The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-12

~ bhsth tN SshV ~. - MI kSu
fenced tn N, years Imprisonment for muir
der. He will 'sIvr pretty hard work kill
ing time.
A professor Of the French language has
sued the Chicago Tribune for s25.OOO for
calling him "a niashcr. Evidently he
would rather In N bootilcr.
A suit like Shylock's has just hsscn tried
in Chicago. A pound of flesh was in
volved. hat as il was cut from a hind
quarter of beef, the excitement was les.
intense. than i'm Venice.
"rhc republican party holds it's own
chserfully observes thc New York Tribune.
hut out this way the republican party il
trying To hold somebody clsc's.
The woman's Christian Temperance
Union alliance with the prohibition party
is running the union" declared Mrs. j.
Ellen Foster i'm Chicago last week. We
hardly know whether Mrs. Foster means
the wolnan's Christian Temperance
Mrs. Foster IL IL dry talker, hut il she
would dry MP altogether people would I'M
dcrstand her better.
In a paper on the sanctity Of the Sab
bath "a Methodist Clergyman Of Baltimore.
protests against holding funerals on Sun
day because, lie says, they could he held
just AS well some other time. IL looks as
u tnts munster WanttI tD AVOID crOwllllK
So much work into ono day for himself.
If Inc would obey the s%criptural injunction
To the letter and let the dead bury the
dead he could get rid of the. whole btIsi-
ness.
CAtlPH SCHANDERZ TO HIS PRINCE.
The Caliph ~Sclnndlcrz, commanders of
the faithful. to his beloved prince, Ruzl.
greeting. Happiness and riches attend
thee and thy seed forever! Joy and music
reign in thy harcm! tho joy of soft. laugh
ing houris and the music of zithcrs tremb-
ling i'm the air. May thy fiocks and nerds
incrs,asc: thy gold and silver and precious
stones may they multiply without ccasing.
Convey thy servants affection to the
king, thy father. Lay thy hand upon the
ear of the old man and draw him dis
crectly behind the door and say unto him
Schandcrz, the caiiph, comes presently
tn the palace. For by the beard of the
prophet. through which the wind never
blowcth, thy servant shall get there, even
as Eli of old. All tllv i%njunctions have I
executed with exceeding diligence and
sickness. Day and might have l toiled
since thy majesty departed from the tents
of thy servant; and wonderful are the
things I have wrought In my zeal. For
the viziers, the emirs, the lords of the en-
pirc, the chief councillors and the royal
etinuchs came unto me i'm alarm and mis-
giving, and fell down before me and cried :
Az Allah liveth, % calipl,, our enemies
have triumphed over as! Wherefore l
commanded them tai arise and take
yc each every one shall lie low and do an
l mnlan yet will l fix things up
again. But behold that with which We
nre about To monkey is "a buzz-saw, whcrs-
fore be careful and vigilant.
Thus, % Prince. l put nerve and gall
into them. And I placed into the ear of
each of them such IA flea as in my wisdom
was meet for him, and sent him about his
. ll -
were of weak heart who would fain kick
at thy servants commands. For they
said they had lived the lives of the just
and the upright. And unto such l said
Allah is Allah. and when thy caliph com
mands yc to plumber the dogs of Chris
tians. behold il is all right and let no man
forget il. And l promised each of them
an office and IA fat thing in dine season.
So they took my steers and went
aud followed my commands. And
they came again and reported that they
had fallen upon the Christians and plum
dcrcd them and stolen all that | had com
manded them to steal. Wherefore, unless
the dogs rally and tear us to pieces, there
is cause for great joy. For the plumber IL
rich.
Thy friend Powcrz desired thy servant
tn command the faithful to steal certain
plumber for him also, hut having secured
all that which l Was after, ! argued with
him that we should bc content with what
i'm our great sickness we had already oh
tanned. l promised him also that hs
should he n caliph along with thy servant
hut between thy majesty. q Prince. and
thy servant, this Powerz is ~ chump
Wherefore let thy servant command the
grand botIucers to remove him speedily.
Manteizibub also is filed with desire T.
sit as "a caliph, and of him l will have fur
ther speech with thy majesty i'm my fol
lowing cpistlc. He hath been useful tn al
in bringing our glorious steal tai ripcness
and nowhere may We find another SO .tbl'
tn perform the uncican work which 81 OF
ten hath To he performed for us.
Thou rcmcmbcrcst the venerable
cunuch whose speech always made tn.
majesty and thy servant weary unt'
death, albeit he is a. faithful ass. OLE
Kuowlz hath bcsought me tn magnify hi
name unto thee, and to implorc the king
thy father, to appoint him CRANE
councillor over this province. men
ton this, q prince. only for tn,
mirth. Tell thy old man tn take M
thought of this business until thy servan
arriveth at the palace. when I shall Civ
unto him the steer that In straight. For !
thy servant knowcth himself. and IA
thinketh hc doth, I will run this provinc