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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22
Missed the Target.

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The report that the F'ilipinos fired at the
Americans five hours last Thursday with
Mauser rifles without scoring single hit
seems almost incredible. If anything, the
Filipinos are greater masters of the art
of wasting ammunition than the Span
iards. They are brave enough, and with a
few months drill and instruction in tar
get practice by the Americans will make
excellent soldiers.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22
Notice to Dancers.

A grand masquerade ball will. be
given under the auspices of the Knights
and. Ladies of Security, Pride of Mon
tana council No. 5l9, Wednesday evan
ing, Feb. %, at the new Scandinavian
hail. No. 5371a South Main street. Masks
must be raised to committee at the
door COMMITTEE.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

Paris of To-day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever offered-now ready Cor
delivery upon payment of $40 in ad-
vance for one years subscription to
the Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte, Anaconda,
Missoula or Great Falls.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

A written order of, Governor Smith,
directing Judge H. c. Smith of Helena
to come to Butte and hold court for
Judge Lindsay during the absence Of
the latter from the state, or as long
as in his opinion the demands Of JUS
tice may require has been filed in
court. Judge Smith expects to hold
court for about two weeks.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

Do you want to buy or sell Boston
& Montana. Butte & Boston or Parrot
stocks? We receive quotations from
Boston. every 90 minutes. Thompson
Investment company.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

The Davis & Busby company is play
ing its last week at the Union Family
theater, presenting "A Bitter Atone
ment. The company contains some
fairly clever people, though one would
hardly suspect it from their work so
far this week Good houses have been
the rule during the company's engage
ment at the Union.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22
Shoes

On the second floor in our new
store you will find the best lighted,
the best equipped and the best
stocked Mems and Boys Shoe De-
-partment in the city of Butte. We
have all kinds Of
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

SIS reward to any one proving that E.
F. Mayer, 40 West Park, does not put
in the best handspring made for 81.
Watch cleaning, $3.50.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

Yes, we've talked Clothing in Butte
for many years and you all know
the kind we handle and how very
cheap we sell good ready-to-wear
Clothing. especially during this
sale. Now we want to talk about
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

Dress suits to hire. Yes, and we press
them. Fisher, tailor, w. Galena.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

The partnership heretofore existing between
3. U. Hunt and y. II. Verrili. under the frm
pose OF carrying on n general grocery and pro.
vision business with branch stores, one az ~
and 90 Middle street, and one AZ 952 Congress
street, Portland, Me-. Is this day hereby dis
solved by mutual consent.
Mr.. Z. y. Hunt will continue the business at
the Middle street branch, anc Will pay all bills
owing by and IS hereby authorized to collect
and receipt for all accounts due to said firm for
account of said Middle street branch.
MIR. +. Fl. VerrIll will continue the business
at the Congress street branch, and Will pay all
bills owing by and is hereby authorized TO col
lect and receipt for al accounts due- 10 said
firm for account OF said Congress street branch.
ST. HUNT.
r. II. VERRILL.
Ang1diawfwTn
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
EVOLUTION OF THE DINNER
PARTY.

This season of 1899 has inaugurated
another alarming social revolution and
on which attacks that stronghold Of con-
servatism, namely, the British dinner
party. Gen. Gordon used to declare that
ten years of the Sudan was better than
one month of dining out in London. And
that some change was needed In this once
deadly ceremonial is evident from the
zest with which hseveral.importaut chang
es have been taken-np. The breakup OF
the long formal tatle of twenty or thirty
guests into parties of six or eight at
small round tables was the first step. the
introduction Of CHEEKY boys and pretty
couples was the next. Then came tie
furore for dining at restaurants, at clubs,
In hotels, In gardens--anywhere, in fact,
but in ones own house. And finally
there is the tavention of this season, TO
wit, the fashion or inviting at least twice
as many Eaen as women to q party and of
putting two dazzling wits and beauties
among five or six of the more susceptible
sex. 1t is u fashion, indeed, which finds
considerable favor, for where there is
competition man-like a railway COM
pany-vill do sycry thing and anything TO
win. This may b8 all very well for the
beauties and the wits. but what is going
to become of the plain, but high-pTinci-
pied young person? These Anglo-Indian
methods mey be all very well in q small
and modish set. but are the homely
daughters and wives to be cleft unenter-
tained because of handful OF favored
bellies who know how to set the table in
a roarg- Chicago News.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
DEFENsELEss.

No enemy can yex my soul,
Him can chase from pole to pole.
But sweet relief / do not know
From friends who come. but never go.
Chicago Chronicle.
A western man has devised tornad Q
guard, which he asserts is full protection
against such unwelcome visitors. 1t con.
sists OF o wooden framework, noYerd
with strips OF copper and lightning rods.
insulated wires are run to cannon
placed in front of the guard and it II
discharged by means Of electric sparks
conveyed by lightning arresters. The
discharge of the cannon stops the whirl.
ing motion and robs a straight wind of
Its destructive force.
Gen. Grant WAS not much of success
as speeohmaser. unless hrsyity Is ths
1 soul Of wit Shortly after noon on May
10, 1868. the 18th army corps, part Of
McPherson's command, had marched
from early morning on scanty rations and
considered themselves very badly treated
When Grant was seen riding along a
call for sonnet hing to eat went up frou
the soldiers. s1Aien." he replied, drawing
up his horse, "rations are on their way
II ON Haines Bluff and will be here by
night" Then he rode on but the boys
in blue were more grateful to him than
II he had harangued them for an hour
The story Is told of the time that Grant
took command Of the regiment of Illinois
soldiers, who greeted their new colonel
with cries for q speech. The reply was
Men, 90 to your quarter"
The fact that this government has sud
denly found itself confronted with th >
question of sustaining soldiers in tropic
climate has led to many discussions OF
= o.. e..
tions Louis l.. Seaman United States
volunteer engineers. has offered the sum
Of 500 In gold, or It's equivalent in a
medal, to the person presenting the hest
thesis on "Ihe Ideal Ration for an Army
in the Tropics" The oompe tition Il
open TO all commissioned medical men
and other officers of the army and navy,
volunteer or regular.
A woman entered @. l.. Does photo.
graphic studio, at Caribou, one day re-
Gently. with young child, and wanted
TO know what mir. Dos would charge for
picture of the little one. Fifty CENTS -
| was Mr.. Does reply, "but -oan take
| them cheaper by the Dozen" "Pernaps
l will wait" the woman said, "for now
have ten children"
Ii is reported thas Edward B. Wheeler,
chief clerk to Colonel Clements, Governor
| of the Danforth Branch of the Soldiers
| Home. has been appointed quartermsstel
| and commissary of subsistence at thai
Home, to date from Aug. /.
Mr.. Ed. Watson. who was formerly en-
ployed in newspaper work in Lewiston
is now. in the Philippines, having enlist
ed rs private in the ambulance corps
| 1t develops that since MIR. Watson went ts
the far-off islands he has fallen heir &c
the snug little sum of s25, 900, but cannot
get away from Manila to enjoy IL.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
DzERINa Roy AT MANILA.

Miss Alice G. Goodwin Of South street.
Woodfords, received a letter the past week
from her brother, Chase N. Goodwin,
who Is member of Company /, 18th U.
S. Infantry, now stationed at Manila
The letter is dated juno 25th. MIR. Good
win Is well known In Portland, and the
letter will give some Idea OF the manner
in which our troops ara now tsing
along during the rainy season at Manila,
which has just set in. Below Is the
substance of the letter.
'iWe are stationed for the rainy season
hero in San Fernando, about forty miles
from Manila, on the only railroad line In
the country. We have captured only
about one-han Of the road, which Is from
here to Manila, and In the day time you
can hear the engine on the other en- d,
which the insurgents have now. They
have about twenty y-eight sengines and we
have only four. They resemble the train
running from Old Orchard to Camp Ellis.
"The morning OF the 10Th we were
awakened by the call to arms, and the
bullets were dying through the bamboo
our guns and ammunition belts and fell
into the ranks, ran 20 the trenches and
started firing volleys into the niggere.
There was firing from every side of the
town and they had it-completely sur
rounded. The lighting continued about
three hours, but was pretty hot while Ii
lasted. At last they retreated after tear.
ing up the tracks and pulling down the
telegraph poles and wires.
The next day the carts went out IN
mont OF ths branches and picked up about
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
THE SUMMER KINDERGARTEN.
To the Editor Of the Press:

To the Editor Of the Press:
A visit to the summer kindergarten
last Wednesday afternoon would have
found Mothers Meeting" in-full pro-
gress
At these meetings the rooms are made
attractive with flowers, and lemonade
and fancy cakes are served. Here for an
hour and a half the mothers meet 10 have
social good tiue. Sometimes the kin
dsrgartner has few words or advice or
informs alton which she wishes to give tn q
parents; at other tiIues the affair is pure
ly social. Something in the way of n
musical entertainment is always pro-
videi.
On August End Mlss Harriet Fasse tt
sang most delightfully."-, and Herman
Levine, the boy drummer. and his sister.
gave great pleasure by their playing. MIR.
Chas. II. Newhali of Boston rendered a
Ithun5sr-storm on the piano SO much to
the delight Of the mblei company,
that he had to do 1t all over again.
Last Wednesday afternoon Airs. Evelyn
Day White sang to the great enjoymen.
of all, and Mr.. Newhall again delighted
by his performance on the piano.
These social times where the mothers
can meet one another, and for "a little
while get outside of their home cares,
are of great value. in that they IN ke the
little break and change which all of us
need to give us courage for the toll of the
morrow. KINDERGARTNER.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

as many hundreds, II not thousands, who
are n0torfouly and demonstfnbly IA much
more afIluent circumstances. This asser-
tion the undersigned conid readily prove
of any moment to EeseFybodS's satisfao-
tlon though his circle OF acquain tances
Is but email. lie could poiut out scores
Of men who live In Fmansions, keep one
or more carriages, have Q butler, footman
costly objects art, eto and yet have de-
clared much less personal property, many
OF them not rs much as one-f0urth
This result oalls the cynical saying OF
a prominent Maine man who had served
several years as municipal officer. He
said that he could go out and by intimi-
dating people with club get the town
revenue as justly as II was got by the tax
levy. BE exaggerated, without doubt;
but there was grain Of truth In it.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
DEATH AND RUssIA's RULERS.

- mrs a arT ~ ~ N -
Una IN AMI noooAA nSA@no'
The Russian imperial family Is sineu-
- .,,. ~1,-.,.
taf'y she
fourteenth car, beginning with PeteF
the Great. Leaving out the two Gather
inas who did not beIong 40 sha tmneria,
-. - 4l.-, 49,
hoass' Dut msrev teuAineu po"er altel
the deaths OF their husbands, the present
czar has had elaven nredeceseors of his
49, a., h,,6 .a..s y,. 49,
N ".
age OF o. Feter the Treat and Elizaoeth
lived to the age of 81, Nicholas I. to that
of "a. and Ajexapder IL tho ioruast.
- -, a.. - =. 90 - s
i've Oh ali tne czars, was us wnen ne was
assassinated. This low average Is Il
some extent accounted for by the fact
,ha+ to,,~ !, ,ha 60. .,,.,.~,,..,, -.
eA"s Aoua " s"e oN"is "oie h,"Iuefou uue'
OF all the male descendants OF Peter Ill,
who died In 1762, only three passed the age
NJ eo ara of vvbor, tho Grand n,Ls
Miehaei Ninoiaiawitah. IL now living IN
his fs7th vaar The avaraga of iifa r., -ths
Puee,.n t,nrartaI famiIy is ho,rs,a-
hanrslv snanrovsno Tba thrsa ss~acsr'
arisne ,nerti,ns3 ahova yvsya so,s -
NtchnIas I All Che cbii,iran ~ A1ax.n-
dsr II aroant his two eldest sons are
sss,1 i,y,,,rs. ~. No. ~ thass A.. Co.. -
nnsa vias,,,eir a. ,,c,, sS aihIs ,,rs,,.sa
is ~ r,asa,,t ,,axt ha,- - tha thrns,s .sts.
~ ,ss.ss,s. !. sssxss re,.vs~a,. hreshs. ME-
al vi ~ "~''.
'I,.o L.. oua-ou,t. ,,.a~. $500 =.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

Professor Won Holst, the eminent au.
thority on the constitutional history oi
the United States, is having some amuse
ment with the Chicago board of assessors
Not long ago Professor Won Hoist re-
turned his personal property as $50, ,547
He has now requested that he be allowed
to recall this return and make a new one
because he has discovered that sthere are
but very few people in Chicago who have
more personal property than the under
signed or even approaching It," Pro
fessor Won Hoist says that all he-possssaei
he has obtained from his savings on :
salary which until within few year.
has not been over si3co year, and from
some books that he has published. III
irther Gays:
There Is certainly a grim humor In
that college professor who has had ts
maintain family on such q salary and
who had to start in5life with less thar
nothing, and mover inherited q cent o.
gained ons by speculation, should b
taxed for almost twice the amount of per
sonal property credited to the furenlos
merchant prince OF Chicago year ago fo
eaxing purposes. IL his declaration stans
che Undersigned will be taxed not onh
twice, Sut ten and twenty times as higi
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

three hundred dead nisssrs and buried
them.
"On the same outpost that We have to
90 one OF our company was shgt and
killed the other night Another man was
put in his place aud he, too, was wound
ed. Our company was ordered out 20 find
the sharpshooter who was creating the
disturbance and one of us spotted him In
a tree. We all let drive ab him and he
came down with crash with a hundred
bullet holes in him.
eve are living pretty well. We get
fresh meat twicD week and fresh
brend. -
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

The purpose OF the attempted assassina-
tlon of Labori, one of the counsel of
Dreyfus. hardly admits of doubt. 1t was
An all probability TO deprive DIeyfus OF
his services and to ipjure Dreyfus's
chances of scquittal. The act shows the
exceeding desperation of the anti-Drey-
fusites. Forgery and perjury and all sorts
of intimidation had already besn resort
ed to to compass their end, and now these
crimes are supplemented by attempted
murder. The tragedy Of yesterday can
only serve to strengthen the conviction,
now entertained the world over that
Dreyfus was sacrificed to screen some
very prominent and powerful men. and
that tnesnew fear of exposure which the
new trial creates has made them doubly
desperate. We're the government not In
O rony hands revolutionary outbreak,
headed ty the ant -Drey fusites, misht be
anticipated, Tut the man who put
down the commune with SO ftern hand
who is now at the head of the war depart
ment is not a man to trifie with.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

The tendency of some prominent Demo-
cratic leaders to go lightly In the vicinity
of the silver question, Ia admirably taken
off by cartoon in one of the Western
papers, which represents one silver
fanatic as saying to another: "Why do
you suspect he meditates treason to the
free silver oausef'' 10 this the other
fanatic replies: Hes growing oonsersa-
We speaks of 1t ss the 'misdemeanor OF
'73''
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15


When the Hon. Richard Croker depart
opposed to the denomination of Bryan.
He comes back opposed to expansion and
in favor of the nomination of Bryan.
Perhaps Mr.. Croker's change OF views
on the formsr question Is due TO his
change of attitude toward Mr.. Bryan,
and his change of attitude toward the
latter Is attributable no doubt, to the
discovery that the great mass Of the
Democratic voters are with the Nebras-
kan. MIR. Croker is neither philosopher
nor a statesman nor one Of those damned
literary fsllers." Politics with him Is
business and business purely, and he
takes his positions toward men and
measures not from any convictions as to
their merits, but simply to stand in with
the crowd. Croker has discovered, what
nearly everybody elss has discovered also,
that Bryan is the favorite of the Demo
cratic masses and that the chance of de-
feating him at the next national co nyen-
ton is extremely small; and he jumpl
upon the band wagon, leaving Var
Wyck and all the other New York Demo-
Gratis to whom be gave encouragement
that he would help them fight Bryan, II
the lurch. The effect of his desertion tc
Bryan must be very disastrous to tht
movement that has been going on for
some time past to depose that gentlemal
from his prominence as Presidential
candidate and substitute somebody elsa
Without 1.-THE assistance of New Yori
that movement can have little ch ancs O
success, and with Croker in opposition
New York's assistance can hardly be OBJ
tatned.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

The fuller the reports from the West
Indian hurricane the greater the loss oi
life and property appears to be. There
is abundant opportunity now for the
American people to gain the good will of
their new fellow citizens to the south by
ministsring to their needs whi ch are
many and pressing.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

The. Hon. Henry W. Blair, who once
vas famous as the auth or of the "Blair
education bilI," is out with his candidacy
for Senator Chandier's seat in the United
States Senate.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

Subscribers whose papers are NOT delivered
promptly are requested 10 notify the ONCE OF
the DAILY PRESS. No. 81 Exchange street.
Portland. Me.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

Patrons OF the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses Of their
papers changed as often as they may desire by
notifying the ofhee
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

The assassination Of Labori Is ooneiu-
awe proof that the men who want Drey
fus convicted believe that he is innocent
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

Since Mr.. Croker's flop the prospec
of defeating Bryan and 16 to one i
gloomier than ever.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

Judge Van wyok's incipIent boom fol
the Presidency has been ruthlessly blastet
BY one breath from Croker
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
SPOT cAsH-oLp COLD.

We give you the highest price for Old Gold as
we uae It for making rings. MCKINNEY the
JeHeier. Monument Square. ootzgdu
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

aAINE STATE PRESS Cweekly,--
BY the year, 81 IN advance, or s1.25 at the
end OF the year.
For six months. so cents; Tor three months,
25 cents.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
Ang1dlawiwTn
$3.50 WALTRAM WATCH,

Siiverine case. Waltham or Elgin movemer
A good timekeeper, warranted. MCKINNEY
the Jeweler. Monument Square. 1e9
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15

DAILY PRESS

DAILY PRESS
By the year. 50 in advance OR 81 atthe end Of
the year.
BY the month. so cents.
The DAILY PRESS is delivered at these rates
very nDrning 10 subscribers IN all parts OF
cortland. and IN westbrook and South Port
md.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-10
AGREE TO RECIPROCITY.
Treaties Between Great Britain,
France and America.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9.--The reciprocity
treaties n gotiated between the United
States and France and between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain during the
past summer, the terms of which have
been carefully guarded. have at last been
printed. They were transmitted to the
senate on Tuesday.
The treaty with Great Britain covers
the dependencies Of Jamaica, Bermuda,
Barbados, British Guiana and Turks and
Caicos If ends All. the agreements in
clude lists of articles on which conces-
sions are made by the respective parties.
The French convention Is made appli-
cable to Algeria and its products, as 1t
Is to France and it's products The gen
eral terms Of all the treaties are prac-
tically the same, the stipulation being in
most cases that 'in case either of the
contracting parties shall, during the CON
tinuance of this convention, increase the
duties upon the importation of merchan-
disc. the increase shall be without dis
elimination or prejudice against the prod
ucts of the other"
All the treaties are to continue In force
for Ave years, and from year to year
thereafter. at the pleasure of the con-
tracing parties.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-10

regarding the point from which the cable
shall start.
Senator Foster Is also preparing a cable
bill to start from some point on Puget
sound and to be laid by way of Dutch
Harbor and the Aleutian islands, touching
at Vladivostok and points In Japan and
China before reaching Manila. His bill
Will provide for commercial cable the
certain amount of business shall be trans
will be necessary.
Hon. j. FL. Schively chairman of the Re-
publican state committee Of Washington,
is here, and also Steve O'Brien. promi-
nent Democrat from Tacon1a. 1t Is ru-
mored that Schively would like an Alaska
judgeship. Cushman called on the presi-
dent with him today.
Foster talked to the president about af-
fairs In Alaska today. Judge Johnson.
the only Federal representative of the ju-
dietary in Alaska, has resigned his health
having broken down under the strain OF
oyerwork. He will serve until his success
or is nominated Foster will present a
candidate. He says congress will be COM
PEELED to enact some laws for Alaska,
among which must be one providing for
two Judges two districts and two different
sets Of court officers. This is one of the
recommendations Of the president
Senator Perkins has introduced a bill to
prohibit towing OF log RATS This liz the
bill asked for by the California Association
of Masters and Pilots. and is aimed at large
shipments Of logs in RATS from Puget
sound.