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IN NATAL

Through the long Tamboukie grass we
rode at set of sun
Round the hill. across the spruit. We fol-
lowed. one by one
And the cattle. lowing. went before, and,
ever where they trod,
Crushed the perfume from the grass; II
was breast high from the sod.
In the swamp, away below us, famed n
b,azed the Pokers' red
And the many spiked orchid proudly rails
ed her scented head.
The grass bells rang a warning In their
pink and purple chime.
The reeds bent low to hear IL. and swung
the birds nests to the rhyme,
The spruit came gurgiing down the Kloof
between abe Arums gay.
Where the ferns grow in the rannies of
the rocks pink and gray.
From out Its dull dark foliage the chest
nut bloom was fair.
The moss. like graybeards hanging. on
its stem straight and bare.
The setting sun was gliding all the Berg
with fiery light.
The mist rose in the valley. dim and
white.
We passed the big plantation where the
waffle fiow'rs smelled sweet,
The red dust was rising from the red road
meath our feet.
We were near the Kraal at last, and we
cooed long and low
Cracked our whips. and. as the sun sank,
the breeze began to blow
TIE dogs barked as the cattle through
the open gateway passed,
The rails were shut behind them-our
work was done. at last.
Spectator.
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Renewal Of Hostilities.

~ ENERAL DANIEL f. SICKLES.
" formerly minister to Spain.
takes a gloomy view Of the ope-
rations of the peace commission at
Paris. He says it's all a farce and he
predicts that hostilities between the
United States and Spain will be resumed
within three months. 1t was a terrible
mission to Paris. There was only one
place to make n treaty OF peace. n
that was in Washington. IL Spain
wanted to know our terms the place
to inquire was in Washington. We
could have informed her by cable what
she was to do. and we should have in
formed her that she was to do II p. d. D..
without any palaver or nonsense. / con-
slider that the performance in Paris is
a pure farce. II means simply a long
wrangle and jawing. ending in disagree
ment. The European press will all range
on the side of Spain, and we shall be
told that we are too arrogant and must
abide by European opinion. This busi-
ness OF sending the Iowa and the Ore
gon TO the Philippines IL all nonsense.
Keep them right here IN New York bar-
Dor. where they will be needed-where
they will be needed within three
months. Mark what 1 tell you"
General Sickles is an alarmist. Spain
Is in no condition to fight any longer.
her army Is scattered and her navy
wiped out. To renew h war she
would have to form an alliance with
some other European power. and that
other European power would have to
assume the burden of all the expense
and most Of the fighting. II Spain a
any intention of making trouble, 1t will
begin long before the expiration OF three
months. II she refuses to evacuate
Cuba and Porto Rico on the dates this
government has set for the evacuation.
there will be some ground for General
Sickles' prediction. but not otherwise.
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Current Comment.
Protection an Incubus.

From the Detroit Free Press.
The American manufacturer not My
has natural resources at his command.
but also possesses skilled labor and supe-
rior machinery, and In the combination OF
these two factors he can control the
worlds markets. In view OF such condi-
lions how absurd to keep up the cry OF
protection to home industries. We have
but to throw on the incumbrance of high
tariff In order to go forth and conquer
the whole commercial world. Even with
this handicap the vigorous young giant
OF American industry Is making rapid
Roadway. The policy Of protection Is fast
becoming an anomaly for this CONNER
cially expanding nation. Our erstwhile
Infant Industries" have outgrown their
swaddling clothes.
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~HE national league baseball sea-

~HE national league basepaii sea
son. which closed on Saturday.
was In some respects unsatis-
factory. Few Of the clubs made money
Most OF them finished the season in the
hole. The attendance at the games
wa very large during the first month
or two. and that Notwithstanding the
war excitement. But the crowds fell of
and towards the close were very small
and disappointing. An effort was made
by the to rehabilitate the
game with a view of giving the public
clean baseball. The effort appears to
have been unsuccessful. We infer from
the comments Of the newspapers in the
national league cities that In no pre-
vious season has downright rowdyism
been so rampant among o players
and attendants. 1t is disgusting In the
extreme TO the respectable element
among those who attend these athletic
contests TO see a game which is in it.
self an admirable one spoiled by the
bad temper Of those who participate In
Il. and by the conduct Of the ruffianly
element among the spectators. 1t Is not
to be expected that popular interest In
the gam should survive abuse of the
umpire by the players and attempts by
the latter to do physical injury to one
another
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>HE new governor general OF the
dominion Of Canada. the Earl

dominion of Canada. the Earl
Of Mimic. il peculiarly well
equipped for the position. During the
Riel rebellion of 1856 he was a capable
officer. and did some Of the most dinl-
cult work of the campaign. During this
rebellion he was also military secretary
to the governor general, which position
was occupied by him from 1888 to 1856.
He was. besides. in the Afghan cam
paign Of 1879, and the Egyptian cam
paign of 1882. so that his war record Is
a very good one. The new governor
general is personally agreeable. and
fond Of outdoor sports and amusements.
His political duties will not be onerous.
and. as he ZONES to the Canadians with
a better knowledge of their character
and institutions than any preceding
governor. there seems to be no reason
why he should not make an acceptable
official.
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DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN RALLIES.

CAMPBELL AND NORRIS
Boxeman. Monday, Oct. II.
Townsend. Tuesday. oct. H.
Virginia City. Wednesday. Oct. 10.
Dillon. Thursday. Oct. %.
Anaconda. Friday. Oct. q.
Boulder. Saturday. Oct. %.
MAGINNIS AND WHITEsIDE-
Columbia Falls. Tuesday. Oct. Is.
Kaiispell. Wednesday,. Oct. ~.
- Libby. Thursday. Oct. D.
MAGINNIS-
Missouia. Saturday. Oct. q.
Stevensvilie. Monday. Oct. "a.
Hamilton. Tuesday. Oct. q.
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When Mark Twain was first intro
duced to General Grant. the latter
shook hands in a perfunctory manner
n Immediately relapsed into his GUS
tomary attitude of reticence. There
was an awkward pause: II grew longer
m longer as the humorist tried to
think of something bright to say.
Finally, as II In sheer desperation,
Twain looked up with an assumed air
of great timidity INC said: "Mr Presi-
dent. IL feel a little bit embarrassed.
Do your The president could not help
smiling. and Mark took advantage OF
the chance the incident presented to
give place to others.
Ten later, when statesman n
humorist met again. General Grant.
with a twinkle in his eye. said. before
Twain had the chance to utter a word:
mr.. Clemens. I don't feel at all einbar-
raised. Do your"
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URIosITY is keen as to the work


~ URIOS1TN is keen as 10 the work.
Il ings OF the republican force
act in New York city. 1t gives
10 a republican official a band of seven
hundred men TO surround the polls on
election day M on registration days
10 intimidate voters. For this the state
pays five dollars a day to each man so
engaged. The latest is that the names
of the seven hundred are TO be kept
secret. No m can tell who they are.
Thus the power of intimidation is
greatly increased because any republi-
can politician In New York can imper-
senate N OF the force bill spies. with
out fear Of detection by the police.
These bogus spies can bulldoze and
threaten as much as they like Inc no
policeman can step in to protect the
citizen. This illustrates the vicious
purpose for which the law was enacted.
II is enough to rou the Indignation
of every fair-minded man that a party
should resort to the employment OF
seven hundred secret spies at the peo-
pies expense for purely partisan serv-
ices.
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~HE death Of A. Oakley Hall ha

~HE death Of A. Oakley Hall has
been made the occasion for a
iood OF Tweed "reminiscences In
the New York papers. According 10 a
writer in the New York Herald. Mr..
Hall retired from the Office OF mayor
with less money thai he had when
he assumed II. and for long years fol-
lowing the overthrow Of the ring he
entertained the unique idea that all the
other members of that notorious cabal
were honest men, Where he picked up
this odd notion Is not stated. We also
learn from this sketch that Oakley Hall
boxed both the political and religious
compasa He began life as . seward
whig: next figured as a know nothing:
fhn becams a republican. and finally
prcfessed democracy. In religion he was
originally a Presbyterian; he drifted
from there into free thought. n then
into swedenborsisnism. going at last
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CharacteristicaIiy Erratic.
From the Boston Herald.

Colonel Roosevelt, with Immaculate
gravity, warned the audience he addressed
In New York city the other night that the
United States. In continuing to act on the
advice Of George Washington as regards
the expansion Of its territory. were in
LANCER of lapsing into the condition OF
China. We are inclined to wonder II the
colonel thinks he makes votes by this
kind Of talk or II II Is only the exhibition
Of that erratic quality In him as a man
OF Judgment which has contributed to
lose him public confidence In his previous
career.
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into the communion Of the Roman Cath
ole church. Apparently Mr.. Hall wal
a man who's views underwent frequent
and radical changes.
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IN refusing to publish the report Of the
investigation Of the sale of the postof-
hces In Pennsylvania viii be scknowi-
edged by all the old ~canpaigners Of the
party. inv~estiEations just before an cleo
ton are sometimes depressing.
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TEN PAGES.
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Congressman
A. ]. CAMPBELL.
OF Silver Bow County.
For Chief Justice
WILLIAM Y. PEMRERTON.
OF Silver Bow County.
For Associate Justice
WILLIAM T. PIGOTT.
OF Cascade County.
For Clerk Of Supreme Court
HENRY q. RICKETTS,.
OF Jefferson County.
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There Are Others.

From the Houston Post.
The foreign military critics who were
with our army and navy in Cuba testify
to the splendid valor of the American SOL
der and sailor. but they think poorly OF
the generalship of the campaign or Of the
commissary. medical and transportation
service. They haven't got any OF the ad-
vantage Of US, however. in entertaining
these opinions.
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On the day the car unveiled the memo
rial to Alexander III. In Moscow the hrst
train Of the Siberian railroad reached Ir-
kutsk and Lake Baikal.
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WHAT NCWARo7

He was a boy most delicately bred,
A town boy and his mothers only one:
Her fair hands stroked his shapely. curly
head.
She feared. for his sake. storm. cold.
and sun.
What had he. then. to do with suffering?
But all brave men she'd taught him to
admire:
So when he heard the country's war-cry
What could she say iii. eyes were hers
on fire.
A common soldier to the front he went.
Youth. health. life. love. hope. fame, all
In a breath.
Into one patriotic offering blent,
He flung a age into the face Of Death!
And he redeemed his gage where bullets
Missed.
Tipping the charging columns ivins
wedge:
Or, prison penned. with white lips hunger
kissed.
Pains trimming cup he drank. his
country's pledge.
Death he dened until death passed him
by;
Taking as surety only scars and youth;
Then he came home. nor heaved one back
ward sigh
Ger all he'd given up for land and truth.
A common soldier as he went he came.
And yet a hero! Who gives more than
all?
He who gives all. nor asks for even fame.
What Is there, more than n hero. such
to call?
What was he? There were thousands such
Men every inch. from crown to tip of
For such. o country. what reward shall
be?
The gods take not; tits theirs but to be-
stow.
And Godike men-'twas manhood that
Into the scale when treason kicked the
beam:
And manhood is not purchased! Buy the
crew
To whom high homo is a foolish dream.
This boy and all his noble fellows gave
What money buys not, pays not for
when given.
This market talk dishonors every grave.
Like simony that cen would purchase
Heaven.
o country. cherish lovingly all those in
need,
But do not offer insult to brave men.
Leave the base scramble to the shameless
greed
That gauges manhood by the cattle pen.
Lift high each hero on a pedestal
Where honor's sun upon his brows shall
shine;
So up the future shall their shadows fall,
To teach our children manhood is III
vine. II. NJ.
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From the Washington Post.
Colonel Roosevelt IL losing the votes of
quite . uumber OF tag dodgers, who ere
moving out Of New York state. Perhaps
this movement might be arrested by pomi-
mating them for once
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From the Boston Globe.
After surveying the field Mark Hanna
concludes that II win cost 1000 600 TO save
the next house of congress to the repub-
lican party. Order out the fat fryers.
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From the st. Louis Post-D Dispatch.
The wisdom of the postofice department,
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All general bushes letters and corre-
-pondence should be addressed TO the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda. Mont.
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Chicaro Onfce-4es The Rookery.
The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency
cole Agents Foreign Advertising.
, Washington Bureau-iNs O street
N. w.
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The Standard has branch ofnces at
Butte. Mfssoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plica tion.
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c. A. Parsons. the inventor of the tur
bine engine. Is a son of Lord Ross. VIII
made the great six-foot rejecting teie
scope.
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TO ApvFRTt> n

oiO.oo REWARD.
win be paid for the arrest and conviction
OF any person caught stealing the stand
ard from subscriber
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MONDAY. OCTOBER II. 1895.
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TnrlIy[= <1IRL AND Int{)EAD/ ~
III AR1GFL0RX writes 1.-THE local trodein luna

shrugged her shoulders with a little
SILVER
"Ugh! she said. II haven't looked
at it for ever so long"
Perhaps" 1 said quickly, you'd
rather not this morning"
ooh, yes" she said, cheerfully, COM
ing out of her shiver, II don't mind. It
isn't bit awful. It's just the idea of
it." She took a bundle-quite a large
stiff bundle-from the drawer and
handed it to me. 1t was wrapped in
pink tissue paper.
open it," she said.
I unrolled it slowly. A broad piece
of firm, tan-colored leather rolled stiffy
on my lap. I did not touch 1t. / felt
none of the horror 1 had expected to
feel when 1 looked at it, none. of the
fearsome disgust. STILL did not touch
it at first When 1 did 1 marveled at
its board-like stiffness, it's thickness
and the unlikeness of 1t to anything
suggesting human skin. And yet it
was human skin. 1t had been cut away
from a human body-a woman's body
like my own, like that of the little
flower faced girl on the floor
who was going to have a belt
and a purse and a dress suit case
made out of it some day. 1t had
fulfilled it's manifold duties of protec-
ton, absorption, repulsion. 1t had COW
cred nerves, blood, muscle, all the mys-
terry of physical life. It had known SEN
sation, heat, cold, pleasure, pain. 1t
had been caressed or perhaps abused.
1t had responded as the skin responds,
or shrunk as the skin shrinks and 1t
had come in death to the tanners vat
to be cured and colored and to lie
across the knees of one living woman
while another planned how it should
be cut to serve her for a gawd.
You see, it's a beautiful piece! So
smooth-and isn't it a fine color?"
She stretched out her hand for 1t and
I let it go. She fingered it almost ca
ressingly. She seemed to have forgot
ten anyway to shudder over it.
There's enough" she said, for a
small trunk She must have been i'm
mensei"
Il think 1 must CO." said. rising
quickly.
She scrambled to her little feet. The
woman's skin fell to the floor. She
pushed it aside and stepped over it
lightly on her way to the door.
"Oh," I said. stopping at the head of
the stairs, whom do you get to make
up these things?"
"Shreve."
Have you any belts Of skim" asked
across the leather counter at Shreve's.
BEG pardon?" said the clerk on the
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What kind of belts

other side of it. What kind of belts
did you say?"
Skin
"Snakesl1in, madam?"'
mo"
"Pigskin, madam"
Mo-
Calf? or monkey? or elephant skin?
Monkey is about the newest"
rs it the very newest?"
81 beg pardon?"
isn't there anything newer?"
mot that 1 know of, madam"
II understood" I said, desperately
"that human skin was being worn this
season.
ooh, yes" replied the clerk COM
posedly. Were making up some human
skin belts, but more purses and card
cases than BELTS
Doesn't it make
Strong belts? oh, yes, it's very
good strong skin. Only there's been
more Of demand for purses. I dare
say there will be a call for belts"
"You think it's going to be fashion
able, them"
81 think so, yes"
"And the purses and card cases, have
they been for men or for women?"
"Oh, ladies, nearly always. You know
ladies like all such little oddities. We
use some silver or gold in the trim
ming or a special design. We made
up a purse for young lady of the Red
Cross Society not very long ago, and
she wanted it fastened with the
regular Red Cross design. 1t looked
very neat"
you could furnish the skin. I sup
poser"
The clerk hesitated. You'd better
get your own skin /" he said. Wen
have it tanned for you or tell you
where to take it to have it tanned
Here IN the city?''
ooh, yes There's a man down here
on Market street. Wegener of the vi
salia Stock Saddle Company, who
handles it, and then there's the Novelty
Leather Company over on Montgomery
avenue-21S Montgomery avenue I
think they may have something made
up to show YOU"
Thank you. You don't think they
would mfnd?"
"Mind?'
Admitting that they do the work?"
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featured weU-mannered and of placid
countenance. gathered to kiss and wish
a girl bride on her wedding way, If some
one should shrek out suddenly, Her
baIt is made of a dead mans skim
And then L wondered If everybody was
crazy except myself. And then l re-
membered that this is the first sign of
insanity and lest I should go mad on
the SPOT. I. too, kissed the bride-but
with NV hands behind me-and got
away out into the sunshiny streets in
the sweet Indian summer weather
to leave my horrors behind me.
But every other girl 1 met
wore leather belt, and Provi-
dence. who takes care OF all
such little matters, alone knows how
MANY o ersons were skinned and tanned
RI make them. md the horrors slept
with me through the night, and the
next morning, as early as was CIVIL
called on the Maid of Honor, whom
do not know very well and who looked
r,olitelv surprised to see me almost be-
fore breakfast.
II want awfully TO get one of those
belts" (And may heaven forgive me
that oneD And so I came
'rWhy, of course" she said. You'd
like to see the skim"
'Ye-es."
"Of course you know you'll have to
have your belt made. You can't buy 1t
anywhere. 1 believe they're not al
lowed to sell it"
"Who?"
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delicate, sensitive. tapering, lazy
hand-rested on the tan belt. l Won
dered if the belt was made of a wo-
mans skin. And then 1 wondered If
the woman had been mother herself
before she became q tan belt. And
then I wondered if this mother kne"
what her hand was on and how she
felt about it. Somehow one rather ex-
poets mothers TO go on through the
changing years, through the changing
conditions with about the same feelings
independent of fashions. And then L
wondered what would be the effect on
all these fine and fashionable folk, we'll
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to my room and I'll show you my
piece
She went lightly up the stairs before
me-a dainty little Dresden Shep-
herdess figure In her lowered silk
matinee and lacy little pettipokes-and
on the landing turned an innocent,
flower-like face over her shoulder, so
small, so fair, of such white and pink
purity. She did not look like a girl
who would want to carry a grip COW
cred with the skin from a dead
woman's back. But, ali! you never can
tell.
1 followed her into a room which, like
herself, had certain delicate Dresden
china effects. She dropped on the floor
beside a chiffonniere and pulled out the
lower drawer Of it and stopped and
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"Oh, students, medical students and,
l don't know, doctors, 1 suppose. Do
you know anybody you could get a
piece of skin from?"
Not without their noticing it," I
said.
Don't you know any medical stu
dents or young doctors?"
why, yes, RATS
There you are, them" said the Maid
of Honor. That's all you want. Tell
them to look out for good piece for
you. There's lots of difference, but I
don't know much about 1T except that
backs are the biggest. Wait. Come up