The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-16
The Board of Health Says 1t Must
Stop.
1T IS WAR ON RED LIPS
Osculation's Death Warrant Served on
Livingston School Teachers The
Wise Board Says Its a
Frightful Practice.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

F. S. Monical was served with an un-
usual document by A. F. Leopold, secre-
tary of the board of health. 1t was a
curious piece of legislation, emanating
from the city board of health, and If
its provisions are carried out the old
fashioned practice of kissing viii be-
come a lost art in Livingston. 1t ap-
pears that the board of health and the
city school board knew that on the
first day of school the teachers well
coined their pupils back with many
manifestations of gladness, in which
kissing played an important part. BY
actual count teachers have been known
to kiss the little ones under their care
three times day-morning, noon and
night-for a straight week after the
opening of school. This, the teachers
say, aids them in gaining a grasp OH
the children's affections, but the men,
bers of the board of health and the
school board consider kissing a waste
of time-kissng children at least-and
greatly liable to spread contagious dis
ease among the pupils. Just how there
can be anything dangerous in the con-
tact of the rosy mouth of childhood
with the cherry-like lips of a pretty
teacher is hard to tell-the board of
health in its wisdom has decreed that
it must stop and the germs which lie
in ambush in the smiling lines of
roguish lips must not be transplanted
to the tender cheeks of childhood. The
notice to ring off on the kissing habit
came early Monday morning, but not
so early that hundreds of chubby boys
and dainty misses could be denied the
pleasure of kissing and being kissed by
the teachers whose lips will discourse
love and learning to their youthful
minds and mouths the next nine
months. The kissing was all over be-
fore Professor Monical called his teach
ers together and in solemn tones read
to them the following death warrant
to their morning exercise in osculation:
AT a meeting of the board of health
the matter Of contagious diseases be-
ing communicated to others by teachers
kissing pupils and pupils kissing one
another came up for discussion, and IT
was decided upon to request the super
intendent of the city schools to notify
teachers to take the necessary steps to
prevent the dangerous practice"
This ultimatum was signed by a. F.
Leopold as secretary of the board Of
health and majority of the members
of the school board. The teachers have
decided that the document is legal and
they will quit kissing until measures
looking toward the repeal of the rule
can be taken. County teachers who are
out side the jurisdiction of the board OF
health are reported to be kiS7in% as
usual. There are rumOrs of a Strike
among the teachers in the city.
Sunday morning the body of Fred
Darwin was found in the Hel' 'oWstone
river short distance below Daug 1er-
tvs ford and near the ranch Of John
Counts. The discovery was made py
Oscar Fuhrman and John Counts, who
found the body lodged along the shore.
1t will be remembered by news aper
readers that Darwin was drowned
about two weeks ago while fowding the
Yellowstone near Fr1iey. His horse b.
came unmanage while in mid
stream and threw Darwin into the wat
er, where he was drowned. Judge NJ.
NJ Black impaneled jury and held
an inquest on the deceased. the verdict
of the six men comprising the jury be
ing in conformity with the facts stated
above. The remains were inferred on
the ranch of John Counts near VIII re
the deceased came to his death.
David Sincock, a TancheT on Sh.cl's
river is the fortunate inventor of
moving machine which, by those Of this
city who have seen it, is considered as
good as a gold mine and a marvel OF
mechanical skill The triumph of light
draft and superior cutting power has
been reached in the machine invented
by Mr. Sincock, No gearing, except
chain belt and tumbling rod, appears
in the construction of this unique ma
chine, and such is the cutting power of
the sickle that inch sticks of hard wood
are clipped like straws when the wheel
of the machine is turned by hand as
the frame is prOpped up from the floor.
Mr. SincOck has guarded his patent
| very carefully, all the iron work on
! the machine being made by his broth
| er, who is a patternmaker in a foundry
! at Galena, Ill. The cutters used this
| year on several of the binders sold in
| Montana are an invention of Mr.. SIN
cock, and he has a handsome royalty
coming in every month from this
source.
John NJ. Lannon, who went to the
Klondke nearly two years ago with
the exploration party which went from
here, returned to this city on Sunday
delayed train. Mr. Lannon looks much
better than he did when he went away
| and says he is much improved in health,
although the part of Alaska which h
| penetrated is a very unhealthy one. As
| a financial venture Mr.. Lannon's trip
| was not a great success. He says there
| is plenty of gold in Alaska. but like in
| the search for all good things, those
| who engage in the chase after gold are
| not all successful. Some who are count
| ed lucky get good claims, while others
| who take up more promising prospects
| find that their property is not as good
| as at first supposed. The exploration
company which went from here, and
with which Mr.. Lannon took his depart
ure, has disbanded long ago and its
| members are scattered to various parts
of the northwest country or have re-
turned to their homes in Montana. Mr.
Lannon will take up his residence in
Park county again.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Anderson ar
! rived in this city from Hunters Hot
| Springs on Monday evenings train. \
| brief sojourn at Hunters has been the
means of affording Mr.. Anderson a
| needed rest and recuperation from his
| duties as editor and manager of the
| Red Lodge Picket. The young editor
| takes a pardOnabe pride in his paper
and has labored asiduously to make the
Picket the kind Of a newspaper he
| thinks it should be. While he has still
great deal of improvement in contem-
| platiOn, the Picket has changed for the
better so greatly that it would hardly
| be recognized as a paper coming from