The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-12
Seen and Heard
Mere and There

This is backward year in regard
to the seasons" observed a very old
timer yesterday. i've got it sized up
that the year is completely reversed
that Is, the list of January ought to be
Dec. 81, and vice versa: February, No
Vember. March, OCTOBER April, Sep
TENDER and SO on through the months.
We had our fall in the spring months,
and you'll see that We'll have spring in
the fall months. September and Octo-
Der viii be warm months. Our sum-
mer has just begun
Then he turned to another old-timer
and asked him if he didn't think that
he had sized the thing up about right.
"Oh. I don't know about that?" re-
piled his friend. "You fellows are talk
ing about backward seasons and all
that / don't see anything unusual
about the seasons this year. We have
seasons and seasons and lots Of them.
They are forward enough, according to
my way of looking al them. We have
several seasons in one, and variety OF
weather in all. l suppose that if it
should snow now you would all jump
up and say that the season is back
ward But I wouldn't. The weather Is
about the most independent, don't-give-
a-continental proposition that's going,
and it's liable to do anything. A man
that kicks at this weather would growl
if the thermometer were 100 above in
the shade. He'd kick at the wind. at
the rain, the clouds, at everything. The
weather is all right. The calendar
needs fixing"
Since the two big transforms of re-
cent date much labor has been per-
formed in repairing the damage caused
by the torrents of water Many per-
sons have led themselves to believe
that the Columbia gardens were washed
away and that nothing remains but the
bare gulch. The fact is the gardens are
looking prettier to-day than at any
time this summer. They are clean and
bright and the flowers, trees and grass
are more beautiful than ever. They
We're hit hard by the storm, but money
and labor promptly Temedied the de-
fects caused by the torrents and now
not trace of the food is to be seen in
the whole place.
There have been spasmodic outbursts
of the bicycle craze in Butte this year,
but for some reason, weather excepted,
the bike has lost favor in this city.
Early in the spring there was a general
cleaning up of last years models and
it looked as If there was going to be
wheeling time of it. Cold weather con-
tinued and the bike fever abated, I'M
til at length hardly a whisper of the
wheel was heard. 1t has been a profit
| less season for wheel dealers.
! Billy Woods says that he has done
| his part in trying to promote a healthy
athletic sporting spirit in Butte. He
| has been an indefatigable and persist
| ent worker in the effort to create a
| sentiment favorable to sparring and
wrestling. Many months have been de-
voted to the self-impOsed task of en-
! deavoring to inject in the minds of
men a desire to take hold of what
! Billy believes to be a good thing for
mankind and womankind. While the
promoter is not discouraged to the point
of throwing up the sponge, he is willing
to rest on the laurels he has earned
and the experiences he has enjoyed in
| Butte while the citizens come forward
| and carry to successful issue the sug-
gestions he has 50 freely and lavishly
| thrown out to them.
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