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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17

In calling upon the president last week
General Fl. G. Otis wore the white duck
uniform he used in the Philippines.
~!
F. w. Collins OF Denver has presented
to the Colorado Historical society the
original deed buckingham Young's MILL
the first erected in7Utah.
Mrs. Southwck Guthrie Of Washington
is a great-granddaughte of Betsy Ross
She remembers her ancestress, who died
when she was years old.
The queen of Portugal is engaged in
the work of translating Hamlet into
Portuguese. She is good English schol-
a" and great admirer of Shakespeare.
On July 4, 1S4S, General Robert Bullock
of Ocala, Fla, read the Declaration of
Independence at the local celebration
Last Tuesday he again read it in as firm
a voice as 81 years before.
Associate Justice Monroe of the Louis
Vile supreme court is heading a move
ment to collect, by 25-cent subscriptions
a sum for the erection in New Orleans of
monument concentrating the achieve
ments of Admiral Dewey.
Miss Grant, the sculptor, whose bust of
Gladstone is attracting so much atten-
ton In England, is a niece of Sir Francis
Grant, former president of the Royal
Academy. Her mother was daughter of
the Lord Elgin who saved the Parthenon
marbles from vandalism at the hands of
the Turks and brought them to England
where they are known by his title.
The library of the late Congressman r.
p. Giles of Missouri, numbering $50 vol
umes of an estimated average cost of 81. 80
each, was sold at auction last week for
s11.
Professor Arthur Sherburne Hardy, the
novelist, formerly of Dartmouth college,
eX-minister to Persia and newly appninted
10 the Grecian mission says in a New
York interview that the Persians are
greatly gratifed at the popularity of
Omar Khayyam in England and Amer
lea.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17

In battle one bullet out of IS takes eff
feet.
A copper cent recently was drawn out
into $500 feet of wire,
Aluminium is now used for fireproof cur
tains in theaters.
In 10 years the descendants of two rab-
bits number 10000, 900.
There is only one flock of pure merino
sheep in England
Three out of every 1876 English speaking
persons have red hair.
The number of penniless men in the
klondike is placed at 5000.
The United States coast and geodetc
survey has sounded and prepared charts
of 164, 600 square miles of sea.
Boston banks paid out 500, 900 900 in divi-
dends on July l. New York banks are
said to have paid 10 times that. All
A capital of $50 100000 is now engaged
and $4,000 people are employed in the va
rious clipping bureaus of the world.
The remarkable memory of Charles
Dorr of San Francisco enables him to re-
cite verbatim almost any play he has
seen.
Only in New York Buffalo, Yonkers,
Boston, Chicago, Brookline, Mass. Prov
idence, Philadelphia and Worcester are
public baths maintained
The death rate of the French colonial
army Is 1878 per 1000 year. In Madagas-
car it is 1881 per 1000 and in West Afri-
ca 1911 per 1000.
novel steamboat propeller for an Irish
loch is designed not only to drive the YES
sci, but also to destroy the seaweed that
obstructs an ordinary propeller.
Smoking goes in the Philippines every
where but in church. Even your cab driver
will offer you a cigar if you are not smoA-
ing and he thinks you have none.
The average speed of a carrier pigeon
in calm weather is 200 yards a minute
With a strong wind in the direction of
flight some pigeons have covered 1900
yards a minute.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
England Feels the Pressure.

I ATE reports from England indi-
cate unmistakably that financial
pressure is being felt in that
country as a result of the heavy and
continuous exports of gold. In order
to protect it's reserves the bank rate
has been raised from to 81 per cent.
Az is being charged for short advances.
and the Statist strongly suggests the
possibility of a s per cent rate in the
near future, also intimating the proba-
bility of higher rates in Germany than
last year.
This brings up again the oft-quoted
smile of Bismarck in which he likened
the gold standard to the too-small
blanket. The trouble in England and
possible stringency in Germany are ow-
ing to the fact that the gold standard
blanket is too small to cover so MANY
nations. There is a constant pulling
and hauling for the insufficient supply
of International money, and distress an
pears first in one country and then in
another. AS long ago as 1875 Professor
Jevons, one of the very ablest of Eng
lands financial writer's, while favoriny
the gold standard for that country, dis
tinctly recognized the fact that Its
adoption by the world at large would
be most unfortunate and cause no end
of financial distress through the greatly
increased demand for gold. In the
struggle that was precipitated by the
decentralization of silver in the United
Stotn
England has occupied a strongly ad-
vantageous position in that she was
the great creditor nation of the world
This has enabled her easily to MAIN
tain her gold reserves, and replentsh
them whenever necessary by simply
calling in her loans to other countries
and refusing to make more except at
rates higher than could be paid by
would-be borrowers.
This, however, was merely an advan-
tage to the money-lending class, and it
is manifest that there is point beyond
which the advantage can be main
tanned only by very few of the great
est creditors. if, indeed, by any at all.
Creditors as a class cannot afford to
ruin debtors as a class. The tendency
of the decentralization of silver, which
was simply a change of the standard
by which payments We're to be made,
was to injure those in debt and all hay-
ing fixed charges to meet, by compelling
them to pay in money of greater and
Increasing value. The result was a ire
mendous and continued fall of
prices, because when money rises in
value the things which money ex-
changes for necessarily fall This
means ruin to the producer and, in
many cases, to the merchant whose
goods shrink in value on his hands.
This has been the prevailing condi-
ton since 1873 and until a slight upward
movement of prices began about a wear
and a half ago. Industriany. England
has suffered more than any other great
commercial nation, because she had in
terests that We're peculiarly and dis
tressingly affected. Without entering
into details at this time it may be said
that she practically lost her export
trade in certain goods TO silver-usins
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
TO ADVERTISERS.
MONDAY, JULY II, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
A NebraSkan's Views,

n NE of the republicans in congress
~ who are not in favor of a law
liking the gold standard on the
United States is Senator Thurston of
Nebraska. This gentleman has lately
given out word to the effect that he ha
about made up his mind that he will
close his career in the senate with The
expiration of his present term.
In Washington one day last week.
senator Thurston gave to a newspaper
reporter his views in regard to the pro-
posed legislation that has been hatch
ing this summer at Narragansett Pier
where group of republican congress-
men has been arranging single-go' d.
standard measure. The senator dealt
rather with next years republican
platform than with the proposed legis-
lation of next winter; he insisted that
the proposed legislation is not a good
thing to carry to the polls in the next
presidential election.
"'Of course" remarked the senator.
knowing that the republican party will
do what Hanna orders, 'of course the
advocates of the single-gold- standard
declaration will have the votes in the
convention to accomplish their purpose >
iif they are disposed to force the issue
THE eastern states have a large repre-
sentation in the convention, and we
know that the colored delegates can
be won over. At the same time, / do
mot see the necessity for such action
There are in the West a considerable
number of republicans who held mod
crate silver views in 1896, and who still
fhold those views. Not only would it be
unwise to ALLEVIATE these republicans,
but there is no reason financially why
the step should be taken"
Senator Thurston evidently wants
the party bosses to let him and others
down easier than is proposed. He re-
minded the Washington reporter that,
tnhree years ago, particularly in parts
of the country where the republicans
Thought that sort of talk would do
urged on the stump" He added that
The pledge of the republican party was
TO promote bimetallism"; he declared
that reasonable efforts in carrying out
that pledge certainly had not been ex-
thausted"; on the contrary, he insists
THAT, on the present showing in Europe,
'the case ought to be regarded as good
deal more hopeful than has hitherto
been the case.
In his own words, Senator Thurston
would like to have the republican
party remain in an attitude where it
can consistently urge bimetallsm and
honestly try for it in the future" 9th
er republicans have wanted their party
TO do that thing, but the republican
party has steadfastly advanced to the
single gold standard and Mr. Thurs
ton is one of the men who has made
up his mind that his wish is an idle
one-he says in his interview that while
the proposed legislation will probably
not be passed this winter, he looks to
see a gold-standard plank in the next
republican platform
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
1t Catches EN- All,

From the Brooklyn Eagle
AS Queen Victoria is opposed alike to
womans suffrage and to any divorce for
any cause, the praise of her the other day
by some of the women of the international
something or other was both surprising
and magnanimous. The dear dears dearly
love titles and splendor and the white
light that beats on a throne and all that
sort of thing, after all.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
Current Comment.
With Us It's Different,

From the Chicago News.
General Corbin has issued an order still
more completely tightening the censor
ship of the press in regard to war news
If the British government should put in
practice as strict rules limiting the trans
mission af war news from Egypt or Inuia
as are in force against press dispatches
from Manila to the United States, it would
cause row in the house of commons in a
day
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
Too Thrifty to Live.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
The Nebraska man who dug up the old
coffin in which his brother had been in
TERED. and buried his sister in it, ought
to carry his passion a step further and
die to save the expense of living.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
A Guide- Book Wanted,

From the Louisville Courier Journal
Mr.. Bryan declined to accept an invita-
tioE to democratic dinner in New York
unless he could dictate what other guests
should be present. Mr.. Hogg accepted
an invitation to the Tammany powwow
and made a speech knocking out Tam
many's candidate for president. When
does that book on 16 to l etiquette APP
pear?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
What AIger Won't See.

From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
Now that the president consults Gov
ernor Roosevelt ON war matters Mr.. AL
ger might see. were he not so in love with
his office, that his presence is not essen
tiai at the cabinet board.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
What Depew Doesn't Know.

From the st. Paul Globe.
Senator Depew announces that the rail-
roads of this country are but little I'M
derstood. But then Senator Depew never
unsuccessfuily angled for a pass.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
New Pile Driver.

From the Engineer
A new and expeditions method of
driving piles is described in the instruc-
lions for the Russian Engineer Corps
On two sides of the pile to be driven
are made longitudinal groves of suffi-
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A novel steamboat propeller for an Irish
loch is designed not only to drive the YES
sci, but also to destroy the seaweed that
obstructs an ordinary propeller.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17

Smoking goes in the Philippines every
where but in church Even your cab driver
will offer you cigar if you are not smoA-
ing and he thinks you have none.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
The ANACONDA STANDARD

STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors.
Printed Every Day in the Year.
Entered at the postoffice at Anaconda as
second class mail matter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
Personal Notes.

In calling upon the president last week
General Fl. G. Otis wore the white duck
uniform he used in the Philippines.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17

The average speed of a carrier pigeon
in calm weather is 200 yards a minute.
With a strong wind in the direction of
flight some pigeons have covered 1900
yards a minute
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17

The death rate of the French colonial
army Is 1913 per 1000 a year. In Madagas-
car it is 1881 per 1000 and in West Afri-
ca 1911 per 1,000
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
All Sorts.

In battle one bullet out of IS takes eff
feet.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12
The singer Not the sony.

The sentiment of familiar song Is
as fully expressed by the music as by
the words. In the singing Of the ma
tional anthem by mixed crowd. for
example. 1t Is surprising how few of
the singers know the words Of the
songs that they are singing, and how
well those who do not can get on with
out them. The most of the people in
the crowd sing the words of from two
TO half dozen lines. and then they
go on with "Ah. lum tum tum. lum
tum tum." for the rest Of the way. and
their fervor is in nowise abated by
the loss Of coherency in the lines. 1t
illustrates that words are not the only
means Of expressing thoughts. The
details Of the poets reasoning are Of
small consequence to the average sing
err. What he has in his mind is patri-
otto enthusiasm. and. given a stirring
air. he can pour 1t out just as well
through incoherent syllables as through
logically arranged stanzas. When the
orchestra of theater plays Hail. Co
lumbia.' the whole audience applauds
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12
A Sagaci,.u. Eleph mt.

G. l.. Peal states that he once saw a
young elephant deliberately fashion a
surgical instrument. He saw the ami
nal in question go TO a bamboo fence
and break off one Of the pckets: this
picket 1t further fractured with its
trunk and one of It's fore feet until 1t
obtained sharp fragment some ten or
twelve inches in length. Then. leaning
forward on one of its forelegs. it thrust
this fragment, which IL grasped with
its trunk. into its "armpit," and Wig
orous!y moved it to and fro. AS re-
suit Of this operation large elephant
leech was dislodged. which dropped TO
the ground and was al once ground to
m!ncemeat beneath the horny toes Of
the sagacious brute. which grunted its
intense satisfaction.
Jessie, the elephant mentioned above.
had some knowledge of pneumatics.
One day l tossed Il peanut. which fell
to the ground some eight or ten inches
beyond the utmost reach Of her trunk.
She stretched out this organ to its full
est extent toward the peanut, then
blew through 1t sudden. quick and
powerful blast. The peanut was hurled
against the wall, whence 1t bounded
and then rolled beneath the feet of the
intelligent animal. which Mt once swal-
lowed. l tried this experiment several
times. each time with like result
Scientific American.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12

SWANSON'S "5 DROPS" is the sun
of the sick room. 1t has saved the pull
lie, in less than FIVE years, more money
than the national debt Of this country,
when you measure the value of health re-
stored, suffering humanity relieved OF its
agonies and diseases. Money which 9TH
erwise would have been expended in fun
erals. doctors and drug bills, loss of labor,
etc.
SWANSON'S .'5 DROPS" never fails
10 cure. 1t has cured and is curing mill
ions of people afflicted with ACUTE and
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, SCIAT-
ICA, NEURALGIA, ASTHMA. LA
GRIPPE and CATARRH OF all kinds.
% DROPS" has never failed to cure
these diseases, when used as directed. 1t
will cure You. Try it. Price of large
sized bottle $1.00, sent on receipt of price.
charges prepaid; 25-cent sample bottle
sent free. on receipt of 10 cents to pay
for mailing. Agents wanted. SWAN
SONS RHEUMATIC CURE COM
PANY, No. 164 Lake street, Chicago, LII.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12
Liberal Host.

Stories of the generosity or Judge
Poland Of Vermont are constantly COM
ing to light. One Of the prettiest is abcIr1
an old farmer, whom the Judge iavft-
ed to dine with him one day at the hotel
in Lyndon, VT.
The old mans shabby garments and
uncouth manners did not prevent his
host from being heartily glad TO see
him. and he was ushered into the din
ing-room with all the Difference that
could have been shown the Judged
most distinguished friend.
1t was the farmers first experience
at hotel. and when the waiter laid the
menu card before him he asked anick-
~. What's thatT'
THE bill of fare. sir" replied che
waiter.
Take 1t away" said the Old lnxn.
with n hook of triumph on his brown
face. Judge Poland isn't the sort that
invites folks and then lets 'em pay
their own bills. I've known him, hoy
and man. young Teller. Perhaps E0n
didn't know I'm a-vis'ting Judge P0-
land to-day"
The waiter bowed with the aspect or
q craven image, but the Judge and his
guest smiled at each other in mutual
friendliness and pleasure, and then the
Judge proceeded to order for two.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12


Whence do they Gomez What may their
The fitting, flashing phantoms of the
mind I;i sr fa
That half awake and half in dream we
see: ,5t
That never can be captured or dcfnedy
They hint at something lost. something
desired.
Something whose ownership would
make us glad
Perhaps at thoughts with subtle meaning
fred.
Or truths unrecognized because unclad.
They may be glints OF half-forgortcn
dreams.
They may be memories long buried
deep.
That from their ashes give out 6tful
CLEANS
Before they sink to their long ina!
sleep.
Perhaps electric lines from other brain
Are tapped and flashed by crossing with
our own.
Perhaps some floating shreds or bits re-
main
or former life that we somewhere have
known.
Perhaps they are the signals loved ones
send
Who wait our coming on the other
shore:
Too spiritual with earthly sense to
blend.
Too finely soft to fully pierce ife's
roar.
Perhaps! Perhaps! Conjectures cannot
teach!
We clutch at shadows and we grasp the
air!
The mystery is aye beyond our reach
An ignis fatuus no art can snare.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12

- ~Dyus.9 IS 91i9aoer have late
b - ~ Hsctk b54H Ameflchn pub
IluAar. dsnlEneA to nike the place Of
cAxisflnn hynns with those who have
seen 81 % give up the worship of the
eAznth~ bsf Who still feel a reverent
sptf1k
ms .hsly that the language Of these
hynnn win reutrict their use to linn
i1ra cirr3k- Here are specimen stanzas.
Wiki we anA reprinted In an ex-
chslDE-
Usfsy or Natures fnws.<,N
Cossair order. without laws.
In - all thy power 'stirs.
XoE.n etern Of slir design,
O GAssy o. tha uniserses
Sweet Nirvnna. ~ .-.;t -
Highest 1hapas N-S 'r
nap<n~ swey4sr than siI pleasures.
Thss TIN Hat31pnre Of al measures,
TAna the tr&hsnre IT all treasures,
o Snnssrtsi Euddhahood!
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12
Firss-C,ass su,r.or Clothes for $500

For those VINO are accustomed to send
ing away from home for their goods i.
is Of the greatest Importance to know the
character and reliability of the establish
ments selling goods to families from cat
alogues. The great emporium of the
John NJ. Smyth Co., located at $50 to 1Gs
West Madison street, Chicago. has beer
established for third Of century. and
has furnished over half a million homes
in Chicago and vicinity alone. This firm
enjoys the confidence Of the public by it's
many years Of fair dealing. 1t issues an
immense illustrated catalogue that should
be in every family, as it describes and
gives the price Of every article required
for household use. A sample Of the ex-
traordinary values offered by this firm is
shown in the illustration of the gentle
mems suit of clothes at 500 in another
column of this paper. These suits are in
deed wonderful values, and yet they are
but sample OF the thousand and one
useful articles illustrated and described
in the beautiful catalogue OF the John N.
Smyth Company
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12
Costly Pines.

Muzaffer-edDin Mira. the Shahin-
shah king Of Kings) who reigns over
the kingdom Of Persia. owns the most
expensive pipe in the world. The Kali
ian. or pipe Of state. which he owns and
smokes on imperial occasions, is valued
at 100000 and is set with diamonds,
rubies and emeralds of the costliest
kind. Not only are the mouthpiece and
the upper and lower portions Of the
snake-like tank of pure gold. ename!ed
and set with the finest gems. but the
water bowl and pipe bowl are equally
splendid and rich with lavish jewel
work. The Prince of Wales visited the
Sultan of Turkey In 1862. and was in
vited by the Sultan to smoke narghile
which was inlaid with diamonds (yal-
ued at $15.000). and which was given
to the Prince as souvenir Of his visit.
A pipe made wholly of meerschaum
and amber for Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria cost $4,000.