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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
The Censor of Lincoln.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The Boston Herald is quite right in its
poor opinion of the literary style of the
man who wrote the Gettysburg address
Our contemporary remarks that it is diff
cult to find a better style of expression
and reasoning than Abraham Lncoln's:
1T was simple at times to LONELINESS
so was that of Benjamin Franklin, indeed
but the manner in which Lincoln pre-
scented an argument was exquisitely sat
isfactory and conclusive"
10 illustrate Lincoln's power of express
sion. the Herald prints part of letter Of
rebuke which Lincoln wrote to a general
in the union army who had objected to
his war policy. Here is the passage:
You think / could do better; therefore
you blame me already. / think / could
not do better; therefore I blame you for
blaming me- I unders land you now to
be willing to accept the help of men who
are not republicans, provided they have
heart in it,. Agreed. l want no others.
But who is to be the judge of hearts or of
heart in it?' If l must discard my own
Judgment and take yours, I must also
take that of others, and by the time I
should reject all 1 should be advised to
reject l should have none left, republi-
cans or others-not even yourself For, he
assured, my dear sir, there are men who
have heart in it. who think that you are
performing your part as poorly as you
| think / am performing mine.'i
| Not only is this a notable example of
| straight writing and of terrible rebuke
gently administered but it also possesses
| some contemporaneous human interest.
| The Boston Herald either does not know
| or does not care to mention the name of
! the carping, eSasperating critic whose
| self-conceit and Importantly brought
| down upon himself this punishment from
| the kindest-hearted and most patient of
| the worlds great men,
| Who was the person that thought Abra-
| ham Lincoln was performing poorly his
| part in the war and volunteered TO tell
him so? His name was Carl Schurz, and
he has lately directed his attention TO
President Mckinley.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
He Didn't Suit.

IN more ways than one Mr.. James NJ.
Beck who was the orator at the
recent unwilling of the Franklin
statue in Philadelphia, hit it off wrong.
He pleased neither Boston nor Phila-
delphia--the first of these cities is
Benjamin Franklin's birthplace, the
second is the city of his almostlife-
long home.
1t must be said that Mr.. Beck was
quite ungracious in his illusions to
Boston; he sought to make it appear
that Franklin was a great man in
spite of the fact that he was born in
Boston. Franklin spent only few of
his conscious, intelligent years in its
Streets" said the orator, land he left
it because it's narrow and intolerant
atmosphere choked and suffocated his
noble soul. With the Boston of Elmer
son, Longfellow, Holmes, Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Agassiz and DR..
Gray, Franklin would have been in en-
tire sympathy, but with the Boston of
Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards,
which cut off ears, bored tongues.
branded faces, slit noses and whipped
women for the expression of harmless
opinions, he could have no fellowship
Boston doesn't enjoy this thrust. In
deed, Mayor Quincy of Boston was one
| of the speakers at the unveiling in
Philadelphia and he made his remarks
| a resentment of the comment of Mr.
| Beck. Boston, Philadelphia and the
| entire country can rejoice he said,
that Benjamin Franklin was an
American" On the other hand, the
Beck Grafton pressed the suggestion
| that the ashes of Franklin be removed
to the old state house.
| In turn, Philadelphia objects. One
of that city's newspapers asks why
Mr.. Beck should wish to rifle this
| famous grave or rob it of its reverent
associations Says the Philadelphia
Times, 1--WE hope that no one will take
to dig up poor Franklin's bones and
remove them to the state house. His
| grave is one of the sacred spots in our
dear old town. Ever since his death,
more than a century ago, the philoso-
| piers mortal part has rested quietly
| in consecrated ground, where it was
| fifty laid, in an honorable part of what
was then the. chief cemetery of the
city" The comment that has followed
| the unwilling ceremonies is clear
enough proof that the suggestion to
| abandon the famous old tomb is
| promptly declared out of order by Dub-
| lie sentiment in Philadelphia.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
Personal Notes.

Governor Stanley of Kansas has APP
pointed his wife one Of a committee to
investigate the states charitable institu-
TONS
Jacob Field, Wall streets greatest
plunger, estimates that he has paid out
$4,000 in revenue stamps since the begin
ming of the war with Spain.
Mark Twain will return to America in
September. His visit to London is pri-
marily to arrange for an English edition
de luxe Of his collected works.
Richard Thompson, ex-secretary of the
navy. and the oldest living ex-cabiner
officer, is in good health and has just eel
ebrated his 90th birthday at Terra Haute.
Ind.
The Marion, Iowa. Register sums up
the character of Colonel Henderson with
the statement that he 'is the only man
in the country who can say God bless
you as it should be said
Without ignoring the demands Of socie-
ty Miss Elsie W. Clews. daughter Of the
New York banker, has found time to win
the degree of doctor of philosophy from
Columbia college.
Major Robinson of Las Vegas, N. NJ,
has written to President Mckinley, ask
ing him to be present at the reunion of
the rough riders to be held there the lat.
ter part of this month and to lay the cor
nerstone of the new local Y. M. C. A.
building
Emperor William of Germany appears
to have added gallantry to his many
other accomplishments. When he recent
ly heard the beautiful Danish virtuoso.
Frieda Scatta, play, he said to her:
When / listened with my eyes closed I
thought heard Sarasate, yet l prefer to
keep my eyes open"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
Honors for a Dead King.

The national memorial of the 1,0O0th an
niversary Of the death of King Alfred the
Great, which falls in 1901, will consist of
statue of the king at Winchester. where
he is buried, together with hall to be
used as a museum of early English his
tory, The executive committee are ar
ranging for the publication of a popular
work, with the view of diffusng public
knowledge of Alfred's life and work, and
have also under consideration the expe-
diency of holding an exhibition of objects
pertaining to the Alfred period in London
during the anniversary year Several
other suggested means of commemoration
are before the committee and receiving
their consideration, including a military
review, naval display, historic pageant
and meeting of learned societies. About
100000 will be required for these pur-
poses. More than $1,000 has already been
subscribed,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
Personal Mention

~ HE newspaper reporters have got
to live, and no mistake. Even
if they don't get it right. they
make the best stagger at it they can.
It's a little rough, sometimes, for the
fellows they practice on, but it's all in
lifetime so whats the odds?'
Not because its worth printing but
just for instance, here is what a sober
sided press dispatch landed into the
newspaper offices last night, under Den
yer date: THE Times tonight says
that Marcus DAILY, the Montana mil
lionaire miner, smelter and horse
breeder. is coming to Colorado to live.
He brings with him Sc OO00 600 to 100000
900 of money to invest. 1t is reasonably
certain that he will build home in
Denver. He has an option on land for
stock ranch and expects to engage in
smelling and refining Independent of
the American Smelling and Refining
company"
Last week the Salt Lake reporters
had Mr.. DAILY, packing the same bundle
of money, on prolonged travels in rural
England, along the Rhine, up the Rigi,
through Italy, and so around and
around the world. But a recently-ar-
rived st. Paul publication tells us that
he is going to make Great Falls the
center of vast smelling operations
which are to receive his personal atten-
ton.
Meanwhile, if the Standard gets the
straight tip, there's a boys boarding
school somewhere away up in New
England where the doings have great
attractions for Mr.. Daily just at this
present time. So that if it interests
you that much and you have the pa
tience, you'll get word presently
through a special to the Androscoggin
Times or the Winnipeseogee Bugle that
Marcus Daily has bought Amoskeag
Falls and is about to build a concen-
TRAITOR there for the treatment of his
Bitter Root valley oat crop.
For a fact, this much reported miner
must have a literary bureau; nay, a lot
of them-one at least in every town
along the line.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21

and It is pretty hard to keep it out of
the houses. After a while. we guess, the
sprinklers will come out and then there
Will not be so much dust on the streets
EDWARD JOHN DEVLIN.
article law has been burlesaued
throughout California. It will undoubt-
eddy be laughed out OF existence. As
for cartoons, they often carry the
names of their authors who naturally
want the advertising that is thus af-
forded
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
Growth of the Betting Habit.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
The betting habit is gaining hold upon
our people. 1t undermines character and
blasts business prospects. Young men
VINO are known to be sporty are not
placed in positions of trust which COM
mand the higher grade of salaries. They
not only lose money by their attempts to
win money, but they lessen their ability
to earn money. Credit is often a stepping
stone to fortune, but the betting man
rarely has much credit. His friends may
not question his intentions to pay, but
they know that the betting habit impairs
the ability TO pay.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
Should Take a New Tack.

1t Is difficult for person at this dis
lance to make up his mind whether the
czar is sincere in his professed desire for
peace and reform or whether he is play
ing the hypocrite to serve an Interior de-
sign. If he wishes the world to give him
credit for goou intentions he should i'm
mediately reverse his reactionary policy
in Finland and should set the whole re-
sources of the empire at work to relieve
the famine which is devastating extern
sive regions.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
Politicians and Public Utilities.

From the Louisville Dispatch
There is a vast amount of difference
between the public ownership of monop-
olies for the public good and the regula-
ton or control of these same monopolies
as the part of a political machine. There
is little difference as far as the people
ara concerned, between the control of
public utilities for unjust profit to pri-
waite stockholders and their control to ad-
vance the selfish interests of politicians
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
More or Less,
ESTERDAY'S mail for the Stand
" ard included a letter in which a

I ESTERDAY'S mail for the Stand
" ard included a letter in which a
correspondent says that this
page is lat least ten thousand out Of
the way when ii says that our Philin-
pine operations have resulted in send
ing forty thousand soldiers to the
islands,"
What this page said yesterday morn
ing was in these words: THE Stand
ard has not the exact figures at hand,
but it will be found that not less than
forty thousand officers and men have
been dispatched to Manila, and, until
the recent sailing of one or two regi-
ments. not one thousand troops have re-
turned to the United States
At the moment, the Standard has not
at command official information as to
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
A Rotten Republican Plank.

From The Keokuk CONSTITUTION.
The trusts dominated the last national
republican convention, dictated its plat
form and nominated its candidate for
president. The trusts contributed the
money to elect Mckinley. In the light
OF the facts what ridiculous horseplay it
is to talk of a republican plank against
the trusts? How many people of the
United States would be gulled by such a
declaration, in view of the administra-
TONS action in regard to the civil service
plank of the last platform?
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thousand reduction.

\ 7 NDER the shadow. dark and OPP
pressive, that rests upon the
rectory of st. Johns church in
Butte, lies what is mortal of one who,
just budding into womanhood, was the
light of home. the joy of hearts sud
denly stricken, the idol of friends whose
With those who now are so sorely be-
reft will abide henceforth the fra
GRANGE of a life which, while it was
spared, was like a benediction and the
memory of one who was gentle, loving
and we'll beloved Such was Dimple
Blackiston's brief sojourn-brief in
deed, in it's span; richly abundant in
the measure of it's usefulness.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-21
One Reason for Disarmament,

From the Omaha World Herald.
The more we think of the $20, 000, 900 paid
to Spain the better we can understand
the czar's desire for a general disarma-
ment. The czar probably foresaw the
time when he would have to whip some
nation and then pay handsomely for the
trouble.
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ftNew York OEice--4s Tribune Building.
EChicago Oftice-469 The Rookery.
7 The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives
Washington Bureau-1,415 G St, n. W.
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advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
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Governor Stanley of Kansas has APP
pointed his wife one of committee to
investigate the states charitable institu-
tons
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
FIRE MATERIAL.
A Plaster That Does Not Transmit Heat
to Wood Which 1t Covers.

The most vital step in constructing
thoroughly fireproof buildings nova
days is the substitution Of stone, brick,
terra Gotta. metal and other incombus-
tible material for wood, and the COM
plete elimination of the latter from the
edifice. But it is not practicable to
carry out this latter part of the pro-
gramme without much expense, and
therefore endeavors have been made
to render the wood fireproof One way
of attaining that object is to treat it
chemically and fill the pores with sub
stances that will discourage combus-
tion. This is the plan followed on
warships today. Another idea which
has been received with favor is to
cover the wood after it is in place with
plaster composed of lime and vege-
table fiber, TO give the compound a
body, and certain chemicals to resist
the fire. A test of an invention of this
latter class was made in London a
few days ago. The author of the svs-
tenn, named Rous, and a number of ex-
pertS were present. The Pail Mall Ga
Zette tells the story. Bits of wood
were coated to depth of three-uuar-
ters OF an inch with the stuff and then
subjected to the flame o. a bowpipe.
Similar specimens were thrust into a
boiler furnace. The blowpipe, used
continuously for twenty minutes, did
not sensibly raise the temperature un-
der the compound. The piece of plas-
tered wood that was put into the fur
mace stayed there half an hour When
it was removed the coating was chip
ped off with tool and the wood
showed a temperature OF only 20 de-
grees Fahrenheit. The only costly in
gredient of Mr. Rous' mixture is tung-
state Of soda.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
4 Pocket Monkey.

One OF the queerest and most in
teresting of pets is the fashionable
pocket monkey. This is the smallest
member of the monkey family. and has
already become a favOrite with the
matinee girl. who delights to carry
him with her in her muff, upon her
sleeve or in her coat pocket. He has
a blinking. intelligent face: even, tiny
teeth. delicate hands and feet, and is
equipped with a plumy boa in the
shape of feathery tail, which he
wraps about his throat at night. This
little pet is very affectionate, and will
go all through his most coaxing ways
for one of his favorite meal worms
which he eats from time to time. He
is easily cared for. eating bread and
milk and fruit lives several years, an
odd, chsttering pet. full of interest and
entertainment. The pocket monkey
costs from S. TO $20.-Philadelphia
Times.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
Strength of "a Grizzly.

A hunter tells some wonderful stO-
ries about the strength of grizzly bears.
He saw one that had had one of its
forepaws shot useless, use the other to
draw up its weight of eleven hundred
pounds up a precipice, where it seemed
as if the feat were impossible. He tells
also of COWS knocked over by single
blow from the fOrepaw of a bear; but
perhaps his most surprising story is OF
an occurrence that he witnessed three
summers ago. He says: Il spent the
season in the coast mountains near
Hudson bay, and one moonlight night
| saw a big grizzly bear in the act OF
carrying a dead COW home to her cub.
| had a position on a mountain side,
from which | could see every move
ment of the bear in the sparsely tim
bered valley below. She carried the
COW in her forepaws for at least three
miles, across jagged rocks ten feet
high, over fallen logs. around the rocky
mountainside where even a jackass
could not get a foothOld. to narrow
trail up the steep mountain. She never
stopped to rest a moment, but went
straight on. | followed her, and about
half mile from her lair laid her low.
The cow weighed at least two hundred
pounds and the bear about four hun
dred and fifty"
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
Power of the MadStOne.

An American surgeon, Mr.. c. F..
Turner, of Snickersville, has just
bought for over $500 a maidstone that
appears TO possess some remarkable
qualities The stone was brought from
Europe probably England-136 years
ago. 1t is about the size of a shilling,
and has the appearance of a sandstone,
but is smoother and somewhat porous.
The stone is Oval-shaped and has a
dark brown color. 1t is claimed by
those who have witnessed the power
of the maidstone that ii is a certain
cure for all bites of mad dogs and
poisonous reptiles, and il is positively
asserted that il has never yet failed
to perform its functions II the patient
reaches it in time. One well-authen-
ticated case is given where two people
were bitten about the same time by
the same dog One of the victims was
a firm believer in the efficacy of the
stone. had it applied TO the wound. and
never thereafter suffered any evil ef-
fects. The other, having no faith in
the stone and its much-talked-O of
power. refused to so to il. and soon
afterward died in agony from hydro
phObia.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16

end being connected to earth, the other
with an elevated conductor. The cur
rent is supplied with powerful in
duction coil, controlled by a Morse
key. Thus. the waves that travel
abroad. a. the sparks pass between the
globular terminals, are impressed 'ab
initio.' with communications in the ia
miiiar dot and dash alphabet
"Marconi's receiver is of an eXqui-
sitely ingenious type. Its vital part is
the minute instrument called by DR..
Lodge, who in 1898 modified it, CO.
herer;, by NJ Branly. who in 1899 in
vented il, 'radio-cOnductor.' AS used
by Sig. Marconi, it is an exhausted
glass tube. less than two inches long
and Onetenth of an inch in diameter,
with sealed-in conducting wires, sepa-
rated by a shallow layer of nickel and
silver filings. These in their ordinary
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
Truth Above All Things.

The person who goes against his
own interest by the rigidness OF his
devotion to truth sometimes finds that
he has served his interest in that very
way An English paper tells this
story:
A boy once applied at a store for
work
we don't like lazy boys here" said
the manager. Are you fond of work"
No. sir" responded the boy, looking
the other straight in the face.
"Oh. you're not. are you? Well. we
want boy that is.
There amt any" said the boy, de-
cdedly.
"Oh. yes, there are. We have had
over half a dozen of that kind this
morning to take the place we have.
How do you know they are?" asked
the boy.
They told me So
$50 could /. but I'm not liar"
And the lad said it with such an air
of convincing energy that he was en-
gagged at once.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
Gen. A. S. Kimball, Depot Quartz

Gen. A. S. Kimball, Depot Quarter
master of the u. S. Army, in New
York city. has sent to Lyman Nc
Carly, Assistant General Passenger
Agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road in New York. letter of thanks
for the prompt movement of troops
that were ticketed over the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad during tho past year.
He says that many of these movements
were made on short notice and his de-
partment had too frequently to rely
upon insufficient and sometimes mae
curate data. He realized that under
such circumstances the company was
placed in an embarrassing position and
the extraordinary efforts made by the
line to give satisfaction in every re-
spect merited and received his fullest
appreciation.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16

adjacent TO the Office. \ similar mast
is rigged near the office in South Fore
land, and it is from the top of each OF
these masts that communications ra-
diate through the air without the fur
ther aid of wires. The most astOnish-
ing feature of this new method of
telegraphy is that intervening build
ings. fogs. rain, snow, hills or ships do
not impede the accuracy or speed of the
invisible radiations which emanate
from the wire on one mast and are
taken up and registered by the discon-
nected wire at the peak of another mast
thirtytwO miles away.
The characters in which messages
thus expressed are the familiar dots
and dashes Of the old Morse code, and
the Illustration shows the receiving op-
orator reading a message from the tape
where it has been written by an in
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-16
Arsenical Wall Paper.

The former popular fear OF arsenical
wall paper appears to have quite sub
sided. However, several cases of al
legged poisoning by arsenical wall pa
pers having occurred in Ithaca, Dr. T.
Nj. Chamot, of the chemical depart
ment OF Cornell university. undertook
a series of analyses of wall papers OF
various colors and patterns. as a result
of which he is said to have asserted
that nearly all wall papers sold at the
present time contain arsenic, some OF
them in large quantities.