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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-19

auce," AID the t~FAGedian, ~ 10 sank
upon . convenieut chair. He 9ot up with
more alacriy than usual. In fact his
~alacrity carried him about four feet In the
air. and when he came down he even for
got To bunch. Both hassds were bustly en-
tacks In short-meter time from that pors
ton Of has princely shape which henksred
for the throne. Anguish nlled his feat
ures and cuss-woss filled the air. With
one hand sweeping h senith- of 3
theater, and the other rubbing the nadir
Of his anatomy. he yelled out:
"Fifty dollars rreward for the name OF
thep er.on who put these carpet tacks In
me chairw
claimed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-19
A RIVAL
How . Coon Hunt BrOke up an
Funeral.

Funeral.
From the Washington Post.
"while I was provost marshal in the
Selma district. in 'Gb," said Col. ID. &.
Layton the other evening, ~ was fire.
~Qucntly called on to ofiiciate at colorcd
funerals. One day a. negro came to me
and said his baby had died and the funer~
al was to be that afternoon. Would l
come and deliver the sermon? l always
made il "a rule to grant these quests il
possible. So went at the stated time.
The funeral was very simple. The father
shouldered the little coffin and started for
the buryin0 ground. A couple of men
ollowed behind with spades, and then
came the women and the rest Of the pro-
cs.ssion. Arriving at tho place the grave
was dug and the coffin lowered in. Then
/ started TO read the Episcopal burial
service. ] had made n little progress
when / heard a dog barking across the
field and noticed an uneasy feeling i'm the
edge of the crowd. In a minute several
darkics sneaked from the outskirts and
made over toward the barking. Before l
had read a dozen lines more there was u
general exodus and only the Urave-diEGer
and myself were left.
'Wha does, this mean p I asked.
"'Marsc Layton, dat dawg done freed n
coon,' said he, apoligctically. AN desc
yer niRKers Dies had ter go. Muffin hol
'em.'
~ closed the service right there. and
went over tn the tree myself"
ibid they get the coou:'
"well. they did, and then wanted me tC
GO ON with the service, hut l drew the line
right there"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-19
Nlausaeld'a NliHFortune.

From the WaShingtOn FOst.
Actor Richard Mansfield. however pop
ular with the public, lacks popularity with
the OF his who con-
ider him cxacting and ~tyrannical. Al n
recent rehearsal Richard Ill was even
more hundy-shouldercd, bandy-lcggcdand
malicious than usual. Things didn't. and
wouldn't. and couldn't 90 to suit him.
~Buckingham's head wouldn't come of at
the right place. and three kingd, ms
wouldn't fetch even n pony. let alone n
horse.
my patience il taxed beyond endur-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-19
MONZAN4,S
Popular Price House.

An open proposition to those
that bought goods of US within
the last
SIXTY DAYS.
Now that you as buyers have
an opportunity of comparing
styles. qualities and prices we de-
sire that a comparison be made at
once. If we have in a single in
stance charged more for any arti-
Gle than you can now buy the
same elsewhere. we hereby guar
antee to refund the difference.
whatever it may be. We also
agree to take back and return
money for any and all purchases
that have been made of us that
have not proven as represented
that have not come up to your ex-
pectations.
Nothing can be more fair than
this and it is for every buyer to
test us and look into this matter
for themselves. .
We know it to be a matter of
fact that we are selling goods for
less profit than any house in the
city.
1t is for buyers to find out for
themselves.
We have turned our entire stock
of goods within the last
NINETY DAYS.
Have sold over $4,000 worth
of goods.
We have an entire new stock
bought since the late fire and will
press up all the advantages we
have obtained by reason of such
a large increase of business.
If you want a cloak or dress
pattern all we ask is for you as
buyers to compare our styles.
qualities and price-get samples
from other houses-get ours-take
them home with you.
We don't ask you to bring sam
pies from other houses; we want to
be fair. want you to use your own
judgms mt.
Have our wraps sent to your
homes for comparisons; we want
every buyer to see what we are
doing and what our competitors
are doing.
This is the only intelligent way
of getting at facts.
With an immense stock of dry
| goods. carpets. wall paper and
clothing we feel confident of being
able to serve our customers with
advantage such as cannot be over.
come.
Our stock of holiday goods is
moving rapidly. We have but a
short time to sell these goods in
hence we miss no sales.
Respectfully.
j. r. y Jr., g. Co,
Corner Main and Broadway, Butte, Mont.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
Stole 5000.

Mr.. Jnosky, who does business opposite
lie Company store, was relieved Tuesday
'ening of a satchel containing watches
nd iewelry to the amount of 800. On
.osing for the night, as was his custom,
packed the most valuable goods into
satchel, and gave it into the charge of
RS. Jnosky, to take to their place eof
sidence, No. 224 Horner street. When
ley arrived home, Mrs. Jnosky set the
4tchel on the front step, thinking Mr..
,aoslly would take it into the house. 1t
as. only short time until she discovered
&c satchel was not brought in, and on
acollecting that she had left it on the
cps, she went out to get it, but it
)uld not be found. 1t is supposed they
ere followed by parties who saw them
art from Washington street with the
1ods and whose object was to secure
ZEN, Detectives are at work on the
lse and there is little doubt but that the
lieves will be brought to justice.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
DIED.

BRoWN.-In Johnstown, on Bedford street,
seventh ward, on Wednesday, october, 8, 1889,
f. ID. Brown, son OF Rev. G. W. Brown, of
south Fork, aged nearly 81 years.
Funeral Friday morning at 9;15. Interment In
cand View,
N,EARY-.In Prospect, wednesday October O.,
1889 at II o'clock, john Neary, aged 20 years.
Funeral Friday morning at 9 O'Clock.
MADDEN m Wednesday morning, october O.,
1889, DR. Madden, aged about 3S years.
Auequiell high mass Will be celebrated on
thursday morning at st. Columba's Church,
ambria, at O'Clock. From the church the
neral Will proceed to the P, R. r. station, and
le body taken on Day Express to Harrisburg
II interment in the family burying ground.
,ORNER.-on South Side, Tuesday morning,
october s, 1889, Jacob Horner, aged 90 years.
Funeral to-day at Q O'Clock. Interment In
lndyvale.
" ARDNER.-on Tuesday, octobers, 1889. Peter,
son OF samuel Gardner, of Whisky Springs,
aged 10 years.
The funeral will take place at O'Clock to-day;
lterment at Barkley's Burying Ground.
sERN.-In Johnstown, on Sunday evening, Oc-
t0ber G, 1889. Harry, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Kern, aged about IL years.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11

A UDIT0R,S N0TICE--In the 0rhans' Court
n OF Cambria county, in the matter OF the
first and final account OF @. ]. MAYER,
And now, september 2, 1889, on motion OF
John II. Brown, ESQ, Attorney for Administrator
Il. B. STEPHENS, Esq, is appointed Auditor TO
istratoT. PER CURIAM.
Nosics Il hereby given that I viii sit for the
purpose OF the above appointment at my of1ce,
room NO. II, Alma Hall, Johnstown, Pa, on
Saturday the 21se cay OF September, 1880,
&C l. o'clock, .. na.s when and where all parties
interested may attend, or be forever debaEFed
from coming IN on said fund.
go - B. STEPHENS. Auditors
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
Ct P. s.-H you cannot come, write.
Idleness is = Dangerous Fault

A DEMONSTRATORS NoTICE.-EsTATE OF
"A FREDERICK WILLIAM HOFFMAN, DE-
CEASED.-Letters OF Administration having
been granted to the undersigned on the estate
of Frederick William HOffam, late or Conemaugh
borough, Cambria county, deceased, notice is
hereby given to alLpersons knowing themselves
indebted to said estate TO make immediate pay.
ment, and those having claims against said es-
tate win present them duly authenticated for
settlement to GEORGE KEEPER,
sept12-tf Administrator.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11

, You Ever Miss the buttons OF Your Pants
should YOU wish to avoid this or the ripping
the seams buy our Sweet Orr Co. pants.
At line Is elegant and cheap.
ECONOMY CLOTHING co.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
MARRIED.

HoCH-SCANLAN.-on Tuesday, october s,
1899, by Rev. D, NJ. Miller Mr.. Charles H. G..
Bloch and Miss Jennie seanlan, all of Johns
town, Pa,
cNEELIS - CooNEY. = In Johnstown, on
tuesday morning, october 8, 1889, Ed. I. Nc
NeeLs, Esq, of Johnstown, and Miss Maggie
COoney, OF East COnemaugh
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
a UDITOR'S NOTICE.-In the

A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.
.A7Letters OF Administration on the estate
09 REV. Z. W. JONES, late OF J0hnst0wn, Cam
bria county, Pa, having been granted to the
undersigned, all persons Indebted TO said estate
are requested 60 make Immediate payment, and
those having claims against said estate will pre-
cent them duly authenticated to
G0MER WALTERS, Administrator.
HORACE =. RosHs Attorney ssep2Sd8t
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
he Democrat .
FRIDAY, OCTOBER Il 1889.
WIEN N PITTsBuRGH

ffsiting the Exposition, go to see Rosen-
RMS Exhibition OF Cloaks at their grand
res, $40 to 51e Market street, and "a Fifth
enue.
AXE all children to Stewart 6 Co.'s, 90
l2 Federal street, Allegheny, Pa, and
thirteen of their cabinet photos for
dollar only.
See Stewart s. Co.'s cabinet photos thir-
n for dozen at 90 s. 90 Federal street,
,legheny.
Get bakers dozen, thirteen cabinet
otos for one dollar at Stewart 81 Co.'s,
& SO Federal ST. ct, Allegheny.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
The extent of the benefits of Our
Great
Mail Order Department

Is we'll put by letter recently received
from Mexico. The lady writes. "1 am
Q regular customer of yours, if do live
$500 miles from Allegheny" The prices
she quotes may be taken as fair sample
of the exhorbitant charges made by store
keepers where there is little competition.
You needn't pay such prices. Far or
near, our MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT So
licits your trade, and promises to give
you goods at the lowest prices obtainable
in the entire country. Write for samples
and make comparisons.
If you come to the Exposition, don't
fail to visit our stores. Ten minutes
walk from the Exposition will bring you
to our stores on Federal street, corner
Park Way.
See our Great
Dress Goods Departments,
Silk Departments,
Cashmeres BLACK and Colored)
Fine Cloakings,
Largest Cloak Rooms in the two
cities.
Finest lines Genuine Alaska Seal
Goods.
Lace Curtains and Portieres.
Prices go for naught when you can see
the goods.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11

The Western University of Pennsylvania.
Mechanical Electrical Engineer
President NJ Gof T. L. D. Jos Grggs Treasurer 133 North
of ug162m
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
over one mill
lion sold. Most

complete book of It's
kind ever published.
Gives measurement
of all kinds OF Lum.
Der, Logs, Planks,
Timber; hints to lum.
Der dealers; wood
measure; speed of
circular saws; telling
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
The Once Despised Cotton Seed.

Was there ever, says the Bankers
Monthly, such history as that of
the cotton seed? For seventy years
despised rs a nuisance, and burned
and dumped aside as garbage, then
discovered to be the thing for which
the soil was hungering, and reluct-
antly admitted to the rank of utili-
ties; shortly afterward found to be
nutritious food for beasts as well as
for soil, thereupon treated with some
thing like respect. Once admitted
t. the circle of farm industries, it was
found to hold thirty>fve gallons Of
pure oil to the ton, worth in its crude
state $l4 to the ton, or 0,000,000 fol
the whole crop of seed. But then q
system was devised for refining the
oil up to a value of 81 a gallon, and 6
frugal Italian placed casket of it al
the root of every olive tree and ther
defied the Borean breath of the Alps
And then experience showed that the
ton of cotton seed was better fertil
izer and a better stock food when rob
bed of its thirty-five gallons of OF
than before; that the hulls of tn,
seed made the best Of fuel for feedins
the oil mill engine; that the ashes o
the bulls, scooped from the engine
draught, had the highest CONNER
cial value as potash, and that the re
fuse of the whole made the best ant
purest soap stock to carry to the toi
let the perfumes Of Lubin or Colgate
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
FIRST COINED MONEY.
A Greek Invention Made in the Seventh
Century Before Christ.


Century Before Christ.
Coined money, as you know, is o
very ancient invention. There may
have been golden age when gold was
altogether unknown, and people paid
with COWS, not with coins When
precious metals, gold, silver, copper
or iron began to be used for payment,
they were at first simply weighed.
Even we still speak of pound instead
of sovereign. The next step was to
issue pieces of gold and silver proper
ly weighed, and then to mark the ex-
act weight and value on each piece
This was done in Assyria and Baby
lonia, where we find shekels or pounds
of gold and silver. The commerce Of
the Eastern nations was carried on
for centuries by means of these
weights of metal It was the Greeks,
the Greeks of Phocaa in Ionia,
who, in the seventh century, B. c.,
first conceived the idea of coming
money, that is of stamping on each
piece their city arms the phoca or
seal, thus giving the warranty of their
state for the right weight and value OF
those pieces From Phocea this art
OF coming spread rapidly to the other
Greek towns of Asia Minor, and was
thence transplanted to Egina, the
Peleponnesus, Athens, and the Greek
colonies in Africa and in Italy. The
weight of the most ancient gold coin
in all these countries was originally
the same as that of the ancient Babylon
ian gold shekel, only stamped with the
arms of each country, which thus made
itself responsible for its proper weight.
And this gold shekel or pound, in
spite of historical disturbances has
held its own through centuries. The
gold coins of Cresus, Darius, Philip
and Alexander have all about the same
weight as the old Babylonian gold
shekel, 60 of them going to l NINA
of gold; and, what is stranger still
our own sovereign, or pound, or shekel
has nearly the same weight, 60 Of then
going to AN old Babylonian nina o.
gold. In ancient times 90 silver
drachmas or half shekels went to 6
gold shekel, just as with us 20 silver
shillings are equivalent to sovereign.
This ancient shilling was again sub
divided into 60 copper coins, 60 being
the favorito Babylonian figure. Know
ing, therefore, the relative monetary
value of a gold and silver shekel or hal
shekel, knowing how many silvel
shekels the ancient nations had to Civ,
for one gold shekel, it was possible
by merely weighing the ancient coins
to find out whether there was then al
ready any fixed ratio between gold ant
silver. Thousands of ancient coin
have thus been tested, and the resul
has been to show that the ratio between
gold and silver was fixed from the earli
est times with the most exact accu
racy. That ratio, as DR.. Brugsch ha!
: shown, was one to twelve and half il
Egypt; it was, as proved by DR.. Bran
dis, one to thirteen and one-third il
Babylonia and in all the countrie
, which adopted the Babylonian stand
ard. There have been slight luctua
tions, and there are instances of de
based coinage in ancient as well as i
m odern times.-MaX Muller, in Fort
nightly Review.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
ToU WILL FIND ITALVArSrArS
BY GEORGE BIRDsEYE.

Be happy! Gather on life's road
The sweetest flowers you fndl
Some pleasures are for YOU bestowed,
But choose the proper kind.
How fair face Temptation has,
How joyous seem her ways;
Look not therein, but bravely pass
You'll find it always pays!
Though here ON earth, or there above,
Be now that heart we prize,
Remember that mothers love
Is one that never dies.
SO heed the counsel she would give,
That.good attend your days;
And let them guide you while you live;
You'll find it always pays!
Honor the aged as you should,
And give them reverence due;
And "do tolothers as you would
That they should do to you!"
A kind word here, good deed there,
Like sunshine casts its rays,
And makes the world more pure and fair,
You'll find it always paysl
Be honest in your dealings all
In every word you say;
Then you may never fear to fall,
Nor shun the light of day.
Stick to the truth, my little friend,
And hold the word that strays!
Begin in youth, and in the end
You'll find it always pays!
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07

and inhuman slave drivers. l shall
take my boy away. l want him to
be "A manly, self-respecting fellow,
proud of the South and her traditions,
and ashamed of nothing in her re-
cord. If he will become such man
he can we'll afford to miss few text
books. 1t may be fine thing to be
a scholar, but it is grander thing to
be a man !"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
rheumatism and Catarrh.

Rheumatism and catarrh are both blood
diseases. In many severe cases they have
yielded to treatment with b. b. B. Botanic
Blood Balm made by Blood Balm Co., At
lanta, Ga. Write for book OF convincing
proofs. Sentfree.
R. P. Dodge, Atlanta, Ga, says: "My wife
had catarrh and nothing did her any good.
Her constitution finally failed and poison
got into her blood. Iplaced her on use of
B. B, b., and to my surprise her recovery
was rapid and complete"
W. p. Mcdaniel, Atlanta, Ga, writes II
was much emaciated and had rheumatism
so bad l could not get along without
crutches. l also had neuralgia in the head.
First class physicians did me no good, Then
l tried b. b. B., and its effects were magical.
| cheerfully recommend it as a good tonic
and quick cure"
Mrs. Matilda Nichols Knoxville, Tenn.
writes: 81 had catarrh six years and a most
distressing cough, and my eyes were very
much swollen. Five bottles of b. b. B.
thank God cured me-"
John NJ. Davis, Tyler, Texas, writes: %
was subject a number OF years to spells Of
infammatory rheumatism, which six bottles
of Z. &. B., thank heaven, has entirely cur
ed. have not felt the slightest pain since
------S - -
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
Talmage's Smile.
Minneapolit Tribune.

Such smile.
1t would brighten gloom from the
torture of the toothache, and chase
JOY on the wings of the morning.
1t spreads out like an overflow at
the mouth of the Mississippi, and
sinks in like the depths of the ocean.
With a countenance as solemn and
as homely as the sphinx, the smile
breaks over it like the silver rift in
storm cloud, or dancing sunbeam
across the gloomy mouth of the Mann
moth cave. The whole man is trans
formed, and the morgue-like shadows
disappear in the glowing brightness
of the MONDAY sun.
You can see that smile as it shyly
wrinkles and wrinkles in the corner
of the eye, then slyly steals down.
ward and skirmishes along the eX-
panse of cheek to the twitching lips,
until it charges all along the line,
captures the whole countenance, and
is lost in the mouth, which opens
like widening crevice in the earth's
surface, or the bellows to a church
organ.
Such smile would sit chill and
lonesome on an ordinary mouth
twelve or fifteen inches wide, but on
this one it gambols like frisky colt
at play on new-mown lawn, and
with the sprightly movement of a
dog firmly attached by tail coupling
to an ignited bunch of cannon crack
ers. 1t is none of your fair weather
smiles, but one that gives Gr@co-
Roman fall to dyspepsia, and plants
mirth on the face of sorrow in three
rounds.
1t is a genuine brain.reaching risi-
bic wiggler, as spontaneous as kit
tens antics, lingering as an unpaid
bill, mysterious as a woman's reason,
sudden as an unpleasant fact, recep-
tive as baby's mouth, as infectious
as smallpox, with the get-there quail.
ty of the bedbug, and would tickle an
Indian cigar sign into Mysteries.
1t scares sorrow, creates mirth, and
throws out the longest pole to knock
off the laughter persimmons that ever
converted gloom into a sideshoN OF
melancholy into a circus.
1t GIBBS and flows like the oceans
tide and leaves as much trace on the
place it travels over as the serpentint
futtering of a feather on a bald man.,
head.
But its effect on the audience is like
the opening of spring, or peaches anC
cream to hungry tramp. 1t frs
l passes over one like the mist of ;
gentle rain, gradually curls the corn
2 ers of the mouth with the suddennes
g of an April shower, and finally BURST
over the cOuntenance like rainbow
of promise and merges into laughte
g that peals forth like the rumble 0
$ thunder from the gentlemen, and sit
enshrined in the exquisite dimples OF
beauty's cheek like the glistenin,
dew drop on a shell-pink rose.
t 1t is a ninth wonder, and stand
q upon the face of DR.. Talmage Xix
: Edmund Dantes on his tiny island il
S mid-ocean exclaiming, "the world
mine"
t 1t is a grin winner with a blue rit
L bon tied to its tail, and drives ava.
< slumber like Minnetonka mosquito
s 1t is grin that would make
:. monkey laugh, and watt breez
e through baboon's whiskers.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07

For lame back, side or chest, use shiIohs
Porous Plaster Price % cents al W Il.
Fleming's.