The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-09
STANDARD TOPICS.

STANDARD TOPICS.
Elsie Friedel. the devoted sweetheart of
Louis Lingg, the Chicago anarchist, 10
about to marry another man. The old
love having been swung OH, she In on with
the new.
A San Francisco baby in . high chair
the other evening was 40 pleased with the
appearance of q lighted lamp that he
reached out and pulled IL over and now
he sits up I'm n higher seat than ever.
There is a great deal of kicking In the
Junior class of Dartmouth college. Thirty
of the flfty-three have asked To
he honorably discharged unless one of
their number who was expelled Tor kick
ing his foot through a freshman's door, is
reinstated.
A London correspondent says that the
cause Of Mrs. Rives-Chanler's abandon
ment Of literature lies i'm the fact that her
success gives rise to q school OF fiction
which has produced n largo number OF
female writer's who have brought erotic-
ism into disrepute. II they have succeeded
in extinRuishinR the erotic Amelie's erotic-
ism the other female eroticistsa are not so
rotten after all.
Mrs. McNabb was robbed Of $4,000 at
the Rock Island House, Chicago, last
week, and to make n sure thing, the de-
t~ectives have arrested the proprietor, the
porter, the bartender and the chamber
maid. They all swear they don't know
the first thing about the robbery, and
there il confessedly no shadow OF proof
that they do. But h Chicago police are
shutting their teeth with grim determine
ton. hey are going to accomplish some
thing. II the proprietor, the porter, the
bartender and the chambermaid don't
know anything about the robbery, they
may know u great deal about b Cronin
murder.
picture painted over a thousand years
ago "a. ID. 859) by Kanaoka, the father of
Japanese pictorial art, il reported to have
been discovered in q pawnshop in Toxic.
The works of the old masters cannot he
appreciated except by trained and cul-
tured minds, and the vulgar, no doubt,
will see very little merit i'm this priceless
masterpiece Of Kanoaka We, therefore,
wish to record our opinion at the outset
that, as the father OF the painstakin9
school which sets a fan up against the
side of q wall and decorates II with sue
cessive streaks Of red and green pigment
gun, old Kanaoka OF q certainty Ia the
stuff.
The prayer that was to have been Of
fered mt the New York state republican
convention was printed in u and
sent to the press Of New York. After all
this had been done, the press was asked
to cancel the prayer, as IL would not be
delivered. The Erenin0 Post raised the
objection that q prayer having once been
formulated cannot he cancelled by hui
man will. II would appear that this IL
q point well taken. But laying aside the
theology Of IL, what In far moro difficult
to understand. il why the republican PAR
ty should desire TO dispense with prayers.
II they realise at last that they are ut
terly and hopelessly lost, their motive Ia,
perhaps, praiseworthy. The republicans
Of New York and the republicans of Nom
lana can sympathize with each other, IL
they cannot pray together.
Rev. George r. Pentecost of Brooklyn
has been sued for $4,000 by Herbert T.
Richards because no failed to carry
out his end OF q business agree
ment between the two. Richards was
publishing "a paper and he hired P~entecost
to boom il i'm his rmo from the pulpit,
do a little canvassinG on tho side, and
write editorials for the compensation of
500 n month. The paper failed, and The
publisher blames the minister. As a rule
the minister expects to he doomed by the
editor, but il Ii q poor rule that doesn't
work both ways, and references to the en-
terprise, ability and fearlessness Of the
Daily Blast or the Morning Get There judi
ciously interpreted in u clerRyman's
prayers, celebrations and scriptural read
ings certainly ought to pay. If the paper
failed in spite of the advertisements il re-
ceived during Brother Pentecost's SER
vices, there must have been some grave
defect in Partner Richards business
we feel sure, could find fault with
the ingenuity, diversity and general excel
lence of Rev. Mr.. Pentecost's monkey
shinea I'm the rl1nit-