The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
. opics Of
the Town

The spectacle Of an old woman SELL
ing songs on the streets and, having
SOLD a song. making an incendiary
speech, brief; however, but full of mean
ing, has been witnessed in Butte. A
few nights ago the aged woman took up
commanding position on the curbstone
and soon was surrounded by gaping
crowd of elastic necks. She sold a song
and then she cried, in accents wild:
Who's the next man to learn how to
dynamite MILL It's valuable knowl-
edge like that ye want. Come, now,
learn how to dynamite a mill. Yell all
be glad two years hence that We learnt
Dynamite the mill! Dynamite the MILL"
She said she came from the Occur
d Alenes and was trying very hard to
raise a few hundred dollars for the re-
lief Of the distressed She seemed to
be in distress.
Two well dressed young men were en-
gagged in earnest conversation at the
corner Of Broadway and Wyoming.
One had a steady position and the other
was nursing an aching void-he was out
of work. The prosperous young man
was trying to persuade his friend to
accept an offer to drive a team of
horses for a transfer company, but the
outlook didn't appear to be to the lik-
ing of the man out of work. After much
parleying, the respondent young man
broke out with: DANCED If I'll drive
team for any man. I'll work in the
sewer first" and he stepped back with
a resolute tread and a look Of deter
mination on his face which. however,
changed to awe as he toppled over
backward into the deep sewer trench in
which two or three men were working.
Well" said his friend after it was
all over, you've finished your sewer
contract; are you ready to take the
other job?"
Let us get into somebody's cellar
and finish our conversation" replied
the man out Of work.
Butte is pretty evenly divided on the
plowshare controversy. When the ar
gument as to which side the pillow
throws the furrow was sprung the citi-
zens of this mining camp were wholly
unprepared to enter the debate. and as
a consequence conclusions are jumped
upon with amazing recklessness and
rapidity. This or that crowd soon be-
comes involved in heated argument
and then the first passerby is accosted
with the question:
Say, which side of the pillow is the
furrow thrown?"
The wise man studies for a moment,
scratches his head, looks wisely and
settles the controversy with the declara-
ton that the furrow is tossed to the
left. The next referee tells them that
1t goes Ito the right, you guinea; who
ever heard of left-hand plow?" And
so it goes from one end of the street
to the other. Some men climb onto the
fence and straddle the issue with the
statement that they used to make left
hand plows, but 1 think most of EN-
are right-hand nowadays" The con-
troversy has brought out more farmers
in Butte than it was generally supposed
lived here.
There was an exciting bicycle chase
yesterday afternoon. A young wife re-
Gently made her husband a birthday
present of a white and black checkered
bicycle suit. He donned the warm robe
yesterday and came up town, telling his
wife that he wanted to show his pres
ent to the boys and thereby make them
envious. He remained up town longer
than Is his custom. and his wife be-