The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-21
ltens Picked Up
Here and There

a recent convert to the Salvation
/ army ranks was giving his testimony to
rather large number of curbstone spec
| tators. he said he was glad that he
mad reformed and quit the liquor habit.
| only short time ago, my friends. .
i SAID ne, i was nothing but a common
/ drunkard, like this poor fellow standing
IN front of me on the sidewalk Flat
broke and thirsty
Hold on, there, We shoutin' duffer:
m not drunk, shee? | don't want you
TIC make cracks like That, SHEEP" rhe
subject alluded to by the exhorter was
much alive TO the situation and ex-
pressed himself so emphaticalIy that
cfilcer Powers felt obliged TO interfere
ana send the men to their corners.
one day last week the wind blew pref
" hard; its velocity varied from, say
ABOUT 90 to 500 miles an hour While il
was whistling down Commercial avenue
at record breaking gait a pedestrian
was trying to make the corner Of Main
With head down, he pushed vigorously
asalnst the breeze. All at once he threw
up ms hands and grabbed the top of his
head, out his hat wasn't there. He tried
TO look back to see if he could trace the
outlines Of hat sailing eastward. but
the eHoft was too much. lie hove to
and brought up alongside a convenient
doorway He looked sadly at an ac-
qualntance and said: My hat is gone
ana the Lord only knows where it is"
There 1t is around your neck, smiled
his friend. The wind had actually
ufiVen the hat down onto his shoulders
Little Harold is learning fast. prob
ably because his father is a railroad
man and the youngster is given opp1r-
tunities to catch on" The other day
ne trotted into the house and showed his
ino1iler a handful of bright, shining
marbles, classics" the boys call them
lie SAID, III answer to the natural du as
tlon, that he won them. who from?,
IN. feliow down there" Look here.
harold, the suspicious parent said. .if
you nave told me falsehood | shall wash
your mouth with soap and water. Now
ten me the truth, didn't you buy those
marbles with one of your dimes?''
the youngster slipped into an adioin-
ing room and soon returned and said.
L TOOK the soap and washed nv mouth
good and hard Now we won't say any
more about the marbles"
:. Two houses on one lot; two families t
i've thereon. The other day one Of the
numerous tramps that infest the city
2alIed at that particular lot and APP I
the back door of one of the
houses. Yes. he could have a meal if
ne would go to the back yard and split
some wood. He was hungry and could
at now. He ate a large meal and took
ne axe and went to the pile of wood
II tne rear. The lady of the house re-
umed her duties. The man split wood.
lot OF 1t. He returned the axe thank
u the housewife for the privilege she
iad SO gfaciousiy granted and disap-
feared down the street. Now comes the
lext-door neighbor and asks his wife
no IL was that had been so good as 10
PHI nalt OF his wood. The lady who
ufnished the meal waited for her hus-
anu 70 come nome ana split some wood,
An old mountaineer came down to the
lty the other day to purchase his an
uai supply OF provisions and few ar
cIes OF wearing apparel. A friend
deeted him with the question: well,
III nave you got the klondike fever?''
int Sick
I mean. are you going to join in the
ampede to Klondike, don't you know?'' /,
nat stampede? Who's fever? What :
is, anyway"
Why, haven't you heard about Klon- :
IKE, the richest gold mining field ever !.
fuck! EVerybody's got it-aI going :
P there. Haven't you read the papersaS ;
no, amt seen paper for a year .
IN seen nobody but my old dog"
You don't say SOP"
Sure"
ne was told ali about klondike and /
e.. amazing richness of the country. d
no, the old man of the mountains
I'D, Il amt read enough about thai
Iflole awful rich place to turn my
.du, so guess Ill just peg along in
y own shaft and maybe I'll strike II
soon as you fellows do. You can 90 7
To Alaska and I'll stay in old Mon 7
ma. When | feel like going to Alaska 7
l go and fall into the creek, DRAG nv
Il out and tumble into snow drift y
T.; u lay mere for a week without any {
ing to eat. But, let me tell YOU. I ain
goin' to feel that way 80 "