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added remark was that Merritt is the
man who, it is supposed, will be named
to succeed Otis.
Respecting the relative worth of Gen
eral Otis, the president and those who
are assisting him in the conduct of the
Mckinley war against the Philippines
can easily inform themselves. Recently
the testimony of returning soldiers has
been pouring in. There is a certain
sameness about it--officers and pri
Yates appear. ALL to talk the same way
and tell the same story. In other ways
the administration has resources, if
it wants to find out about General
Otis.
The accepted theory is, however, that
it is the fixed purpose of Mr.. Mckinley
to stand by Otis and let him have a
chance in the autumn campaigning
So that it will take more than hint or
mere small-talk to pursuade the public
that Otis is to step down and out.
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Home, Sweet Home.

Kerosene oil will clean blackened silver
almost instantly
Stonemasons sawdust is better than
soap for cleaning floors.
To keep moths and carpet bugs from
all wooden goods and furs, sprinkle them
with cedar ships.
China closets should be scalded and
freshened at least weekly. and a little
borax water sprinkled on the shelves.
To keep away reaches take green GU
cumber parings and strew them around
the kitchen tables and cupboards, and
see how quickly the reaches will disap-
pear.
To wash cut glassware use pure soap
and hot water and apply with large
toothbrush. Each piece should be wiped
with linen cloth as it is taken from the
water.
To divide the bulk of the clothes in a
wash boiler and facilitate their removal
new boiler attachment is formed of
series of loose links fastened together in
a chain, to be suspended within the boiler,
one portion resting on the bottom and the
other hanging half way down.
Air curtains, beat well and put in cedar
chest. If stained. use a little benzine,
applied with cloth same color as material.
Never use white cloth. Lace curtains
should be washed before packing away
1t is not good to keep the dust in them,
but they should not be blued or starched
If - moths have begun to eat your
carpet, take the lacks out, turn 1t back
one-half yard all around the room, wash
the boards with saturated solution of
camphor, putting 1t on with paint brush,
then lay the carpet back in it's proper
place, put over it towel wrung out of
water and camphor and iron 1t thorough
ly with real hot iron, so as to steam it
through and through, and this will kill
the insects and all their larvae.
In making cake. let the materials be
each in their kind first-class Lard is
never at any time a good substitute for
butter: and good cake cannot be made
necessarily be crushed loaf or perfectly
white. good article of cake can be
made of light snowy sugar, but if deli
cate and snowy cake is desired. then it
must be pure white and only the whites
of eggs used. The quality of the -four is
also OF Importance, as flour which will
make palatable bread will not make good
cake. 1t should be sifted and perfectly
dried. The eggs should be well beaten
and the cake will be better If the yolks
and whites are beaten separately. Fruit,
If used, should be carefully prepared.
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~ V1DENCE accumulates. A press
dispatch quotes DR. Franklin
NJ Kemp of the Eour+aaptb a,

~ V1DENCE accumulates. A press
dispatch quotes Dr. Franklin
M.Kemp of the Fourteenth in
fantry, who has just returned from
Manila, as saying that the reinforce
ments now being organized for the ISL
ands are wholly inadequate to suppress
the insurrectlon." Among other things
the doctor is reported as saying: IF
General Otis needs a man, he needs
loo,0co to crush the rebellion. Even
with this force it would take, at a con-
serVatiVe estimate, five years to restore
peace, or, at least, to render il a safe
proposition to locate on the coast,
twenty years will be required before
Americans can venture with any Sc
cuflty away from the coast to COLOMBO
the fertile countries of the interior"
This talk is in line with a mass of
testimony upon the same point from
men who have been in the islands and
who ought to be familiar with the stu
alton. OF course, it is possible that
they may be mistaken in their iudg
ment, but they are more likely to be
right than the president and the corps
OF pureaucrats looking at the situation
from distance of ten thousand miles.
and especially so as our experience to
date proves the president and his ad-
Visers to have been wrong in all of their
predictions thus far made This morn
1ngts press dispatch about the Philip
pine situation is one more unpleasant
contribution. Is this mass of recent
testimony honest or is it false?
In any event, it admits of no denial
that we stand face to face with a very
serious situation. Even with our pres
ent force, exclusive of the 10000 men
now being enlisted, the condition of the
treasury begins to awaken concern. For
the month of July the deficit was about
SS'OOO,O0O and, according to a New York
tribune special from Washington. pub
lished yesterday, the war department
officials will not venture an estimate
OF the probable cost of maintaining the
additional regiments now being organ
ized. But enough is said to indicate
that ii will be a very large item Even
this is not the end, in the judgment of
DR.. Kemp and other who have studied
the situation from the standpoint of
personal observation. We must have a
hundred thousand men, at least. and
keep them on duty for twenty years in
order to make the conquest complete
with no positive assurance that the
force named will itself be adequate. or
that the twenty years will be a sufi-
Gent length of time. A pleasing pros
pect. truly.
The mere suggestion of these posi-
bilities should lead the American peo-
pie to pause and consider. If these esti-
mates are anywhere near the mark. the
conquest of the islands means the sac
rifice of thousands of our young men.
and the expenditure Of untold millions
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Henry Hilton.

YEARS and years ago, back in
" times which are not within the
experience of to-day's young set,
Henry Hilton was one of New York
city's best-known jurists. He had been
in close professional relations with
Alexander II. Stewart who, in his day,
was this country's famous merchant
prince and one of the richest men in
America. His estate was believed to
be worth not much less than forty mil
lion dollars, but the public never got a
very accurate idea of its real total
that was purposely obscured Mr.
Stewart left no blood relatives, his will
gave the bulk of his estate to his WIFE
he died in 1876
Then Hilton appeared upon the scene.
Stewart had trusted him. Nobody knew
how 1T all came about, but years ago
the public settled down to the conclus-
ion that Hilton had possessed himself
of the bulk of the Stewart estate 1t
was all mystery The thing was
shrewedly done--Hilton had no one ex
cept the widow of the merchant prince
to deal with; he knew how to hood
wink her. OF course. this widow was
always in funds; a few charities of no.
BILE proportions had her for their au-
thor. But these were insignificant in
comparison with the ability of the es-
tate for benevolences.
In letter written three years be-
fore his death Mr.. Stewart. who was
a man of philanthropic deeds and i'm
pulse, wrote a letter addressed to his
wife, expressing his intention to make
splendid provision for many public
charities. This was written as a formal
expression of what Mr.. Stewart him
self proposed to do if his life was spar
ed and what, in case of his death. he
would wish to have done in his name.
Few of these things We're done. Hill
ton had all the say. There were law
suits brought by distant relatives of
Mr.. Stewart, there was severe talk in
the press and elsewhere. Nothing came
of it all. The stealing of Stewards body
from its temporary tomb was a highly
sensational incident. but it was not
long remembered. The widow died in
1886. Hilton has been altogether out of
public view in recent years, and now
he is dead-so says a press dispatch
this morning.
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1t Is Hinted At.

list a hint came from officialdom
{ in Washington, yesterday, TO the
effect that there is thought of
naming a successor for General Otis
What came was hardly so much. per
haps. as a hint. Still the press dis
patch dealing with this matter init
mated that the change has, in all prob
ability, been the theme of discussion in
which the president and some of the
members Of the cabinet have had
share.
Some of the silly organs of the ad-
ministratlon, out this way, will say.
OF course, that this associated press
dispatch is moral treason" giving aid
and comfort to Aguinaldo. Neverthe-
less, the talk of a successor for Otis
got extended notice in yesterdays
press news service; the plain sugges-
ton was that Secretary Root seemed
quite unwilling to discuss IT, and the
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of treasure. And for what? Leaving
the moral aspect of the question out of
consideration, shutting our eyes, for the
time, upon the sacrifice of life, the
value of which cannot be computed
and looking at it from the cold-blooded
dollars and-cents' point of view, it may
well be asked, What are we to get in
return?"
This war is an entirely new departure
from the whole past policy of our coun-
try The burden is upon those who up
hold it to show that it is a good one.
If they wish to ignore the moral SEN
timent involved, if they insist upon dis
regarding the sacrifice of human life,
if they are determined to treat it as a
purely commercial proposition, it is
still incumbent upon them to figure
out a clear balance in our favor.
1t is altogether safe to say that, as
heretofore, they will make no attempt
to do anything of the kind. They will
continue to talk haZily about extend
ing the sphere of civilization" uphold
ing the honor of the country and stig
Matte as traitors any who would
haul down the American flag" no
matter where or under what circum-
inconsequential chaff has no bearing
upon the real question, signifies nothing
and proves nothing. What is re-
quired is argument, and not toplofty
rhetoric
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FRIDAY, AUGUST Is, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Enemies Of the Schools,

90 ERHAPS the local public NAV be
pardoned for having permitted
yesterdays vote for a proposed
special levy for school purposes to go to
defeat by default. The like of this cleo
ton has been held annually in Ana
conda during several years 1t had come
10 De pro forma sort of an affair; the
levy was always voted: the opposition
was uniformly an insignificant percent
age in small total. Yesterdays vote
was small-forty-odd ballots all told.
This time the levy met defeat; it missed
success by an extremely narrow mar
gin.
This result cannot possibly be ac-
cepted as representative Those who
voted in the negative yesterday have
simply been instrumental in putting the
school districts taxpayers to the extra
expense-running anywhere from $40 to
SSO-which will be incurred in the hold
ing of another special election. We I'M
derstand that the decision of the school
trustees, reached last night, is to hold
another special election in order that.
In view of the warning served yester-
day, the citizens of Anaconda NAV have
all the opportunity in the world to say
what their choice is in this significant
matter
AS was said in the Standard yester-
day morning, all the merit there is in
this matter is clear. In view of Ana
conda's growth it has been simply i'm
possible in recent years to keep the
public schools in motion without resort
to the extra levy-this levy the people
must vote. For this year it was named
by the trustees at four mills. This
would furnish, as the Standard under
stands the situation, just about fifty
per cent of the money needed for the
maintenance of public instruction for
the school year; the four per-cent levy
would yield about $4,000 If the refusal
recorded at yesterdays polling place
stands, the alternative is that the pub
lie schools can run for just about one
half of their normal term. That is the
case on its merits.
Unless. indeed, ii be that those who
cast yesterdays negative vote know Of
dishonesty or of unwarrantable extrav-
agance or of neglect or of other derelic-
ton on the part of the school trustees
If any item of the sort is within the
knowledge of those who made up yes
terday's opposition, surely this knowl-
edge ought not to be kept secret
If there is something wrong, it is
hidden up to this hour; If there
is good and just cause why the
school board should be repudiated,
1T ought to be published to all the
people. Several days must intervene
before the next special election. at the
earliest, can be held-the Standards
columns are wide open to any citizen
who wants to show why this town
should go back either on its school or on
its school board.
This is very important business
There is only one alternative: Either
the levy must be voted or the school
year cut in two. The Standards opin-
ion is that the issue may be safely left
to the extra special election which yes
terday's vote has forced
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Men and Women.
The only royal NJ. D. in the world is
Queen Amalie of Portugal.

The only royal NJ. D. in the world is
Queen Amalie of Portugal.
Miss Ellen c. Writer of Denver, Colo.
is the only woman authorized to practice
before the United States Land office.
Professor Roentgen of Roentgen ray
fame is to be transferred from Murzburg
to Munich university in October next, to
succeed the late Professor Lommel.
The Chateau de Mazenas has cost NJ
Loubet $50 600, fact which is taken to in
dictate that the French presidents pri
vate means are greater than was gener-
ally supposed.
General Luis E. Torres, the governor of
dams are now causing trouble, spent four
years as an attache of the Mexican lega-
ton in Washington.
John Clark who died in Indianapolis the
other day at the age of "a years, went
to the site of that city with his parents in
1929. They had to travel through track
less forests, blazing their way as they
went.
Victor Newcombe, once president of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, and for
merly a successful business man of
Louisville, has been declared insane by
the New York court on application of his
wife and son. He Is addicted to the ex-
cessive use of drugs
Queen Victoria, even at her present age,
does not consider that she has finished
her education. and grapples daily with the
difficulties of Hindustani. At least half
a dozen European languages are familiar
to her, and, not content with knowing
German alone, she has mastered many of
the country dialects.
President Kruger recently refused an
introduction to a well-known Englishman,
who thereupon sent back word that he
must see Dom Paul; that he was no ordi-
nary person, and that he was, in fact, a
member of the house of lords. The serv-
ant went away, and returned with the
message: THE president says he cannot
see you, and adds that he is a cattle
herder."
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poy marched up to the masters desk
ana inquired IF he would like a bit of
pork, as they were going to kill their
pig. The schoolmaster replied in the af-
hrmative. Several days having elapsed
and hearing nothing of the pork, the mas
ter called the boy up to him, and inquired
the reason he had not brought it. "Oh,
please, sir" the boy replied. "the pig got
better. Public Opinion.
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He died for love, but no one
Wept when she heard the news,
And would you know the reason?
He died for love of booze.
-Chlcagn Times Herald


And would you know the reason?
He died for love of booze.
Chicago Times Herald.
"You haven't any smokeless tobacco.
have you?' asked the smart young man.
Lots of it," said the matter-of-fact per-
son behind the counter, producing a blad-
der of snuff. "How much do you want?'
Chicago Tribune.
Fuddy-I suppose a man never will be
safe when the time comes that women
propose. Duddy-Oh. l don't know. The
only difference will be that when they
mean to have you they'll give you notice.
Boston Transcript
DO you ever play backgammon" in
quired Miss Cayenne. The young man,
who is strictly modern, looked puzzled,
and said, backgammon? Let me see,
thought l played about all of 'em. What
clothes go with it?"-Washington Star.
Nodd-I wonder if I shall ever be rich
enough to own a steam yacht.
Todd-Um, that isn't my ambition.
What is?
Il want to be rich enough after I own
one to run it for few weeks each sea-
son."-Detroit Free Press.
81 didn't know you were a baseball
player father" Neither am l. son. Who
put that wild idea into your head@'
why, / heard Uncle Tom say the other
day that when you were on a bat you
could punish more high balls than any
other man he knew."-Brooklyn Life.
Bobby's Mamma-Now, mind, Bobby IL
they pass you the cake a second time at
the party, you must say, mo, thanks,
I've had plenty" And don't you forget it.
Hostess Cat the party)-Won't Bobby
have some more cake? Bobby (who
hasn't forgottenl-Nope, thanks. I've had
enough, an don't you fergit it!-Cleveland
Plain-Dealer.
Here the poet rallied bitterly. 1T Is alb
surd to pretend that my lines are not
worth printing he protested. You are
a conceited asst retorted the editor hot
ly You think just because you don't
know what you mean in your poetry that
nobody else knows what you mean! Bah!'
1t was crushing thing to say, and yet it
were perhaps better said.-Detroit Jour
nal.
A schoolmaster i'm a village school had
been in the habit of purchasing pork from
parents of his pupils on the occasion of
the killing of the pig. One day small
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And NAV the Columbia Win.

From the Hartfourd Courant.
Welcome to the Shamrock! lively
breeze to the two competitors, and the
victory and its CUP to the best boat. Fair
play for both.
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Can Well Afford to Wait.

From the st. Louis Republic.
Governor Roosevelt has declared in IA
vor of Hobart for vice president. Mr..
Roosevelt is young yet, as politics goes,
and can see something higher for HIM
self than second place five years hence.
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New EnrIand's Paradise.

From the Boston Traveller.
1t only costs 81 in Worcester to put
your arm around young woman's waist
against her will. Excursion trips to Wor-
cester are now in order.
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Hot Water for de Battle.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. Langtry has an engagement to
play in this country, and will, of course,
bring her little husband with her; and the
actors and managers and press agents
will have fun with him.
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New York C-ce-4s Tribune Building.
chicago Office-4s9 The Rocker.
The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-l,415 G st. N. w.
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The One Thing Lacking.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Most Of the witnesses in the Dreyfus
case seem to be advocates. A little real
testimony would be refreshing.
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The Standard has branch ofices at
Butte. Missoula and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plicstion.
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The Fate of an Explorer.

From the Detroit Free Press.
By setting off for the north pole last
year, Mr.. Wellman missed the war, bat
gained game leg.
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Let Ia All Hone Not.

From the Boston Transcript.
The retirement of General Alger from
politics was only like the farewell appear
ance of famous actresses.
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All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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From the Chicago Record.
Some people go TO fight the Fflipinos,
and some stay at home and drink picnic
lemonade.
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Two Kinds of Heroes.

in Nine. Dreyfus Marriage is not fail
ure, even in giddy Paris.
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Postage free for the United States, Can.
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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In the Best Of Humor.

Johnny-Pa. what is meant by "descrip-
tive writing?"
Pa-Descriptive writing, my son, Is that
part of a book which is generally skipped.
Stray Stories.
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Current Comment.
Not a Safe Bet.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle.
The British are prepared TO put their
rocks up on the Shamrock
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TO ADVERTISERS.

to
The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bona f1de paid circulation,
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
iished in the state Of Montana. Advertis-
'ns contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.
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True, the World Over.

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch
The beautiful devotion of a loving wife
is exemplified in Nine. Labori as well as
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W. CT. u. DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by the ladies Of the W. c..
r. L. of Anderson, S. c.
Official Example Needed.

1t is very manifest that total abstl-
nence enforced on special occasions is
not all that is wanted to make the
army as sober, and consequently as
efficient, as is desirable. In fact,
spasmodic efforts at abstinence, fol-
lowed by periods during which drink
indulgence is sanctioned or palliated
by. those in authority, tend to keep
alive that faith in alcoholic liquors as
means Of enjoyment, and that opin-
ion Of them as fitting reward tor
bravery and endurance, that are the
bane of the army. And such opln-
ions are fostered and encouraged by
the custom which constrains men,
otherwise sane and reasonable, to toast
in alcoholic liquors the victories won
by,and dependent for their success
upon total abstention from all such
enfeebling and demoralizing agencies.
What is wanted is public and official
opinion which shall say that the abstl-
nence asked for in the men shall be
encouraged by the example as we'll as
enforced by the authority Of the Off
cers.-Co7. j. A. Ferguson. OF the
British Aymy.