The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-24
STAND ARD TOPICS.

The question '.Shall ministers smoke 2"
is being aGitated with much energy and
some bitterness i'm many magazines and
newspapers. We can't attempt to answer
the question for all, but we know of one
exrorter now holding n prominent office
i'm Helena who will surely smoke through
all eternity.
The supreme court of Georgia has de-
cided that the courts of that state shall me
run by sun time instead of railroad time.
Now II the railroad companies would
adopt sun time or most any time except
railroad time, people would not have
such a sheol of a time waiting four
or five hours at every other way station.
A favorite novel just now with office
seekers il .'Put Yourself in His Place."
rays the PHILADELPHIA Times and the Min
neapolis Journal rises to remark that
"Foul Play" in also a ~favorite with those
who can't work the combination; but "A
Terrible Temptation" has q strong hold
on those who succeed i'm getting there.
Chicago is feeling way up because Mrs.
James Brown Potter, i'm a recent inter
view, said: II was much amused at the
interest Mr.. Browning took in Chicago.
He piled me with questions at a dinner
one evening about Chicago, and seemed
to feel that his poetry vas more fully APP
preciated i'm that city than anywhere else
in America" As the mi Of the
Chicago Browning clubs did not hesitate
to use clubs to beat the meaning - his
poetry into each Others heads, il il not
strange that Mr.. Browning took unusual
interest i'm that city.
Artemus Wards mistake in choosing the
wrong grave when he desired to weep
over the remains of Shakespeare has, Il
seems. been duplicated Pm q very large
scale. After the whole world has mourn
ed the death of Mrs. Mary Tyler in the
belief that she was the original Mary to
whom the ancient lyric ascribes the pos
session of q diminutive son Of an eve,
along comes the Springfield Republican
and says in substance that il was not this
Mary. hut some other Mary, good Mary,
namely. u Mrs. Mary Hale, who has been
dead these ten years.
The Washington Post, with more
than accuracy, says hat "a
prize fight i'm Butte, Montana, between
John Gallagher and G.. H. Ward, resulted
rounds. and Gallagher died from the ef-
fects of his beating Monday night. Pos
sibly Mr.. Ward is the gentleman fate has
been holding i'm reserve for the bastinR of
John L. Sullivan" II this surmise he cor
rect, Mr.. Sullivan will continue his suc-
cessful career to n finish in thisw world. but
he will have to look out i'm the next, for
Mr.. Ward will have the advantage of
knowing the grounds. In any event il
will he n red-hot fight. And we will not
ne there To see II.
The editor OF the MiHiin Center Blade
has had n most distressing accident befall
him-one which will excite the profound
sympathy Of the entire profession. His
wife, rightly thinking that he would have
no further occasion for il this season, put
his white vest i'm the wash. New, m one
pocket of the vest, the editor informs us,
was ga large roll OF bills'--twelve ones
and a two. amounting In all to S14. ALL
might might have been well. notwith-
standing that the vest was put in soak had
not Mr.. F~erdenbaugh's large brindle cow
broken through the back gate and chewetl
up that portion of the vest containing thc
money. The editor called on Mr.. Ferlen-
baugh with n proposition to kill the COW
and search for the money, hut that gen
tlcmau declined. saying that all his
ready money was i'm the cow, to which the
editor replied that SD was his. In conclu-
sion the editor informs the public:
II was n sad affair. take IL all around, but one
about which nothing can he done. Our wife's
excuse for not looking in the pockets before she
gone through our pockets for money for twenty
years, and never found any, and had, therefore
become discouraged. and. IL the reader will
believe il. that beast of a COW had the effrontery
about the middle OF the afternoon. to lie dowT
under n tree directly opposite our home and con
tentcdly chew her cud demonstrating our Ga
We doubt not.
Such u disaster occurring as il does nj
the beginning of n hard winter il pecu
liarly deplorable. and we trust that the
citizens Of Mifiin Center will see the
necessity of paying their subscriptions n
their earliest convenience.