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Show PUBLISHING City Postoffice COMPANY. as second-class matter. SALT LAKE CITY, TERIIS Any part of the United year, postage paid OF UTAH, MAY 1, is imperfect and almost obsolete. 1897. SUBSCRIPTION. States, Canada or Mexico, one $1.50 England, France, Germany, and all countries embraced in Universal Postal Union, one year, urs postage paid 2.00 Other Countries, one year, postage adde 2.00 By Carrier, or when not paid for in advance 6 2.00 Postmasters sending subscriptions to THE ARGUS may retain 25 per cent. of subscription price as commission. New Subscriptions may commence at any time during the year. Payment for THE ARGUS, when sent by mail, should be made in a postoflice money order, bank draft, or an express money order. WHEN NEITHER OF THESE CAN BE PROCURED, send the money in a registered letter. All postmasters are required to register letters whenever requested to do so. 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It has no interest in private affairs save the bearing they may have on questions of public importance. | ee This is May-day, formerly an occasion of much rejoicing, especially May-Day. - among the peasant folk of Great Britain. The May-pole and the dance and other ceremonies of the day have passed away with the modest simplicity of the common fashion began to reign and chief executioner of the realm, people. vanity many for the Footprints have been discovered in the asphaltum beds of the Un- Recent Scientific Discoveries. compahgre reservation. There is considerable speculation about them—in fact, speculation is thought to have taken them there. Be that as it may, some enterprising scientist, who evidently wishes to stand in with the admin- istration, has taken an impression of a few of the them They were evidently intended to for of aspiring ism, bigotry, injustice, intolerance, hypocrisy and corruption from political, religious and social events, is over Senate. It has not been determined whether they belong to a pre-historic age or not, although Utah. and inquiring politicians, THz Araus will make a statement of its policy and position. It is not the organ of any political party, religious organization, faction, clique or individual. Neither is it opposed to any church or party. It endorses the good and disapproves of the bad in all. It is the enemy of no man and it has no favorites. It is a friend of humanity, an advocate of tolerance in religious matters, of honesty in public office and of purity in social wfe—lts_mission sto make the world better as far as its jurisdiction extends, to banish barbar- of current is Editor. = information there the Smithsonian institute, but in some way the expressman delivered them at that other hall of fossils and relics, the chamber of the national City, The Argus’ Position. affairs in Utah. favor, except the entitled. It has to pursue. Tur and happy if her house-cleaning spring. Washington. COPIPANY, Salt Lake NOBLE Still, a charm in the day itself that appeals to one, and the blood goes dancing through the body on a bright May morning, making every man his own queen of the May and every woman glad of it most gigantic tracks and has forwarded Address all communications to _ toms older than the May-dance and, in their time, more popular; but their only existence today is in books, and even the record left of them When became the people lost their heads, the simple tastes of men and women gave way to extravagance, and artificial amusements took the place of natural pleasures. In some parts of England and this country and in a few towns of Utah the day is still observed in a manner; but the generality of the celebration as a village holiday is gone for ever. Some superstitions cling to it like moss upon the ruins of a deserted chapel, and some of the ancient charms are practiced yet, as superstition is the thing for man tocast away from him. simple frolics are fading even from The custom of causing cows to leap over hardest But the memory. burning windrows of straw to save the milk from pilferers ; of suspending a doll in the street and piling floral offerings beneath it; of dipping or dashing with water those who had forgotten to wear a sprig of elm; of fastening emblems of leaves and flowers upon the doors of marriageable women; the records show that they were made before the lands were known to be inhabited. From certain marks and the depth of the imprints they are thought to indicate a visitation of political giants who may have invaded the country at some prior if not remote period, for purposes best known to themselves. Scientists are of the opinion that the depressions are nothing but the tracks of ‘“‘sooners,’” animals not altogether extinct. At all events an important discovery has been made \andithe State should seek to corral the gilson/te even if it has to return original owners. the fodtprints Last week Ture Araus tention to a current Note Investigate? official conduct to called atof the suspicion of their certain city councilmen and requested an official inquiry into the merits of the matter. Charges of bribery had been made by a very respectable lady of this city, the wife of a prominent contractor, whose general reputation for truth and veracity is certainly good, and whose point of view was about as near the stage of action as one who is not an actor usually gets. the daily favoritism The charges were published by papers which, through cowardice, or malice, allowed the suspicion to rest on every member of the council alike. This was so manifestly unfair that Tue Araus took pains to ascertain exactly who had been accused, and the names were accordingly placed in print. Attention was also directed to the popular tendency to believe any and every accusation against a public official, to the eminent respect- ability of the woman who had made the accusa- tions, to the corroborative rumors flying through the city; and THz Araus demanded an immediate investigation, believing these circumstances justified it, believing the public entitled to it, and believing that the men named would endorse the demand. Why shouldn’t thére be an investigation? [Does the council desife to quibble over the formality of preferring charges?¢. Tur Aravs: is disappointed that the men most concerned failed to insist upon an immediate. land thorough To-day witnesses the opening of the Tennessee centennial celebration. To-day In Tennessee. elder sister On the first day of June next, our will have been a member of the family one hundred years. All of the Southern states and some others have made appropriations and will take part in the festivities. Utah donated two thousand dollars to the exposition out of gratitude for the assistance received from Tennessee in the fight for statehood. Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and many Northern states have generously offered assistance and it promises to be a grand event. Thousands of southerners will be there, of the old and the new south, hundreds of people from elsewhere and everywhere. The residents of Tennessee are justly proud of their commonwealth and history, and their idea of a celebration was conceived in a spirit of enter- prise and only patriotism. for the Peopie purpose of will attend, seeing the not beauties, resources and development of the State, but on account of the heroic and historic memories which linger in the shadows of its many landmarks. The pioneers and founders of Tennessee among those who starved and suffered the struggle for national independence. seeans were red-coat time. among soldier Jackson, a Tennesseean; the from the patriots this hero so was who country drove the of New Davy were through Tennesthe second Orleans, was Crocket; so was Texas Houston—heroes all. President Polk was a Tennesseean, and Johnson, and Bell, and many another who took a prominent part in the making of American history.. The sturdy men of Jack- son’s State were always to be found where duty called them, and they never flinched when danger met thot. Tennessee was a bloody stage of action in the late rebellion. Sixty thousand Federal troops rest upon her bosom. The ashes of those who wore the blue and the gray are mingling with her soil. Upon the exposition grounds of to-day the Union soldiers bivouacked thirty-five years ago. And in that contest Tennessee suffered with the rest. The close of the war left the South with all of its old business conditions wiped out. Without propemy, capital, credit or large business experience, the people ef the South had only their natural faculties and undeveloped resources to depend on in the hard struggle for a restoration of their prosperity. But these have sufficed. They have shown in peace a pluck and persistency as great asin war, and have developed a business capacity not exceeded by that of the traditional Yankee. They have held their own in finance and banking, in railroad building and management, in developing the resources of their mineral wealth, in establishing manufactures, in improved agriculture and increased productivness, Every encouragement given to such people is an encouragement of progress and a stimulus to the development of the country at large. re Getting eady. Work on the Trans - Mississippi Exposition grounds has begun. Omaha, the site selected, will soon . center of the Union; that direction, and be the all eyes will be turned in artisans and tradesmen of of ac:mmittee for that purpose,*at the regular meeting last Tuesday evening. Officials charged every character will be flocking there with their plans, propositions, schemes and machinery, prepared to pick up an occasional dollar or obtain with malfeasance cannot establish their innocence by an assumption of anger or indifference; they concessions for the purpose of picking up a great many dollars when the exposition opens one year do not wipe out the indictment of public from next month. The object of the fair will be to direct attention to this empiré of, the West, to the wealth, resources, capabilities,, heauty av investigation of the matter, or the appointment opinion by treating the word of a woman like Mrs. Griffin with a lofty disdain ; they do not prove anything / } ° Lake ket Salt by threatening to lick some one who knows their names and dares to speak and write and print them. Again Tus Araus demands an investigation of the charges made by Mrs. Griffin. sae the cus- me at pails or tankards on their heads—these were \ Issued Weekly by THE ARGUS Entered of milk-maids dancing from house to house with atoL Argus. é Che ARGUS. ny ac Trae. |