The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-11
Picked Up by
The Wanderer

According to the story told by a GER
tain man who rents a house in the
western part Of town, his house is
owned by the meanest landlord that
ever invested a cent in real estate. The
landlord Is not SO very mean about
everything, and in some ways he is a
mighty good fellow. But the tenant
says that his landlord il pretty close
In a financial way. especially when
anything In the way of improvements
Ia wanted.
One day last winter the water hy-
drant in the front yard refused to yield.
and the family had to borrow water
from one of the neighbor's hydrants. 1t
was found that the water in the pipes
was frozen as solid as a brick, and that
the prospects for IL thawing out were
pretty slim. so the man went to see his
landlord about having the pipes dug
up and thawed out. The landlord,
however. has had lots of experience
with frozen water pipes. and he didn't
the idea of paying a lot of money
to pick out four or five feet of frozen
ground.
Did you try salt in the hydrant
box asked the landlord. Salt will
melt most anything. Try 1t, III pay
for the salt"
AND astonished at the landlords gen.
erosity, the tenant contenIed himself
with using his neighbor's hydrant till
MI own pipes thawed out.
If there is anything that makes a
town look like a village, 1t is a crowd of
~l6-year-old boys standing each night on
a street corner. making remarks about
passers-by in no low key. For some
time past a crowd of these youths have
taken up their stand at the corner of
Commercial avenue and Main street.
and lately the crowd has had an addi-
ton in h way Of a high-pitched har-
monica that adds greatly to the enter
tainment.
1t has cen said before that epople
who want questions answered must
sign their names to their queries, yet
during the past week II least half a
dozen anonymous letters seeking infor-
nation have been received, and they
have. of course been thrown into the
waste basket. 1t may also be said that
there are things that a newspaper edi-
tor don't know This may seem strange,
but 1t is nevertheless a fact. and such
questions as WHO is the biggest wom-
an in the world?" and please state
through the columns of your aluable
paper when scientists expect the next
Ice age" are questions that sometimes
stump even a newspaper, for every
week discovers a bigger woman than
the last n scientists disagree so much
as to the date of the next ice age that
| would not 10 for a newspaper 10 say
(which wins, A or B."
Queries will be cheerfully answered
when the answer is a matter of record,
but there are a few things that happen
in this world that don't find their way
in the records.
Blacksmiths hav lately been COM
planning that horses are frequently
by picking up nails hat are care
lessly strewn or the streets. Many
cases of serious lameness have been
traced to this cause. 1t is a common
for blacksmiths to find a
nail sticking in the hoofs of animals
that travel much. even where there is
no lameness. They state that from
what Information they can obtain the
mostly come from burnt boxes
and rubbish. If a man is disposed to
wilfully or carelessly scatter nails on
he street, IL is difficult to detect him.
The greatest hope for the horse rests
IN a public sentiment strong enough TO
all with the danger of permit
ting nails and small pieces of metal or
glass to fall on thoroughfares used for
driving. The habit of throwing boxes
and rubbish into the streets is also very
dangerous to bicyclists.