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m MOUNTAIN PILOT,
Crested Butte, Colo.
ZIIAS. L. ROSS, - - Proprietor.
THE BIBLE AS A WAR CODE.
How It Han Been Eniployod In iii«
Mouth African Cam paif;ii.
Mr. Kruger’s cable to his Pretoria
relatives who inquired what was to be
done with the ex-President's house,
now it was no longer tenanted by the
late Mrs. Kruger, was ‘Read Proverbs
vii., verses 19-20”—"For the goodman
is not at home, he has gone on a long
journey. He hath taken a bag of
money with him, and will come home
at the day appointed.” Under Kruger
rule every South African editor found
the Bible an indispensable book of
reference, most proclamations from
Pretoria containing Biblical allusions.
The latest cable sent by Mr. Kruger
has now prompted a correspondent to
a Leeuwarden (Holland) paper to enu
merate a number of Scriptural mes
sages exchanged by the Boer leaders
just before the surrender of Conje. On
February 25. 1900, Mr. Kruger tele
graphed to General Christian De Wet
(who was to rescue Cronje): “Notify
Cronje that large reinforcements are
on the road, and he will be released.
Psalm xxii., 21,” which reads:
“Save me from the lion's mouth, for
Thou hast heard me from the horns
of the unicorns.”
De Wet heliographed Cronje the
same day at 12:20 p. m.: “President
telegraphs. ‘Stand firm; large rein
forcements are approaching. As soon
as they arrive we shall attack at dawn
on the north. Psalm lxiv., 7.”
Cronje replied with Psalm xx., 7,
also mentioning incidentally that his
food supplies were getting short, to
which the ingenious De Wet retorted:
“Psalm lix., 15”—“Bet them wander
up and down for meat, and grudge if
they be not satisfied.”
But Cronje grew impatient; De
Wet’s promised convoy of food was
long in coming, and he again hello
graphed “Psalm xx., 7”—"Some trust
in chariots and some in horses; but we
will remember the name of the Lord
our God.”
No relief coming on the morning of
the 26th, General Cronje heliographed:
"The enemy has been enormously re
inforced; I am hard pressed. Psalm
Hi., i.”
Most of the verses have been most
aptly chosen, and in many cases con
vey the meaning of the sender as per
fectly as a long message sent over the
wires in the usual way.
NEW YORK BUTTERCUPS.
A Club of Women Who Are I’lrd (?•-<! to
Hay No Unkind Word.
Of making women’s clubs there Is no
end. New York has a new society.
The members call themselves the But
tercups. Why Buttercups, deponent
sayeth not. but the aim of the society
is a laudable one. no less a thing than
the cultivation and dissemination of
charity and good will. No member is
to say an unkind word or to form a
harsh Judgment. Every member Is to
take whatever comes with cheerful
serenity and make the b st of the
situation. Each woman is pledged to
spread abroad the club principles. If
any one In the fold is heard to utter
an expression unbefitting the sister
hood her fellows are apt to say "But
tercups." The magic word will bring
the wandering one back to a sense of
her responsibility. A member of the
society tried the formula on a mere
man the other day. He was talking
before an audience of women that in
cluded many Buttercups. He grew
violent on the subject of Czolgosz and
expressed an unchristian desire to
make the a c sas in’s punishment a
harsh one. Some of the women ap
plauded. but one woman arose to the
occasion. She was a Buttercup, and In
the words of the statesman she “seen
her duty and she dene it.” la c’arion
tones she called out to the speaker:
“Buttercups!” The man didn't un
derstand. Perhaps it was natural that
he shouldn’t intuitively grasp the
meaning of the warning word. He
looked puzzled and went on with his
speech, but later he asked the signifi
cance of the enigmatic comment.
The Buttercups say he was deeply
impressed by the explanation. He
sighed to be a Buttercup himself, and
Just to show that there was no hard
feeling the society made h'm a mem
ber. So one little word may alter the
destiny of a man. —New York Sun.
I.ord Morrl*' Counter-Tlirunt.
The late Ix>rd Morris was unsparing
in the counter thrust when he was as
sailed. An English official, who filled
the post of under-;ecrctary to the lord
lieutenant, once was rude enough to
remark, in a loud voice, at a Dublin
dinner table, that it was a strange ar
rangement, and one characteristic of
Ireland, that he should have a much
smaller salary than the chief justice—
Morris was then chief justice—though
his functions were so very much more
important. Chief Justice Morris, amid
the awed sLlence which ensued, said:
“That is a thraln o’ thought that I
am sure offen occurs to me tipstaff."—
I»ndon letter.
A Doubtful Compliment.
She (ariayed for the theater)—Sorry
to have kept you waiting so long, Mr.
Spoonamore. but it has taken me
longer than usual to g t ready. I look
like a fright in this hat, too. He (de
sirous of saying something complimen
tary)—lt isn’t the—er—fault of the
lovely hat, I am sure, Mica Hanklnson.
—London Tit-Bitg.
TAUGHT FOR 41 YEARS
REMARKABLE RECORD OF AN EDU
CATOR IN CHICAGO.
As ru Instructor of Youth lie Proved
Kniknently Surc-esaful - Many Owo
Their Sucreu in I.ife to 111* Methods
of Teaching.
Dr. James R. Dewey of Chicago, who
recently severed his connection with
the educational interests of that city,
has the unique experience of having
spent 41 years of continuous work as
an instructor. In 1860 he took the
chair of Greek in the one High school
then in Chicago and continued his ser
vices uninterruptedly until the last
week in September when failing eye
sight compelled his retirement. During
his long term he varied from time to
time the brandies which he taught.
When he first began he taught Greek
and Latin and in after years this was
changed for scientific branches. While
engaged in the work of teaching hv
studied medicine and about 12 years
ago was graduated. He also lectured
in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical
School.
When he became instructor in Chi
cago’s first High school the number
of pupils In that institution was 200.
He lived to see that number swelled
to 12,000. There are hundreds of men
living in Chicago and other places who
DR. JAMES E. DEWEY. .
owe to Dr. Dewey’s careful training
the successes that crowned their later
careers.
HAS HAULED 4.000,000 PEOPLE.
The Record of John McC urdy, a West
ern Knglnccr.
John McCurdy of Jackson, Mich.,
who has just resumed his dally trips
between Jackson and Michigan City,
on the Michigan Central railroad, is
70 years of age and claims to be the
oldest locomotive engineer in the
country. For 53 years he has worked
for the same company and he asserts
that he has traveled more miles than
any other man that ever pulled a lever
in an engine cab. His run is 153 miles
long and as he has made In the neigh
borhood of 20,000 trips the total num
ber of miles he has traveled by rail
is in the vicinity of 3,000,000. He has
hauled approximately 4,000,000 persons,
has never had a serious accident and
has never lost a cent to the company.
“Few of the people who ride in
comfortable coaches and palatial par
lor cars and sleepers,” he says, "know
what it is for an engineer to give
them a safe ride and to keep them
warm and comfortable, for the engin
eer of these times must do all of such
things. When I began I had nothing
to do but start and stop the engine
while on the rail. Now we must
brake the whole train, heat it and In
many Instances light it. Then there
is the never relaxing lookout for safe
ty. Sometimes I have had to run the
whole length of my division through
the heaviest fogs. The sno.: beating
on the fire box will render the outside
of it cold enough for you to lay your
hand on it. I have known icicles to
form on it, despite the fact that there
was a raging fire inside. All of this
tends to retard steam-making, and in
these clays when we haul a string of
14 sleepers and keep them all warm
we need every ounce of steam we can
make.”
lowa the Center of Intelligence.
Westward the star of Journalism
takes its way. Ten years ago Massa
chusetts claimed the highest general
intelligence of all the states, because
within its borders were the gfeatest
number of newspapers in proportion
to the population. Now comes the
United States census and shows a
quite remarkable change in the last
decade. The center of intelligence—
on the newspaper basis —has moved
beyond the Mississippi river. lowa
now holds the place that Massachusetts
held ten years ago and leads the states
with the largest number of newspa
pers in proportion to the number of
inhabitants. The census gives 23,916
as the present number of printing es
tablishments in the country, a gain of
7,916 since 1890.—Ex.
Where the llojroft Wan Effective.
The boycotting by the United Irish
League of a grazier at Westport, coun
ty Mayo, Ireland, led to a curious inci
dent a few days ago. A steamship for
Liverpool had just taken on board a
flock of sheep belonging to the boy
cotted grazier, when a large dealer
objected to the sheep being put on
board with his stock. He was sup
ported by other dealers, who threat
ened to unship their stock, and the
captain accordingly put the sheep on
shore again and they were driven back
to the grazier’s farm.
Pens of hardened gutta percha have
been repeatedly tried in thiH country
and England, but have not met with
success.
NEW PAGE IN HISTORY.
Cud of the Line of Presidents Whc
Lived in War Times.
Mr. McKinley was probably the las’
of the Presidents whom the country
will hare who served in the civil war.
Theodore Roosevelt was only three
years old in the early days of the war.
True, he is younger than any other
President whom the country has had.
The chances are, however, that the
chief magistrates hereafter will belong
to a later generation of men than did
those who controlled the nation’s des
tinies from Lincoln’s day onward to
those of McKinley. All this list of
elected Presidents served in the army
during the war except Mr. Cleveland.
When Martin Van Buren was elected,
two-thirds of a century ago, the coun
try realized that a new epoch in the
nation’s history had been reached. He
was the first of the presidents who was
born after the close of the war of inde
pendence. All his predecessors, even
Jackson, the man who was in office di
rectly before him. had either partici
pated in the war or were old enough
to remember its passions and to be in
fluenced. in some degree, at least, by
the passions which it generated. Van
Buren was born in the last month of
1872, just after the preliminary treaty
was signed by which George 111. recog
nized the Independence of his late col
onies.
In the present instance also a new
land mark in the nation’s history has
been reached. It is now over 36 years
since veterans stacked arms for
the last time. Forty years will have
passed fiom that date by the time the
next President is inaugurated. Not
many men in the army at the clo. e of
1865 were below 22 or 23 years of age.
Few of them who will be alive in 1905
will be under 65 years of age, and that
mark is pretty close to the dead line
in Presidential ambition. Only three
Presidents have been as old as 65 at
the time of their inauguration—Wil
liam Henry Harris n, Taylor and Bu
chanan —and the last named was the
only one of them who lived through
his term. The chances are that the
country has s~en in the Presidential
office the last of the m n who fought
in the civil war. The present President
belongs to a later generation, and it
is like y that all of his successors will.
A new page in the nation’s history has
been turned.
JIM CORBETT BROKE.
I'urmcr Cliuinplon Hun Hqnandrred Two
Fori unfit In IS Year*.
James J. Corbett, at one time the
cleverest man who ever drew on a
boxing glove, is now without a dollar
and if it were not for his wife, who
has a little stored away, like all other
fighters of note he would have to de
pend on his friends for a livelihood.
Corbett has made and squandered
two fortunes, but claims he will start
to make a third. Few men there are
who spend sueh sums in order to be
a "good fellow” such as “Gentleman
Jim” has. Nevertheless Corbett says
it pays to be a “good fellow.” During
all his life he has made money and be
lieves in spending It liberally with his
friends. The former champion said
the other day he would rather have
the good fellowship of good fellows
than all of the money of Rockefeller
and Morgan. He believes in having
a good time as he passes down the
roadway.
“When you make plenty of money,”
said Corbett, "why not spend it with
the good people, the Bohemians, your
friends—the world in general? ‘Live
and let live,’ the old motto, is my
motto. Give ’em all a chance. Keep
the stuff in circulation. It costs mon
ey. you know, to be a ‘good fellow,’
You must have the chink at all times
to keep up your end. and when you
get in with a bunch that don’t happen
to be quite as strong financially as
yourself you must keep up their end,
too. You are required at times to make
sacrifices which you would gladly
make to help out a chap in hard luck.
"It may be that 1 am a little soft
on this point, but I can truthfully say
I never refused a deserving fellow a
dollar and if the truth is to be told
I must say that I have enough I O U’s
in my desk at home to plaster the side
of a farm barn; and these, too. in sums
ranging from $1 to a thousand.”
Home of tlie Oyater.
Oysters are widely distributed
throughout the worl *. Their chief hab
itats are in the United States and in
France, with scattering colonies in
England, Holland and other places.
But the whole number in other parts
of the world is inconsiderable as com
pared with that of the United States.
Maryland alone produces twice as
many oysters as all the rest of the
world put together. Oysters and pov
erty. Dickens says, go together, but It
is not so in this country. Biltimore
cans an immense number for both for
eign and domestic consumption, the
revenue from which Is enormous. The
Indians of the coast, before the dis
covery of America, used them in great
quantities. Near the mouth of St
John's river, Flori a. there is a forest
clad mound of over 50 feet In height,
extending over many acres of ground,
consisting entirely of old oyster shells.
The World'* Mali lliijj.
Of the 12.000.0U0.000 letters annually
distributed by the po-tofflees of the
world. 8,000.000,000 are addressed in
English. 1 .Uoii.oiai.noo in German and
1,000,000,000 in French. All the other
languages have less than 2,000.000,000
between them.
Champion Sneak Thief.
Greenwood. lowa, reports the cham
pion sneak thief. Two hours after be
ing released from jail he broke into
prison and stole his photograph from
the rogues’ gallery.—Ex.
The Stokes-fisk
Tragedy.
”Ed” Stokes is dying—dying of old
age, and perhaps regrets. In a few
days, as days go, he will cross to that
unknown to which he sent “Jim” Fisk
thirty years ago. There will be left
then of a trio only a woman—a bro
ken-down woman, “Josie” Mansfield.
Thirty years ago, "Josie” Mansfield
triumphed over the honor, the busi
ness affairs, the reputations and the
eternal happiness of "Ed” Stokes and
‘ Jim’’ Fisk. She plunged the affairs
of the Erie railroad and Jay Gould
into a whirlpool of litigation, scandal
and shame that ended in murder.
. Fisk is dead. Gould is at rest.
Stokes is dying. The Mansfield lives
abroad—in Paris.
From 1860 to 1867 she lived in Bos
ton —in good society, she always
claimed. In 1867 she secured a di-
vorce from her husband, a man by the
name of and went upon the
stage. She could not act, but men
could look at her and her tigress
beauty. She appeared in New York,
but did not succeed. She solicited an
audience with "Jim” Fisk. She was
penniless then and only possessed the
A MEMORABLE CABINET.
When the Confederate States gov
ernment was organized. In February,
1861, Jefferson Davis named as his
cabinet Robert Toombs, secretary of
state; Charles G. Memmlnger. secre
tary of the treasury; L. Pope Walker,
secretary of war; S. R. Mallory, secre
tary of the navy; John H. Reagan,
postmaster general, and Judah P. Ben
jamin, attorney general. Before the
year ended, R. M. T. Hunter had suc
ceeded Toombs as secretary of state,
and Judah P. Benjamin succeeded
Walker as secretary of war.
In 1862 Benjamin became secretary
of state. James A. Seddon secretary of
war, and Thomas H. Watts became at
torney general, to be succeeded in 1863
by George Davis. In 1864 George A.
Trenholm succeeded Memmlnger us
secretary of the treasury, and in Jan
uary. 1865, General John C. Breckin
ridge became secretary of war. Seddon
resigning because of criticism by the
Virginia legislature.
All of these cabinet officers, except
Reagan, are dead. Toombs died in
1885, Hunter in 1887, Memmlnger in
1888. Breckinridge in 1875. Of the cab
inet officers with Mr. Davis from first
to last, Mallory died in 1573, Benjamin
in Paris in 1884, and Reagan, the sole
survivor of them all, is reported by
the daily press to be fighting his last
fight against death, at the age of 83.
Benjamin was the only one of the
Davis cabinet who declined to accept,
the situation after the war. He went
abroad in 1865 and lived abroad until
his death. Hunter acted with the
Democratic party, and Ju3t before his
death was appointed to a Federal of
fice by President Cleveland.
Reagan was the only member of the
cabinet enptured with Mr. Davis, but
soon after his capture he wrote an
open letter to the people of Texas ad
vocating laws which should grant ne
groes civil rights and political rights
with an educational qualification. This
letter greutly excited the Democrats of
Texas, but in 1874 they elected Mr.
Reagan to congress, where he became
conspicuous in interstate commerce
legislation In 1887 he took his seat in
the United States senate, and since
that time has been one of the most
clothes on her back, but her animal
beauty remained with her.
He built her a palace at 329 West
Twenty-third street, and there he and
his friends reveled night after night,
and there in time came Edward S.
Stokes. Stokes was of good birth and
breeding, a Wall street clerk of hand
some personality and features, whom
Fisk took a fancy to one day and
made his protege.
Fisk thought that Stokes was about
to betray him. He therefore forced
down the stocks in which the latter
was interested. Stokes was thus al
most financially ruined. It was said
at the time that the woman in the
case told Stokes to kill Fisk.
However tills may have been, Stokes
left her house the afternoon of Jan.
6, 1872. He went to the Grand Cen-
tral Hotel, where he stationed himself
in the corridor of the parlor floor,
carelessly walking up and down, and
not appearing to be interested ir. any
thing in particular. The main stair
case was in front of him.
Thus stationed he saw Fisk enter
and start up the stairs. The latter
pronounced nationalists in the South.
All of Mr. Lincoln’s two cabinets are
dead, so that Mr. Reagan Is the sole
survivor of all the cabinet officers of
the great war period.
The distinguished Texan is a type of
southern gentleman that is rapidly
passing away. He was born 85 years
ago in Tennessee, and drifted, when
almost a boy, into this section of the
country. In 1856 Texas sent him to
Congress, and four years later he re
signed his seat to become postmaster
EX-SENATOR REAGAN.
general and secretary of the trtasury
in Mr. Davis’ cabinet.
THE RICH MAN AND THE CHURCH.
President Blanchard of Wheaton col
lege. in an address delivered the other
day at a meeting of the Congregation
al ministers of Chicago, was unusually
severe against the tenderness and con
sideration with which some ministers
treat their wealthy parishioners. All
the sheep in the flock should be treat
ed alike or if any distinction is to be
made it should be in favor of the poor.
The rich, having more of the root of
evil in their hearts, are presumably
more evil in their lives and should
be urged as often as possible to obey
the apostolic command by “going to”
was seven steps up when he saw
Stokes, his right arm resting on the
standard at. the head of the stairs, a
pistol in his hand. Without speaking
Stokes fired twice. The first bullet
took effect in the abdomen, the second
in the left arm. Fisk fell to the floor.
Stokes walked away, but was captured
before he could leave the hotel.
Fisk was carried upstairs, and Jay
Gould and "Boss” Tweed came to his
bedside. He died the next day, but
“Josie’ Mansfield was not with him.
Instead came his wife and his broth
ers, and they remained with him to
the end.
Colonel “Jim" Fisk was buried with
honors such as New York bestowed
upon few men. Tweed blubbered and
even Gould cried. Stokes remained in
prison. He hired the best counsel Id
EDWARD STOKES.
the land and was tried three times*
the last time being convicted of man
slaughter in the third degree. Grover
Cleveland pardoned him from prison
in 1877 after he had served four years.
Something of his fortune was left, and
on that be has lived an earth pariah
ever since. He is at the home of a
sister, now dying.
The Mansfield woman fled to Boston
after Fisk’s death. From there she
removed to Paris. In 1891 she mar
ried Robert L. Reade. formerly of Min
neapolis and New York. Since then
she has lived in comparative obscur
ity. She is wealthy—most of her mon
ey came out of Fisk and Stokes.
In order that they may ' weep and
howl." Nor will nny harm ho done
If they are reminded on Sunday morn
ings thnt the Magnificat still contains
the remark about the rich having been
sent empty away.
Mr. Blanchard's wishes In this mat
ter are unexceptionable. They pro
ceed upon the excellent principle that
things temporal should be of minor
Importance In a religious body where
the object of endeaTor Is to be found
in things eternal. But it wogd seem
that before this principle, excellent as
it is. could be put in operation, there
would have to be certain changes ini
the organization of a great man.r
churches, especially in the larger
cities. But what can be done about it
as long as the congregation will not
make up its mind to get along without
the money for which it pays so heavy
a price?
Women In New York.
The Women's Municipal League of
New York is actively engaged in rais
ing funds to further the interests of
the fusion campaign against Tam
many. They are distributing pam
phlets showing how vice is being pro
tected under Tammany rule and it Is
for this purpose chiefly that they arc
raising a campaign fund.
Occupation In Norway.
Sixty per cent of the population of
Norway live by agriculture. 15 per cent
by manufacturing and lumbering, 10
per cent by commerce and trade, 5 per
cent by mining, and the remainder are
in the professions and the army and
navy and engaged in different employ
ments.
Professor W. D. Gibbs of the Ohio
State University has been elected pro
fessor of agriculture and director of
the experiment station at the New
Hampshire College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts at Durham, N. H.
A postal card sent from Paris to
Paris via Moscow. Vladlvostock and
San Francisco, made the trip around
the world in eighty days, at a coat of *
2 cents.