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washboaras Made of Glass.

The advantages claimed for glass wash
boards are several. For one thing, they
are always perfectly clean, whereas the
old zinc board will in time, become foul
and corrode. Again the corrugatons are
not easily torn or pricked, as with zinc.
thus avoiding many injuries to the hands
that result from the use of the old-stye
board; nor will the corrugations wear out
or fatten. Finally, the glass washboard
is a very durable affair, If only half taken
care of, as it stands the hottest as we'll
as the coolest water.
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Star Gazers in a Balloon.

Mr.. Jansen. the French astronomer,
is arranging for balloon ascents from
three stations, one in Europe, another
in America and a third in Siberia, to
observe the November shooting stars
this year. The balloons are to measure
10000 to 10000 cubic feet and carry
three men, one areonaut and two OBJ
servers, with electric lamps, chronome-
tiers and star maps. They are to go
up 10000 feet. Free balloons are also
to be sent up to test the high atmos-
phere.
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Ladies' Appreciate

A good remedy, and there is not anything on tho
market that equals French Tansy Tablets for the
relief and cure of painful or irregular menses.
These tablets remove all distractions, no m after
what the cause Manufactured by A. Augendre,
Paris, France, and for sale only by D. NJ. New.
bro Drug Co., Butte. Mont, Sole Agents. Price
81 per box. sAns by mail securely sealed.
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Tried to Keen Under Cover.

From the Memphis Commercal-Appeal.
If General Eagan wanted to denounce
General Miles as a spotted and illuminated
liar he should have sought him out and
delivered the message personally. To
brand Miles as a typewriter liar before
an investigation commission and then
claim that he was protected from being
called to account by the presidents order
of immunity was very much like shooting
from cover.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-12

A club is reported to have been formed
in Vienna, the members of which are
pledged to marry poor girl. If by chance
or design member marries a rich girl he
is fined $1,000, which sum is bestowed on
some respectable but impecunious couple
engaged to be married
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Paris of To -day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever offered-now ready for
delivery upon payment of SO in ad-
vance for one years subscription to
the Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte, Anaconda,
Missoula or Great Falls.
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses We're yesterday is
sued to John Nicol and Mrs. Ellen j.
Nichols. William Chenette and Mary
O'Neil. Thomas Heath and Sarah Baw-
den, Edward Mulholland and Hannah
Gallagher, Bentley F. Ramsdell of An
aeonda and Rose Gutenberg of Elgin,
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Look at Il

And examine it carefully and
You will see Sewing Machine
artistically made, Of the best
materials, and with the greatest
skill of the most experienced
workman. Look it all over,
from treadle to cover, and it is
just the same. Now, if the
looks please you, how much
more will the work it does and
and the running of it please
you 7 But why shouldn't it,
Thirty years Of experience in
Sewing Machine manufactnr-
ing should count for some
thing. Yes, it is over thirty
years since the first New Home
Sewing Machine was put on the
market. Think of 1t, Thirty
Years, and yet we never have
been able to find a worn out New
Home Machine. What better
proof of their lasting qualities
do you want9 They are sold
only by
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Carpet Worth $1,oOO,Ooo.

In the treasure room of the mahara-
jah Of Barnda is said to repose a carpet
which cost nearly s1,O0O0O0. 1t is only
6x10 feet in size. but is woven from
strings of pure pearls, with center and
corner circles of diamonds. 1t required
three years to manufacture this jewel of
carpet, which was intended as a gift
to a beautiful Mohammedan belle.
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A SORRY COMBINATION.

With something like abject despair
A woman's heart is filled
Whenever on her tea gown rare
a drop of cOffee's spilled.
L, A. w, Bulletin.
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Paris of To-day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever offered-now ready for
delivery upon payment of $40 in adj
vance for one years subscription to
the Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard Office in Butte, Anaconda,
Missoula or Great Falls.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04
THE EASY BICYCLE.

| The bicycle Is a great economizer OF
energy as we'll as source of pleasure
and health. A French scientist, M. G.
Bourlet, great authority in calcula-
lions of the sort, has come to the con-
clusion that a cyclist weighing lao
pounds, riding a thirty-five-pound ma
chine on level road at the rate of
nine miles an hour, would have expend-
ed at the end Of sixty minutes an
amount Of energy represented, in the
language Of the schools, by 19,43O kilo-
erammeters, equivalent in plain words
and round figures, to lifting rather more
than two tons to the height of yard
IT, instead Of being on his wheel, the
same man had been on his legs, walk
ing at the rate of three miles an hour,
he would have expended almost the
same amount of energy, but he would
have covered only one-third Of the dis
lance. The advantage on the side of
the wheelman in mounting hills, always
providing he regulates his pace in ac-
cordance with the steepness of the as
cent and does not attempt to keep up
the same pace as, on the level, is equally
great. In descending hills, the advan-
tage of the cyclist over the footman re-
quires no demonstration. The practical
results of M. Bourlet's figures are that
the cyclist can cover ninety miles a
day and be very little more fatigued
than his competitor on shanks mare
who has lahoriously left thirty miles be-
hind him
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

trucks, locomotives and repair-shop
equipment devoted to locomotive work
would continue in uninterrupted use
under an electric regime. The profess
sor estimates that the cost of fuel per
horsepower per hour would be reduced
to half a cent, that track life would
lengthen, and that repairs to motors
would cost very much less than they
do in the case Of the heavier and more
complicated locomotive. He Is certain
that electricity means noteworthy saw
ings in outlay as well as far better SER
vice.
AS to the matter of speed, Professor
Short promises 10 miles an hour Tor
passenger trains. AS to safety, he mas
no doubt. On this point he says: 1.-THE
Westinghouse air brake makes it safe
to run a succession Of steam trains over
the same track at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. Electric trains running
at 125 miles an hour will be braked by
the pneumatic control, new device
which supplements the air brake, Is at
tached to it and uses the same air. one
operator at the head Of the train con-
trolls all the motors" If any accident
should shut off the electric current the
train would be automatically stopped
by the pneumatic arrangement. Inc
professor sees possibilities far beyond
his promise of 10 miles an hour, and
he goes so far as to assert that there
are no difficulties in respect of SAFETY
or durability of track to prevent the
attainment of speed of IT'S miles an
hour.
Considering what has been DONE 1t IS
not hard to believe that we may soon
be riding at least 100 miles an hour, ana
perhaps we may yet be able to go across
the continent in one day.
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have been worn so much that they are
without distinction now unless accom-
panying just the right costume on
woman to whom they are suited. EvGn
| with the exacting combination, they are
! limited to few occasions
Two striking bits of headwear are
sketched herewith. The upper one was
puffed green velvet, the brim finished
with several rows of narrow black satin
ribbon. A large rosette Of violets and
leaves was placed at the back. The
other was black felt, the brim faced
with mink, two large wings rising away
above 1t.
All winter long new designs in hats
have been appearing. Rarely have mil
linery styles changed so much during
the winter as they have this year. Even
now, when spring openings are but a
few weeks ahead, new winter creations
are offered. One of interest was royal
blue velvet, broad as to brim and low
as to crown. The latter was pouched
while the rim fiared straight from the
face. Dropping over the upper edge
were four handsome black ostrich
plunes, and to relieve the plainness of
the front tnere was pale yellOW osprey
fastened low with knot Of velvet and
curling around the rim. This hand
some affair was Mudam's latest confec-
ton. Madam no longer makes hats or
bonnets, if you please, she devises con-
fections. And this is not distinction
without difference. The proof of this
is in the prices Of CONNECTIONS. In
Madam's bills they read quite unlike
anything so common as bonnets or hats
FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

The navy department will hereafter
keep at all times stock of about one
half million of tons Of the best steam
ing coal procurable. The war with
Spain demonstrated the enormous i'm
portance of coal, and the distribution of
this vast stock will be done with the
advice Of the best naval strategists
About 100000 tons will be kept on the
Atlantic and probably 100000 tons will
be used on the Pacific. 1t has been de-
cided that $4,000 tons of coal will be
kept at Manila, 10000 tons at Guam U.s.
600 tons at Honolulu, 900 tons at Page
Pago, $4,000 tons at San Francisco, 25,-
geo tons at Brewton, Puget Sound. On
the Atlantic coast the coal supply will
be approximately as follows: Havana,
$4,000 tons; Santiago, 10000 tons; San
Juan, Porto Rico, 25 900 tons; Key West
and Dry Tortugas $4,000 tons; Port
Royal, South Carolina, $4,000 tons; Nor
folk, Virginia, 5000 tons; Washington,
1,100 tons; League Island navy yard, s.
600 tons; New York navy yard, 5000
tons; New London, Connecticut, $4,000
tons; Boston, $1,000 tons; Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 10000 tons; French
mans Bay. Maine, $4,000 tons.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
ROYAL BAKING rownsa co, NEW yoRx:

, Father McDuff (severely)-You should
! be ashamed of yourself, O'Donnell. Yol
/ never know when you have enough
O'Donnell--An' shure, yer reverence Is
roleht! Oh never know! Whin OF gets
enough Oi'm insinsble.- Puck
Editor-Why don't you finish thai
obituary?
Reporter-It is finished.
Editor-It is, Ell? Then how is it
can't find anywhere in it that "the SER
vices were solemn and impressive?-
Roxbury Gazette.
II am afraid" said the Berlin citi-
zen, that the Emperor will be very an
cry
What has happened?"
"One of my neighbors had the temer-
ity to have a birthday anniversary on
the same day as his. "-Washington
Stat.
The new hired girl was as green as
spinach in its first bloom. One day the
mistress asked her to make escalloped
oysters for the dinner. At dinner the
girl brought in the oysters on the plate.
why, Jane, told you to scallop
them!"
Yes, Ma'am, but Hi couldn't find the
scolloper." Herald.
Why" she asked, "do so many of the
poets write about golden rod? 1t seems
as If every one of them had tried to
glorify it,"
Well" replied the man who had
worked on a farm, "the only explana-
ton I can give is that the poets prob
ably never tried to raise potatoes in a
field where golden rod had got good
start. Cleveland Leader.
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COMING.

Professor Sidney H. Short is one of
the most distinguished electricians in
the United States, and this fact gives
special interest to what he has to say
in the Cosmopolitan about the coming
electric railroad. He believes that
American genius and American mill
lions will overcome all obstacles to the
substitution of electricity for steam on
long distance railroads" Concerning
the objection that if steam were to be
supplanted by electricity billions of dol
lars in plants would be sacrificed, Pro-
fessor Short replies that this is simply
begging the whole question. He says
that vastly preponderating number of
items in steam railroad property of
to-day would not be diminished one
dollar in value by this change of motive
power. Indeed, he adds, all save car
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04
ENOUGH.

Suspicious Enthusiasm.-"Was the
banquet a success?" II guess so; the
men all wore each others overcoats off
as souvenirs. Detroit Free Press.
Sure To.--George-Do you think that
your father will consent to our mar
riage? Ethel-Oh, yes! he has always
humored my silliest wishes.-Brooklyn
Life.
1--WE cannot teach, as a revelation of
science, that man descends from any
other animal" Hume Good hevings!
has no one ever seen a man get off a
horse Boston Transcript.
BCokkeeper-Mr Tulpenthal the
cashier has run away with your daugh-
ter, but he didn't take any money.
Head of the Firni-Heavens, what a
bad head for sness.-Fliegende Blaet-
ter.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

LETT US HAZE THE WHOLE TRUTH
How saddening and sickening all
these plots and counterplots over en-
balmed beef are. Can't the truth and
the whole truth be reached in a
straightforward and honest way and
can't such a way be provided? Why
should anybody, in or out of the beef
business, be longer protected? Out
with the whole story, whatever it is.
Anything that is honest and open is
better than what has been going ON.
Are we French?
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04
TERRORS OF PRAIRIE FIRES.
Some Thrilling Examples From tn



Some Thrilling Examples From the
Past.
The fires that recently devastated for
ests in northern Michigan and Wiscon-
sin, other recent fires that swept across
/ areas Of prairie lands in Manitoba and
North Dakota, and still other fires that
burned over square miles among the
| Rocky Mountains have revived a train
| of "reminiscences among the old-time
plainsmen out this way concerning their
| own experiences in great prairie fires
| two or three decades ago. One who has
never seen prairie fire, such as used
every fall to devastate the plains from
the Missouri river to the Rocky noun
tains, and from the Rio Grande to GEN.
trail British America, can have no idea
what such enormous conflagrations
were. No one has yet adequately de-
scribed the frightful sublinity, the
grandeur and the awfulness Of sea of
lurid flames, tens Of thousands acres
broad, rolling, tossing and rushing for
ward like an enraged titanic monster
and leaving in the trail blackened and
smoking ruins from horizon to horizon
Mark Twain has said that the most CO.
lossal awning thing in all nature is a
great fire on the plains, such as he saw
In Nebraska in the fall of 1850.
Prairie fires with solid walls Of flames
twenty-five and thirty feet high, ex-
tending ten and more miles as the wind
might be blowing, have been common.
Descriptive writer's and artists have
We'd with one another in an effort to de-
pict the sensations that animate one
1f.,.~ a,.sv,
prairie fire, but all efforts have failed.
The burning of Moscow, and the confia-
grafton at Chicago have been fancifuly
pictured in song and story, but 1t has re-
manned for the naked savage of the
plains to tell with some degree of ade-
quacy of the prairie fire. ut is," says
he, "the spirit of fire. who in anger has
drawn his bow of flames across the path
of the red man."
So large a part of the prairie Is now
broken up by settlements that the fires
have lost much of their old time size
and grandeur; but the very fact of the
settlement makes the danger to proper
ty and life the greater. When the coun-
try, from the Gulf of Mexico to the
northern boundary of the United States
and even beyond was almost unsettled,
a great fire could sweep almost from one
end of it to the other and do no damage
except to the game it might overtake in
its mad chase. With settlement the
danger to man begins, and as long as
there are any considerable stretches Of
prairie there Is always danger unless the
farm buildings and villages are careful
ly provided with fire breaks.
Tn IRA aOpnn h1Intnrq started a nrQfrfp
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FASHION NOTES.
MiIliners stiil Showing New Product

MiIliners stiil showing New Prod"ct.
Hats entirely covered with soft folos
Of violet mirror velvet are trimmed
with great punches of violets, rosestes
of violet in darker shade being set
against the hair. These violet hats are
lovely with the gray gowns so much
worn. Velvet hats trimmed with great
bows of bright ribbon, the bow right IN
front and so conspicuous as to seem the
whole hat are much worn by misses
and are very becoming. Quaint turbans
are appearing of twisted velvet single
beautiful curled ostrich feather curv-
ing around the side. Rough rider hats
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ADyERr1sING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other small
advertisements. One Cent a Word each In
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
tseven times).
Display advertisements. per Inch, one In.
sertlon, $120; each subsequent insertion, 40
cents; one week, $500; one L-onth, $40;
one year, $40.
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. Is
cents per line. Notices Of Births MAJ
riages, Deaths and Funerals. 80 cents each.
Local Notices. Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to thelr
own Immediate business (all matter to be
unobjectlonableN and their contracts do not
Include Wants To, Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

"A new feature in charity introduced
by the Association for the Improvement
Of the Condition of the Poor in Balti-
more, is the issuing Of blanks, some
what after the order of a promissory
note, to those applicants whose self-re-
Bpect makes public charity distasteful
to them. The notes are not dated, but
are made payable whenever it is con-
venient for the applicant to pay them.
Proper precautions are taken against
giving money to those known to be I'M
worthy, and thus far the experiment
has worked with fair satisfaction. The
feature was tried in December last for
the first time, and during the month
twenty notes were taken for an aggre-
gate sum Of $4O.65 The trust of the AS
ISOLATION in the good faith of the appli-
cants has been justified in few cases
at least. Five Of the twenty accommo-
dated in December have returned the
amounts loaned to them. No interest
was charged.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04
THE EXPENSIVE GYPSY MOTH.

THE EXPENSIVE GYPSY MOTH.
We do hope the gypsy moth wont get
into Connecticut, but we are afraid it
will, for they don't succeed in extermin-
ating 1t in assachusetts, and it may
wander over the border at any time.
II it ever does come here it will be a
good thing for Connecticut extermina-
tors If they have as good luck as the
Massachusetts exterminators have had.
The Massachusetts, exterminators began
their benehcent work ten years ago, and
as the moth still lives in large numbers
In a large part of the territory affected
there is grumbling. 1t is openly charged
that men have carried the moth into
new localities for the sake of extermin-
ating 1t there the next year, and that
colonies have been Intentionally left I'M
disturbed for a like reason. The mat
ter has been up before the lower
branch of the legislature in the form of
a proposition for an emergency appro-
PIldllOH u poU,VVV, W ne IOllOWeu ny d
regular appropriation of 100000 for
continuing the work. The bill came up
in the house the other day, and, after
thorough discussion, escaped defeat by
only three votes. So members opposing
it, while IS recorded themselves in the
affirmative. One speaker declared that
the moth had robbed the state of a mill
lion Dollars. Another remarked that a
few years ago the Commissioners asked
for 100000 and gave guarantee that
with that amount they would extermin-
ate the moth; while now they want
100000, and give no guarantee.
If the gypsy moth does come into
Connecticut the Young Republicans will
get after it in lively fashion.
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"A unanimous agreement has been
coached by the Australian colonial Pre-
miers, who have been in conference at
Melbourne upon questions connected
with the Australian federation bill re-
ferred to them by the colonial legisla-
lures, and the success of the federation
project seems assured. The federation
capital will be- like Washington, feder-
alton territory, the existing capitals be-
Ing excluded. 1t will be established in
New South Wales, at least hundred
miles from Sydney, the colonial capt.
tai. Pending the erection of a capitol
building, the Australian parliament will
meet in Melbourne. The parliament Is
Sto consist Of senate and a house of
representatives, and an absolute major
tty Of the members Of both houses shall
decide all differences that may arise be-
tween the two
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

After trying in vain to secure the oc-
cupation Of its abandoned farms by
foreign colonization, Vermont has found
the most satisfactory solution of the
problem to be the advertising of the ex-
lstence Of these lands in such manner
~ to attract the attention of vigorous
and thorough young farmers who are
mot afraid to work. The number of de-
serted farms in the State has been ma
terially reduced in this manner, and at
comparatively small expense.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

N Professor s. A. Knapp, who went to
the Orient some months ago as the con-
ddential agent Of Secretary Wilson of
the department Of agriculture, has
reached San Francisco on his way
home. His mission was, first, to gather
seeds Of staple agricultural products
for sowing in the southern states and
second, to promote the export trade Of
the United States in certain lines of in
dustry He found in Japan rice seed
much superior to that used in tho
South, and also several new forage
plants and fruit trees. He has also ar
ranged to ship samples Of American
products to various eastern countries.
ne visited the Philippines, and does not
consider the situation there so critical
as has been represented, as he thinks
Aguinaldos strength is greatly overes-
timated.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

The latest report from the Agricul-
tural department places the yield of
wheat for 1898 at 675,14S,7O5 bushels
the largest crop that our farmers have
ever harvested. But the lower prices
have brought them less money for it
than they obtained from the smaller
crop of 1897. The conditions of 1897
and 1898 have been somewhat like those
of 1891 and 1879, though less profitable
to the farmers. In 1881 they received
s12O, 0O0, 900 more for their total wheat
crop and in 1879 the average price Of
all wheat was $1.10 a bushel The corn
crop of last year is placed by the de-
partment at 1924, 1S4,66O bushels. That
Is somewhat smaller than the yield of
1897; but the price obtained, owing to
Increased export demand, is the largest
since 1894. The other cereal crops We're
fairly good last year, both. in yield and
in value. Altogether the year was
profitable one for our farmers, as 1897
was also, but not equal in that respect
to the record years from 1879 to 1881.