The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-13

street and smoked his cigar, watching
the people as he pulled. The Center
vile car came along and warned him of
impending danger. Then he moved over
against the door casing of hallway
leading up to a photograph gallery and
looked at the latest thing out in pho
Biography. A 30-cent dude whizzed by
and brushed the cigar out of the Wis
itor's mouth. The visitor started after
the child but missed his guess and
landed on to big Celt who had come
down town to forget about his hard
days work in the mines by taking in
the passing sights. The big fellow turn
ed around and faced mild-eyed Chin
aman whom the moving throng had
placed in the tracks just vacated by the
man from the sister city. OF course
the Chinaman got what was intended
for the other man and then there was
scattering. Gee cracky,' thought
the visitor. That is more than I would
have done to the whiffet who knocked
the cigar out of my mouth. If l can
find that man l will buy his soda
for his Kindness
A week or two ago the Schubert La
dies quartette gave a very excellent
entertainment in the Auditorium under
the auspices of the Epworth League of
the Mountain View church. The Pas
tors Greeting" weekly publication.
devoted entirely to church announce
ments and terse paragraphs concerning
church work and progress, announced
in it's current number: There was
good house and the company gave en-
tire satisfaction. The only regret we
haveis the Epworth league did not real
ize anything at all in dollars or cents
for the new church"
The edict has gone forth that all
must be clean lest the smallpox get in
its work twofold. This city is full Of
people who would regret to see the
county court house fall victim to
scourge or plague. They have regard
for it akin to brotherly love, for it has
been a source Of much worry in it's time
and the good people of Butte wish 1t
well, a long life and prosperity. But it
sta nds in great danger. 1t is exposed
to the smallpox. The face Of the big
clock in the tower is so dirty that 1t
house wagon as it passes in the night
in search of pests. There is a popular
feeling of remorse over this sad state Of
affairs, and maybe some day steps will
be taken towards plans which in the
course of events might materialiZe to
the end that the face Of the clock will
lose it's burden of dust and smoke SCOT.
Talking about clocks, it has been sug-
gested that the city might turn trick
with profit. There is fourfaced clock
in the tower Of the city hall, but to a
would appear to have but one face for
but one of them is Illuminated. The
residents living on every side of the
hall but the west would like to look at
the clock after dark, but what's the use,
they ask. There is but one face light
ed, when all should be under the glare
of incandescents and the scrutiny of
the man on the other side who wants to
go home early. ...
"Have you been vaccinated?" is the
popular question. This is asked now
a-days instead of "How do you do?''
The answer Is almost invariably in the
affirmative. One man didn't say that
he had been vaccinated. He replied:
mot since l was a little boy Then I
was vaccinated seven times and none
Of them took. I have had the chick
enpox, the measles, whooping cough,
mumps, diphtheria, scarlet fever, pnue-
monia, typhoid fever and other fevers.
had my leg broken in three places, arm
two times, fell down a 60-foot shaft,
run over by freight wagon. went to
the legislature, been married three
times, been in nine explosions, seven
teen lawsuits. drank whiskey for 25
years, took the jag cure, beat a crap
game, lived in Helena, ate in Chinese
restaurants, smoke cigarettes, made