The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-01
OYSTERS ARE IMMENSE
Rounder Says the Philadelphia BlTalYeS
Are 9. K
FARCE OR LIGHT OPERA
Jeremiah Endeavoring TO Place
Bonds-DIsiike OF Silver Coins
The Opera Discussed and
Other Mention.
FARCE OR LIGHT OPERA


To The Editor Of the Standard
PHILADELPHIA, March I'll cans say
that think much of the missionary spirit
in this town but the oysters are immense.
A week spent here fails to show any great
rush for Rounder bonds, although they
have been offered freely TO rich or poor,
foreign or native born or whoever might
have tho price. 1t is very difficult to
arouse even a passing interest in evan
celistic work in Butte city. If we were
located in China, Hlndostan or the Fiji
islands wo would get money for rebuild
ing our tabernacle without great trouble.
As it is the bonds seem TO be drug on the
market. expect to go to Washington to
get Grover interested in the bonds as soon
as the travelling is good.
In New York Philadelphia is called n
dead" town, hut l notice that funeral
professions invariably move on a trot IN
this town. If everything else moves as
rapidly as the funerals the town must be
pretty fast. The city in fact Is not SO pro-
gressive or so speculative as New York,
but il accomplIshcs things although IT
takes time for everything. The horse car
system has been finally abandoned and
electricity substituted after the other big
cities had shown the success of the inno-
walton. There is not such show of
York city. But the Quaker city seems
more solid and the population is more
settled to all appearances.
Madame Tavary and her company have
lust closed an engagement here, playing
To fair audiences in 50-cent house.
speaking of shows il is noticeable in New
York particularly that everything is farce
comedy or light opera. Sometimes III
Butte complaint is heard because SC
much of tho comic and so little of the
higher dramatic art is presented at Ma
CURES. But il is SO in New York city too
and it is probably SO because the people
want il and patronize 1t better. The PEG
ple Get about what the!' want in theatri
calls as they do IN newspapers and IN
preaching. That succeeds for which their
is the greatest popular demand. TAX
out the vaudevlles, comedies and ligh
operas from the thcaters of New lorl
city. and there would be no shows left
Some of them which arc heartily APP
plauded would scarcely he endured II
Butte, and the average show IN Butte 1
not much below the average show in tn
theaters of New York city.
Exception should be made of the Gel
man opera, which has had n most SUE
cessful season in New York and is no.
starting n season in Philadelphia whc
promises to be almost equally successful
Magnificent audiences greeted the super
rendition of WaGner's operas in Me-
York. What sublime productions thos
operas of Wagner would have been wcr
there only something 20 them besides th
music. Take "Die Waikure" for example
1t makes hero of man VIII
elopes with his twin sister, and hcroln
of a woman who leaves her HUSBAND
clonea with her twin brother and is guilt
OF incest. There Is not an cnnobiing scr
timent in the words of tho opera. Ihet
is nothing in the "Black Crook" rs in
moral as that. But perhaps It is all th
greater triumph for Wagner's grand mn
sic that it clcvates every listener an
makes everyone forget the play itself
A. to silver, there are no evidences {
Philadelphia being any moro friendly .
ward the white metal than is New Nor
In New York | never saw n silver dolla
In giving change bills are always dea
out in the New York metropolis. In Phi
adeIphia. however, silver dollar is occ'
sionally seen. The stores here adopt Il
rule when giving change to shove OIL on
silver dollar with several bills. When
called on a clerk for Gods sake 20 ca
mo silver instead of those filthy, diseas
breeding pieces of rag, he seemed to thin
Twas sarcastic at first. but finally ga
INC the silver dollars. He said they ha'
plenty OF silver dollars, but as a rule pc
pie prefer the rags. You never SEQ go
here outside of the mint. and when tri'
% pass gold piece in store here tn
telcphoned 10 tho mint to ascerta
whether the government had bcen robbt
or not.