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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

ashamed of being aIivei-Indianapoiis
Journal.
Happy" murmured the bride 'Ah.
yes have a good. noble husband. and
Just think of the number Of people
got even with by not inviting them to
my weddingi" And there shone In her
eyes the strange. terrible light that re-
veaied the Woman Who Did Somebody
Detroit Tribune.
Look this prisoner UP in Bradstreet's,"
said the Judge. May / ask why your
honor gives such extraordinary fnstruc-
tions?" asked the prosecuting attorney.
Certainly" said the judge. II wish to
ascertain whether he Is a thief or o
niac."-Harper's Bazaar.
"Oh," she exclaimed, as they stood on
the balcony. don't you love the stars.
Edgar?" Yes" said Edgar. sbsent-
minded1y. but the soubrettes are very
nice, too."-Detroit Free Press.
SAY. Ohimmie. y know de cat wot We
was goin' ter Civ 10 cents fer de hidef"
Oats what" rs no 60. Mother cat
didn't do ting e i'm las night 'cept
peel I'm In streaks!"-Chicago Record.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE

Mark Twain says that the Arabs VIII
take anything but joke.
Charles Phillips. a nephew of Wendell
Phillips, Is the chef in a restaurant In
Portland. Ore.
Bismarck's bedroom contains only three
pieces of furniture-a large washstand. Q
small camp bedstead and a bootjack.
Anthony Hope declines to lecture IN
this country because, first, he u q very
poor talker, and, second, he has nothing
to talk about. No further apology is
necessary.
Ii Hung Chang's wealth Is estimated at
$500. 0O0, 900, much of which is invested In
Chinese pawnshops and rice fields and
the rest safely tucked away in European
securities.
9 Internal Revenue Collector Herring. at
Scranton, has a large quantity of olemar-
garine which the laws Of the United
States command him and the laws Of
Pennsylvania forbid him to sell.
1t isn't hard to get a military title in
this country. Mayor Strong of New York.
when asked how he came to be called
Colonel Strong. replied that. in 1888. he
commanded one division Of a business
mems parade. and he got 1t then.
Abraham Lincoln, Washington, d. c."
was an entry on the register at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York. the other day.
The owner of this name bore an aston
fishing resemblance to the pictures Of
President Lincoln. Mr.. Lincoln declined
to be interviewed.
A factory at Port Jervis. N. z. caught
fire on Wednesday, and the women Of the
neighbor'hood put 1t out with garden hose
attached to neighboring hydrants. So
says a report, which is open to suspicion
because dt does not add that when the
danger was over the women tainted.
Colonel Arthur B. Hilton. head of the
firm of Hilton, Hughes & Co., the big
New York dry goods concern. is having
placed upon his life an insurance of over
81, 100000. When the negotiations are COM
pleted the exact amount Will be 81, zoe. 900.
and he will have the distinction of carry
ing the heaviest life insurance OF any in
dividual in New York and the second
largest in the United States. Ex-Post-
master General Wanamaker of Philadel-
phia carries the largest amount of in
surance upon his life of any American.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
A Remarkable Case.

One OF the trials that win figure
among the celebrated cases OF this
country came TO an unexpected conclu-
sion few days ago In New York. Bar
bara Aub. pretty book agent, claimed
that Walter Langerman, a broker. had
criminally assaulted her. 1t was testi-
fed that the woman had hung around
his nat for several days. waiting to
sell him q book. She brought a note
Of introduction from a woman, who
seems TO have been. at least Of frivol-
Gus character. When she was finally
admitted to the Langerman apart
ments. the man was in his bath room.
Yet she entered. Persons about the
building swore they heard no outcries.
She did not mention the alleged as
SAUL 10 her friends for some time af-
terward. A society OF charitable wo-
men took up her case and prosecuted
IL. Recorder Cons charge was strong
iy against the prisoner. The testimony
OF a physician. who had examined the
woman was not admitted. because he
had died In the meantime. The pris-
oner was convicted and would prob
ably have been sent 10 state prison for
20 years.
LanRerman was twice remanded for
sentence. His case came up again last
Monday. when Recorder Con an
nounced that the complainant had con-
fessed to him that the story Of the as
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sault was pure fabrication. and that
the defendant. who had been found
guilty by the unanimous verdict OF the
jury. was entirely innocent. The de-
PENDANT did not have the slightest sus-
picion that he was to go free until the
Judge so informed him.
The case is extraordinary. 1t shows
that every blackmailer, IL at all clever,
has the advantage. A court and jury
always lean towards the side OF the
complainant. The man is assumed to
be a villain by nature and instinct, and
the ordinary jury will stretch point
TO avenge the injured innocence" Of
the woman. In this case the woman
told her story plainly and without en-
barrassment or hesitancy. and the
Judge, believing her. did all he could
do within the limits of his position TO
accuses Recorder Con- Of having ex-
ceeded these limits and shown gross
prejudice. but then the Sun never liked
Mr.. Goff. However that may be, 1t
was not the courts of justice but only
the woman's conscience that saved
Langerman from a long term in pris-
on. The Sun rightly declares that
"the Langerman case ought to be a
serious admonition to Juries and ter
rible lesson to Recorder Com. The
Langerman case has morals for every
body connected with 1t and for the
public as WELL
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
CURRENT TRIPLES.

Young wife-John. mother says she
wants to be cremated. Young Husband
Tel her II shell get on her things III
take her there this morning.
Post
Excuse me. madam, but is my foot
so small you don't know you are stand
ing on It," "A thousand paroons, sir.
No. it's so large / thought 1t was my
husbands Chicago Tribune.
Lord Dupraven's breakin' out in the
newspapers again." said one pugilist
We'll have to look out for him. / bleve
he's another OF these rank outsiders tibet
wants ter crowd US professionals often
the Observation-Disclosures Star.
Now" said the physician. who IS
noted for his heavy charges. II must
take your temperature" All right" re-
sponded the patient in a tone Of utter
resignation. You've got about every
thing else ! own There's no reason why
you shouldn't take that, too."-New York
Record.
Brigss-I don't care what you people
say. l was cured by patent medicines
after three of the best physicians had
said / could not live through the summer.
Dr. Bowles (earnestly)-You ought TO be
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
THE OLD HAND PRESS,

The lonely roof lets in the light; the door
door has fallen down;
From shadows drear the windows stare
above the silent town;
Gone is the prestige of the past-its pow
er to blight or bless
The spider spins his silver web around
the old hand press.
The old subscriber is no more-the editor
is gone;
The friends it knew in days of yore with
time have drifted on;
And the world goes by unheeding: but
do not love II less.
For memory still is leading to the old
hand press.
How could e'er forget It? Full many
a breezy day
When they came to whip the editor I've
seen him blaze away
With his double-barreled shotgun TIM
they fed in deep distress
From the buckshot as they ratified round
the old hand press.
There are memories-a million-of the
sanity days of yore."
The ghosts of ancient editors glide DER
the creaking floor;
And though by all forgotten. I do not
love IL less,
For the editor has whaled me on the old
hand press!
IF. L. stanton in the Times-Herald.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
A Seed Mar.

The secretary OF agriculture is likely
TO get an opportunity to earn his sal
airy. Several congressman from rural
districts propose to enlist for a seed
war. They demand free seeds for their
dear constituents; Secretary Morton
will not respond to the demand. and
the congressman propose to carry the
dispute into the house.
Morton is backed by earnest recon-
mendatfons in two OF President Cleve-
lands annual messages. The original
purpose Of the seed department was TO
place within reach of intelligent farm
ers rare or improved varieties of seeds.
chiefly for the purpose of testing these
In different sections of the country.
The system developed into abuse. The
presidents message for 1898 informed
congress that, in the former fiscal year,
the department of agriculture had sent
out cabbage seeds enough to plant
twenty thousand acres. sweet corn seed
for 1880 acres. watermelon seeds for
2.675 acres-and so through the list.
To do this the government actually
bought $66, 900 worth of seeds and spent
more than that sum in distributing
nine milIion packages of them. 1t ap-
pears that some of the members of
congress are constantly calling on the
department for vegetable. fruit and
flower seeds and for the bulbs and cut
things of varieties common throughout
the country. Secretary Morton refuses
to I'LL these orders for seeds. Some of
the rural members of congress are ask
ing what the department of agriculture
Is for. That question Is not easy to an
swer. but the public will say that. any
how, the department was not intended
TO be a free seed store.
1T is much the same with the depart
mentss publications. The granger con-
gressmen like ito send to their constitu-
ents the agricultural reports with their
highly colored plates. Mr.. Cleveland's
message of last year showed that a
half million copies of the report OF the
secretary of agriculture had been print
ed at cost of $500. 900; they cumber
the store rooms at the capitol and the
shelves of secondhand book stores"
Thus tar Secretary Morton's chief oc-
cupatfon has been to babble against
silver and shout for a third term for
Cleveland. A war with the grangers
would give him something to do.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The rule has been to hold the nation
al conventions in June or July. There
is talk among the republicans Of waSt-
ing next year until September-the
plea Is that an early convention and a
long campaign will unduly disturb the
business interests OF the country. That
Is specious talk: the presidential ques-
ton will be next summers chief topic.
and the business interests will be as
much disturbed by months of guessing
and gossip as by the actual presence
OF candidates in the field. II is clear
that another motion is behind the sug-
gestion OF a late convention. Many
voters are saying that, II the party
conventions ignore silver. they will go
outside the parties. The scheme Is TO
head these people OF: late convention
would make II difficult for the silver
people TO organize.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Senator Carriers plan OF auctioning
of the republican national convention
has not received popular endorsement,
but II ds likely to be put IN operation
next Tuesday just the same. 1t is the
city that has the largest campaign fund
for immediate application that will get
the plum = 81. I.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Mr.. Dupont. the republican who
claims to have been elected United
States senator from Delaware. has been
given the privilege of the floor Of the
senate pending a determination Of the
merits OF his case. It will be recalled
that the speaker of the Delaware SEN
ate was also acting governor at the
time he voted as a senator in the Joint
session. 1t is contended by the republic
cans that, having become acting gov
ernor. he had no right to vote as q
senator. 1t Is claimed that the Della
ware constitution expressly forbids any
person holding Office under the United
States or the state to exercise the office
of governor, and forbids a state officer
during his continuance in office to
be "a senator or representative. Count
ing the acting governors vote, thirty
votes in all were cast. Fifteen votes
were cast for Dupont. If the acting
governor had no right to vote. only
twenty-nfne votes were cast and Du-
pont had one majority. .fe
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1895.

Weeks ago word was given out that
Speaker Reed has reason to rely on
the support OF Senator Quay and
Thomas c. Platt in next years nomi-
mating convention. For that matter.
the senator from Pennsylvania has
practically declared himself for Reed.
Some Of the correspondents at Wash
sngton put this and that and the other
thing together and boldly announce
that the makeup OF the house COM
mittees Is dictated by Platt and Quay
under the terms of an agreement with
Reed. There may be merit in this
story; more likely 1t is. however. that
there isn't the shadow of truth in II.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Senator Mills talks sense. He would
instruct the secretary OF the treasury
TO pay out silver whenever the reserve
falls below the characterization limit.
That is a practical plan because 1t
would stop the raiding of the treasury.
1t Is admitted that. in large measure.
the heavy drafts on the treasury are
for speculative purposes-the processes
by which bond sales are enforced can
be kept up indefinitely. The motive
for these drafts would end were the
treasury department to announce Its
intention to pay in silver as soon as
the reserve falls below the hundred
million limit. Nothing would follow
except that the spectators would leave
the reserve alone: matters would run
along as they did during the first
dozen years after the reserve fund was
founded. and that Is what is wansed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Representative otey. OF Virginia.
proposes to introduce a little bill for
the annual distribution OF sl.S50.00O
among confederates. He represents
that during the war OF the rebellion
the United States forces captured from
the people OF the confederate states.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

'Tf had my brother Adry here
would take mis- entrails out and stretch
them like a cfothesline back and forth
through this CELL" was Harry Hay
wards comment to the sheriff. 1t Is
perhaps just as well that Harry is not
his brothers keeper.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08
TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees Its
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday. three times greater
than that Of any other newspaper pub
lished In the state of Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The republican national committee
will undoubtedly set the convention in
June. A short campaign would injure
the brass band Industry. -
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

We can believe that Senator Dubois
Is right in predicting that silver will
receive scant attention during the pres
ent session of congress. Mr.. Dubois is
a politician. He would not like TO
press a vote which would show only a
little remnant OF republican support
for silver; free coinage wouldn't get a
corporars guard out of the republican
majority in the house. In this country
are some millions of citizens who want
a chance to vote for free coinage next
year. Probably the opportunity will be
accorded them. But the friends of sill
yer are not counting on the Fifty
fourth congress-it is a goldbug affair.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

We think we violate no confidence in
saying that the republican press of
Montana is not unanimously bowling
itself hoarse for the denomination of
Governor Richards.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Congress might order an investaga-
ton to see whether the exceptionally
heavy gales reported as prevailing over
the British isles had their origin in the
breeze started by Senator Chandler.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The party OF Mckinley boomers who
have gone to Washington to be in at
tendance at Tuesdays national COM
mittee meeting are evidently afraid of
the adoption of Reeds rules for the
government OF that body.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The United States and Great Britain
might avert much unnecessary blood
shed by appointing Senator Chandler
and Lord Dunraven as the belligerents.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The effort of the Deer Lodge convicts
to elevate the stage did not prevent one
OF their number from essaying the part
of Jack the Scissors Slasher yesterday.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The gold reserve is now only about
s24, ZOO, 900 shy, but Mr.. Carlisle has
fourteen months more in which to wipe
out the balance.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Some people seem to think that the
retirement of greenbacks is not so GER
tain as that Of Mr. Cleveland. b.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Some of the Indians in Arizona seem
inclined to investigate the merits Of a
vigorous foreign policy.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The main issue in Turkey just now
is the issue OF frmans. "a.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

They say that Senator Hill returns
disguised from his lecture tour. That is
not strange; the senator faced small
audiences in big opera houses. The
tour was a fizzle and probably the SEN
ator ds mortified, but he has himself TO
blame for It. Mr.. Hill Is a drawing
card at a country fair simply because
the grangers are always curious to see
a man who cuts a considerable figure
in politics. But the senator is not spe-
cially eloquent, and the public that
pays for lectures had no thought of
buying a ticket just to see Mr.. Hill.
And that is true of most men in public
life Mr.. Bland was announced lately
for an address On Augusta, Georgia.
The report has reached the North that
the audience was composed of two men.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Nearly all the murderers OF tine
country are in hard lines. Mr.. Hay
ward Will swing into line next Wednes-
day.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

We trust that Uncle Sam will not put
It in the power OF John Bull to say
that it's a long time between notes.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The three clerks whom Postmaster
General Wilson has removed for DE
hitting the department must have
been engaged in pretty small business.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

The chaplain OF the house of repre-
sentatives being blind. according to all
scriptural authority the house viii be
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Senator Sherman's book, like it's dis
tinguished author. has been laid on the
shelf
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

Colonel Ingsrsoll is praying for the
Christian Endeavorers to keep 1t UP.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-08

property which was sold and converted
into the treasury of the union, amount
ing in value to s27.0oo.000. Mr.. Otey
proposes to restore to the southern
people, annually, i've per cent. OF this
amount for the purpose of aiding In
the maintenance OF soldiers homes for
ex-confederatss. for artificial limbs and
for the support of disabled ex-confed-
crates or their widows. The objects to
which 1t Is proposed to apply the
money are certainly worthy ones. but
the proposed legislation is contrary to
precedent and in a republican congress
Mr.. Otey's bill will serve only as a
laughing stock. 1t 10 more than doubt
full whether such a measure will COM
mend itself to the people of the South
generally. Not a few southern news
papers. while praising Mr.. Otey's hon
esty of purpose. are saying that the
ex-confederates are distinctly aversel
to appearing in the role of pensioners.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-11-23
a Mountain OF Gold.

The most famous and most puzzling
of ali gold mines is the Mount Nor
gan. Ii appears, from one of the
Sydney papers, that it contributes
more precious metal to the worlds
treasure than any other patch of the
earths surface of the same extent
Mount Morgan is supposed to be the
product of Il thermal spring, and is
simply mountain of gold, but of
gold that has already been treated
by nature. In some far off aye the
hill has been 4 huge natural crucihle
and all the gold it contains has been
already mined, chemically dissol we'd
and prccipitated by nature herself.
No @pcc!i Of gold larger than pin 5
point has ever been discovered in
the mount. The precious metal cx-
isis in a sort of golden -four, dissolved
through ironstonc--W Westminster Ga.
Zcttc.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-11-23
All HOsh.

DENVER, Nov. 22.-Joseph Murray,
United States Commissioner of Fish.
cries to AlasNa and Il special agent of
the Treasury. has just past through
Denver on his way from Alaska TO
Washington, having been summoned
by the President to report upon the
boundary survey.
Murray said: "I'he published re.
ports about the excitement in Alas5n
or british seizures. and the building
OF forts arc all bosh. There will be
no trouble. There are no armed
forces there excepting about twenty
Canadian police, who have conc to
the mead OF the Yukon river to watch
Tor highway thieves, who arc infest.
ing the gold camps. The people m
there hardly know that there is a
survey running"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-11-23
All IirlatUd.

It is stated as an actual fact that all
the people residing in Lctcher coun-
ty, Kentucky, arc related to one an
othcr. directly or indirectly. The
reason OF this Is found in the rcluarl<-
able Webb family. There are three
brothers and tl,r2c sisters of the ORIG
inal family, MI living near Sergeant.
and they have no fewer than 7IS de
sccndHntS living in the ncighborhood.
The eldest member of the family Let
tic, IS 81 years Old, and has twenty
children, nincty-iive grandchildren,
and fifty great grandchildren. Polly,
aged SO has sixteen children, and al
most as many grandchildren and
great grandchildren as Lctiic. The
youngest, Wiley, has the fcwcst de
sccnaanta. lie is 70 years old and
has eleven children, fifty.four grand
children, and fifteen great grandchiI-
drcn.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-11-23
Not Entirely Valuelcss,

@Did You ever know what had be-
come of the greater part of the con-
federate paper money with which the
country was flooded some years
back?" asked fellow traveller of the
writer on the train last week. mo?
Well, neither did until l happened
to visit Atlanta. Ga, few months
ago. In that town l found an old
man, who makes a business Of quietly
gathe ring in ali the commemorate bank
notes he can find. You know the
stuff was issued by the ton during the
war and there is any quantity OF it
still floating around. When the old
man gets d bundle of the paper he
sends it to Edison, the inventor, who
pays a good price for it. Edison
uses it to make carbon for incandes-
cent lamps. The paper upon which
the confederate notes were engraved
was made of the pulp of sea grass.
This branch of the paper making in
dustry has since become a dead art.
Sea grass paper, when chemically
treated by Edison, has been found to
make the best sort of carbon for in
candescent lights, and SO there is al
ways demand the the confederate
bills.