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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-30
Union Pacific System-Isiennial &c nclaye
Knights of Pythias.

The biennial conclave of the Knights of
from July to IL. For the occasion the
Union Pacific will make a rate of single fare
for the round trip from all Montana points.
Tickets will be on sale July to 5. inclus-
i've. aud passengers Will be required to
reach Milwaukee not later than July 8.
Tickets will be limited for return until July
"a and must be used for continuous passage
in both directions.
A, E. VEAz1E, Pass. Agent.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-30

How often do we see this on the faces
Of children and, alas, of people who other
wise are healthy? What causes it? Bad
Blood. The thought is terrible; the
trouble is worse. No ordinary help can
remove it. 1t requires something I'M
usual. Do not take cheap sarsaparlllas
or blood purifiers. You must have some.
thing that has proven its power in both
Europe and America. General Wheat
croft Nelson, of London, says: My
experience in the English army. as well
as in America, convinces me that nothing
so thoroughly purifies the blood, or adds
to the health, vigor and life, as Or.
Acker's English Blood Elixir"
This grand Elixir is sold by druggists
in all parts of America. 1t is a good
pure, honest medicine. Try it to-day.
For sale by H. NJ. Parchen Co.. druggist
Helena Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
ACCOUNTS.
How ~ Piece of News Occurred and Wa
Reported.

How u Piece of News Occurred and Was
Reported.
Extract from a Private Letter.
A southern girl writes: "Oh, l must
tell you a good joke before l forget il.
just n few days after Easter do you re-
member reading an account i'm some of
the northern papers Il Jaw it in the New
York World, of n jealousy between the
two Methodist churches of this city Nor
folk, Val, and that the CRANKY street
church hired a brass band to attract the
crowd from the other church, as the latter
had the better choir music. Well, | am
sorry to say some part of the accusation is
true. Ii was an orchestra, not a brass
band, but there is no jealousy be-
tween h churches. 1t seems that
the congregation OF the CRANKY
street church was very slim to
what il had been the previous year, and
the preacher told the organist to go ahead
and do something to attract the crowds
again. Well, a correspondent of a Balti-
more paper thought it was a splendid
thing to fill his column up, SO he wrote il
up, and it was copied generously through
the country.
Well, to make a long story short, the
negroes aid they were not going to let
the white folks outdo them, so during the
collection on Easter Sunday at their
church, they sang a piece called "The
Singing of Birds" by George William
Warren. The preacher told all the Sis
tiers i'm the congregation TO bring their
canary birds to church, so that when the
organ struck up they would all sing. This,
he said, would discount the band the
white folks were going TO have.
One old sister didn'th have "a anary, but
she had a parrot. She thought the minis
ter would think she vas not doing her
duty il he didn't bring a bird. She car
tia.l tha .,n r,nf 4 In lt...a IN ,l tx.t him, IN.
the chancel along with the other birds.
The choir began to sing and the birds
chirped. The parrot screamed at the top
of his voice, stop your noise, |
to go home, you make too much noise!'
And the poor sister was asked TO take the
irreverent bird out of church.
Now what do you think of that for n
good take-otf on the white people. Our
cook was at the church and told mother
about the happening.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
A CIRCUS SPECTACLE.

Clusters last rally. or the battle of the
Little Big Horn, is II of the attrac-
tions of Forepaugh's circus this year,
and is said to be a realistic reproduc-
ton of the tragedy of June %, 1876,
when General George A. Custer and
his gallant little band of United States
cavalry We're done to death by the i'm
placable Sioux under Sitting Bull. In
teresting features of the show are
a son of the chief who planned the
massacre, Black Bull Bear, who was
among the braves who carried il out,
and Sergeant Charles G. Wagner, the sole
survivor of General Clusters command,
who acts the role he played in real life
as courier 10 Custer.
The question of the propriety of rep
resenting Clusters death in a circus
within the lifetime of his family,
friends and associates seems never to
have entered the heads of the proprie-
tors. The next one knows, the assassi-
nation of President Lincoln will be
made the theme for some circus or
side-show entertainment. The drama
is not necessarily prohibited from uti-
lizing such historic events. but the
canons OF good taste forbid their repre-
sentation until after the lapse of at
least two or three generations. Cas-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

page Of honor during the last four years
OF his reign. The count had lived In Eng
land and spoke English finently.
Kate Field Indignantly denies the report
that she wears a ''bright red satin dress''
while at her literary work. She must adj
init, however, that her literary work IL
bright and read.
Rumors have been rife that Justice
Lamar would o sell out his interests In
Mississippi and sever all connection with
that state because of his belief that negro
domination will soon be established there.
But they who say this speak not wisely.
MIR. Lamar is not that sort of q man. He
il rather of the Idle i'm the last ditch'
variety.
The Pail Mall Gazefte a that Pro-
fessor Gluck recently performed q re-
markable and successful operation. He
removed from one of his male patients a
diseased knee-joint and inserted an arti-
fetal substitute made from ivory. The
patient has now left his bed. He walks
with perfect ease and says that his ivory
knee-joint is convenient and comfortable
In every way.
"~Looking Backward" is beginning to
bear fruit. Twelve young ladies Of In
dianapolis, employed in stores and Offices,
have rented a suite of II rooms, and are
living on the Bellamy plan. Each pays
into the treasury 50 per week, and n cook
is employed to prepare meals. In addi-
ton EACH is assessed % cents for q contin-
gent fund, which is held to meet unusual
expenses. The young ladies 70 I'm in
couples, and each week two of them are
appointed purveyors. The only time they
are all together is at supper, but they are
contented and enjoy their way of living.
The bishop of London has lost his eye
sight to sue an extent that he was UNI
able to take any part in the administra-
ton of the Holy Communion at the conse,
Grafton of the new Church Of Holy Trim
ity, Upper Chelsea, a fortnight ago, and
it was necessary for him to be guided
down the chancel steps and up to the
pulpit. Bishop Temple is S % active a
man, both in mind and body, that the
sight was most pathetic. 1t is exceed
ingly probable that the malady from
which the bishop suffers will render it
necessary for him to resign his see, and
he is seriously contemplating this step
unless his sight improves within the mex
few weeks,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
IS m BOARD oE ReYlsW7

Attorney General Haskell's declara-
ton that as a matter of fact the state
board of pardons Is not reqaired to
base its actions upon the evidence in
any case will be news to most people.
Speaking of the hearing in the Jackson
case mt Helena tomorrow the attorney
general is quoted by the Journal as
saying: I'VE could sit in our room
with affidavits piled up all around us,
and would not be required to look ut
any of them, nor are we required to
listen TO any one, but in this ease we
will hear all both sides have to say and
then decide upon what action we will
take"
The functions of the board being TO
approve or disapprove of the COVER
nor's action in criminal cases, il is
beers can proceed intelligently in any
east unless they listen to the argu-
ments of the counsel as well as the
argument of the executive. According
TO the theory of the board as it exists
to-day, the board sits in judgment upon
the governor, not upon the criminal.
The governor gives his reasons, and
the board simply decides as to whether
those reasons are good or bad, sufficient
or insufficient.
In another sense, however, the board
of pardons is really a court of last re-
sort, and the determination of the
board to listen to all the arguments in
the Jackson case shows that 1t realizes
that il is such a court and in any i'm
portant case is willing to act i'm that
capacity, rather than as a mere critic
of the governor. This is a broad and
sensible course, a course which should
be expected from so important a depart
ment of the state judiciary.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
COMING TO THE FRONT.

The career of Mrs. Julia &. Lippin-
colt, the Atlantic City forger, proves
that after all women can make fully
as brilliant and accomplished criminals
as the most piOus of Sunday school
superintendent or the most honored
and esteemed of bank cashiers and state
~treasurers. Agreeable and even fas-
cinating in appearance, refined in nan
ner, respected on all sides, Mrs. Lippin-
colt was still an inveterate gambler In
stocks, and having dissipated her hus-
bands mean in speculation, she
fleeced her sister out of 10000, forged
notes and mortgages right and left,
fled from home, started for Canada ac-
cording to the most approved custom,
and was finally arrested and imprisoned
with seventeen indictments hanging
over her charming head.
Let no n fancy that woman is in
capable of assuming all the rights and
privileges of the sterner sex Mrs. Lip
pincott was not aware of il. but she
has been making a pretty strong argu-
ment for woman suffrage. With such
women i'm practical politics, Messrs.
Quay and Dudley would have to keep a
mighty sharp eye on their laurels.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

So far this year the output of snake
stories has not been up to the average
either in quantity or quality. The
tariff agitation may or may not have
anything tn do with il, but the fact is
apparent that manufacturers i'm this
particular branch of industry are grad
ually shutting down their works and
making other investments. One of
these ex-snake monopolists has evil
IDENTIFY taken up his residence in Ne
vada and embarked in a general retail
business. lie has put upon the market
an article which is all wool and'a yard
wide, warranted not to fade, shrink or
tear. For a distance of several miles
new telegraph poles We're erected in
Nevada last autumn, and on account
of the unusual prevalence of water
during the spring, these poles, as the
story runs, have taken root and are
covered with foliage. While it will
not do to cast the slightest reflections
upon this story, it may be safe to con-
lecture that the telegraph poles are
hardly so green as the people for whom
the story was intended.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
nArurLons
MEN N WOMEN.

Queen Natalie OF Servia has had her
life insured for saOo.Ooo for the benefit of
her son.
Professor Henry w. Farnam, of Yale.
made his wedding day, last week. memoir
able by generous gifts to the poor of New
Haven.
Mr.. Gladstone, despite his vast wealth,
is almost penurious in personal matters.
He wears his clothes until they are thread
bare, shiny and shabby.
Count Charles Dillon, who died i'm Paris
recently, was IN OF the four survivors of
the Court of Charles Y. 20 whom he was
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

The Key West and other domestic
manufacturers of cigars from Havana
tobacco are very much awake to the
ruin of their business which would be
wrought by the Mckinley tariff. The
duty on their imported material it is
proposed to increase from 30 cents to ~
per pound, which will amount to an in.
crease of $1,000 on the quantity re-
quired for making 1900 cigars, or four
cents on each cigar. Meantime the
customs duty on the imported cigars is
to be increased only $50 per 1000 or
three cents each. The increase of duty
will be therefore one-third more on the
domestic manufacture than on the i'm
ported. This is Mckinley's way of
protecting home industries.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
A Kings Share.

From an Exchange.
"a Kings SHARE" says a London paper,
is to he sold by auction at the Mart this
afternoon. II is an unusual thing to come
to the hammer. but what is meant will be
easily guessed by spectators in water
works. King James LIS moiety in the
New river enterprise is a matter of local
London history. II has long ago passed
M Of royal hands, INT so has the $500 q
year for which il was bartered by Charles
/. on N of the many occasions when he
was in need of ready money. But the
moiety of thirty-six shares is still called
the Kings, just as that annual payment of
$500 retains its expressive name of ''the
Kings Clogg.' In modern times royalty
would not he so ready to part with a
Kings share, for 'on entire and undi-
vided share in the Kings moiety of the
estates and interests i'm the New river'' is
rightly described as n "valuable freehold
estate.' Messrs. Edwin Fox and Bous-
field point M that the income i'm respect
Of this share for the half year to Christ
mas last was AT the rate of f2.6l2 per an
mum, and such felicitous pictures of fur
ture prospects as only auctioneers can
draw are sketched in the advertisements
for the benefit of probable investors.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

and kept up uninterruptedly for the
next twenty-five years. In reply to the
arguments Of the opposition It will be
easy for the lottery stumpers to enact
the role of friends to the poor and un-
fortunate. When the vote on the bill
was being taken i'm the senate, explain
ing his vote, Mr.. Foster said: "For
my country and her honor, for my state
and her fair name, for her dead and her
living, l vote no." Mr.. Posey, there
upon, said i'm explanation: "For my
country and her poor, for her helpless
insane, for her onward march and
future ! vote yes" Clap trap like this
will be sprung in the most ingenious
forms, and 1t will be sur to catch the
crowd. On the one hand there is a
bride, a definite promise of a large sum
of money: on the other there Is an alb
stract proposition of morals. With the
~illiterate and u~nprincipled there is no
doubt of the issue.
If the masses of Louisiana were
keen enough, they would see that this
million dollars or so per annum instead
of being an appropriation for public
works will be largely and inevitably a
Doodle fund. The money, coming from
such a source and being simply pay
ment of a bride. will be regarded as
legitimate plumber by politicians who
might possibly hesitate to steal treasury
deposits raised by direct taxation.
Boodleism will be rampant in Louisiana
for the next score of years, and If the
state gets half the price fixed for its
dishonor il will be fortunate. This
condition of things will be demoralizing
TO the politicians but not necessarily so
to the state itself. The prediction may
he ventured that at the expiration of its
new charter, the Louisiana Lottery
company will neyer get another, at least
from Louisiana.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
LIE LOTTERY ElGhI-

The Louisiana lottery fight is prac.
tically ended and the lottery is victor.
ious. The bill is now in the hands of
the governor, having been passed by a
two-thirds vote, which assures its tri.
umph over a veto. II has been a long.
hard, desperate fight, the advocates of
the infamous measure having to con.
tend against the best public sentiment
of the state of Louisiana, backed by
the best public sentiment of the whole
country. This is not the first time, nor
will IL be the last. when public senti-
ment has been brutally trampled upon
by an American legislative body. Yet
there is no occasion for pessimism.
Public sentiment is growing stronger
year by year, and the task of defeating
IL is growing harder, more desperate and
more doubtful.
The friends of the constitutional lot.
terry amendment say they have not a
particle of fear lest it may not carry at
the polls. They reckon largely upon
the desperate need of funds for build
ing high levees to protect the crops from
oyerflows in the Mississippi river dis
tricts. A tempting bait is held before
the eyes of the people in the form of
millions of money for public purposes.
In other words the lottery iiends are
endeavoring TO bride the people openly
and, as it were, fairly and squarely, just
"a they have undoubtedly bribed mem
beers Of the legislature in secret and in
confidence. That they will accomplish
their purpose there is perhaps no room
for doubt. IL will be easy To APP
peal TO the cupidity of the lower class
es, TO befool them into the belief
that their taxes will be diminished
while at the same time public improve
ments on a large scale will be begun
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
Venezuela as nm illustration.

From the Boston Advertiser.
BY the way of illustration between the
American and the European plan, the
New York Tribune points out that of all
countries in South America, in Venezuela
alone is the bulk of the import and export
trade in the possession of the United
States. This is explained by the fact that
this is the only South American country
which is connected with our country by
an American line of steamships. This is
supported by private enterprise alone
against a foreign subsidized line, which is
endeavoring to supplant il in the carrying
trade. England sees the commercial ad-
vantage To be derived from extending aid
to steamship lines; this country does not.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

The announcement that the English
scientific world has been successfully
duped by a trick is not necessarily a
blow to science, but it demonstrates
that the trained scientific mind is not
above the foible of being prone to be-
lieve in anything that il wishes to be.
lieve in. The scientists were invited
TO witness the operation of an electro
phonoscope,'a machine by which the
inventors said the sender of a message
from a distant station. could, with the
assistance of the telephone, not only
speak with the receiver at the other
end of the line, but appear in reflection
before him. The show took place and
the scientists pronounced the machine
the most marvellous invention of the
age. The reflection was produced not
through a wire but by means of a cum
ningly arranged series of mirrors. Per-
haps the learned professors might not
have been so ready to swallow il all,
had not the inventors" been two Eel.
lows of the Royal Society, who after
wards explained their practical joke.
One thing is certain, those two fellows
will again be popular with the
other fellows.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

The annual inventory of the United
States treasury vaults is being taken.
Some idea of the magnitude of the task
may be CLEANED from the announce
ment that there is now piled up within
the marble walls of the mint a little
more than 100000 standard dollars,
not to speak of from 100000 to TO-
100000 I'm gold and bullion. After an
other year or two of Harrison, how
ever, the task will be literally next to
nothing.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

Forthe third time Murderer kemmler
has been sentenced TO be shocked by
electricity until he is dead, dead, dead,
and may the Lord have mercy on the
souls of the rascals who are response
BILE for the repeated postponements.
The last technicality has been exhaust
ed, and If Kemmler doesn't die some
time during the week beginning Au-
gust 4 it will be because lightning will
strike him i'm some other fatal form be-
fore then.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
An Ilnpromptu Comedy.

From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
To one familiar with the hustling meth
DDS of the West that cat fight between
Minneapolis and st. Paul looks suspic-
iously like a clever dodge 10 obtain free
advertising for the twin cities. 1t is of a
piece with the rows actresses and their
managers are continually indulging i'm.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

sius' remarks on the subject directly
after the killing Of Cesar were to the
point:
How many ages hence
Shall this our LOFTY scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
If Forepaugh or Barnum had been
around at that time the assassination
of Cesar would have been ON the road
the very next season.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

Necessity being the mother of invention.
n Baltimore woman having nothing else
on hand with which to commit suicide
dissolved the heads of lucifer matches in
milk and drank the solution. IL she
wanted a taste of the hereafter she got il.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
wyoming's Unique Civic Feature.

From the Boston Advertiser.
Friends and foe of the "woman's
rights" cause will alike and for like rea-
sons acknowledge the weighty import of
the admission to the Union of a territory
In which womanhood suffrage is fully
established and whose people nave de-
cided that the equal political rights of the
sexes shall be recognized in the new
states fundamental law.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
Keep sober These Hot Days.

From the Kansas City Times.
Heat p~rostration' is e%uphemism which
coroner use three tunes out of Ave when
alcoholism would more accurately define
the cause Of death. The too i~ndulgent
liquor drinking man is i'm the blistering
summer days a shining mark for the great
archer.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
Literary Styie I'm FRESNO.

From the Fresno Republican.
Correspondents are requested not to
write on colored paper, such as the backs
of dodgers, or brown wrapping paper
with gobs of batter and shreds of beef
steak on the reverse side. The printers
can't read il and the editor won't.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

Young men with best girls will do well
to treasure in their memories the story of
the seriou results to 20 persons in New
York from eating poisonous Ice cream in
an ice cream saloon. The narration of
the unfortunate affair at the proper time
may avert many a crisis,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08

A rose by any other name might be
as sweet to the olfactive nerves. but
free trade is only agreeable to a Blaine
republican when disguised as "recip-
rOcity."
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
Two Things That Go together.

From the Buffalo Express.
This is the time of year when rails ex-
pand, throwing cars from the track. II is
also the time of year when the track
walker does not like to walk.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
shakespeare Amended.

From the Baltimore American.
Some people are born rich; some have
riches thrust upon them, and some be-
come godchildren of a New York mayor.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
Handicapped Candidates.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Superstitious democrats may be in
iiuenced in rheir presidential preferences
by the following deadly parallel, which
shows that the republicans have never
been able to whip unmarried democrats
who led a national ticket, but have had
plain sailing when the conditions have
beer completed by wives:
BACHELORS H~ENEDICrs
Iall elected. tall d.featedl.
James Buchanan, Horaiio Seymour,
samuel j. Tildcn, Horace Greeley.
Grover Cleveland. Winfield \. Hancock,
Grover Cleveland.
This would seem to show that demo-
cratic candidates are heavily handicapped
when married. but few people will believe
that the display is more than q peculiar
coincidence and will not he affected by il.
Something more than wives will cause
the choice OF h next candidate.