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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25
STAND

During n play i'm n thcater at Leadvillc
Friday night the manager was seriously
wounded by n bullet made Of tailow. The
having run out of blank cart
ridges had reprinted n shell with grease
from a candle; but We trust that Nobody
will make light of the managers wound.
All is not gold that ~glittcrs. but last
Thursday Mrs. of Auburn, Cal.
while watching some of her fowls scratch
ing the moist ground of her garden. saw
"a bright object that the whole brood tried
their bills upon. She took il into the
h ,usc and IL proved to be u solid chunk Of
gold worth So. Perhaps We do Mrs. Full
weller ~injus ticc. but there seems to
have been some fowl play i'm the acqui-
sition OF this gold.
Madame Janauschek has invented n
new dish. consisting of equal parts of
champagne and saucrkraut. which high
livers most excellent. To
those who desire their saucrkraut with a
stick i'm il, champagne no doubt will he
more agreeable than beer, so long the
favorite sidc-dish in the past, but the
great mass of mankind. We fear, will pre-
fer to take their sauerkraut and cham.
VI clear-taking The former as a rule
to the garbage barrel.
A new form of religious phenomena has
been developed ut the revival meetings
held i'm Oakland by n Mrs. Woodwork.
w..o ia sa q to have n met ,nys,.rious .n-
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NO USE FOR THEM.

This city il not nm inviting tield for
building associations, loan associations
and kindred organizations formed, gen
orally, in the back room of defunct real
estate offices i'm cities which have been
doomed to death. where idle tratlicers,
having no Ostensible mean Of support,
evolve plans for catching suckers by
getting up complex schemes which will
enable them to ave Oh their financial
shape. h financial part, of course,
being represented by other peoples
money every time.
This city, We say, is not a good field
FOR any scheme of this sort. Several
organizations, with headquarters in the
distant East, have worked the town.
In instances they hav raised In wind
in liberal sums, but our more int Ii
gent merchants and business men have
been among the first to see the folly of
the investment: they have pocketed
the loss fOolishly incurred and have
charged il up.
You may put ii down as "a fixed fact
that. as "A rule. there is no money for
you i'm building and loa associations.
The man in this town who wishes to
build u modest home can Dor
row eastern money at modest
rates, giving "a mortgage to secure h
loan. i'm full expectation of paying il.
principal m interest. C u man
knows precisely how his Indebtedness
stands and SO do his family and heirs
in case of his death. If he has common
sense. his home will always he worth
what it cost. and such an investment
is one on which any prudent man may
venture. But the man who want e.
get "A 5000 house for $4,000, anticipat.
ing mems profits from stool earn.
ings. undi> ided profits, rebates. draw.
backs. bonuses, premiums and that
sort of thing, simply puts hi.
money into the hands of some
alleged cunning-Aleck i'm financ,
who can get along without hi,
advice when the money is paid i'm. Tn,
aim Of most of the people who devise
these schemes is to get rich on othe
peoples money. The thrifty people u
this town have no use for them, a
the STANDARDS candid advice to all it
townsmen is to have nothing whateve
TO do with any outside organization O
the sort.
Prices on real estate in this city neve
were disturbed. The town never wa
afflicted with hat nuisance know
as the typical real estate boone
The growth Of the city has bee
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healthful, and figures ON real
estate have always been extremely
conservative. Prices on building lots
in this city are far below those that rule
In any western town Of Anaconda's
size and prospects-and nobody hero 10
figuring ON q metropolis. Men who
have owned real estate in this city for
some time have been prosperous in their
holdings; men who want to purchase
find warrant for safe investment at the
ruling figures. Those who wish to
borrow can ecure loans at modest in
terest through various reputable agen-
cies, and people who start out with the
expectation Of paying dollar for dollar,
handling their own little finances with
out the aid Of premiums, dividends.
prospective profits and h~igh-salaried Of
GERS i'm some distant city, are the ones
who are SURE to get h worth Of their
property i'm this city makes 1t possible
to secure as large n loan as prudent
management warrants i'm any case.
The line should be distinctly drawn
between legitimate lOan agencies on
the one hand I'M the cumbersome,
c%onniving schemes which fix up innitia
ton fees, premiums, benefits and re-
bates, on the other hand. In cities like
1t. Paul and Minneapolis organizations
Of the latter class are as numerous as
prospect holes in Montana and just
about rs safe to tie to.
1t is no i'm The mind of the STAN
DARD to praise or tn blame any partic-
ular association in the field. The woods
are full OF them. They are a ruling
craze i'm many of n country's financial
centers. Some of them have been i'm
mensely profitable, Others have their
corner stone in dishonesty. They are
l~ong-winded, complex affairs which, in
many states. law is seeking to control.
1t may be that some Of them IA
financial guidance sufficiently brilliant
to make -four bits worth a dollar, it
may be, too, that they attract penniless
men who want to live i'm five-thOusand-
dollar houses and who expect to pay
for them out of the interest on what
they owe. But this prosperous COM
munity has no use for that sort of
financial apparatus, and those who
heed our counsel to leave all such
schemes quite alone, will thank the
STANDARD by and by for its disinter-
ested words on this subject.
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luence upon hee audiences. Whtbo eev.
eral Of che audionce The o4hee night Wer0
experiencin9 the usual sensations q com
vulsions and -trance-visions. . man Who
was lying on his back commenced bark
ing f~uriousiy and yelpin9 In . high hey,
much as y hound hays NJ the moon. The
evangelist attempted 10 quiet tho con-
fusion that immediately arose among shs
enthusiasts by telling them that 70 was
merely the work Of satan. "The devil In
coming out Of the man." b sAtd, and
started . hymn and proceeded with her
discourse a. u barking like dogs among
her followers Were N commonplace an
occurrence m ~trances, convulsions, stars
and flaminR-sword visions.
The Salt Lake City Tribune has . high
opinion of frost, and thus breaks forth
In song: "The frost comes down upon
the world as does q savage schoolmaster
upon n crowd OF noisy hut tiunid boys.
overriding becomes hushed. The bobble
Of the water grows still; the voice of the
brook sounds as though a muffier had
been put over IL; the world becomes white
and rigid like the face of the dead. The
FROST in one Of natures devices to
steady the waters down from the
mountains tn the sea; IL touches the
snow, and il ceases tn melt; IL touches the
air and II i'm turn wraps the
around md ties it's white cap of snow ON
closer; IL touches the storm and In great
part turns it's fury into n blessing. IL
touches the earth. and like q mighty nses-
thetic, holds il until the chemical changes
can take place to secure q bountiful har-
vest when it's grasp In loosened." To
these touching remarks IL might also
he added that the frost touches ears,
noses, toes, house plants, coal bins, and
eventually pocket books.
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ART HAS TO GO.

Art is generally bereaved when men
of brain unframed to republican insti-
buttons get at their work and indulge
unwarrantable license which they mis-
take for personal liberty. Architecture
suffers, statues fall and pictures perish
when red handed revolution gets fairly
on its feet and first feels it's strength.
Holland, France and Italy e a the ell
during marks of this uncurbed spirit,
which always reveals an un~accOuntable
impulse to destroy h evidences of this
worlds finer feeling.
Already Brazil has gone through it's
share of experience in this direction.
In Para, on the morning follow
ing the proclamation of the
provisional government, a num-
Der of valuable paintings were
destroyed by he revolutiOnists, a band
of the most ardent adherents of the
new republic forcing their way into the
palace, where systematic plumber and
destruction were oon in full sway. of
course, every portrait representing
members of the royal family Was
quickly cut int shreds, the men, we
are told, taking particular pleasure i'm
cutting the heads from the figures. At
the same time many other works of
art, which are said to have possessed
real merit. were ruthlessly given over
to destruction. Crowds of people, in
Guiding u large number of students, ap-
plauded the work az those engaged in
it fastened to sack the palace.
Revolution seems to engender this
spoliatiOn, often, of course, with reason,
since some of the grandest of arts
monuments have stood for hated tradi-
tions or for the ~Overbearing tyranny Of
harsh rulers. Still, some of the most
enduring republics have not been
forced to come mp through this sort OF
tribulation, II no revolution has tri.
umphed i'm which the i~conoclastic spirit
has maintained its sway to the end.
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Origin of the Word "Bumper."
Al.u NVnslitns. vsns

~ ~
From the Washington Post.
much elated at having 'cauRh Webster i'm
an error" calls our attention to that lexi-
piers etymoloRy of the word ''bum-
Of wine." The correspondent Informs us
that the word did not come from 'Bum-
bard" as Webster has IL, but chad it's or
igin with the Catholics who usually drank
the pope's health every day after dinner
i'm u full glass, with the expression in
F~rench-au bon pere Ito the good father I;
hence the term "a bumper" Yes, we may
nave story before. II IL one of
the many faxed up yarns told by Henry
James LoarinR in his book of "Common
Sayings," which is as full of inaccuracies
TIVE had almost ssid deliberate inaccura-
cies) AS his other book about the antiquity
and derivation of signs. The fact is, we
find on comparison that our correspond
SO he doubtless relies on his testimony to
make his case against Webster. All we
have to say of Mr.. LoarinR Is
that he know some FRENCH, and when
ever he comes upon an English
EXPRESSION which sounds hat
like n French one he invents n story to
prove that the French expression is the
parent of the English one. and relies on
the popular ignorance OF e~tysnology To
make his invention stand. Webster makes
a good case in favor of his etymoloRy of
the word, and we beg our correspondent
to look Into the literature of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries. where, il he Looks
deep enough, he will find that Shakes
peare's use of '.bumbard Ia large mug
or cam was well authorized; and he will
probably not hold that mbar came
from 'bon PEREZ"
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ThE CATeCHlSM.

Rerised and Improved by the Hon. Rer. y.
II. RickdYds.
q. Who owns the earth?
A. Sanders.
q. Who is Sanders?
A. Sanders is n being mysterious and
incomprehensiblc to those that get not
onto him. The limitations of the human
understanding prevent the min from
grasping the idea of Sanders i'm its full
ness and entirety. As n general propo-
sition il may he said that n Ia The
stuff.
q. What Ia an act Of Sanders?
A. An act of Sanders In Tho per-
Torrance Of any monkey work conceived
and projected by Sanders to rebound 10
his exceeding sickness.
q. What instrument docs n em-
ploy i'm the accomplishments Of his great
and wonderful purposes?
A. All men who sell out to San.
ders and follow him are his upc and
cats-paws forever.
q. What must we do TO he solid with
nde
do his bidding. In the morning must we
how down before him and black his boots
and mop out his Office; and i'm the even
ing must we rise up and journey into q
far country, and cast out polling pre-
cincts, and make false afIldavits. and
rip those up the back who have enter
tanned 's and handsomely treated ue.
Q. Will not then the world revile us,
and spitcfully use us and jump upon the
necks Of us forcibly and with both feet?
A. All this will the world do, and more,
until our names are as mud i'm all the re-
gion around about. Yet we must renounce
the world, and reduce our flesh and cleave
unto the devil. which is Sanders, our
chief cook and bottle distributor.
q. What are senates?
A. Senatcs are the special fields chosen
of Sanders for the performance OF his
wondrous monkey work. There are two
varieties OF senates-the great, or high
cockalorum senate, and the lesser. or
rump senate.
@, What are the duties OF the presiding
officer of n senate?
A. To do all and whatsoever Sanders
desircth, even according To the steer
which Sanders hath given him.
O.. In the absence of any rules, how
does the presiding officer proceed to act =?
A. In the absence of any rules the pre-
siding officer of the senate acteth i'm what
soever manner he darn pleasoth, and
whose liketh it not even he lumpeth il.
.. What is law?
A. Law il certain arbitrary rules of our
enemies, for which Sanders and they that
ollow him have no use: for and be
ing q law unto himself. we must despise
and crush out all other law, even il we
have to go to- the supreme court 40 to 10
q. Where did You get that hat?
A. l procured this covering to my dome
of thought in Butte last ummer but
since I have associated with anders the
press and public assure me il is much too
small for me-.
q. What is arithmetic?
A. Arithmetic is "a form of superstition
entertained by the ignorant and homes
who refuse To accept the doctrine of San
dcrs that seven is n majority of sixteen.
.. How much, i'm the wisdom of San
dcrs, are two and two?
A. The answer depends entirel,
whether they he for or against us. II the,
L tp rns and IN Snnf1arS i'm hiS gxc0ssSI
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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER -. 1889.
To all its readers h STANDARD ex-
tends its hearty congratulations. wish
ing them all a Merry Christmas.

1t is safe to predict that the republi
rams will run through the cour at Hell
ena without a skip. The Roberts cas
came up yesterday on u demurrer and
Judge Hunt put the proceedings
through i'm favor of the republicans in
less time Than it takes to tell it. The
formal answer i'm behalf of the state
must be put i'm Saturday. As a matter
of merest fOrmality we suppose il will
he filed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25

They say that, in the rump Legislature
at Helena, Colonel Sanders actually has
the pull. He ought to have il, he is the
brains Of the outfit and his shapely
hand has guided h conspiracy from
the beginning. Days ago n STAND
ARD put on file its opinion that the
Colonel has more tact, more brain and
more political instinct han the rest of
the republican management all told.
So strong il he that jealous rivals have
been afraid of him. plotting against
him when he has been a candidate for
Office and pushing him aside at every
opportunity. by long odds, Colonel
Sanders is the brightest republican in
Montana to-day m best suited among
his party associates to shine in the SEN
ate, ever If he has to shed u little re-
Elected glow there from locomotive
headlights owned by the Northern Pa
ciic-
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1t is possible that n men who are
bent on the destruction of the good
name of Master Workman Powderly
may succeed in proving their charges
of conspiracy, fraud and that sort of
thing. Perhaps they a do it, but We
don't believe il.
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A Powerful CivIiixer.

From the Boston ADV rtiser.
In discussin z the present status OF the
Mormon question, the New York Tribune
assriDs - the bold defiance of law and gov
eminent which that church has for years
maintained tn the influence cmanating
from the cabin OF the Maytiower. While
il in doubtless true that the Mormon
church used the principle az religious lih-
cray ~ a .i.slk Ia cover its iniuuitics, still
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25
The Right sort Of Talk.

From the Detroit Tribune.
Let congress settle the question OF the
location Of the worlds fair without nm.
necessary delay. and then let the whole
country ''fall to- with vim and viRor tn
make it what it ought to he. Wherever
located il must he made the biggest sue
cess i'm the annals OF the worlds history.
Hear we! hear We!
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should Follow Hosea.

From the ~. Louis Globe Democrat.
Most OF the weather prophets rushed
into print q month q saying that De-
cember would he q very cold month, and
that The winter would he a very severe
one. All of which shows that i'm meteor
oloRy, as in other things, il In well to heed
the advice OF Hosea Bigelow, ESQ.,, to let
knowledge precedle prophecy.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25
A Perennial Suggestion

From the Philadelphia Times.
The habit Of dawdling away the first
month of the session, which has been n com
flrmeL ,ne. leads to the conclusion that
the date for the opening Of the congress
sional session should be changed.
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A Isro-p~cttre Rise.

From the Chicago Tribune.
"Thosc ARE my present prices on hand
kerchicfs," said the laundryman, i'm a
cold. bu-iness-like tone, "but I'm not
making any contracts. ] may run the
figure up about Sd per cent. next week."
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CURRENT
Mond.rluI Chanxe,

a Wonderful Change.
From the Chicago Herald.
Prison life will go especially hard with
Dan t'oughlin. He will have to work and
he's been n policeman.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25

This page of he STANDARD loves to
Finger over IN ext of last Mondays
telegram announcing that, in the ap-
pointment of Congressman Carter, the
committee on mines and mining has a
practical miner" at its head for the
first time in a dozen years. Ii Mr.. Car
ter manages successfully tn work a drift
under Window and get u report in favor
of lead. as the result of the hearing be-
fore the committee, announced for this
week, the joke at the expense of his
mining experience will be pardonable.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25

Montana ought to have the ~jolliest
Christmas i'm h land. It's people are
prosperous, o of its great industrial
undertakings have seen a thrifty year,
and, i'm the achievement of statehood, a
dream long cherished by thousands OF
loyal Ons has found realization. Yet
this years merriment has a string at
tached to it, so that, all in all, we are
not as happy as we ought to be. Poll
tics is to blame for it. more's the shame.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Washington dispatch says there Ia n
movement ON the part of a number of
politicians to get Foraker sent to Russia
as minister when he goes out of office in
January. His friends argue that IL he
goes as minister for two years and comes
home just preceding the national CAM
paign he will find Ohio anxious to honor
him and all the old feuds forgotten, whilst
Others want him sent abroad that he him.
self may he forgotten forever. The last
argument would have more weight with
the president.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25

Ons Lsssoa Of ~. GeWan's Death.
From the Baltimore American.
Mr.. Governs tragic death gives empha-
sis to the contention that American busi-
ness men are prone to set the pace too
fast In their quest of success. . . . The
only solution Of the mystery. therefore. In
insanity, and this was, In NIL probability.
produced by the strain of reckless devo-
ton 10 business.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-25

From the washington Post.
One in quite willing to indulge the Rus
sian fad to a reasonable extent, hut there
should he a line drawn against unprofit-
able, inartistic, and disagreeable innova-
TONS. We have been faithfully disport-
ing ourselves with RGs sian teas aud
samovars; we have been reading Russian
authors and wearing Russian gowns, but
when il comes to sneezing the Russian
sneeze. the thing is being carried too far.
However. ''it," that is this Russian
''grippe,'' or influenza. or epizootic, has
reached New York city, and has given no
guaranty of stopping at that point. Since
his humiliatinR and plebian contaRion
has not hcsitatcd to wiring the nose OF roy
atty, il il not at all likely that important
percentages i'm America will escape. II
may go so far as to invade the sacred pre-
cincts of Mr.. McAllister's Four Hundred,
q review Of which il advertised this week
i'm New York. This would be in the ma
turc OF a calamity, for however much
that gentleman may nave heretofore
lundere i'm p~reliminaries, he has never
yet really given a ball to he sneezed at.
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From the ChicAG0 New.
The cider-makers at their session In
Chicago have been requested by the Pro
tective Order OF North American Wives to
settle this point: when . married man
gets into . shocking condition lat NJ
what 10 in the pie?
Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-08
Personal,

Personal.
II. @. Eames has been appointed posts
mater at West Haven.
George Spencer has been engaged by the
Stationary Engineers' association to instruct
them in electrical matters.
Captain John Thompson entertained q
number of his friends at bis residence In East
Haven Wednesday afternoon.
Rev. George g. Woodruff, q son of Rail-
road Commissioner Woodruff, was married
in Baltimore Wednesday to Mics Lucy Fate
Crawford.
Matthew Rogers, colored, who died Of
paralysis at the almshouse Wednesday, aged
go, was transferred there from Orange three
months ago.
Mrs. Ruth Hewitt of Somerville, N. j.,
formerly of this city, 10 visiting her brothers.
Nessrs. Andrew Hall and James Hall of Fair
Haven, and other old friends.
The second volume of the series of Ameri
can Religious Leaders Is devoted to Wilbur
Fisk, the eminent Methodist clergyman, and
IL written by Professor George Prentice OF
Wesleyan University.
Miss Annie g.. daughter of Robert g. Cur.
tbs, and Frank II. Andrews, secretary of the
Mallory & Wheeler company will be married
ct the Dwight Place church, Tuesday even
ing. November 10, at z o'clock.
Bishop Morris OF Oregon will speak at St
| Paul's church this evening at 1880 o'clock.
Bishop Morris has beon twenty-ons years al
wsrk in the West and has grown old in the
service. AL are invited to hear him speak,
w. r. Hemingway, 449 Q1innipiac street
aged 60, while walking down stairs yester-
day morning caught the heel of his right foot
on the stairs and fell to the bottom, break.
ing both bones In his left foot above the
ankle.
seriously Ill for two weeks with bilious in.
termittent fever, which has somewhat Of q
typhoid look. His wife, who has been un
remitting In her attendance at his bedside, II
now Frustrated also. Rev. DR.. and Mrs. An
derson, parents of Mrs. Munger, are with
| than.