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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

From the New York Ledger.
Little Tommy vas entertaining one of
his sisters admirers until she appeared.
"Don't you come TO see my sister 7" he
inquired.
"Yes, Tommy, that's what i come for"
"You like here immensely, dom. your"
"Of course, ! admire her very much.
Don't you think she's nice?
"well. I have to, cause she's my sister;
but she thumps me pretty hard sometimes.
But let's see you open your mouth once.
Now shut il tight till I count ten. There
] knowed you could do it!'
"Why, Tommy, who said ! couldn't"
"Oh, nobody but sister,"
"What did she say ?"
"well, she said you hadn't enough
Ia keep your mouth shut and | bet her two
big apples you had; and you have, haven't
you? And you'll make her stumpu up the
apples, won't YOU"
The young man did not wait 10 see
whether she would ''stump up or not.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
STRIKING A BONANZA.

Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son has been making another republican
speech, this time at seattle. After
reiterating his peculiar political views
MIR. Clarkson is reported by the Post
fnteiiigencer to have said: II have
had great pleasure in the last year i'm
seeing in my humble Office some 1920
postoflices and every one of them filed
by a republican" IL this Is not a mis-
print the assistant postmaster general
has seen ON an average som ething like
each being filed by a republican the cup
Of Mr.. Clarkson's JOY must have been
constantly running ver
Before he returns and consumates
his somewhat beiated intention of re-
signing, IL is to be hoped that the dis.
tinguished traveller will come over into
Montana and find still further cause of
rejoicing. lie should steer clear of
Helena and Deer Lodge for obvious
reasons, but he should on no account
omit to take a run into the Big Horn
country and visit the p~ostonice of the
town OF Bonanza. lie will not find
the postmaster, Mr.. Alonzo Taylor. AT
home, but he will have the pleas.
ure of meeting Mr.. William +. Taylor,
Alonzo's enterprising assistant, who
i'm the absence of his superior is con.
Quoting the ranch OH new and, in the
judgment of himself and friends, i'm.
proved principles.
Alonzo himself, it appears. having
been arrested for the triiling oifense OF
cattle stealing has left town, and, ii is
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

The senate committee appointed by
the legislature of New York 80 look
into the rottenness of New York city's
government is still taking testimony.
IL will be remembered that Mr.. Croker
lately returned from Germany in order
To meet his accusers. On the witness
stand this gentlemen denies. jointly
and separately, all the allegations
brought against him by Pat Mccain,
who mixed Croker, Grant and Others I'm
a mess of all sorts Of official wicked
ness. When all the testimony is in.
Senator Fassett and his senatorial asso-
ciates will report ~favorably, not for the
man who appears to be officially clean,
not even for the one of the contradic-
tory witnesses who manages To lie with
marked ability, but for the mar and
the faction that can be made most use.
full to the republicans in the Novem-
Der elections.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
MEN AND WOMEN.

Buffalo Bill receives about ten letters a
Some Of these epistles are from America,
though most of them are from Europeans.
Segould A. DUAL, a Norwegian, died re-
Gently at Eau Claire, Wis.,, leaving 81 Co.,
M for the establishment Of a hospital at
Madison for persons crippled and de-
formed from birth.
Susan b. Anthony and six other wise
women have started i'm Washington an Or
ganization called 1.-THE Wimodauehsis,"
capital, S25,OCo. The object is the edu-
cation of women in political science, art,
literature and physical culture.
The late Alden Starks, of Milford, Ind,
was one of the characters i'm the story Of
"The Hoosier Schoolmaster, y which made
Edward Eggleston famous as an author.
II was the house Of Starks' father that
was robbed, and the place is still pointed
m as such to the stranger.
Writing from Samoa, Mr.. Robert Louis
Stevenson says: I've arranged for the
purchase of 4Co acres Of land within a
mile or two of Apia, and l hope to have a
house there and TO make il a home for
myself and wife. It's n delightful place,
OH a piece Of rising ground, with a splendid
" VI ttfs Jun etfhs Nv " 10y
Ii was a popularity of the late Samuel
j. Randall that he left the handling of his
own financial matters to his wife. II was
n common occurrence for those who were
frequently IT his home to hear him call to
his young son Sammy to ask mother
for 80 cents or n 81 wherewith TO buy
postage stamps.
Chauncey NJ. Depew says he would not
q IL Ill.,
times i'm my life have ! been one of n din
ner party of thirteen. On each occasion
one passed the joke TO another that he or
she would he the victim. In every in
stance one Of the guests died within the
year. So, i'm my experience, the truth of
the adage was proven"
MIR. Parnell usually wears a loosely 1T
ting cutaway coat But OF state occasions
he always dresses in n frock coat, and,
like Mr.. Gladstone's, IL is a garment SO
well worn that IL is often ~disaRreeably
shiny. II was observable, however, that
after winning his a s for damages
against the Times he appeared in a mag
nificent new suit.
General Sherman was told hat a car
rage would call to take him to the Apo
mattox celebration i'm Brooklyn n night
recently. "~Carriage!" he said; II don't
want any carriage. I'll go right down on
the elevated and across the BRIDGE" And
he did, arriving at the hall as lively as a
cricket, and going home in the same dem
ocratic fashion at I o'clock in them morn
ing. still lively and apparently unwearied.
Mile. Fernando de Lesseps, eldest
daughter of NJ. Ferdinand de L~esseps, the
great engineer, was lately married To her
cousin, Count Ferdinand de Gontant-Bi-
ron. At the religious ceremony the nine
sisters and brothers of the bride were
present-the sisters rs bridesmaids and
the brothers as pages of honor-in court
dresses. NJ. de Lesseps wore his grand
cross of the Legion of Honor and nine
other stars and crosses, the gifts OF kings
and potentates.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

The courts of Chicago often spend
their time less probably than i'm hearing
readings from Dickens. A Judge i'm that
city permitted a lawyer TO read to a jury
several chapters from nicholas Nickleby"
n day last week, and IL the lawyer had
any style about him the jury must have
enjoyed il. The case was a libel suit for
sa5,OO0damages brought by a schoolmaster
against a newspaper for likening him to
"Wackford Squcers" and his seminary
to "Dotheboys Hail." Perhaps the law
yer was all right, but in cases of this kind
the surer course to pursue is to hire a pro-
f~essional elocutionist as an expert and let
him loose on the jury. The average pro-
fcssional elocutionist who reads nicholas
Nickleby" would he sure to give the jury
IN excruciating pain, and that, of course,
is what the counsel for the plaintiff was
after.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

she had the floor and not even speaker
Reed himself could make her yield her
privileges until she got a good ready.
What would have happened had Mrs.
Potts put her designs In execution
there is no means of telling. Possibly
her woman's tongue might have saved
her. although IL is rather doubtful, for
the brute Of a sheriff got wind of her
intentions and threatened to come the
Speaker Reed act anyway and rule her
out of order at the expiration Of fifteen
minutes. That the sheriff should take
this mean advantage of a dying woman
filled Mrs. Potts with indignation and
disgust, but finally at the earnest soil
citation Of her spiritual adviser she
consented to abandon her purpose and
die like a-woman. We say like a
woman, for she managed to get the last
word in, solemnly protesting her inno-
cence even after the black cap had
been adjusted. The remainder of the
ceremonies were without special Incl
dent, except IN one very singular and
unaccOuntable respect. Mrs. Potts
died instantaneously while Mr.. Potts
kicked for fourteen minutes by the
watch.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
A Sweeping-Out Next Fall.
/. "a. n-. ~

From the Boston Globe.
The shameless neglect of Massachusetts,
interests by our republican members of
congress; their tacit or expressed SYM
patby with legislation that is inimical to
u prosperity; their trucking to the in
terests of other sections, and their care
lessness in regard to home interests have
already made Massachusetts, a very
doubtful state. Massachusetts will vote
for her friends, and she has found ont of
late that the republican party is not
friendly to her highest interests and pros
perity. Massachusetts democrats will
start out upon their next campaign more
sanguine than ever of success. At this
early date they are already jubilant over
the brilliant prospect Of victory. Mas
chusctts. hereafter, will chooset the friends
of Massachusetts to represent her in pub
lie life. and relegate her enemies to the
delights of private ~obscurity. The people
of the state are awakening TO the fact
hat their views and opinions are not now
represented by the men whom they nave
placed in official authority. The outlook
for a grand sweeping out next fall grows
brighter every day.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

believed. has chosen somed distant place
for his permanent residence. William,
however, continues to do business at
the old stand and the income from the
p~ostofice proper being hardly sufficient
for his needs, he has lifted up a poker
establishment just outside of the deliv-
cry window. William believes In spar
ing no pains TO please the public OF 30
nanza, and IL the people who call for
their mail do not incidentally drop a
dollar or two I'm a Jackpot it is through
no fault of his. The first assistant
postmaster general of the United States
and the first assistant postmaster spe-
cial of Bonanza should be encouraged
to come together and raise each other
to the limit.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
NE is TOO LATE.

When he made a twO-minute talk in
the house of representatives last week,
as q preface to his vote against Speaker
Reed, Mr.. Carter said: IL propose to
combine with those who hold similar
sentiments to my own in asserting the
right of the house to dispose of its own
business. That right M gentleman i'm
this body recognizes nor clearly than
thee minent speaker who presides over
the deliberations of this house"
The STANDARD does not share Mr..
Carriers views regarding the eminence
of Speaker Reed-eminence in any
good sense, we mean. Mr.. Carter i'm
puted TO Speaker Reed a spirit of fair
ness which the speaker himself was not
willing TO manifest. Mr.. Carter wanted
TO be complimentary, but Reed would
not make IL good.
One might paraphrase the sentence
we have quoted from the Carter speech
SO as 20 make of IL an utterance that
would have made Mr.. Carter famous.
Suppose, for instance, that i'm December
of last year, when the contest over the
speakership was waging, he had ex-
claimed: 81 propose to combine with
those who hold similar sentiments to
my own i'm asserting the right of the
West TO look after its own chief inter
ests. That right no gentleman in the
house recognizes more clearly than the
eminent candidate from Maine who
desires TO preside over the deliberations
of this house"
That sentiment boldly announced
sever short months ago would have
cost Mr.. Carter a promised chairman
ship, but what of that? His course
would have been magnilicently vindi.
Gated by what has happened. Then as
now, Mr.. Reed was the avowed enemy
OF silver and Mr.. Carter knew it. Had
he chosen to oppose Mr.. Reed. the
words we have just put in type would
have been blazoned on illuminated
card board and this month of June
would find them grazing the wall OF
every shop and store and humble log
cabin In Montana; and Carter would
have been a good deal of a man.
But Mr.. Carter Numbered. lie voted
for Reed, and the speaker mt once
framed a coinage committee but for
whose skilled opposition legislation fa.
vorable to silver would have been an
accomplished fact weeks ago. AS mat
tiers stand, Mr.. Garter is fatally late
with his phrases.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

In their efforts to secure a charter
from the state, the Louisiana lottery
people have encountered opposition
from an unexpected quarter. II will
be remembered that they offered the
state a cool million dollars a year for
the privileges they desired. Represen-
tatives of the Mexican lottery are now
on the scene offering a million and a
quarter. The Louisiana people will
have to raise their bid to a million and
a half, and if the two rival concerns
keep at it there is no telling where the
bidding will stop. II all goes to show
the fabulous profits of the lottery bust
ness, and each successive increase i'm
the bidding furnishes a more and more
unanswerable argument why the char
ter should be refused.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
AS TO GIFTS.

When General Grant was I'm the
White house, several members of the
opposition in congress advocated the
passage of a law f~orbidding the presi-
dent to be the recipient of gifts. These
people did not believe that the legisla-
ton they proposed would receive ia
vOrable consideration at the hands of
congress. They were not particularly
anxious that an anti-gift law should
pass: their chief object was to direct
public attention to the fact that Presi-
dent Grant was receiving a good many
presents and they hoped to turn this
fact to account i'm the effort to make
him unpopular with the people.
In the same spirit, unfriendly cOm-
ment was started over the fact that
President Grant was absent from
Washington during several weeks of
the summer, "a charge which Roscoe
Conkling took occasion to discuss on
the floor of the senate in a speech show
ing that il was the habit of presidents,
when congress is not in session, to
starry ut a distance from the seat of
government" as the New York senator
expressed IL. In this instance. the aim
of General Grants critics was, not so
much to complain about the presidents
absence, but to fix attention on the fact
that he was enjoying at Long Branch
Inequalities which were the gift of a
wealthy resident of New York City.
Probably a like motive prompted
Congressman Quinn i'm presenting the
other day a bill providing for a sum-
mer home for the president of the
United States. IL is not probable that
congress will make so foolish an appro-
priation, but the suggestion for the bill
is found in the fact that the ladies Of
the presidential household are of, bag
and baggage, for the Cape May cottage
lately presented to Mrs. Harrison. IL
Is the gift Of Mr.. Wanamaker and a
few friends.
The American public is not pleased
when gifts of this sort are received by
members of the executive household.
This may be a prejudice for which
there is no warrant, but it exists and
people are influenced by it, although
they might not find it easy to give good
reasons for feeling as they do about it.
General Grants fame is none the less
because he vas the recipient of gifts,
but he was a man so prominently great
that he could safely dare many things
which the country would not tolerate
in people so far his interiors Is the
IIarrisons.
The white house people will enjoy
Cape May and the bounties that go
with il as the bestowment of a cabinet
officer. They have a right to take all
they can get in gifts but, nom the less,
be the official household at Washington
republican or democratic, the people do
not like the gift business.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
THE CASE OF MR.. AND MRS. POTTS

The CASE OF MR.. AND MRS. POTTS.
Many a devoted married couple have
expressed the wish that both might die
together at the same moment, the flu
ture looking very dark and dismal to
each without the other. Circumstances,
however, render a simultaneous demise
of a husband and wife so remotely pos
sible that when a case of the kind
actually occurs il attracts a good deal
of attention. such a ase was that of
Mr.. and Mrs. Potts, at Elko. New. last
Friday. \ less violent death than that
by being hanged would be desirable to
most people, but Mr.. and Mrs. Potts at
least had the satisfaction of passing
away side by side on one and the same
gibbet.
Ladies who may be anxious to know
what Mrs. Potts wore on the interest
ing occasion are informed by the at
tending reporters that "she was taste
fully clad in a soft white muslin suit,
draped in black, with a red rose I'm her
bodice" She took great pains with her
toilet on the morning of the execution,
beautifully illustrating the axiom about
the strength of the ruling passion in
death. AS for Mr.. Potts he was dressed
in the regulation suit Of black, and on
the whole cut an insignificant figure.
Weak-spirited man that he was, he
had given up all hope of escaping the
penalty of his crime. which vas that of
numbering conformity with his wife a
gentleman who had been indiscreet
enough to loan them 500 and then
when payment was due ask for the
money. When Mr.. Potts arose on the
fatal morning he had abandoned hope
and was resigned 10 the situation.
Not so Mrs. Potts. She had TO think
and act for both of them. Like all her
sex she was fertile In expedients. She
made up her mind that when she got to
the gallows and was accorded the usual
privileges Of the floor, she would have
recourse To the peculiar tactics some
times employed in legislative bodies.
She would talk against time. She
would continue her address for four
straight hours, or until the limit of
time set for the execution had been
passed. She reasoned that no gentle
mar would interrupt a lady while she
was talking, certainly not while she
was supposed to he delivering her dying
speech. should the sheriff be so rude
and ungentlemanly rs q desire her to
cut it short, she would inform him that
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
Honesty Takes a BACK Seat.

From the Boston Globe.
The daily business of the Standard oil
trust amount to 100000, or Sl56,0O0,0oO n
year. The total value of its plant added
To the individual wealth OF its members is
believed TO be quite modestly estimated
ut s~750,OO0,00o, of which total John ID.
Rockefeller's fortune alone figures at
S~l3D,O0o,0O. The original cash capital OF
this colossal trust NJ years ago, when II
was founded, was but S15,O0O,000. The
old proverb which says Honesty is the
best policy" is knocked out in one round
by figures like hese.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
4 PnrlOr Knight.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
A Partisan newspaper announces that
the young duke of Orleans, who recently
suffered Imprisonment for attempting to
enlist in the French army, will enter the
Russian army as soon as the gayeties of
the London season are over. This young
sprig of royalty is evidently fond of spec
tacular effects. IL he is really painting for
military glory the London drawing rooms
are hardly the place TO find L..
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

Senator Fassett, the New Yorker of
investigating fame, is visiting the state
of Washington. While he is about it
he could no doubt find a fruitful field
of operations without stirring a step.
On his way back, just to keep his hand
in, he might stop off in Montana and
take a whack at the tunnel precinct
and the connection of Messrs. Sanders,
Power and Bernard Herewith.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
n the New York Tribune.

From the New YORK Tribune.
First-Miss Phillipa Garrett Fawcett
comes oil with the highest honors at Cam
bridge university, receiving 800 more
marks than fell to the senior w~ranaler.
Second-Miss Margaret Afford, also OF
Cambridge. wins tire first place I'm the
classical tripos. Third-Miss II. l.. Reed
captures the Sargent prize at Harvard for
the best metrical version of one of the
odes of Horace. Three cheers for the
coming girl! She has evidently arrived.
The brute man who originated h phrase
''the weaker sex" will see the propriety OF
a~pologizing and taking To the woods.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

The somewhat noted hank robbery
trial at Ashland, Wis.,, has been seriously
interrupted by an officer of the court, who
in his zeal assaulted the leading counsel
for thed defense on the steps of the court
house and broke his jaw. Of course a
forced adjournment Of the trial is 10 he
regretted, but the incident seems to nave
brought to light the long-looked-for indi-
vidual who possesses sufficient strength
Of blow 10 knock out Sullivan.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

Senator Quay has mt last opened his
mouth to say that he has not, as has been
intimated, q candidate for the republican
nomination for governor Of Pennsylva-
mia. The distinguished senator is a deaf
mute only when charges of dishonesty
are being preferred against him.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

II may be considered ~ entirely lost. II
Ii not merely that a vast majority Of the
Of this country speak Of their leg
coverings m pants, not that the advertise
ments speak Of ''pants" and commit the
further and appalling atrocities Of refer
ring TO ''pant goods" but that men who
are adored by the people have adopted
the word. In his address to the graduates
at West Point on Thursday Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman, the greatest all
round American citizen, said: my men,
DRY goes hack TO the day of my gradua-
ton. We wore the same white pants."
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
CURRENT COMMENT.

whats In ~ Name After All?
From the Boston Herald.
Miss Willing denies that she is going To
marry young John Jacob Astor.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
A Adissing

From the New York Herald.
Lost, strayed, or more probably stolen
A Federal surplus. When last seen under
Mr.. Cleveland Il was like q new wooden
undershirt-too long and too big round.
After being washed by the republicans it
II began TO shrink. In 1889 II was just
large enough for a rag baby. Since 1880
set In Il has been hunted for with power
full telescopes and. microscopes, but
neither hide nor hair Of II has been dis
covered.
In this connection we wish to make
record OF the phenomenal prophetic
powers of the republican leaders. They
predicted that II would disappear, and as
the wayback farmer remarked, "B'gosh,
il did,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
General sherman Wcnr- "Pants."

Prom the Milwaukee sentinel.
The fight of Mr.. Dana against the word
s~,pants" has been a losing one. and now
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24

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