The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-11
Ike Abernethy as Seen in a
Boiled Shirt.
is BEGINNING TO EXHIBIT
Put 1t On to Please Frlends-A Little
Story Too Good to ksep-Minne-
sotans Not Stiff Collar
Outfit,

has added intensity to this comment
and its accompanying discussion by as
Stunning a standing collar that gives bin
the appearance of horse that is be-
ing driven with an overdraw Check.
But Ike has continued to wear the
combination which seems so strange
for him, and he is beginning to like it,
though he frankly admits that it was
not comfortable at first. 1t is, accord
ing to the wearer's own tale, The first
starched shirt that he has wora in i3
years. He would not have put this ere
on. he says, had it not been Cor the i'm
portunities of some of his friends. He
is always anxious to please, ana wnea
he can make his friends happy as
easily as by wearing a BOILED SHIRT
he stands ready to do it every rilae.
A little incident connected with his
assumption Of this new dignity las
just been made public by one OF the
men who was in the secret. He says
that he has no desire to injure Ike
in any way, but that the story Is too
good to keep. After Ike had been rib
bed up to wear the shirt, he was es
corted to a furnishing store and the
proper article was selected, after care
full consultation on the part Of the
purchasing committee IN. B.--iney
are called a purchasing committee
through courtesy. Ike did all Of the
purchasing) When the shirt and col
lar had been bought, Ike went to a
barber shop, where there was / re-
firing room, to make the change from
the old, soft comfortable shirt that
he had been wearing. He went into
the room and nothing was heard for
few minutes. Then there issued from
the cracks around the door language
hat 1rft 4 10 dc 81
the hearers that Ike was having tr0u-
Bile. Friends FASTENED to mis- relief and
found that he could neither pc. TIE
neck band buttoned nor fastcn tie col
lar. 1t required the united Efforts of
barber and three volunteers Ii set
the refractory fastenings made. Ike
had to be thrown and .Wo Of the men
sat upon him while the other ;w) hut
toned the collar When it was all Done
Ike reappeared and tried to appc ar
comfortable. 1t is said however, that
when he came to go to bed that night
he couldn't get the collar pT, and as
it was SO high and stiff that he could
not lie down, he was compelled to sit
up all night, as he was too proud to
call upon his friends again to act in
the matter. But, as already srate1, he
likes it now that he is used t. X.
This recalls the old story chat used
to be told of Bill Berry. He was cnce
chosen as a delegate to the democratic
state convention, which met that year
in Helena. Familiar with the peculiar
social requirements of the city IN Last
Chance gulch, the Missoula friends of
Mr.. Berry induced him to wear a white
shirt and stiff colla". He consea.ed,
after much persuasion, and when he
reached Helena he looked as uncon-
Portable as a man could look. He tried
to act naturally for the first lay, and
succeeded tolerably well, but his real
troubles began that night when he
went to his room. Try as he would, he
could not get the collar off, and he did
not wish to tear it, so he sat 40 all
night. In telling this story himself
Bill used to say that he did not take
the collar off all the time that he was
in Helena, and when he got home,
rather than call in any of his f'cnds,
who had induced him to wear the
shirt, he cut it off and threw it away.
He did not want to hurt their feelings.
But he never wore white shirt after
that.
There We're not many white shirts
visible on the Northern Pacific station
platform last night when the Mime
sofa troops stopped here on their way
home. 1t is true that there were not
| many of the soldier boys in sight, as
it was after midnight when the train
reached here, but if the splendid fell
lows who did show up are a fair sam
pie of the regiment, it is safe to say
that it was not a stiff collar outfit.
The boys were hardy looking lot of
fellows and their very appearance
showed why it has been that the 18th
Minnesota has always been in the
front They all looked like soldiers
and their record shows that they are
soldiers. Every man of them Is en-
titled to the highest honors, but they
regard what they have done quite as
| matter of course. There was but one
thing to do and they have done that
we'll and willingly. They had good
words to say of the Montana boys,
who, they say, are as fine a lot of men
as ever followed the flag. 1t was pleas
ant to Missoulans to hear these kind
words of the mountain regiment and
the Minnesota boys stand high in the
regard Of those who saw them last
night. AS one man expressed it last
night, Il was in ST. Paul when that
regiment was assembled. The boys
were kept waiting in line on the hard,
hot pavements till some of them were
faint from heat and hunger, but they
stood up to their work like men, and
I thought then that they would wear
well. They are a serviceable lot of
men and they have been a credit to the
West"
Speaking of pluck, there was an in
| cldent in connection with the fire on
| West Pine street yesterday that show
ed VI one woman to good advantage.
She was plucky and ready for the
| emergency. Living in one of the rooms
on the second story of the house that
| was burning, she found, when she
learned of the fire. that the blaze had
| cut off her escape by way of the stair
| case. She at once returned to her
| room and stepped from the window to
| the porch roof. From there she took
in the situation. There were no lad
ders there then and the smoke was
| beating around her in way that was
alarming. She could see no means of
| assistance. so she undertook to save
herself without aid. She stepped to
the edge of the porch and jumped from
| there into the branches of tree that
stood near the house. She caught the
! limbs and climbed down to the ground
| none the worse for wear.
! R. A Eddy is daily eypectinp the