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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
MAKES WAR ON GIANT CRACKERS
Mayor Harrison Issues Edict Against Sale
of the Dangerous Explosives.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
For many years it has been the GUS
tom of the mayor in issuing his Fourth
of July proclamation to solemnly de-
clare against the use of toy pistols and
cannon" crackers, but that Is about
as far as 1t went. The mayor usually
went to Lake Geneva or South Haven
or some place on the Fourth and let
his loyal constituents blow off their
fingers and derange their eyes with
cannon crackers quite in the good old
way. But this year will mark a
change. Mayor Harrison has put his
metaphorical foot upon the cannon
cracker and has declared that not only
must their use be prohibited, but, what
is necessary prelude, their sale must
be stopped by the police. He argues
very clearly that if nobody can get
giant crackers in the shops nobody
can fire them off on the Fourth, and
that it is much easier to watch the
stores where fireworks are ON sale and
arrest dealers who expose the prohib-
tied crackers than it is to watch the
nimbfe young man on the Fourth after
he has bought few dozen of them.
Therefore the police have already be-
come active and in Inspector Shea's
division have arrested a few store
keepers for exposing giant crackers for
sale. Retailers all over town have
been warned by the police that can
non crackers are contrabrand goods
and their sale will not be allowed. 1t
is claimed that the crackers, or at least
the larger sizes, contain proportion of
| dynamite and are decidedly dangerous.
The firing of acknowledged sticks of
dynamite in the public streets would
certainly not be allowed and the au-
thorities say that a covering of req
paper does not affect the matter. AL
ready several of the wholesalers have
shipped their stocks of giant crackers
| to other points, as the retailers refuse
to handle them, under instructions
| from the police
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
eoaEs HOLES UNDER THE SEA
| Tiny Marine Creatures That SinI Deep
shafts in solid Rock.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Some remarkable miners are fund in
the ocean delving in the hardes rock.
Some of them work in limestone coral;
others penetrate the muddy bottm and
incase the shaft in which they wok with
lime. So far as its resemblance to a
miner of land is concerned the shelknown
as pholas is the most remarkable.ls it is
not only a wonderful miner, but aso car
ries a light bright and vivid, tina seems
to serve as a miners lamp, and tat has
some interesting properties, one which
is that it shows in the water ad in a
vacuum, and. while clear and istinct
emits not the slightest heat.
The phoias IL richly chased shil about
two inches in length, and has tn power
of boring holes in the hardest roclas well
as in clay: but. unlike other mifrs, the
pholas never comes out of the nne. by
some means, possibly by It's raspg foot,
possibly by some secretion that ,ssolVes
the stone. it gradually wears u stone
away and slowly and imperceDbly en-
tiers. not in a straight line, but nan UNI
duiating course for a few meme HaV-
ing reached a place of safety, II miner
begins to enlarge its lead or tuh This
continues as the shell grows, untifinally,
If the pholas was capable of aPpr,iating
its surroundings, 1t would realize nat IT
was a prisoner for life; that 1t ia bored
into a rock and there grown larg' than
the tunnel through which 1t mad ttered'
The object of this miner Is not tobtaln
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10

both sides were not parallel, and of ne
cessity the court was forced to blaze a
new path If it wished to advance. We
think it must be conceded, neverthe-
less that If the courts instincts are
good, its instincts are a great deal bet
ter than it's logic. On the premises
submitted 1t Is not easy to understand
how the court arrives at it's conclu-
sions." That is pretty bold criticism
of a supreme court. 1t illustrates how
strong is the feeling on the subject.
Detroit has been in a state of mind
regarding her street railroads some
years. Rival companies quarreled,
there was strife over the granting of
franchises, there were labor troubles
between the management and the en-
ployes, there We're all sorts of compli-
cations. Governor Pingree stepped In
and proposed municipal ownership as a
remedy for everything. In accordance
with his suggestion, the legislature
passed a law authorizing the appoint
ment of a street railway commission,
whose object was to be the municipal
ownership and operation of all the
street railways in Detroit Governor
Pingree became one of the commission
ers and he and his colleagues at once
entered upon the task of negotiating
with Tom l.. johnson and his associ-
ates in the ownership and management
of the lines. Eventually an agreement
was reached by which the city was to
pay a big price for the property, run
fare, and do lot of other things, fail
ing in the performance of which the
property was to revert to Mr.. john
son and his associates with an extend
ed franchise and permission to charge
five-cent fares.
There was broad suspicion that Mr..
Johnson had manipulated the deal so
that by manipulating the politicians at
some future time he could get back the
whole works, vastly increased in value.
Nevertheless municipal ownership was
plainly desired by a great majority Of
the people, even if Mr.. Johnson seemed
to have the best of the bargain. The
question was raised whether the pur-
chase would be binding without ratifi-
cation by the people, and when it was
arranged that the matter should be
submitted to a popular vote it was
objected, that no provision for such
submission having been made by law,
the verdict of the polls would be of no
effect, whichever way 1t went And
now comes the supreme court and kicks
over the pail of milk.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
The Mystery of the Shamrock.

I T is the concensus of opinion that the
America cup defender Columbia is
little the fastest yacht ever set
afloat and will win the race with the
Shamrock with nonchalance and ease.
There is great curiosity aver The sham
rock-the policy of mysterious silence
maintained by Sir Thomas LIP IN is
provoking all sorts of comment Some
say Sir Thomas has no hope e win
ning-that he doesn't care particularly
whether he wins or not; ma he got
up the race to advertise himself and
his tea business; that out OF 1t al he
expects to increase. his tea sales and
his balance at the bankers very ma
terially. That may all be and Sir
Thomas still give the Americans a bet
ter run for their money and far greater
satisfaction all around than did Lord
Dunraven.
Anyway, the greatest secrecy has
been maintained as to the design end
lines of the Shamrock AS to the CO.
lumbia, the public has been treated to
all the information it desires and
through her trial spins with the De-
fender has been able to form an ac-
curate estimate of her speed AS
one explanation of all this silence and
mystery, the Philadelphia Inquirer
suggests that either the Irishman has
a good thing in the shape of something
absolutely new in yachts or Else, know
ing that he is outclassed to start with,
he is anxious to avoid being placed in
a position where he will have t. claim
more than he can carry OUT. If the
first surmise is correct then he has ex-
cellent reasons for keeping quiet, for
if the Shamrock is especially speedy ii
would influence the betting to a large
extent. In the second Ease it keeps
those who would rely on his word from
placing their money on sure loser.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
WORDS OF Boston ORIGIN.
Some Expressions That Have Been Coined
In That City.

From the Boston Transcript.
At the meeting of the Bostonian So
ciety in the old state house c.. w. Ernst
delivered an interesting talk on the
subject, Words Coined in Boston" Mr.
Ernst said that Governor Andres intro
duced among other unsalutary things
the term 'your excellency," as applied
to the governor. The speaker claimed
the word boss was first used by a
man named Gardner, who came in a
ship from the North sea in charge of
some mechanics. The word help"
meaning a person hired to assist is
Bostonian, and was considered a very
honorable appellatidn.
Mr.. Ernst mentioned the following as
having had their origin in Boston:
Real estate" .'corder," ''dockage,"
"measurer of wood advice and CON
sent" mixed drinks" blooming
board" "transients,' referring to hotel
accommodation, used as early as 1909
in a permission given b. the selectmen
of Boston; fire ward" fix" stormy"
in the Boston sense of rainy, cloudy
but not necessarily Implying wind:
blanks" in the sense of 'blank FORMS"
limbs applied to both arms and legs
and described as being peculiar: de
preciating currency" "fuctuating cur
rency," and promoter" claimed by
the speaker to have been first intro
duced in a treatise on finance by Dr.
Douglas; Boston brown bread" first
used in 1746 in description of a baked
mixture of rye or wheat with Indian
meal; assortment" replacing an orig
inal sentiment; the use of the store"
| for shop" goodies" factory" for
mandatory" in 1857; also in the 'ev-
| dictionary and post-revolutionaryp period
various phrases, including "continmtal
| congress- Mr.. Ernst described block"
and police as terms originating in
Boston, saying that the police were
thus named here long Before the term
was applied to them in England He
| held that "bindery" was coined ir Bos-
| ton; also that the telephone hello"
went from here to all parts of the world.
"Teamster' was Boston coined. 81 was
"bicycler." Democrat had its )rigin
in Philadelphia in 1898 and wa first
used to describe a party policy Il Bos-
ton in 1904.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10

riches. but to find protection and security
In it's granite cell, and with its light
cleaning at night, no better Imitation of
human miner can be imagined.
Almost as remarkable is the mygellus.
The pholas Is encased in a shell almost
flint, but the mygellus Is very delicate and
in all probability forms its tunnel with
the aid of some dissolvng secretion. 1t
peretrates the rock or object which 1t Sc
lects. and gradually throws out a tiny
tube, which is merely an extension of the
shell. In some instances this tube is a
foot in length, and a marvellous example
of the tubemakers art. 1t is said that a
distinguished engineer obtained his Idea
of tunnel from this shell.
These shell miners are not especially
destructive. They bore slowly and US
ually attack stone, but there are other
miners which are inveterate enemies of
man in their efforts to destroy wharves,
piers and vessels chief among which is
a little crab-like creature, limnoria, that
affects piers and bores into the hardest
lumber penetrating 1t in every direction
until 1t presents the appearance of hon
eycomb So persistent are these miners
Oh the California coast that it is neces-
sary to repair docks and piers once or
twice year.
In tropical waters an equally destruct-
i've ocean miner Is found in the teredo
that penetrates the hulls of vessels and
wood work of all kinds. AS 1t proceeds
1t incases its tube in a limelike secretion
and in some instances the entire frame
work is eaten away and replaced by the
pearly deposits of this miner, that con-
structs tube as carefully devised as the
arch of the human miner.
A wreck stranded on coral reef, so
high and dry that one could walk around
it at low tide. showed the beams and
pianks intact in many places, but the
hand could be thrust through the appar-
emily solid planking in any direction, the
structure crushing in like pasteboard.
The interior wood had been eaten away
and replaced by the limestone tubes of
this remarkable miner.
Among the worms are many singular
miners that construct elaborate tubes ten
or fifteen feet in length, and have lights
upon their bodies with which to illumi-
nate the tunnel Nearly all the crabs are
miners and OF very skillful class, espe-
cialy the spirit crabs, which mine in soft
sand and by their careful manipulation
prove their wonderful skill in mining.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
TO ADVERTISERS,
MONDAY, JULY 10, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Kipling on the Americans.

~UDYARD KIPLING has been
N talking about the American
~ people again. He criticises them
severely, he fairly roasts them for what
he conceives to be their many glarng
1mperfections. Hear him go on in his
strong, rugged English: my heart
has gone out to them beyond all other
peoples, and for the life of me l can
not tell why. They are bleeding-raw
at the edges, almost more cenceited
than the English, vulgar with mas
sive vulgarity which is as though the
Pyramids were coated with Christmas
cake sugar works. Cocksure they are,
lawless, and as casual as they are
cocksure; but l love them. I admit
everything. Their governments pro-
visional, their laws the notion of the
moment; their railways are made of
hair pins and match sticks, and most
of their good luck lives in their woods
and mines and rivers, and not in their
brains: but for all that, they they be
the biggest, finest and best people on
the surface of the globe! Just you
wait a hundred years and see how
they'll behave when they've had the
screw put on them and have forgotten
a few of the patriarchial teachings of
the late Mr.. George Washington"
For the sake of lending point and
vividness to his remarks, Kipling ex-
aggerates. 1t is nonsense to say that
the success of successful Americans is
Of 1ttcl ~ h,aiy
Nor are the American people as class
so fundamentally vulgar as Kiplng
would make them out to be. To writers
who luxuriate in striking, vigorous
rhetoric, exaggeration is permissible
when it is made apparent that it is
exaggeration. 1t is plain enough to
Americans that Kipling has magnified
their faults out of all reason, but his
European readers may not be able to
detect the Misrepresentation. How
ever, it is pleasant to be assured that
with all our faults Kipling loves us
still and that his faith in Americas
glorious destiny is unbounded
Mr.. Kipling declares that there is
nothing known to man which the
American of the future will not be.
land his country will sway the world
with one foot as a man tits a seesaw
plank! You wait and see Sixty mil
lion people, chiefly of English instincts
who are trained from youth to believe
that nothing is impossible, don't stink
through the centuries like Russian
peasantry. They are bound to leave
their mark somewhere, and don't you
forget it."
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
Midsummer Products.

II is amusing at this distance, where
we are free from the plague, to read
of the CONSERVATION in the East
caused by the kissing bug" With the
possible exceptions of Dreyfus and AL
ger he is the most talled-of creature
of the midsummer. He Us discussed
from every point of view. The grave
and reverend New York Evening Post
brings all its logic and erudition to
Herald makes him the subject of scien-
tiic dissertations. The resources of
literature are exhausted to do him jus
tlce. Poets are singing of him, ply
sicians are dissecting him, victims are
damning him. The precautions that
people, more especially pretty girls, are
taking to prevent the kissing bugs at
lacks are said to be many and varied.
! The most successful idea up to this
time is reported by the Baltimore
| News. An ingenious girl of that city,
| who is willing TO undergo almost any
| thing rather than appear with her lips
swelied to unreCognizable proportions
| by the bite of a nasty bug, messages
her face nightly with cold cream, and
then puts on her brothers baseball
! mask. Over all she Grapes a chiffon
veil. How well she sleeps is not stated,
! If uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown, how much more so must rest
one wearing a baseball mask that is a
! few sizes too large. 1t is an heroic
remedy, but to the average girl any
thing is better than going around with
! lips swelled to the size of a hubbard
| squash.
! The seasons crop of sea serpents
seems to be below the average-we dc
not remember when the visible supply
of sea serpents has been so low. Land
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
NEW WAY OF ADVERTISING.
Personally Conducted Method Employed
by Ingenious Southerner.

by Ingenious SOuthorner.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Most people believe that advertising is
paying investment and the different ruses
to which some people resort as means
of skillful advertising are both unique ana
amusing. One enterprising young woman
who for a number of seasons has toured
the Gulf coast furnishing entertainment
in the elocution line to guests at the
most pretentious hotels has adopted a
little method of her own. On a certain
bright morning, when merry party were
seated on the porch of the pretty cottage
which was our possession for the SUMMER,
a girl of very natty appearance, quite
pretty and sprightly, passed. accompanied
by tall, good-looking man of an age
which might denote his being her father.
The usual comment of their being
strangers was noted, likewise the attract
i've appearance of the girl in question,
and then our former conversation was re-
stunned. Very shortly afterward the cou-
pie again approached, walking rather
leisurely, and when the gate was reached
the girl entered without celebrating and
coming over to where several Of us were
seated apart from the rest, remarked in
rather calm manner that she would like
to catch bug which she felt sure was
crawling down her back. Her request was
instantly and cheerfuly granted, our
sympathy DelnS largely extended IN mere
contemplation of such frightful predic-
ament, hurrying with her into the very
first room However, a careful search for
the offending creature failed to bring
forth result-or bug.
well, 1t must have escaped" she said
lightly, and closely followed this up with
the remark that she intended giving an
entertainment that evening at the B. no.
tel. Posters would be out at once; just a
little delay in the matter, but an excel
lent programme; have met with the most
fiattering success everywhere; encourag-
ing press notices: fine and apprecative
audiences, etc. "Oh, no; not from New Or
leans-Georgia. Yes; I'm a Georgia girl
and have been conducting this line Of
work couple of seasons"
Continuing upon this trend of self-ad-
vertisement in a bright, rafting sort of
way. interspersing her remarks with a
few items of personality. she finally turn
ed to leave, hoping we all would be sure
to attend.
"Only % cents" she added, sweetly and
then as she reioined the patient old gen.
tieman, who all this time stood little
aside--after quick exchange of glances--
nothing of any consequence, papa; 1t
must have been PIN"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10

= yHILE the nations profess
w sors and schoolmarmz are
seeking edification and en-
joyment at Los Angeles, the
Brooklyn board of educati ton proposes
the establishment of new type of
high school for girls, which is likely to
attract wide attention. 1t is prop )sed
that the new high school shall teach it's
pupils only the ordinary English
branches, emitting all other studies
which, while they fit girls for profess
sional pursuits, do not fit them in any
way for the common every day work of
the average American woman. They
will be taught, instead, the use of all
kinds of light machinery used in man
ufacturing establishments, and of such
common tools as housekeeping women
have constantly to use. And they will
be given a thorough knowledge of
foods. cookery and of sanitary science
as applied to keeping homes clean and
healthy. Gardening will also be taught
to them. SO that they will know how to
plant and raise common vegetables
and flowers. 1t is proposed, for this
purpose, to locate the school in some
suburban section of the city, with
ample grounds for gardening work In
cidentally, the care of common farm
animals, cows, hens and poultry gen.
orally will also be a subject of instruc-
ton. In fact it would seem to be
modification of Bozeman's College CT
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
Alger and Popular Elections.

From the Omaha World-Herald.
Mr.. Alger, after spending the peoples
time in looking for another job for him
self, informs us that he would really like
to see United States senators elected by
direct vote of the people. But he intimates
that this method of electing senators
should not obtain until after the Michi-
gan legislature has elected him. Long ex-
perience has taught Mr.. Alger that it Is
much easier to purchase legislat ure or a
political convention than it is to purchase
an entire people. Mr.. Alger should con-
graduate himself upon the fact that Sec
retaries of war are not elected by direct
vote of the people.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10

IT has been figured out in Washington
that the cost of the Spanish war,
including what we paid for the
Philippine islands and all expenses on
account of the war, from the prepara-
tions begun in March. 1898, TO June 80,
1899. has been $3.50. 500 600 There are
still some war contracts which have not
been liquidated, and several millions in
gold will be paid to the western volun-
teers when they return to San Fran
cisco from the Philippines during this
month and next, but it is announced
that the war expenditures have now
been brought well within the proceeds
of the war taxes, and there will be no
deficit created in the treasury accounts,
even by the hard fighting which is like
ly to take place in the Philippines in
the autumn.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
Work Get No Share.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Relying on the tariff duty for protection
the tin plate trust has made exclusive
contracts with the manufacturers of black
plates (used for tinning) in order to break
down all opposition from independent
competitors who do not manufacture
black plates for themselves. Having mo-
nopolized the business, the trust now feels
itself in a position to deal as it may
choose with its workmen. Though the
prices of tin plate have been nearly dou-
bled, when the workers asked for in
creased pay the doors of the factories are
shut in their faces and they are told to go
hang!
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
Lame Defense of Trusts.

From the Portland Oregonian.
Because thieves sometimes steal from
each other is no excuse for outlawry. Be
cause cutthroats sometimes kill each other
affords no palliation for murder. And it is
no defense of trusts that they sometimes
come to grief through the operation of
natural causes. 1t is rather evidence of
their error. And when trusts fortify
themselves against the operations of nat
ural law and guard with shrewd devices
against the possibilities of an unlucky
chance the law should be invoked against
them. Competition should be free and
trade should be fair.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
A Setback to Municipalization.

~ He decision of the supreme court
of Michigan setting aside as un-
constitutional law contemplat-
ing the purchase and ownership by the
city of Detroit Of all the street rail-
roads within her limits, has taken the
Detroiters by surprise. The Detroit
Tribune ventures the opinion that the
court feared the tendency to social
ism" The Tribune says that when
the case was taken to the supreme
court we expressed the opinion that the
decision of the judges would be infiu-
enced almost wholly by their personal
prejudices and opinions in respect to
the general economic wisdom of munic-
ipal ownership. There were few If any
presidents for the guidance of the
court; the alleged parallel cases cited by