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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-19
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM,
A Fight Will BE Made for the Principle
of Direct Legislation.


Special Dispatch to the Standard
Helena, Jan 1S.-The initiative and
referendum people are double shooting
the turn this year. The direct lesjsla-
ton bill has been introduced in both
senate and house, the Cascade county
delegation being back of the bill There
has not been much discussion of the
proposition among the members. but
from the expressions of opinion that
have been made, it is evident that the
bills of Senator Stanton and Represent
tative Cooney will not have the enthu-
siastic support of all members There
are some, however. who will work hard
for the principle of direct legisla ton,
and there is liable to be some interest
ing discussions before the bill is finally
disposed of. The gist of sentiment, as
far as it has been expressed, may be
summed up in the remark made this
morning by prominent member of the
house, who said: while there NAV be
merit in the principle, our experience
in regard to the popular vote on con-
stitutional amendments has shown that
the people do not care to vote when
they have an opportunity. The vote
on amendments has never been large
enough to be expressive of the public
opinion
Lewis and Clarke county wants its
boundaries revised so as to include
some Of the territory that is at present
included in Deer Lodge countys limits.
The Bald Butte and Lincoln Gulch re-
gion is the district that is desired by
Lewis and Clarke, and it is urged that
these districts are naturally tributary
to Helena on account of roads and
mountains; that the business relations
between these places and Helena are
close and that they should be in this
county.
The road law still occupies the atten-
ton of many of the lawmakers The
dissatisfaction with the present law is
very general in the rural districts. but
there are numerous defenders of the
present system, which places the dfrec-
tion of all road business in the hands of
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-19
FOR DEF ENSE.
Oscar Urges Increase of Both Navy
and Army.

Stockholm Jan. lS.-The rigsdag or
diet, otherwise the parliament of Swe-
den, was opened to-day, The speech
from the throne was read by the minis
ter of foreign affairs Count Douglas.
who pointed out that whatever might
be the result of the ears peace con-
ference, the fact that it had been sum
moned did not imply that the country
could afford to neglect the necessary
measures for its defenSes. Sweden,
he continued must cnnfinua1l,.
strengthen its defenses. which were al
together too weak, though both her
army and navy We're organized with the
View of defense alone, and no one could
suspect her of aggressive schemes. King
oscar. at the conclusion of the reading
OF the speech, expressed the hope that
parliament would provide for experi-
mental mobilization \,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-19
/, except Sundays and legal holi-

Cooney-An act providing for the sub
mission to the electors of the state Of
an amendment to the constitution re-
lating to the legislative department.
This bill is the direct legislation bill
that has been before the legislature
several times before The same meas
ure has been introduced in the senate
by Senator Stanton of Cascade, Mr..
Cooney's county, and the initiative and
referendum will agitate the minds of
legislators once more.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-19
GAINS TWO MORE VOTES
Clark's Bunch of Reserves Not
Yet Exhausted, E."
GRAND JURY ADJOURNED
The Foreman Is Suffering From the Grip.
Many Senators and Representa-
tives Are Among the Vic
q Tins of the Epidemic.
Special Dispatch to the Standard

Snec,al Disp,+ob ~ +ho S+,
ua,a,,, prs.t ~ 90 ."e sntanoaro.
more votes to his list to-day. His lit
tie bunch of reserves is not vet ex-
hausted ana ao;,,
aAo @ seaiii "a one OF Two a
uay may De expected until he reaches
80 or 81. His total to-day was 26, and
counting in Eversole who was .bse,t
he has now o. sa,a.a ''u'ei'
~, .S ~" o. SENATORS campbell and
Whlteslde changed from Conrad to
Toole, reducing Conrad,s tota, +o %
Sweeney of Ha1eno ,yon+ f,o,, rroa,a
c,ar,- --on hoole ~
siaih ana Losekamp OF Billings from
Hartman to Clark.
The vote for soma to, ,,,,s nc eo,,a
Conrad 90
Clark, oe
Power. ~
Toole - - %
Maginniss .
Fox ''
Hartman ' -
Mantle
Henry
-
Total. al
''''''''' '''''.''i
ioi d eiloice'.''. ''.'.' ....4o
In the house
oOnrau-BOnn6r
cooney, Crutchfield, Finlen, Fftzpat-
Ks11,, 1a,, III GalMey' Iilie.te' heley'
Moran. Murray Norn,ov1a stan1ato.
Stephens, Stone, Toole, Warren. Wat
son wilson, Stlff-g.
Dav Eina Mi H.. n1aeh' Don[oW'
Lockhart, Losekamp. Luddy. Martin
Mclaughlin, Mcleod, Shovlin, SWee-
Ivy, Iruseole, Woods-1
ting Sullivan-5
For Power-Beasley, Bywater.
Hedges. lngersoll Jacqueth. Lindsay,
Ea, ~ 81, rnat Gs;s S?, aahos-Io; ~,
O'Brien-s.
For FoX--Johnson-1.
" 1,o q l fian-,Mtoofe-l- an
For Henrv-sss.1,i,, i,,d1ab,rs.+ g, es-. -, 4
For Mantle-Parker-t.
IN me senate
o,asta,, w Nn,ore, au.uersoIi' st Courtney Ee-
For Clark-Connellv cu1lan T.r,,ra,, >,
Hoffman. Mahan, Riddall-6
5of loole-Camppell' MOTIFS White
E,o, po,var-11ohso, ,,a1 ,r..
ell. Phillips. Worden-5.
For F'ox-BoWlen, Hannah.
Ihe grand jury made very little pro-
gress to-day. 1t adjourned over the
afternoon until tomorrow morning on
account of the illness of Foreman Ellis,
who is suffering from the grip. This
disease is very prevalent in Helena at
present, and number of senators and
representatives are among its victims.
Nearly all of the sick members, how
ever, manage to drag themselves to the
Joint assembly at noon in order to vote
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

were tossed hither and thither among
the pillows or dashed rudely upon the
rocks they would very speedily be rem
dered mferalo. Therefore nature has
provided corner projections-spikes or
tendrils, as the case may be-and
these, becoming entangled among
fronds OF seaweed, moor the egg, and
keep 1t riding safely from harm, like
a ship at anchor.
Leaving the fishes, but not the ocean.
have YOU heard OF sea grapes? Some
times when wandering along the shore,
lunches OF purple globules, possessing
distinct likeness to the luscious hot
house fruit, may be seen lying In the
wash VI tae waves,
hut though fruitlike In aspect, the
resemblance goes no further. Taste
one Of these sea grapes, and you would
not only he very much disappointed.
but very much disgusteu also, for these
clusters are in reality the egg masses
OF the common cutie fish
Among the near relations ot the
cutie are snaUs, slugs and "sho., fish
of many kinds, and In this great
group OF animals eggs OF SO many DIFF
fcrent forms are found that largo
volume would he required To adequate
~ enumerate their varieties. 1t Is OBJ
NiouS, therefore, that very little can
here be said respecting them; one or
two diverse examples, however. nay
hC cited
IT the eggs Of mullusks are varied In
appearance, those OF insects are In
iinite,y more So, Moreover. many OF
them are maryelously beautiful In
form and design,
This beauty cannot be other than
unknown and unoujoyed by the great
majority, for 1t is hidden from the ere
unaIded by magnifying glass or mp
Croscope. whilst an attempt to deacriua
II IN words is wel-night hopeless
task
Who would suppose that the egg OF
our common white butterfly the cab
hage pest-was thing OF woadrouH
hcauty% Yet such IL the case. "A
tiny spot upon u cabbage leaf, no need
to trouble about SO small u matter
such would be the verdict OF human
intellect Hut natures ways arc Diff
fcrcnt; the smauor the oulect tho
greater the care she seems to exercise.
In point OF beauty the butteray's egg
ranks far above the ostrich's, despite
the vast difference In size. Magnify
the spcek on the cabbage leaf, and you
find n hlnnted cone perfect In shape.
the surface traced by u score OF longi-
tuuinal ribs.
Why these ribs Why this shapor
Would not II plain globe have an
swcrcd every purpose9
Three obvious questions; and yet
reason retires abashod, almost before
we have formed tho thought into
words,
Examine nature in any OF her phases
and the end IL always the same--we
discover sooner or later that lack OF
knowledge has reared up an impassa-
bile barrier in our path. ST. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

pie wcle ut once Sworn in ~ speca,
,onstables, Which body. by the way in
t.ded Louis Napoleon then living in
London. and WhO offered himself as
volunteer. BESIDES the regular troops
quartered in the metropolis Others
poured in from Windsor, Hounslow
Heath, Chatham, Chichester and Dow
tr. The marines and sailors of The
loyai navy at Spithead, Sheerness ANA
Birkenhead as well as the dock
yard hands, We're kept unner arms
during the night of April g. lS4S, and
t.tc following day. The Thames police
kept watch Rpon the mercantile ma
rines; heavy gun batteries were
Brought FROM Wo0lWich and placed at
various points so as to intercept the
procession, The banks and public
Hsli.Gings were put in a state of de
nee
l. beng believed that the procession
would 60 from Kensington common
and Blackfriars bridge to the house Of
commons, great preparations We're
made to mass troops at that quarter.
Charlists took to quarreling amongst
themselves. The people we're honest
BIZ; tG"ir leaders were humble hum
Dugs, and the revolution which thus
profoundly moved London proved to
be an affair Of cardboard rather than
IF cannon. The prOcesslOnists did not
march anywhere except home and the
monster petition was carried % me
rouse Of commons in a cab
After a speech from Fergus O'COn-
~. VINO was afraid he might be sa0.
Il ne led the procession to the house
Of commons. the meeting disperseu
and thus the movement ended in such
ridicule that Green in his Short His
sory Of the English People, disposes Of
the ten years struggle and of the
threatened march on London in this
sing sentence, "fhe discomfort of the
poorer classes gave rise in 1899 to
riotous demands for the peoples
harter" This is Green's solitary
epitaph and It's history in a nutshell.
The movement died at the moment for
action. Laughter and scorn greeted
the petition when 1t reached the
house Of commons. The peers laughed
in their sleeves, and for nearly fifty
years. despite Cobbott's pen and
Bsights pleading in parliament, they
resisted reforms to the English peo-
pie. But nevertheless agitation Of
the chartists has received its vindica-
ton in the subsequent concessions OBJ
by the liberal party; and be-
sides being the pioneers Of cheap
newspapers, Of mechanics institutes.
and OF ballot reform, and cooperative
societies, the chartist movement de-
serves historic place as the paren,
OF modern liberalism and the nine
teenth century dream Of young Eng
land
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
COMMON SENSE CoUGH CURES.

II is rather hard lines to be told that
the slight hacking cough that is SO
distressing to the sufferer is merely u
bad habit, This is often the case, how
ever, and when it is all under the con-
troll of The viii ii should be stern(y
rcprrSSed.
There are few disorders more teas.
ing - the sufferer and 10 those ahou,
him Than The hacking cough. and the
cause OF it should be investigated as
soon as possible. so that common sense
may aid in the cure,
Sometimes the uvula, the pendulous
part ot the soft palate, at the back "
thc mouth, becomes relaxed and The
point touches the tongue. producing a
tickling sensation which requires a
cough to relieve il.
little drop of fannie acid put IL a
Quill and blown ON the uvula will con
tract 1t, or half a teaspoonml OF the
powder mixed with two tcaspoonruls
ot glyCcrine, stirred into half glass
o. warm water, should be used rs Il
gargle.
When severe cold has been taken
and there is Il cough, with soreness ot
tRe chest, great care should be taken
in soaking the feet and rubbing he
chest with camphorated oil, etc, to
avoid an attack of bronchitis. But for
the little aggravating, hacking cough
the prescription stern repression
idea is the most common sense meth
cd, rs each cough that is "swallowed'
or otherwise avoided will give the ir,
ritatcd surfaces (Which are kept in
tanned Ivy repeated coughiug) bettor
chance to heal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
THE LEGISLAroR'S LABYRINTH

Have you seen The files q bills.
Plies Y, legislative pulls,
In tie laW-mill out Al Madison
heapeu high"
Near nine hundred is the score;
Resolutions, 100, galore.
It's total % make though,tul mem
herS sigh,
Were the feeble numau mind
With omniSgience designed,
Then, perhaps. might hapleSs legis.
latorS hope
With the difficulties great
OF tneir task SO intricate
To effectively. intelligently cope,
Bills may NO, be what they seem.
There's thc sly and selfish scheme
With a deep design hats difficult Il
trace;
OF; with Suile ii may be filled,
Cou,neu in SpeyiouS language skilled
And the ten commandments written
on its face,
Such dcccptionS ~ unmask
Is a patience testing task
Fit for Philadelphia lawyers ans
their kind;
And the legislators brain
Has Of pleasure less than pain
In the sessions Watrhful work ans
weary grind
Note ,Ce many petty bills.
Cures for ltttle lora! ills,
Constitutionally doomed The death
To die
And the visionary schemes
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

ceeied With, and this is accomplished
by he aid of two men With a pair OF
horses, chains and suitable tackle,
erom 40 ~ LIS logs. depending on the
size, constitute load sometimes
weighing as much ms 100 tons. for one
ot these immense Slcighs, upon which
the logs are hauled to the "haukiug
grounds" on the frozen surface Of the
river, where they are piled up to wal;
tov The thaw or opening Of navisa;ion,
Philadelphia Record.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
THE CHARTIST ANNIVERSARY.
NINEtENEEEaN1N5NzEEN zKeXfXElsXfHEs&s%EN

When on April 10 people read of the
anniversary OF the great chartist dem
onstration outside OF London, there
will doubtless be many asking who
We're the charIists and what did they
want. The present lull in English
politics, the helpless condition OF the
great party once led by Mr., Gladstone,
the tremendous inroads of American
manufactures upon British trade, the
recent prolonged strike IN the engin-
eering trade and the consequent
breaking down of the once powerful
combinations OF trades unioniStS-
all give to these anniversaries of the
chartist demonstration of 1S4S sig
niticance. which if undiscovered by
Londoners will hardly be lost upon
the rest of the world But what was
the Genesis Of the chartist movement?
The best definition of the movement
was given by an English labor orator
at kensall Green in these express
sive words, "Chartism, my friend. is a
knife and-fork- question, it means
good, wholesome dwellings. good eat
ing and drinking, and Il short days
work"
The polished review which Justin
Mccarthy gives OF the movement in
his History of Our Own Times or that
of Carlyle in Chartism or the equally
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

ton all through the manufacturing
eenters for manhood suffrage, annua
rarliamenis, vote by ballot, the aoo-
lition OF the property qualification.
the distribution of representation or
The prevention OF gerrymanderinG
through equal electoral districts, ana
the payment of members OF parlia
ment, All or nearly all of these re
forms which look most reasonable
10 Americans were refused; but
while the chartiSt agitation lasted no
duke lii England had slept soundly
during zen years. All, or nearly all OF
these demands are now granted.
Reverting. however, to Apr. To-
IS4S, let us glance briefly at what was
occurring fifty years ago in London in
order To understand better the mean
ing of the present anniversary and
what il is which it commentaries and
why it failed. The rhartist movement
which originated in the north OF Eng
land quickly spread to Scotland, but
eventually concentrated itself in Lon
don where il was determined that
100000 men would march six deep
from kensiugton common to present
a petition to the house OF commons
and await an answer IN the palace
yard. There was great excitement in
London. 4 quarter of a million PEG
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

The arabesque design running the
length OF the bag is worked at the
edges with buttonhole-stItc with two
strands OF filoselle The top design
is filled in with beads; the next Is
filled in with cross-stitches, with one
bead In the center; Tie third Is filled
in with lattice pattern worked with
silk, fastened down at each corner
with cross-stitch The flowers and
foliage are worked with china ribbon
and the stalks with cording-stitch in
silk.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
AS TO THE FllIplNOS.
London Paper Thinks Good Results
VIII Como From Our Rule

Why should Tagal peasant, who
will probably be more free from official
oppression tuan any man In the world
except u liindostnnee peasant, risk his
life. and his house, and his means OF
subsistence to enter on u contest with
rulers whom he sees from the expe-
rionco of Sunday he liz hopeessly UNI
able to defeat? He has no regret for
the Spnniards, he has no patriotism
In the Europoon sense ana II the
American governs him "well"--that Ia.
lets him strictly alone as long as he
obeys the law he will he content, will
devote himself to cultivation and small
trade, and Will admire the eloqnence
of agilators. II there are any, without
the smallest intention Of following
their advice. He viii find careers
open to him In commerce and manu-
features; and though he viii never
like the American amy more than he
did the Spaniard true HIKING between
the colors IL impossible he viii like
the pence and order and comparative
prosperity that the American brings.
All that IL necessary to make Of him
an aequieacent citizen Is good govern
ment, and we believe that within,
twelve months he will obtain 1t. The
Americans have an Idea, we know
derived from the melancholy expert
ence of their great cities-that they
have not the men whom they can trust
~. tpnn htf nn1nfrnta.
their own capacity for fitting the sup
ply to the need. They have scores OF
thousands Of lads who. II decently
paid and trained for three years, would
make excellent subprefects, and among
them a percentage OF men who, with
experience, will be found 1T to govern
provinces. A hostile witness--or ut
all events n witness without prejudice
In their favor--declares that they have
already found such proconsul In
Cuba, and that the whole island Is will
ing to obey Mr.. Gould, the civil
commissioner, simply because he con-
siders their prejudices. and Is just.
There are dozens OF undeyeloped Mr..
Goulds In the states, and as the Amer
leans must find them or fail In a task
which concerns their reputation In his
tory. we have no doubt OF their ulti-
mate success In the search. They
have not our traditions, our conylc-
ton, for instance, that under regime
of answering justice any population
In Asia will remain tranquil. The
new rulers will concentrate their eff
forts at first upon Luzon, and in that
grand island, the size OF England. and
one OF the most fertile In the tropics.
they have a strategical advantage such
as Great Britain possesses in Bengal.
q commercial capital for base which Is
almost beyond attack. The fleets Of
the world might menace Calcutta
without disturbing single coolies
mind, for nothing but miracle could
bring them within thirty miles OF the
city. London Spectator.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

learned dissertation of Kingsley in his
Alton Locke, contains no such gem
as ths Chartism was essentially d
knife-and-furk- question. But II was
something more 1t was the greatest
awakening of the masses OF the Brit
sh people against the aristocracy
since the days Of Oliver Cromwell;
and all that ii lacked Of successful
fglntln.cnt upon another Nasehy or
Narston moor, was that it should De
led by a Cromwell instead Of by a Fer
gus O'Connor. It's aim was to make
England a republic; and the revival
of the NAY OF lS4S-that year OF nniul-
hlled revolutions shows that the
spirit Of republiaanism whsle sleeping
is far from dead in the land OF sydney
and Hampden ana Pym.
England vas profoundly moved ny
the chartst agitation srori ISIS 20
I8f2. II was started by workngmen
who honestly enGeavogea - "&1t out
~. ersGn's wish ira; fishers ana mop
pers and ploughmen should constitute
he state. II arose from the dissat!s-
faction Of the masses OF EngllShmen
with the manner in which the wings
under Lord B.oagham had monopo-
lied all the benefits of the great re-
form bill which crippled the saprem-
acy Of the peerage, ana aDollshed the
system of rotten bJroughs through
which the lords controlled the com
mons and the people The commercial
classes who were crushed by the arls-
tocracy had invoked the aid OF the
artisans and working people 10 eman-
eipate themselves. But when this was
accomplished the bourgeois played the
same trick on the plain people that
the fox in Aesop's fable did to the ass,
when both finding themselves al the
bottom Of a deep pit, Reynard asked
tue donkey to raise himself on his
lind legs until he could climb along
his back When through this plan
me fox was able to jump 20 the brink
he promised faithfully to pull up he
donkey By taking hold Of his long
ears. but when Reynard got 70 the .op
he slvlv loakeJ down upon the don
k1y. told him what he thought OF
aim, and made for a henroos.. In
much the same way Lord John
Russell, head Of me whig party
which had risen 20 power by
rearing the structure o. CONNER
cial. upon the magnificent ruins Of
what may be called baronial England
told Englshmen in 1887 that the era
n parliamentary reform had closed
with the abolition 81 rotten boronghs
in 1882. rhe chartist movement in
1885 was the peoples response and i
accepted the challenge OF the prime
minister by Stating a ringing agita-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
ROUNDING Up or LOGS.
The Work Of Telling Big Stick is
Performed Artistically.

The white pine industry thrives
greatest in the northwestern parts Of
the states Of Wisconsin, Minnesota
ana Michigan The logging operations
in these forests are conducted prinCi-
palIy in the winter season, beginning
early in November and continuing un-
Ill about the end of March. For the
housing of the men, horses and oxen
suitable camps or shanties are pro
yiqcd, generally built of logs and sit
uated within convenient reach OF the
denaest part Of the timber to be cut.
An average s. Of camps viii house
from thirty TO seyenty-five men who
are under the charge OF the foreman OF
the camp.
In telling the trees the men work
in pairs two TO each tree. They use
both the ak and the double handed
saw. The fall Of the tree is regulated
by the use OF wedges inserted into the
saw-cut at the proper time and place,
and so expert to the operators become
that a tree Is dropped between any
TWO stnmps that may be selected IN
way that amazes novice. and within
twenty minutes from the time the
men commence work. After the Teller
comes the swamper, whose duty 1t Is
70 side ark" each log with an indi-
vidual mark, usually called the water
mark, in addition TO cutting narrow
path through the brush for the fallen
timber to The nearest logging road
Close 3Don the fellers come also the
cross-cut sawyers, who cut the trunk
into logs o. convenient length with a
double handed saw. A skidding team
then follows and drags the logs TO the
nearest skidway on the logging road
The skidway Is generally situated at
the side o. slight natural rise TO en-
able the skidding teams 10 deposit
their legs more easily from above.
The loading o. the sleighs is then pro-