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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

Tho London ruphi In about to begin
the publication OF a daily illustrated jour
nal. This will be- the first of its kind in
England, as the English dailies never con-
tain illustrations.
Rev. Robert Collyer, who began life asa
blacksmith, and il now one of the popular
living preachers, has just entered his 9th
year. 81 have never been sick SO much
as one day i'm my life," he says.
Robert Browning is likely to be the last
of the English men OF letters tsave Ten
uysonl who will ind a grave i'm Westmin-
ster Abbey. The intersnent OF any more
bodies there is opposed ON sanitary
grounds.
Senator ingalls, is as fond OF lit%crature
as he IL OF politics, and is said to double
his congressional salary by his magazine
and newspaper articles. His pen is very
prolific, and everything he writes Is easily
marketable.
The late Henry Grady was n rapid news
paper writer. Al the time OF the Charles
ton earthquake he did not reach the
striken city until 10 O'Clock Mt night, but
lbs 2 O'Clock next morning he had a report
eight columns long Oh file i'm the telegraph
office for transmission to the leading
northern and southern newspapers.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04

for h insult visited on the west side
by the republicans who pinned a politi-
cal imbecile to b coat tails of Colonel
Sanders. One report charges In blame
on Missoula and hints ut hazy personal
grievances over i'm that section. An
other story abOunds i'm uncOmplimen-
tary mention of two or three republic
cans from Silver Bow, who simply
wouldn't do what Mr.. Mantle and his
friends wanted Of them. 1t is said
that there is a rod in pickle
for them. Other accounts agree in
loading the whole burden of defeat on
the Rev. Mr.. Richards, who, when he
was u Methodist minister, believed i'm
the rotation which the itinerating plan
Of that church provides. hut whose
watchword i'm politics evidently is that
newer classic: "Ah, there, Rick
ards, stay there!' The wonder is
that any man seeking to be senator
should fancy for a moment that MIR.
richards could be allured from his pO-
litical perch by any considerations in
volving self denial on his part. The
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS did not make seven
u majority Of sixteen in order to get
out of any ambitious rivals pathway.
In this business final causes will
v come out. The political wills
perers know them, Col. Sanders could
arise in the night and serve them OH
tap, but the outside world will never
grasp the situation i'm all its signiii-
canoe. The vital fact is that. once
again, insult has been heaped on the
people OF the west side, and when we
remember that men representing our
half of the territory were deliberately
out in order to make room for
"a man fresh from defeat at the hands
of his wi political party, we may
agree in exclaiming, "this, indeed, is
rubbing il in"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
HOLES IN The GROUND.

In London, as u sort of inverse rival
to the Eiffel tower, u proposition is
being seriously considered to dig the
deepest hole in the world. Scientists
are encouraging the project, believing
that the hole will afford IL most fascin-
ating field for geologic and chemical
investigation. Not the least interest
ing question to which the savants wish
to find IN answer is how deep il is DOS
sible to go with the hole. how near the
center of this terrestrial globe man
may approach. The Jules Verne school
of writer's has specialized on this sub
ject with great freedom and ingenuity,
and the public would really like to
know how far their fancies have run
parallel with truth. Indeed, We ven
ture to say that there are few mysteries
which have such "a tenacious grip upon
the mind of the populace rs a hole in
the ground. Take it all in all, the
number of people who are really inter
ested in the African explorations of
Livingston and Stanley are very linn
tied. Aside from the possibility of
their discoveries having II commercial
value. the general public cares naught
for the adventurers or their wander
ings. What does it profit "a man other
than anthropologists and Christian
missionaries to know whether the dwell
lers upon the Foobloo Baba are still i'm
the primitive condition of Adam as
respects their wardrobe. or are SO far
advanced in progress as to wear plug
hats and nose ringsp Or of what ben
eft is the information to any one other
than the publishers OF Biographies that
the river Mwpwygo is not. ms WAS sup
posed. n outlet Of lake Rmbx.st, but
is formed by independent streams aris-
ing in the mountains of Pdqp What
good does it do US. pray tell, to know
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
A WORD IN REPLY.

Tho Butte Inter Mountain wants the
STANDARD to explain how 1t happens
that a quorum of democrats Is not
gathered to ratify the nomination of
two democratic senators. A frank
reply doe not put this newspaper to its
wits end.
The formal and final action Of demo-
srats ut Helena is confessedly delayed.
One reason for il is that men OF COM
manding influence in democratic poll
tics are not heartily agreed in support
of the ticket that was named in the
eaucus of the party, a confession which
the STANDARD makes without reserva-
ton and without the slightest thought
that the telling of the plain truth
wounds it's pride or puts its political
convictions to the blush. Another
reason il that leading republicans OF
Montana declare that the Sanders
Power ticket must not stand They
have implored the democrats tn pause.
30 abhorrent is the situation, n a h
Inter Mountain need not wonder, IL, i'm
the end, a compromise results in the
election Of one democrat and n re-
publican. after all.
Two republicans. who never had re-
corded in their favor a majority vote OF
Montana's legislature, propose to de-
mand seats in the federal senate. The
STANDARD would oppose these men to
the bitter end, but it would have
fought them with facts. not with any
two other men: it would have cleared
the deck absolutely of all men. demo-
Gratis and republicans, whose chief aim
In to crafty their personal ambition.
and it would ave organized, first of
all, n local government for the people.
The Inter Mountain il aware that this
course is not suited to the policy of as
piring statesmen at Helena, but this
newspaper is not running aspiring
statesmen. neither is it run by them.
One thing, however. we desire to pro-
claim i'm the hearing of the Butte Inter
Mountain. The time is not now. nor
ever will be, when the democratic party
OF this state will heap insult on the
people of the west side by selecting two
residents of Helena for seats in the
senate. More particularly. this state
will neve see thed day when its leading
democrats will tolerate for al instant
the senatorial candidacy of any west
side man who. by any combination of
circumstances or forces, could possibly
be defeated by a man of the political
calibre Of Thomas &. Power, of Helena.
That is a browning insult.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
1T is NOT UP.

It 10 not easy to understand o the
ig~nOmini0us defeat sustained in Helena
day before yesterday. which afiicts the
west side like n mortal wound, is re-
lated to any hopes that Anaconda may
entertain in regard to the permanent
capital of Montana. In the republican
controversy just ended, Butte was the
sufferer, not this city. although Ana
conda shares the shame of ill-treatment
and deplores the outcome.
Time was when this little town
might have captured the ~fieeting
honors incident to temporary headship
among the cities of Montana. For "a
day and u night it held the command
Of the place, if it would consent t.
Il conditions of "A political bargain
into which it promptly and p~ersistently
refused to enter. In the fight over the
capital, last August, Anaconda had the
support of some of Mr.. Mantle's warm
est and truest friends. but the west side
lost then, just as it lost last Thursday.
because west sid men refused to pull
together.
This side the range we are persistent
losers, and when we realize the fact we
begin forthwith to scold more clever
men across the range because. in max
ing common cause. they do the one SEN
sible thing which We cave undone.
However, h capital GU ,stion is not up
now. Certainly there is nothing touch
ing any hopes Anaconda may cherish
I'm the outcome of Thursdays situation.
This town does not flatter itself too
much.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
AS TO THE CAUSES.

As a rule, men do not get a great
deal of pleasure or comfort in tracing
h causes that led to their defeat in any
political contest, yet even gray veter-
ans in the political arena are pretty apt
TO do it, the result being that minor in
cidents are magnitied while the real
root of the trouble is seldom unearthed:
often, we suppose, because the plain
facts Are not complimentary to the de-
feated. Ages before the Alice mine
was opened for deep working or Col.
WILDER +. Sanders cut any figure in
Montana polit cs, old Homer wrote his
Had to tell all about the causes that
led to the fall of ancient Troy, and it
took tw~enty-four big books to recite
them all with the attending details.
The victor in any fight a tell you in
ten lines why he won: the story of the
defeated In usually long.
Plenty of reasons are current TO ac-
eoant for the defeat of Mr.. Mantle and
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
STAND K TOPICS.

The murslercrcr, Kemmler, has ex-
hnustcd the resources of the courts of
New York in am effort to escape death by
electricity. Unless, therefore,, lightning
strikes him i'm tho form Of u communication
from the governor, il will assuredly strike
him theo other way.
The girls of Wellesley college want a
college cry. They say il must he u wild,
lyrical cry. strong. but feminine" The
Omaha Bee suggests that u mouse might
be let loose among them unexpectedly
and such u yell IN they want would invent
itself i'm IN instant.
Water i'm the Shake river. says the Alta
Californian. has been so low this season
that settlers have bitterly complained of
the dust raised by the salmon going up
stream. They threaten to ask for am APP
preparation to- sprinkle the river next year
il the nuisance il repeated.
The sultan of Turkey is alarmed over
the Brazilian revolution. He has prom
ised tn pay his soldiers "a soon as DOS
sibie. and il said to- have limited thai he
would like to have back the diamonds he
presented to the late =. =. Cox. His treas
ury ia in - worse condition than that OF
North Dakota.
You may never have heard of Milton
Allen, of Philadelphia tone of the mute,
inglorious Millions, you sce,. hut all the
same. he has come out, il appears from
the New York Tribune, as the inventor of
~ pVau ne" "iiGNpNs warranted not To
fade or shrink. All previous religions
called in. OF course Milton POUNDS his
religion on II study of the Apocalypse;
they all do. He discovers that the heaven
~ Jerusalem. which John saw i'm "A vision,
was THIS ountry But hear him:
God rolled back the mists cnyciopiny future
centuries. and perm tied John To gaze on the
United states of America.
SO our country co. responds In shane, size. and
i'm all other respects with the prophecies CON
corning the New Jerusalem
John must have seen great sights, i'm
deed. Wonder il he heard i'm his dream
that admonition to get his gun.
A Dublin letter narrates the arrest and
imprisonment of two young men OF
County Cork for the crime OF blowing
horns near the house of a landlord. This
was the extraordinary charge under VIII CHI
they were convicted and sentenced to four
months imprisonment:
That you are not of good fame. and tina, yon
are DETAINED and justly suspected. That you in
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04

tend to break the public peace and cause annoy
ance tn certain parties I'm Towermore, inasmuch
~ yOu did within two months post take part with
certain others In disturbing the public peace by
blowing horns; and did ON 2fst November un-
lawfully disturb the public peace by blowing Q
horn. with the intention OF causing annoyance 10
certain persons.
The act Of parliament under which this
persecution was brought, was passed hum
dreds OF years ago i'm the reign of Edward
ILL.,. and passed especially for the sup
preston OF highwaymen and robbers. The
policeman who proved the crime of horn
blowing swore ahat he was not at all an
noycd and did not care if all tho horns in
the country were kept blowing till the gem
eral Judgement. All the same the young
men went to Jail for four months! The
presiding magistrate then that
blowing and he wished IL understood that
ifthey continued IL they would be sent to
a ~reformatory for five years. The threat
had scarcely been uttered when from
the very body OF the court q horn
sounded forth, and one of the prisoners
declared that there would he more horn
blowing than ever. The prisoners left in
custody amid the blowing of horns; the
performance was repeated when the mag
were blown along their line of march; and
throughout tho night horns were kept
blowing over the whole district. The
whole proceedings cover the government
with extreme ridicule, and IL has been
suggested thata schedule should he issued
setting forth the punishment attaching
respectively to playing upon the big drum,
the banjo, the tin whistle and the jews
harp. II would be we'll also for the police
Gabriel and run him i'm il possible Mt the
first toot,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
The AaontAoa Senators.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Boston Her0td, independent i'm pol
tiles, takes this view OF the Montana situ-
alton:
It looks as II the republican conspirators out In
Montana were determined to capture the United
States senators from that state. They fight per-
sistently for them and they have the advantage
ola United States senate all ready to admit their
men providing there is, by hook or crook, some
kind Of senator chosen in Montana. The demo-
Gratis have thus far prevented this, but IL Is only
at the expense of blocking all Legislation. The
senators really belong to the democrats, and the
republican mancuv.rs that seek to capture them
are IA direct attack upon the ballot box. such a
victory would be alike. disgraceful and unscrupu-
ioIs but those engaged in the work seem none
the less bent upon booming IL.
This il the view which every dispassion-
ate observer who has kept himself ac-
quainted with the facts in the Montana
ease must coincid with. The two sena-
torial seats legally and ~equitably belong
to the democrats. 1t il the delibs rate pur-
pose of the republicans to steal them and
il is to the lasting disgrace OF the presi-
dent that he did h lay i'm his power to
aid i'm the theft.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
Fair Warning tn the Microbe.

From the Chicago Tribune.
The brilliant career of the Russian in
fuenza microbe will come to a sudden
end il IL ever the state en-
tomologist OF Illinois. He will pin the
presumptious thing to the ground with .
Latin name of seventeen syllables.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
Tr~mendou. vitality Of = Mon.t

From the Boston Journal.
Utah and the other ( ,rritories where
Mormons have obtained a foothold pre-
sent extraordinary conditions and dc
mand All extraordinary mode of treat
ment, IL the evil is to- be kept within
bounds and eventually extirpated.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04

From the Kansas CITY Times.
The Associated Press dispatches from
Connellsville. Pa. ~nou that next
month the American mechanics of that
region will inaugurate n movement to
drive out the Hun-Slave coal workers..
This 10 the way an extensive tariff pro-
tects the American mechanics protects
him when he protects himself.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
Gothnnn's Filthy Streets,

From the New York World.
The American Geographical society il
in session i'm this city. Its members might
find some interesting pctrified cats and
other specimens i'm the variegated strata
OF our streets.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04

From the Chicago Tribune.
Francis Murpoy continues to blunder
along i'm his wickedly no~n-partisan way,
inducing drunkards to reform by the
power of kindness Alone. This man il
actually too busy saving men from intem-
perance to learn anything about the au-
thorixed method OF doing the work, which
M everybody knows, is by passing laws.
That Unsupported C~ntsnnial Balance.
From the Washington Post.
An unexpended balance OF $4,741 re-
mains from the fund collected to defray
the expenses of the late centennial of
w~ashington's Inauguration i'm New York ;
and the committee il undecided what to
do with il. Why not contribute it to the
Mary Washington fund? No
more appropriate disposition Of the money
could possibly be made.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04
CURRENT

And Probably Never will.
From the Boston Globe.
No amount Of extraordinary legislation
has ever yet made prohibition prohibit.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-03-29
Farm Notes.

White clover is as much at home in the
South as anywhere. 1t grows vigorously
and holds it's own against all other grasses.
1t is claimed that the cold weather dam
aged the fruit and vegetable interests at
Terry and Crystal Springs, Miss, fully
$4,000.
In 1875 the total number of live cattle
exported to Great Britain from the United
States was 299 head, for 1889, over 300
600 head.
The timber resources of the yellow pine
belt in the Gulf States will soon be more
valuable than the gold and silver mines of
the Pacific slope.
Owing to the protrac.ed drouths every
year in Florida the farmsrs, vegetable and
fruit growers of that State are seriously
entertaining the idea of attempting irriga-
ton.
Our farmers are being educated by ex-
perience that diversified farming pays the
best dividend. Raising some of every
thing, and as much OF everything as we
can, Is our motto.
No use to attemp. sheep husbandry I'M
less one intends to give the sheep good
cara and attention. Neglec. will result in
failure. And it pays to breed good class
of sheep; and it does not pay to breed
scrubs.
Velvet grass (Holcus Lanatus) is asgrass
admirably ADAPTED to Southern culture
It delights in a moist soil, but will grow
on dry soil, sandy or clay. 1t makes rapid
growth during warm spells during the
winter months Chemical analysis shows
it to be of high value in nutritive quality
1t can be propagated both by sowing the
seed and dividing and planting the roots
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-03-29
Lespedeza Strata. or Japan Clover


An annual, introduced into this country
in some way unknown. Hardly noticed
until after the civil war. Since then has
spread rapidly over the Gulf and South
Atlantic States, growing along the road
sides, in fence corners, in the woods where
the shade is not dense, covering the waste
places everywhere stopping washes, oc-
cupying impoverished, abandoned fields
Grows on any soil, rich or poor, and on
any character of land. 1t reproduces it.
self from the seed, year by year. 1t is a
summer grass and can not stand the least
frost. 1t seeds during August. A great
soil recuperator. On rich lands, it grows
tall enough to cut for hay, and since it has
been discovered how to save the seed
cheaply, more and more seed are offered
for sale every year, but as yet the supply
has not kept pace with the demand. It
not only grows taller on rich soil, but
thicker and more upright.
1t grows on both dry and wet soil.s 1t
will catch and hold where other grasses
and clovers will not. No grass, clover or
forage plant stands drought better, except
Bermuda. It yields on rich land one to
two tons of superior hay, which sells in
the market at the very highest price. An
alysis has proved it rIchee. in feeding
value than Lucerne or any of the 1egumi-
nous plants. Easily subdued by c1ltiva-
ton. Crowds out broomsedge and nearly
all other grasses and obnoxious weeds.
Stands close grazing, and tramping admir-
ably. One half bushel seed required to
SOW 81 asre. Does not produce bloat or
hover. We could multiply at great length
its virtues but it it needless, as most of
our readers are more or less familiar with
its valuable characteristics and true worth.
Southern Lice Stock journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-03-29
Peaches.

The peach is native of Persia and nor
thern India but is now cultivated almost
all over the world. The trees are easily
grown and every farmer can afford to plant
them. In many cases, however, not
enough care is taken in their cultivation.
The peach requires dry sandy soil, with
clay subsoil, and in the South the soil
should not be too rich, as the richer and
more dense and more rapid the growth, the
more liable is the fruit to rot near the rip
ening stage. At one year old the trees
should be transplanted about twenty feet
apart each way.
Seeding peaches are hardest and best
when they bear true to name, and should
find larger space in every orchard
The budded peach, however, should oc-
cupy large space, as generally the largest,
if not the best, fruit is obtained from them.
A writer telling what kind of soil is best
suited to the peach says "a deep sandy
loan, strong mellow loam, light thin
sandy soil, but the best is the sandy loan
with clay subsoil. !"
The peach should be cultivated, and ex.
haustive crops, such as oats, should never
be planted in orchards Ashes should be
literally used as fertilizer. Pruning is
the most important of all. Keep the limbs
well cut back.
A few years of neglected growth will
ruin tree in the best of soil. It is the
rule with many to cut off in the winter or
early spring about half of all the shoots
of the previous year. A good wash once
or twice year with lime water or with
strong soapsuds is excellent.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-03-29
Wholesale Slaughter.

A gentleman undertook to count the
birds he saw on ladies' bonnet one bright
afternoon on Broadway, New York. We
give the result of his afternoons count
Four robins, brown thrush, bluebirds,
i Blackburnian warbler, 3 black poll war
blers, 5 Wilson's black capped fycatchers,
3 scarlet tanagers, white bellied swallow,
/ Bohemian waxwing, 90 waxwings,
gr at Northern shrike, | pine grosbeak,
10 snow buntings, tree sparrows, white
throated sparrow, l boblink, . meadow
larks, 9 Baltimore orioles, 5 purple
grackles, s bluejays, swallow tailed fy-
catcher, king bird, / kingfsher, pileated
Woodpecker, 2 red headed woodpeckers, 81
golden winged woodpeckers, / Arcadian
owl, Carolina dove, / pinnated grouse, 2
ruffed grouse, 16 quails, 2 helmet quails,
2 sundsrlings, ! big yellowlegs, / green
heron, / Virginia rail. laughing gull, 81
common terms, / black tern, grebes.-N.
@ PscGQuze.