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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-19
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Via ogden and the Southern Pacific for
California. Via Huntington and the o. r.
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Train for the East and West leaves
Butte 4 D. m. daily.
Train from East and West arrives at
Butte las p. m. daily.
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dress 10 East Broadway. Butte. Mont.
n. o. WILSON. General Agent.
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Oregon Short Line
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EAST AND WEST.

Passengers by purchasing tickets via
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have the choice OF several routes. Direct
connections are made at Ogden and
Granger with the Union Pacific. and at
Ogden with the Rio Grande Western for
all points East. Enjoy the comforts of a
Pullman vestibuled train. consisting OF
sleeping and elegant reclining chairs, al
ways fresh and clean. as the entire train
Is made up at Butte.
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train OF eight cars brought a crowd OF
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NORTHERN MONTANA

The Northern Montana Once Of the Standard
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directly opposite the Park Hotel Advertising
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stronger than even his boundless pas sion-is John Millais himself as he then looked.
 In the wOmans face the painter has fixed an expression of purest agoniz- ing and affrighted love. All the world knows the picture as that of the lover who would not consent to save his life by tacitly denying his faith. To those who know the history of the eel ebrated painting the Huguenot lover is John Millais, man of honor and, by all the strongest throbs of an honest mans heart, a man who will die before he will yield to the temptation that so strongly beset him.
 Millais, with a tortured soul, painted his own agony into the face of the Hu- guenot lover. Despite the fact that an- other man sat for the male figure in the picture, every one who knew the artist thirty odd years back declares it to be his own portrait.
 As John Ruskin's wife posed to the artist his secret passion confronted the
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whom Millais had hitherto never spok- en a word of love, stood by the can vas, looking long and earnestly into the face of the Huguenot lover. Millais and she were alone. The woman raised her searching eyes from the painting to meet those of the painter. In that instant both recognized the love they thought could never know fulfillment. Millais opened his arms and took the woman to his heart in a long embrace which he honestly meant as a farewell.
 For days after Mrs. Ruskin did not see Millais. She avoided him in every possible way. John Ruskin, silent and taciturn, studied the painting, "The Huguenot Lovers" What he had not seen in the eyes of the living man and woman he recognized in the eyes of the painted figures. In the expression of the eart-broken faces of the Hugue- not lovers Ruskin saw the whole truth.
 Then John performed an act of su- premest wisdom, of magnificent cour- age He neither raved nor shouted
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story of her own heart, which she had vainly tried to hide even from herself. The man and woman looked at each other and knew that in this world there was paradise for them in a won derful transcendent love; knew they were by every law of nature intended for each other, and knew that it could not be.
 Euphemia Ruskin believed her wretched secret safe in her own keep ing. She was a good woman. She knew she loved John Millais, and she long had known that her marriage to Ruskin was a mistake for which she must suffer a penance that would only end with life itself.
 She determined to conceal her wretchedness and to do her duty by her husband. The first step toward this end was to banish Millais or at least to avoid seeing him.
 The picture of the Huguenot lovers was almost completed. On the morn ing of the last sitting Mrs. Ruskin, to
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wife that he had divined her secret He desired, he said, above all things that she should be a happy wife. He could see that the love he had had not been so fortunate as to evoke in her she gave, to the man whose character and attributes ne believed honestly were worthy of it. He insisted upon a divorce, which he himself would under take to secure, and he was as good as his word. Three months after the de- cree was granted Miss Euphemia Chal- mers was married to John Millais. The bride was given to her husband at the altar by John Ruskin.
 Stories of love usually end with the marriage ceremony. John Millais' love history really began with his bridal day. It continued uninterruptedly un- til the gates of eternity opened to re- ceive his beautiful spirit For over thirty years Millais and his Fife" as he called his wife, lived together in welded love and happiness that should make the CynicS of the hour bow their heads in confusion. Mrs MiIlais was her husbands idol. He made no secret of his admiration for her. and a quar- ter of a century after ''The Huguenct Lovers" was familiar, Millais, in the mean time having achieved immense wealth and distinction, declared that he sometimes wished he could get away from every one else for the rest of his life, so that he could '"just be alone with Fife, his sweetheart
 Many beautiful children came to the Millais, and each one was or was not in his fathers eyes a beauty if a girl, CT a fine fellow if a boy, by the one standard of excellence and loveliness accepted by Millais-a resemblance to the mother. The beautiful Millais children are supposed to have suggest ed to Du Maurier the touching refer-
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vond possible call of Christian aid. I was told that I must walk between these files and that as each member was passed his weapon would fall upon my naked shoulder. This was to prove that disloyalty on my part would be met with summary punishment. It is needless to say that I ran the gauntlet with safety, for as the cutlasses fell the fiat sides were turned toward my person.
 Facing the grand master for the third time I was informed that l would be instructed as to my duties toward my brothers of the craft.
 Should brother fall by the wayside either through sickness or violence" spoke the Reverend Scribe, 'it shall be your duty to assist him, both with your purse and your right hand. The sign of distress is clapping the hands three times above the head. Upon this manifestation you will hesitate and hold yourself in readiness to do battle with the coming enemy. Should the brother exclaim, An ga lah!' (strike him) do not proceed. Should he ex- claim 'Um, ah! (do not strike) you
 
 your command. You must interpret each expression the reverse of it's actual meaning.
 Know you that our society is most potent and it's brothers inhabit every quarter of the globe. Wherever your steps may carry you, there you will also find the true heart and the strong arm of the Gee Kung Tong. Bear also in mind that while the Gee Kung Tong protects, it also punishes, and should you prove traitorous to our cause. your blood shall pollute the soil of the land. Be you where you may, the Gee Kung Tong will find you out
 Upon entering a strange residence, or place of business, you shall deport yourself as follows: When asked to drink tea, you must grasp the cup with your index, second and third fingers, allowing the fourth finger to rest be- heath the bowl.
 Without a scrap of parchment or any printed reference the Reverend Scribe continued to outline the objects of the society. Many of his instruc- tions as to diet, department, etc. were trivial, but a few of the more import l ant paths, which were emphasized by
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nary sweetness, laughing eyes and an air of tremendous vitality and enthu- siaSm.
 When death menaced the great paint CT Millais was kept in ignorance of the malignant nature of the cruel malady which was to destroy him. Mrs. Mill lais was informed, that she might take warning and protect herself from the infection, for Millais was stricken with cancer of the throat in a virulent form.
 The physicians who attended the painter told his wife of her peril and insisted that she should promise not to approach the patient. No sooner had the doctors left after giving her this intelligence than she went to her hus-. bands bedside, bent down and deliber- ately kissed him.
 The wife knew that with her kisses she courted a most agonizing death. It was the death her beloved must suffer. She had shared his life: they had been one in everything; she resolved that he whom she loved better than life should hekp her to the death she chose because it was his.
 So day after day as Millais lay dying, his still lovely wife ministered to him. While the attendants were near she did not press her fond lips to her hus- bands. When they were alone she would kiss him and lay her lovely face by the side of the agonized one, and re- peat over and over again to him the story of her love.
 M1liais died and the world grieved at US loss. Little was heard of the widow. save that she was broken hearted.
 A few days ago the news was receiv- ed that Millais' widow had entered in- to eternal rest; that she had died of a cancer of the throat contracted delib- erately in caring for her husband.
 So ended their life's romance. :"
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Dit Of furniture observable. I was led to a corner of the room and asked to disrobe. After One of my attendants had carefully scrutinized my body in a fruitless seach for birthmarks-I have none-I was informed that I might resume my trousers only and prepare to be introduced to the grand master of ceremonies. If my mentor wore the appearance If a pirate this last mentioned individual certainly carried the face of a fiend. He was pockmarked, and by way of addi- tional ornament wore huge saber scar extending from his forehead to the end of his nose, which gave him most sinister expression.
 Have you carefully considered the step which you are about to take?" asked the grand master.
 "Yes, Reverend Scribe" responded.
 Are you ready to storm the Great Wall?" was his next question.
 Quite ready, Reverend Scribe"
 Have you been prepared with wea- pons?"
 Not as yet"
 Have you been born of blood?"
 Not as yet"
 How can a child be born without mother?"
 My intended mother accompanies me, Reverend Scribe. She stands upon my left and my godfather stands upon my right"
 Are you ready to become a blood brother?"
 ''All ready, Reverend Scribe
 Then let thy mother proceed to shed the blood of maternity"
 At this juncture the yellow-necked scoundrel who was about to take upon himself the serious task of becoming my godfather led us to the altar before mentioned where I noticed the various insignia of the order There were sheaves of corn. symbolical of plenty, dishes of sugar, that we might eat thereof and remove all bitterness from our mouths and our hearts as well; a dish of oil, that we might not be with out light in the future, and a bowl of vinegar, in which our blood might as- simulate.
 The Chinese elected as my godfather stepped to the altar, took needle from the altar cloth, punctured the end of his second finger and when the blood
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HAVE SWORN TO DESTROY
 THE RULERS OF CHINA
Continued from Page F.

Second-That it is and has been for years most powerful in the Philippine Islands, Batavia, Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore and San Francisco. It poses under various disguises in different parts of the world. Locally, I mean Tn San Francisco, it is known as the Gee Kung Tong. It's alleged objects are ,benevolence and good-fellowship; it's real object the overthrow of the present Ching dynasty. Its success in this. direction is materially assisting the great powers in their present at tempts to dismember the great Chinese empire.
 E. 1 found that there was but one way to obtain the inside facts concerning this strange order.
 Join it! Could this be accomplished? :? Yes.
 l learned there were no serious ob- jections; in fact, know now that they are rather anxious to secure a few Faun kwei-foreign devils-as 1t is considered by the more diplomatic members that these devils might be- come most valuable advisers in West ern matters.
 AHS i09ule oA iIly eApSil ileilce WltH lHe tong convinces me that this society, like an insidious drug, has been slowly but effectively destroying the strength of the Flowery Kingdom and has re- duced the once powerful empire to a state of anarchy without a stable form Of government, condition of affairs which the acute statesmen of Europe quickly appreciated.
 My first difficulty in joining the so- ciety was encountered in procuring a sponsor At last I found one in the person of an old criminal outcast, about as tough an appearing specimen of the Chinese river pirate as ever es- capped the sword of the headsman. It was necessary, after my entrance fee, or -srice money" had been deposited.
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to learn my lesson, that I might be able to make proper responses to the questions asked me during the initia- tion ceremony. This was comparatively easy for me, on account of my having spent a portion of childhood in China and thoroughly acquiring the Canton csc vernacular After a rehearsal of two or three days I was pronounced competent to face the ordeal and in- structed by my mentor that the date upon which I was to be admitted had been decided upon.
 When the day arrived I was in- formed by the adept that the night was suspicious for the ceremony. The moon was high and full, and every conjunction of the planet augured sue cess. We had arranged for a rendeZ- Vous at a certain store about the hour of midnight. Here we were met by two more vicious looking heathens and I was told that one of them had agreed to assume the responsibility of be- coming my mother, while his com panion assumed the part of my god father We wended our way through the odoriferous Chinese quarter until we arrived at an iron doorway where my companions were obliged to give certain signs and passwords quite un- intelIigible to me. We were admitted into a low ceilinged room whose walls were rocking with moisture.
 I discovered here that we had been preceded by many members of the or ganization. They squatted on mats scattered about the floor and appar- ently took no notice of anything that was going on. Perfect silence was maintained. Not a smile was visible on any countenance, and the only ex- pression was the dreadful Oriental stoicism.
 At the western end of the room a sort of improvised altar had been erected for the occasion. This was the only
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drous love, to the story of the life of John Millais; the story of the splendid self-ab abnegation of heroic soul; the Iovelife of John Millais and Euphemia Chalmers.
 In 1853 John Ruskin, the great critic, then a young man of four and thirty, was already accepted in England as the leader of the rising e-Raphaelitic school of art. He was a rich man, hav- ing inherited a large fortune from his father, noted wine dealer, and lived In opulence in London with his young wife, a girl of surpassing beauty. .. Ruskin's wife had been a Miss Chal- mers. They had been married but a short time, and only Mrs. Ruskins inn mediate family knew that the union had been from the first a mistake-one of those mistakes that are as sad i their results as are the consequences of deliberate crime
 At this time John Millais, a young painter of promise, and at that time a disciple of Ruskins school, which he afterward forsook to become the pet of Philistia, sought Ruskin's acquaint- ance. The art critic recognized Mill lais' talent, at once became his friend and often was his host.
 MiHais was about four and twenty when he first saw Mrs. Ruskin and he was one of the handsomest men that ever ived-tall, strong and with the face of a Greek god.
 The young wife, as she first appear ed to Millais, was also a vision of beauty, grace and purity. To his dy- ing day Millais repeated times without number that in no other woman had he ever found so perfect an incarnation of lOvelineSS.
 The young painter, attracted by the unusual physical beauty of his precep- tors wife, learned all too scon the sweetness which made her character
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began to flow quite freely. dipped the bleeding member into the vinegar stirring it about, after the manner in which one uses a finger bowl. My mas culine mother repeated the same per formance, after which all the brothers in turn present did likewise.
 Then each returning to the bowl. dipped his wounded finger therein, placed the same in his mouth, and sucking it dry of what fluid may have adhered thereto exclaimed in loud tone, Thou art my blood brother,"
 It was now my turn to go through the performance. I had studied medi- cine in my youth and realized that this was anything but antiseptic treatment. What was to be done? Refusal meant instant expulsion, with possible vio- lence At this moment my Yankee in tuition came to my rescue. While my hand was resting idly on the altar cloth my attention was suddenly at tracted to the bowl of oil A quick glance assured me that I was unob- served by the brothers, as each head was bowed in deference to the solemn ity of the occasion. In a moment my finger was in the oil. Another moment and I had performed the disgusting operation. The coating of oil on the finger had precluded any possible chance of the other fluid clinging thereto. With great fervor I shouted, II am thy blood brother"
 "Ho" (good), exclaimed the brothers, in chorus, raising their heads.
 Again I was led before the grand master and instructed to "kow tow' three times to that dignitary
 I was next informed by the grand master that my personal courage was about to be severely tested.
 I had noticed in the interval during our conversation that about twenty of the members had formed themselves into two military lines. Each man grasped a razor-edged Chinese sword of cumbrous pattern. A furtive glance convinced me that these weapons were not mere playthings: they appeared to have been intended for active service. For the first time feeling of regret for my action crept into my mind. Here was I in a noisome cellar, sur rounded by horde of the most merci- less of all human beings, confronted with their barbarous weapons and be-
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the use of properties befitting and symbolical of the occasion. were most expressive and significant
 Placing my right hand upon the pit of my stomach, where, according to Chinese anatomy. the heart is located l made oath that I would observe the instructions of my godfather during the term of my natural life and rigidly live up to hundred and one minor rules for the guidance of blood broth CTS.
 The grand master reserved his most significant injunction for the last As suming that I had been sufficiently impressed by his previous admoni- tions and by the paths already taken, he declared that my mind was now ready to absorb the fundamental prin- ciple of the order. He solemnly said:
 Mark well, these are good words Can the child instruct the parent? No, Then listen. Open the heart as well as the ears. that my words may sink deep like the rice seed and produce in plenty.
 For centuries the central kingdom of the earth (China) has been ruled by the dastard Tartar he who claims to be the son or the CuIl, UuL HIS IOIlS ue lies ten-fold. Shall we, the children of the great masters, the students of Confu- cius, the oldest of all peoples, born in the cradle of nations, submit to the rule of these upstarts?
 'The Ming dynasty, whose memory we venerate. lost its power through treachery. After his cruel war upon our peace loving race, the merciless Khan (conqueror deceived the great astrologer of China through his lies and sweet talk. When attempting to enter the Eternal City (Peking), he was met at the great gate, of which this altar is symbolical, by the royal as- | trologer, a man of great learning, who spoke thus:
 Great general what do you wish 9 "I wish to enter the gates of your fair city, he replied
 And what might be your business within the walls of our city?'
 Mine only desire is to pursue mine enemy. 1 will not harm your people. 70 Sir General, replied the as- i trologer, I read upon thy countenance the lines of the conqueror.' Fear not, o reverend scholar I 1 come not to conquer. but to punish the