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Why No Enthusiasm?

& ONE of the frothiest of the ad-
% ministration organs in these
parts have at last grasped the
obvious truth that the Philippine war
is not a popular one. We are told by
some of them that the present war is
not calculated to arouse much enthus-
iasm. but that there is nevertheless a
quiet determination to press it vigor-
ously and reduce to complete submits
sion those rebellious and insubordinate
people who are so presumptuous as to
imagine that they have any rights in
the country which they and their fore
fathers have occupied for some thou
sands of years.
This is somewhat in line with the
views entertained by officers now en-
gagged in recruiting for the army. Not
long ago a United States officer sta
toned in Butte, himself an earnest sup
porter of the administration. was heard
to remark that the work of recruiting
was uphill business: that the people
seemed to have a different feeling about
it from that which they entertained
concerning the Spanish war"
Obviously they do, for not only is
there total absence of enthusiasm
except when the gallant soldiers come
home-but the recruiting stations form
a most painful contrast with the scenes
which they presented when the Spanish
war started and as long as it contin-
ued. 1t has been stated that within a
very few days after President McKin-
ley's call for $4,000 troops. more than
100000 offered themselves for enlist
ment Mark the change! For several
weeks the government has been striv-
ing in the most laborous way to fill
ten regiments, requiring only about
10000 enlisted men. Except in crowded
cities. where there is always a large
number of unemployed men, there have
been slow enlistments.
We search the history of the country
in vain for a parallel to this change in
public sentiment 1t may be true that
there is a quiet determination" to
force the war through to a successful
issue, but the present trouble seems to
be that the determination is too ex-
tremely quiet-save in certain news
paper offices. At all events the rate of
enlistment does not indicate that the
determination is of highly militant
character.
The reason for this extraordinary
change may be the proper subject of III
quiry. 1t is to be hoped that those adj
ministration supporters whose delight
1t is to shout or apologize for every
thing 1T does, having been able to ex-
tend the range of their vision beyond
the pickering atmosphere of their own
partisan enthusiasm far enough to OBJ
serve the fact that there is no enthus-
iasm anywhere else. may now begin an
investigation to ascertain the reason
why. With ordinary intelligence and
energy in the work, it will not take
them long to discover that the two
wars involve totally dissimilar princi-
pies, and that even the seven million
voters who gave their suffrages to Will
| lam Mckinley make a broad distinction
when it comes to enlisting, at least,
| between a war for freedom in Cuba and
a war against freedom in the Philip
! pines,
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For indie For sub
Total ........ ..... 1880 8

Thus so per cent more favor indie
pendence than vote for subsection. The
imperialists are in majority in all sec
tions-even in the central west, where
Mr.. Mckinley is supposed to have OBJ
tanned his inspiration for course of
forcibe annexation, and on the Pacific
coast. which was regarded as nearly
unanimous for the new policy. The ma
jority against the Philippine conquest
is strongest in New England and the
south, but it is substantial in all Sec
tons.
Another question in the same line
was submitted Should Cuba be given
independence or be annexed to the
United States? The vote on this is even
more decided against Imperialism than
on the other. Some 1919 replied in ia
vor of independence, against 1882 in ia
vor of annexation. The majority in
every section is pronounced for the full
fillment of the nations pledge, upon
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
The Shamrock a Swift One.
HERE is no denying the fact tn

~ HERE is no denying the fact that
there is a good deal of uneasi
ness in American yachting cir
cles over the prospects of the Columbia
in the coming great race for the Amer
lea cup. While the Columbia in her
craft showed phenomenal speed at
times, she also betrayed the fact that
she is decidedly cranky and far from
being as steady and trustworthy as she
should be.
The Shamrock is an unknown guam
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
Men and Women.

George B. Loving of Texas, the pro-
moter of the proposed Consolidated Cat
tie company, holds options on more than
100000 head of cattle and 25, 900 acres of
land.
Emperor William has sent to the crown
prince of Greece his portrait. inscribed
with the well-known sentence from Ho-
mer: only one shall be ruler-only one
king"
William A. Piper, the eccentric million
aire and ex-congressman. who died in
San Francisco last week. owned the best
library of books on California's history in
the world. These will probably go to
Stanford university.
The officers of the 10th Pennsylvania
regiment just back from Manila, are to
be presented with swords and to every
officer and private is to be given a medal
made of metal from one of the Spanish
cannon captured in the Philippines.
John Morley is now living at Hawar-
den, where he will remain for several
months. in order to have ready access to
the papers at Hawarden castle, which he
will have to examine in order to complete
his biography of Mr. Gladstone.
The list of Presbyterian ministers de-
ceased last year--a list that has just been
made up-shows a remarkable longev-
ity The total number Is las, a percentage
of less than three to the thousand, and 49,
or precisely one-half, were past 70 years
of age, Al of them past 80 years. Scarcely
a dozen in the entire list died under 80
years of age.
IF Mr.. Hobart is renominated he will be
the first vice president to receive that
distinction in a great many years If he
is reelected he will be the first vice pres
ident to serve two terms since John c.
Calhoun, who served from 1926 to 1888 In
fact, there have been only four vice pres
idents who were re-elected-John Adams
George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins and
John C. Calhoun.
a queer excuse for refusing to buy y
portrait of Queen Victoria by Wilkie. and
pictures of Charles I. and Queen Henri
eta Maria for the National Portrait gal
lery, has been given by the British treas
ury. 1t was doubtful whether the artis-
tic merits of the pictures justified the
purchase at the price asked. but the Off
cial ground for refusal assigned was
that in acquiring examples regard must
be had to the celebrity of the person rep
resented, rather than to the skill of the
artist"
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which it went to war, but which has
apparently been forgotten by those in
charge of our Cuban policy. AS Porto
Rico seems to be willing to be annexed
a majority favor annexation in that
case. but very large majority would
make the island territory within the
United States. rather than a colony
without, if annexation is to stand
The most significant vote of all is that
on the question: I'm general, should
the United States adhere to or depart
from its former policy of non-interfer-
ence with nations beyond either
ocean, This seems to have presented
the issue of Americanism versus imper-
lalism more clearly to many farmers
than the Philippine question, and
brought an even more overwhelming
verdict. The vote by sections:
-
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WhRRlunan Lake

Wheelmen will enjoy a little incident
told by Teddy Edwards, the noted
century rider. He says that when he
was riding in the suburbs of Utica, n.
Y, he asked a wheelman which might
be the best road to take from Utica TO
Syracuse. The big-limbed stranger
eyed the famous century riders slender
shape a moment and said: Take the
New York Central
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New York Gees Tribune Building.
Chicago Offce-469 The Rocker.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1.415 G St, N. W.
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Return Good for Evil.

From the Washington Post.
We notice a tendency on the part of
certain newspapers to say harsh things
of the New York Sun. They should be
more charitable.
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Old, Reliable Life Preseryer.

From the Denver Post.
A Cleveland man was saved from ia
tai knife thrust by bottle of whiskey
which he carried in his pocket. There is
no moral concealed in this fact. 1t
just happened to happen that way.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Admiral Sampson drew a blank at San
tiago, but he seems to be in a fair way
to Guido Admiral Schley at the final prize
distribution.
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Chauncey's Marches Carriage.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Senator Depew figures that by keeping
a horseless carriage during his residence
in Washington he can escape his old mall
ady of nightmare.
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A Mate to yaIeriano w.

From the Springfield Republican.
Mrs. Ey1er, matron of the state indus
trial school for girls at Trenton, n. j.,
has perhaps lost a W. from the front
of her name-she seems to be kin of the
late governor general of Cuba.
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Presidential House of Refuge.

From the Philadelphia Times.
1t would seem quite a commentary on
hotel life that almost simultaneously with
McKinley's taking summer board the
news came out that he had suddenly
bought a home.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

No harm was done by the democrats
fusing with the populists in Nebraska,
but really the country's visible supply
of pops has practically reached the
vanishing point
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Current Comment.
Chickens Come Home to Roost. Eys

CHICKENS Come Home to Roost. ~
From the Washington Star.
The New York Suns hilarity over
strikes in opposition establishments didn't
lose much time in going home for a roost-
ing place. Yet the Sun gives some very
good reasons for presuming to conduct
its own affairs in its own way.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
It's All the Fad Now.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Now that it is called polyomyelitis, the
new disease in Yonkers Will hurt twice as
many children as it did when they had
not decided what to call it.
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From the Chicago Times Herald.
A Toledo atheist has been converted by
the gramophone, so he says, but the fact
that he is 70 years old may have some
thing to do with his determination to be
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
Laughable Lynching Logic.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Making the United States treasury pay
for lynched Italians is very poor way
to punish the lynchers.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees It's
advertisers a bona fide 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 Standard has branch Offices at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
pliCation.
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All general business letters and corre-
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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To judge by the way he overrides the
evidence Colonel Jousaust is a good
deal of a rough rider.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

Il can't help thinking about the emp
tiness of the world,' sighed the misan-
thrope You should have been with
me in Hawaii" answered the traveller.
You wouldn't think it was SO empty
IL you had seen that eruption of Mauna
Loa."-Washingto Star.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

In his way the man behind the gun
that shot NJ. LabOri, was a good skip
per,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

California is plainly determined to
to sustain her reputation as the biggest
scandal producer of the country.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

The democracy of Nebraska wigwags
the democracy of Kentucy fine ex-
ample in harmony. 10.
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She-Why is ii, / wonder, that little
men often marry big women?
He-I don't know, unless it is that
the little fellows are afraid to back out
of the engagements.-TidB Bits.
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From the Washington Post.
Senator Wolcott. Tod Sloan, Israel
Zangwill and Pedlar Palmer, the English
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

itself of the privilege Of interviewing
Mr. Frederick Gerhard on the subject
of Mrs Langtrys marriage.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

All signs point TO an exceedingly
large crop of dumdum bullets in the
Transvaal this fall.
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In the Best of Humor.

Sampson-"Willie. where did you get
mat black eye? It's all right, pop.
I've only been civlizing the boy next
door Life.
Londoner-Who is at the head of your
city affairs?
New Yorker (smilingly}-You mean
to ask who is mayor, don't you?--
Brooklyn Life.
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pugilist, sailed from Liverpool the otheI
day, and there were quite a number OF
enthusiasts at the dock to bid farewell tc
Sloan and Palmer
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
Taxation With Misrepresentation.

From the Chicago Record
MilliOnaires should tax their memories
little more when the assessor calls.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
A Species of Sword Swallowing.

From the Chicago Record.
President Harper proposes that drinking
boiled water shall be part of the ath-
letic course at the University of Chi
cago.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

Ananias would find himself hope
lessly outclassed in France these days,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

The Santiago riot is an excellent i'm
itation of the real French article.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

August seems finally to have steadied
down and promises to make brilliant
finish.
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Neither the New York World nor
the New York Journal has yet awaited
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
until he was growed up.-Boston Trav-

Deacon Crawfish-Do yo' t'ink dat a
falsehood am justifabal undah eny
circumsizes?
Rev. DIR. Petah-Yas, Brudder Craw-
fish. / t'ink dat falsehood am just
fiabal in de case of chickens or in flu
neral observation-disclosures journal.
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Photographs.

Referring to the curious effects OBJ
tanned by running a monograph back
wards, Professor Pichot, in an article in
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Mamma-Don't you know that the
great King Solomon said, Spare the
rod and spoil the child?"
Bobby-Yes, but he didn't say that
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Preventing a Catastrophe.

Preventing n Catastrophe.
From the New York Press.
Maybe the reason most women talk so
much and so fast Is because if they didn't
they might have to think.
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New Game of Euchre.

From the Boston Herald.
The Samoan game is to be played
henceforward without any kings in the
pack.
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Postage free for the United States, Cam
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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Daily and Sunday, one year...........si0.0 90
Daily and Sunday. sia months ........ 500
Daily and Sunday, three months ..... 8 90
Daily and Sunday, one month. ......... 90
Sunday. one year ...............c. 90
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Main office-Standard Block Anaconda.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
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IT saw Virgins last night and he tolt
me he was going to the hop"
What of ito"
"Why. l don't know whether h,
means he was going to a dance or tt
the brewery, or to his laundryman's.'
Indianapolis Journal.
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the brewery, or to his laundryman' :"
Indianapolis Journal.
An Irishman who had taken seat
in theater other than the one his re-
served check called for was remon-
strated with by the usher. who insisted
on his getting up and giving MS seat
to the rightful purchaser. &c wan wild
ye," excitedly retorted the Celt; the
safe is moline, an DILL sthand up for
me roights eff / hev to sit here all
noight. Richmond Dispatch.
The pirate looked down on his help
less victim
"Beauteous one" he said beneath his
silky black mustache, "let us stroll
about little before l lead you to the
altar"
So they strolled.
Alas! he did not know that she was
the leading golfer of her neighborhood,
and four hours later she was strolling
rapidly toward civilization and liberty,
leaving the exhausted pirate lying on
the greensward struggling for his
breath.
For he wasn't a stroller.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-27
TAYLOR NEWS.
Century Hose Company Meets This
Evening-Employs of the Pyne on
strike-other Interesting Matters.

The Century Hose company. No. 2.
will hold an important business meet
ing in the council chambers this even
ing. when all members are urgently
requested to be present. At the ses-
sion arrangements will be made Tor
the production of a drama Dy the Tay-
lor Dramatic club.
The attendance at the fair under
the auspices of the Church OF the I'm.
maculate Conception last evening at
Webers rink was very large. The
building has been beautifully il.umin-
ated with electric lights. The booths
contain many handsome ana useful
articles to be chanced off during the
progress of the event.
The employees of the Pyne mine OF
the Delaware, LaCkawanna ana West
ern company went out on strike yes
terday morning. The trouble among
the employees is over the making W Of
time which they claim is llst by stops
made during the day. The Collery
was compelled to suspend work for
the dav.
Insurance Agent William r. Jones,
of the Metropolitan Insurance com
pany, has been promoted as superln-
tendent of the Honesdale branch. NJ.
Jones will move his family to the
place in a few days.
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THEATRICAL.
cat PineY RIDGE

David Higgins. an ambitious young man
who is both actor and author, was at
the lycCum last night at the head of his
own company in a dramatic story of life
in Tennessee called "At Piney Ridge"
The play was written by Mr.. Higgins and
is clever bit of dramatic construction.
The incident on which it was built is not
new. 1t is the substitution of a child
with some black blood in his veins for
the son of a large plantation owner who
was killed while leading a regiment Of
the Confederate army during the civil
war.
If his theme is somewhat hackneyed Mr..
Higgins has developed it in way that
is new and interC sting and has put
enough of heart interest into the play to
attract and hold the attention until the
curtain goes down 1t is not problem
play in the sense that YOU don't know
how it's all going to end. You are spared
the weariness and fatigue of guessing
From the moment you learn that Jack
Rose is noble of heart but accused Of
having black blood in his veins and that
Mark Briarson is supposed to be white
but has record of dark deeds you know
how 1t Is all going to end yet you remain
an interested spectator to the close.
That's where young Mr.. Higgins dis
plays his cleverness. The main story
starts along the trail straight for the
mark but interest is sustained by the
minor incidents introduced to throw light
on the main road of the drama.
Mr. Higgins did some capital work as
Jack Rose and Walter G. Horton was suf-
ficiently villainCus as Mark Briarson to
gain the hearty ill-will of the gallery
Miss Georgia Waldron displayed much
force and no little delicacy by her treat
ment of the role of Cindy Lane, and Ga
briello Mexican, Virginius Tracy and
Marie Kinzie were also seen to good ad-
vantage.
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Delaware AMI Hudson.

on Nov 18th 1890, trains will leave
Scranton as follows:
For Carhondale-620, 753, S.53, 1918 a.
m; 70 noon; 1.23 2.20, 1852, 5.25, 6,25, 7.5I,
915, 1l.00 p. M; lie a. m.
For Albany. Saratoga, Montreal BoS-
ton, New England points, etc.-6.2O a. M:
220 p. m.
p. m.
For Wilkes -Barre-645 7.4S, S4s, 9.Ss,
10,43 a. m; 1903, 1.2S. 2.1S, 1888, 427, 6.lO
74S, 10.4l. 1l30 p. m.
For New York, philadelphia, etc. via
Lehigh Valley Railroad-G45 p. m; 1903,
2lS, 4.27 p. m; with Black Diamond EX-
press 11.30 p. m.
For PENNSYLVANIA Railroad points, GAS,
9.3S a. M; 21S, 4.27 p. m.
For western points via Iehigh Valley
Ralroad-74S a. M; 1903. 333 with Black
Diamond Express, 10.41. 11.30 p. m.
Trains will arrive in Scranton as fol-
lows:
From Carbondale and the North-64o.
7.42. SIS. 924. 1898 1l.5S a. m; 123 215,
1926, 423 7.43. 10.3S. 11.27 p. m.
From Wilkes Barre and the South-615.
7.4S, S,4S, 10 3S 11.55 n. m; lis 21i 34S,
$50, G21, 753 9.O5. 1905 u. M: 1.13 a. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
For CarbCndale-9.05 11.33 D. M; 2.23,
3.52, 5.i7 a53 p. m
For Wilkes Rarre--9SS 1903 a. M; LIS,
3.2S, 5.43. AS p. M
For Albany. Saratoga, Montreal. Bos-
ton, New England points, etc, 2.23 u, m.
Lowest rates to all points in United
States and Canada.
j. w. RTRDTCE, G. y. A, Albany, n. Y.
II. w. CROSS D. p. A., Scranton, Pa.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Frank Swigert, editor of the Hall
stead Herald, spent Christmas with
his arents in this city.
Robert Gardner spent Christmas in
Suscuehanna.
Silas McMullen will return after the
holidays with John Aitken, jr., to the
military school near Philadelphia
which the latter has attended for the
past year.
Mrs. Daniel Williams has returned to
Scranton, after a visit with friends in
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Smith and
daughter, Lois, were entertained
Christmas by Mrs. Frederick Ed
wards. of Scranton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Scharlock have
returned from Windsor.
Miss May Birs, of New York, spent
Monday with her parents here.
There was a reunion of the c. f.
Lathrop family yesterday, and the fol-
lowing members sat down to dinner at
the residence on Garfield avenue: Mr..
and Mrs. n. d. Lathrop, Miss Helen
Lathrop and Master Edgar Lathrop,
Mr. and Mrs w. NJ. Lathrop, Mrs. Y.
G. Rogers and Mr.. and Mrs. z. L.
Bevan and two children, Lathrop and
Eleanor
The funeral of Mrs. Baker will be
held Thursday afternoon at o'clock
at the residence.