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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
Y. M. I. Picnic on Julx 4

Elaborate preparations are being
made for the Y. NJ. excursion and pic
mic at Anaconda Lake park on July 4,
The committee in charge consists of D,
]. Hennessy, chairman; NJ A. Griffin,
secretary; M. P. Lavelle, James T.
Finlen, Justin S. Butler Joseph P. Col
Inns, C. P. Connolly. M. d. Leehey, 7. /,
Casey and Frank f. O'Neill, and they
are making every effort to insure a
good time. The B., A. & p. railway
has made round trip fare of 81 for
the day, and six trains or more each
way will be run. In the morning an
excellent programme of patriotic exer-
cises betting the day will be rendered
in the park, and in the list of attrac-
tions for the afternoon are included a
tug of war, foot races, a baseball game
between select mines, and in the evening
a boat and tub race on the lake. More
than $500 will be given in prizes by the
games and amusement committee. The
Boston & Montana band, 2S strong, and
in better practice than ever before, will
assist in the morning exercises and dis
course music at intervals during the
afternoon and evening. Dancing both
afternoon and evening in an excellent
enclosed pavilion, with Bergstrom's
complete orchestra in attendance. The
affair will certainly be made most en-
joyable.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
BUTTE NEWS.
MAY PUT UP The PRICE
Contractors Likely to Increase
the Cost of Paving.
THEIR ALLEGED EXCUSE
1t Is Argued That Municipal Warrants
Will Draw Only Five Per Cent. In
terest, but There No Founda-
ton for the Statement.

It's pretty cold day, colder by good
deal than the last few days have been,
when contractors bidding on work for
the city cannot find some excuse for put
ting up the price. 1t has always been
that way and the tax payers must pay for
it. Last year the contractors who did the
paving found excuse for lacking on
little more than they got for the work
the year before, and now, when there is
some more paving to be done, the people
who propose bidding for it have found
the regulation excuse to fatten the con-
tract, SO 1t is said. OF course nothing very
definite is known, for the reason that the
bids have not yet been submitted, but
there is considerable talk on the street
relative to the matter, and it is the gem
eral impression that it is the intention
of the bidders to put the price still higher
than it was last year.
The excuse this time is said to be based
on the action of the legislature last VIM
ter in changing the rate of interest on
certain public warrants. The legislature
reduced the rate of interest on state war
rants, and it is said the contractors who
propose bidding for the paving have con-
ceived the idea that the change extends
to municipal Improvement warrants and
propose basing their bids on the assump-
ton that the warrants will draw per
cent interest instead of per cent, in
which event, of course, they will have to
charge higher price in order to pull out
even.
City Attorney E. M. Lamb, who was
in the last legislature and helped frame
the law in question states, however, that
the impression that the paving warrants
VIII only draw five per cent interest is err
roneous, and will not serve as an excuse
for putting up the price. In speaking of
the matter yesterday Mr.. Lamb said:
There was no change made in the law
in reference to the rate of interest on
municipal warrants by the last legislative
assembly The law in this particular pre-
scribes that special improvement war
rants shall draw simple interest at the
rate of six per cent per annum."
1t is entirely possible that if the bids,
when they come in, are too extortionate
the council may reject all bids and re,
advertise for others. The administration
officials have expressed themselves as
greatly opposed to paying any more fancy
prices for paving and it is quite likely that
a pretty determined stand will be taken ii
the bidders do not confine themselves to
the bounds of reason.
The bids for the paving are to be opened
at the next council meeting, and it is
= hoped by the city fathers that the bids
will prove satisfactory in order that the
paving may begin at the earliest possible
day, for time is beginning to cut a large
figure as the paving must be started
pretty soon if it Is to be completed be.
fore snow flies.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18

work business along these lines. You
see, here is a poor railroad which has
been built from main line into some
country district.
'~The builders have used up all their
money and either have no cars at all
or else only one-quarter as many as
they need. So they go to one of the car
trusts and they get three or four en-
gines and eight or ten passenger cars
and 20 or 40 freights and fiat cars
"They pay a round sum down and so
much a month, or they may pay half
the cost down and the rest in Install
ments, but in any case the rolling stock
belongs to the trust, who cover it with
bonds or certificates, guarantee these,
and then sell thtem to capitalists and
| investors They make money and the
| investor gets a good return upon his in
| vestment, and the little company does
not pay much more in installments
than it would have paid in lump sum if
| it had bought them outright.
There are hundreds of rolling stock
which are run upon these principles
| Now. when these things get injured CT
worn down pretty well, they are taken
up by the car trusts and not by The
companies, and these trusts have the
biggest yards and storages in the en-
| tire railway business.
II asked one of them where the oldest
engine in the neighborhood of New
York was working. He thought for a
second and answered that there are
quite a number in the train yards which
have been there longer than he had
| been in the trade. There is one in the
Hudson River yard which is more than
20 years old, and one in the Harlem
| yard that is older still
"There is one good old camel which
runs heavy freights in Eleventh ave,
nue. that has gray whiskers, but the
oldest of all is over in Long Island City
which was at work when oliver Char
lick and the Poppenhesens were tn.
railway kings in that district, and tina
is more than 27 years ago"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
FROM BALTIC TO THE BLACK SEA,
Canal Over 1000 Miles Long Is Being
Constructed.

From the London Mail
The career of prosperity which the
Manchester ship canal appears to
have entered upon at last has inspired
Brussels to favor a similar project for
that city.
1t is proposed to make the city a.
maritime port, with dock accommoda-
lions and a basin for shipping COM
prising about 10000 acres. The canal
will be about rs miles long The work
has not yet been begun, but it is said
there is no doubt that the scheme will
be carried through.
Both the Manchester ship canal and
the projected waterway in Belgium
sink into insignificance when COM
pared with the Russian canal that is
now being built from the Baltic to the
Black sea. 1t Is to be 1850 miles long
and large enough to permit the largest
warships to pass through. It will have
a width at the top of PIT feet and 217
feet at the bottom, with depth of 2S1s
feet
The canal is being so strongly built
that vessels may steam through it at
rate of six knots an hour. 1t will
take six days for large vessel to pass
through it, travelling night and day.
The canal Is to be lighted along the
whole course by electricity, and the
total cost is estimated at about G24,-
100000. Four years will be required to
complete the undertaking.
The advantages, commercial and 9TH
erwise, which Russia expects to derive
from the making of this mammoth
canal will more than compensate for
the enormous outlay, and the scheme Is
viewed very favorably throughout the
cars dominions.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
Teeth extracted without pain. wix.
Partisan soubrette Excites All Abyssini,

Partisan soubrette Excites All Abyssinia.
Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia has fall
en- a victim to a little Partisan soubrette
Renee D'Orleans. Her ostensibIe occupa-
ton is that of a dancer She is a true
French beauty, has an oval face, olive
complexion, deep, dark eyes, which SPAR
kle through long 1ashes, and a wealth Of
splendid black hair. She is graceful and
slim, with the well-deveoped figure of
the dancer.
Formerly she was an artist at the F'olies
Bergeres in Paris, where so many wo-
men have achieved fame of one kind or
another. She went with Prince Henry of
Orleans on his famous expedition into
Abyssinia in 1897. This is the prince and
then was the time that he branded all
Italian soldiers and officers who had been
defeated by Menelek as towards. In con-
sequence of his filings he had to fight a
duel with Count Turin, who it will be re-
membered, very easily disabled him. His
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18

THE blood is the life aye, and also
the death.
Impurities in the blood kill more than
the bloodiest wars, and much of mans
premature mortality is of his own MAX
ing.
Men risk sickness readily and
thoughtlessly and tamper and tenn
porize with their cure as If it were
penalty.
Pleasure is costly, before and after
cure must be at the price of a charity
Men spend scores and hundreds of dol
lars in folly and travel round with one
or two 50-cent pieces to get a cure for
folly's effects
Nervous debility makes many men
feel life is not worth living and blood
disorders causes others to be haunted
with hopelessness.
The Drs. Foote and Liebig company
say to such: DO you know the value
of life, of health? Do you wish to
know it, to have it? Have you placed
yourself in the hands of men who have
made these diseases the study of life?
If not, then try them, the only exclu-
sive doctors for men in Montana. Here
first! Here now! Here all the time,
and will be here through all the ages
to come"
The Drs. Foote and Liebig company
have passed thousands of men in the
past 25 years on the Pacific coast
through their great offices, made we'll
and whole, and these often the worst
cases of their kind.
Their wide and long experience can
be made yours, with the same happy
results. They do not experiment, they
cure.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
A Bright Young Mind.

Teeth extracted without pain. Wix.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
Teeth extracted without pain. wix.
STONE MONUMENTS or JAPAN.
They Were Made by Ancient Ancestors O.
the Present People.

They Were Made by Ancient Ancestors of
the Present People.
An English scientist, Mr. Gowland.
who has long been a resident in ,Japan.
has recently contributed some interest,"
ing particulars of the rude stone monu-
ments and of the doImens and sepul-
chral chambers of Japan to the Society
of Japan in London. He has also con-
tributed some conclusions as to the
early races inhabiting that distant
country. The aboriginal inhabitants
of Japan We're apparently the Ainu, a
race occupying the whole country I'M
til they were gradually driven back to
the north by more powerful race.
What people these invaders We're or
whence they came cannot be said with
certainty. and the do1mens afford little
information on the point. In China
there are no dolmens, while those in
Corea differ entirely from those in ia
pan. To find dolmens similar to those
of Japan one has to travel west to the
shores of the Capsian sea, and even still
further into western Europe The dol
men period in Japan is estimated to be
included between 200 B. c. and 600 A.
d. or somewhat later. According to
Mr.. Gowland the period during which
the dolmens We're built was character
lied from its beginning to it's close bv
a well-developed civilization and a cuI-
ture which had advanced far beyond
the limits of barbarism and was, in
fact, the birthtime of the ornamental
arts. He considers it proved that the
builders of the dolmens were the an
cestors of the present Japanese. who,
after driving out the aborigines. had
become a settled and united people and
had made great progress both in the
arts and industries.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
from the Westminster Gazette

From the Westminster Gazette.
A Sunday school teacher, lately wish
ing to turn the young idea toward the
mission field, asked, what are good
men called who leave their homes and
go to foreign lands to teach the heath
en?"
"Prodigal sons" was the prompt and
triumphant reply.
A class Of boys when asked, What
were the 10 plagues?" answered with
more fervor than gallantry, THE 10
virgins, SIR
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
Teeth extracted without pain. wix.
Housekeeping for Thousands.

Housekeeping in hotels and large in
situations has acquired the dignity of
a profession, and the work is of neees-
sfty reduced to a system. Imagine
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29
Things We Owe the AnCientS
Machine and OF Years
Ago-Steam Photographs Vaccination
AnaeSthetlCs

the elliptic. A Saracen constructed
the first table of sines, another ex-
planned the nature of twilight and
| showed the Importance of allowing for
atmospheric refraction in astronomical
| observations.
In the schools OF the present day
Euclid . elements of geometry, written
over 22OO years ago, ia used as q text
book. Euclid also wrote on music and
optics ntedating much we think we
have discovered. Both algebra and
| chemistry were invented and brought
into Europe by the Mohammedans
and chemistry and algebra are Arabic
| words.
| Locks like those in use today, which
could only be opened by the kuowi-
| edge of a certain combination of nnm-
| bers, we're known to the Chinese CEN
turtles ago, while Hobbs gave his name
to lock found in an Egyptian tomb:
Our clock and sun dials were in
vented in the orient. The finest linen
in the world has come out of east In
dian looms. The coffee we so much
| desire for breakfast was first grown by
the Arabians, and the natives of uppe +
India prepared the sugar with which
| to sweeten it, while every schoolboy in
| the land can tell the meaning OF the
| Sanskrit words "sacchara canda."
The virtues of tea were first pointed
out by the Industrious Chinese, who
| also showed us how to make the cup
| and saucer In which to serve it. Break
fast trays were first lacouered in Japan.
Leavened bread was first made of the
waters of the Gapges river. Eggs as an
article of diet we're first used by the
Malaccans and when we speak of
Shanghai chickens we but mention an
| Asiatic name. Persia first grew the
cherry. the peach and the plum. AL
cohol was first distilled by the Ara
| bans and when we talk about coffee
| and alcohol we are using Arabic
words.
We crafty our taste in the way of
personal adorsement liz the way taught
US by orientsls-viz.. with pearls, rub
ies,l sapphires. aud diamonds. most
magnificent fireworks are still to be
seen in India and China and Europe
has invented nothing which can rival
the game of chess. We have no
Chinese canal, no fortifcation as ex-
tensive as the Chinese wall; we have
no artesiaR wells that can approach in
depth some of theirs nor have we ever
tried to obtain coal gas from the inte-
rior of the earth, while they have Dor
ings for that purpose more than 5000
feet deep.
Oriental physicians prscticed vacci-
nation over 1000 years ago. Anaesthe-
tics we're known in the days of Homer
and the Chinese 1000 years ago had .
preparation of hemp known as tuna
20" to deaden paiu-something simila1
to our modern cocaine.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

En9ushman Says He Mover Punished the
Same Man Twice.

Engltshman Says He Never Punished the
Same Man Twice.
The writer was the other day intro
duced to stalwart warden of one of
our great convict establishments, by
NO means unkindly looking man, who
for many years has been the official
wielder of the cat-c'-nine-tails at the
prison where he serves, says Answers.
Il scarcely know how the new prison
bill will affect me, but I have in the
past logged some scores of men with
the cat, receiving an extra sum on my
pay of five shillings for each one OPP
Grated upon. I never flogged one yet
that didn't deserve a good deal more
than he got; but, of course, this is my
point of view. Of perhaps sixty men
to whom I have applied the cat-men
ranging in weight from eight to fifteen
stone-I have never known but one
who bore the punishment withou
yells, or, at least. groans. A great deal
depends upon the man who Yields the
cat as to the extent of the pain, and
much also depends upon whether the
cat is an old one, with toughened
thongs. or not. The understood, dis
sipated city street-corner thief suffers
the most, strong fellows who have done
outside work for years not being az
fected in anything like the same de-
gree. AS for the behavior OF the
logged some Of them use awful i'm
precautions, swearing, with awful oaths.
how they will revenge themselves;
more still yell unintelligibly, like
whipped children. The doctor present
largely regulates my own efforts.
have never had to fog the same man
twice; I do not think any warden in
England ever had to do So"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29
ONE OF PORTER'S SPEECHES

The General Says 1t Is Among His Best
So It Must Be True.
One Of the youngest-looking men OF
his years in public life is Gen. Horace
Porter, our ambassador to France, says
the Philadelphia Saturday Post.
In spite of his incessant activity
Gen. Porter, while the head in New
York of the Pullman Palace Car Com
rsny, was among the most accessible
of men He always seemed to have
porter was sent to him to collect some
after-dinner stories which had never
before been printed, and never have
been printed up to the present time.
The general laid aside his. correspond
ence and entered whole-heartedly into
his callers mission.
Il don't know" said he, that 1 can
tell you any new story of mine, but 1
will tell you what 1 regard as my best
piece of repartee-at least, it was the
most enthusiastically received. 1t was
at a big banquet, the chairman OF
which was no orator. His introductions
were labored and most of them failed
to score. When he introduced me, he
said:
"TYou all know Gen. Porter With
him all you have to do is to drop a
dinner in the slot and up comes a
speech
"tYou all know the presiding off,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

Something very similar to the tele-
O.. pboae was used in China 1000 years
ago, says the Los Angeles Times. Ma
tural gas conveyed in bamboo tubes
was utilized in China ages ago and one
of the ir writer's mentions boxes which
repeated the sounds of peoples voices
that were dead--a machine SINH lar to
E1isOn's phonOgraph.
Ancient Egypt boosted "a n1ckel-1n.
the-slot" machine, while Layard found
In ruins of Nineveh what Sir David
Brewster pronounced to be "a magn1-
fying glass" and nearly 1000 years ago
the Egyptians and Assyrians observed
the stars through sort OF primitive
telescope.
Thimbles have been found in pre-
historic mounds with every evidence
of having been made by machinery
similar to our own. Hat pins with
gis-s heads and safety pins with
little coiled spring ct one end and q
catch at the others were in use In Pom
peii 1000 years ago. Combs and hair
Pins have for been twenty in cs sa-
turtles and house wives 5000 years ago
patched their husbands garments
with needles and thread.
Very fine razors are made at the pre-
sent day, but no finer steel than that
contained in the Damascus swords and
knives which the ancients used several
thousand years ago.
The people of Tyre were such experts
IN dyeing that Tyrian purple remains
unexcelled to this day. The Egyptians
were also wonderful dyers and could
produce colors SO durable that they
may be called imperishable. They
were also wonderful glass workers and
could make glass garments dyed in
every shade of color and etched with
rare skill.
Electricity derives its name from the
Greek word for amber, electron, be-
cause Thales, about 600 B. c.. discover
ed that amber, when rubbed, attracts
light and dry bodies; and in the
twelfth century and scientific priests
of Etruna drew lightning from the
clouds, with iron rods. ALI mechani-
cal powers. the screw, lever, pulley, in :
clined plane, wedge, wheel and axle
were known to the ancients and used in
everyday life. They were expert
builders.
Twenty centuries before the birth of
Watt, Nero, OF Alexandria,. described
steam. He also invented double
force pump, used as fire engine, and
Rntici pated the modern turbine wheel
by machine he called "neolpile."
While the learned of Europe were
forbidding as q heresy, the doctrine of
the elobular figure of the earth, the
caliph Al Maimon was measuring the
length of degree along the shores of
the Red sea. He aud mis- successors
Iepes tedly determined the obliquity of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

It is DR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1t
makes women young again. 1t gives new
strength and virility to the organs long
harassed by weakness and disease. 1t
promptly heals Inflammation and ulcera-
ton, stops weakening drains and restores
the health and vigor of youth. 1t fits for
wifehood and prepares for motherhood.
It banishes morning sickness and other
discomforts of ante-maternity. 1t makes
"new women" One letter among thou
sands says:
T. S. Carlisle. Esq, of Manchester, Coffee Co,
Tenn. writes: II am superintendent of the
Coffee County Poor house and Asylum combined
Your Golden Medical Discovery 'Favorite
Prescription and Pleasant Pellets are the best
medicines for the diseases for which they are
recommended, that ever used. They saved
my wifes life at the time Of change of life I
also cured the worst case of 1unacy that we ever
had with your Favorite Prescription The
case had been under doctors care three years."
If baby dies before the doctor comes, you
will wish you had sent for DR.. Pierce's
Common Sense Medical Adviser: In paper
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mailing Cloth binding, ten stamps more.
Address DR.. R. ". Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

cer,' retorted, and judging from the
sick1y tone Of his speeches, all you
have to do Is to drop one of them in
the slot and up comes your dinner
From that time on I had things my
own way at that dinner"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

Great Britain's merchandise imports
during the fret six months of 1899 were
the largest at any corresponding per-
iod in its history. Its exports for the
same period were the largest since
1891, and have never been exceeded.
except in the opening half of that
year and of 1892.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

French booksellers are waking up to
the fact that they need professional
training. The "Cercle de Ia Librarie''
proposes the establishment of a school
with three years course. The Bel
giau booksellers have started similar
scheme in Brussels.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

Mohammed and the Mountain.
1.-THE prince of Wales tells me he will
never again visit the United States -
sighed Mr.. Tody. els that SOP" queried
the imperialist well, don't see
bow he is going to keep out of it if
we go on spreading."-Life.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

Nearly $4,000 migrants entered Can
ada last year, of whom 9480 were from
England and 9119 from the United
States.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

One of the masterpieces Of musical
clocks has just been completed for the
emperor of China, in whose palace, be-
sides pointing out the correct time, it
will play selections with fully equip
ped autOna attic orch estra.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

J. II. Kibbey, a telegraph operator
on the Terre Haute Express, has work
ed eleven years, seven nights week
without vacation.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

The case of E. w. Sparks, charged
with selling liquor to Indians, is be-
fore United States Commissioner Gull
yer at TucsOn.-Ex.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29

A negro has been jailed at Green
vile on suspicion of being the one who
assaulted Miss O'Neal at Commerce
August 1I.-Houston Post.