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Show ITho mutineers aboard ihe battleship Kniaz Pninnkiiic surrendered to the Roumanian authorities authori-ties rather than lake chances of being captured a in hanged by ihe Russians. How different it would be if the Fenians had a Kniaz Potemkine when OWeil imaded Canada. , "The doorstep lo sin is fobacco smoke." So declared Robert L. Reamy to the Epworth league in session at Denver. Evangelical ministers' cast-' cast-' ii'g about for material to construct a theological doorMcp, need look no longer. The evil that condescendingly con-descendingly trips the sinner is tobacco smoke! : Five tribes of ihe Flathead nation are holding a big pow-wow on the reservation near Missoula, Mont.' Spurred on by the squaws beating tom-toms and cheered by white as well as Indian maiden?, Kaontie Dorsoe danced twenty hours without a moment's mo-ment's cessation, then fell over dead. Sometimes an Indian is a bigger fool than a white man. , The house in which Juliet is said to have lived ; and in which she received Romeo, was last .week sold at aiKtion at Rome for -Y2.W0. Where was Senator Clark of Montana when the bidding was goinjr onf A rare curio like that romantic house would give 1o Columbia Gardens, outside Butte, an pathetic advantage over the. ordinarv "Lovers' Walk." ' At the belated Fourth of July dinner in London, Lon-don, Lord Lansduwnc said that "among the great talesmen of America 1 do not know of any one who. holds a greater fascination for Englishmen than President Rwsevelt.-' Kaiser Wilheluvs adulation adula-tion was rever so eule 'is this. In prose or in po- ietry, the German emperor never got the English grip on the word "fascination."' I On Saturday last Goldtield, Xev.. was ablaze and the water was short. The sight of the tower- iing ll.inits drove the populace mad. More champagne cham-pagne and beer and ale in bottles was destroyed in fifteen minutes than could be consumed by the f who,-- camj) in a week, and it all went to help sub- duo the conflagration. All poing to show that ! "Pud weiser" has its uses as well as abuses. I Over the wire comes this short paragraph: Walter Kiltredge, poet, and author of "Tenting ji ihe Old ("a inj) Ground,' died at his home at Reed's Ferry. X. 11., of old age. If Dr. O.-ler (the prefix should be "Kid" instead of "Dr.") lives to be 0U, and in the meantime writes : anything worth remembering, then he might : 1k' forgiven for advising the chloroforming of all men past ; years of age like Walter Kittredge, for example. The bitter quarrel among the faculty of the Agricultural Ag-ricultural college at Logan was settled by Banker McCornick, president of the board of trustees, upon his return from Europe. Professor Kerr was sustained sus-tained and his enemies bounced. Everybody bored by newspaper accounts of this tempest among the pedagogues will heave a sigh of relief. Agriculture Agricul-ture and not church politics will form the basis of instruction hereafter; and the aim will be to raise less hell and more hominy. Devlin of Kansas City, counted as the righest j ad best business man of the middle west, took to ! his bed through an illness which cast all thoughts of finance out of his head. Meantime his immense I affairs got into a tangle, a couple of banks sus- i ponded payments, and hundreds of employes in coal mines awaited wages due them. Sane management J ' , TfiH restore the Devlin credit again, as it is ascer- , tain.Kl that the assets of the estate are double the i value of the liabilities. It is an unusual thing for S . a man. worth scYoii millions in property value to go broke. It is alio unusual for a man who faib in business to ever again get enough money to square his creditors. Devlin's case is an exception; but it is also another example of the peril of placing plac-ing too many irons in the fire. A healthy, contented laborer is worth a dozen invalid millionaires. A successor of ''Coal Oil Johnnie" in fast ways of spending money turns up in Los Angeles. He is Walter Scott, the cowboy miner of Death Valley. Val-ley. Scott concluded a bargain with the Santa Fc and paid over $5,500 cash on the guarantee that a special would take him to Chicago in forty-eight hours. Xow if Scott does not mako another bet of $5,000 that he can beat the train's time to Chicago aboard a Mexican mustang, he will not come up to the "Coal Oil Johnnie" standard of letting loose. 4 1 A Butte special to the Chicago Tribune says SenatoisW. A. Clark and F. Augustus Heinze have 1 formed a new political alliance and all Montana I is talking about it. The new combine is preliminary prelimi-nary to next year's campaign in Montana! when Mr. Clark wants to return to the United States senate and Mr. Heinze wants a legislature and friendly judges ou the district and supreme court benches. In Butte Heinze is supreme politically, and without a. delegation from Butte the control of the next legislature in the interest of Clark's candidacy is questionable. Without Clark's support sup-port from outside counties Heinze would not stand much show of getting a hearing before the legislature legis-lature or of electing friendly judges. Politics makes strange bedfellows. T The law passed by the Kansas legislature last winter appropriating nearly half a million to building build-ing an independent oil refinery to be operated by the penitentiary convicts was declared unconstitutional unconsti-tutional by the state supreme court. The decision of the court was unanimous. The oil refinery law was considered the most direct blow struck at the Standard Oil monopoly by the last legislature, which adopted several measures tending to restrict the Standard in handling the Kansas oil product. A unanimous decision from a supreme court would indicate the unsoundness of a measure passed by the people. Unsound because it interferes with the vested rights of another, although that other may be a protected robber. The people groAV impatient. One of these days they will want to know why it is the 'courts are always right and the people arc always wrong. They may even choose their own interpretation of law for the evil it is meant to redress. , .4. ' |