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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
A Prolific Year.

rHE Atlanta Constitution furnishes
the following estimates for the
year for the five great grain
crops: Corn. 1897. $4,000 bushels;
wheat 49,. 900, 600 oats, 722. 7O4, 600
barley, &c, $4,000, and rye, 2L4ls, 600
bushels. Compared with last year there
is falling off in corn of nearly 400 0O0,-
900 bushels. but an increase i'm wheat Of
60 900, 900 bushels. coming OPPORTUNITY
too, upon the failure of the wheat crop
abroad. There is also an increase over
last year of the oat crop to the extent
of 15,000000 bushels. And To their ag-
gregate value of more than a thousand
million dollars must be added the value
of the other crops of the farm, notably
between $500 600, 900 and $500, 900, 600 for
our cotton and hundreds Of millions for
our fruits. vegetables. poultry and the
products OF the dairy. Besides all this,
there are the profits off the cattle, sheep
and hogs. OF which We have seen no es-
innate. 1T has been a good year for. the
American farmers. and at least part
OF the credit should be given to Provi
dence; we cannot allow the Mckinley
act To monopolze il all
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

suit is that the proprietary medicine
concerns are up in arms, for they feel
it to be rank injustice to have to label
a harmless remedy poison" because 1t
contains a small modicum of strych-
nine, morphine or arsenic, drugs which
have their proper place in materia
medica. But the regular physicians are
eminently satisfied with the law. 1t
seems to have been suggested by Ohio's
pure food" act, which seeks to pro-
tect purchasers from all adulterated
goods.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

IT CCoRDING 10 the Washington
correspondent of a Chicago pa
! per a bill is about To be intro
duced in congress providing for the
publication OF a list of persons now
drawing pensions from the United
States. for the purpose of submitting
it to public scrutiny. The ultimate oh
ject is TO secure criticism and infotma-
tion concerning those whose names will
appear. There are tens of thousands of
persons drawing pensions who are not
entitled to them and have obtained
them by fraud. although il is difficult
To prove il. II the pension list should
be published. as proposed, II Is believed
the revelation would cause astonish-
ment in every community. II would
expose thousands Of impostors and
men who performed no military service
or So little that they would not be able
Ia face their former comrades
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
TEN PAGES.
MONDAY, DECEMBER Il. 1897.
Why He Did II.
rHE part of the message of Presi-
rs dent Mckinley that stirs to i'm

~HE part of the message of Presi-
dent Mckinley that stirs TO i'm
portance the goldbug organs is
hhe paragraph in which he remarks
hhat the Woicott commission isn't
Through yet. In several of the news
upapers that have reached Montana in
tissues that include their message COM
rnent, the remark is that the presi-
dents observation regarding the COM
missions work must be classified as
news. The public supposed that Mr..
Wolcott's report would be made in time
for brief summary of it in the annual
message. but the president wrote:
Our special ENJOYS have not made
their final report. as further negotia-
atoms between the representatives of
nhis government and the governments
of other countries are pending and in
contemplation"
1t seems at first surprising that the
president should go so far from facts
that are notorious in his effort to get
this monetary corpse upon its feet, yet
the policy in the presidents course be
comes clear when account is taken of
the fact that he is helpless in the sen
ate and that every little bit of strength
he can hold there helps. Wolcott, Car
TER and one or two other men in the
senate must be let down easy Their
cause is lost. but they don't want the
president to proclaim that fact. So the
president remarks that further nego-
Motions are lin contemplation" not
limiting what they are or by what
miracle they can possibly amount 10
anything.
The indefinite remark of the presi-
dent, however, permits these gentlemen
no pose a little longer as silver repuh-
licans. IL gives them a great deal of
comfort it costs the administration alb
solutely nothing. and SO the matter
stands.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

IN his cablegram to the New York
Times. Harold Frederic says that
the Austrian Germans are To blame
for the present trouble in Austria. IL is
worth noting, he says, that within the
last few months English opinion of the
Austrian difficulty has almost wholly
veered around. and that now every
1hing is sympathizing with the Czechs
and other Slavonic people. Once they
were regarded as a lot Of impracticabla.
bad-mannered nuisaHces. but now 40
one has a good word for the Austrian
Germans Mr.. Frederic accounts Tor
this In part by the natural antaeonism
,between the English and Prussiaus,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Shoes

lot Hanan & Sons hand-sewed
$500 Shoe ins Lace and Congress.
French Calf and Kangaroo, all
sizes and widths ........ ........ SO so
lot Ladies' 1915 Fine Dongola
Button Boots, hand turned or
Welt Sole, all sizes and widths:
sale price 81. 90
pair of Ladies' Rubbers given away
with every pair of fine Shoes sold dur
ing sale.
lot Ladies' $500 Dongola Button
Boots, all sizes. Observation-Disclosures. 81 90
lot Boys 81 Lace Shoes; sale
price 81 90
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
WOmen's and ChiIdren's Underwear

No house in Montana can touch us on
Knit Underwear at our regular prices.
With the cut made during this sale it
will be undoubtedly Interesting.
Children's Gray Merino Vests and
Pants, all sizes, each. ........... 10
Women's Gray Ribbed Fleeced
Vests and Pants, each zoe. suit. .35
Women's Wool Ribbed Vests and
Pants, each 40c suit. Actual
value, 81. so per suit. rs
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Personal Paragraphs.

Mrs. Glitch, proprietor of the famous
Fitch Garden III Denver. drives around
over the tty every day in carriage pull
ed by an ostrich.
Professor Charles w Kent has been
named president of committee that is
now at work raising funds to place Il
suitable monument Ia Edgar Allen Poe
in the library of the University of Nir-
ginia.
William Kern of Waterloo. Iowa, has
Just made confession that he and his
sweetheart Delilah Fales. murdered his
father and intended IL murder his moth
er, that they might come into possession
OF the farm and get married. When nrst
arrested Kern stoutly denied his guilt,
but says he could no longer stand the tor
lures inflicted hs the nightly visitations
of his fathers ghost. The ghost was
young man employed b. the detectives.
Boss Croker is after Dr. Parkhurst. lie
recently said that Il the doctor would
coniine himself Ia preaching the Chrlsilnn
virtues instead of dynauncng the chafac-
Ter of his ncighborS he would he more IN
line with his sacred calling. In eoHelu-
sion. the great Tiger manager SAID;
There Is not "a man N New York whose
tongue is more vicious than that OF tir.
Parkhurst, whose example is more dan
gcrous and who has scattered more mat
is bad all over the great city.
Won Maltko tile military genius of Ger
many. whose letters 81 the Franco-9er-
man campaign have lust been published
Was originally AN officer in the pahlsh
army. Al the age ut a years he was en-
tered At the Copenhagen Military aeau-
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envy as royal cadet and was educated at
the public expense. He wore the Danish
UNIFORM until he was 2 years old and
then enlisted i'm the Prussian army as a
volunteer, eventually becoming. next to
Frederick the Great, the greatest of all
soldiers ever in the German army.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
AT HALF PRICE
Dress Goods Bargains
That You've Never Seen EquaIed

Black and Navy Blue Serge, SO
inches cheap at 35c, sale price .16 2-3
Illuminated Suitings, full 40 in.
wide, easily worth 35c; sale
price. Observation-Disclosures. ... Is
One lot Suitings. some fancy
some Illuminated, few plain.
II pieces in all, 40 to AS inches
wide worth 60c to 75c; choice
per yard. 80
Our Black Dress Goods are famous
not only for their rich Raven Black
Finish of texture. elegance of design,
but for the extremely low prices.
Your choice of q pieces beautiful
Black Dress Goods, fancy Weaves, SO
inches, worth any time Ace; this sale,
zoe yard.
Another lot of 81 pieces Dress Goods,
strictly all wool, new designs. actually
worth 60c: this week. 35c yard.
Black Silks at lower prices than ever.
Black Brocade Silks. 60c yard. You'd.
say they We're cheap at SIPS.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

During these strange electrical dis
turbances, as democrat and an init
mate friend of Governor Smith il might
be advisable for state Senator Norris of
Dillon TO provide himself With at least
i iO.0o0-volt lightning rcd
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

II NEW law has just gone into ef-
II feet in ohio which threatens TO
\ rsNolutionize trade IN some lines.
1t requires all patent medicines and all
SORTS 81 preparations. the character ~
which is not seIf-eNident, II he labeled
as no their exact ingredients. The re-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Emperor Menelek of Ayssinia has or
dered n new throne from Paris. The
manufacturers will pay particular at
tention 10 the legs and warrant ii not
To tOtter
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Holiday Specials

1000 7Lsx91a inch framed pictures.
elegantly mounted, in a variety of
beautiful subjects, worth $1......==
1000 double Photo Frames. cellu-
loid and leather finish, gold orna-
mentation, 6xS inches, holds two
cabinet photos, worth soc. .....,..
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Pemberton. {. J.. and Hunt. \ j..
have concurred in the opinion that the
vacancy can wait until the governor
finds an A. J. who is %. n
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Possibly there has been an error of
transmission and instead Of antimony
MIR Brice. the Chicago alchemist. is
making gold out of ante-money.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Wash Goods

indigo Blue Calico. per yard .......
Apron Ginghams, Sc yard, supposed
to be cheap at SC; our price. 800.
We make Dress Innings a special
feature. Best Cambria. ........
Canvas, all colors. ...... 81
Silesia, evening shades included. s.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

If they fail Of a two-thirds majority
in the senate. the Hawaiian annexation
lists might sail for Honolulu harbor and
try Germany's little kaio- Chou act.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

When he reads of that Mississippi
lynching. Bre'r Johnson will be more
than ever anxious to remain with us
other old Missourians in Montana
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

If Tom Carter gives the United states
district attorneyship IL Tom Marshall.
the Hon. .. T. Goddard viii he oul in
1q0a L. beat the Tom-Tom.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Two Famous Bargains in Feather Boa

100 Black Cocque Feather Boas,
1h yards long, worth. ........... .
20 fine quality Marabout Feather
Boas in pink, blue, white and
gray, 81 81
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Unless the programme is changed Mir.
Durrant will be resentenced for the
'steenth time to-day. One of these times
something is liable TO drop.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

The brilliant effectiveness of Ger
manyS rush line against such weak
sisters at Hayti and China is peculiarly
notiCea BILE.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

The brutality of New York's six-day
race is liable To lead the Georgia legis-
lature to pass bill prohibiting
bicycling.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

The supreme court decision to be
handed down by Governor Smith is
awaited with increasing interest.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
CHRISTMAS SALE
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS VIRTUALLY GIVEN AWAY
Sale Begins To=day-=Lasts All Week
Women's Wrappers

Print and Outing Flannel Wrap
pers, choice styles, heavy fleeced
materials, worth 81, $1.25 and
s1.50. this week, or while they last
$40 Silk Petticoats!. "a. ;. -. .s...... 6.
S6.75 Silk Petticoats. q. ........... 4.
Flannel Waists. handsome styles,
during the great sale. .........
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

All general business. letters and CORE
srondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda. Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Women's Dresses, Ready to Put On,
For the House, Street or Travelling

For the House, street or travelling
Strictly up to date. Made by the best
Commercial Tailors in the world.
Really we have the only complete
line of dresses for all occasions.
To reduce the number prior to inven-
tory we will. during this week, sell any
one of them at absolutely
HALF PRICE
Do you realize the Importance of this
announcement? 1t means 81 for 81.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
$1,000 REWARD.

Will be paid for the arrest and conviction
of any person caught stealing the Stand
ard from subscribers.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Governor Stephens and Acting Cover
nor Spriggs have agreed ON a Missouri
compromise.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
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, 1897-12-13

The Standard has branch offices at
Butte. Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
piication.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Daily and Sunday, one year..........Sl0 90
Daily and Sunday. six months. $500. 500
Daily and Sunday, three months. 500
Daily and Sunday, one month";. LOO
Sunday, one year --.......+............. 200
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Main Offfce-Standard Building. Ana
conda. Telephone No. 1.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Postage free for the United States, Can
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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Subscription Rates Payable in Advance.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
Millinery Department

In this department we are head and
shoulders above all competition.
TO close out every trimmed hat be-
fore inventory we offer all trimmed
hats at
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
THE ANACONDA STANDARD

STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Publishers and Proprietors.
Printed Every Day in the Year.
Entered at the postoffice at Anaconda as
second-class mail matter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
HALF PRICE

No reservation. Your pick of nearly
100 elegant hats, Paris patterns and
from our own work rooms at half price.
Ladies' Walking Hats that sold at
81, $l.25 and $780, your choice
this week. so
Finest French Cocque Boas, 11a
yards long, very full and lus-
trous, reduced from S. to-. 81. 65
Some ladies like to trim their own
hats or wish to freshen them up by the
addition of a Feather or Ostrich Plume
or Flower. For their benefit we will
sell any of our Fancy Feather Quilts
or Birds
AT HALF PRICE
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Governor Smith can better afford to
forego some of the social functions in
Washington than to leave the selection
of IA successor to Justice Buck to be
made from the list submitted to the
acting governor by the populist caucus
in Helena.-Butte Miner.
MIR. Johnson is not singing Turn Me
Loose" now. He prefers boarding with
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

The Missoula Democrat is authority
for the statement that Thomas G. Mar
shall of Missoula is to be the next
United States district attorney for Mon
tana. Let's see Just how long has
Tom been a repubican?-Great Falls
Leader.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Mrs. Glitch, proprietor of the famous
Fitch Garden in Denver drives around
over the dty every day i'll carriage pull
ed by an ostrich.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

. Governor Smith may experience con-
siderable embarrassment in appointing
a successor to the late Associate Justice
Buck. Ife he appoints a democrat he
will probably have reason to wish he
had chosen a populist. and If "a populist
receives the appointment, the governor
may afterwards regret that he did not
make the award to a democrat.-Fort
Benton River Press.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Some member Of the bar of Silver
Bow county, which probably has as
much litigation as any county in the
state. would perhaps be fully as com
petent to occupy the position of Jus ice
of the supreme court as any man il: the
First ward of Helena.-Butte Miner.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

1t beats all how the free silver people
of Montana are being looked after and
the McKinleyites getting not even
bone. Carter evidently wants to have
these people on the string where he can
spank them and make il hurt if they
don't come t. terms next year on the
Legislative tcket,-Stevensville Tri-
bune.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

Montana has been getting some rath-
er undesirable climate lately because
of the weather bureau at Havre. Prob
ably HaVre is the coolest point in Mon
tana but because this bureau is To-
Gated here, a large part of the state
particularly this locality, is credited
with the kind of climate which pre-
walls at that point.-Great Falls
I.aal do
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-12-19

| IuCuo my SCH. I1cUI OUy . O.. urvr0L ett.v5-
guard than ID patent any time. ="
Undoubtedly young Edison believes
in secrecy. The ideas for this lamp came
| to him four or five years ago, but he
quietly stored them up against a rainy
day. This having come, he puts them
| to excellent use. He told me he had
shown the lamp to his father, but not
until it was completed and on the mar
ket.
Young Edison is highly gratified with
the result Of his business venture His
father, it should be observed, has moth
ing to do with this lamp, get it is being
manufactured End sold in large quanti-
ties. The young man declined to say
where his financial backing came from,
but as he speaks Of travellers on their
way to South America, Of Pacific coast
agencies and Of the japanese and Chi
nese trade it is to be presumed that
large amounts are interested, and the
big companies employing his respected
father must wake up
GAS soon as this lamp is fairly start
ed in business way" he said, 81 am
going to work on several ideas which |
have almost perfected and which will
be startling, l think. You see, | spent
nearly nine years with my father, and
it would be funny if ! hadn't picked
up a few things that may result in
something new. "
Personally this young man impresses
one most with his earnestness; his quiet
confidence and his utter absence of affec-
tation. He is slow of speech, but does
not weigh his words and occasionally
explains his meaning by some graphic
popular phrase
1.-THE fact of the matter is, - he said
confidentially, "I'm out to hustle for
myself, and it won't be my fault if
some of these big fellows don't know
I'm here. We're going to raise-well,
we're going to prod EN- up little. "
This young lnan, who at 81 challenges
a scientist Of worldwide fame, and his
father at that, never had any education
i'll the general sense of the term. When
he was II years old, his schooling
ceased, and from chat time until few
mcntbs ago he practically lived at his
father side during working hours.
Through long days and longer nights he
has watched the wizard" at work.
bending ever tubes until his back ached
and watching flying sparks till his
brain whirled. Delicate health prevent
ed close application to books, but his
was surer knowledge. He saw the be-
ginning Of things and watched the mys-
ferrous forces of nature in every phase,
absorbing the countless causes and effects
which make the chemists and the cleo
trician IS work
He was with his father when. the ca
bled news reached him of the discovery
Of the X rays and when for 90 hours
without break they experimental with
the new force. He was concerned in the
subsequent work in this line, taking
part in many of the /, 500 tests which
fixed unnn tnn0state of calcium as the
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-12-19
NEW BASEBALL GAME.
To Be Played With Cards In Washington
This Winter.

ga new game, says Washington
man, is to be played here this year. 1t
is nothing more or less than baseball
played with cards, and where tried it
has been pronounced one of the most
fascinating games to be played with the
seductive pasteboards At the close of
the baseball season the fans are, as a
rule, rather disconsolate at the loss Of
their favorite pastime. III Washington
this is the case as much as in any other
city in the big league. This sea9on q
number of young men who are il H."
habit of following the national game
decided to turn their attention to de-
vising game Of baseball to be played
with cards that they might have al op.
portunity to enjoy their sport during
the long winter months. Herctof, re
baseball has been played with dice and
boards, but the element of luck was al
ways the prime factor in a game played
in this way. The inventors of-the game
with cards wanted to hit upon way of
playing 1t that would allow 4 knowl-
edge Of the game to come into play, so
oAdsSV q 1ilhh pei lSACGOl
easily defeat one who knew nothing of
the national pastime. Accordingly they
hit upon plan in which luck, Of
course-for that is evident in all base
ball contests-would enter, but in a
way subordinate to skill and science.
"The game is played with a euchre
deck, or, if only two play, tho aces,
kings, queens and jacks. 1t requires
careful watching of base runners, a
sound judgment when to order up on
bad hand and considerable skilM In
the game it is possible to play for time,
to effect sacrifice play, to make two
baggers, triples and singles, give bases
on balls and bring about three strike
outs in order to prevent a hit and the
bringing in of "a run, and, in fact, all
the regular as well as the tricky plays
usually seen in fast baseball contest.
AS soon as the game is perfected several
young men in Washington will make up
league and play on regular sched-
ule. Percentages will be kept to deter
mine the standing of the several clubs
or players, and the winner of the pen
nant at the end of the season will re-
celve the prizes to be selected by tho
governors Of the league. New York
Sun.