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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01

fourth term On the Senate.
Sir Thomas Upton challenger for tho
American cup. has offered tO come 10 the
relief Of the distressed English colony OF
Barbados Ilo is prepared 20 invest
100000 IN The sugar industry of that
island and has named 20 tne English gov
eminent "A few easily hned conditions.
Brooklyn iremcn hear with mixed feel
ings that Kate CaNton has leased the
Park Theater in that city and will begin
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01
IcHe Were a Snowflake.

He
II were a snowdrop-a soft little fake-
would watch from my pace lh lhe
sky
Till saw you fare forth then IAN on
your check
And there / would happily die
SHE.
r. Won were a snowdrop-a soft little
flake
7, me form of a fve-pointei star,
permit me 10 say that you'd not be bit
More soft than at present you are.
Cleveland Leader.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01

wifi probably reach a.5ooooooO by June
~ 1907
m, the lav mind this sum SIS mean
lrrlees Dbl. &c. is easy 90 realize tho
tremendous effect such an amount of
money comua into our country must
have on its prosperity.
An eminent authority on finance thus
cxniaine the great increase in values.
..pe,,lo. hc says. "who hold dividend
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01
4 Convenient Almanac.

The Southern Railway has issued re
splendid calendar FOR 1880. This calendar
Is one Of the best issued for office pur-
poses, and those who are regular recipi-
ents OF IL always look forward with
pleasure to the coming Of the calendar.
for IL Is most seryiceable az we'll as or
namental.
The calendar f. printed on the press
of Rufus II. Darby, Washington.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01

You have failed to add 90 Richmond'a
prosperity if you have BOO policies with
your city C0mnauy-the Virginia State
Insurance Company.
WILLIAMSON TALLEY Agent.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01

hcr managerial career ty presenting "The
Two Orphans" This fs the piece Boo
which She appeared 0u che night Df the
terrible fire in Mrs ConWays Brooklyn
Theafcr twenty years ago. when scores OF
persons were crcmatfd.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19

upon the fact that the packing interest
and the commissary bureau of the war
department are bowling for General
Miles scalp and refers to the sick
ening details" given in scores of army
letters which testify to the badness of
the meat, and says that the sympathy
of the people is at present in this mat
ter very warmly with General Miles for
the course which he has pursued
The New York Independent, one of
the strongest admirers of Mckinley,
says that the influence of Alger was
a wall through which the protests and
appeals of Miles could not pass, and
declares that Miles has the support of
the people. It warns Mckinley that
"Algerism menaces his own political
future and If he persists in clfnging to
the secretary he will go down with
him.
So the contention that the criticism
Of Alger is a party matter is unjust and
unfounded. 1t is not political fight,
but a fight to down an official scandal.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
When the Day Is Done.

Be slow in choosing a friend. slower in
Misunderstanding.
The lamp of genius burns quicker than
the lamp of life.-Schiller.
Example is the school of mankind and
they will learn from no other.-Burke.
Sincerity truth, faithfulness. come into
every essence of friendship.-C
The greatest truths are the simplest and
SO are the greatest men.-J. c. and A. w.
Hare.
l pity the man who can travel from Dan
to Beersheba and cry, "'Tis all barren
Sterne.
Do not wait for extraordinary opportu-
mites for good actions, but make use of
common situationS.-Goethe.
A man must cling to the belief that the
incomprehensible is comprehensive, else
he would not try to fathom it.-Goethe.
If any thought Of mine, or sung or told.
Has ever given delight or consolation,
Ye have repaid me back a thousandfoid,
By every friendly sign and salutation.
-Longfellow
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19

der the original constitution no negro.
whether slave or free, and no mulatto,
not residing in the state at the time of
it's adoption could enter 1T. This law
excluding negroes remained in effect I'M
til it was disposed of by the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States.
Next fall will be the tenth anniver-
sary of the admission of Montana to the
union. this state being thirty years
younger than Oregon. AT the time Ore
gon became state Montana was not
even a territory and it's white popula-
ton consisted of a few wandering trap
pers, hunters, explorers and prospec-
tors What changes have taken place
since then Oregon did not know 1t
was a state until month and a day
after 1T had been admitted. The news
of Montana's admission was flashed out
here within a few seconds of the time
that admission took place. Wild noun
tains and trackless forests made inter-
course between Montana and Oregon
almost impossible at the time Oregon
was admitted, while now you can walk
into the "hello' office and talk with
anybody in Portland as easily as though
you We're but few feet apart.
By the way, does Montana propose
to celebrate the tenth anniversary of it's
admission to statehood?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1899.
TWENTY PAGES.
Montana's University.

n notable event in Montana's HIS
tory was the ceremony at Mis-
soula yesterday attending the
transfer of the buildings of the Montana
state university from the building COM
mission to the state board of educa-
ton and from the board of education
to the faculty of the university. Near
ly all the members of the legislature at
tended the ceremony together with
many interested citizens from various
parts of the state. The addresses were
most impressive. .-.
None of those who were present at
yesterdays ceremony can venture to
prophesy how great the Montana State
university may become, The beginnings
of Yale and Of Harvard We're insignifi-
cant in comparison with the results
that have been already achieved by the
young university at Missoula. Who can
tell what power as an educator this
university may grow to be? In far
distant years the account of yester-
days proceedings will be read by Mon
tana's sons and daughters when the
university will have grown to. man.
moth proportions. The university has
been started for all time. Who can tell
when it will stop growing? Who can
tell how many university buildings will
some day be grouped at Missoula? Who
can measure the good that will be done
by this university during years without
number to countless students vet un-
born?
The time will surely come when the
university of Montana will compare ia
vorably with any university in the land
So great a state as Montana becomes,
so great will the states university be-
come as an educational institution.
With each year that passes the people
of Montana will have more pride in the
state university and will take greater
interest in it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Convicted Again.

@ CONGRATULATIONS are due the
~ officials and citizens of Silver
Bow county that Murderer Sha-
fer has again been convicted of the
crime Of which he is guilty. When a
murderer is convicted in Silver Bow
county it is feat that we'll merits con-
graduation, for it is seldom accom-
plished. In the case of Shafer it has
been particularly hard fight. His
crime was committed a year ago last
August. He was tried and convicted,
but his lawyers managed to interpose
one legal obstacle after another to
block the wheels Of Justice Ordinarily
one year is ample time for the trial,
conviction and execution of a muir
derer. A new trial was ordered and
Shafer is convicted again.
1t is to be hoped that nothing further
will occur to prevent Shafer meeting
speedy justice. To be effective as an
example to others it is important that
justice should not be long delayed.
Since the county was organized only
one murderer in Silver Bow county has
SuueTeu uedll ny L WI IAOlC
are under conviction-Shafer and Shad-
well. Their crimes were committed
more than a year ago.
1t may not perhaps be out of place
to remark in this connection that, in
his address to the jury, NJ. L. Wines,
one of the defendants attorneys, saw
fit to refer to the newspaper men of
Butte as dirty scrubs working for
fifteen dollars per week" 1t may be
that the newspaper men of Butte only
receive fifteen dollars per week, but
what they get they earn honestly. 1t
may be added, not by way of criticism.
but merely by way of comparison,
that newspaper scrubs earning fiji
teen dollars week may consider them
selves a notch or two above lawyers
who enter newspaper offices and get
newspaper scrubs" to cash checks for
| them on banks where said lawyers have
nothing on deposit.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Republicans on Algcr.

JHILE the democratic press
w throughout the country is al
most unanimous in denuncia-
ton of Alger and in criticising Presi-
dent Mckinley for UNFOLDING him con-
trary to the sentiment of the country, a
large share also of the republican jour-
nails in all parts of the country are
scarcely less severe in their criticisms.
Many acknowledged Mckinley organs
are calling on the president to come to
his senses and drop the man who has
brought scandal to the country and who
has disgraced the administration. Out
side of the New York Sun there are
Very few prominent newspapers in the
country that are taking the side of
Alger in the present controversy. Even
the Chicago Tlmes-Herald, owned by
Mr.. Kohlsaat, McKinley's personal
friend. has not been able to stomach
Alger and the beef and supports Cen
eral Miles in his charges. The Cleve-
land Leader, the leading republican or
gan in Ohio, says that if General Miles
can support his declaration that he can
furnish overwhelming evidence that the
canned beef was unfit for food. he
should be allowed to produce the proof
at once; that if Miles speaks the truth
a crime has been committed by some
body.
The Portland Oregonian observes, TT
is very clear from the language of the
presidents order and the pains taken
to save Eagan from any real punish
ment that there has been "a put job
to down Miles from the outset of the
war General Miles although the official
commander of the army, was excluded
from any share in the Cuban war in
which he could in any way become con-
spicuous. The presidents disposition of
the case of General Eagan has done
more to convince some OF his warmest
friends of the existence of the McKin-
ley syndicate and the reality of the
public abuse and scandal known as AL
gerism' than any act Of his admins
tration."
The Milwaukee Wisconsin comments
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Prominent PEOPLE.

Rider Haggard thinks Egypt the most
interesting country in the world.
The prince of Wales breakfast never
varies. 1t consists of tea, toast and one
egg.
John Ruskin Invariably dimes in soil
tude, for he finds that conversation has
a bad effect upon his digestion.
Andrew Spence is said to be the only
missionary cyclfst in the world. He
travels in California, where he has met
with remarkableGsuccess in his work.
Rudyard Kipling works 10 hours ev-
cry day, or, to 'be kuuite correct. every
night, for the novelist usually sits at his
desk until the small hours of the morn
ing. 1oo
Carolus Duran, the portrait painter,
who Is to make "a second long visit to
America is said to have earned during
his last stay in this country a sum con-
siderably exceeding $4,000.
James r. Scott, Iowa's Oldest newspa-
per man, recently deceased, never miss
ed a day at his desk in the Dubuque
Herald in Al years. The floor beneath
it bore deep impress from his heels
Paderewski daily goes through a reg
ular set of gymnastics for the purpose
of Strengthening his arms and hands
for the task they are called upon to
perform. He employs an apparatus
which he designed himself, and the Sc
cret of which he carefully preserves.
Captain John H. Surratt, whose moth
er was hanged for the murder of Pres
ident Lincoln, is a trusted employee of
Baltimore steamship line, though still
out on $4,000 bail as the result of a
jury's disagreement in his own trial,
which lasted 104 days in 1867
DR.. Mary Walker visited the senate
gallery one afternoon last week. The
soothing drone of some expansioniet's
remarks sent DR.. Mary off to sleep and
a horrid attendant woke her up. She
was compelled to leave the gallery, and
once outside was severely lectured on
the improperly of showing such die
respect to the grave and reverend legis-
lators.
Quite a number of the Jones family
are prominent these days. Long Jones"
Is credited with having had a great to
do with electing Mr.. Quarles senator in
the state of Wisconsin. The governor
of Arkansas, the lieutenant governors
OF Mississippi and Ohio and the attor-
ney general of Nevada are other Jones'
es who readily come to mind.
The family of Secretary Alger Is an
example that misfortunes never come
s1ngly. During the past 80 days Russell
A. Alger, jr., barely escaped death in
toboggan accident, and while he was
i'll his house was burned over his head.
Then Mrs. Pike, his eldest sister, was
stricken with appendicitis and has not
yet fully recovered, and, lastly, Fred
erick Alger was laid up at Harvard
with water on the knee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
The Volunteers in Manila.

From the New York Times.
The story of the fighting at Manila
points moral that had been pointed al
ready in the capture of the city from the
Spaniards. 1t is that the volunteers are
immensely more efficient in the Philip
pines than they We're in the Antilles
Luckily for us, it was the regular army
that had all the fighting to do in Cuba
No volunteer troops, excepting the Rough
Riders, a very picked body of fighting
men. got any credit out of the Santiago
campaign. AS for the exploits of Duff
field at Aguadores, with a brigade of vol
unteers. it was and is the laughing stock
of the army and navy, though to be sure
1t was the incompetency of the COM
mander which made it so, and not the
quality of the command, which he did not
permit to be tested In the Philippines, on
the other hand. the great majority of the
troops were volunteers. No misbehavior
is reported among them, and in action
they have appeared to excellent advan-
tage. Most of them are from the far
West, but there Is no geographical moral
to be drawn. because the one Eastern
regiment. the 10th Pennsylvania, was con-
spicuous for its gallantry at the capture
Of Manila.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Mark Twain in Old Days.


Our morning contemporary copies a
Mark Twain became reporter on the
Virginia City, New, enterprise. There are
some errors in it. Joseph 4. Goodman was
the publisher and editor of the Eenterprise
al the time. Mark Twain was playing at
mining a Aurora New. 100 miles south of
Carson City. He wrote a burlesque Fourth
of July alton. 1t began with these
words: 81 was sired by the great Ameri-
can eagle and borne by a continental
dam" Goodman saw it and wrote to him
that if he was not making more money
than a certain weekly salary would make
him he had better quit mining and be-
come a reporter on the Enterprise. The
first response was when Clemens walked
into his office. But there was no bundle
tied up in a handkerchief rather it was
a roll of dirty blankets on his shoulder
which by a shrug he dropped. Again, he
was not well dressed with BACKED boots
next morning. He never was well dress
ed until he took to the lecture platform.
Usually it was hard to decide whether his
shirt front was linen with tobacco splash
ings, or tobacco with here and there a
suspicion of linen. His appearance was
always unkempt. But he could write
droil things. Some were as fine as any
thing he has ever written since. The life
of Virginia City from day to day was by
his pen materialized for review next
morning, either by a real literary picture
or a literary car!cature. while his drawl-
ing conversation was funnier than any
thing he ever wrote.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Religious Items.


The Epworth league has member
ship of 100000.
The woman's branch of the New
York city missions raised over $4,000
last year for their work.
1 is stated that the board of visitors
and the trustees are getting ogether in
he matter of the policy of Andover sem
mary.
Mr.. Moody on his way to Phoenix,
Arlz., held pubic service at Albu-
quergue. Professionals and Catholics
alike crowded to hear him.
Miss E. s. Tobey has been holding
meetings in Andovcr, N. H.. in the
midst of destitute region with her
usual success. The number or women
eVangelists is steadily increasing.
One hundred and fifty churches in
Pittsburg, representing twelve denom-
nations have associated themselves in
a federation for united aggressive work
among the foreign population and non
ehurch-goers.
Taylor street church. Portland, Ore,
has recently celebrated its golden jub-
lice. 1t was the first Christian church
organized in Portland. Its beginning
was the beginning Of the city and al
most that of the state.
The most costly book in the Royal
library at Stockholm is bible. 1t is
said that 100 asses skins were used for
it's parchment leaves. Each page is
only one inch short of a yard in length
and twenty inches wide. The covers
are solid planks four inches thick.
The new metropolitan tabernacle in
London is being rebuilt at cost of
945.000. The basement hall, which holds
1000 people, is completed and in use.
Thomas Sturgeon follows the example
or his father, in declaring that the
church cannot be used until every
penny of expense has been paid.
Bishop Potter has written letter to
the editor of the Western Christian Ad-
vocate of Cincinnati, saying that his
recent remarks about saloons were not
accurately reported. Il have never ex-
pressed any opinion he declares, ''as
to the 'dramshop.' In a recent address
in behalf Of coffee houses. coffee wag-
ons. coffee carts and the like I stated
that something answering to the saloon,
that is, place of inexpensive recreation
and refreshment, would always be a ne
cessity. may add that until it is pro-
Vlded the mischiefs of the saloon, which
nobody recognizes more clearly than I,
will continue. The saloon may be
driven to cover, but it cannot be abol-
ished. Something better, something
wholesome, harmless. undefiled and I'M
defl1ng must take its place and SO ex-
pei by substitution. Legislation has
failed to do this and prohibition has
failed. Denunciation has failed. It is
case for Christian capital, wisely en-
ployed, as the history of the Liverpool
coffee houses has shown
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
To Die Tomorrow.

~ oVERNOR ROOSEVELT has
" paid no heed as yet to the pro-
tests which many people have
made in the newspapers against electro
cutting a woman and the supposition
must be made that Mrs. Martha Place
will die tomorrow. Some of the New
York newspapers have been prosecuting
a regular campaign against the electro
cution and prominent people in all parts
of the state have been interviewed,
most of them expressing adherence at
the idea of a woman suffering the death
No reprieve has come, no Communication
of sentence has been made. The gov
ernor declared some time ago that he
would review the case and judge it sole
ly on it's merits, not permitting himself
to be Influenced in any degree by the
sex of the condemned. AS he has taken
no action in the matter as yet 1t is not
likely that he will change his mind now
and the law will doubtless take its
course tomorrow.
To many the idea of woman suffer-
ing the death penalty is most abhorrent.
Still in this case the guilt of the defend
ant was evident and there We're no ex-
tenuating circumstances. She was con-
victed of having murdered her step
daughter at her home in Hancock
street, Brooklyn. on Feb. 7. 1898. The
crime was of a particularly atrocious
character. On the morning named
| there was a quarrel between them more
bitter than usual. At night when the
father came home he was met in the
hall by his wife, who knocked him down
with an axe and tried to kill him. The
dead body of the step-daughter was
found later in a room upstairs. Owing
to the quarrelscme relations existing
between the two women, the fact that
they had been in the house alone and
the subsequent attack of the wife on
her husband suspicion was at once di-
rected towards Mrs. Place. She was ar
rested tried and convicted and SEN
fenced to be executed last August. The
evidence was wholly circumstantial but
so strong that the jury quickly reached
it's verdict. There were the usual de-
lays such as lawyers have no difficulty
has been set for tomorrow.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
OreSon's Anniversary.

~ CRING the past week the state of
f0J Oregon has been celebrating the
fortieth anniversary of it's ad-
mission to statehood. 1t was the sec
ond state west of Missouri to be ad-
mitted to the union, California having
joined nine years previously. Oregon
succeeded in gaining admission through
the exciting controversy that was 60
ing on over the slavery question. When
the state constitution was submitted to
the voters of Oregon they had the option
OF voting for or against slavery. At the
election 10,400 votes We're cast and there
was a majority against slavery of 5,OS2
and against free negroes of 1853. I'm
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Spain Will Tackle 1t.
the Spanish

~O-MORROW the Spanish cortes
will meet at Madrid in accord
ance with the queens decree and
it will soon be known whether or not
the Philippines belong to this coun-
try, and whether or not the war with
Spain is over. Until the treaty of
peace, agreed to at Paris, is passed by
the cortes the war cannot be consid-
cred officially over. 1t had much diff
ate of the United States and If the
cortes kicks as hard there may be a
long delay yet.
Premier Sagasta, however, has said
that he will summon the leaders of the
minority groups into conference and
urge upon them the necessity of rati-
flying the peace treaty at once and
urge them also to abstain from de-
bates of a personal character and from
attacks upon the army and navy.
The treaty will, it is stated, be laid
before the cortes Immediately, and Sa-
gasta is confident that it will be ap-
proved by a majority of thirty AS soon
as it is passed Sagasta will endeavor
to secure immediate adjournment until
October in order to avoid acrimonious
debates. Senior Silvela, the conserva-
tive leader, will succeed Sagasta in
October.
When the cortes agrees to the treaty
it will receive the royal signature, and
will be sent by a royal messenger to
Washington. The ratifications will be
exchanged the Spanish representative
will pocket his $4,000, 900 and the United
States will continue to prosecute the
Philippine war, which it has taken off
of SpainS hands,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
Church Trustees in the Senate.

From the Duluth Herald
Hon. A. ]. Beveridge, the newly-elected
United States senator from Indiana is
connected with the Meridian Street M. f.
church, Indianapolis, and a member of it's
board of trustees. United States Senator
Fairbanks of Indiana is also a trustee in
the same church. There is no other
church in the country that has two
United States senators on its board of
trustees.