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Show lliK SALT uAKJS TIMES, FJUDAY", .) USE 13,181)0. 1 6 Difference Id Sponges. There are very many people who can-not tell the difference between "Turkey cups" and common reef 6ponges, and they are astounded at the difference in price. They are asked $8 for what, they think they can get just as good foi twenty-fiv- o cents. There are sponges from Florida called sheep's wool, which, in the opinion of many buyers, are at good, although much cheaper, for all practical purposes as the silk ones. They are used mainly for washing carriages, although they make a good bathing sponge. Reef sponges come from Cuba and Nassau. Turkey cups from around the islands of the Archipelago. Sheep's wool and reef sponges coma in ten, twenty and forty pound bales, and the iinest of the former, known as Rock Island goods, sell wholesale at from $2.80 to $3.15 per pound. The Turkey cups are sorted at Loudon and Paris into three qualities and sent to us in bags. They are sold by the piece. Boston Globe. r ' ' 15 A HOLIDAY. (Tho daughter of four generations sat In the dark shadow of an humble room. The younjtMt played, thegray graudmotherspun, ' Herdughtermused,whileiuthecorner'Bgloom The bent low in her chair And strange hot flushes filled the quiet air. The child: is a holiday And I will play along the grassy fields And run the hills and pluck the fairest buds That all the flower covered meadow yields; rilning, and walk upon the brooklet's shores." O, in the distance how the thunder roarsl other: is a holiday And all of us will merry be and glad. Til deck myself in what I have of best, . . For life should not be always bleak and aad. The sun shines bright for e'en the darkest souls." And coming nearer fierce the thunder rolls. Grandmother: "Ah, 'twill be a holiday. There's no such thing as holiday for nie. My fate's to spin and cook the daily meal, For life is work and solitude and drear. It's woll for those who may do as they please." Sea 2ie quick lightning flashing through the trees. The slowly turns aad speaks: "A holiday and the tomb All wide agape for me. What's earth but care J And woe where nothing breaks the joy less glooml And why should I yet linger in the world?" QreatGod: The lightning's bolts upon tbem burled. They do not see nor hoar the awful flame That lights the chamber with a noontide glow. The daughters of four generations lie ' All dead together, smitten by one blow. Four lives thus ended by the lightning's ray-T- ula their this their holiday. - -- Philadelphia Times. Just a Difference of Opinion. The artists are always finding fault, in every clime and country, with the work of tho local " hanging committee." Never was au artist who did not claim, if any of his work was exhibited in an exhibition, that the unfortunate "hang-ing coramitteo" had dwarfed his effort by hanging it in the worst possible place, itt an exhibition in this city a certain artist had a work accepted and was re-quested by the hanging committee to visit the gallery and pick out his own place. He did so. When the exhibition wai opened a fellow artist who visited It found fault with the placo given one of his own paintings. "But I will not speak of my own work," he said to tho party to yvboni he was complaining. "Now there is 's picture over there. An idiot would have put it in a bettet place." When he found out later that had made his own selection of posi-tion he had nothing further to say. Chi-cago Herald. ! ' : AYhen You Can Buy 4 Lots in - s Davis, Sharp & Stringers CORNER OF SECOND WEST ADID TENTH SOUTH, On small Cash Payment, and within 30 days after Electric Car Line, already commenced, on Second West, is completed, sell 3 Lots for Profit sufficient to build nn remaining Lot. t ' If you prefer to move into your own home today, ' we have Six New Modern Style Houses just com- - .. .', ' pletcd, six Large Rooms, Fine Closets, 'Three , Verandas, City Water, Elegrant Location, close in, B5SSSS splendid view, near electric car line, ONLY $3800 EACH, an( FlvE Years to pay out at only 6 per ' cent interest. , , Don't Fail to see Watkins' Addition A-djoini-ng" X-ib-erty Fails on Oa Sovutli. DAVIS STRINGER, TtheCuUen So! 23 WCSt SeCOnd Soiltk Pabst Brewing Co! (Formerly PHILIP BEST) IvUL-W-A-TJISIE- E, WIS. Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Ribb Keg and Bottled Beers shipped immediately upon order. THE FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED FREE DELIVERY! TELEPHONE 31 B. K. BLOGH an Co., ST. --Agents NORTH STAR Refrigerator c JZ u I Jilt inj v a Tia i SclcL Only lay tUs Salt Lake Hardware Co., 32 WEST SECOND SOUTH STREET. Headquarters for Rubber Hose, Lawn Mowers, Hammocks, Guns, Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. MTlts C1 TO A.T-.-Xi PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH AT THE CITY TICKET OFFICE. Onion Pacil SYSTEM. MOUNTAIN DIVISION Tho Only Lins carrying the Unitail S - Overland Mall. Direct Connections tweeu all Points North and a NEW TIME OAF iMlay so, IS0-- UTAH CENTRAL DISTBCT. LiiJVJ flirts 'JillSMM-s- W 1 Passenger Trains Arrive and Leave at Salt lake City as follows: FROM THE NORTH. GOING NORTH. pIIS If "k-- 90 a.m. Atlantic Express, Atlantic Fast MaJ ??fKrUtal1 Northern Local. .10;S0 m. nd Utah 4 Northern Locil yj paiKte-FastMiu:::::;::1?- ' , Local Express FROM THE SOUTH. , OOISO SODTB. jSJSeSStSE!" 10:10a.m. Juab Express Oraop.nl MUtord gxnress ' "tali aad ITev&Sa, jaistxiet. GODIO WEST. FROM THB WTST. , 1: 0p.m " " ' "... & ii i:4 p.m " ? . , j ' I' I " . - Salt Tialce Sc "Western. District. , " EQrrrpivneaTT Th'Cl:,2S cffi?, is equipped withDS ( Chicago: Pullman Palace Sleeper. Portw L CoumS BuYftV PnSin fS?eoto Chicago;. Pullman Patoebleeper ( Chlcaw: DavcoShL? l?,Vafe Sleeper, Butie to Green Biver; Dftou , This wdl onli Valt 1 Greu Colonist Sleeper, "To. Attantlc eSS'L??" having First-clas- s Tickets. coicb to Council BluflfrSllmar 8dSat 10:iH,' m" l! BluM: P"11" Sletrx'T- - Sleeper. Ponhind to Council Voi-einw- - This train will Portlu! to Cheyenne. (thiH is through careugerahoNliny either First or Setvnd-classjil- S. W. ECCLES, c F RESSEGUIE, Asst. Cen'IPasseng,,. : general Man?, Amusements In Great Britain. In London the places of amusement number about 550 or 600, including 450 music halls. Tho capital invested in London places of amusement Is little short of $20,000,000, without reckoning places like the Crystal palace, Albert hall, etc. Direct employment is given to about 150,000 people, besides indirect employment to a host of tradesmen and workpeople. The London theatres, mu-sic halls and concert halls have accom-modation for about half a million of sight seers. The capital invested in similar places of amusement in Great Britain it over $30,000,000. Thi3 gives direct em-ployment to about 350,000 people and provides accommodation for nearly 1,250,000 spectators. Chatter, Hardly Courteous. During the epidemic of influenza in one of our cities a gentleman who was suffering acutely from it went down town one morning, and on the way met at least a dozen sympathetic friends. At the twelfth encounter his patience was exhausted. "Have you the prevalent cold?" In-quired his twelfth assailant, a burly, good natured man. "Yes," said the invalid, captiously! " have. Have you the prevalent sympa-thy?" The retort was hardly courteous, and the man himself felt ashamed of it after-ward, but at the moment it seemed to do him good, Youth's Companion. oanK?" "Yes." "What Mrs. Dot is she?" ' "Mrs. Y. Z. Dot." Like a comet he disappeared into what seemed one of a set of catacombs; the next instant reappeared. "This check, madam" another look more unutterable than before "is upon the High Stepping bank. Why, then" Fair land of onr fathers! Bid he expect me to explain, in presence of the bank, and the crowd my shoulders knew waa gathering behind them, that Dot and 1 wera one; that she was more than im-mersed in literary work, and I had offer-ed to run the practical part of the house this winter; that, being methodical aa ' she waa literary, she had placed a house-keeping allowance in the Everlasting Hills, introduced me there, and had put her and my private funds in the High Stepping by themselves; that, being tel-egraphed away, she had sent me back this check, forgetting that I could not take it there. Was there any law of morals or finance that demanded this? I glanced at the paying teller. His face, turned sorrowfully In profile, wore a mournful hush; iVseemed to me that the backs of the other bank men wore the same, and mine felt it breathing from the crowd behind. But "why then" the examining jus-tice was shafting at me once more. "As I told you, I have been introduced only hero." "But this check, madam" My "flame" was white heat now, and again, without malice prepense I cut him off: "Do you mean to say that this bank never cashes the draft of any other housa than its own?" "No; but" and then out it came. The secret climax that it seems he had been making a momentary effort to re-strain. "No: but I do not know that Mrs. Dot has any money in the High Step-ping bank." For one instant I held my breath. He did not know? He suspected she had not? Then that meant that meant Dot and I were putting up a fraud? A fel-ony? We were what do they call it conspirators? And a conspiracy "thin" enough for idiots at that? "I will not trouble yon," I said-H- e tossed me the paper and disap-peared. "Where is the High Stepping bank?" I asked of the teller, who had not stirred. His lips parted, as if a statue of "Trag-edy" could speak. "Half a block away," he said. Once on the street "white beat" had to come down to asking "What next?" Give tho High Stepping men their oppor-tunity next? . Never, if I died! And yefc if I were telegraphed? A telegraph boy brushed past me, going toward our street! In a flash I was np the steps and at the hated wires. The paying teller stood there. Was his blood frozen to icicles, each sharper than a ser-pent's tooth? . I thrust in the check, and sparks fly-ing as I did so. . "I don't know whether you'll giva me the money for this," I said, biting every word; "I'm not introduced here." He lifted a handsome, pleasant face. "It is not customary," he said. "I'm quite aware. But I went to tho Everlasting, where I'm known, and they made eyes at rne till I was hot. and asked me to leave my photograph!" A low ripple of amusement broke from under his mustache. "But they would not do it then! What do you think? Perhaps Mrs. Dot had no money here at all I That would be fel-ony, wouldn't it? I was furious then. If you're not going to give it to me, be care-ful how you tell me, please; that's all." The ripple broke into a little peal this time. Evidently it was very droll to him. "It is not cuHtomary," he began again, "but" and his eyes lifted a swift glance. That one glance, I felt, was first at my bonnet and then at me, and I knew that I was saved! There are few unlucky persons who do not once in a life make a fortunate and that bonnet has been mine! I have had bonnets that belied me, and bonnets that I could only carry off, but that one on more than once one of my own eex has risen in the street car to give me up her seat! That bonnet once on, the blood of the Cs, D's and E's that I feel always tingling at my finger tips, seems com-manded to the front with a leap, and people, (who can see at all) know in one instant that no member of our family, though possibly left in infancy to chop a cherry tree, could ever, ever do it by the hatchet of a fraudulent cheok! And in later life! as soon ask Juno if she had been thinning the ranks in a chicken house as suspect one of us of even pricking a cherry tree with a pin. "But" the teller continued, with a smile half hidden where the ripple had been "but I shall do it." He would do it! I was not a thief or a criminal once more! I ccald not lift myself, for I had been standing like the tallest pine tree in the forest all the time I could only bow my bonnet low " toward him. "I thank you very much! et mo go and tell the Everlastings that you did!" I began hastily. The low, quiet laugh was merrier than ever now. "They would say I didn't know my business," he said. The telegraph boy had not been at th house when I reached there, but ha came lata'. AU was well, and Dot was com-ing home. ' I gave her five minutes to get seated, and began: "Dot, how much money have you in the Everlasting Hills?" "Eleven dollars, as it happens, just to-day," she laughed. "And how much in the High Stepping, just today? " "Six hundred, if you have not drawn your check." "I wish you would take that eleven ; out and never put another penny there." "Why?" she asked, taking np the em-broidery that rested her from her pen. I poured forth the tales, cominj down upon the finale with a wrathful sweep of "What right had he?" "Hem," replied Dot, holding the pat-tern to the light, "I suppose he thought It a little queer.' And eleven dollars wouldn't have made him safe, you know, against seventy-five.-" . j "Queer!" I ejaculated. "What affair was that of his? . You and I felons and conspirators, Dot! What right had he to put an implication like that on us before crowd? Don't you suppose his bank feels able to maintain a messenger of any kind, that he could have slipped off quiet-ly to the High Stepping to inquire'" Dot laid u threud of silk agaiuet au-- ; ailier to be Hnre it matched. "That's what you ought to lmve made fcjm dr." she quietly replied. L T. II. in j Washington t. ( m BANE. i 1, a felont L a criminal! And worse than that, Dot and I, who can run our glance over a line of "forbears" glisten-ing with the soul of honor, back to a Bottle house we, together, charged with conspiracy, before a crowd of strangers that I felt gathering behind my backl Let me tell yon how it came about At a reception that some of the ladies gave the South Americans the other night, Senor Don Joseph Maria Placids Gnamano, of Ecuador, in his brilliant little talk about "woman in the present century ," remarked: "She contends to-day for every position which we" with a - charming gesture nf waving his own claims "politely relinquish to her." "Graceful, wasn't it?" I said to Dot when I came home. "I'm not so sure it's true, however, nor that I approve of it if it is I feel more confidence in heaven's plans for woman than in Belva Lock-wood- 's I believe. But there is one posi-tion that I should individually like to contend for, and. have some one relin-quish to me. I would like to stand for one week behind the wire caging of seme respectable bank, and try if I could solve a mystery that mocks forever at me as I gaze from the other side. Is it a special Law? Is it an atmosphere? Is it a 'sub-tle alchemy?" I wish I knewP "Knew what?" asked Dot, quietly. "Knew why a man, elsewhere governed by civilized codes, possibly considered at times even agreeable, once behind the wires, feels free to look at yon and talk to you in such a way that a good tall Polar bear would seem a silky refuge, compared to him! I hate mysteries and I hate banks!" Dot made no reply. "Of course," I pursued, "on your own native heath you are safe; but strangers as yon and I are here in Washington! Why, the other day I went into that bank of the Everlasting Hills, where you Introduced me, and they put their heads together and pierced me and my check alternately with such looks Parthian arrows, Scythian spears, St. Sebastian, anything would have seemed mild." Dot laughed. ' i '"What do you care? I went into my bank yesterday, and the man began to make eyes at me, but I just held up my bank book at him and he flew. I didn't care." "No, yon didn't care, exasperating lit-tle insulated wire, but I do. I don't see what right they have. ' And I always do hate going upon other people's ground; it gives tbem such an advantage. And that menagerie grating piles the advan-tage np to such an awfully unfair height. Why, yon can, yon know if you would allow yourself, yon could poke at a tiger through his bars; but that bank fenoet 'Why, if I had a brother, or com a a" "Yes," laughed Dot. ;.;,;rWelL even if I had that to take along, prepared to spring at the throat, if any one were well, inconsiderate to-ward me, he couldn't reach him!" . At that moment came a ring at the door and a yellow telegram envelope. Dot was to fly to Philadelphia. The one feeing on earth who was part of both onr souls was very ill. Twenty minutes for satchel packing and leaving the place, "Dot," I said stonily, "send for me if it is very bad. And, ok! I shall want some money while yon are gone." "I'll send a check," she said, and the cab rolled away; so did a night and morning of suspense; then came another yellow envelope and then a letter. One said things were better, the other brought the check. I breathed again; bnt still I might be called. I must go to that miserable bank. There was just time before hours were over. I caught the avenue car and was off.. On the bank steps I.palled ont the check. - Dot had not drawn it on the "Everlasting Hills," it was on the "High Stepping bank!" What now? She for-got that they did not know me there. Still, of course, one respectable bank would cash another's check; it must be all right. The sight of the wire caging brought back my talk with Dot, and I feli the bipod of my ancestors growing hot in my veins again. But I must be safe; they would surely remember me this time. - Not What was that paying teller do-ing now? Looking at my check, turning it, twisting it, shooting looks at me, looking at it again Parthian arrows, indeed. Now ha was off to an older man, who seized the check in his turn, pierced it and me with more arrows, as if he were examining magistrate of a police court. Now he sprang from his stool and gpranj at me. Only the wires, apparent-ly, kept him off. . Uy "heat" became a flame, and, with no warning to myself, broke forth: ' "I wish you would kindly let me leave my photograph here, and give me a card stating that you recognize it This be-gins to be annoying in the ex" But the magistrate was waving me aside. ' "One moment, madam! This check," slowly and solemnly, "is drawn upon the High Stepping bank." (Loftily.) "Yes." "Did Mrs. Dot intend to draw it upon that bank?' i "I presume so." i "Then why," with a shaft designed to pwo strike me to the earth, "why did you not take it there?" ''Because I have been introduced here . and not there." - fearful' jiauHe. 'J&as Mrs. Dot an account with this i ' Laws in China. In China, if any prisoner resists an officer and strikes the latter so as to draw blood, the offender stiall be strangled. H a criminal who resists an officer is armed, and the officer kills him to secure his person, or if a criminal escapes from prison or is killed while being pursued, or if a runaway criminal destroys him-self, the officer shall in no wise be an-swerable for the prisoner's death. In any case where a criminal is killed, where the offense charged against him was punishable with capital punishment, and the officer had no right to assault or wound him, the punishment of the police officer shall not in any case exceed 100 blows. San Francisco Alta. Rurnum's Ancient Anecdote. ' Burnum himself is an infant in arms as compared with the age of this story. It is about the meanest man on earth. A grocer and genoral dealer advertised a drink with each purchase. Ho took trade. A mean man came in with an egg worth a cent and traded it for a darning needle, also worth a cent. Then he demanded his drink and took sherry. Ho said he always had to have an egg in his sherry and the dealer broke the egg he had just received from him in the sherry. It happened that the egg had two yolks, and so the meanest man de-manded two darning needles because of the two yolka. Detroit Free Press. ... Iuliariiioulous Coins. ' All coins out of harmony with oui decimal system ought to go, and not stand on the order of their going. The gold one dollar and the three dollai pieces have practically gone out of cir-culation, and this is also true of the three cent nickel. These three are not in har-mony with our coinage system and mat its symmetry. The gold coins named are too easily lost, Washington Star. Cap anil Gown Unpopular. The young ladies of the graduating class at Colby have taken a step that must be regretted by all lovers of the picturesque. They have voted to take no part in the class day exercises of th nest commencement. They didn't en-joy the spectacle made by their sisters in mortar board caps and black gowns last year. Lewiston Journal. The Central Shoe Blacking institute in Berlin undertakes to clean boots and 6hoes for its clients as often as required between 6 a.m. and 9 p. ni. for monthly payments at the rate of fifty cents a month for men and thirty-fiv- e cents for women. Half rates are given when sev-er-members of one family subscribe. Mrs. Humphrey Ward's eldest 6on, Arnold, is said to be a literary prodigy. He is only 14 years of age. He recently sent an essay to a magszine and received a check for $30 and a letter of thanks. It is also said of him that he read "Robert Elsmere" during tho first year of its existence. In Maine spruce gam now brings to the men who gather it from 130 to $180 a barrel, according to quality. A barrel weighs about 170 pounds. 'Voltaire was a most impatient wriler, and usually had the first half of a w ork put in type before the second half was written |