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Gentlemen who are now raising
money for steamer fare to Alaska will
flo well 1o remember that the walking
will not be good coming back
Down at Atlantic City the other day
c New York man announced that be
-was about to burn up the ocean For
tunately he was arrested before he did
It
The London Globe says that the Japs
tan easily whip the United States but
H evidently underestimates the fight
ing abilities of the Yankees as John
Bull has done on two previous occa
sions to his own sorrow
A New York woman 32 years of age
was arrested on a Chicago street for
wearing male attire She explained
that she had worn the same garb for
-pears in Gotham and couldnt see
why these Western towns should bo
so particular It is queer
The St Louis Republic remarks edi
torially We can whip Spain We
can wbip Japan and we can whip En
gland too Well if it comes to the
worst it is a sweetly solemn thought
that a St Louis paper stands ready to
lick all of Uncle Sams enemies at a
moments notice
Atlanta Journal Lynchings in Geor
gia will never be suppressed by en
couraging the mob to believe that they
es vindicators of justice are superior
to the law or by encouraging judges
of the superior courts to yield to the
fleinand of mobs and trying men where
prejudice is overwhelmingly against
them
Mrs Charlotte Smith the profession
al reformer who is helping to make
Boston truly good will ask Congress
to appropriate enough money to send
100000 unmarried women to Alaska
How delightful That ought to be a
great place for ice cream the year
around if somebody would furnish tho
cream
A poor miner in Pennsylvania is said
to have fallen heir to 75000 by the
death of an uncle who came to him
In the disguise of a tramp and was
kindly received This story reads as
though it had been written by some
W illiani Whiskers with a fancy for
tales of imagination and a desire to
have his kind treated well by those
whom they would in the future solicit
tor handouts
Boston rejected Bacchante because
3n the excess of his artistic emotion
Sculptor Macinonnies utterly overlook
ed the trifling detail of clothes Now a
entrsttute for the brazen beauty has
been found Boston is ready to adopt
Sculptor Mirandas draped figure rep
resenting the Spirit of Research If
the current newspaper illustrations are
correct the new figure looks like a
Boston spinster with a tablecloth over
her head and in hysteric over the ap
proach of a mouse
When the Venezuelan cowboy wishes
to catch a bull or cow for branding
or for any purpose he rides alongside
It and with horse and bovine on the
dead run stoops from his saddle
grasps the creatures tail and with a
sharp peculiar twist sends the animal
rolling on its back From the force
with which it falls the creatures horns
almost invariably pin its head to the
ground giving the vaquero time to dis
mount and sit on its head holding tie
animal helpless to rise while a com
panion ties its legs
Some things may be done better in
Canada than in this country For ex
ample there is the gold commissioner
He sits on the case on the ground
where the dispute arises hears evi
dence while the witnesses are yet alive
and available uses his own common
tense and good judgment and renders
his decision in time for the legal owner
to work his claim next day The
chances are ten to one that the gold
commissioner gives better satisfaction
generally in a mining camp than could
any poking process of appeal
The author of a work called The
Gold Standard has raised his voice
In protest against the action of a Sen
ator who incorporated the entire text
of the volume in a speech he made and
Siad it reprinted in the Congressional
Record It is now being distributed
free of charge to the constituents of
the Senator and others The author
lias a clear case against the Senator
under thp copyright law if he wishes
to prosecute it This is not the first
time that Congressmen have done this
thing but this man is the first to pro
test against it It is a piece of high
handed piracy
Twenty five years ago scientists pre
dicted that abundant coal fields would
3e found on both sides of the British
channel and the predictions have been
fulfilled Besides the great Kentish
fields discovered several years ago and
yielding bountifully ever since im
mense tracts of coal have been recently
-found between Calais and Cape Gris
mez The French discoveries were the
result of those in England geologists
items sure that the same belt of coal
extended under the water from one
country to the other This last discov
ery is of the greatest importance to in
dustrial France
The announcement is made that
ceven convicts in the Kings County
penitentiary New York have gone In--pane
and that two more are upon tho
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verge of insanity This is not sup
prising considering the fact that un
der the law of that State it is prohib
fted to employ the convicts in any gain
fill labor The wonder is that the pen
itentiaries of New York are not all full
of lunatics Imprisonment under such
a law is inhuman It is a retrograde
step and it cannot but result shame
fully for the State No power has the
right to drive even its convicts insane
and that is the tendency of this law
The New Orleans Times Democrat is
trying to ascertain by letter how the
various newspapers of the country look
upon the old problem of the govern
ment ownership of the telegraph It
appears from the Times Democrats in
quiry that it is prompted by the fact
that most of the telegraph stations in
the South are closed by G p m and
that it finds trouble in securing news
by wire unless its order is in long be
fore that hour which of course is not
always possible If the telegraph in
the hands of a corporation does not find
it profitable to keep its offices open for
the transmission cf news matter or any
other messages it is not likely that the
government controlling the wires
would find any profit in it either
As the cry in 1S57 59 Avas Pikes
Peak or bust so now the argonauts
are yelling Ho for the Yukon The
rush of the enthusiasts continues and
the vessels at the Pacific coast points
are not able to accommodate the
crowds desiring to take passage Some
men even propose to make part of the
journey to Sitka on foot It is not like
ly that they will actually make this
journey or if they do that they will be
heard of again A St Louis man pro
poses to go to the diggings in a balloon
and he is not less wise than many who
are starting for the gold fields by other
means Hundreds of those who are
going to the Klondyke region are to
tally unfitted for life under the circum
stances they will encounter there The
hardships there are intolerable almost
and the chances of fortune decidedly
against the tenderfoot
Americans need not think that they
are the only people who have made
the bicycle popular The London Cy
cle a trade journal has made a com
putation of the capital invested in the
manufacture of wheels and the annual
expenditure of cyclists and the result
is some astonishing figures It esti
mates that no less that 16500000 are
invested in the making of various parts
of the bicycle in the S00000 wheels
now in use in agencies depots repair
ers the manufacture of bells lamps
and saddles clothing shoes and the
keeping up of race tracks clubs and
riding academies The annual ex
penditures are placed at 12500000
If these figures are even approximately
correct there must be about 5000000
a month expended in Great Britain on
account of the bicycle As a great deal
of this is spent by people of moderate
means there must be somewhere a
consequent falling off in expenditures
for other things Indeed shopkeepers
in England like their brothers in
America complain that the bicycle
craze has hurt business
Readers of Scotts Anne of Gier
stein will remember the description
there of Pilatus the grim Alp to
which say the legends Pontius Pilate
retired after the trial of our Savior
and there took his life It is so often
swathed in mists that its passage is ex
tremely perilous The book opens by
describing the dangerous trip of somo
travelers across its face The moun
tain has always had a fascination foi
tourists both on account of the le
gends surrounding it and because ol
the peril to be encountered there II
claims its victims every year and the
cable has brought the news of the ad
venture of a young woman tourist
which ended in her death Spurred on
by the boasts of some friends who had
descended the mountain by means of
the Heitertannli a very dangerous pas
sage she too attempted to make her
way but lost her footing and was
dashed to death A fortnight before a
man had been killed at the very same
spot She knew of this catastrophe
but it did not deter her from making
the attempt The long list of Swiss
fatalities is not sufficient to keep tour
ists from trying the race with death
every year The wonder is that the
careful Swiss government does not
take some steps to prevent such fool
hardiness
The New York Times prints a very
serious editorial article objecting to
the quality of English used by the re
porters of baseball games and it quotes
from a contemporary to show how un
intelligible and vulgar the language in
such accounts is This is an old com
plaint and one which time has done
nothing to rectify There have been
frequent efforts to simplify and purify
base ball English but they have failed
The readers of the base ball column do
not want to read intelligible English
That is all there is to it If the report
of a ball game were written in ordinary
English the base ball crank would not
understand it The same is true of all
sports The racing men the golf en
thusiast the bicycle crank the 3achts
man each has his own vernacular n
which he insists that the report of his
particular sport be written Tliis is
of course all Greek to the average
newspaper reader but so too would b
the game itself and so long as the nieu
most interested are satisfied what aw
the odds The plea that the language
is being corrupted has long since been
exploded Rather it is being enriched
Every year sees incorporated into oui
coloquia1 tongue and our written words
expressions owing their existence to
sporting and other walks of lifewhicb
are both strong and graphic ancfagitf ch
add to the terseness and vigorMour
language and hurl no one
UTAHS BIG JUBILEE
RECENTLY CELEBRATED
SEMI CENTENNIAL
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Fifty Years Ajro Brijjham Younjr the
Mormon Prophet Led Ilia People
Into the Promised Land and Laid
the Foundation of a State
Found ins a State
The people of the State of Utah re
cently completed their big celebration
of the semi centennial anniversary of
the arrival of Brigham Young and his
band of 1160 pioneers in the valley of
the Great Salt Lake Almost a full
week was required to fittingly observe
the great empire building work of Brig
ham Young
It was on July 24 1847 that the pio
neers emerged from the rugged defile
now known as Emigration Canyon and
faced a broad and sunny valley which
sloped gently to the shores of an in
land sea On the east the Wasatch
Mountains and on the south and west
the Oquirrh range made grim walls
about the desert When the pilgrims
had proceeded a little further they saw
a large fresh lake a few miles to tho
south emptying its surplus waters into
the inland sea through a slender river
These odd conditions suggested a strik
ing comparison to Brigham Young who
felt that he was a Moses leading a new
tribe of Israel to a new promised land
The fresh lake was the sea of Tiberias
the salt one the Dead Sea the river
was of course the Jordan This then
was the new Palestine and here the
leader and his followers would build a
new Jerusalem Advancing a few miles
into the valley and halting near the
banks of a roaring brook Brigham
Young struck his staff upon the ground
and exclaimed Here we will rear our
temple in holiness to the Lord
The small party of emigrants who
ended their tiresome and dangerous pil
grimage in the Utah desert fifty years
ago gave but the slightest promise of
founding an enduring State TheyJ
naa come to an and land and possessed
neither canals nor the slighest knowl
edge of the art of irrigation They had
but a scanty store of provisions and a
thousand miles of deserts and moun
tains lay between them and any base
of supplies They had no shelter save
that offered by the canvas coverings
of their crowded wagons and there
were no forests near at hand from
which lumber could be made But they
went to work under the direction of a
masterful leader turning the waters of
a canyon stream upon the hard alkaline
soil and staking the last of their stock
of potatoes on the venture The result
of this desperate beginning is seen in
the Utah of to day
Utah of Today
This latest of American States con
tains nearly 300000 people on the occa
sion of its fiftieth anniversary Of
these less than one third live in large
towns Salt Lake City the metropolis
and capital containing about 00000
and Ogden its cheerful rival about 10
000 More than two thirds of the total
population is dispersed in mining
camps on the stock range and over a
myriad of farms
While Utah owes much of its present
t
farms range from tnree to twenty acres
the smallest of any State in the
Union They are universally devoted
to diversified agriculture and thus ren
der their unmortgaged proprietors ab
solutely self sustaining
In another important respect these
farms differ from those elsewhere
Their owners do not live as a rule
upon the farm acreage but in villages
or home centers These are located at
central points in bodies of 0000 to 10
000 acres The farmers have their
homes on acre lots in these villages
getting from this small area many of
years of political solidarity appears to
be genuine and the people carry on
their discussions with the proverbial
zeai of new converts
HE WAS A BRILLLANT CLERK
How a Virginia Prodigy Gave a 10
Per Cent Discount
I once had a promising bud of genius
in my store down on the James River
said a Virginian to a reporter I keep
a general store there and this bud that
promised to bloom into seven kinds of
a loo loo flower came to me from the
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the things they consume and having
the social advantages of town life to a
considerable degree The church is
also the dance hall and in the remotest
hamlet there is a Sunday night dance
led by the bishop These social ar
rangements have contributed much to
the contentment of the farming popu
lation There has been less tempta
tion for the boys and girls to leave the
soil and go to the large towns than
elsewhere The people live under such
conditions that neither panics strikes
nor wars could seriously menace their
three meals a day
The Mormons are admittedly the
founders of irrigation among Anglo
Saxons Until they made their first
rude canal from City Creek on that
July day in 1S47 men of their race had
never dealt seriously with this indus
try As the pioneers enjoyed a practi
cal equality in the matter of property
their irrigation works were necessarily
built by means of co operative labor
Every man performed his share of the
work and received his proportion of
stock in the company which owned the
canal It was nearly forty years after
the first settlement was made befdre
costly works were built by outside cap
ital and the innovation was not re
garded with favor by the Mormons In
Utah the stores factories and banks
are owned very generally by joint stock
companies consisting of multitudes of
small shareowners
The Mormon Church
After a half century the Mormon
church is still a dominant factor in the
life of Utah In numbers and in wealth
it is of course a far greater church
than it was fifty years ago The prac
tice of polygamy suspended by formal
edict in 1S90 is noAV a tiling of the past
speaking in broad terms But the doc
trine is still religiously held among the
tenets of the church It is doubtless
sincerely believed in by the majority of
the people and is usually more vigor
ously defended by the women than by
the men There are occasional arrests
under the Edmunds Tucker law but
there seems no reason to doubt the
good faith of the church in discounte
nancing the practice
The older generation of Mormons
rule the church but the younger gen
eration rule the State The Governor
the two Senators and one Representa
tive are natives and of Mormon parent
age though Senator Rawlins is said to
be an apostate Contrary to general ex
pectations this fact has not deprived
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THE GREAT MORMON TEMPLE
prosperity fo its mines and will be
even more deeply indebted to this item
of its resources in the future the broad
foundation of its economic life is In its
irrigated soil There are some remark
able facts to be recorded about its 19
81G farms In the first place 17GS4 of
them are absolutely free of all incum
brance The average size of these
farnis is twenty seven acres but as
some large ranches are included in this
estijnate the figure given for the aver
age The typical
him of strong support among the mem
bers of the church not even when he
vigorously attacked the leaders for
using the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in as he once did in the heat of
the campaign The firt Representative
chosen to Congress C E Allen had
been for years a powerful and uncom
promising opponent of the church But
he waselected with the aid or Mormon
votesjfThe twelve apostles are divided
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which has come after forty
far end of Prince George County on
the introduction of a friend of mine
and his who 3aid as he wasnt good
for anything else perhaps he might
be made handy in a store I took him
just to be accommodating of course
and promised to give him a chance to
rise
He was about 19 years old and wrote
poetry between times so I put him to
sweeping out as a starter He could
sweep well enough and after a week
I put him to doing the chores and ad
vised him to study the stock while he
was resting
After about six weeks of this kind of
training I concluded he knew enough
to take charge of my scrap counter
which was a counter where I put all
niy old stuff about every sixty days
with the most of it marked in big fig
ures and with the additional informa
tion to those looking for bargains that
there would be 10 off for cash
Trade was lively the morning I put
him at it and he was doing as well if
not better than the more experienced
clerks for I noticed several people get
ting around his way and getting out
pretty quick with what they had
bought I didnt think much about the
whys and wherefores until the young
fellow came to me at the desk with a
suit of clothes in his hands to ask me to
explain something The suit bore a
large white card inscribed with a big
black S
I dont quite understand this says
he The others I sold were marked
1075 1150 119S 12 and 124S
and it was easy enough to calculate
what 10 off would be and sell them for
75 cents 150 19S 2 and 24S but
Ill be doggoned if I see how youre go
ing to throw 10 off of an S suit un
less you want to give the customer 2
and I reckon you aint that liberal
even at the scrap counter are you
It mighty near gave me a spasm that
did concluded the gentleman and I
put another clerk at my discount coun
ter p d q
Present Decision
If instead of being influenced by a
hazy and undefined feeling -we bring
clear thought to bear upon it we shall
find that the only supreme and final
test of conduct must ever be the convic
tions which we hold at the time
Not whether any other person or the
whole world approve or disapprove nor
even whether we may or may not con
tinue in future years to maintain them
ourselves must be our question but
whether at the present moment we be
lieve in our inmost heart that such a
course is the true and right one to pur
sue
If this be not our guide if any other
voice opposing that of conscience be
obeyed then we act in defiance of our
own moral sense which is plainly the
snapping of character
A Con gressni Jins Horseshoes
Congressman Russell of Connecti
cut has something like a bushel of
horseshoes which he has picked up
Six or eight fine specimens ornament
or disfigure his apartments at the Ham
ilton in Washington and the remainder
of the bushel except a few are stored
in an old box at his home in Killingly
The few which are especially reserved
from the collection in the box are
hanging on the port waist oar which
Russell used to pull a winning stroke
with in the old six oared crew of Yale
College in 73
Lives on Insects
There is a quaint plant which grows
in pea bogs It has large flowers wit
an odd umbrella like shield in the cor
ner The leaves are generally abou
half full of rain water in which man3
insects are drowned Some naturalist
say that the flower lives on the drownec
insects
Uncrowned Rulers
There are many reigning sovereigns
at the present time who have nevei
taken the trouble to be crowned
Among them may be mentioned the
German Emperor the King of Italy
the King of Spain the Queen of Hol
land the King of Bavaria the King ol
Saxony
We do not admire everything Cupid
does but there is no denying his good
taste and sense in dressing
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Come Nancy old horse and keep movinj
I want to get home to my tea
iouve been loann a little improvin
the chance of my dreamin I see
Twas the cold and the moonlight 3
fancy
And tin- snow on the pine and the birch
But theyve sent me back forty year
Nancy
To the sociable down to the church
I remember so plain when I ast her
If I might see her home and shi said
les Caleb By Jinks if Id daster
Id a 5 artinIy stood on my head
And when we walked out there together
Right by my old rival Ike March
My heart was as light as a feather
At the sociable down to the church
Twas i night of the Lords own design-in-
Too good for us mortals below
All still ivith the moonlight a shinin
And the world fast asleep in iw snow
And she well God bless her sh fitted
The scene like an angel whose nerch
Up in heaven had somehow been ipiitted
For a sociable down to the church v
Ah hum I dunno how I said it
But somehow I told her you see
What would seem might v Hat if you reat
it
But meant all creation to me
And theres more in that simple oid story-
Than in ages of study and search
For my lifes been lit up by the glory
From the sociable down to the church
Well Nance Ive been settm here
dreamin
And our journey is pretty nigh through
Theres her lamp in the window a-beam-in-
She knows how I watch for it too
The chief of Gods blessins Im
Is that I wasnt left in the lurch
When I ast her to marry me comiu
From the sociable down to the church
L A W Bulletin
Cubans
The Cubans like the inhabitants off
all the Spanish American States are a
mixed race being the descendants off
the Spanish invaders of the Indian
aborigines with an occasional cross of
negro blood The Spanish soldiers who
conquered the new world in most cases
married Indian women and the de
scendants of the adventurers who ac
companied Cortez Pizarro De Sotov
Almagro Balboa and others inherited
the estates of their fathers so that the
ruling class in Spanish America is al
most without exception of mixed blood
In Cuba the proportion of Spaniards
and descendants of Spaniards is prob
ably larger than in any
can country of the continent for
only was the native population of Cuba
almost entirely exterminated by the
savage conquerors but when tb rev
olutions of 1S20 broke out many -Spaniards
fled from Mexico Central an
South America to Cuba and thus the
Spanish element acquired a prepon
derance in that island which suiiicecc
to retain it after the continental posses
sions had all been lost The insurgenc
bands in Cuba are said to be generally
composed of the mixed Indian an2
Spanish races with a considvrablo
nroportion of negroes and mulattoes
National Wagon Jload
The national road from Sr Loins
to Indianapolis was part of one or the
great systems of roads which befor
the days of the iron horse were pro
jected by the national government to
connect the East and the West Ono
such road was planned to cross the AI
leghenies traverse the Western States
connecting Cincinnati and St Louis by
means of branch roads with all si do
points of importance while other sys
tems connecting Nov York with -
delphia Washington and the South
Considerable progress was made or
these roads before the invention of the
railroad but after the tramway systems
was found to be practicable work ora
the national roads was almost aban
doned and these highways were as a
matter of fact turned over to the Stat
and county authorities through which
they passed In some cases the na
tional roads were maintained in goot
repair in others the changes in the
centers of population have also effect
ed a change in the highways and the
national roads were abandoned for
niore convenient routes
Fruit in Hot Weather
It is a popular fallacy that the free
Use of fruit in summer is the cause or
bowel disturbances while as a mat
ter of fact no diet can be more health
ful at this time than one composed of
fruit and farinaceous foods with per
fectly pure milk Flesh of ail kinds
decomposes with great rapidity both
before and after eating and summer
heats greatly accelerate this process
Hence flesh food frequently causes
grave derangement of the bowels as
the poison produced by this decompo
sition acts powerfully as an emetic and-
purgative All meats are so lu atingr
that they should be used sparingly dur
ing hot weather and there is the added
argument that the whole system craves
a change from the winters diet
A Bloodless Battle
In 151S a battle was fought near Mi
lan in Italy and so perfect was the
armor of both armies that although
the conflict raged from 9 a m to 4 p
m no one on either side was either
killed or wounded though one man
broke his collarbone by falling off his
horse
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