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Chi!dren's Spring Refers.

Childrcn's Red and Blue Cloth Refers.
with large White braided collars and
pockets; newest out; o 70 Z years;
price, 81.
Children's Handsome Cloth Jackets, for
spring. in beautiful Blue. With Cherry
Red velvet applied collar latest;
sizes to II years; price, $3.50.
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We show the largest nssortmch's
of
Black Goods
I'm the city, and prices are anyways
lower.
20 pieces of the highest Grhoe "",'
mos. nopuInr styles of Htnch
cn.ds Of the scnson. just ripe
from Europe. comprising me ioi-
lowing styles;
pOlka-DOt Novelty.
Fancy Crystal
bright M0hair Fancy Crepons
French Nataiasse, ~ inches wide.
Figured Poplin. IS inches.
Jacquard Novelties.
Pricstiey's "Cravenette," satin finish.
Mohair Diagonal.
Crystal POplin.
These goods cost 10 import more
than $3.50, for this sale we oher
them at oSc. II yard.
3C-iuch Atwood Crow Black French
Serge Fine Finish Black Mohair Brii-
Iantinc. Atwood Black Cloth suit
ing. actual worth per yard 4Oc., spe-
cal price for this sale................ soc.
36-inch Jct-Bl2ck AN-WOOl Henrietta
Cloth. handsome designs I'm Black
Mohair Lustre extra cheap, per yard
az ........ .............. .............-. -a''.
3S-inch Pure Black Atwood Double
Warp storm Serge, Double Warp JET
Black English Cheviot, the Oc grace
Tor .......... ............ ...'' 1900. I'm
4J-inch Jet-Blach AI-Wool Henrietta
Finish Imperial Serge, cost o. l--c. 10
import, here at .............-: $50. - -.
3S-inch All-Wool Black Brocade EerDef
Cloth. an handsome designs. ana
good soc. cloth. for ............. - : - -
5l-inch Fine Twill Jct-Black Iailor
Serge. the greatest value OF the season
at per yard....... ..;..... - &C.
4i-inch Atwood Black French CheNiot
Granite Cloth, and Rourcttc SWlng,
an worth 75c a yard. for ............ 5Oc.
52-inch ATWOOD Black ChcviOt Serge
the S5c. grade. for ..................O1 c.
J2-inch All-WOOl CrOw-BlacN Pequln
Cloth. an excellent cloth for tailor
made suits, imported TO sell at 81 per
Ndld, Ioi ................. ............aoc.
J2-iuch All-Wool Scotch Diagonal Che
ViOt Doublc-Warp Atwood Scotch
Cloth Suiung, extraordinary values,
per yard, at ..................... 800. Soc.
Magnificent assortment OF Fine
imported Crcpons. in the new
hiIstercd and tufted effects. We
challenge price at S3c., Si.IO.
@i.25, *I.5O. Si.75. 800. So.
s2.75. $500, $3.50, 1915, and 500
per yard.
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and the acknowledged most successful young f11ef
short length of time Our mercantile supremacy
vigilance makes possible such sterling bargains
acfIv as advertSed-Wii your money ready TO give
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Colored Dress Goods,


52-inch Al-WOol Camers-Hair Cheyiot.
heavy effect but feather-weight, Sl'io
value, at $50
52-inch Imported Venetian Cloth, Blue.
Gray. Castor Reseda, g value at
$50
50-inch Venetian Cloth. eXtra-high hnish,
Gray. Castor. Blue Slate, SD value
ut 81. -
4J-inch Tailor Suting, solid backs dainty
crOss-llnes. all cOlors. 81 grade, al &c
49-inch Imported Hcrringbone ,ehectss,;
extra stylish, Gray. Reseda, Iah' e.
value, at Goc. o..
3S-inch Al-Pure-Wool Plaids. Graz,
Blue. Steel, Red. Back Marking great
1mnorted Pattern Suits or yards TO
suit. an colors. stripes. brocadeS anu
mikes. These are absolute uu-ol's'
worth Si2 % Il: the suit $0.oo.
soc Wool and Silk-Mixed Fancy Sultlns'
elegant variety colors ana designs
~ &c. - -.
35c. Fancy Suitinss and Plaids, al the
color combinations. nObby az %'c
25c Double-Fold Wool Fancy Su'ungs'
dainty tailor checks, all colors' at
- 5-sc.
NAVY serge. Cheviots. Henricttas. I'm
extraordinary values, ranging from
25c. to si.2o.
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DOuble-Hladed Slaw cutters "'
sary price 10. .,..ysr-
sary price i3c 1870. mice
Wooden Washboarjs. anniversary p''-0
- .....rg
Heavy Zinc NashboaFds. anN.'
price 10. 49,, .rrI.
Double Iinc Rlyetcd Washboefo'' "''''
VersarN price 80. .t,.,.ary
Vanished Cedar Buckets, "hi''
p.ice ~c. Nt,.ter-.
Enamelled-Handled Potato M"''
anniversary price "c. ,.. ..,,s an-
ANY Color Floor stain, l-p'''
niversary price % 49, ..,s an
Ready Mixed faints. l-pih' ''''''
niyersary price =. M, 9.ouart
Floor, Deck. and Pofch i.,"''
cqns anniversary price 3oc' -..,..
Ready-M Mixed Gold Paint, SnhlF'i''''
5st.sheet package or RON Me'i..1'''
Toilet PAPER. anniversary price 81"
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IA,,ps MD GLODiIs.

Blue and Green Lamp 'iio'.'' ."'-
anniversary price CD r....r-
zine Decorated parlor Lamps Ne.a
able fount ccntre-dratL anhi' .i.'''
1fsndsorne Brass Parlor Lamps
i0-,nch globe. anniversary price 49, 80
Fine Decorated Banquet Lamps
ofl. fount anniversary price f'.""'
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ANNIVERSARY SALE OF
Ladies' TailOr-Madc Suits, Skirts, and Waists.
Ladies' Silk Waists.

Swell Whlle lawn and 2. Is. olITI
new cuffs. new collars. price. s..
Swell Pink. Blue. Rcd, Solid-Colored
Batisto Shirt Waists with bias lIlm-
ming Of inch white bands, attractive
good values for s. ,,..,..
Dainty Figured Pcrclle shirt Nalals VI
aud cuffs. price. ID.
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The New MILDLY Messes'

New Spring Venetian Cloth MILDLY Mess
Jackets. to De worn with separa,e
skirts, in two shades Of Blue Tan,
and Black. silk-lincd; price, $500.
Very Handsome MILDLY Mess cnects IN
the new Gray, these arc swell, for
So
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-24
A WHITE WOMAN IN AFRICA. II
Teaching Black Boys English-The Terri
bic Dread of Witches.


A letter received here the other day
from woman missionary living IN
! Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, gives
some interesting news from that part
| of the world. She is a medical mis-
| sionary and part of her usefulness In
| Africa is to care for the sick among
| the natives. She writes: "The diseases
| here are simple and not SO complicat-
| ed as they are in the United States,
and they are not of the nervous kind.
There are always plenty of sores. Ev-
cry little abrasion of the skin runs in
| to a sore, eating the flesh to the bone,
| and occasionally resulting In blood
poison. The food here Is not blood
making. Rice and fish are the main
diet, and fish is eaten when too long out
of the water. The natives battle once
or twice a day. They and the Liber-
ians, as a general thing, are cleanly
Just now the grip is a prevailing COM
plant
This missionary is not much i'm
pressed with what the negroes from
America have done for the natives
around them. She says: "Monrovia,
as you know, was settled by ex-slaves
from America, whom their masters had
set free, and this town was named
for President Monroe. The American
negroes in turn treated the natives g.
slaves. In all these years they have
done nothing to speak of toward civil
izing the natives, so that within hear
ing of the church bells there are sew
eral thousand heathen.''
The following gives an idea of the
busy life a medical missionary leads
in that portion of Africa: Il have IS
children in my home whom I feed,
clothe and teach. Others come to the
house to be taught. At p. m. I take
the boys to the native town and teach
there When at home they study geo.
graphy, arithmetic, oral grammar
and I also teach them psychology to
get into their head some idea of the
human body. This is most important,
for now when they are sick they say,
some one has bewitehed u.s. and if
they die it is because some one COM
passes their death by witchcraft. This
constant fear of witches is a terrible
oppression. A sick person is often TAX
en- away at night to some secluded place
in the hope to throw the witch off his
track. Down in Olabar 1t is even
worse. Twins and their mother are put
to death. The natives say: One child
be a proper child. No more. fodder be
devil So they put both to DEATH The
babies are thrust into large mouthed
jar taken to the bush and left to be de-
voured by driver ants or eat II by wild
animals. The mother Is fastened 10
bamboo sticks so that she may be car
ried to the bush and abandoned. The
poles to which she is tied make It I'M
nets ssary to touch her. which would
be terrible crime, as she has given
birth to demon. One of the first
things / try to do is to disabuse the ma
tive mind of the old prevailing faith
in witch power"
She goes on to say that she teaches
only English in her school. All her pu-
pills are very anxious to learn English.
Her children are much interested in
events in the United States, and ran
up the American flag every time they
heard of a victory over the spanish
New York Sun.
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himself up, when they carried him off
! for long time.
American and British warships has
| tened to the Islands and a settlement
was at length effected by conference
at Berlin. The German claims covered
100000 more acres of land than the en-
tire group of islands contained, but they
finally compromised in 1884. accepting
$4,000 acres. British subjects were al
lotted $4,000 acres and the Americans
21,000. Malietoa was restored to the
throne in 1889, but thereafter he was
unpopular with the Germans, who had
supported Tamasese for king. During
the trouble the Germans plundered and
burned several towns which refused to
accept Tamasese for king and then de-
manded big indemnity from Tamasese
for the aid given to his cause.
Since the United States have a coaling
station at Pago-Pago, and have spent
$780, 900 on the port, the Americans can
hardly consent to be shouldered off the
islands altogether. The British have not
been accustomed to taking walking Or
ders from anybody, except in the one
family jar with Uncle Sam, and the
present attempt at usurpation forces an
Anglo-Saxon combination, at least so
far as the Samoas are concerned. Since
we have other coaling stations in the
South Pacific, the Samoan islands are
of no particular use to us. Certainly
they have no strategic value, and their
commercial value is small, since the
total population is but $4,000, and the
area of the island is but i, 700 miles.
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A LEPER FOR REVENGE.
Blood From Filipino Injected Into
SOldier's Veins. .H

Riehland, s. D., Jan. Civilian La
peer mas been returned here to die OF
leprosy, which, it is feared, he con-
tracted while serving with his regiment
In the Philippines.
Lapeer is the 22-year-old son of a
Union county farmer, and went to Ma
mia with one of the first assignments
or troops. While seeing the sights soon
after his arrival there, he gave offense
TO a native aristocrat whom he met in
drinking resort. The latter's friends
succeeding in separa ting Lapeer from
ms friends, piled him with drusgad
liquor and carried his unconscious form
to a house in the native quarter where
blood from leper was injected into a
vein in his arm. Then he was released.
When he realized what had been done
to MN, LAapeer was so Mortified ts:at
he nearly died from nervous shock. He
fell into a violent fever and had to he
sent nome. Local physicians do rot
pretend to say what will be the result
OF the treatment to which he was sub
jected. as they do not know whether
leprosy can be SO transmitted. In any
case. they think it will be several
months before the disease will mani
fest itself. The patient would be sent
to New York for examination by ex-
perts, but is suffering from nervous
prostration and too i'll to be moved.
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yates of the famous military academy
on the Hudson and the men who have
risen to distinction in the army out of
the ranks of civilian life. Miles is one
of these; it will be remembered that
one of the arguments seriously urged
at the time when General Miles he
came senior commander was that the
selection for that rank ought to have
been made from among the West Point
men.
And Miles is not the only one. SHAFT
ter is not a West Pointer, Corbin is
not, Eagan is not, Breckenridge is not.
General Lawton, who won laurels at
Santiago, and General Otis, who COM
mands in the Philippines, are not West
Point men.
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1t Will Be Bad Enough.

* ONE of the Londoners are willing
~ that the Americans shall under
take the occupation Of the Phil
ippine islands temporarily or for good
At the same time. the Britishers believe
that our government will find the task
of subduing these Malays a good deal
more formidable than we have reck-
oned it to be. "They are bent" says
the London Chronicle, upon trying the
experiment of maintaining a govern
ment of their own, and until all that
sort of visionary nonsense is knocked
out of them they will be troublesome
to the United States"
On this question of winning over alien
people, or of trying to knock the nom
sense out of them, the English can
speak by the card-many items in their
experience have recently been brought
to public attention as result Of the
discussion of this country's proposed
policy of imperialism. In 1898 the En-
glish undertook to knock the nonsense
out of the people of San Domingo. They
did not abandon the job until 1898, when
they discovered that the experiment
had cost s10o,000,00O and 45, 900 lives.
And England is not the only European
power that has bought experience at a
very high figure. Napoleon the First
tried it on in San Domingo He sent
$4,000 soldiers who faced fearful fight,
not with troops but with climate. The
natives retired before the advancing
Frenchmen. but before the end Of
year three-quarters of the French SOL
diers had persisted; they were the vic
Tins of climate they could not endure.
Our colonial experience will not be
unlike that of other nations. When we
undertake to handle the Philippines we
shall spend millions of dollars where we
had supposed thousands would be am
Pile; we shall shed quarts of blood where
we had fancies drops would avail. The
Philippine islands are about four times
as large as San Domingo, populous in
proportion, and they are armed, as San
Domingo is, with climate which Amer
lean soldiers cannot endure.
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Secret of a Mans Poverty.

From Success.
well. Caleb" said Captain W. OF
Massachusetts years ago, what will
you ask day to saw wood for me?
I've got several cords that I want saw
ed in two for the fireplace"
I should charge you about half a
dollar a day if l had saw" replied
Caleb, but l amt got none, captain,
so don't see how l can accommodate
you '++51
IF that's all that's lacking, I guess
we can manage it. said the captain.
I've got prime new one, keen as a
brier, and I'll let it to you reasonable.
How would nine-pence a cord do for
the use of it?"
7 reckon that's a fair price, cap
tain I'll be over in the mornin'.''
Bright and early that next July
morning Caleb was at work, and he
kept at it so faithfully that he finished
before sunset, when he Went to the
house to settle.
Let's see," said the captain; you
were to have half a dollar a day;
We'll call it day, although 1t amt
shutdown yet. That's so cents for you.
And you were to pay me nine pence
cord for the use of the saw. There
were three cords and half in the pile :;
that makes 43A cents due me. Some
how, Caleb, you don't have very much
coming to YOU
How unfortnit," said Caleb, after
scratching his head obviously for half
a minute. and then looking up quickly,
as if a new light had broken in upon
his mind
How unfortnit that you didn't have
half cord more, for then we'd "a
come out just square.
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The Samoan Deal.
-~HAT "tripartite agreement" about
which so much has been said

~HAT "tripartite agreement" about
which so much has been said
since the recent reports of
troubles in Samoa were received is the
outcome of a conference which was held
in Berlin about five years ago. 1t is an
arrangement to which the parties are
the United States, Great Britain and
Germany. 1t has never worked to the
| satisfaction of either of the powers that
entered into it, The arrangement was
brought about in this way:
Eleven years ago Germany made a
very determined bluff, the purpose of
which was to secure absolute control of
the government Of the islands and to
place the British and American inter-
ests in jeopardy If not to Gust COM
pletely such residents. On Aug. 20, 1887,
the German warship Adler steamed into
the harbor of Apia and at the same
time message was sent from the Ger
man consulate to King Malietoa de-
handing heavy damages. A row had
occurred in the city during the celebra-
ton of the kaiser's birthday, March %,
and several people We're hurt. The Ger
man consul general demanded 81, 900 for
each person injured, the surrender of
the rioters, an abject apology to the
Kaiser and an indemnity of $4,000 a
year in reparation for animals and
produce alleged to have been stolen
from the plantations of German sub
jects during their residence in the ISL
ands. Immediate payment was de-
manded.
Malietoa saw that this was a pre-
text for something more serious and
begged time to consult with his govern
ment. AS soon as his note was dis
patched he fed to the mountains and
800 men landed from the Adler to raid
the town in a search for him. Ameri-
can and British subjects were insulted,
property was damaged during the
search and things looked squally, when
the opposing consuls appealed to their
governments for protection. The Ger
mans finally induced Maletoa to give
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I'M permit the Helena Independent
\ to cram down his throat the i'm
pudent assertion that the Clark vote
represents public sentiment" in Mon
tana. Public sentiment in this state is
not the corrupt, constituencies thing
w. A. Clark's newspaper in Helena
would like the world to believe it to be.
Public sentiment knows that the Clark
gains are the added fruits of bribery;
Montana is not a state that condones
brides.
AS to the gains--it is perfectly we'll
known that before the balloting began
in Helena Clark had nailed more votes
than have thus far been polled for him
at any test in the joint session. The
Clark heelers claimed that he would get
more than fifty voters on the first bal
Dot. That claim was unwarranted, but
it is fact that the bribers knew that
they had good reason to believe that
they had fastened at least thirty-five
votes. 1t was a vote that was frightened
away from Clark when exposure came;
it was vote that did not dare to stand
up and let the people of Montana look
at it. Seven votes were cast for Clark,
at the outset
Meanwhile there has been nothing to
change public opinion. The charges of
bribery stand without refutation. Even
the grand jury has not been heard from,
except as the Clark boodlers have I'M
warrantably winked their assurances
that the result in the jury room would
be all right. AS far as the public
knows, or any man outside the jury
room has right to know, w. A Clark
accused of bribery, stands in the same
position to-day as when several of the
men, who have since been persuaded to
vote for him, publicly denounced Clark
and his criminal methods.
There is no mistaking public opinion
in Montana. That the Clark candidacy
is the effort of unstinted thousands in
gold to buy the senatorship, is belief
so universal as not to need enforcing.
The one fact with which public senti-
ment is familiar is that w. A. Clark
will buy every member of the legisla-
ture who is willing to sell-be he repub-
lican, democrat or what not; and public
sentiment is simply noting from day to
day how close this briber can come to
the purchase of a majority.
This is the fact, and all the palaver
In Mr.. Clark's newspapers will not fool
the Montana public. Everywhere in
this state the Sentiment" is that if
Clark has any supporters in the joint
session whom he has not paid, or agreed
to pay, they are so few in number as to
be an insignificant percentage of the
total he scores. He has bought demo-
Gratis, the question now is whether he
can buy republicans-he has bought
them in 70 former years. The Helena
Independent insults decent public opin-
ION in this state-and there is plenty of
it--when it tries to make it appear that
the Montana public looks with any de-
gree of approval on w. A. Clark's bril-
berry operations in Helena.
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May DisaIlow 1t.

Victoria. B. c., Jan. 23--At a meeting
tonight in support of the government
candidates for parliament, the Attorney
General, Hon. Joseph Martin. said there
was a possibility Of the Dominion gov
eminent disallowing the alien exclusion
law. He intimated that even in the face
OF such disallowance the provincial
government would persist in their right
to make laws for the best interests of
the province. regardless of what might
be done by the Dominion government in
an attempt to gain concessions in the
joint high commission.
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Sheehan Versus Croker.

~ S an appendix to the interview
n recently given out by Mr.
Croker the press of the coun.
try is now getting the benefit of recent
expressions which have John c. Shee-
han fer their author. Sheehan ranks
as Tammany district leader; until the
autumn of 1897 he was Cookers deputy
in the councils Of Tammany.
! In an interview printed last week
| Mr.. Sheehan declared that he is OPP.
| posed to national expansion, and. that
| he is still in favor of William Jennings
Bryan and free silver. In view of the
interview given out by Mr.. Croker two
| weeks ago, in which he endorsed the
| policy of expansion, and said that free
silver was dead as a political issue
Mr.. Sheehan's declaration caused some
talk among Tammany men, who said
that no district leader would fly in the
! face of the leader of the organization
| unless he was prepared to make a fight
for his political life. Mr.. Sheehan's
views were expressed thus:
II am opposed to expansion. I do
not believe in acquiring territory in the
eastern hemisphere, eight thousand
miles or more away from our own
shores. I do not believe in the wisdom
of splitting the blood and wasting the
money of the American people in the
benevolent assimilation of the savages
in the Philippines" Mr.. Sheehan added
that Bryan is a great democrat" and
that there can be no question as to the
feeling of respect for him among the
masses of the American people.
Two years ago Mr.. Sheehan was re-
garded as Mr.. Cookers right-hand man.
While Mr.. Croker was in Europe Mr..
Sheehan represented him at the Four
teenth street wigwam, having control
of the whole Tammany organization.
He ran the machine so satisfactorily
that many of his friends urged him to
go ahead and organize a faction to de-
pose Croker. They told him that
Croker had deserted the machine in the
hour of danger, and that the rank and
file of the party would gladly follow
him in a fight against the chief. Mr..
toACCidH was PopuldI among
the leaders and the members of the
general committee, and many thought
that he would ultimately force Mr..
Croker to retire.
When the time came to open the cam
paign for the first election in the pres
ent city of New York Mr.. Croker re-
turned from Europe, and it soon be-
came evident that he was still master
of the machine, and that his power had
not been weakened by his absence from
this country. He heard the talk about
Sbeehan as leader. That Sheehan had
ever thought of working himself into
Mr. Cookers place is disputed. His
friends say that he was always loyal
to his chief. Others say that he was
treachereus. Whatever the fact may
have been. he was turned down without
question, Mr.. Croker preferring to be
surrounded by men whose loyalty had
never been questioned.
Sheehan's recent utterances are in
terpreted as a challenge to Croker, and
the Tammany people are wondering
what the outcome will be. Meanwhile.
the silver people are not very deeply
concerned one way or the other over
Tammany's quarrels.