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Show THE SEMI-WEEE- NATION. Y S WEEKLY E. T. ETDE, YvUtahwr. LOGAN, ' I I I I t PANORAMA UTAH. JUDGE King Peter wants to borrow $30,000 000. Ia he preparing to abdicate? The real trouble will arise in Panawhen they begin to distribute the postofflces. ma Japan should count 100 and then - take a walk around the block before going to war. Presumably the fellow who sold his will fix up some explosion story to tell his friends. ear The average woman would rather be a dog and bay the moon than have men really afraid of her. exclaimed the czar, Drag-om-iroff- EUROPE IS ALARMED OVER KAISER WILHELMS CONDITION and straightway the governor general of Kiel? departed for his estates. King Alfonso of Spain is going to He will see a great many things that his country used to own. W. M. 8PRINGER DEAD. Pneumonia Carries Off Former Democratic Leader of the House. 'William M. Springer of Illinois, formerly Democratic leader In the house of representatives, died at hla residence at Washington, Dec. 4, of pneumonia. Mr. Springer waB taken 111 in Chicago on Thanksgiving day while attending a dinner party. He was suddenly seized with a violent chill and from that moment grew steadily worse. He was removed from Chicago and ai rived at Washington Nov. 18, and pneumonia soon developed. The former congressman, who was extremely popular In Washington, was elected to congress from the Spring-fiel-d district In 1874, and served until 1895. He was an extremely active man and was prominent during hla entire public life. He was at one time travel The St. Louis Globe-Democr- de- fines a promoter as a man who can double his money without putting any in. King Peter of Servla is beginning to hope that some of his subjects really mean it when they say, Long live the the assertion to the laBt that the emperors throat disease 1b harmless, just as Sir Morell Mackenzie did, who king." The news of the death of the composer of Silver Threads Among the Gold" is a reminder that he outlived his song. Were there no automobile chauffeurs In the neighborhood, that Princess Alice was obliged to elope with a should be given to the officers who were on duty at the wedding, but the police rules did not permit it, bo it was turned over to the riot relief fund. It is understood that some of the women who were In the crush regard thla as a proper disposition of the money. Representative Sperry of Connecticut a Patriotic Citizen. Representative Nehemlah D. Sperry ot the second Connecticut district Is the father of the house in point of years and therefore in a class by He waa 75 years old at bis last DOCTOR FOR TWO KAISERS. birthday and yet hla step Is as elastic: and his mind as bright as when . entered politics away back in Prof. Schmidt, Who Operated on 1b Hla Mr. foundAttended Father. Also of one the William, Sperry Prof. Schmidt of Frankfort, who ers of the Republican party. He was performed the recent successful op- secretary of state for Connecticut, eration on the kaiser, is one of the when only 27 years of age and during; most tfbted larynxologists in Germany. Lincolns time was secretary of the He first attracted public attention at Republican national committee and of the executive committee of Severn. For Twenty-eigh-t years he was postmaster of New Haven, having been named by Lincoln the first time. Th achievement he is most proud of, perhaps, is that he went on the bond of the builders of the Monitor, which whipped the Merrimac. He, with the other bondsmen, would have lost hla all had the Monitor failed. Mmrr iz&mw? A treasury expert declares that a paper dollar lasts five years. Funny we never seem able to get hold of any of that kind. Mr. Carnegie talks about watered stock with all the calm of a man who never ventured into finance without his overshoes. When a man gets brain fag he sends marked copies of the paper containing items about it to the society leaders in Newport. Austria and Russia are going to send another ultimatum to Turkey. They do this every little while just to keep in practice. New York man who paid $5,000 for an ear had no friends, Romans or countrymen to lend him theirs. The hutler of a Chicago editor stole about $200 worth of furs from his employer. We editors are growing more careless about our butlers every he-flr- - - Parisians have been rudely Shocked by the fatal termination of a duel with swords. Unquestionably the coroners jury will return a verdict of accidental g, death. e "Brilliant and impulsive people, aid a lecturer on physiognomy, have black eyes, or if they dont have them they are apt to get them if theyre too Impulsive.1 mm.m , ' - m, The Vanderbilts and a few western families are forming a new smart set In New York. Western families who wish to get in will have to apply early, though. New York society women who have taken to using rouge may have reflected that in their cases the adage, beauty unadorned adorned the most, does not apply. The latest is the cat language. When the cat has eaten the canary, how- ever, it conveys the Information by merely exhibiting a contented expression of countenance. born of a love of the beautiful, the Hartford Post says: On these frosty mornings a red necktie and a girl make an attractive combination. With inspiration rosy-cheeke- . Witty 8haft Credited to Actress. sister of the1 popular actor Wilton Lackaye, has the ' family gift of repartee fully developed. Recently a young society man who prides himself on his popularity with female acquaintances begged from her a few of the violets she were at her corsage. He placed the flowers inside the case of his watch, vowing that as long as he lived they should repose there. A few days later the two met again and MIbs Lackaye asked about the flowers. The young man was visibly embarrassed, but explained that he had opened the watch while In the street and that a gust of wind had blown away tbe violets. And you kept the watcb after that? said Miss Lackaye with sweet incredulity. Mias Helen Lackaye, d, day. him-sel- f. the-50s- Run-dicha- It is supposed, of course, that the I sacrificed hla time, health and reputation in order to keep the Emperor Frederick in Ignorance of hla true condition." A small Frankfort paper, the Klelne Presse, which has many friends in the medical circles of Frankfort, says: All those who ought to know are anything hut confident in the emper-orspeedy recovery. They regard the illness in a different light from that shed upon it by the press In genconleader when the Democrats eral The emperor is much depressed trolled the house, being chairman of and his general health has given way the ways and means committee. He a good deal took a conspicuous part in the bitter It ia believed in Berlin that Prof. and prolonged fight in the Fifty-firs- t Schmidt has only returned to Frankcongress over the adoption of the fort for a time and will soon be In BerReed rules,, which Democrats assert- lin again. Doubts are expressed ed were framed to gag the house and whether a second operation will not deprive the minority of its rights. be necessary. Later he participated in a fight for the Berlin Press Not Satisfied. Wilson tariff bill. A section of tbe Berlin press conAfter leaving congress Mr. Springer tinues to be Inclined to doubt tbe offwas appointed chief justice of the su- icial assurances that the emperor ia preme court of Indian Territory, and making satisfactory progress towards hla term of office expired in 1899. recovery. The Preussische CorresponSince that time he has been engaged dence declares he is not doing as well in the practice of law in Washington. as could be wished, and that the His mission to Chicago was in connec- wound In his throat 1b healing slowly. tion with the drainage canal suit, now The paper adds that his majesty looks u pending in the supreme court of the worn and aged. The Tagllche United States. demands that the physicians Although Mr. Springer was bom in let the country know the real condi. Sullivan county, Ind., May 80, 1836. he tion of the emperor. called an himself Illinoisan always and one with a right to the title of ' To Tour the World In Auto. Elmer E. Smathers, the famous pioneer. He made his home in Spring-fielstudied a year or more at the New York sportsman, la going to tour Illinois state university at Champaign, the world in an auto that is, partly. finishing- his studies with honors at From San Francisco he will sail for Honolulu. Several weeks will be the state university of Indiana. in the flowery kingdom. A short aent was life Judge Springers college be made in the territory surwill mellowed with romance. While at trip Hong-KonChina, and a rounding met Miss Rebecca Bloomington he Ruter. Before the two had reached brief visit will be made to Manila. commencement they were plighted. After touring a few miles into the provinces he will proceed to Calcutta, The courtship resulted'' in forty-fivthrough India to Bombay and thence years of happy married life. by boat to Cairo. A short tour Judge Springer returned to Spring-fiel- Italy will bring him to Paris, through where and became secretary of the Illi- side will be made to Monte Carlo trips nois constitutional convention when 26 and other interesting places. Then years old. He waa subsequently as- to London and to New York. He sistant secretary of the Illinois state will make the backin a specially contrip senate. From 1875 to 1895 he reprehandled by a chaufstructed machine, sented his district in congress, being feur who is a Harvard graduate, and in turn chairman of the banking, ways will hla valet and by accompanied and means, currency and other comwo friends. mittees. In 1895 he was appointed Judge of the United States court in Check Goes to Proper Fund. Indian Territory by President CleveMrs. Ogden Goelet sent to Police land, afterwards becoming chief jus- Commissioner Green of New York a tice of the Indian Territory supreme check for $150 in acknowledgment of court. He returned to Washington in of the police service her appreciation 1900, becoming chief counsel for the on the occasion of her daughters Cherokee Indians and, in fact, all five to the duke of Roxburghe. of the civilized tribes. For the last marriage Mrs. Goelet wished that the money two years he acted aa special counsel for the sanitary district in the suit Instituted by the state of Missouri against the drainage canal B coachman? ' A Vienna throat specialist of worldwide renown said respecting the Illness of Kaiser Wilhelm: Prof. Schmidts prolonged stay with the kaiser is evidence of the serious condition of the patient and of the gravity of the operation. The operation, as it has been described in the newspapers, is the most insignificant imaginable. One day of rest and abstention from speaking should have been sufficient for complete recovery. From the duration of the kaisers Prof. from convalescence and Schmidt's three weeks stay, and also from other Incidents intelligible to the professional mind, it is perfectly plain that a cleavage of the larynx has been performed, and no surgeon decides upon such an operation unless there is a growth of apernicioua character. "An order has gone forth from the court that no Viennese surgeon is to express an opinion on the case, but at professional gatherings no reliance la placed, in the 'assurances-centainein the published bulletins. History will repeat Itself. Some professional man of renown will have to be found who will inspire the emperor with full confidence In himself. He will have to face the worid with the time when he went to San Remo, Italy, with Crown Prince Wilhelm, now the kaiser, to attend the operation on hla father, Emperor Frederick. Prof. Schmidt has retired from active practice. Youthful Pennsylvania Judge. was on Monday awom in as an associate judge of Common Pleas court No. 8 of Philadelphia. He Is the youngest member of the judiciary. He waa inducted into office under the appointr ment of Gov. Pennypacker. His regular term of ten years, to which he was elected in November, does not commence until the first Monday in Robert Von Moschzisker January. Clergymans Unhappy Lot. Rev. G. F. Brisco, a clergyman of' SL Beneta Kentish Town, England,' receives but a pittance for his services, and in order to obtain meana whereby he might maintain the dignity of hla position he was obliged to take in washing and dig graves. For. pursuing these unclerical occupations he has been censured by.hia ecclesiastical superiors. NAVIES OF RUS8IA AND JAPAN. PROMINENT SOUTH AMERICAN. d The Westminster Gazette refers to speech by Mr. Morley. Has It become customary for the hitherto deliberate Briton to go before buttoning out speech-nukinhis collar? an after-breakfa- st g As a young man has been arrested for stealing a kiss, the case furnishes timely such where police warning to young men to put valuable articles back right they found them before the arrive. lawyer hns just been killed In a In Farls. We havo been afraid for a long time that If French gentlemen persisted In. keeping up this danA duel gerous amusement somebody eventually gyt hurt. would Now Governor of Colon, In the New Republic of Panama. Comparative Exhibit of The Port Arthur correspondent of the Toklo Asahl. one of the beat Informed of the Japanese newspapers, sends the following: "Viceroy Alexieff, addressing his staff, said that If Russia had three docks at Port Arthur and two at Daisy she would not hesitate ts fight Ja the Strength of the Fighting Fleets pan, but that SB things stood it would be impossible to annihilate the Japanese fleet in the first engagement, while a second encounter would mean the certain defeat if not the annihilation of the Russian fleet For this reason, the viceroy said, war with Japan would not be advisable. of tho two Nations. The Asahla correspondent adds that many of the principal Russian warships are badly Jn need of repairs, which cannot be accomplished In the present unsettled condition of affairs. Consequently Viceroy Alexieff said that ho was strongly in favor of peace, for the present, at least . - |