The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-05

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which. IL crafty, was mono the less ST.
lent, discreet, highly polished, In fact
the possessor of many shining qualities.
The pistol was tolerated n romance be-
cause as a rule IL did not accomplish its
work instantaneOusly. IL permitted its
victim to make a lew final remarks, an
indispensable feature to every well-re-
gulated tragedy. A novelist or play
wright must of necessity be able to put
two or three terse farewell
sentences into the mouth of a
character who has received q mortal
wound, he he hero or villain. IL this
he rendered impossible the corner stone
Of dramatic composition Is taken away
and destroyed. Weak and feeble would
be n play without this important, nay
vital, characteristic. The dying speech
cannot be Ommitted. Very often it Is
the very pith of the whole. CAESAR
must be permitted to work off his AFT
tn, Brute!" Romeo after taking the
poison must be granted an opportunity
for a little further moralizing. Juliet
after inserting the dagger into her in
wards still has ability to apostrOphize
the weapon, urging it there rust, and
let me die" In the wholesale tax
ing off in the last act of "Hamlet," the
queen, the king, Laertes and finally
Hamlet himself each in urn is justly
accorded the right to deliver a short
address appropriate to the occasion, be-
fore propelling the bucket i'm he usual
name with a vigorous movement of
the foot. Antony after falling upon
his sword i'm such a manner that the
point is seen protruding beyond the
small of his back, is yet supplied with
Gpantaiant anarOv I'm enact a yv1,nIa
scene: and Cleopatra during and after
the application of the asp is n most
voluble creature, her conversational
powers being rather augmented by
the proceeding. And thus n
might go through the entire list of
historical persOnages who came to their
end by other than natural
This blessed privilege of speech-mak-
ing is to be utterly and hopelessly de-
strOyed by the substitution of dynamite
for the good old weapons of our fore
fathers. 1t is a utilitarian age to be
sure, and it must be conceded that dy-
Mantle possesses many points of super
iority over ancient and medieval
methods of doing people up. Its un-
dertakings are on a far larger scale,
and it accomplishes its work in a most
thorough. painstaking II exhaustive
manner Its effectiveness is incOmpar-
able. But when dynamite eXplOdes,
poetry. as well as everything else i'm the
immediate vicinity. is absolutely dead.
IL is the fashion to- heride Nevada as a
poor, lazy shiftless state. but i'm one re
spect she possesses marked superiority
over all of her sisters. The supreme court
has not n ease before II and sees no immc-
diate prospects of any. The prevailing
dullncss i'm legal circles will scarcely drive
A. Il
paid by the year.
Marriage can scarcely be called IA failure
in Canada. Some time ago the parlia-
ment of Quebec offered 100 acres of land
To each set of parents possessing n total
of II children. The responses have exc
ceedcd all expectations, and ~curiously
enough nearly all of the qualified appli-
Giants for the land are of French origin.
One town alone produced two families
each with II living children. NJ. Cretien
of Lislet came forward with credentials
for %, and a man and wife named Guigras
saw him and raised the limit to "a. But a
father named V~illancourt broke all rec
ords with the enormous aggregate of 81,
the youngest an infant who had just been
baptized. NJ. Villancourt deserves n least
~ acres.
a rather curious legal decision has been
rcndscd i'm Algiers. The court theater
shut down OH account of the grip, and tho
actors sued for their wages. The court
held that il was the desire of God that the
thcater should be closed. wherefore the
plaintiffs have no redress.