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

Consisting of Imported and Do
mestic Manufacture. A PER-
FICT FIT IS GUARANTEED
or no sale. Now is the time to
buy your Clothing. as the stock is
new and not broken. Call this
week and examine III goods and
prices is all we ask.
We have recently secured the
sole agency for
Stacy & Adams Fine Dress Shoes
In mems wear. and as this shoe
has a worldwide reputation for
style, finish and durability. and
being the Best Shoe for the Least
Money it will pay you to look
over our shoe stock.
A splendid dress shoe car be
bought for $3.50. We are also
selling a shoe for S2.75 that we
guarantee you can not buy else
were for less than $3.50. Our
$3.50 shoe is a rather. and we will
also save you SI.OO a pair on
them. Right & Richards Shoes.
which always sell for $500 every
where, and are hand-sewed. we
will do them up for $500 a pair.
We have a good line of nailed and
unnailed shoes for heavy work,
and the prices are right for you.
The boys are always pleased to
show goods and prices. and they
arc certain at the prices you will
get that you are bound to buy.
Inspection of our stock is cordial
lv invited.
EQTEQ n0NNETT
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
Curious Notice s.

In the railway carriage running be-
tween Calais and Paris there used to
be a peculiar device for summoning the
guard or conductor. Behind a small
glass window In the wall of each com
partment dangIed a ring fastened to
the end of q cord. Below, in French,
German, and English, was a notice, the
English version Of which read:
SHOULD at any time the presence of
the guard be deemed necessary, the
passenger viii please break the glass,
pull the cord, and agitate his arms out
the right hand window according as the
train Is going.
Here is another notice which is de
signed to put travellers on their guard
against unauthorized guides to Mount
Vesuyius, and to warn tourists to OBJ
serve the guides number if they wish
to make complaint:
s'The Vesuvius guides acknowledged
by the company are only those who
have a number of recognition at the
bonnet and an inscription, Guida del
Vesuvia Travellers are earnestly re-
uuested to remember that number Of
recognition to the guide who escort
them, and TO declare it If they have
any complaint to do; differently the
company VIII be In the impOssibility To
pursue each reclamation,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

The use of a mirror for rejecting the
sun seems to run from the extremes OF
boyish ROBUSTNESS In flashing the suns
rays upon the eyes of some companion
even older persons, if the distance be
sufhcient-and then reaches to the
other extreme of using it to flash the
suns rays for heiOtrOpe signals in the
coast survey or army service, or to meas
ure the detection Of a galvanOmeter
needle. But there Is vast middle
space of practical usage of mirrors,
apart from that of individual vanity,
which is rarely thought Of
a gentleman in Boston, calling at an
Office in the upper part of building,
stated his intention of calling upon
man In a distant part of the city, and
was told that his party had recently
opened an Office on the other side Of the
same street, and IN the upper part Of
bnilding of the same height.
On looking across to the opposite
window, the gentleman was seen, hard
at work and too busy to look up. How
ever, a large mirror was unhung in the
tOilet-rOom, and the suns rays flashed
upon his face In a manner that startled
him and dazzled his eyes, first causing
him to Jump and binding him.
At first he was indignant at the inn
proper liberty taken with his visual or
gans, and looking out Of the window as
fierce as a fOrty-pounder, threatening
and breathing out slaughter upon the
yOungster should he be in sight. A few
gesticuIations, however, soon made the
party across the street understand that
he was to be called upon.
In the boyhood days of the writer,
he remembers looking into a new pump
which had been thoroughly spiked the
night before it was to be placed in the
well, by means of some rocks which
were pushed in about midway and
wedged against each other.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
BILL NYE on ZOOLOGY.
WILLIAM, THE HUEEORIsT, CAFES AT
THE ANIMALS.

He Thinks the Elephant Should shorten
His suspenders-EFIly the Kangaroo Car
ries His Vitals in the Base OF His System
The Pungent Black Bear.
1t is indeed a great delight to the busy
truck driver and other brain-Workers Of
New York, on a quiet Sabbath afternoon, to
stroll about our great free menagerie and
congress OF living wonders near the Sixty
fourth street and Fifth avenue entrance to
Central Park, writes Bill Nye in the Chicago
Herald. Here the great waves Of civil
cation along the celebrated avenue break
upon the shores Of an artificial wilderness.
A few PAGES from the wealth and refinement
Of the great thOroughfare the great gray
rocks and spreading elms Of the primeval
forest extend themselves, as one may say,
while the roar Of the Fifth avenue stage and
the rattle of the silver harness and the trap
pings OF swollen prosperity mingle with the
sweet song OF the parOket and the low PUNK
OF the hippOpOtamus.
Here the worn husbandnan and stock
grower from Wall street may be discovered
on quiet afternoon engaged in keeping OF
the grass. Here you may see the weary and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

When the civil war broke out he en-
listed into the Union army and rose
from the rank of private to that
Of Captain of infantry. When peace
was restored he commenced to study
law, and was admitted to the bar in
1869, serving as States Attorney from
1872 to 1876. He was Congressman
from the Twentieth Congressional Dis
trict in Illinois, and represented his
district for five terms-longer than any
other man before him, and would have
continued in the representation had
not his health. proved a bar. In his
stead George ". Smith, from Jackson
County, was elected last fall. The
unique feature of Thomas career was
that, IN spite of LOgan's opposition In
that section of the State, where the
BLACK Eagle" was most popular, he
always beat Logan's man. In Congress
he served on the Naval Committee,
and lately achieved fame by drawing
plans for a submerged war ship.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

day Of her visit, while alone in the sit
ting-room, her entertainers being busy
with household affairs, she picked up
Richmond newspaper, an old one, in
which something had been wrapped.
In flaming headlines she saw the ac-
count of a terrible accident on the K.
Y. Y. r. r. In great type she read of
the herOism of the engineer, and that
mans name, Walter Holmes, staged
her in the face.
When her friends entered the room
she was lying senseIess. Soon revived,
she read the whole story, how her
brave lover had stuck to his engine,
hand on lever, when death seemed in
evitabIe; how he had saved his train
while the opposite and offending one
was made a mass of splinters and man
gIed humanity. But the story told
also, that while Walters train was
saved his engine had been overturned,
and he crushed beneath it. Terribly
hurt" the report stated, and there
ended, and that was three months
back.
Puss must hurry home now in order
to prepare and go to Walter. These
simple folks never thought of tele-
graphs-indeed there was not a wire
within thirty miles of them. The mail
was all too slow and uncertain for her.
She must go.
But she did not, for the strain proved
too much, and when she reached her
home, brain fever Frustrated her for
weeks.
Old Father Holmes made the trip of
his life and went to look for his boy.
The wife had died some six months
before, and he did not return nor
write, so they knew nothing of Walter,
and there was little but sorrow in the
Puryear household.
Youth helped Puss to again recover
in a measure, and she moved istlessly
about her home and it's duties, ever
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

Various plans for their removal had
been suggested, the most practicable of
which was to saw the pump in two and
join it together again somehow. The
writer suggested that mirror be
brought, and the sunlight flashed in
to reveal the position of the stones. A
bar Of wrought iron was bent to a hook,
suitable to the condition of affairs, and
extricated the stones one by one, the
mirror showing the openings Of light
so that the person could work eff
GENTLY and intelligently.
Objects lost in wells have been dis
closed by means of the suns rays
thrown down upon them by mirrors.
Dark Easements in cities are lighted by
means OF mirror surface or total reflect
ing prisms, made out of decidedly
cheap glass, and held in proper posi-
tiOns in racks placed in alleyways,
under gratings forming a part of the
Walk ZecfTicnJ Reyie2g.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

Gaddis, a Cincinnati hack-driver,
treasures a dollar bill of the first
greenback issue. The Enquirer of
that city tells that Salmon P. Chase,
while Secretary of the Treasury, visit
ed Cincinnati.
"Shine, sirl" shouted Gaddis, then a
bootblack, to a stranger in the Burnet
House lobby.
do your prettiest, " said the gentle
man, with a smile, "and I'll give you
my photograph"
The boy did not fall in very heartily
with the proposition, as he had no par
ticular use for photographs of his Gus
toners, but after a little bantering he
took the Job. At the finish, the gen
tIeman handed the boy a brand-new
One-dOIlar bill.
Chats my photograph, said he.
walking away.
The boy glanced from his customer
to the bill in momentary perplexity.
Then the strong resemblance which
his customer bore to the vignette in
one corner of the greenback caught
his eye, and he knew that the Score
tary Of the Treasury had been having
a little fun with him at his own ex-
pense.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

source Of the Nile. In the distance, as he
half closes his eyes, he hears the cluck OF
the dOdO which has just come off her nest,
with TWO little new dOdOs. He also hears
the Tilt of the scaroO and the sleepy voice
of the high behind. The FURNISHED moon
seems to simmer a little bit through the
almost Opaque jungle. The yum-yum
tree seems to sigh in the gentle zephyr
The tutti-frutti palm sWays in the sOf
starlight. while far away in the deep re-
cesses Of the pungent night one can almost
hear Emin Bey.
In the murky depths of the bush the scor-
butte murmurs its low lullaby to its young
and the lala sinks to rest with low cry.
Histt
What is that?
do not know what it is.
Is 1.-THE crOupy moan Of the deWdad as it
rubs its hot back against the gum arabic
tree, or is it the va1edictOry Of the over ripe
citizen as he drops from the tree into the
VeSCibule Of a straw cOlOred lion with red
gums?
Again it is still until the sleepy voice of
the hippopotamUs is heard as he yaWns a
little and Obscures the race Of nature. Also
his own. Then as the silence comes there
pIOrer a harsh voice tells him to wake up
and move on or get a moss agate over the
Oye and thirty days on thOiland. He
aWakes with a wild start to find himself in
the clutches of a sparrow chaser.
Central Park, including the menager1e and
the mouth Of the hippOpOtamus, will be open
each day until further notice. Lohengrin
boats win connect with park phaetons and
polite policemen viii club the caterpillars
of the trees and try to do everything in
their power to make the occasion a success,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

Once he was pure as the beautiful snow,
but now, by careful scrutiny Of his piu-
mage. he finds that he is not so. He looks
like q detected door mat. and, on hot day,
his pants are checked somewhat by the
heat.
We now pass on to the kangaroo annex,
where we find also the coon. both American
and African. The kangaroo is Illuminating
marsupiaI. But it is here ditary and there
fore not so reprehensibIe as it might be
otherwise. There are two or three varie-
ties Of this pleasing beast. and all OF the
genus MicrOpus, think, though would
not have any one take my word Tor 1t On
such a matter as that. involving as 1t does
the peace Of 50 many people. There are
the TljcTODIS GigG3lte3Es. the yeHOW-LoOI9u
kangaroo, also the rat kangaroo and the
kangaroo itself The kangaroo has been so
ssdentary all his Life that his leading y1tals
seem to have settled into the base Of his
system. He is Of a long-WaIstsd turn OF
mind and springs with great agility nom
place TO place. ike a bogus nobteman seek
ing for a bride. Some kangarOOs are gre
garious in their habits. while others are not.
Whether anything can be done Tor 1t or not
I do not pretend to say. L am not here 70
moraltze. by duties simply embrace a
tsrse description Of the animal itself. The
only cases. however, where the kangaroo
has not been gragar1ous eEs Isolated
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
PRAY MucE
q - - 80.


Pray muchi God loves a sweet, independent
spirit,
That owns itself too weak to walk alone.
No plea goes forth but listening angels hear it.
Sometimes IN ways mysterious and unknown
Their answers come; but surely the light
Hears the dawn calling, and dispeIs the night,
SO 90 those blessed messengers on high
Hear when We cry.
Pray muchl The friends with whom We hold
cOmmuniugs,
Exert a subtle influence hour by hour.
Turn often, then, with soulful impOrtunings
To those celestial comrades. By their power
Thou shalt be girded for the times of strife
That try the strength Of every human life;
Thou shalt become victor in the field
Where others yield.
Pray muchl Each day allow thy5eh a season
For close cOnnpaniOnship with minds above.
Put by thy viii, thy pride, thy stubborn reason
Keep nothing but humility and love.
as one is charged by magnets so thy soul
Shall feel divine electric currents roll
ThrO' all its chambers, till it CLOVIS with faith
That cOnquers death.
MERIDEN Conn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
-ooking and ON for what 81 seemed

looking and longing for what it seemed
would never come.
It was nearly five months after the
departure of old Holmes that one even
ing she slowly sauntered down the
river path where she had met and so
often wandered with Walter, her
thoughts and heart all full of love and
sadness for him, now; her eyes dimmed
with tears and her mind far away,
when she felt an arm clasped about her
waist and knew in that second-even
before she could turn her face around
that she was in the embrace of her
promised husband.
She did turn, with appraised arms to
clasp about his neck in welcome Joyous
beyond words, when she was staggered
by the sight that met her eyes.
It was Walter, her Walter, but what
a wreck; no glorious curls were on that
shaver head, his face was pale as death,
his cheeks and form shrunken, his eyes
dim, and at his side hung an empty
sleeve.
He saw the look of terrible astonish-
ment with which the girl regarded
him, and, losing his grasp he fell back
pace, saying:
81 beg your pardon. I forgot what
fragment of my former self I now
am. OF course you"
"Oh, Walt My Walt! Don't talk
so, my poor, poor boy, and her arms
were about him and she was crying
over and kissing him in q strange
medley of sorrow and Joy.
She soon treasured him that her love
was true as of old, and then listened to
his story of how he had been in charge
o. 81
dent and Directors Of his road with a
large party Of friends; how an excur-
sion train, run in violation of orders,
had collided with them; how he had
managed to save his party but been
buried in the ruins of his engine, sui
fering injuries to his arm which neces-
STATED its amputation, and to
| his head which rendered him par
| tally insane during all the
blank months she had waited, an
! operation finally restoring his senses.
His father had found, watched, and
! tenderly cared for him, but with his
| peculiar ways had never thought to
/ write to the people at home.
This was the substance of the tale 1t
/ took a long time to tell
And now dear" said Walter, "the
/ President has offered me the General
Managership of the road, with a big
| salary and q fine house. You'll have
no grimy faced and handed husband OF
an engineer, but a fine gentleman,
with only one arm for two broadclOth
! sleeves. VIII you be satisfied, do you
/ Think"
/ suppose 1 ought to be good enough
| to be sorry for your awful misfortunes
/ Walt, but 1 can't be so very sorrv, be
cause 1 am going to have you now al
| ways to myself, and not be trembling
| all the time with fear of those terrible
engines. You love, the empty sleeve
honor" And she kissed it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
Nc "a nne ii EInm 80.

They had both lost their husbands;
one was a widow of so, the other was
about .. The older one called on the
Younger one to cOndOle with her, and
they wept upon one anOther's necks
and recalled the merits of the dear
deceased. 1t was astonishing how
much the old husband and the young
one had been alike in their disposition
and character-at least they both saw
a distinct resemblance in every point.
Which shows that matrimOny does not
really change a man, nor age either
when he is dead But they had a
most delightful time until the young
one, putting her arms around the old
ones neck, sobbed through her tears
Il know it is selfish Of me to say so
much about my own sorrow. But,
really, I do not feel that it Is so much
worse for you than for me. I don't
know how would have felt if this had
happened to me when I was your
age and had no chance OF getting an
other"
The tears froze suddenly, and the
old one does not speak as she passes by.
San Francisco Chronicle.
WHAT Is good feed VIII make good
manure.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
An Understanding IT Last.

Old Mr.. Widower had been sitting
silently alone with Miss Autumn for
fifteen minutes. Finally he spoke:
Miss Autumn, you are pretty
ooh, Mr. Widower!"
You are pref"
"How can you, Mr.. Whoever 2"
Il started to say that you were
pretty
"Oh, you hOrrid man, stopl7
Condemn 1t all, woman, shouted
Mr.. WidoWer, rising and breaking for
the door, Il wanted to say that you are
pretty near as old as I am. Now,
demme, I think you're twice as old. "
San Francisco Examiner.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

trOduCt1OD. very little money ana
scarcely knowing how he should go to
work to strike the first blow; but For
tune soon favored the brave in a most
unexpected manner. It was at per
Torrance of Patience" the house was
packed to the doors, a brilliant Ameri-
can woman sat in a box with popular
manager. He was speaking Of the re-
markable spread of these new ideas
and the craze over the costumes in
Patience" when her eyes happened
to alight on Oscar Wilde, then clothed
In decent, conventional black, leaning
discOnsolately against pillar, for his
money was nearly all gone and his in
Productions had brought him nothing
but invitations to dinner. She said,
why do you envy the success Of this
burlesque ?-there is the original Bun
thorne himself why don't you do some
thing with him ?" That very night she
brought the two together and the cam
paign was planned.
Before leaving England, Whistler
had posted him up with some art ideas,
in case of need, but he had never given
a lecture in his life before. Every one
knows the brilliant success Of his first
appearance at Chickering Hall, and the
NLSJ bts4Aio "a 1t4o lONAA 41C1C ttAD LNlO W CA
known to speak of. In many places he
was received with admiration and en-
thusiasm, in some with abuse. In
Long Branch the evening he was going
to lecture a row of ladies and gentle
men CD formed in the corridor outside
his door at the hotel, and when he came
out pelted him with immense sun-hOw-
ers till he was obliged to beat retreat,
When he appeared in the hall the au-
dience shrieked, "A dollar to see that
thing!"
In literary Boston it was not thought
he could succeed, but he was saved by
the Harvard students turning out IN a
body, each wearing an enormous sun
flower in his buttOn-hOIe.
He returned to England with a good
deal of money. in spite of being made
the victim of some confidence sharpers,
and there lectured on What I Taught
America, p" but in his own country was
received with little interest.
Gradually the hair in flowing locks
was cut shorter and shorter, and the
knee-breeches slipped down to his
ankles, and soon he had lapsed into
cOnventionality and comfort. Soon
after his return to England, Oscar
married an heiress, the granddaughter
of a rich old lawyer, who died shortly
after, leaving her a very comfortable
property.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
A Noted ILLINOIS Politician.

John r. Thomas, of Metropolis, H.,
was born at Mount Vernon, Jefferson
County, Illinois, October II, 1916, and
received a commOn-schooI education.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

a WITTY as well as a soft answer Will
sometimes turn away wrath Charles
Burleigh, the Abolitionist, IN the midst
of an anti-slavery speech, was struck
by a rotten egg full in the face. Pausing
to wipe away the contents Of the mis-
sile, he said, calmly: Il have always
contended that pro-slavery arguments
are very unsound." The crowd reared,
and he was no longe~molested.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

TIE small weight of an aluminium
engine, driven by compressed air, gas
or electricity, compared with its iron
equivalent, undoubtedly makes the
ultimate success of air ships more prob
able than before.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
EsTHETTa go ND.

a Bright New York woman Discovered
the ImpseuniOus Dude and Put him in
the Royal Road to Fortune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

Z is about { en-
years since that
queer fish, Os-
car Wide, came
to our shores and
set the tongues OF
the whole CONT
nent wag gin g
about his eccen
tricities. He came
to New York, says
q writer In the
Chicago Inter =
Ocean, with some
good letters of in
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

WAT is good feed wiz make good