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THE INTER MOUNTAIN
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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901.
THE PRESIDENT'S ORA TORy.
THE JVEW J X/DCE.
VICTORIES OF "PEACE,
, DRING TUE past few years William McKinley has
spoken comparatively little in public. Beginning
with his nomination for president, he entered upon a
period of silence as far as campaign speaking was concerned.
Contrasted with his loquacious opponent in the presidential
race his neglect of oratorical practice was conspicuous.
Candidates for the highest office within the gift of the peo
plf have seldom been given to speechmaking, and the course
adhered to by William McKinley was not an exceptional one.
Nevertheless, it took the president out of the oratorical
business almost entirely. The speeches delivered by the
pro -ident since his inauguration have been mainly formal ad
d'e. ses. They were i. t the kind of speeches by which
"William McKinley v.on such fame as a campaigner. What
ever was said by the president was weighed carefully before
being pronounced, and his state papers and addresses have,
during the past five years, been models of tact and shrewd
judgment. Few men in public life have spoken so plainly
a»- the president, however, and he has dealt with weighty
questions in a perfectly straightforward way.
Now the president is, swinging around the circle. He
■will travel ten thousand miles and will make speeches in
numerable. The American people will hear again the popu
lar speechmaker who charmed his hearers in many hard
f, light campaigns, and won votes by forceful arguments
from the public rostrum. Admirers of Bryan will learn
that the Nebraskan's artesian depths of language, supply
none of the enchantment that comes from listening to the
keen, incisive logic of the foremost debater and popular
oiator in the land. The laurels of William McKinley's life
have been won and his countrymn have accorded his splen
did talents suitable recognition. He has no plans to further
other than his country's prosperity, and no interests to
promote other than the well-being of his fellow citizens.
He comes to the American people now as in the days when
he first won hi^ spurs as an orator. His speeches made since
the great tour began have the same ring that marked
his utterances in congress when he was winning his way
to national fame. The people of the west will like him
best in the guise in which he comes: as a popular public man
he is the ideal of all ambitious Americans.
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G OVERNOR TOOLE made no mistake in selecting a
judge for Silver Bow county from among the mem
bers of the Butte bar. It was hinted some time ago
that the appointment might go to an attorney outside the
county. This was construed by many as a reflection upon
the lawyers of this* city. It was a statement which the gov
ernor might well have omjUed from the interview in which
he discussed the selection of a third judge for this county.
Yesterday's appointment, however, put at rest the rumors
set afloat by the governor's statement, and the honor very
properly came to a Butte attorney. The selection made by
Governor Toole appears to be very satisfactory to the at
torneys of Butte. Of the lawyers who were mentioned in
connection with the appointment, it may be said they were
all good men and no mistake would have been made had the
choice fallen upon any of the excellent attorneys whose
claims were laid before the governor by Interested friends.
The Inter Mountain takes this opportunity to congratu
late J. B. McClernan upon the signal honor that has come
to him. The appointment had to go to a democrat. That
has been recognized from the first. Since the governor in
clined to a selection governed by party motives, the Inter
Mountain rejoices that a good man has been summoned
to the Judicial bench. Mr. McClernan is practically re
moved from politics, for a time at least. He will deal Just
ly with men of all parties, and reflect credit upon his pro
fession in the new position to which he has been called.
The office, coming as it does, affords opportunities for dis
tinction to its incumbent that cot.ld not come by election.
Mr. McClernan, the Inter Mountain believes, will meet the
requirements of his new position as he has met the de
mands made upon him in his profession. He takes* office
under very auspicious circumstances, and the good wishes
of friends accompany him in his advancement
W HAT MIGHTY proportions the commerce of this
country is taking on in these palmy days of the
nation's prosperity. The annual review of the for
eign commerce of the country, just issued by the treasury
department, reflects a flattering condition of trade, and
the stupendous* totals tell a story of marvelous commer
cial activity. For the first time in the history of the United
States, the sum of the nation's commerce for one year ex
ceeds $-,000,000,000. For a long term of years we have been
approaching this high mark. More recently we have trav
eled toward the grand total at a rate that has given a con
fident feeling to every line of business. During the year 1900,
the increase in exports was $107.459,780, and the Imports In
creased $152,792,659 during the same period. The evidences of
the past year's prosperity are only exceeded by the many
signs of continued commercial greatness during the com
ing year. In every line of trade bright prospects appear.
These interesting figures mark the high tide of com
mercial activity, and they appear more gratifying by con
trasting them with the conditions which existed a few years
ago. The gloomy days of the democratic regime left a record
that tells a poor story when compared with the inspiring
facts related by a review of the commerce that has passed
through the ports of the country during the past year. The
total of last year's commerce was just $320,252,472 greater
than that of any preceding year in the history of the coun
try. Of this vast sum a large share has gone to our new
possession in the Philippines, and no inconsiderable amount
of the exports of our added territory hds sought our shores
This is one of the gratifying Ceatures of the year's
business.
The spec tacle of the United States sending out its prod
ucts to every section of the globe, and taking into its home
markets the trade of the newly developed portions of the
earth, will not be without effect upon the rivals of Ameri
can commerce. Our commerce, pushing its opera
tions into remote parts of the world. Is perhaps as Im
pressive as the superiority of our army and lyivy ex
hibited in the recent war. The soldier and the sailor hav*
taken a smaller share in the work of contributing to the na
tion's greatness than the men who have planned the ex
tension of trade and astonished the world with exhibitions
of enterprise. Indeed the various elements* of the nation's
population have all worked together in establishing the
supremacy of the United States among the countries of the
earth. At this time fully SS per cent of our products are
exported to Europe, including Great Britain. After accom
plishing the difficult feat of effecting on entrance in the
markets of the old world, it should be comparatively easy
to take a full share of the advantages that the newer coun
tries afford. The commercial victories, won In peace, are
fully as important as the more spectacular triumphs of war.
ITS OVT AT LAST.
^(EVEX TIMES the Bureau of Agriculture, I.ahor and
Industry of the state of Montana nas published
and distributed an annual report. The volume now
being distributed is by far the most complete that has ever
been Issued by this bureau, and it would appear that in
the preparation of the report the officials of the department
had reached a high mark of excelLnce. Every county in
the state finds representation in the volume that is now
being distributed widely. The principal cities have been ex- V
tensively noticed in the well-written pages, and the book
contains good half-tone pictures of scenes familiar to Mon
tanans. The data secured from the official records of each
county in the state is complete and reliable, and the work
of the bureau has been well done. Butte figures in the
make-up of the book in a conspicuous way and the re
sources of the city are well described by special articles
relating to the mining industry.
Perhaps no document ever issued by the state of Mon
tana has been more tardy in reaching the public than
this report. The book contains about 700 pages, and the
work of printing, is. of course, no small undertaking. But
the matter contained in the volume reached the printers
at an early date, and the work of printing the report and
distributing it to the people of the state has been unneces
sarily slow. The officials, who have charge of the depart
ment from which the book comes have received frequent
inquiries for the report, and were obliged to say that the
printers appeared indifferent and the work of completing
i the mechantcal part of the report had been greatly de
! layed. The volume is finished at last, however, and it Is
a credit to the state and to the officials engaged in its
: preparation. Montana has never been greatly troubled by
! indifferent or incompetent contractors in any department of
I work done fqr the state. The printers who delayed this
i report are among the first to make an unenviable record
' for slow and indifferent work.
THE "DEA"DLy PARALEL.
/ N THE Helena Independent of Wednesday morning
appeared a specimen of deadly parallel, calculated
to bring disicomfiture to the editorial writer of the
Helena Record. The Independent placed side by side upon
its page two editorials, one from the Portland Oregonian
and the other from its morning contemporary. There was
a striking similarity of words and ideas noticeable in the
two productions. In fact the similarity was so marked and
pronounced as to lead to the conclusion that the man who
had penned the Record editorial was afflicted with a klepto
mania feeling while purusing the pages of the Oregonian
and made a royal seizure of thought. In the absence of
au explanation of some sort the natural inference would
be that the Oregonian's editorial, published April 27, had
been revamped for use in the Helena Record three days
la'ar.
The pages of the Helena Record are usually brightly
written and display evidences of thoughtful preparation.
It is possible that the man who is responsible for the many
very excellent ideas set forth in vigorous language on the
Record's editorial page, takes a day off once a week and
his understudy made the serious mistake of appropriating
the Oregonian's editorial, while his superior was recruiting
his faculties by a period of recreation. The Inter Moun
tain is not disposed to sit in judgment upon the Record in
this matter. Such incidents as the Independent drew at
tention to by its deadly parallel are not without their amus
ing features. Not such a long time ago two editors operat
ing rival newspapers in the same town, each made a royal
seizure of an editorial from the same exchange. The
cribbed editorial was published simultaneously by the rival
Journals, and readers marveled that the minds of the pug
nacious editors should travel in such a companionable way
along the same grove of thought. It is to he hoped that
such an interesting coincidence will never take place in
Montana—at least not in Helena.
The crisis in the cabinet of the mikado of Japan has
reached its dim ix, and all the members have
thrown up their jobs. These are doubtless the preliminary
throes of an internal convulsion.
News from Youngstown, O., is to <he effect that fifty
out of five hundred men employed in the yards of the steel
plants have gone on a strike. The balance of the men are
still in the steelyards.
The man who was killed yesterday in Colorado while
carelessly leaning against a box of explosives furnished fur
ther proof that giant powder is a poor stick to lean upon.
Cassius M. Clay has at last surrendered to the officers
of the law. The hard job of keeping up Kentucky's fighting
reputation proved too much for the old man.
News of the kidnaping of a five-year-old girl of
Rochester, N. Y., would indicate that the business was still
in the infant industry class.
Machinists of Tacoma have struck for nine hours. The
eight and nine strike appears to have left the old ten strike
hopelessly in the rear.
The labor troubles at the East Helena smelter have
proved too weighty for the scale of wages paid at that
establishment. .
The beginning of winter in South Africa offers dis
couragements such as even the oldest inhabitant has never
experienced.
The Miner snarled again this morning and give .utter
ance to several short, sharp yelps. Every Miner has its day.
There appears to be no letup in the steady down-pour
accompanying the reign of the queen of May.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
It it* fashionable to assume that congress is made up
of corrupt men; that jobs are the rule, and that combines
have their central organizing staff right in the two houses
of congress. But Senator Depew, in his speech the other
night, speaking of the senate, said that after two years'
service there he had recast his former opinion; that there
was an "absence of jobbery, an unselfish devotion to the
public service, sincere and hopeful patriotism, and a broad,
comprehensive and statesman-like grasp of the necessities
of the country and the possibilities of its development."
We think the senator is entirely right. It is a habit of
mortality, and has been ever since the days of old Nestor,
to deplore the misereJFde present and extol the glorious
past. The truth is. that the hearts of men have not grown
bad in a hundred years. Rather, their horizons have
broadened, their information has increased, and, as a rule
they are bigger, better stronger men than they were in
the old day?»—Salt Lake Tribune.
Mack O'Rell—"Funston is the hero of the hour."
Luke Warme —"I am afraid you are right. Heroes don't
last much longer these days."—New York Telegraph.
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THE CASE OF HELEN KELLER
A Blind Gill Who Is One of the Most
Learned Students of Her
College.
New York Sun: In the current issue of
the Radeliffe Magazine there are several
themes from the pen of Helen Keller, the
noted blind and deaf student, in which
she gives her versions of the growth of
Glowers and tells of her first plunge in
the ocean. She describes the disillusions
of lier college life and puts self-love as
the root of all evil. She says:
"It is very interesting to watch a
plant grow; it is like taking part in erea
sfion. When all outside is cold and white,
when the little children of the woodland
are gone to their nurseries in the warm
earth and the empty nests on the bare
trees are filled with snow my window
^garden glows and smiles, making sum
mer within while it is winter without. It
'is wonderful to see flowers bloom in the
midst of snowstorms. 1 have felt a bud
A (shyly doff lier green hood and blossom
with a silken burst of sound,' while the
icy lingers of the snow beat against tlie
window panes.
"What secret power, I wonder, caused
this blossoming miracle? What myster
ious force guided the seedling from- the
dark earth up to the light through leaf
and stem and bud to glorious fulfillment
in the perfect flower? Who could have
dreamed that such a beauty lurked in th
dark earth, was latent in the tiny seed
we planted? Beautiful flower, you have
taucht me to see a little way into the
hidden heart of things. Now, I under
stand that the darkness everywhere may
hold possibilities better even than my
hopes."
Another theme is that in which Helen
describes her first experience with the
o.ean. fhe says::
"t trust have been about S years old
when 1 was first taken to the seashore.
I had always lived far inland and had
never had so much as a whiff of the salt
air; but I had read in a big book called
'Our World' a description of the ocean
which filled me with wonder and an In
tense longing to touch the mighty sea and
feel it rear. So my little heart leaped
high with eager excitement when I knew
my wi h was at last to he realized.
"No sooner had I been helped into
my bath'ng suit than I sprang out upon
the warm said and. without a thought
of fear, plunged into the cool water.
When I felt the Etre at billows rock and
sink my delight knew no bounds. The
buoyant motion of the water filled me
with exquisite, quivering joy; but smi
th nty the ecstacy gave place to the
widest terror: for my foot struck against
a lock, and the next instant there was
a i itsli of water over my head. I thrust
put my hands to grasp some support;
I clutched at the water which the waves
and the seaweed tossed in my face, but
ail my frantic efforts, were in vain.
"The waves seemed to be played a
game with me. and tossed me from one
to another in their wild frolic. It was
fearful! The good firm earth had slip
ped from under my feet, and everything
seemed shut out from this strange all
enveloping element—life. air. warmth
and love. At last, however, the sea,
as if weary with its new toy, threw me
l ack on the shore, and in another ln
sfnrt I was clasped in my mother's
aims. Oh. the comfort of the long ten
der embrace. As soon a* I had re
covered from my panic to say anything
l demanded:
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"Who nut salt in the water?"
Helen Keller is always original in her
literary likes and dislikes. In one of
the themes she says of Lafontaines
faines, wh'eh she has just been read
ing in the French for the first time:
"Stories in which animals are made
to talk and act, like human beings have
never appealed to me very strongly. La
fontaine seldom, if ever, appeals to our
higher moral sense. The highest chords
he strikes are those of reason and self
love. Through all the fables runs the
thoughts that man's morality springs
wholly from self-love, and that when
self-love is directed and restrained by
reason happiness must follow as surely
as surely as the day follows the night.
Now. so far as I can judge, remarks
this little girl of 20, "self-love is the
root of all evil; but. of course, I may
fie wrong! for Lafontaine had greater
opportunities of observing men than I
am likely ever to have."
In another theme Helen puts her fin
ger uoon what she regards the funda
mental weakness of French dramatic
art. "I should say." she writes, "that
display was the most conspicuous char
acteristic of the French. All that they
say and do seems to be said and done
for effect—as if their world were indeed
'a stage, and all the men and women
merely players.' They are always dra
matic; they are in the highest degree
artistic and emotional, but it is an emo
tion of the senses and not of the heart.
Their brilliancy is not satisfying, though
often alluring. It is a scentless flower,
beautiful as the poppy is. beautiful, but
not dear to our hearts, like the rose,
though we would have both in opr gar
dt ns.
"I never read a French tragedy with
out having an indefinable feeling that
it is all mad up. The characters In the
drama seem to speak with the purpose
of impressing the audience. Even when
they are most serious, most passionate,
one fee!s that they are more concerned
with the impression they are making
than with the terrible doom which
awaits them in the next act. One must,
indeed, be dull not to see the are in it
all. but are—that is. art which we de
tect and wonder at never touches the
emotions or quickens the pulse."
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In her present surroundings auss
Keller says:
■ "There are disadvantages. I find, in
going to college. The one I find most!
is lack of time. I used to have time
to think, to reflect my mind, and we
would sit together of an evening aril
listen to the inner melodies of the spirit
which one hears only in leisure mo
ments. when the words of some loved
poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the
soul that had been silent until then.
Bu in college there is no time to com
mune with one's thoughts. One goes
seems.
"When one enters the portals of learn
ing one leaves the dearest pleasures—
solitude. books, imagination—outside
with the whispering pines and the sun
lit, ororous woods. I suppose I ought
to find some comfort in the thought tha t
enjoyment, but I am impovident enough
to prefer present joy to hoarding riches
against a rainy day.
"It is impossible, I think,' she con
cludes, "to read four or five different
Neivbro
T AKING medicine Is a serious business. Suppose you shouldn't
get what the doctor ordered? That might be serious as to
health, if not fatal. I lie best way is to be sure. Take no risk.
The sure way is to go where the biggest prescription business is done;
that means in Butte the biggest drug store. Drug stores grow as
their prescription business increases. That accounts for tin- size of
this store. If you want to he absolutely sure that you are getting tha
right medicine, bring your prescription to
JVebubro
books in different languages and treat
ing of widely different subjects in one
day and not lose sight of the very end
for which one reads, mental stimulants
and enrichment. When one reads hur
riedly and permiseuously one's mind be
comes encumbered with a lot of choice
bric-a-brac for which there is vrry lit
tle use.
"Just now my mind is so full ot
heterogeneous matter that I most des
spaid of ever being able to put it in or
der. Whenever I enter the region that
was the kingdom of my mind I feel like
the proverbal bull in the China closet.
A thousand odds and ends of knowledge
come crashing about my head like hail
stones, and when I trj- to escape them
theme-goblins and college-nixies of all
sorts purspe me until I wish—O. may I
be forgiven the wicked wish—that î
might smash the idols I came to wor
ship."
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES.
" "Speaking of legacy taxes," said
Charles French, deputy collector of in
ternal railroad revenue, to-day, "re
minds me that some valuable informa
tion of great interest has been issued
from the treasury department at Wash
ington, l>y J. W. Yerkes, commise, ionwr
of internal revenue. The information
is contained In a letter replying to a
question from an internal revenue col
lector."
The letter is as follows:
"Sir: This office is in receipt of your
letter of the 11th ultimo, asking several
questions relative to the act of June 13,
1898. as amended by the act of March
2. 1Q01.
"In reply to the portion relating to
the tax on legacies, you are informed
that section 39, as amended, provides
that the tax or duty shall be due and
payable within one year after the death
of the testator, and this must be done
notwithstanding the laws of the state
of Missouri, which allow two years for
settlement of the estate.
"If at the end of two years the execu
tor finds that he has paid too small a
tax. a supplemental return must be
made, and if it is shown that he has
paid an excessive tax, a claim for the
refund of the amount paid in excess
can be filed. This can be made by the
executor or administrator of the estate
within two years after the cause of
action accrues.
'The taxes paid under the provisions
of sections 29 and 30. as amended, are
to be deducted from the particular lega
cy or distributive share, on account of
which the same is charged.
"Section 30. as* amended, provides that
every executor, administrator or trus
tee. having In charge or trust a legacy
or distributive share, shall give notice
thereof to the collector within thirty
days after he shall have taken charge
of such trust. No special form of no
tice is prescribed, except that it must
be in writing."
"The latest thing in monopolies," said
Edward F. Fane, of New York, at the
McDermott this morning, "is an artificial
leg trust. The place of Its birth Is the
great eastern metropolis and the capital
that is going behind the project is as
tonishing. Yes It is certainly a unique
scheme, in one sense of the word, but
at the same time promises to be a par
ticularly good paying investment.
"You see there are not many manu
facturers of really good artificial limbs.
Then those manufacturers do not put
out just the sort of article that suits
those who are compelled to wear their
products*. Many of the limbs are rated
as first class, and all have some particu
larly good features. But none comprise
all the essential points that, together
would make the life of the wearer of
an artificial leg, or arm pleasant.
"Then you must remember that each
manufacturer has protected the finest
points of the limbs* by patents, so that
it would be impossible for any manufac
turer to encroach on the limb of an
other, should he desire, as would be na
tural to improve the article he is pro
ducing.
"The trust will solve the problem.
When the manufacturers of all kinds of
artificial limbs are combined it will be
to their respective and collective inter
ests. to embody in the limbs* to be manu
factured by the trust, all the good qual
ity of the various limbs individually
manufactured.
"The idea of the trust came about in
this manner. A Boston genius invented
an artificial leg that was said to be
almost perfect. It was way ahead of
anything else now being manufactur
ed. in more than one particular, but it
of course embodied svome of the qualities
of tlie other limbs being manufactur
ed.
"The new leg. It.Is claimed, Is so per
fect that an old veteran who lost his
leg in the civil war and who after try
ing various kinds of artificial legs with
out success, has decided to again don
a made to order lower extremity. This
veteran if* credited with having vowed at
his last artificial leg into the Potomac
and to have vowed at that time that
he would never again wear another. His
declaration to now change his mind is
cited as the best illustration of the mer
it the new Invention.
"The inventor of the ney leg of course
realized that he had something good
and he wanted to make all he could out
of it. He opened negotiations with va
rious manufacturers, but they either
wanted to buy his right, or grant him a
concession, to encroach on their resnoc
tive lnvestions, for a consideration. That
did not suit the new inventor and he
evolved the idea of the trust to thuä
embrace all the good points of the art!
ficial legs with his invention.
"The scheme met with hearty approv-'
ai and now the trust is an assured
thing."
Frederick K. Baker, a well known resi
dent of Bonner, with his wife and th'ee
children are at the McDermott.
ARRIVALS.
The McDermott—C. H. Alexander, N.
Y. : W. II. Sharlock, Denver; W. R. Gets
and wife, Great Falls; B. F. Wahlerson
and Miss Nellie Kirkendall, Milwaukee.
The Butte—Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Peek
and M. E. Sajiln, N. Y. ; John L. Baker,
J. B. Fitzpatrick, Henry Clark and Sam
uel Ofner, Chicago; Ha.rvçy E. Lewis,
San Francisco; Louis WigI, Helena, and
H. E. Herman and wk'e. Salt Lake.
A curious marriage was recently cele
brated at Grocholets, in Poland, where
a peasant at the age of 88 led to the
altar a maiden of 18 summers. Among
the 290 guests invited to the wedding
were eleven sons of the bridegroom by
former marriages, the eldest being 60
years old and the youngest 41. There
were also sixty-three grand-children,
thirty-nine greatgrandchildren, twenty
one children of the fourth generation
and four of the fifth.
An inquisitive reporter last week took
a census of a mile of Fifth avenue, New
York, embracing the homes of many
very ! ic!i men and found just fifteen
children under the age of 12. There
was an average of one child to three
houses. Then the reporter transferred
his attention to the east side tenement
district, where he found in one flat
house sixty-three children, or more
than four times the number found in
the whole Fifth avenue mile.
The Wedding
RING
In all countries is a plain band,
sometimes flat, but commonly
half-round. English rings are
often made as fine as 22k. That
we think is too fine, for the
rings wear away rapidly. We
find that 18k is the most satis
factory quality, keeps a good
polish, has a good color, and, it
bought of fair weight, lasts a
long time. We have them as low
as $4.50 and as high as $15. We
engrave them free of charge.
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