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Snakes and the Dingley Bill.

a EW ORLEANS has a tariff ques-
M ton on its hands that is giving
the expert Interpreters of the
Dingley bill vast amount of trouble.
Some weeks ago a cargo of snakes ar
rived there from South America--all
sorts and conditions of snakes, boa
constructors, cougars, rattlesnakes, in
fact all the latest things in South
American reptiles. 1t appears that Mr.
Dingley in framing his celebrated bill
did not take account of snakes-they
are not in it at all. How to classify
snakes, that is the question that the
customs inspectors have been struggling
with.
The owner of the snakes, claims eN-
emption from duty on the ground that
they are implements of trade'-that
is, of his trade as an exhibitor Of
snakes. This contention, of course, is
not admitted by the inspectors, who say
it's too raw. If snakes could come un-
der the head of turtles, the difficulty
would be solved, for a turtle may enter
the country without tax or hindrance.
But the inspectors say that such a
classification would be contrary to all
known rules of zoology. After mature
study, thought and reflection they have
made up their minds that a snake is a
wild animal and must pay duty of
twenty per cent. ad valorem. Under
certain conditions, it is true. wild ami
mails" are placed on the free list. Thus
wild animals intended for exhibition
and educational purposes and not for
sale or profit" are admitted free of duty.
If they are brought in for a period
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They Don't Let Up.
HEY do it differently in England.
In that country, when an &C
cused murderer is found guilty

HEY do it differently in England.
In that country, when an &C
cused murderer is found guilty
and is sentenced to life term in
prison, all the kings horses and all the
kings men can't avail to get the con-
demned person out of prison.
Mrs Maybrick is very strongly in evil
dence on this score. During ten years
persistent efforts have been made.
through American agencies, to secure
her release. She is serving a life term.
She married a wealthy Englishman;
she was accused of causing his death
by poison; she was tried and con-
demned. All the diplomatic resources
this country can muster have been
brought ITO bear in this woman's favor.
The usual plea is made-that there
We're certain errors in the testimony
and serious mistakes in the trial. Then,
too. for at least six or seven years past,
as they tell it who seek her release,
Mrs. Maybrick has been at the point of
death. But she keeps right on living,
and her friends keep on trying to get
her out of Jail. They have been helped
by presidents, secretaries of state, for
eign ambassadors-the whole official
coterie conferred at Washington has
pleaded her case, made excuses for her
and begged for her release, but all in
vain; the latest attempt through the
offices of Ambassador Choate has col
lapsed
The public knows no reason why Mrs.
| Maybrick should be set free. Still,
there is no doubt that fraction of the
! effort that has been spent in her behalf
would have released her years ago from
| any prison in the United States. 1t is
| different in England and one is apt to
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The Day in Montana.

sITH ceremonies well suited to
w the anniversary, Memorial day
was observed throughout Mon
tana yesterday. Participation in its
incidents was, as it seems to the Stand
ard more general throughout the state
than has been the rule in recent years.
Patriotic sentiment abounded in the
addresses: the trouble in which our
government finds itself involved with
the Philippine people furnishing, in
part at least, theme for many of the
orators. 1t will be seen from this
mornings summary of yesterdays
news that men representative of vari-
Gus walks of professional and business
life We're in the list of yesterdays
speakers.
Withal. the demonstration on the
most interesting in the list of yester-
days Memorial-day services. The
place is unique; the field is one of en-
during fame: the slaughter there was
a revolving assertion of savagery the
like of which is not matched in the an
mails of modern warfare and the MEM
DRY of which will not soon pass away.
At this battlefield veterans represented
by Grand Army posts in Montana and
Wyoming met yesterday.
At Custer the Grafton was delivered
by Col. W. F. Sanders. 1t was an elo-
quent address, rich in it's rhetoric, sug
gestive in it's comment, instructive in
its assertions and of wide range in the
themes with which it dealt 1t was the
master effort of the day in this part
of the world. at least, and while its
length, in view of the large number of
topics that were discussed, precludes
it's publication in entirety, the full
summary of the Sanders Grafton,
printed on page thirteen of this morn
lng's Standard, well merits careful
reading.
Aside from dealing with the time and
place and circumstances incident tC
Yesterdays meeting on the Custer field
Colonel Sanders discussed many OF
the questions of pending national sig
nificance and his singing utterancas
touching bribery have peculiar signifi-
canoe in their application to Montana
recent humiliation. This mornings
staff correspondence tells of day OF
uncommon interest on the Custer feld
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AFTER THE PLAY,

My gemmed lorgnette and my opera
gloves,
And the flowers that dropped and
died,
And the number1ess things that girl
heart loves,
l carelessly toss aside.
For the play is done, and I sit and
muse
In the hush OF my darkened room,
While the wilted buds sweet scents Diff
fuse
Like incense lamps in the gloom.
Oh my mind still turns to each tragic
scene
And the thrilling plot of the play,
Ana l wonder If ever man has been
Who loved in so wondrous a way?
I recall each passionate word he'd
speak
As he plead for her hand and heart,
And it grieved me to think that the
glow on her cheek
Was only the blush of art;
And the words that he spoke We're but
idle words
In spite of their seeming strength,
Like the songsters that Tilt to the nest
Their love of a seasons length!
For the glamour that came with the
footlights glow
Has gone with their vanished CLEANS,
And l feel the regret a sleeper must
know
When he awakens from alluring
dreams.
And I wonder if when youths curtain
will fall.
And the future lies cold and gray,
If life will seem with it's gloom and
pail
But the aftermath of a play?
Ella Bentley. jr, in the New orleans
Times Democrat.
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Bad Filipino Policy.

John SHERMAN was blunt about
{ it when, few days ago, he dis
cussed Philippine matters in an
literFie" TO which the Standard re-
cehtiy 'maue reference. 1T is too bad"
SAID Mr.. Sherman, that we ever got
ourselves into this Philippine trouble
1t is all our own fault We had no
f1sht to carry on a war against the
tilipinos. They We're our friends in
the war against Spain and helped us
because they had been told that as soon
as We had beaten the Spaniards and
taken the yoke of bondage off their
necks, they would be allowed to set up
a government of their own The Fill
pinos should be allowed to do that
now"
The Standard believes that Mr.. Sher-
man has the right of it. Events are
proving that it was mistake that we
permitted ourselves to become involved
in war with the Filipinos who, in the
beginning, were our friends and essen
TALLY our allies. There Is no reason
for doubt that, in his operations
against the Spanish army. Aguinaldo
received the full countenance of Dewey
and was recognized as the leader Of
| the Filipinos. 1t is also beyond cavil
that his services were of value in
| forcing the Spaniards into the defenses
| of Manila, where they fell an easy prey
! to the army of General Merritt. Had
we been compelled to do the work that
was done by Aguinaldo's army, it
| would have cost us hundreds and per-
haps thousands of men, and it is we'll
| known that the Filipino leader was
| spoken of in terms of the highest COM
! pliment by Dewey in his earlier dis
| patches to the government.
! 1t is not necessary to assume that
Aguinaldo is a George Washington. -
| as some people have foolishly done
| But he was assuredly in the field, with
an army at his back, tightin~ for the
! liberty of his country, long before we
| had a soldier on Philippine soil. There
! fore he, and especially those whom he
| represents, are entitled to some consid-
| Grafton; he should have been APP
| preached with the olive branch and not
| with the sword. The first serious mis-
! take made by Mr.. Mckinley was in de-
/ handing that the entire group of ISL
| lands should be ceded directly to US
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Personal.

Commander w. w. Meade, who has just
been placed in command of the Brooklyn,
was enc of the designers of that ship.
The family of the late Congressman
Nelson Dtngley will place memorial win
dow to Mr.. Dingley's memory in the
chapel of his college, Dartmouth.
Governor Stanley of Kansas has decided
to try the conditional pardon plan on the
better grade of prisoners in the state
penitentiary. The conditions are that the
person released shall not drink, gamble or
loaf.
Governor Roosevelt is to receive the de-
gree of LII. d. from Columbia university
on June Z. The university has decided also
to confer the degree OF LII. D. on Carl
Schurz. He has already received this de-
gree from Harvard university and from
the University of Missouri.
Ex-Speaker Reed was recently at a re-
ception where he was asked by the presi-
dent of woman's club what was the best
way to conduct a meeting. My friends
answered Mr.. Reed, SAY that the best
way is to be the speaker; my enemies say
that the best way is to retire.
Admiral Sampson has never regained
the weight he lost in Cuban waters. Gem
eral Ludlow is also in this difficulty. One
of the latter's friends recently said to
him: 'Well at any rate, you didn't leave
a limb at Ell Caney." Perhaps not" re-
piled General Ludlow. but 1 left nearly
40 pounds scattered all the way from ST.
honey to San Juan
Jason Webb Of Cumberland, Ky, Is the
head of what he believes to be the
largest family in the world He has 10
children. It's grandchildren and 100 great
grandchildren. His brother, Miles Webb,
who died at Is Jason is still flourishing at
so, had more than 400 descendants, of
whom 255 were either grandchildren or
great-grandchildren Other members of
the family have been almost equally pro-
life, and, adding to direct descendants
other relations, the Webbs in the district
of Cumberland number altogether about
II 900 persons,
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In the Best Of Humor.

The man who quit smoking on the first
day of January is planning now to quit
smoking again on Jan. l, 1900.-Somerville
Journal.
she--Don't you think this picture beauti-
fully painted?
Conscientious Amateur Art Critic-Wait
till I have found the artists name.-
Punch. WI.
what is encouragement, pa?"
encouragement? Well, you can't I'M
derstand, Dckey. 1t is something people
don't get, as a rule, until after they quit
needing it."
Census Taker (jotting 1t down)-Name is
Ephraim Hanson, Ell? Nationality-h m
African of course?
Ephraim-No, sah Bawn in Ohio, sah,-
Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Gotrox-Mabel, dear, are you sure
Mr.. Woody loves you for yourself
alone?
Mabel-Yes, I'm sure he does, mamma.
He is always so restless when you are in
the room.-Tit-Bits
81 don't see how you men can go out
every night
He-Oh, that's easy. But I'll admit it
puzzles me some times how I'm going to
get in.-Brooklyn Life. 10y
Yeast-What sort of man Is Boggs?
Characterization, he's one of the kind
of men who would always get up willingly
and give his seat to a lady-in a dentists
chair.-Yonkers Statesman.
"a man." she said>-: never knows when
he is well off,
TRUE" he replied, land it's mighty
fortunate thing for women who do not
care to be old maids that they DON'T
Chicago Evening Post.
Mrs. Timid Lee-John, wish you would
tell the cook that we have no further use
FIR her services.
Mr.. Timid Lee--very we'll. See that she
answers the telephone when I ring up
from the office.-Times.
Miss Decentralization you stood on the
brink of Niagara and looked into the
seething, surging unfathomable depths
below, did you not feel that you would
like to jump in?
Mr.. Tourier-No, I hadn't received my
hotel bill then.-New York Weekly.
Don't you think man should look IN
| to higher thoughts?' asked the slightly
| mystical person.
ITS no USE" answered Senator Soc-
| ghum, impatiently. "you can't do IT,"
Cant do what?"
| Hire thoughts. Washington Star.
Tenderfoot-What did the men who
| lynched that fellow dance on his carcass
| and riddle it with bullets for?
Lone Pine Bill-Because they wuz dead
| sore on him.
Tenderfoot-Why, what was the trouble;
Lone Pine Bill-Wa-al, it pears Is hcw
he turned out ter be the wrong man.
| Judge
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think, in view of the too-frequent fail
ures to make punishment exemplary in
this country, that in this matter Eng
fish stubbornness isn't so very far out
of the right road
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-31
Those Peaceful Pledges.

From the st. Paul GIobe.
Republican newspapers are now gradu-
ally preparing the public for grand mil
itary demonstration against the Cubans
who want the United States government
to live up to it's ante-bellum promises
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Something to Live For.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Prince Of Wales was naturally
pleased over so many evidences of loyal
ty He expects to be so in short time
himself, and hopes that he. too, will be
pleasantly remembered.
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Current Comment.
Too EMIL for Utterance.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
General Harrison goes to Europe, too.
He doesn't have to. An ex-president Is
about the only man in this country who
can keep his mouth shut without being
suspected of knowing nothing.
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Right You Are.

From the woodruff ILL.,. Dispatch.
The Missouri river is out of its banks
and much damage is reported. Coming
generations will impound this water in
the Dakotas and Montana for irrigation
DurDoSps
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General Lawton is firmly committed
to the policy of an immediate expan-
sion of the American army in the Phil
ippines.
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That Mix at Manila.

From the Denver Republican.
Civil government and military govern
ment cannot be made to mix. The former
is based on the idea that right and justice
will prevail, and the latter that might Is
right
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There is every indication that this
weeks Ohio republican state conven-
ton will be up to the Ohio shindy
standard
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E In searching for the cause Of this
rainy weather. meterologists should not
overlook the big Baptist convention at
San Francisco
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His Principal Occupation.

From the Washington Post
Tesla says he can signal Mars. Tesla
must be kept very busy inventing his re-
markable statements.
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plIcation.
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The Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay is
not saying anything, but it is believed
that he has about completed the lead
pipe cinch equipments to his senatorial
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All general business letters snd CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda, Mont.
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Admiral Dewey is confined to his
room at Hong Kong by heavy rains.
The only liquid that is fit for Dewey
IS the extra dry variety
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While Mr.. Aguinaldo hates to give
up, he realizes that he would be feel
ing a great deal better if he had left
the buzz saw severely alone
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Admiral Dewey may be a sick man,
but his declination of all invitations of
a social nature at Hong Kong indicates
that he is resting easily
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The Olympia wishes it understood
that she has donned a coat of white
paint, not whitewash.
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Admiral Schley's trip across the con-
tinent has been one round of ovations.
Admiral Sampson, by the way, is not
taking trip across the continent.
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Manilas observance of Memorial day
is an indication of her rapid American
ization. But wait for Manila's Fourth
of July ~ '""
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Paris is said to be calm in the face of
a new Dreyfus trial, but wait till some
body shouts "conspueZ Dreyfus.'
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Mr.. Schurman and his Philippine
peace commission have nothing to do
at Manila but play waiting game.
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If Dewey isn't sick he will be when
he reads the gush in, some of the cur
rent issues of the New York World.
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Spain could hold a peculiarly signi-
ficant Memorial day If she wanted to.
But she doesn't want to.
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Colonel Sanders address on the Gus
ter battlefield yesterday was brilliant
ly Sanderesque.
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The Goth of May might also be called
national league day.
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BY way of variety somebody might
spring rumor of the death Of David
r. Hill
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Gallant Captain lilly ventured lit
tie too far into the enemy's country.
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No flowers We're strewn on the grave
of Secretary Alger's senatorial ambi
TONS
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The fast steamship Paris appears to
be so fast these days that she can't
move ..u
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What is needed in the Philippines to
crush the rebels is one good Gettys-
burg.
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She-Don't you think this picture beauti-
fully painted?
Conscientious Amateur Art Critic-Wait
till l have found the artists name.-
Punch.
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The man who quit smoking on the first
day Of January is planning now to quit
smoking again on Jan. l, 1900.-Somerville
Journal
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What is encouragement, pap
Encouragement? Well, you can't I'M
derstand Dickey. 1t is something people
don't get, as rule, until after they quit
needing it,
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Commander w. w. Meade, who has just
been placed in command of the Brooklyn,
was enc of the designers of that ship.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-21
They Keep Moving.

The religion of a Bedouin tribe seems to
be to "move onward" Having once be-
gun the nomadic life, it becomes almost
necessary for them to keep 1t up. In the
first place, they don't want to settle down,
and they wouldn't have any place to stop
If they wanted to. Sometimes 1t becomes
expedient that they make great haste In
these long journeys. Wandering around
over the plains are other tribes whose only
occupation Is knowing on" There is
frequently enmity between two Of these
Arabian families, and should one pursue
the other 1t behooves the pursued to hasten
onward with all the speed their animals
are capable Of. Or 1t may be that the
springs of water are SO widely separated
that hard travel Is necessary to make the
distance from one to the other In q day.
When either of these contingencies
arises, they cook and eat while on the
march. They don't eat mnch. Two or
three dinners such as American boys and
girls are used to every day and something
extra for Sundays and company are sup
posed not to agree with Bedouin children's
stomachs. When on the road, bread ia
their chief food. This is baked while rid
ing. One woman will mix the coarse
flour which Is carried in sack on the
back of her camel, another will roll and
shape the dough, which is brought to her
in small quantities, and a third will make
fire In an earthen vessel and attend to
the baking. Women or boys on foot run
along from one cook to the other and
carry the material, and when the feast is
ready they distribute 1t among the various
mem bers of the tribe.-Chicago Record.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-21
Campaigning With a Fiddle.

When young man, the late ex Govern
or Oglesby worked in the old Macon tav-
srn. There he met the lawyers riding the
circuit and formed the acquaintance of
Judge Robbins of Springfield, with whom
no studied law two years. Returning to
Decatur, he began practicing in town of
400 inhabitants. He soon became popular
ns speaker. On ono occasion no was
making Wing speech on one side of the
square, while Democrat was making an
opposition speech on tho other side. Tho
Democrat was fast getting tho crowd
when Mr.. Oglesby, who was an old fash
toned fiddler and played as well as he
spoke, borrowed fiddle from man in
the crowd and began to play. That broke
up the opposition meeting, and the Demo-
GRAFT, left without an audience, came over
and joined tho crowd that was dancing to
Oglesby's music.--Chicago Chronicle.