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Show .1 Nephi Record JnlJb Nephi City, Utah, Friday, June 3, 1904. Vol. 15. lalfrn OUR ! GEfSElL MERC 1ANCISE j Clothing andOent'i 1 If You K fta.0oe4e floer, t Wl'ta fJrWbilHtmnimrr lasts, ad I 11t fcere, Klrtete, I'll Hwentcu liiy aad grave; thou uol lack 0 The ttowrr thul'it like thy face, pal i.rlmroM The asnred harebell liko ttijr bo, unr Tbe leaf of w)m pnl lu xluodt r, Oulaweetoued not thj breath. Shaketirx'ape. tIu. Tinware. Underwear. Hosiery, etc. Chas. Foote & Sons To Our Subscribers. We desire to direct the attention of our subscri- bers to the fact that it requires cash to keep up a ood newspaper. We are willing to admit that a printer don't need as MUCH money as other peo- ple, but nevertheless the paper can't well' bo" kept tfoing without a little cash. The editor occasionally must have a new shirt, the children sometimes need new shoes, the press must be oiled and the devil must be juid, and it requires something a little more substantial than pure air and mountain scenery to do those things. A rough estimate of our subsc ription list shows over $600.00 delinquent. This six hundred dollars we have earned, in the verv hardest wav md need it. Not one of our creditors will wait one o don t wish them to. We are minute on us. not at all averse to earning our money, but ws very much Jike to get it after we earn it. This should be regarded as a gentle hint to everyone who is In arrears on subscription. Those who are not in arrears need not read this article. The Record has the will to give you all that you But we pay for and more too. if it were nre not millionaires, and it is not possible. possible. A lack of support and compensation is bound to tell on and it has been a pretty any paper in the long-run- , long ruu for us already, as same of ou readers well know. We also notice that you are quick to notice any relaxation in our effort to give you the best news service. Don' forget the fact that labor is worth its hire. A dollar is not much to you but six hundred and fifty dollars is quite an item to u-- r Too many have poor conception of the cost and value of the home paper, and show a woeful lack of the substantial appreciation and support which is justly aue and essential to effective service. You compare, unfavorably, thenewsjiaper home kx- - SPECIAL BARGAINS all next week in Ladies' Lace Hose Broken Lots of Shirt Waists and short lengths in Wash Goods. A chance in that Grand Piano and 52 other prizes is worth somcthin to you. Excelsior Mercantile Company The Big Store with Little Prices. The custom of decorating the and sadly tell us how we may be graves of the dead is an ancient buried in our survivors." "Hisone and a beautiful one. This tory fades into fable; fact becustom was once almost univer- comes clouded with doubt and the inscription sally prevalent, but like most controversy; customs it gradually died out moulders from the tablet; the and only a few years ago was on statue fills f.om its pedestal; the eve of becoming extinct. To columns, arches, pyramids arc its revival in America we are in- but heaps of sand, and debted to the Grand Army of the but inscriptions in theepitaphs dust. Republic. Only a few years ago There is no security even in the this organization originated the tomb, nor perpetuity in m cm of Alplan of decorating the graves of balinment. T..; exander comrades. The the Griat have been departed plan grew in favor and became a cus- scattered to the wind, and his tom, which, until very recently, empty sarcophagns is now the was confined to veterans. This mere curiosity of a museum. custom is enlarging to include "The Egyptian mummies, whici all, and Decoration Day is rapid- Camhyses or t'.rne bath spared. ly coming lo be regarded as a avarice4 now consunieth: Mizralra national memorial to the dead. cures wounds, and Pnarouh is Two years ago an appropriate sold for balsam." Decoration Day article only had In Nephi the day was well obreference to the life and achieve- served. In the early rnornii g ments of soldiers,' and the hor- the people busied plucking flowrors and desolations of war. To- ers and wreathing garlands. day it includes humanity. This At the appointed hour the prois as it should be. The grave cession, as scheduled in Last isbreaks down every barrier of sue, formed at the court house caste and distinction. It is a and marched to the we where are all destined cemeteries, headed by the Ne place to meet, on an equality Irving phi band. At the cemeterries a illustration of salutes were tired over tho gives touching this equality of the grave in his graves of departed veterans bv "Westminster Abbey." "In one !a detachment from Company A, small aisle is the sepulchre of ana ice gravooi ail were the haughty Elizabeth: in the with ehaplets of flow other is that of her victim, the ers ana the variea beauties of nalovely and unfortunate Mary. ture and art Not an hour of the day, but Tho addresses at the cemetery some jaculation is uttered over by Uishon T. U. G. Parkcs and the fate of the Utter, mingled licv. .1. D. Starrnont are with indignation at Ler oppressvery appropriateTaken or. The walls of Elizabeth's sep- all in all the day was better obulchre continually echo with the served here tlian ever before. sighs of sympathy heard at the Some of theboys bad a good time of her rival." grae during the day. and put a great Life is but a v&por a transi- deal of beer beyond the pale of tory vapor. "Our fathers," says future evil. Sir Thomas lirown, their Tho day' devotions were graves in our short memories. woJnd up by a jolly dance. utting-deeorate- d pro-nuunec- d per with the city paper, which you can get at the same price. In makintr this commrisnn vmi lose sight of two facts: lit On getting the two papers yourself and children invariably want the nonie peper first, leav ing the foreign paper for a kill time job. This is true of every individual in no matter what station of life or learning. The farmer, the miner, the merchant, the Lawyer, the judge, the legislator and the executor all are in the same category ami are imbued with the same desire for the homo news let it be ever so homely. The home pajer has a peculiar familiarity which appeals to our sympathies. It comes into our homes not as a stranger but as one of us. and is m a better osition to accomplish good than all other forces combined teachers and ministers jossibljr excepted. It is in a position to strike directly at thet very c entre and founda... t. is in ix.Mtion 01 to oner ji eji. the greatest incentive to - eryj good. Yet you not only cneour-ng- e it indifferentlj, but you hamper by withholding hard earned means. I'd, It requires as much effort to get thf news here in Nephi where tho recemls nro but a few dollars a day as it does in the city where the publisher receives a few hundred dollars a day. Soit will be scon that the seen that the expenses of getting up a paper here are entirely oat of proportion to the expenses in the city. Yet we have been far nishing the Uncord for the same price, which i lower than we can afford, evt n granting that we nil that is justly coming. We gi will say more on this branch nf the RUbprt uoxi work. v te k' pipr-- r in tho et state for a weaker support than the If you get Iorest Kimrthing for nothing somebody h.is either road" yon t:ift or is de-ervr- : "up against it " up-to-da-te h" k' s It ft" a." i r' 3 K V X." K "Far East" Is "Far West." ttecaus Europe calls the Pacific coast of Asia tho "far East," Americans follow- - suit, European into rcourse with that part of the world is older and our own. American interests huve e have not thought much. as a people, abor.t Manchuria and Korea, until within a compH rati ely short time. That is why the European "far West" is taken as a matter of course. Hut ail tho region involved in the war now beginning, or about to begin, is really the 'far West," from the American joint of view. Japan, Korea and Manchur?a are much near this country, even our Atlantic Cast. by way of the Pacific, than they are in the opposite dircctiun Cleveland WiZfr than 1 oee a uiuivr home. Leader. A fstiv First Trip Over San Pedro. arty of railroad oflicials, beaded by J. Koss Clark, has left Los Angeles for iah-uy on ine nrst trip over the new Han Vice-Preside- e nt v. Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway, The party will go by rail to Kessler Summitt, the end of the southern construction, where they will leave the train and be driven overland to the ter- of the northern construction. minus At -this point . at fll oe mex, win oy a special train and resume uiey their jounrey to Salt Lake by rail. The work of the construction crews at both ends of the line is being pushed forward and the short gap between the termini is rapidly closing up. The road, when completed from Los Angeles to Salt Lake, will be A 900 miles in a length.--Tribun- e. Proceedings Before the Justice's Court. Frank Hackctt, Frank Wilson, Uoy Horr, and Henry Johnson were arraigned before John S. Cooper, Justice of the Peace of Nephr Precinct. Tuesday, charged with the crime of burglary consmiUnl at Alona Precinct of this county on April 25, 1901; each plead not guilty. Tho found probable cause against ILickett Wilsonjustico and Johnson, but discharged the defendant tinrr it that he was not connected in any way appealing tut.- wmi i;;i,u chemist claims to be able tv make for one dollar's worth of silver fortv rinliro' worth of gold by transmutation. To provo thit he lias a good thing he is willing to sell 2,$W,Q3) share of stock in the company at 10 a share. 1 hat doctor of Una nco is well suited n1c either the hoad of a new Keeley cure institutkm or as the advance representative of fithof i wi.:f or yellow metal factory, for to Kay the least, ho is A Philadelphia -- a : t 8 i ex-po- It mcns you get tho very bsst va!ucs going in merchandise, at the lowIt means that est price. whether ycu do your shopping yourself cr send a child, you arc assured of the same courteous and careful attention S Neptii could support one of the best natters in the sfiife if she 9 wished. V,nl he should not the bevt Co. S mou-umcut- Prompt Delivery at All Times. Ohitniore S nor There is certainly something more uffecting in these prompt s and spontaneous offerings of nature, thun in the most costly of art; the hand strews the flower while the heart is warm, and the tear falls on the gr.i ve as affection is bending the osier round the sod; but pathos expires under the slow labor of the chisel, and is chilled among the cold conceits of sculptured marble." Irving. Best Goods at Lowest Price. One Price to All. ft ; 946e309 e us. I Hyde - Trade at Knrni-tliin- g. DieM Good and Trimming. T MEMORIAL. Is a Consecrated Day, which, Unlike the Marble Shaft, Can Never Be Defaced. Men's ami Boys' Hats. Men's, Ladies' & Children'shoe. Groceries, Flour and Grain. Crockery and Glassware. I No. 23. brick. General Machine Shons aI SMITH BROS. Proprietors. Specbl attention given to General Repairing Any Hroken Pait Promptly Furnished at IIEASONAULE PillC ES and satis-- f ictiofi guaranteed in all cases. Lx'.ited on Main St. just north of S. P. V. track. 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