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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Regretfully, the STANDARD an
nounces the death of Alexander Legs
After long and painful struggle, the
end came peacefully at late hour last
night. He died in his rooms at the
Montana, loving relatives mInistering
to his comfort, as far as human aid
was avalling, when the crisis came.
He was the victim of consumption.
For many weeks he had been a So
journer in Anaconda, and he
was the recipient here of
the most affectlonate attention at the
hands of those who were attached to
him by kindred ties For a long time
Mr.. Legs was resident in Butte
where he was warmly esteemed and
where his circle of cordial friends was
unusually large. 1t is in pleasant
tribute to his own sentiment of regard
for those who were most dear to him
that, when he realized the approach
of the fatal ending, his hope
was that he might be spared
to return to Butte, there to breath his
last amid the associations that were
especially dear to him. Mr. Leys was
a young man of sturdy character
and of sterling worth lie leaves
a name that will be long and
pleasantly cherished, and the sympa-
thy of this community will be with
the afflicted ones who are called upon
10 mourn the early death of one be-
fore whom, till recently, a career
seemed to unfold itself so tempting
and so full of promise.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08
What We Have Paid.

Representative Coombs of New
York presented TO the house of repre-
sentatlves last week, an interesting
statement of the money which the GOV.
eminent has expended i'll payment of
its bonded and interest bearing debt
during the past three years. The
statement is interesting as verifying
the statement that the rapid diminu-
tion of the national debt has caused
the alarm among the Wall street
coterle which led to the demand upon
the president for new issue of bonds
in order that the national bank sys-
tenn should remain intact.
This is not the reason which Mr.
Coombs assigned for the preparation
of the statement He said that "the
showing is made IN support of the
contention of the president in his
message that this generation has
already paid more than its share of
the government debt"
The statement shows that. in the
thirty years since the close of the civil
war, the government has paid on &C.
count of the war debt, So 319 so. qO5
and for other purposes, $685.. 67I.277.
THIS latter sum includes the expenses
of the army and navy departments.
money paid 10 the Indians ana the
cost of evil admin stratIon. II Will
be seen that the sums paid aggregate
over twelve billion dollars, an average
OF four hundred millions per year.
With the debt decreasing at this rate,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

A hush falls on the crowded pond.
The skaters all stand still.
Each feels pulsating through his veins
A momentary thrill.
And now, with interest and pride,
The small boys heart dilates,
For now at last he's going to see
His honored pa on skates.
He's often heard the old man tell
OF what he used to do
When he was young-the figure eight"
And the spread eagle" too.
The ''grapeyin =" and the "outside edge"
The Virginia rail fence"
And he knows what he's going to see
Is going to be immense.
And pa strikes bravely out at last,
HIS heart quite free from fears,
Although he hasn't put on skates
Before for thirty years.
He strikes so bravely out, in fact
lie cuts too wide dash
One foot goes right-one foot goes left -
And down he goes-ker-smash.
He doesn't really break the ice
IL is ten inches thick
But just the thought of skating now
Makes him extremely sick.
He limps ashore-alas, alone!
he small boy didn't wait.
He II sheer when pa tells stories now
OF how he used to skate.
-Somerutlie Journal.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08
An Expert Opinion.

The legislatures now in session
throughout the country have de-
yeloped some decided novelties IN the
methods Of law-makIng One feature.
especially, has been prominent In
nearly all cases involving the framing
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Now that President Dole's filibusterers
have forced the queen to leave, they will
have a hard time with the hoodlums that
helped them do it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Mr.. Rodgers is credited with saying that
lawyers don't know everything. He will
be disbarred if he isn't careful.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Chaplain Shippen's prayer for protec-
ton from wolves has especial significance
now that Helena is full of book agents.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Princess Colonna's return to her hus-
band ought to occasion no surprise. An
American girl who will marry a bankrupt
prince will do anything.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

The cold wave originated in New York,
probaly from the GOODNESS between Lexow
and Parkhurst.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

it is evident that the nation would
soon have ceased to be a debtor. had
not the antI-sllver administration be-
gun anew the issue of bonds.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Perhaps It's necessary in order to be In
fashion, but there was--nothing creditahle
IN the spat in the legislature yesterday.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

The announcement that the Western
Traffic association has gone to pieces will
not be received in Montana with tears.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

The Whiskey trusts failures occur with
all the regu arity of Baxter street cloth
ing dealers.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

The Brooklyn strikers are fast losing
the sympathy of the public by their
thuggism this week.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Tho Hawaiian cable will enable the
senate to bring its Lilioukalani debates UP
to date.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Count Herbert Bismarck has been made
a colonel. Poor fellow. Tom Marshall
was a colonel before he became q repubIi-
can.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Captain Edwards has been talking to
the Helena school trustees.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Speaking of persuasion - the county
clerks met in Helena Sunday and Tues
day the bill reducing their salaries
was postponed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Cuba has a bad dose of the home rule
fever and new revolution will be in or
der soon
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Somebody ought to cut the trolley wires
OF congress, lest it do more harm.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

1t begins to look as IL the map of Mon
tana would not be revised this year.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Chaplain Shipper has taken the tip and
is trying to give his Fl ock live thought on
living topics.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

We shall hear next that there is no such
place as Port Arthur.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08

Doctors do not disagree In the Rollins
Bristol affair.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
"A Dramstist's Rejoinder.

When Colman, the English drama.
list, was examined before the committee
Of the house of commons which nat on
the theatrical question, he was asked
whether he expunged all oaths or pro-
fame swearing from the plays submitted
TO his revision. He answered:
Invariably ss*.y
Ibid you ever count the number OF
oaths in your own comedies Of the
Heir at Law and John Bull?' - AZ
Never, but dare say there are .
great many" ##
(Which .-ou disapprove OPP
"Undoubtedly.",
''Do you not think it would have
been better to have omitted them?'' s3
much better. They disfigure the
scenes in which they are introduced and
injure the humor.
"Then," concluded the chairman,
thinking to clinch the argument, You
are sorry now that you wrote either Of
those comedies?''
"Quite the contrary, 'srejoined the
]icenser. II rejoice exceedingly to have
made good pudding, although I regret
that any bad plums should have orept
into it. New York Advertiser. is."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Pens aud Ink.

The late Dr.. Holmes, like Goethe,
says Mr.. Smalley in the New York Trib-
une, "dwelt on the Importance of sta
tionery and of a good pen and good ink
to the writer, especially the imaginative
writer. Between him and the due ex-
preston of his thought in black and
white there ought to be as few obstacles
as possible, no friction that can be
avoided. Many a fine thought he de-
clared had persisted ere it was fairly
born, strangled in the birth by hair on
the nib of the pen or choked out of life
by muddy ink. His paper was ruled and
glazed; his ink thin black, not blue
black, as is much Of the best writing
fluid in this country. He had written
/ know not how many books with the
same pen. And he looked at the pen as
If it were a part Of himself. " #
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
A Gigantic SeaWeed.

The giant of the seaweed family and the
largest known species Of marine algB
bears the scientific name of nerocystis. 1t
occasionally attains length Of 300 feet
and is kept afioat on the oceans surface
on account of being buoyed by bladder]ike
engagements of the stem, which are filled
with air. AS the plant grows older these
globose, bladderlike excrescences swell in
to great retort shaped cylinders 6 to feet
in length and between and feet in d.
ameter. Where this plant grows in any
considerable quantity it becomes impossi-
BILE for small craft to pass through them
on account of the density of the floating
mass of vegetation. The natives of trop-
ical islands use the bladderlike enlarge
ments mentioned for water vessels and for
storing away grain.-St Louis Republic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09

J. POINTS IN POTATO CULTURE.

Ih0 Treatmont sf the sesd Big FsotoS
In EArliness, Size and Quantity.
The weak point in the management
Of the average potato grower is the seed.
Fully nine.tenths Of all the potatoes
which people plant are unfit for seed
purposes. A tuber which is in its prime
for the table is also In its prime for
seed. It should be fresh and plump and
all eyes dormant; Such potatoes are
not found in the inside Of aSbig heap
or bin in ordinary house cellar at this
season Of the yeat. Those that we now
dig out of the middle Of the bin look
somewhat like the specimen shown at
No. l. Often we find much longer
sprouts. The energy put into this new
growth has surely weakened the potato
for seed. A large number Of eyes have
become active and will remain active.
NO matter whether the sprouts already
started are~left to grow or are rubbed
of by accident or design. The sure re.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
NeWton's Telescope.

Newton fashioned a concave mirror from
. mixture of copper and tin, which gives
surface with almost the luster Of silver.
An image Of the star was produced in the
focus of this mirror, and then this image,
when examined by a magnifying eyepiece,
permits the astronomer to study the star
at what is equivalent to greatly reduced
distance. Such is the principle of the IA
nous erecting telescope which bears the
name of Newton.
The little reflector which he constructed
10 still preserved as one Of the treasures of
the Royal society. The telescope tube had
the very modest dimensions of an inch in
diameter. It was, however, the precursor
Of q whole series of magnificent instru-
ments, each outstripping the other in mag
nitude, until at last the eliminating point
was attained in the construction of Lord
Rosse's mammoth reflector of 6 feet in
aperture.-Good Words
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Flying Machines and War.

FLYING MACA1neS ana WAR;
No one has yet devised perfectly safe
system Of either navigation or warfare.
War, at any rate, under the most favorable
conditions, is q very dangerous game, but
nations are not deferred from going to
war BY thoughts Of torpedoes, torpedo
oatchers, smokeless powder or explosive
shells. Now, argues MI. Maxim, 1t is
shown to be possible to make machine
that will actually fly at q very high veloo-
ity, and nothing remains but to learn how
to maneuver It.
I'm view." he says, "of the decided ad-
vantage which flying machine would give
its possessor over an enemy do not think
that in case Of war European nations
would hesitate to employ them, even If
one-half Of the men navigating them were
killed. At tho present time no difficulty
IL ever found in getting volunteers to
make torpedo boat attack upon man-of-
war, something which Is infinitely moro
dangerous than navigating flying ma
chine would be-, as the latter might be
painted black and make its attack at night
or in fog, when it would be quite impos-
sible for the enemy to strike back"
And yet, after all, is it not poor
thought that 1.-THE first European nation
which takes advantage. Of this new engine
Of destruction will be able to modify the
map of Europe to it's own ideasf" Is the
dream of centuries to end only in superb
GRITTY in the art of manslaughter?-All the
Year Round.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
THE RESULTING CROPS.

duces more than three or four stalks,
even when we plant very large whole
potatoes. The freeman, on the other
hand, inclines to the extreme in this d.
rection unless seed is carefully treated
on the suggested lines. Usually we pre-
fer to cut seed quite close, as we also do
in case of high priced new varieties.
EARLY potatoes are treat on the farm,
and the market grower. Of course, is no
less anxious to get them early than he is
to secure good yield, for the price is
greatly Influenced by their earliness.
Nobody would like to miss q chance, it
any such exists, to force the crop lit
tie in advance of its natural season.
Judicious treatment Of seed gives Us the
key to the situation and indeed the key
to success in potato growing.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
His Geological Nose.

In the life of the late Dean auckland
it is related that one time she and a
friend, riding toward London on a very
dark night, lost their way. auckland
therefore dismounted, and, taking up 9
handful of earth, smelled it. tUxbridgel'
he exclaimed, his geological nose telling
him the exact locality"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
SOME sEEDTUBERs,

:e+s, SOME SEED TUBERs. z! fsg-5;.y.s
suit is q large number Of sprouts, q
weak, spindling growth Of all and Z
large number Of small potatoes in the
hill. a:s= ... ~. ..,.- ~.
The plant shown at No. 4 in the SEQ.
ond cut gives an illustration Of this
fact "A writer for American Gardening
says in this connection: M u
The kind of seed wish to plant is
shown at No. in the first cut and the
resulting crop at No. 5 in the second
cut. To secure such seed we spread the
potatoes, long before they have had .
chance to start into growth, under the
benches in the greenhouse or in light
frostproof garrett in single layer or at
most two high. A portion of our Ohios
and Freemans are placed in shallow
fats, seed end up, as shown at Fig. 8.
Gradually under the influence Of light
and warmth shoot as stout as ones
little finger appears on the seed end OF
the tuber. This little later is sur.
mounted by crown Of leaflets, while
rootlets begin to start from its base In
early spring when the ground is ready
for planting the sets are carefully re-
moved and placed in the ground, scrupu-
lousy avoiding injury to the shoots.
Growth follows with marvellous rapid.
ty, none of tho pristine vigor Of the tn.
Der having been wasted. ~
The size of seed pieces is decided by
variety, condition and price Of seed.
Whole tubers, If treated as previously
set forth, will seldom produce more
stalks than cut seed. invariably plant
whole tubers Of Early Ohio if Of me-
dunn size or less. and cut them in
halves if large. The variety rarely pro-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Tho Onion Crop.

Last year there was a shortage in the
onion crop of this country, though the
market may not indicate this, as the inn
portations are enormous even in good
years. This country imports large quan.
titles from abroad-from Cuba and the
Bermudas, from Spain and other Euro
pean countries, and even from the an
cient land of Egypt. In this country the
onion is successfully grown from the
Florida keys to the Canada border.
With the "new onion culture and the
improved old onion culture and lati-
tude wide enough to give fresh onions
every month in the year there is NO
good reason why this country should
send abroad annually millions of dollars
for a product that can be profitably
grown at home. Farm and Fireside
says, after a careful study of the i'm
proved methods of culture and a good
selection of soil and varieties, growers
in every part of the Union could safely
and proftably enlarge the home produc-
ton of onions, not so much by enlarg-
ing the acreage as by increasing the
yield from the, acreage already devoted
to this CROP ~ ,$<r>'s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
PART AND COUNTERPART.

- infant sool anads up Of images
65 y like 3 lake itself almost unseen, &$sy
\ But holding pictured in it, "pure serene"
Tho sly shove and the surrounding trees "
TN Ger tho surface creeps rising breese II
y; And slowly ruf1es into silver sheen
Those depths Of azure fringed with branching
M green, S&5& ast44y 'f. ~ tE-s...h, :. ~
4 fame that follows on form that deea
A intermingled with the flow OF being
u loses sight In gaining sympathy.
90 actton quenches all our primal seeing.
We cannot be both part and counterpart
OF outward things, and that pasatvtty
4 poet praised Is half the poets art.
<" Alfred W. Benin In Academy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
y rAE OLD POLICEMAN.
IL Knew HOW e Use Elsstrlslt4 -
81. lGaa,a az Personal QOanNoRA

II Knew Nov e Uss ElsssslsalR % q
Means Of Personal Cs0Nse1
Policemen may be IN illitsaats lot,
but they do every now and then con-
trive some method to get ahead of the
ironclad rules which arc popularly sup.
posed by tho long suffering taxpayer at
least to govern their movements
There is one particular blueooat who.
BY virtue of his long service, oarries
three faded stripes on his coat sleeve,
and he honestly believes that sis en-.
sitled to some incidental favora Taken
altogether, he is Of such naturally
grumpy disposition that he is far from
being popular among the police opera
tors %
Notwithstanding all this, Mr.. Brass
Buttons beat the combination and beat
it pretty thoroughly. He had been rath-
or behind time in his hourly COMMUNE
cations with headquarters. and his su.
periors determined to teach himsa les
son. Accordingly he was sent to travel
q lonely, isolated post, which had SOL
ttary patrol box situated just alongside
q deserted hut that had once been util-
lied as q Toulouse by . railroad cor
poration. 1t didn't require many hours
presence on the part Of the disciplined
copper for him to discover that he had
BEEN given the best Of the deal III this
particular transfer, and he Immediately
set about arrangin. scheme whereby
he could benefit by - newly acquired
advantages. $ssE
The much craved buon that he sought
was light maps. He had long ago tried
the plan Of an alarm clock set to 60 of
. few minutes before pulling time, but
tired nature had in each instance as
serted itself, and his station had failed
to hear from him. Now conditions were
different, for he had found just what
he needed to carry out the cleverruse he
had concocted. Running alongside the
deserted shanty were two electric light
wires fully charged with current Of
electricity, and to these the valiant
watchdog pinned his faith. l
First he once more produced his long
ago discarded alarm clock after remov-
ing the gong from the top. Next he
U0UAo away 1uo 8Aoeo law esAu 0A'o@
making sure that the clock was on time
with his watch he made connection
with the electric light wires by means
Of two small pieces Of copper wire. One
Of these he wound around the minute
hand of the clock, and the other he firm
" fastened to the framework Of the
timepiece just over the figures that in
dictated his hour for pulling up. Then
TO one Of the wires he fastened two
more pieces of copper, which he wound
about either Of his hands. This done,
the willy policeman stretched himself
out on the floor and enjoyed the desired
nap, safe in the knowledge that 1T the
proper moment the meeting Of the two
wires on the clock would convey to him
. shock that was bound to waken him,
90 be could salute his station through
the patrol box.-Chicago Times
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09

William Lilly, the noted astrologer,
could foretell the fortunes Of other peo-
pie, but not his own. He married a
woman whom he himself declared to be
''of the temper Of Mars" She left him,
and she and her relatives instituted suit
against him, costing him, as he relates
with tears, almost 81, 200. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Well Gloved.

The we'll gloyed woman keeps two
things in mind-frst, quiet, harmonious
shade; second, shape that will not
squeeze the hands into stuffed appear
ance. Black and reddish brown are the
standard shades for street wear, while a
pale waxen tan or dead white, with black
stitching can always be depended on for
:dressy occasions
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Justice Holt and His Wife.

The English Chief Justice Holt and
his wife hated each other, and when she
fell dangerously i'll he was SO delighted
that be became disgracefully tipsy. But
his wife was equal to the emergency and
sent for the great Dr.. Radcliffe, who
hated Holt, and therefore out of spite,
when the case was presented to him,
came with great promptness and saved
her life $50
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
THIS GATE HANGS PLUMB.

blacksmith can cast piece Of iron to act
as hinge, which is fastened to the gate
The top is raised and set into slit in
the top of the post to the left.
1t is claimed that this gate not only
hangs plumb, but will remain SO per-
manently without being displaced or
sagged to one side by rains, winds or
bad weather.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Pussy Appreciated.

Mrs. Sourface-Come here, my little
dear. What a nice, lovely little girl you
arei Tell me why you are so fond of that
cat?
Little Girl-'Cause when she purs ]
know she means it.-Good News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09

In 1913 no gentleman, either in Eng
land, France or Germany, thought for a
moment of going abroad without his cloak,
even In hottest days Of summer.