not
yet decided. Helena reformers are OPP
posed to any more glove contests for ex-
ercise. An effort will be made to pull off
the match either in Butte or in Ana
conda.
G. F. O'Grady Of Billings has written
the Inter Mountain to say that he has a
Billings man to match against Jack
Wade at 1875 pounds. The Billings club
will hang up purse of $500 for the VIM
ner. Wade has not yet been approached.
but will be asked this week to give an
answer to the challenge.
1t was a good day for shooting on the
gun club grounds yesterday, and some
fair scores We're made. The contestants
each shot five events and pair, the score
hoinp below.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
NOT YET MARRIED.
Report Sent From Grand Forks, N. D.,
Proves to Be a Cauard,

NcpOIC Seut E fOm 0IdIO z OTAS, N. ~,
Proves to Be Canard.
While in Grand Forks N. D., last week
w. L. Brink, ticket agent at the North
ern Pacific office in this city. met re-
porter for the Herald and the reporter
wrote him up in the columns Of the
paper as follows:
Eugene w. Brink. who was for years
the ticket agent Of the Northern Pacific
in this city, but who for the past two
years or more has occupied similar po-
stion with the company at Butte, has
been spending the past two days in. the
city on a flying pleasure trip. and will
leave this morning for the West again.
Gene as he is called, was very pop
ular while in this city. and during his
absence has lost none of the qualities
that made him So
He is an ideal man for the position
and is as well liked at Butte as he is
here. from all accounts received.
The newspapers have been busy Tor
Off but he still sticks to bachelorhood
like puppy to root
However. his present trip here has
again given rise to the old rumor, and
it was stated currently yesterday that he
had returned for the simple reason that
he couldn't stay away any longer.
However, he has but one pass for the
return trip, so that it is probable that he
expects to go back alone.
Mr.. Brink says that things are very
lively in the West and that every one
seems prosperous and happy, and they
certainly are if they resemble him. as his
increase in weight would indicate that
his rations were not on the slim sde.'
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
COUNTY JAIL PRISONERS
Enjoy Christmas Dinner of the Finest
Kind.


The persons incarcerated at the cOun-
ty Jail. though held in duress vile and
pining in captivity, did not miss a good
dinner on Christmas day.
On the contrary. they We're bountiful-
~ provided for with the regulation
roast turkey, brown gravy and cram
berry sauce.
There Is colOred chef from Paris
named Monsieur Aleck at the Jail. and
the products Of his skill as a cook are
nrst-class at all turns. But he spread
himself yesterday.
Inc county furnished all the yiands
OF the season, the sheriff gave an order
that there should be no limit to the en-
tertainment, and Monsieur Aleck did the
rest.
There are Al prisoners in the Jail now.
and they all partook of the repast. Sew
eral prisoners in the Jail at this Christi
mas were there on the last-Shadwell.
Pooley and Shafer being among these.
Shafer has had four Christmas din.
ners at the county bastile, having spent
more than that many years there.
The prisoners enjoyed the feast very
much, and they appreciated the hospi-
tal1ty of the county and their keepers.
Notwithstanding the rather compulsory
character OF their role as guests.
They would rather have been around
their own firesides, but the Christmas
dinner almost made them forget for
awhile.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
DINNER FOR PRISONERS. i.
Inmates of the City Jail Are rendered
Hearty Repast

City Jaier Sol Levy and Dan Tewey
got their heads together yesterday morn
ing and prepared Christmas feast for
the wrong-doers behind the bars, which,
in a large measure. made the unfor-
tunates content with their unhappy hot.
There was turkey to eat. almost to the
point Of suffocation and the good things
that go with the national bird amply
filled the voids in the prisoners
antomies.
There We're other things besides eat
ables, too, supplied for the nonce by the
kind-hearted jailer. and several of the
prisoners who were fretting because of
lack of opportunity for the usual
Christmas drink, were cheered up by the
concessions made in honor of the day.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
TURKEYS FOR POOR.
County Recorder Crossman Distributed
$50 Yesterday.

county Recorder Crossman has lis
triputed $50 turkeys and & barrel OF
cranberries to the INDECENT poor Of the
county. working all day in the storm
Monday and visiting Walkerville, Mead
erville, Centerville, South butte and
Butchertown. and sending turkeys and
cranberries to Burlington.
This was done on Mr. Cros sman's mo.
ton and at the order Of the county COM
missioners.
Mr.. Crossman said that :hc poor reo-
pie who got the gocd things for their
Christmas dinner con!i not believe It
was true. and the children jumped Up
and down with delight when they saw
the turkeys.
The poor outside the poor farm will
have turkey dinners this Christmas at
the county's expense