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Show DIXIE ADVOCATE SUPPLEflENT St. George, Utah, Dec. 24, 1903. THE COMING ATTRACTION. PITTSBURG IN 1755. PRES. CLUFF RESIGNS. EXPERIMENTAL DRAIN. Concert to be Given by B. Y. University Quartet Club. A Bit of flaking. ial Election. musical treat is promised the people of St. George and vicinity in the concert to be given in the stake tabernacle tomorrow and Monday evenings, Dec. 25 and 28, by the Brigham Young University Quartet Club, consisting of Prof. Reid and Messrs Adelin, Acord and McAllister. McAllister and Ande-lt- n are southern Utah boys of whom we have cause to be proud, and their musical attainments are more or less familiar to the people of this county. They were with us during the county fair, and sang gratis for the public a number of times. It was their expectation to have given a concert at that lime, but they were unable to secure a date. Reinforced as they now are uiih wo ol her uniMcans of leputatiou i hey form a strong club, and you will get no better enterainmentin Salt Lake Oily at a dollar for tickets. Moroni Nnovv and Jacob F. Gates, well known in musical circles and old residents of tit. George, write us as follows concerning the coming attraction:. Provo. Utah, Dec. 15, 1903 EDITOR DIXIE ADVOCATE: We understand that the Brigham Young University quartet club will give a concert some time during the holidays in St. George and as we had the pleasure of listening to their sweet music we take grcat pleasurc.-i- n recomending them to our old towns people; and anything you can do in the way of publicity in your next issue will be duly appreciated, and your Dixie patrons will hear something unusually good. The quartet consists of Prof.Reid and Messrs. Andelin, Acord and McAllister. We do not know of their equal in the Upon a certain summers day in the year 1755, there might have been witnessed the advance of a small detachment of British and Colonial troops, not much over a thousand strong, through the dense forests that lined the banks of the Mononguhela River, a few miles above the point jvhere it merges with the Allegheny. The objective point of the expedition was a small fort at the confluence of these rivers, which formed one of the most important links in that chain of military posts aad trading stations, which the restless and g energy of the French colonial government had strung out between the mouths of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi by way of the Great Lakes, the Ohio and the Mississippi Valley. In the van of the little army, bearing himself with a confidence born of much successful warfare in other lands under less difficult conditions, and heedless of the warnings of his George young colonial Washington, who had command of the The city council met Monday evening and appointed the judges of election for the special election to be held next Saturday, and transacted some routine business, including the appropriation of claims. They also authorized the laying of the experimental tile from George A. Lytles corner down to Bp. McArthurs corral, the material for which has been prepared by John Eardley of this place. Itisexpect-ethat the drain will be in operation before the first of the year. A i . state. Yours truly, Moroni Snow Jacob F. Gates Making a Man. Hurry the baby as fast as you can. Hurry him, worry him, make him a man. Off with his baby clothes, get him some pants, Feed him on brain food and make him advance. Hustle him soon as h is able to walk Into a grammar school, cram him with talk. Fill his poor head full of figures and facts, Keep on a jumping them in till it cracks. Once boys grew up at a rational rate, Now we develop a man while you v wait. Rush him through college, compel him to grab Of every known subject a dib and a dab. Get him in business and after the cash, All by the time be can grow a mus- tache. Let him forget he was ever a boy, Make gold his god, and its jingle his joy. Keep him a hustling and- - clear out of breath Until he wins nervous prostration Ex. and death. Is Bound for Mexico and Will be Sue ceeded by Dr. Brimhall, History of American Steel City Council appoints Judges for Spec far-seein- aide-de-cam- rear guard, was Gen. Braddock. Advancing in a close formation, which was better suited to the open spaces of Continental battle grounds than to the forests of the all frontier, the devoted band marched 'right into an ambush of the French Regulars and their Indian allies, and was quickly eut to pieces. Braddoci? was killed and Col. Washington, his military coat pierced more than once by the bullets of the French sharpshooters; barely succeeded in carrying the shattered remnants of the force back over the Alleghenies into Colonial territory, i The political and military considerations' that prompted that disastrous expedition were worthy of a better fate; and, indeed, subsequent history has proved that in endeavoring to capture Fort Du Quesne and break the bounds which the French were endeavoring to set the westward development of the British Colonies, our forefathers had taken a just view cf the situation. Today the objective point of the expedition forms the site of Pittsburg, one of the greatest centers of industrial activity in the world; while hidden among the back streets of the city, and rescued from destruction and preserved through the care and munificense of a local historical society, may still be found Fort Du Quesne, or rather its immediate successor Fort Pitt. A few miles tip the river, at the town of and on the identical spot where the bittle occurred, is to be found one of the greatest steel works in the world; while for many a mile along those yery banks of the Monongahela where Braddock laboriously cut his way through the woods, is to be found the most wonderful aggregation of coking ovens, blast furnaces, and roll ings mills in the world. Although just now we are concerned merely with the history of the development of these industries, we may be pardoned a reference to the fact that in St. Louis, five hundred miles to the westward of the Braddock battlefield, the great republic which has spt ung from that strip of colonies that fringed the Atlantic seaboard in 1755, is just now preparing to celebrate the one hundreth anniversary of its acquisition from France of the vast territories from which that country sought to bar the early colonials out. From the Iron and Steel Number of the Scientific American. t Brad-doc- k d Fifteen Years Ago. . I wandered to the grogshop, Tom: I stood beside the bar, And drank a bowl of lemonade and smoked a bad cigar; The same old kegs and jugs were there, the ones we used to know When we were on the round up, Tom, some fifteen years ago. The barkelep is a new one Tom. The one Vho used to sell Corrosive tanglefoot to us is roasting now n well. The other ihas a plateglass front; his hair is combed quite low, And looks jtist like the one we knew some fifteen years ago. Old Soak capje up and called for booze he Vjnd the same old grin While others burned the lining from their throats with Holland gin. And women stood beside the door, their faces seamed with woe, And wept just as they used to weep some fifteen years ago. friends, I asked about our those chrished sporty men; And some were in the poorhouse, Tom, and some were in the pen: And one, the one we liked the best, the hangman laid him low. The world is very much the same, dear Tom, as fifteen years ago. I asked about that stately chap, that pride marked as its own. He used to say that he could drink or let the stuff alone. He perished of the James H. Jams, out in the cold and snow Ah, few survive who used to booze some fifteen years ago. New crowds line up against the bar and call for crimson ink; New hands are trembling as they pour the stuff they shouldn't drink; But still the same old watchword rings This round to me you know! old cry of doom was heard same The some fifteen years ago. I wandered to the churchyard, Tom, and there I saw the graves Of those who used to drown themselves in red fermented waves; And there were women sleeping there where grass and daises grow, Who wept and died of broken hearts some fifteen years ago. And there were graves where children slept, have slept for many a year. Forgetful of the woes that marked their fitful sojourn here. And neath a tall white monument, in death their lieth low The man who used to sell the booze some fifteen years ago. St. Louis , old-tim- e Globe-Democra- t. Provo Enquirer. President B. Cluff, Jr., has tendered his resignation and the board of trustees will meet tonight and take action upon it. President Cluff has received an offer of the superintendency of the Utah-Mexica- n Rubber Company, and has concluded to accept it as soon as bis resignation of the presidency of the Brigham Young University shall be accepted by the board. President Cluff has for a long time past had a desire to resume his explorations and investigations of the counRubber try in which the company is operating with the view of gaining additional corroborative evidences of the truth of the Book of Mormon history. He believes in accepting the position offered he can better pursue researches in that direction than he can do in his present position. Of course it is a praisworthy purpose he has io view, and one which, if he should be successful in carrying out, may prove of incalculable benefit to the community of Latter-da- y Saints. President Cluff has been identified with the educational institution he is about to separate himself from since early boyhood, and for the last twelve years has been its president. Under his direction the institution has made progress and development and there are serious misgivings entertained by many of the friends of the advisabilty of releasing him from the charge he has so ably and successfully conducted. It is quite probable however, that the desired release will be granted. There is a likelihood that Dr. Geo. H. Brimhall will be the successor of President Oluff. Like the retiring president, Dr. Brimhall has almost grown up with the Brigham Young University. There is no man more loved by the faculty and students than is Dr. Brimhall, and no man identified with its growth is perhaps as well qualified to take the charge of that great school of learning. That his appointment will meet with general approval and satisfaction is a foregone concluUtah-Mexica- n sion. 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