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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-20
State Departments.

Commissions for the organic alton of
four new military companies will be
issued by Governor Leedy under the
recommended ton of the state military
board within the next 80 days. This
will give the Kansas Nationa1 guard
"a compa nies, all that can be provided
for by the present appropriations for
military purposes.
Superintendent Stryker has prepar-
ed lecture which he means to make
use of at school meetings throughout
the state in which he draws compar-
ison in the expenditure of funds for
taking care of the criminal classes
aud in educating the children of the
state. He says that the cost to a
county for the transportation of a
prisoner to the penitentiary is from
one to three times greater than the
average monthly salary of the Kan
sas school teacher, and that in the
majority of cas- es the conviction of a
single criminal costs more than would
that with more education there would
be less cri1nina1ity.
Insurance Commissioner McNa11 has
addressed the following self-explana-
| tory letter to insurance agents
throughout the state: "My attention
is called to the fact that large num-
Der of insurance agents, duly licensed
by this department for the purpose OF
doing fire insurance business in this
state, have employed men as sub.
agents to solicit insurance, without
securing licenses, and without any
fees having been rendered or paid
The same is in violation of law and il
the practice is not desisted from in
the future and licenses taken out fol
the sub agents, will revoke the lie
enses of the aforesaid agents who are
so employing sub-agents.'
Governor John w. Leedy is thor.
oughly a 'jingo." He believes thai
the United States should have de
clared war with Spain as long ago as
the week the battleship Maine was
blown up in Havana harbor. In his
characteristic style he said recently
ga month ago 1 made up my MIND
that we should take the American
eagle from our flag and from our dol
lars, and substitute a common barn
yard rooster. Now / believe that un
der present condition the right birt
for the emblem is til turkey buzzard
"a hundred years go, he continued
"This American blood of ours bret
lions. Now it appears to breed none
braver than sheep, and wonder how
long it will be until it breeds worms
I don't know what / might do o.
might not do if I was president of th'
United States, but / do know that i
makes my blood boil to think tina
this country stands idle after it ha
been couc1usive1y proven that th
batt1eship Maine was blown into
shape1ess mass and 253 American
sailors hurled into eternity by Spanisl
treachery."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-20

Thetown of Syracuse in Hamilton
County, forgot to hold an election this
spring, and the present officers will
hold over until the next regular elec-
tion,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-20

Mrs. David ]. Brewer, wife of Hon.
David ]. Brewer, of the Supreme
Court, was buried from her home in
Leavenworth on Wednesday last. The
funeral services were simple and i'm
pressive.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21

penitentiary. still later. it was be-
lieved that the electric chair vas a
more humane and less dreadful means
Of execution than the gallows. and
hanging was done away with.
1t is argued, and perhaps rightly.
that the fear Of the death penalty Toes
not exercise a deterrent effect upon
persons contemplating murder. But on
the other hand a person capable Of
committing murder in the first degree
must necessarily be a nuisance and a
menace to society as long as he lives,
and really there is no reason why soci-
ETY. should not rid itself OF him at once
and forever except on the theory that
life is an inalienable right. But so in
the same sense is liberty an i~nalienable
right. and If a man may be rightly
deprived of the one he logically may be
compelled TO forfeit the other.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
TWELVE PAGES.
MONDAY. MARCH 81. 1898.
Bryan In the south.

~ PLENDID oyations are those that
~ Mr.. Bryan is receiving In the
~ South. The great democratic
champion is wearing well. He never
makes a bad break His u~tterances re-
lating to our complications with spain
have been plain. straightforward. tenn
perate and patriotic. Ii Is so easy for
a public man to slop over these days;
to be bombastic like Mason or coldly
critical like Hanna MIR. Bryan always
keeps his head. his self-command is
perfect. his mind balanced, his
patriotism . staunch and un~fiinching.
The South. like the West. honors him
and loves him. The remarkable demon
strations in the South have been glow
ing tributes to his personal popularity,
and more than hat they are an ex-
preston Of democratic sentiment. a
mark of devotion to the principles for
which Bryan sta9ds '''A1
OF the political conditions i'm the
South to-day. the Houston Post has
this to say I'm spite of the machi-
nations of a few soreheads n a few
more goldbugs and free ances in the
South. the democratic party is stronger
to-day thar in 1896. Time and the con-
s~picuous failure of republican policies
and republican promises have but
deepened the general conviction of the
southern people that the only pathway
out of our national difficulties is
through the success OF the democratic
party. The devotion to the principles
Of the Chicago platform has been in
tensiHed. until there is no doubt that
larger majorities for the democratic
candidates who stand squarely upon
that creed will be greater this year and
in 1900 than in 1896. The only thing
needed is that the party be true to it.
self and to principle. To temporize or
TO resort to e~xpedients. merely for
vote-catching purposes. can only have
the effect of weakening the democracy
with men whose accession to the party
would be at all desirable"
AT every place MIR. Bryan is visiting
ne is received with open arms and
demonstrations of the greatest enthu-
siasm. He is surely Strengthening his
hold upon the popular heart.
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NDANTE.

Your fingers sweep the keys. and then
BY river reach and iris fen
The long dead days come back again.
Smile on me once again. and so
Watt me on music soft and low
Down the far fields of long ago,
Where lonely sunsets blow and fade
For one whose haunted heart has strayed
At evening to the upland glade,
Where he can hear the wild geese cry
Across the solitary sky,
And the cold, sweeping winds go by
With broken words that laugh and weep.
Like some one troubled i'm his sleep
BY visions of the calling deep.
Strange forest girdled lakes. whose moods
Lie hidden In far solitudes,
Where no irreverent foot %intrudes;
Black tossing rapids. through whose roar
A vague great voice for evermore
Goes echoing from shore to shore:
All phases of that wilderness
Whose close used to bless
My boyhood in its loneliness;
All these across my spirits ken
Sweep by on waves of sound and then
A sharp sweet chord-they fade again.
The wandering ghosts have found their
tomb;
And here. within the Swallowed room.
Your gold hair glimmers through the
William Carman Roberts i'm the Inde-
pendent.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
An Old Controversy.

~HE Ohio legislature is threshing
over h old question of capital
punishment. A bill abolishing
the death penalty has been introduced
and It's prospects of passage are favor
able. The sentiment against his form
OF punishment seems to be growing.
Already IL is forbidden by law I'm five
statesDColorado. Rhode Island. Michi-
gan and Wisconsin. The agitation for
its adjustment has nev reached the
southern states. in many of which II
IL imposed not only for murder but for
arson n crimes against women. In
Louisiana burglary and assault with
intent to kill are also punished by
death. and in Missouri a man may be
hanged for perjury. Here i'm Montana
only q few years q hanging was pre-
scribed by law as the punishment for
arson In the night time-the penal code
now fixes 1t at imprisonment for not
less than five years.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer traces the
growth OF Ohio sentiment regarding
capital punishment. In the early days
IL was the custom there to infiict the
death penalty Of the law in public. In
the '5os n sos the hanging of a man
used to be q great occasion. not second
10 . meeting In a presidential
campaign In the crowds 1t called forth.
Ne and women came for many miles
around to witness the ignominious
1eath Of . fellow creature. Later. there
has been . refining of sensibilities. as
IL were. and ~executions when they
occurred at comparatively rare inter-
walls took place in the jail or Jail yard.
only q few being admitted. still later
II was deemed best, when the fulfill
OF law called for the forfeiting of
life. that IL should be taken not in
the county where the crime was COM
but within the walls Of lae
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21

he changes every four years. The army
fights the forts under the direction and
orders of the general commanding. The
navy co-operates under the independ-
ent orders of the rear admiral COM
handing. The torpedoes are planned.
laid and handled by the engineers. un-
der the Independent command OF the
chief of engineers. This Is not trav-
esty." says the Press. 1T is fact. Could
any business succeed on any such lines?
The president. as commander-in-chief.
is supposed to coordinate these differ
ences. and this in war. when an or
ganization needs to work with perfect
smoothness. The task is an impossible
one"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
Quaint OF Queer.

Four hundred years ago only seven
metals were known.
India wheat is still threshed by being
trodden out by bullocks and buffaloes.
One pound Of Sleeps wool Is said to be
capable of producing one yard of cloth.
A fresh egg is known by the dull appear
ance of its shell, but a bad egg looks
glossy.
Among the wonders of Surrey. which is
a suburb of London, is a horse that wears
spectacles.
Tulips are cultivated in Constantinople,
and there is a tulip festival there once a
year i'm the spring.
Austria Is the only empire in the world
which has never had colonies. or even
trans-marine possessions.
The water clock. otherwise the clepsy-
dra. seems to have been the first sc.en-
tifc effort at noting the hours.
A steamboat. leaving Pittsburg can visit
% states without passing through an ar
tificial channel.
h most widely separated points be-
tween which a telegram can be sent are
British Columbia and New Zealand.
1t is claimed that there are now living
in the Royal aquarium in Russia several
carp known to be over 600 years old.
An electric door mat has been invented
which rings a bell as soon as anyone
steps on it. thus making it safe to leave
the doors open.
The diamond mining companies of
South Africa estimate their losses by
theft at 81, 900. 900 a wear, of which they
recover about one-half.
A diver i'm the Clyde Is said to have re-
Gently excelled all European records by
remaining under water 40 minutes at a
depth of 1856 feet.
The oldest piece of wrought iron in ex-
istence is believed to be a roughly fash
toned sickle blade found by Belzoni in
karnas, near Thebes.
Boston's municipal legislators are con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of borrowing
$4,000 for the establishment of 20 play
grounds for the children of the streets.
Germany, from being a country using
imported sugar. has become in less than
% years the largest beet sugar producing
and exporting country in Europe.
The gradual cooling of Franc is proved
by its vegetation, the Italian poplar.
common i'm early French etchings, now
seldom being seen i'm the country, while
the lemon has disappeared from Langue-
doc and the orange from Roussillon.
In the sixteenth century there was a GU
rious law in England whereby street
hawkers were forbidden to sell plums and
apples. for the reason that servants and
apprentices were unable to resist the
sight of them, and were. consequently
tempted to steal their employers money
in order to enjoy the delicacies.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
Editorial Comment.

This playing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner'' at the theaters also shows there's
something in the air.-Philadelphia Times.
If you want to see an admirable illus
tration Of American patriotism note how
loyal the democrats in congress are sup
porting "A republican administration in
the existing orisis.-St. Louis Republic.
At the recent session of the pure food
congress facts were presented to show
that the people of this country annually
pay $50. 0oo. 900 for sawdust, sand. soap
grease and similar deliberations in their
daily food. The multitudinous reformers
of the country can afford to concentrate
their attention on this promising field
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The emblem of a nation should be an
object of veneration. 1t should recall the
struggles which rave made us a nation
and the sovereignty of a great people. IL
that emblem is beheld every day I'm the
uses of traffic. and not always high grade
traffic. IL will lose the sacredness which
IL should have. Other nations hold their
colors in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jour
nal.
During these times of stress and storm
a good deal of poetic license may be al
lowed. but from no point of view can the
spirit of verse be excused from running
riot as II does In the following stanza
printed i'm a Western New York paper:
Her timbers yet are sound.
And she may float again
Full charged with England's thunder.
Fun Oh BVm;w camfwyp pwm wmw
And pillow the distant main.
New York Times.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
HeroisIn and Religion.

To the Editor of the Standards:
Is IL not "A fact that the priests who ac-
companied General Thomas Francis
Meagher's brigade always pronounced alb
solution on all its members just before
they entered an engagement, and was
not their unparalleled bravery due to their
knowledge that the rite had been per-
formed? FRESHMAN.
Elliston, March ~. 1895.
Whether absolution was pronounced
before every engagement in which the
brigade participated, we 90 not know.
We find 1t recorded that just before
Meagher's brigade charged on the Sec
ond day Of the battle of Gettysburg.
all its members knelt on the ground
while a priest performed the ceremony.
The few Protestant members Of the
brigade knelt too. partly out of respect
to their Catholic associates and partly.
no doubt. 10 commit their souls to God
in silent prayer in accordance with
their own religious ideas All realized
that they stood on the very threshold
of eternity, for the order required them
To leap to the relief of Ward, whose
line was rapidly melting away under a
merciless rain of bullets. Meagher's
brigade then. as on all other occasions.
displayed the highest possible degree
of bravery. Blu to call it unparalleled
bravery would be an injustice to other
regiments. confederate as well as
union. who also displayed the highest
possible degree of bravery. Combined
with their superb courage. the Irish
brigade should be given credit for
possessing an activity, impetuosity.
promptness, velocity and decisiveness
of action hat were unexcelled and
unexcellable, though repeatedly equal
ed. Had necessity required, had an
order been received involving such a
catastrophe, ne one can doubt hat
Meagher's men would have sacrificed
themselves as willingly and as grandly
as Pickett's men-those three SPLEEN
did rebel brigades, who with godlike
heroism dashed forward on the double
quick singing to their doom, and with
it the doom of the confederacy. In all
the qualities of brilliant military
valor, Meagher's brigade ranks with
the noble six hundred who rode into the
jaws of death at Balaklava. and with
the French cavalry who surged against
Wellington's promontory at Waterloo
and 'foamed themselves away"
AS to the religious phase Of the cor
respondents question. about which he
seems to desire To force an expression
of sectarian opinion from the Standard.
We simply assert the broad and general
proposition hat religion is a powerful
stimulant both to physical and moral
courage. II "Irishman' shall stop a
m to reflect, he will see the
sharp improperly Of a secular news
papers presuming to pass judgment
upon the validity of UNCONVENTIONAL
dogmas, the verify of theological tenets.
or the virtue of rituallstic rites. The
Standard fulflls it's functions when it
prints the news for all. and. within it's
Legitimate sphere. comments thereon
for all. Catholics and P~rotestants. Jews
and Gentiles, Christian Scientists.
and Buddhist fakirs.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
The Lesson of a. Tragedy.

Z T may be doubted whether there is a
doesn't contain dozens of just such
fre-traps as hat which caused such
serious loss of life and horrible MAIN
ing in Chicago day last week. The
building was seven stories high. COW
cred eighty by one hundred and sixty
hundred people at the time the fire
broke out. and il is said there was only
N fire scape "A slender ladder
eighteen inches wide. The fire started
by a swinging gas jet. which ignited
rolls of wall paper. 1t would seem that
cred the danger. Electric wires. re-
leased by the tumbling walls, fell across
the structure of the elevated railroad.
conducting electricity from the third
rail and actually injuring several fire.
men. The Chicago Journal says that
men stood in a storm of glass. brands.
and molten metal as dangerous as any
shells eve fired over a battlefield. hold
ing tarpaulins for others to jump into.
And their greatest danger was from
those whom they sought TO save, and
who fell from the fourth. fifth. and
sixth stories. Despite the valor and
noble sacrifice the loss of life was
appalling. The tragedy emphasizes the
need for three things: better fire in
spection. better fire escapes. and the
burial of overhead electric wires.'
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n ND then. too. of the various views
of the Maine explosion, there
are those of the street fakirs.
They have begun to hawk them about
the cities-'All the pictures of the
Maine, just as she appeared In Havaner
harbor." The set includes the Maine be-
fore being blown up. the Maine being
blown up, and the Maine blown up,
together with pictures of Mckinley.
Lee, Sigsbee, Weyler and the rest of
them. Peddlers find them a pleasing
and profitable variation upon their or
binary stock in trade Of lead pencils,
suspenoers, hairpins and such. And in
their modest way, the street fakirs as
well as the stock jobbers nav discov-
cred that the disaster has its CONNER
cial side. The charcoal artists are like
wise deriving pleasure and profit from
the war excitement-a sketch of Gen
eral Lee, or a cartoon of Weyler. never
fails to set n vaudeville theater wild
There are some views of the situation
that all hands join i'm heartily endors-
ing.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
, MOTHER feature of modern

~ MOTHER feature of modern
warfare that is yet to be tested
by actual experience is the
effect of smokeless powder on mems
nerves. With the old-fashioned kind of
powder the gunners working batteries
on land or at sea were more or less
protected by the smoke that followed
the discharge of their own weapon, and
when the enemy fired they could locate
him, for they could always see the pun
of smoke before they heard the report:
but with smokeless powder this will
not be the case, and when a report is
heard there will be a mystery as to
where 1t came from, which, it is be-
lieved by some. must naturally affect
a nervous man.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
Personal Information.

Thomas Wentworth H~igginson says
that when Wendell Phillips was speaking
more tamely than usual the young .iool'-
ZIONIST used IL slip to the back of the
room and starr a hiss, which never failed
to arouse :, m.
In selecting representatives to tempo
rarily act as presiding officers of the
house Speaker Reed shows a marked pref
erence for those hailing from Iowa. Out
of the IL men usually chosen six are from
the Hawkeye state-Hepburn. Henderson.
Lacey, Hull. Dolliver and Cousins.
Aionzo Bradford Of Haywards, Cal. has
introduced an innovation in office-seeking
which threatens to elevate that noble
work from "A trade to an art. MIR. Brad
ford is a candida for the postmaster
ship at his place. With his application he
forwarded al N-ray photograph OF a bull
let In his knee which he received while
fighting for the union.
Augustus st. Gaudens. the sculptor. who
has long been tf"ntified with American
art. has notified his agents In New York
that he will not return to this country,
but will take up his permanent residence
in Paris. He gives as his chief reason for
this move the fact that the French capt.
tai offers surroundings raore congenial to
his occupaticn.
Giot the ell-know socialist. during
the recent campaign at Ivry, made vio-
lent speeches. urging the necessity of di-
viding all property. Monday he won the
first prize of 10000 francs in the exhibit
ton lottery. A brother socialist called on
him at once for a share Of the money.
and was informed by oiot that he not
only would not get IL. but that his views
on socialism had c..anged and that hence
forth he would be a firm defender OF
property.
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sITHOUT doubt the most popu-

4 IITHOUT doubt the most popu-
w lar of living Americans Is
Consul General Lee. The
South fairly idolizes him as one of her
noblest products, and all sections Of the
country unite in regarding him with
the keenest admiration and pride. Here
Is a story at his own expense that Lee
Is fond Of telling: w had surrender
ed at Appomattox. and I was riding
slowly across the desolate country to-
ward my home. My heart was heavy,
my thoughts were said. Rounding a
curve in the road. l saw an old man
ploughing close to the fence. AS I APP
preached him he eagerly inquired OF
the news at the front. 1t Is bad, very
bad I replied; General Lee has sur
rendered What is that you're sayln','
almost screamed the old fellow. Gen
eral Lee has surrendered, and all Is
over For fully a minute he regarded
me, and then said with great contempt:
That's all you know about it. That
little upstart of no count Fitz Lee mout
have surrendered, but Uncle Robert?
No, stree, never. Gee us, Bess.'"
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For the Frivolous.

''They say that Mrs. Grindly does a
great deal of fancy work"
81 should say she did. When she can
find nothing else TO do she RULES her
husbands temper."-Detroit Free Press.
tied to his opinion.
Second Citizen OF course, and If his
a politician he's entitled to as many kinds
of opinions as he may need in his bust
ness.-Puck.
Gaskins-Do you believe in heredity?
Hilton-Sorter believe in 1t. There is my
baby, now. My wife says he takes after
me-. Every time he opens his mouth he
puts his foot in it.-Boston Transcript.
"And that scoundrel of a stock broker
who robbed you of all your money; aren't
you going to prosecute him?"
Not now: he is going to marry my
daughter and cry quits. ~"-Standard.
"Grimly, i'm talking with your wife l
find that she holds the same views on all
important subjects as you do. How do
you manage her?'
Always argue on the other side when
I'm talking to her."-Detroit Free Press.
NO declared Ethel. II wouldn't mar
ry a foreigner If there wasn't another
man on earth"
Then. why" asked the girl from Chi
cago. "do you go on keeping company
with that New York fellow?'-Cleveland
Leader.
How beautiful is the snow he said.
$50 white, so pure, so universal. 1t falls
on rich and poor: II turns the beggar's
hovel to a dream of glistening beauty.
It
~, 49,, A., .ooubou ,augbt hin,
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From the Kansas City Star.
1t is now asserted that if 100 hostile bat
tie ships should attempt to steam up
Chesapeake bay toward Washington ev-
cry one of them would be blown to smith
Greens before they could come within
hearing distance of Senator Mason of IL
linois or Senator Morgan of Alabama.