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Another Commission.

The appointment of the Venezuelan
commission is perhaps the most inter-
esting incident of its kind in this coun-
try's foreign-relation line since Presi-
dent Grant named his San Domingo
commission, twenty-five years ago.
The president became enthusiastic over
the project to annex the Dominican re-
public-with the exception of Cuba, the
island is the largest in the West Indian
group. In his message to congress. the
president pictured how the island
would yield to the United States
wealth of sugar, coffee. tobacco and
other tropical products.
The senate, by a tie vote, rejected the
scheme for which President Grant had
prepared the way. Several months
later. the president asked that he be
authorized to appoint a commission.
Consent was grudgingly voted. Con-
gress offered to furnish money for
actual expenses but refused to provide
a salary for the commissioners. The
president named Benjamin F. Wade,
Samuel @. Howe and Andrew d. White
the last named is one of the Vene-
zuelan commissioners. These gentle
men visited San Domingo. They stud
led the situation thoroughly, became
convinced that President Grant was
right and so reported.
Then the trouble began. There fol-
lowed in the senate one of the most ill
tempered debates ever heard in con-
gress. Charles Sumner led in the op-
position-he made a terrific attack on
the presidents conduct, he went farther
than most of the senators felt was
right. The annexation scheme failed.
and the smoke of the battle hung heav-
lily and long. Thereafter General Grant
and Senator Sumner had no personal
by action of the senate. Sumner lost
the craftsmanship of the committee on
foreign relations, and he refused COM
mittee appointments to which he was
assigned.
From that time until the close of his
life Senator Sumner, brilliant as had
been his career and splendid his abil-
ity, was in an uncomfortable place.
although. just as the end was APP
preaching. he appeared to be treated
by the republican senators with re-
newed friendliness. He died three
years and a day after his Craftsmanship
was taken from him; meanwhile. the
San Domingo annexation scheme had
passed out of the minds of the people.
II this country gets any fun out of the
Venezuelan affair. it may come when
the commission makes its report
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Jameson s Odd Work.

Harold Frederic. clever London
correspondent of the American press,
called attention in his letter of last
week to the fact that, for the London
public, the scene of possible trouble is
eeaselessly shifting. Last Saturday
the London Times gave prominent
place on its telegraph page to news
from johannesburg and Berlin, with
reference 10 threatened trouble in the
Transvaal. assigning the Venezuelan
news to a secondary place. lit was Ar
menia a fortnight ago" says Mr.. Fred
eric. 1T was Venezuela last week: 1t
is the Transvaal to-day; it viii be the
Niger next week, Egypt all the time,
and so on In an endless cycle OF from
tier friction" It's not strange that
England has a big navy. She needs II;
she may possess it and still be weak
Lately there arrived in Montana a
traveller returning from the rransvaal
country. He said in an interview with
a Standard reporter that the English
and other outsiders had much 10 do
with paying the taxes but nothing to
do with running Transyaal a9a!.s. mat
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discomfort was widespread and that
trouble was in sight. This gentleman's
forecast proves true; his words also put
in a sentence the causes of the surpris-
ing performances which are recited in
the sensational news from Johannes
burg during the past twenty-four
hours.
Jameson. the leader of what appears
to be an uprising of a certain sort. re-
ceived from British authority emphatic
notice TO quit. He paid no attentions
he pushed ahead: and the news is that
his band of followers has already paid
a heavy penalty for this lawless adven-
ture. At the same time. 1t is by no
means clear that the hostile movement
has been put down. 1t appears. how
ever. that German and French resi-
dents in the Transvaal refuse to make
common cause with Jameson. so that.
in all probability the uprising will be in
the nature of a John-Brown Harper's-
Ferry raid =.
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Schurz Heard From.

Naturally enough, the year 1896 opens
with Carl Schurz in full view. looking
for a Job that has a salary attached.
He was in sight yesterday. 1t appears
that a committee of the New York
chamber of commerce held a meeting
yesterday to discuss the Venezuelan
ruction. As will be seen from the
news of this morning. the meeting was
for peace and harmony and fraternity
and that sort OF thing, and 1t called for
resort TO arbitration.
As IL that ground hadn't been fully
covered. Long ago the government Of
the United States proposed arbitration
and was met with curt refusal on
Great Britain's part. Since then the
government has gone ahead along lines
that find as good as universal ap-
prevail with the American people on
five commissioners to study the Vene-
zuelan situation. Meeting on Thurs
day, II the chamber-of-co peo-
pie wanted 10 do something OF account,
why didn't they show their colors
either with praise or blame of the com
mission? That would have amounted
TO something.
AS we were saying, Carl Schurz was
in sight yesterday. He attended the
New York meeting. At a convenient
moment ne offered a sort Of amend
ment TO the resolutions b. proposing
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In the room of the senate committee
on finance, the bond bill is not in the
house of it's friends. Yesterdays meet
prelude-no vote was taken. But the
bond bill was discussed. with the re-
suit that a free-coinage bill will be
pressed upon the attention of the COM
mittee and the chances are that a
silver bill will get before the senate for
full discussion as a substitute for the
measure that came from the house.
The fact is to be kept in mind that,
thus far since the present congress be-
gan it's sessions, the administration
gold bugs have been losers. The house
of representatives passed a bond bill.
but it stipulated for the payment of the
bonds in coin, whereas the president
and Mr.. Carlisle insisted that nothing
short of a stipulation to pay in gold
would do.
Speaker Reed undertook to organize
his committee on coinage and his COM
mittee on currency in the interests
that are directly represented by the
Cleveland administration. But even If
the house of representatives had gone
the full length of the administrators
demand, that would have ended 1.-THE
presidents notions cannot get the as
sent of the senate.
Thus ii happens that the pending
bond bill is not worth discussing-it
will never become law. At the same
time. good will come of the fact that
the bond bill is up. because the silver
element in the senate will take advan-
tage of the opportunity thus offered to
get a hearing. Before the end of jan
uary. the gold bugs will discover that
the silver issue is not half as dead as
they had fancied IL to be.
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A BOY IN THE LIBRARY.

Alas, What ruin has he wrought
In learning's dim domain!
Invader of the realms of thought
And leveler Of brain.
How did he gain the library key
And scale the topmost shelf
To batter Dante's bust. to be
Lambs butcheI-by himself?
NY Milton shows an inky mark
A page is missed from Moore;
And Chaucer from his corner dark
Has tumbled to the floor.
And Baxter-he of sanity Rest"
And meditation deep
Brought from the regions OF the biest,
Lies in the tousled heap!
Sage treatises on ancient Greek
And dissertations long.
And soul-enchanting love lays speak
Promiscuous from the throng.
From corners drear | sadly hear
Old Duncan's dying groans:
A handouts gone from Hamlets hair
And Banquo suns his bones.
Then in the rare and classic wreck
/ see the tyrant's form;
His arms are round his mothers neck
refuge in the storm!
And as his rosy lips meet mine
And showery ringlets fall.
A world of Shakespeares I'd resign
| His kiss is worth them all!
Frank L. Stanton.
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FRIDAY. JANUARY 3, 1896.
The Five Men.

Yale college gets good representation
in the presidents Venezuelan commits
sion. Mr.. Gilman is Yale graduate in
the class of 1852; Mr.. White in the
famous class of 1858; Judge Brewer in
the class of 1856. At college White and
Gilman became warm friends. and their
friendship has been unbroken to this
day. Both are men of eminence in
scholarship and in educational work.
Mr. White was the organizer and first
president of Cornell university Gilman
was a professor at Yale, then president
of the university of California. He Is
now the president of the famous Johns
Hopkins university. Both men have
been generous contributors to litera-
ture. 1t was Gilman's fate to struggle
along on the modest stipend of col
lege professor. White, who took the
highest literary honor of his class at
Yale, inherited wealth. After gradua-
ting he saw diplomatic service.
When he closed his career at Cornell
Mr.. White was appointed United States
minister to Germany, in the time of
President Hayes. During part Of the
Harrison administration he was minis
ter to Russia, and was left undisturbed
by the Cleveland administration until
his resignation was voluntarily sent In
the story has been current that Mr..
White would enjoy term in the Office
of governor of New York. He is a
native of that state. Gilman is a son
of Connecticut. Brewer was born in
Asia Minor. Gilman is the author of
the life of President Monroe in the
American Statesmen" series.
Frederic r. Coudert was industrously
pressed by his friends for the supreme
court vacancy recently filled by the
appointment of Judge Peckham. Judge
Aivey's appointment by President
Cleveland TO the judgeship he holds. in
1898. was the occasion OF a facetious in
terview with Senator German Alvey
is a Marylander. When his appoint
ment was announced, he was warmly
praised by Senator German as a man
eminently qualified for the judgeship.
And the senator took care to add that.
although he was a Maryland senator,
he never heard or knew a thing about
the presidents intentions respecting
Alvey until he read the announcement
of the appointment in the newspapers.
1t will be conceded that the commits
sion is well made up; possibly the crit
icism will be urged from certain quar-
tiers that the practical business world
Is not represented. Three of the COM
missioners are lawyers. There was
mention of the name OF Minister
Phelps. and the report is that the
appointment was offered him. He
would probably have been as good a
selection as either of the lawyers
who have been named.
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her and pulled her hair. Mrs. Toplofty-
Oh. how terriblei Still. even that didn't
justify you in fighting her. Mrs. Nouvo
Reesh-Yes. but II you had ever been
barrnaids you. would understand how mad
II made ne.-Pick-Me-Up.
! The Fervor of Love: She-Darling, do
you love me? He Ckissin her raptur-
ously)--Do II wish you were two
headed girl. That's all 1 can say. It'd
Bits
An Eye for Proportion: She-Oh. Mr..
Jones-those two lovely poems of yours
in TINS week's-a- He "a poetical star of
the seventh magnitude)-You mean my
two sonnets in the Weekly Sundew? She
Yes: how exquisite they both are! He
(much pieased)-And which did you like
best? Sheen, the longer one!-New
York Evening Sun.
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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
iished In the state of Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.
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1t is really to be hoped that some
body will pull Attorney General Has
kell off from prosecuting the judges of
the supreme court for violating. the
game laws. 1t wouldn't look at all nice
to transfer the supreme court chambers
TO Deer Lodge
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Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, has
undertaken to parallel the career. of
Grover Cleveland. History sometimes
repeats itself but 1t is very leery to-
wards set encores.
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A Butte man asked to be excused
from jury service yesterday because
his wife was coming home from visit
and he wanted to slick up the house
for her. The thing for him to do is to
offer his wife as a substitute.
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DOr1ESTICS

We start the ball rolling following
bargains:
spread price
size 26x5O, a -
heavy l2
ga
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1t is reassuring to learn from Wash
ington that the United States govern
ment will maintain strict neutrality"
towards the Venezuela commission. If
the United States were to declare war
on It the commission would get licked.
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Unable to get bail. Mrs. Davidson.
of San Francisco. says she will devote
her time to religious work among the
other prisoners. There would seem to
be a chance for the other prisoners to
reciprocate in kind.
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Stock Taking
Ills Over

And we find that business the past year has ex'
cecded fOndest looking forward
to doing greater business in eighteen hundred and
ninety-six and will if there any merit in selling sa
goods lower than any house in Montana. We call
special attention to the prices which quote below.
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The government authorities at Wash
ington are very careful to announce
that there are no strings to the Vene-
zuela commission. Not even wall
street is to have a pull r.v
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Under the present condition of things
gold may be both exported and i'm
ported in the same ship at a profit.
The gold bugs should get great move
on Il
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We hardly think the country will be
thrown into a paroxysm of amazement
by the news that the New York cham
Der of commerce is opposed to war
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DIR. Jamison having been licked out
of his boots, of course the British gov
eminent repudiates the whole business.
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DIR. Jamison was evidently drawing a
Schomburgk line in South Africa all
by his lonesome.
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DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT

o goods
all dress goods 80 inches wide yard These
wool dress SO inches wide
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DR.. Jamison took an injection of lead
yesterday.
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Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's
apology to Germany will be that he
didn't know Jamison was loaded.
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We don't think England will Jump as
many claims this year as usual.
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FURNISHINGS

100 dozen Windsor ties all silk SO inches long 10
Underwear overshirts, wool socks, ckwear, wi
penders collars and cuffs at prices that will astonsh
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The Standard has branch ofhces at
Butte. Nissoula and Great Falls.
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CLOTHING

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andg turned al :
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home sick for several days, but IS able &c
get about his work again.
Mrs. DR.. Baker of Barneville, IS calling
on her daughter. Mrs. J. NJ. Mcdonald OF
Gravel Hin.
Rev. II. A. l. King is AZ the wheeling
Hospital for treatment for few days.
Miss Minnie Coyne, after very pleas
ant visit in this city. has returned TO heI
home at Steubenville.
In Church Circles.-There will be no
preaching to-day mt the First Presbyterian
Church on account of the illness of the
pastor. Bishop Boyd Vincent will hold
services in the Trinity Episcopal Church
at 1890 p. m. In all the other churches
the regular pastors viii hold the regular
services. All are invited.
Charles Blakeney expects to move TO
Chicago soon and in connection with
Harry Hays and oscar Mckinley will open
up a printing and job office.
The colored people Will give festival
in City RaI on November II, the pro-
ceeds to be given to Dan Lucas. VINO has
been sick for nearly the last three years.
Miss sadie Kane, who has been visiting
in the Fourth ward. Beilaire, has returned
to her home at Caldwell.
Mrs. James Steel is quite III a. her home
in the Fifth ward.
Miss Maud Heirer. Of the Fifth ward,
spent part of last week visiting friends
in Wheeling
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take medical journals and read them
carefully. observing every rule Of health
there laid down But everybody does
nor read medical journals, and conse-
ouently isn't dead sure whether there
is death In the kiss, OF not
Now. OF course. as an abstract prop
osiuon. there may be young lovers who
would refuse to kiss their sweetheart
because she had neglected to disinfect
her lips. We have heard Of such cases,
but it has only been remote heresay,
and after the most thorough search,
we can find no authentic record of any.
I'm fact we do not believe there ever
was such a case since the beginning Of
the world. The proposition that con-
fronts the non-medical-journal-reading
public is: Shall we take the uncarbol-
lied. the deadly kiss, right from the
lips or HER or HIM, and say nothing
about it and run the risk thereupon at
tendant to life and limb, or fly to the
carbolic acid bottle and neuralize the
bacterialisuc nectar?
Young man. Young woman. Answer!
Are YOU. or are YOU not, wiling to risk
it2 And don't all speak at once.
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The G. & 2. pay car distributed wages
to the employees of Bellaire yesterday.
Mrs. Charles Brockmau received 5000
life insurance on her deceased husband S
life from the National Union.
Andrew Kern Will put a new roof on
the EeallsviIe school house.
Judgc-eIect J. W. Hollingsworth. OF 81.
Clairsville. came down yesterday and took
a look around Bellaire.
The Bellaire steel plant worked between
two and three days last week.
The Bollaire bottle works VIII start up
tomorrow morning This factory has
been idle for some time and the starting
up win of benefit TO a large numuer OF
Beuaire people.
Charles Jamison. Of Baltimore. is here
looking for a job in the bottle house.
Don't forget the Irish play at the Ely
sian tomorrow night.
Miss Myrtle Vance. of Wheeling. is the
guest of her friend, Sadie Monaghan.
r.. r. Evans. the owner and manager OF
the West Wheeling paper mill. got the
little finger of his left hand mashed be-
tween two rollers Friday.
The Rellaire high school has organized
a literary society with Ida Codiland pres
iient. Sue White, vice president. Mack
Stewart. secretary, J.. Mayer, musical de
rector They will meet every Friday az
ternoon I'm the High School Hail.
The Eastern Ohio Teachers Association
will hold their yearly session this year ut
New Philadelphia on Friday and Saturday
three weeks away. November % and 2,.
d. w. Matlack Of Steubenville. viii de-
liver the inaugural address.
Mrs. c.. ]. Ia Roche. of the Second
ward. has gone TO Pittsburg with her
friend Mrs. Thomas Dunlap. who spent
several days visit an the Ia Roche home.
Miss Lizz' Jennings. Of the Fourth
ward. who has been visiting friends at
Knoxville Tenn. and Louisville Ky. IS
expected home early this week.
j. Hastings. who went to Parkersburg
90 vote and visit his family. has returned
70 his work in this city
r. P. Thomas. the c.. L. & W yardmas-
ter at Bridgeport, was confined to his
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BRIDGEPORT.


Old Folks Day will be observed al
the Kirkwood NJ. r. Church this morn
ing. A cordial invitation is extended
TO all
Paul Cooke is out after several days
illness.
j. Z. Clark has secured a position al
the Aetna-Standard mill
J. X. Jolly is home from a visit with
relatives az COrapOlis Pa
The c. & p pay car was along this
end Of the line yesterday
Cam Thomas IS home from visit
with relatives az GAINESVILLE
Pro- Riggs is Spending the day az
Pittsburg with relatives.
Miss Nellie Marshall of Mt Pleas
ant. is the guest OF Mrs Helen Dunleyy.
Miss Diana Church, of Pike street, is
seriously ill.
Frank Branum is home from the
Ohio State University spending couple
of days with his parents
Roscoe Barger and wife, Of Smith
field. o.. are the guests of Jim Barger
and wife. of this place.
James Jones. of Columbus, is the
guest of friends and relatives here.
Miss Gussie briggs is on the sick
list
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Millinery! New arrivals this week.
Walking Hats. best values.
SWABACKER'S.
GRAFTON


GRAFTON. W.. Va. November ID. L.
1.oar. who has been at Wheeling for tine
past three months taking treatment, has
returned cured.
Harry Nunst. OF the Ia" department OF
the University. came home the hFst oil
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SNYDFR-On Saturday, November 3.
1896 at ( clock a. M. Il. D. Snyder, IN the
oath year or ms age.
Funeral notice hereafter
TrrrsEP-On SATURDAY,. November 7.
1Sdf CHARLES H.. oldest SON of William and
Annie Heiser. aged 1I years.
t,,,rersI from, family residence. No. u
- - -. ,s..r,oo,, ~ q
hdNel Sl' 0'
o'clock. Friends of the family invited to
attend Intcrmcnt at Peninsula cemetery.
,.-.,... ,-.....t... q ,.o.
~ r. C'i,c,, ','' oi5.sI sem Cf Mr. and
~. - F H. -, 80. ape5 "a vears ii
- W ,,, .,,l q 5Y,,s
a.. ..-i.f.,,,, 20 III.
Funeral rom me IeS.'' I, ,,' oi ms
parents, corner or Charles ana EleVeh1h
streets. this Sunday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. Friends of the family are re-
.....,e,,lr,. invited to attend Interment al
.-
Mt CALVARY cemetery
FEELING Thursday November 9Th.
1Sof an GAO o'clock %. m. A. G. T. Ebelng
i'm The 60th wear OF his age
r,,r,1 ,,.iU ta1o Mace from his late
- o-os r,,f street Sunday after
residence -'.' I'm ,.+..-.,,l-., 49, C.roo,-
noon at 2 cloch' i"'-' me-. "'