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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23
The Proper HIATT for Suckers.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Burmah ruby mines nave proved
less rich than the sanguine pro noters of
the company predicted, and il is probable
that this corporation will be added to the
long list of companies which is due to the
eager desire OF the English to get better
returns for their money than the low
bank interest of 3 OF 3 per rel n year.
When you hold out the inducement of 10
or 20 per cen n year to a man who has
always been accustomed to only 3 per
cent. interest, you are pretty certain to
capture him. This is the secret of the
many foolish investments of English zap
ital i'm wildcat mining schemes i'm this
country and Australia.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

while there Ia n universal and domi-
rnant rythm, each individual has his
own particular. separate rythm to OPP
crate. And these individual rythms
are supposed to obey the superior or
boss rythm. II they kick, the grand
old he rythm gets up and fires them
from the orchestra forever.
IL Ia to be hoped that Mrs. Poole will
perfect her discoveries and get the one
universal rythm down finer. After all,
II may not be so complex as she fears.
II the world could but catch onto 1t,
the music of the spheres might be found
to be 20 simple that all could join in
the chorus without 10 much introspec-
ton, solitary self communion, indiges-
ton, ~intoxication, abomination and all
that, as Mrs. Poole would lead folks to
believe. Nor is II probable, that the
spheres have been pounding away on
one tune since the beginning of time.
Such an hypothesis is absurd. The
spheres would get SO tired of one piece,
however beautiful, that within a few
ages they would throw up their po-
sitiOns, resign, burst the combination
and the universe would relapse into
chaos and everlasting smash. The
most reasonable supposition is that the
spheres keep abreast with the times,
picking up one tune after another as
fast as they are put in circulation. Just
at present they must be having a sea-
son of "Annie Rooney" and are no
doubt a~nxiously awaiting the produc-
ton of some new symphony so that
they may announce an entire change
of programme.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

From the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
The Italians have taken measures to
present and set up i'm the harbor of New
York a monument of Columbus which is
100 feet high, with a colossal statue of
the great navigator surmounting il. This
will be unveiled on the occasion of the
grand naval parade incident to the Col
umbian exposition, which parade will be
supplied to New York by the federal gov
eminent. II would be nice IL about the
same time those ex-confederates would
have their Grant monument ready for UNI
yelling i'm New York.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23
WEDNESDAY. JULY q. 1880.

The press of Paris is debating the
question whether King Milan of Ser
via is a crank or a lunatic. The line OF
demarkation between these two classes
of people is not very well defined, and
If the Partisan journals a settle the
vexed question of boundaries they will
perform q real service to the world AT
large and the United States in particu-
lar. The people would then be able 10
determine more definitely what action
they should take in regard to the repub-
lican members of congress.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

The cable a|nnouncest that Nat Goodwin
scored a signal triumph in London, Mon
day night, being "recalled several times
and making a felicitous speech" Mr..
Goodwin seems to have recovered from
the effects of his experiences in Mon
tana. and IL is not likely that he marred
the felicity Of his speech by reciting the
narrowing details of that awful railroad
wreck.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23
ELECTRICITY ON THE RANCH.


Edison is not the only man engaged
in discovering the possibilities of cleo
tricity. In Practical Electricity is de-
scribed a series of experiments In ap-
plying electricity TO agriculture with
fIattering results. Plates of copper and
zinc about two feet by two feet six
inches were buried at the ends of the
plots and connected by their upper
faces, the effect being to establish a
current through the earth. The result
was manifested by a larger crop and by
the growth of vegetables of enormous
dimensions. In another series cleo
trical collectors were mounted on in
sulated rods and connected by wires,
the effect being to generate a highly
electrified atmosphere. This form of
electrocultnre increased the yield of
seed an average of one-half, and that
of straw one-third, while the ripening
was more rapid.
The time seems to be coming when
crops will not only be grown by cleo
tricity, but sowed and harvested by the
same means, the farmer sitting on his
porch and pushing the necessary but.
ton while he reads his morning paper
at his ease. II electricity can also be
made to alleviate a portion of the toll
upon the farmers wife, and
do the morning and evening chores of
the hired man, there are millions who
will call il blessed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23
The Spokane Fails Tragedy.

From the Spokane Falls Review.
II has long been urged in support of
pugilism that IL tended toward the settle
men Of disputes in the ring, and therefore
would lessen the number Of murders.
But Saturdays tragedy in this city is
against that claim. The public would
nave more faith in that theory IL prize
fighters were less addicted to the carrying
OF concealed weapons.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

The people OF st. Paul keep on arrest
ing the people of Minneapolis, and the
people Of Minneapolis are at last begin
ming to retaliate. This is one way to re-
duce a city's population, but unless the
prisoners are sent up for more than ten
years apiece ii is difficult TO see what
%perceptible effect the arrests will have on
the next census.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

There is altogether too much kicking
and Ginning gong on between the com
batants in the Guatemala-San Salvador
war, and not enough actual business.
They should play ball or be ordered of
the grounds.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

The members Of the Salt Lake base ball
club complain that they weren't given a
lair show in Helena. Good Lord, what
did they expect?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

Rumors hat Blaine is thinking OF re-
signing his job in Washington continue
TO be rife. With his views OF the admin
istration II is difficult To see how he can
do anything else and retain his self-re'
spect.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

where are YOU going my pretty maid?"
Back Ia my law business. sit" she said.
why don't You stay In the housee' he cried
"Just wait till they ask me, sir. T" she sighed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

The prisoners who are complaining OF
the fare at the Silver Bow county jail
probably wouldn't be satisfied with any
fare short Of railroad fare To Canada.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23
Is Joe Muihaston ON the Pacific slope.

In Joe Mu1hatton on the Pacific Slope.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The palm for snake stories must be
awarded to the delirious genius who con-
cocted the tale teleRraphed from Everton,
CAL, about q fiddler, who, besieged in a
canyon by rattlers, charmed his ophidian
assailants into docility by ravishing solos
and then remorselessly slew them with
his Stradivarius.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23

~. Ne omo u. ~. y.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The republican party has dealt with the
G. A.. II. precisely OF the buy and sell
plan. The votes Of It's members were
bought by pension Legislation and by PEN
sion legislation only "a they be kept
from going where they unfettered would
go, for tariff reform, restriction and re-
duction.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-23
CURRENT COMMENT.
The River In Danger.

The River In Danger.
From the Chicago Times.
II IL claimed by q San Francisco chem
list that he has solved the problem Of prac-
tical, inexpensive production Of steam by
diasolvinR water into It's elements and
burning the resultant gases under q
boiler. The first we know he will be set
ting q river aflre.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
An Odd Signalman.

The baboon which figures in the IL
lustration is well-known character in
the Cape Colony, but more particularly
in the neighborhood of Port Elizabeth,
South Africa. The history attaching to
him is curious and probably unique
one. The signalman, his owner, was,
through no fault of his own, run over by
a passing train, and had to have both
legs amputated, which would naturally
incapacitate him from work, but the
idea struck him to secure baboon and
train him to do his work. This he has
successfully accomplished, and for many
years the one in question has regularly
looked after the levers, and done the
hard work of his afflicted master. The
animal is possessed of extraordinary in
t..,igence, and has never made mistake.
OF course, the human servant works the
telegraphs, and the baboon the levers,
according to Instructions; and, taking
into consideration the fact that at the
station in question, Uitenhage Junction,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
eARRorTE AS USED IN SPAIN.


the warriors singing as they 60. Nearer
and nearer they come until they arc al
most within arms length Of the victim
Then they raise their clubs, and, no
longer trottiug but running at full speed,
strike him as they run, each blow being
accompanied by a savage shout; it needs
but few minutes to beat the wretch to
the ground; but they do not leave him
until the life has departed and the body
is a mere shapeless mass.
Ia Spain and its colonies the garrotte
is the instrument of capital punishment.
The condemned man sits on seat re-
sembling a cobbler's stool, with his back
against an upright post. His feet are
strapped to the legs of the stool. The
upright is pierced by two holes, at a
point Just above the mans shoulder, In
each of which a steel bar is inserted.
These, with cross piece in front, form
the collar. In the upright, back of the
neck, Is bar OF metal, which is operated
by screws and worked by lever. The
head of the condemned man is enveloped
in a cloth. his arms are tightly strapped,
and at a signal the lever is turned and the
bar is driven home through the nervous
tibres and g.nglia connected with the
spinal cord. The neck is broken, and,
with few revolutions Of the lever, the
man is dead.
The following table shows the standing
of the different countries of the globe to-
day on the capital punishment question::
Australia The gallows
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

A MAN OF high position who has been
entertained at many foreign courts,
when asked what social characteristic
kings and queens held in common, an
swercd emphatically, Courtesy. Let
me give you one instance. The late
King of Spain gave my party superb
reception. We had with us an obscure
young journalist who, after being pre-
sented, modestly retired to a corner Cd
the room. Approaching this young
man the King said to him, I learn that
you are q literary gentlemau?' "A
humble one, your Majesty replied the
correspondent. Il can sympathize with
YOU answered the King, pleasantly,
I, too, aspire to be literary man. I
am now reading your "Hamet," in your
own language The journalist longed
to express his thanks for the delicate
compliment, but remembered just in
time that etiquette requires royalty to
begin and also end conversation"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
Testing COcOanuts.

Far down on the East River front you
may see cocoanuts unloaded from the
hold of small iron steamers plying be-
tween this port and the tropics. They
are brought up from the hold in stout
baskets and transferred to large coarse
bags. The cocoanut handler takes nut
in each hand, cracks the two together,
counts them, and drops them into the
bag. When half dozen men are hand
ling the nuts in this fashion, the crack
ING process sounds like the click OF very
large poker chips. The cracking is done
to test the shells, and if one is found un-
sound it is cast aside. The slightest
touch reveals defect. When one OF a
pair is found defective the sound one is
retained and touched very quickly to the
nut that is substituted for the one thrown
away. The defective ones are gathered
up to be sold to small retailers for imme-
diate consumption. There are usually
three or four men on the pier munchlng
the meat of such cocoanuts as are too
badly damaged to be sold.-NeU York
Sun.
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airand the next instant head falls for
ward and stream of blood spouts up
ward, until the body drops into the hole
and out of sight. Such is the dcxtcrity
of me Chinese swordsmen that they
rarely need more than one stroke in de-
captation. One after another OF the
shivcring wretches is dealt with in the
same way, and not till the arm of the
headsman tires does he give place to an
assistant, who steps forward and finishes
the work. Throughout the whole scene
the gong booms mournfully.
The ching chee, or death by the sword,
is not granted to women in China. They
are either strangled or hacked to pieces.
The latter is the punishment inflicted for
exceedingly severe cases, such as the muir
der of a husband, Il father, mother or
other near relative. The victim, after
being fastened to stake, is literally
carved to pieces, her flesh being cut off
in small fragments and the vital parts
avoided SO as to prolonS her suffering.
Dismcmbcrment and finally decapitation
end her agonirs.
There are two other modes of capital
punishment in China, but they are re-
served for statesmen of high rank and
Princes of the royal blood. When the
reigring Emperor conceives that it vii!
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and about twenty miles from Port Eliza
beth, there is large volume Of traffic,
the sagacity of the creature is really won
derful. At first passengers raised a
strong protest against the employment
of the animal, on the score of risk of
accident, but the baboon has never yet
failed during his many years of work,
and on more than one occasion has acted
in manner simply astounding to those
who never had personal experience of
the intelligence of these brutes. One OF
his most noteworthy performances was
the correct switching of an unannounced
special train on its correct line in the
absence Of the signalman. The latter
lives about a mile up the line, and the
baboon pushes him out and home, morn
ing and night, and is the sole companion
of his legless master. Our picture IS
from photograph by G. W. Smart of
Port Elizabeth, and although depicting
the baboon in a somewhat theatrical atti-
tude, is from life, and gives capital
likeness of both man and monkey.-U-
Illustrated Dramatic Ne,os.
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be to his interest to remove certain
Princes he sends them present OF a
silken cord, which is polite invitation
to self destruction. The invitation IS
rarely disobeyed. The unlucky victim OF
royal disfavor goes to his chamber, and,
ad usting the cord, two of his attendants
pull it until death ensues.
While executions in Turkey are com
monty conducted by the sword-except
in military circles, where the gun is
used, as in England and this country
the bowstringis not neglected. This is
an institution peculiarly Turkish, and
although often talked and written about,
comparatively few outside the Moslem
dominions know anything at all about
it. The executioners with the bowstrlng
are generally mutes. They work in pairs
and are very expert.
Many of them are dwarfs, ugly, mis-
shapen people, creatures who seem to
have been formed by nature expressly 1or
their hideous work. The condemned
man or woman sits on divan, while the
two mutes approach behind, bearing with
| them a stout bow. One of them bends
the bow almost double with his strong
sinewy arms, while the other with dex-
ferrous motion of the wrist, casts the loop
of the bowstring around the victims neck,
which has been considerably barred tol
the occasion. It settles across the larnyx,
the bow is released, and the mutes each
grasp hand of the victim now strug-
Cling in the throes of strangulatlon.
| Motion ceases in few seconds, and
moment or two later the spasmodic action
OF the muscles tells that the life ha:
gone out.
The bowstring finds a fitting com
panion, as far as refined Oriental cruelty
is concerned, in death by strangulatior
and the sack, which is yet practiced II
some parts of Turkey, Persia and Syria
and which was a common method o.
punishment in ancient Greece and Rome
The victim, half or wholly deal is sewed
up in sack, weighted and cast into til
river.
A Siamese way of disposing of surplu!
criminals is to crush them under the fee
of elephants. Sometimes as many as
dozen malefactors have been thus deal
with in a single day at Bangkok, the capi
tai city; but missionary influences have
somewhat mitigated the frequency o
these horrible scenes, although the "ele
phant death" is still employed and counts
probably as many victims asthe sword.
Among some of the more savage ma
tions frightful barbarities are devised TO
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

DEATH BY S1LkEN CORD IN CdlNh'
There are nine crimes on the Chinese
calendar calling for capital punishment,
and as consequence, executions are far
from being infrequent. On the fatal
day the condemned are feasted at the ex-
rense of the Governor of the district and
given an abundant supply of wine. The
revel generally lasts several hours. The
Chinese have no fear of death. Drunk
or sober, they are, like the fatalist Turk,
ever ready to meet their fate. When the
summons comes from the cxecutioner,
they march with him in half drunken
stupor. At the door of their cells they
are disrobed and their hands and feet are
bound with ropes, while they are gagged
and lifted into bamboo baskets and
trundled off like so much merchandise to
the scene of execution.
The townspeople form semi-circle at
a proper distance from the criminals, tie
soldiers stand on guard, and the heads
men, with their long, double edged weap.
ons drawn, stand by for the signal. 1t
is given, and the chief swordsman begins
the butchery. Both his hands grasp the
big sword, there is q flash through the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
A Steel Tape Fire Escape.

T. J. Athey, of Marion, Ark, has
patented fire escape valuable as an es-
cape from tall buildings. 1t is an alum
mum steel tape, one end of which is at
tached to the building, and the rest
wound around small reel with brake
attachment, which the person using it
can manipulate so as to descend at light
ming speed or stop at will. Mr.. Athey
tested it at Niagara Falls, and had HIM
self photographed while hanging from the
upper suspension bridge, with 100 feet
of tape let out. The tape had sustain
ing power of 700 pounds.-Mt,0 York
Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

THE ElsES ihlStb b>!ht -
The :sdcath chair" is constructed on
the model of an invalid's reclining chair:
The gulllotine, with its two uprght
posts, its coupcret, or ak, depending from
a cross beam, and its lunettc for steady
ing the head of the victim till the ak IS
released by rachel spring, is, next to
the electric chair, the most expedlous OF
modern instruments, the swiftly descend
ing steel sevcring the head instantly
During the Reign of Terror, when
Marat, Danton, Robespierre, and Foul
ouier- Thicnvillc were filing Paris with
blood, one guillotine has been known to
destroy sixty-two victims in forty.hve
minutes. 1t is known under various
names. Among the Germans it is the
sPau6e;' in Scotland, where it was
used to decapitate the nobility before
and during the Jacobitc war, 1t was
called The Maiden" for its cold kiss
WAS fatal.
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KILLING MEN.
HOW SEVERAL COUNTRIES GET
RID OF THEIR CRIMINALS.
The Recent Adoption of the Electri-
cal Death Chair in New York
Suggests Modes OF Exccu-
tion Everywhere.

With the sentence of Joseph Kemmler,
the convicted murderer, at Auburn
Prison, new era in capital punishment
begins. 1t has been reserved for the hu.
manitarians OF America to lead the way
in the abolition of the old and barbarous
method of taking lives that have been
forfeited to the law, and to substantiate
for strangulation by the rope the speedy,
painless death by the electrical chair, in
which the condemned may pass away
without affording spectacle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

A BIDDEFoRD, Me-, man who hustled
about and gathered together o large
crowd of fellow citizens and lantern
to assist in searching the gutter for
IS gold piece, which he was under the
impression he had lost, was much
ehagrined when the coin was found 10
be 9 bright new copper and the gold
piece was found safely stored away in
his pocket.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
TIE grounds on which the White

The grounds on which the White
House now stands were once the ORCH
ard of David Burns, an old Scotch far
mer, whose cabin still stands in lonely
obscurity few squares back from the
executive mansion. 1t is said that
Washington, when engaged in laying
out the city, had many long and bitter
ouarrels with Burns before he could
persuade the old man to sell his land,
even though it would be used in future
for the home of the Presidents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
Begging Money to Get Married With.

Even among the aristocracy OF Ecuador
it is not uncommon for young people to
90 about among their friends soliciting
money to pay the marriage fee. You can
seldom go through the streets and maj, mar
kets without meeting man with a little
basket, who importunes you: "For the
love of the Virgin, most illustrious senior,
give me a medic toward the payment OF
nv marriage fee."- Washington Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

the punishment of condemned criminals.
The Bangwolo, on the Aruwimi River, in
Africa, have a peculiarly cruel mode OF
Kidding themselves of such people. The
culprit is taken from the rude native
prison, and his head is covered with a
basket which is fastened around his neck,
but not so as to impede breathing. He is
conducted to a grove where the execu'
tiorcrs have already been at work. The
limb of young tree has been bent low
to the ground, and is held there either
by the united efforts of a number of men
or by ropes tied to larger trees. A rope
is fastened to the basket about the prison
er's head and also to the end OF the
bended limb. He is then ordered to
stand with body erect and neck slightly
bent. In this attitude the blow is given
with sword in the hands of the native
headsman, and at the same instant the
ropes that confne the limb of the tree are
severed and it springs back to its original
position, bearing on its point the basket
containing the dripping head. Hun.
dreds of trees are adorned with this
hideous human fruit along the Aruwimi.
Among the Hottentots to-day the con.
demned is taken outside the kraal or vii
lage and surrounded by a circle of war
riors. All save the victim are armed
with clubs. The circle begins to wheel,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

SO M.NY poets send their verses to
Oliver Wendell Holmes that he has
come to the conclusion that everybody
iathe United States writes poetry.