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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-09
BALLS ARE OUT OF STYLE.
They Are Too Expensive Even for the
Longest Purses.

The ball at the summer resort has had
it's day. This season there have been none
of any consequence at Newport, Long
Branch or Narragansett. There have been
a few events of some local note among
the younger set, but nothing worthy of
comparison with the events of former
years that called forth the wealth. the
fashion and the beauty of these resorts.
The fact is the ball is too costly a funC-
ton for these hard times. In the past it
was one of the most expensive social re-
quirements of the season and, very much
after the manner of a skyrocket, its pc
riod of brilliancy was nowhere nearly
commensurate with its cost. Mrs. John
r, Drexelns little dance, recently given in
honor of her niece, Miss Minnie Drexel
Fell, was the only sembance of a dance
for adults that has yet marked the New
port season, and, while there has been
talk of some other very gay affairs. in
GLIDING a grand fancy dress ball that was
actually organized, the season is fairly
hurrylng itself off without anything tangi-
BILE whatever developing. But peace be to
the ashes of the formal ball. Newport
continues to timber up under the influence
of the melodious coon song and the mirth-
full cake walk
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-09

N nights press service either in
confirmation or denial of the
report, current yesterday, that Merritt
is the man who is TO be sent to Manila.
During most of the time since Mr. Root
took hold in the war department, the
air and the columns of the newspapers
have been loaded with gossip regarding
the administrations intentions respect
ing the command of the forces in the
Philippines. Some of the correspond
ents had it that Miles was to be sent
to redeem the falling fortunes of Presi-
dent McKinleys war; others were con-
fident in the prediction that Merritt is
the man who will be dispatched
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-09
Something New From the Kaiser.
rom the Roatop Herald

From the Boston Herald.
The address made by Emperor William
at the dedication of the memorial statue
on the battlefield of St. Privat, near Metz,
was-in contradistinction to a great deal
that the German emperor has saba
speech made in decidedly good taste. In
this battle, as Emperor William pointed
out, the French no less than the Ger
mans, did valiant service. 1t was a Ger
man victory, but it was marked by bra
very on the part of the defeated which
was deserving of recognition. The note
worthy feature is that up to very recently
there has been very little disposition in
Germany, either by the people or their
ruler, to look al the late war in this man
ner.
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Current Comment.
Otis will Have to Go.
From the Washington Times.

From the washington Times.
The time is past when the administra-
ton could afford to defy the sentiment of
the country, and, much as it may be de-
sired to protect Otis or to let him down
easy, the political consequences of stand
ing by a discredited commander are be-
lieved to be too threatening to incur. The
Hotel Champlain conference. will not dis
solve before decision has been reached
on this pregnant question, and, while the
present arrangements at Manila may be
allowed to stand until nearly the end of
the rainy season. the country will no
doubt be assured that a satisfactory
change will be made before the opening Of
the next campaign.
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An Unsavory Appointment.

From the Boston Advertiser
One of the officers who received a COM
mission in the new regiments for service
in the Philippines is Captain Austin, late
of the list New York volunteers. He was
recommended on the ground of ''service
in the Spanish war; Yet it seems that
after the return of his regiment from
Cuba he was tried by a court of his fell
low officers in connection with the cow
ardly action of part of the list at San
Juan and was adjudged unfit to hold
commission" He plainly has influence
somewhere.
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Army Officers Indignant.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
Army officers are fast becoming impa-
tient over the apparent immunity of Car
ter. They are subjected to the humiiia-
ton of seeing him daily wear the uniform
he has disgraced. As long as he is allow
ed such a privilege, as long as he is per-
mitted to cover his shame under the same
cloth which his fellows wear as a uni
form of honor and to place himself on the
same plane with them, they have a right
to feel affronted
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Senator Ousy's Firm Grip.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel.

From the IndlanapoIls Sentinel.
The republican kiekers in Pennsylvania
congratulate themselves that, although
Quay has control of the machine, the
next legislature will be so strongly anti
Quay that he will not be heard of again.
They may profitably remember that the
last legislature was anti-Quay, but the
Wanamaker contingent did not have
sense enough to kill him off while they
had the power
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New York C--ce-4S Tribune Building.
Chicago Off1ce-469 The Rookery.
The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives
Washington Bureau-l.415 @ St, N. W.
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John Bull in a Familiar Role.

From the Springfield, Mass, Republican.
The English are beginning to tread on
the weak neutral toes The Portuguese
refusal to pass freight containing war
material through the Portuguese port on
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spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda, Mont.
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The Standard has branch offlces at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers bona flde paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
lished in the state OF Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee .
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The Swan a Long-Lived Bird.

Among the birds the swan lives to be
the oldest, in extreme cases reaching
800 years. The falcon has been known
to live over 162 years.
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Delagoa bay into the Transvaal is a
high-handed act that could only be ex-
planned by British coercion or pressure.
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an deliberately constructed pen-wiper for a
birthday present and he wore II to church
thinking 1t was a new-fangled cravat.-
Chicago News.
This Is what l would call roast" ex-
Claimed the slangful young man who was
watching the Dreyfus prosecution.
And the gazelle-eyed girl beside him,
who prides herself on being quick at rep.
artee answered:
mot exactly. It's a Paty-de- Clam
bake. Washington Star.
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TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1880.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

800 rt|fHf H hsm t
taf In f hHh aIaa .b.
rnm f|tH Attorney g.nefM C0ps
bn 1r tmHm crowd H d1nf
ittI hfH fI c4HUehi tia alot %
1HIf hT accident tbai uBe afaf ,iaa.
0i maua were diHmotoI Evidently
ds uauInp Nontos ara afaI
af cremation feeling hat l1s s1fml 1'
.bo bubou maIady & o' small mu.
sequence tl Them beside tba prcsrNu.
zion nl the bones of Ibolr dead intact
Cor shipment 90 China
IN this emergency there ore several
things which may be done china
town being ln an IronbouHi quarn-
tine all business and iu'ar-cDmmu
nlcatlon may be inhibited there. TO
enforce such rules Colonel Jones regi-
ment OF the National Guard, possibly
the Regular Army garrison certainly
the Citizens Guard and as a last resort
a picked body Of japanese residents
may be used. The Japanese are doing
their best. with their usual Intelligence,
to abate the plague and from their in
innate knowledge of Chinatown they
might be of great use in spying out
concealed cases. They are not afraid
Of the Chinese while the Chinese are
plainly and for good reasons afraid Of
them.
We trust that these limitations will
be promptly conveyed to the denizens
of Chinatown by their local newspa
per and by their Interpreters. We say
to them plainly that in undertaking
to balk the plans of the Board of
Health for the safety of the city they
are playing with fire. That is some
thing the white people cannot and will
not tolerate Before submitting to
of the kind they would apply,
throughout the Mongol quarter, the
most rigid rules and penalties of MAJ
tial law. What martial law would |
mean to Cinnamon who sought to
evade 1t is a question which might be
of testamentary interest to their heirs |
but could not be of prolonged interest,
in this world at least, to the offenders |
themselves.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

|H aHf ItFHauahs hi 700 hssIIh aH
IfhMHfIfa fuI tht Umt hfinr pr ihf aF
IHnff nf Honolulu aHl ViiI indemnify
IfHr iaHUIH aHd ftHIf estate ana fHf0il
lHfairH aii heiiUHf uIfH lamanN Hu
i.H.mH NF WtnmagrffI brought DI
made hf fra.Hn uf fho Observance
I nI nun Performance uf fhD a.i fI|f
sad regulations ur1 uf iIiH covenant
TIa rf uU ad.ai-H Hat
1900. am. Why 'H. Yt.1YnHua
pools under H lH E.U .ldDls.
WHt #le ..r.du. al.n h1 ue lf tha
m. annoying problem tio 1.a.y
rpsuHr have ha1 l1 M H..H.u 'Ia
t.af.a quarter are presented 1000 b..HUH
Essa property Can 8. ho .1a OBJ"
Cbu,se-Heaycn f5rb.d'-ha,o dial
gardad .ho careful directions 0' ,Io
trustees and done as they pleas5l'
We mrmls' 70 cultures were taken
OF Bishop Estate cesspool %, s1ni-
tIv directions " the trustees would
uu mp under tha microsc pc No
true Chinaman cares a joss stick for
health agreements with the foreign
devil; all he respects Is force. And 81
does not appear that the Bishop Es-
tate trustees have ever invoked the
strong arm Of the law TO enforce their
contracts for cleanliness. We're they
too mindful of their Chinatown rev
enues to be particular about "A mere
smell? or course not! They We're too
civil to doubt a Chinaman's word and
they did not want TO offend him by
too much inquisitiveness. That is the
true explanation.
The Advertiser Witnessing the care
which the trustees eyince for the pub
lie health by means of pledges freely
given by compIaisant Cinnamon, makes
bold to suggest still another way by
which they may win reputation for
sanitary prudence. Why not stop leas-
ing land to the Chinese with the privi-
lege of putting up novels and dens and
&c in for model tenements of their
own? The trustees OF Trinity Church,
New York found II eXpedient to do
that after the calcium light of the
press had been turned on their pre-
vous methods of business and we are
happy to say that they found the
scheme profitable. May be it would be
the same way with the Bishop Estate.
But whether profitable or not such
course would relieve the trustees OF
burden of public ill-will which is GER
tain to grow heavier when the people
of Honolulu, free under municipal
government to make this model city,
take it into their heads to summarily |
abate all nuisances.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

Wf tats Hnd "a ma aFbH BE-
psH fea t1ff H shH.I 0fF as
and w. i.Iifts De- ta Dol ur ta ib.
trutifa af fhf nfhan EHsis frl maff
i1 blame or DO nfh 8f CWfa'HVn
ihan ant other pruanf In ihIf r's.t.
Thor control 1rro afeia tH,rr nhI.h
afs covered ni Ule worst anl m1sf
luaiI fenem ard W" tau hl1f of
uo ase. save a very recent ono where
they hove compelled fhn occupants i0
ka.p ibr premises clean Indeed by o.
snrl'f. 1f rack rent They have dIsc0uf.
AGED improvements. sanitary an1 9th.
oraIse And now they are deliberate.
ly settling up fresh nuisance for fu-
uro Boards Of Health 10 combat. Have
these comfortable gentlemen mo- other
thought than the selfish ono OF diyi-
donds2 Have they no care for the
welfare aud safety of the city aB a
whole?
There has been considerable criticism
OF the Board OF Health and there may
be more But we can tell the Board
how to win enthusiastic applause from
every dlsinterested citizen, and that Is
to carry out It's present program OF
private property-owners 20
clean up, with special reference 10
Bishop Estate nuisances. 1t would be
a cheerful and pregnant omen If the
would treat the Bishop Es-
tate as If ii did not have a dollar or a
friend in the world-treat It with the
impartial severity when it insists on
plague spots which might
be visited on pauper Chinese hui. !
We should then begin to have some
hope Of the kind Of a reform movement
the majority of Honolulu people have
been aching for these many years
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29
CHANCES or THE FUTURE.

The possibility that France may war
npon England and thus make Boer
triumph certain in South Africa is an
interesting study in the light of Amer
lean precedent. VIII history repeat
itself in this respect as it does in so
many others?
Close students of the war of the
revolution must admit that the Amer
leans might have been borne down but
for French intervention. They were
sadly divided, a million of the three
million population being Tories. Dis
sension had followed frequent defeats
the Colonial credit was nearly exhaust
ed; the British blockade was stringent
the army and people were discouraged.
Then France stepped in and the situa-
scene in a play. Dissension ended,
credit came back, the blockade was
broken and the army and people took
up their burdens with light heart,
Should France step in now the Beers
would surely win, independently of
what the result might be TO the
French. They would get, for year at
least, pretty clear field of operations
between Zambezi and the Cape and
that would put them i'm possession of
the country and create, by automatic
process, the United States of South Az
RIGA which used to be the dream of the
Afrikander Bund. The Beers them
selves cannot do all this. despite their
valor and good luck. They have not
yet felt the impact of the British EN-
pire. If they ever do they will be
pressed back TO the wilderness. Their
only chance lies in French interven-
ton.
VIII such intervention come? A
short time will tell. The French are
Smarting under the rebuff of FaShoda
and the insult" of the continued Brit
ish occupation of Egyptj the army
wants something 10 do; only the eX-
position inspires calmness. Any little
thing may inspire war; big thing like
the bidding of Russia would precipitate
it. And after that, as old King Louis
said, the deluge"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29
HAWAIIAN STOCKS.

The Examiner of Dec. 21st makes a
waiian stocks in San Francisco. 1t be-
gins by putting in parallel columns the
values of the stocks as they We're, and
the values as at present quoted. In
the first column we find the highest
figures the stocks have been held at
during any time of the past year, and
in the second column figures. not of
any sales that have been made. but of
those offered for the stocks.
A somewhat lengthy argument is
INDUCED in by the Examiner writer to
show that the bottom is dropping out
of Hawaiian securities. The sole foun-
datiOn on which the Examiner bases
its argument is, that the Cuban crop
will be sold for so much next year that
it will reduce the price of sugar to
and 312 cents a pound. Any one with
knowledge of the Cuban situation
knows the sugar plantations there are
so demoralized that it will take them
a number of years to recover.
1t is also a fact that the Hawaiian
sugar stocks listed on the San Francis
co market, have for several months
past been selling on no speculative
basis, but on that of a - per cent
dividend.
Private correspondence received yes
terday from San Francisco, states that
the fluctuation in Island stocks is due
to a bear raid made on the market
based on the rise of the English in
terest rate and the only expectation
is. that as soon as the English interest
rate huctuates back to its normal
figure, the stocks in question will re-
turn to the selling price which they
have been quoted at for several months
past.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

The death of Major General Henry
w. Lawton is one of the severe losses
which the unfortunate war in the Phil
ippines has visited upon the American
army and nation. General Lawton was
one OF the most dependable soldiers in
the service. His military experience
began in 1861 and 1t continued through
thirty-six battles, gallantry in which
won him a distinguished service medal
at the hands of Congress. After the
Civil War Lawton went through se.-
eral Indian campaigns and finally
crowned mis- experiences by capturing
Geronimo. In the Spanish war he
commanded division of Skaters
corps and did great work before Santi-
ago. His splendid services in the Phil
ippines, now ended so untimely, are
facts of recent history
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR

The Advertisers plea for an early
meeting of the Council of State and
the appropriation of 100000 or more
to provide Honolulu with permanent
firmative response from the general
public We now await official action
which, we are told, will follow report
of Mr.. Rowell, the Superintendent OF
Public Works, upon the cost of pro-
viding filters for the Nuuanu reser-
voirs.
Let it be hoped that Mr.. Rowell will
act speedily so that the crisis which
alone legalizes the appropriation of
money by the Council of State may
not pass before the money is taken out
of the surplus. The moment the city
is declared free of infection and the
quarantine raised the power of the
Council of State to appropriate lapses
and nothing can restore it save re-
currence of the plague, the outbreak
of war, the presence of invasion or an
enabling act by Congress. In default
of these everything would have TO be
referred to a Legislature which may
never meet or to a municipality which
may deem filters of less Importance
than paving and the construction of a
City Hall.
The time To strike for permanent
improvements is now. Many are need
ed beside the reservoir filters. Streets
must be widened, alleys cut through
certain blocks in Chinatown. property
condemned, possibly q Sanitary Police
organized, In no other way can Homo
lulu make reasonably sure of escaping
future plaques. We have had three
visitations of small poX one of which
cost hundreds of lives; we have
had cholera and now the bubonic
plague is here. Nobody knows how
soon the yellow fever, a case of which
WIS ldltly lHuutu III ASlOIld, may Ut
introduced. 1t is indispensable that
every measure necessary TO insure
cleanliness, pure drinking water and
the admission of sunshine into damp
and dark places, should he taken now:
II the chance is lost it may not recur
for long time. Alarm is easily allay-
ed and lethargy readily inculcated IN
this climate. A few weeks from now it
may be impossible TO get anything
done.
Call the Council of State together as
soon as possible. So far as We can
learn from careful inquiry the COM
munlty desires that it should meet and
set apart as large portion of the sur
plus as may be necessary to put Homo
lulu in the way of easily handling and
celebrating every dangerous malady
that appears within its limits.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

Tho Board of Health, having opt
od the duty of compelling private prop
cry-oNuers Co clean their premises a.
fhsIr own expense Is entitled o 'ho
actiyc support not only uf Tho pub'i.
but of the Council OF State. % saam-
TO thc Advertiser THAI the time .s now
ut hand for making The desired lppru-
priation of 100000 for permanent,
sanitary works II no more cases OF
plague should occur and the qulrln-
tine OF the port be declared on. then
the Council OF State would have no
authority TO appropriate anything and
the task would deyolve upon "a Legis-
lature which may not lawfully sit SO
the time to appropriate is now and the
reason for doing so the need Of erect
ing safeguards against any future cpl
denies whether bubonic plague, chol
era or yellow fever.
There Is also, if the present vista
ton IS to continue an immediate
urgency. The Board Of Health says
with justice that parts Of Chinatown
cannot be cleansed either by public or
private initiative until certain streets
are cut through infected blocks The
money to bear this cost must come, if
at all, through the Council of State.
Another great danger to Honolulu
and one to which DR.. Wood among
Others has often required, is the use of
unfiltered water from the Nuuanu
reservoirs. The filth which, from one
cause or another, finds its way into
those reservoirs, is appalling. For years
every effort to get an appropriation for
filters has been balked-why is neither
here nor there The chance is now at
hand to secure the money and there is
a surplus to draw it from. Why should
not the Council of State take the mat
ter up? Surely it is better to put a big
part of the surplus into permanent
sanitary values than to run the risk
that the United States Government
through some hocus pocus, will apply
the whole amount on occasion towards
the payment of the Si,000,OO0 indebted
ness which that Government has as
sumed.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

1t is comforting to know that the
Nicaragua canal still has a chance. A
report is current that the Craigin-
Grace syndicate, which got a conces-
sion after that of the Maritime Canal
Company expired, has come to grief
and that the original franchise will be
restored. In that event the canal may
have a fighting chance in this Con-
gress despite the power and influence
of the railroads.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29
BISHOP ESTATE sUIsANCEs

The extension of Kukui street from
Nuuanu to River streets is becoming
an abuse for which the trustees OF the
Bishop Estate, which controls the
property are responsible. The basic
part OF the new roadway is largely
made up of such filth and rubbish as
have been lately burned in Chinatown
and the leases of frontage TO Cinnamon
for building purposes are made with
no sanitary restrictions whatever
shacks have already gone up along the
way which, in six months or a years
time Will be a menace TO the health
of the entire neighborhood.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

A pro Chinese organ suggests that
the Japanese are as uncleanly as the
Chinese. People know better who
have travelled in the Orient, for the
japanese are habitual bathers and do
not tolerate overlooking cesspools in
settled nelghborhoods. Their immun-
ity from the plague in this city shows
that they are keeping on the safe side
of the sanitary line. AS it is well I'M
derstood that they are backing the
Board of Health in the measures taken
TO cleanse the town it is unfair and
impolitic to class them with the PA
kes," Besides, people whose presence
has not little to do with keeping the
Chinese from making a mob protest
against the quarantine deserve better
treatment.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-29

1t is pleasant to note that Mckinley
prosperity has done big things for
Bryan. The profits of the Democratic
leader from the sale of his books
amount to $4,000, sum which he has
invested in United States registered 4
per cent gold bonds in the name of his
wife, thus becoming bloated bond
holder by proxy. AS political books
are Injuries which people only buy
when they have more money than they
know what TO do with Mr.. Bryan is to
be congratulated on the electoral re-
suits which made such plethora pos
sible.