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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
MONDAY. APRIL II, 1899
TWELVE PAGES.
A Bigger Man Than Ever.

~ VEN if you consider Saturday
. nights dollar dinner merely
wherein it concerns Bryans
personality, it has a pointed signifi-
canoe, and it carries a moral which
they will heed who are trying to break
Bryan down. Bryan's strength, as one
of the factors in politics, is his follow
ing, and the strength and character of
that following. 1t does not weaken;
evidently it grows
No man now before the American
public who has relations to current
politics, can match Bryan's popularity
or approach it. There is not a city
in this country where President Nc
kinley by his presence and his words,
can awaken a degree of genuine en-
thusiasm that would be more than an
echo of last Saturday nights demon
stration. There is only one living
american, who by his appearance be-
fore multitude of his fellow citizens,
could evoke the sincere outburst of ad-
miration that Bryan ELECTS. That man
is Dewey, but, as has been remarked
here written is limited to men having
relations to current politics.
Bryan appeared at memorable
gathering of voting citizens at the time
when. in 1885, he was the orator of the
evening at the Madison Square Garden
ratification meeting. in the city of New
York. If one may judge by the press
kan
demonstration of Saturday night, in
which five thousand people took an en-
thusiastic share, was more impressive
I'm every respect than the rally of 1896
Yet at that time Bryan was the can
didate of his party for the presidency.
and the public was at that moment
well warmed up for the preliminaries
of the most stirring national campaign
of modern times. Besides, Bryan was
"a novelty then, and the outburst that
distinguished the event of his nomina-
fion was in full force, in its effect upon
the popular mind and heart. There
was no helpful prelude of this sort for
the one-dollar dinner demonstration
Bryan appeared last Saturday night as
the tried leader of followers whose
ardor shows that their loyalty to him
is not a whit abated because they and
their intrepid captain met defeat three
years ago.
Here is something for those to think
of who have been planning Bryan's ex-
pulsion from democratic leadership.
Indeed, it is certain that these enemies
of silver are thinking about it, and
we may well believe that the refec-
tions which Saturday nights popular
outburst suggests fills them with dis
may,
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agent will then probably put the check
in some New York bank and draw
against the deposit in the purchase of
foreign exchange. These bills will in due
time be presented at the foreign banks
amounts placed to Spanish credit. The
transaction will be simplicity itself
There will be no carting of great dray
loads of gold from the United States
sub-treasury to ocean steamers There
will be few scratches Of the pen and
the transaction will be complete
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Reads Southern Stories.
go Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Reading is going to be most profit
able and enjoyable feminine occupation
Miss Josephine Walton. the southern
reader who has become popular in New
York, is typical southern woman of
good colonial stock.
Her specially is somewhat unique
Though she reads with great dramat-
ic effect, she Is not merely an elocu-
zionist. but besides reading literary
masterpieces, she gives talks on histor-
ical and critical subjects in the par
Tors of wen known society women
This winter, as if to prove her YER
satility she has made a feature of cur
rent events and has gained popularity
and financial success by her entertain
ing stories of the queens of the salon
and negro dialect of southern humor-
lists.
Miss Walton has been instrumental in
giving the picture and personal letters
of her near kinsman, George Walton,
one of the singers of the Declaration of
Independence, to the New York chapter
of the D. A. R., of which she is a men,
Der.
Miss Walton is a charming woman in
face and figure. She has a fine delivery
and subtle charm pervades all her
readings.
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HoRSE-NAIL WEDDING RING,
Lucky Emblem Is Twisted Into Nuptial
Circlet.
From the Chicago Chronicle.


From the Chicago Chronicle
A young mechanic found a novel way
out of difficulty recently and again
proved Cupid triumphant over discourage
ment.
Judge, I can't afford to buy a we'd
ding ring, so I've made one out of an old
horseshoe nail. 1t will bring us luck
But what I want to know is. is it le-
gal?"
This question was asked of Magistrate
Wentworth in Essex Market court yes
terday morning by John T. Hopkins, a
soldierly looking baker who served in the
9TH United States artillery during the late
war. Upon his arm hung the bushing
Bertha Banks of Buda-Pesth who was
employed as a servant until yesterday by
Mrs. steingut of 10 Second avenue. The
Would-be bridegroom is 80 years old and
the would-be bride nine years younger
AS he asked the question Hopkins gave
a military salute with his right hand and
passed UP to the judge with his left the
novel wedding ring. He Is something of
blacksmith and he had heated it and
hammered it out so that it was round
and fitted on the finger of the bride.
THE horseshoe I took it from brought
me luck" said Hopkins, "for the day af-
ter hung 1t over my door I met Bertha,
didn't I, dear?'' The pretty bride declared
that this was so, and that she thought the
iron ring much better than a gold one.
The magistrate smiled and agreed to
perform the ceremony, as horseshoe rings
were just as valid and legal as the best
1S-carat golden product.
1.-THE law doesn't compel you to have
any ring at ALL" he decided, and then he
read the words that made the girl Mrs.
Hopkins
They went back to 10 Second avenue.
where Hopkins boards. They talked of
having the horseshoe nail wedding ring
gilded.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

IN the decade now closing the
art of medicine has made as
tonishing progress. The facts
presented by the Chicago board of
health with relation to diphthera cases
treated with antitoxin show so con-
clusively the enormous benefits derived
from the use of this new remedy as
to more than sustain all that has been
said of it in general terms by physi-
clans. 1t ranks as one of the greatest
blessings which scientific research has
brought to the aid of suffering human
ity in many years. There is
nothing which parents fear more
than diphtheria epidemics, includ-
ing Group, and the striking reduction in
fatalities from these diseases during
the three years since the introduction
Of antitoxin means an incalculable saw
ing of human life.
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Current Comment.
What the Victories Mean,

From the St. Paul Globe.
We must not ignore or misunderstood
the lesson of the recent democratic vic
tories. They signalize the readiness of
the masses, east and west, to over
throw the corrupt obligations of poll
tics and industry that have assumed
control Of our national government
They voice the popular demand that
factionism and sectionalsm must cease
within the ranks of democracy: that
mutual liberation and concession must
prevail and that We must ask the Sus-
tainment by the people of principles
and policies that will go to the root of
the abuses that have aroused the in,iig-
nation of the country.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
All Sorts.

The French people still fight an av-
erage of 1000 duels every year.
Three thousand marriages are per-
formed every day all over the world.
Great Britain has no fewer than 1920
magazines, 500 of them being of a re-
ligious character.
The flesh of aligators tastes very like
veal. and is regarded as a delicacy by
many people in India
Cyclists in Denmark are forbidden by
law to ride faster than the speed of
cab through any town.
The stars on the United States coin
age are six-pointed, while the United
States flag carries fve-pointed stars.
1t is calculated that the yearly pro-
duction of paper in the world is 3,O0o,-
100000 pounds weight, and this eman-
ates from 1881 mills.
The new building of the Charita BILE
Eye and Ear infirmary of Boston,
which has just been dedicated, recall
to the Herald of that city Mrs Julia
Ward Howes mot on the institution:
Charitable eye and ear! I didn't know
Boston had either"
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The Matter With New York.
q T Saratoga in few weeks the
I merchants, manufacturers and
shippers of New York city will

u T Saratoga in a few weeks the
merchants, manufacturers and
1 shippers of New York city will
hold convention to discover. if rossi-
Bile. what is the matter with New
York. They want to devise ways for
recovering its lost trade and re-estab-
fishing its commercial pre- commence.
The fact is New York has been in a
way retrograding. 1t has suffered ap-
preclably from rivalry of other Atlantic
coast cities. The New York Herald de-
clares that New York merchants have
not been properly alive to the rapid
change of the last decade in the COM
mercial situation. They have not real
lied how inducements offered by other
cities were surely drawing away our
trade. AS a result we are now bewcil-
ing the loss of profitable business that
has been secured by better markets or
else gone to ultimate markets by more
convenient or less expensive channels
than this great port afforded In fact,
we had become bit old-fogyist in our
ways, and depended too much on the
belief that all roads led to New York.
They did once, but between excessive
freight rates, a broken down, out-of-
date canal system, heavy port charges
and sharp competition in trade all over
the country, no wonder that New York
was given the go-by when the pinch of
close prices came"
1t is a good thing that New York city
is beginning to realize that it is not the
whole works." The attitude of the
metropolis towards the rest of the
country, particularly towards the
West, has often been one of ignorance
and intolerance
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Pacific Gable Projects.

II CCORDING to the report Of the
! United States bureau of statis-
! tics, the submarine telegraphs
of the world at the close of February
numbered 1900. had an aggregate
length of 10000 miles, represented a
cost estimated at $3.50 900, OO0 and trans
mtted annually about 100000 mes
sages. The greater number of these
submarine telegraphs are comparative
ly short cables owned by governments
and employed in connection with forts.
light houses and signal stations There
are about 800 commercial cables, owned
by thirty-five companies. These control
about 100000 miles of cable, leaving for
the governmental cables only about 90
900 miles of the total 1t is noted
however, that the governments of the
world hold something more than $4,000
miles of cable stock for war purposes
ready at hand to be laid at moments
notice when the emergency arises. Con-
corning the reason why there has been
no Pacific ocean cable, the report says:
THE chief obstacle in the past to the
construction of a grand rans-Pacific
cable was found in the fact that mid
ocean resting places could not be sat
isfactorily obtained or arranged for, no
single government controlling a suffl-
cient number of suitable landing places
to make this seem practicable in view
of the belief that the distance through
which messages could be sent and ca
bles controlled was limited"
The results Of the war with Spain
have put the United States in posi-
ton to overcome the difficulty of the
past. With landing places at Hawaii,
Wake island, Guam and the Philippines,
we could lay a cable 20 section of
which would have a length equal to
shat now in daily operation between
France and the United States. The
length of the French cable from Brest
to Cape Cod is $3.50 miles, while the
greatest distance from land to land on
the proposed Pacific route, according to
the San Francisco Call, would be the
2,OS9 miles between San Francisco and
Hawaii.
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In the fall of 1877 Samuel and William
agreed to meet at the home of GAVIN
and settle their financial affairs, in the
presence of Mrs. GAVIN Murdoch, of
whom Samuel was always very fond,
though he disliked her husband, and
wanted it understood that none of his
money should ever go to him. 1t was
found that 100000 was due to Samuel.
The plaintiff had two young sons, for
whom William Murdoch had great af
lection. William agreed to make note
that would come due about the time
the children came of age and it was
took the note and rolled it around a
slate pencil or lead pencil, rolled tin
foil around 1t and placed the package
in a long, thin vial This was put into
er. The last bottle was corked and
sealed and all put in tin can and the
can stopped up. 1t was then taken to
a certain spot and buried.
The defense declares that the note is
a rank forgery. There is an immense
array of legal talent on either side,
and in many ways the case recalls the
famous Davis will trial. The story of
the note is a strange one. If it is a
genuine document it illustrates the old
adage that truth is stranger than fic-
ton.
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ply of medicines, wines, bandages-in
fact, everything necessary for use in a
hospital.
Present indications are that this little
band of nurses will find plenty to do
upon its arrival at Manila. It is likely
that the burial caskets, of which the
Sherman carried quite number, will
prove of more Importance than was
thought at the time the shipment was
made.
The hospital ward aboard the Sher-
man is as complete in its equipment as
any ward in New York institution
There are the operating table and madi-
cine chests, while instead of the usual
troop ship hunks the patients are cared
for in white iron beds. Hatchways di-
rectly over the ward make it possible
to let In flood of sunshine in good
weather.
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\ HICAGO is boasting of a pro-

~ HICAGO is boasting of pro-
~ nounced novelty in the form of
an "honest council" The oldest
inhabitant can't recall anything like
that in the citys previous history. The
council has been organized in accord
ance with Mayor Harrison's idea, ION a
basis of honesty instead of politics."
Forty-two aldermen attended a non
partisan caucus and four more sent
word they would sustain the caucus ac-
ton. This gives a margin of eleven
votes over the majority necessary to
organization, more than enough to take
every committee and every important
Craftsmanship out of the hands of the
gangsters. The Chicago Journal gives
them some excellent advice in these
words: IF they will stand together,
instead of dividing on some Fictitious
issues. if they will forbear to consider
themselves the only honest men in the
city government, and all the mayors
city hall appointees as outcasts and
thieves, if they will refrain from ILL
judged efforts to raise the citys mo-
rality to some artificial and impossible
plane: if, in short, they will employ
practical, common sense instead of i'm
practical fanaticism in dealing with
matters coming under their influence.
the honest majority can make it's power
efficient and it's honesty serviceable to
the city"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
1t Is to BE Pressed Into the Soil With q
Light Roller.


From the Chicago Chronicle.
Mr.. Kimball, who is famous for church.
debt raising. and who lives on Human
avenue in Evanston, has an impression
that the extreme cold of the past winter.
as there was very little snow, has greatly
injured the winter wheat Whether his
impression be true or not, he is fully per-
suaded that it is, and he is ready with
recommendation to farmers which he, is
equally confident will benefit them. He
recommends that winter wheat be rolled,
and he has written to the Chicago Sunday
Chronicle directions for the farmers in the
case.
The time to do it. he says, is between the
10th of March and the 10th of April,
That is. this should be the time in ordin-
airy years. But the farmer may select
any time of spring before the ground is
so softened that the team will not sink
too deeply into the soil, but the winter
frosts must be over.
Mr.. Kimball next tells how to do it. Use
light roller, just heavy enough to press
the roots firmly into the soil. Roll a few
rods and then examine the surface. Then,
not using the roller, but in any convenient
way, put the corners of your field into the
same condition. This is to enable the
roller to do continuous work, to go round
and round, not roughing any part of the
field. This done. good crop of wheat
will. he says be insured g.l. g.
Wheat" to use his own words, ais a
strong plant, the king of the grasses, and
If thus pressed back into the soil after a
cold winter it will grow strong, sturdy
roots, grasp the earth firmly and produce
large vigorous straws and full heads of
fine sample wheat. Ground so treated
will grow wheat that can endure in wind
and rain and resist any tendency to
LODGE
If any farmer whose eye may light on
this item knows his winter wheat to be in
jured by the frost he may think it worth
while to try Mr.. Kimbalrs method of
saving it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Another Celebrated Case.
~ HE trial of the celebrated Muir
dock note case, involving the


dock note case, involving the
validity of a note for $1OO, 900,
with interest amounting to $25OOOO
more, is on in California. and, as in the
Davis will case, the handwriting ex-
perts are enjoying a picnic. According
to the plaintiffs side of the story. the
paper was executed by William Muir
dock. in settlement of moneys due his
cousin Samuel. The latter requested
that the note be made out in favor of
mis- daugh err in-law, to become due at
about the time his grandchildren be-
came of age. This was done and before
the note became due William Murdoch
died.
William went to California in 1860.
He engaged in stock-raising and got
hold of all the government land he
could. His cousin, Samuel was also a
stock-raiser in partnership with his son,
GAVIN, the husband of the plaintiff
Samuel, from year to year, was loaning
William large sums of money. GAVIN,
then objected, and finally had falling
out with his father. and a dissolution
of partnership followed. GAVIN paid his
father a large sum of money. which
also went to William. The father and
son were never good friends thereafter.
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rom the New York Herald.

From the New YORK Herald.
Miss LYDIA Starr is the chief of a
party of six Red Cross nurses who
sailed from New York for Manila on
the transport Sherman. Miss Starr is a
graduate of the Bellevue hospital
training school for Nurses, and has
been employed at the hospital for sew
eral years.
1t will be the duty of Miss Starr and
her companions to look after the sick
ones, if there are any, on board ship
during the voyage. At Manila the
nurses will enter the military hospitals.
Miss Starr took with her an ample sup
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
What the Congress Can Do.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
The peace congress is likely to wind
up in a fiasco as to disarmament, but
it can certainly adopt the principle CT
respecting private property, not coatra-
band of war, captured on neutral YES
sells, and adopt additional rules of war
which will outlaw any nation which
permits its troops to fire on hospitals
and upon the wounded as they are car
ried from the field to hospital and upon
the surgeons attending the wounded.
Such a government places itself out
side the pale of modern civilization.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Mckinley Setting a Bad Example.

I
Human nature is a pretty well UNDER
stood quality. Future administra TONS
in spirit of reprisal, having their own
friends to care for. will accept the Nc
kinley precedent that civil service pro-
LESSONS are merely sounding brass or
a tinkling cymbal. and the chances are
that the spols principle. without limit
or check, will be again established The
more patronage that has fallen to this
administration, and in amount it is
without precedent, the hungrier and
more rapacious grows its appetite for
official plumber
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Taxation of Franchises.

From the Kansas City Star.
That franchises should be taxed is
perfectly just. They belong to the peo-
pie and they afford to those who obtain
them an essential part of the earning
capacity of the institutions which Sc
cure them. There is no reason, in COM
mon sense, why the privilege to operate
public utilities should not insure to the
public a substantial equivalent in the
way of state and municipal revenue.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Mistaken War on the Canteen.

From the Omaha Bee.
Those who have watched most closely
the operations of the canteen have been
it's strongest advocates. the attempts to
abolish it having been for the most part
but misguided efforts. No places where
liquor is sold are under such complete
control as the army canteen and as long
as the men will drink in spite of all eff
forts to prevent it the canteen is a less
evil than the camp-following saloon.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
A Boom for the Early Frost.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ex-Secretary Olney is having quite
run in connection with mention" for the
presidency; but the boom is too early. 1t
cannot last Is months. This time next
year Mr.. Olney will probably be on the
shelf practicing law. 1t is Just to him to
say. though, that he was the intellectual
quantity Of Cleveland's last administra-
ton.
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THE manner of paying Spain that
$20,000000 will illustrate the per-
lection of commercial machiner

for the transaction of international
business on a huge scale. Secretary
Gage Will simply draw a check or a
draft upon the sub-treasury in New
York and turn the paper over to the
accredited agent of Spain, who will duly
receipt for the amount. The Spanish
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Possible Recruit.

FTUW NE DtNNtF FOSI
A man started out from Brussels the
other day to walk around the world back
ward. When he reaches America his
crawtishy instincts may lead him to aban-
don the rest of his journey and become a
populist leader.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

New York Office-S Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwitn Special Agency
Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bureau-1415 G ST., N W.
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Independence in Arkansas.

From the Kansas City Journal.
The best citizens of Arkansas still be-
lieve in the inalienable rights of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of negroes with shot
guns.
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His Kind of Pants.


From the Philadelphia Times.
1t is so quiet in the Philippines that it
is possible to hear the running Fiipinos
breathless pants. Many of him does not
wear any other kind.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Senator Platt's Little Joke.

From the Boston Herald
Senator Plat remarks that Mr. Olney
is too closely identified with great cor
porations to be an available candidate
for the presidency. This from Plat is
something sublime.
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