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Show TRUTH Aams educational. of the freshman class is bugler. basket-ba- ll took place on Monday afternoon at the Second Hand Sewing Machines Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. It was beand Repairing. tween the junior and freshman teams. Mr. Rippetoe was referee. Miss Williams and Miss Burling were umpires. WILES, JOHNSON & CO., The line-u- p was as follows: Junior Freshman. 29 East First South, Salt Lake Citv. Louise Baseom c Clara Gilson Ethe1 Rogers 1. f... Blanche Sparling. r. f Edna Evans ;vysta.l I atten Ethyl Thompson....!, g Mary Hodgson THE OLDEST MAN AND WOMAN Hazei Stevens r. g Ida Jensch LIVING. Substitutes for center and guard, Ethel Cahoon; for forward, Mildred Ott. rhe first match game of Superintendent Van Cott, stioerintendent Hinckley of the Provo and Mr. Doxey of the Hamil-- S county are urging the city and gucerintendents of the- ntlr Ste to become personally Interested In teachers to Join the "raring the The school BOciation. JSrds are requested to grant a week's ZWy to the teachers in attendance at where the Sr convention. In States most progres-51-- e is the work educational Dr. J. T. Kingsbury returned early continue salaries teachers the in which is the week from his trip to Washingwork, Institute all through ton, D. C., where he attended the conmade almost compulsory to the teachrevention of the National Association of ers who wish to keep up to the school Serf quired ll Rider Haggard, when he described the withering up of his heroine in the caves of Kor, was probably drawing on his imagination, yet his graphic picture of the unutterable age on the face of the poor remains of She, would do well as a description of two living, breathing human beings, living within a days journey of Salt Lake City. The upper end of Skull valley, Tooele county, was as cosmopolitan a population as can be found in any purely rural section of the United States. There are Samoans, New Zealanders, ITawaiians and other Pacific islanders, who have a colony of their own. There are a few Europeans, a number of negroes and the remnant of a tribe of Indians. These latter number five or six lodges, and it is here where live the two oldest people in the world. The tribe is what is known as the Goshute, whose hunting grounds were in the neighborhood of the Great Salt Lake. They were once very numerous, but war and disease had made great inroads upon them before the pathfinder crossed the plains. But while the tribe was in the heighth of its prosperity, these two were old. When Washington was winning the liberty of the colonists, they say, they were children playing before the tepees of their fathers. The two are man and woman, and have lived in the same village, they claim, for nearly one hundred and fifty years. To describe them is almost an Their frames are bent nearly double, and they have wasted away to such a degree that they are as small as children. Their eyes have far into their heads, and they glare at the Intruder with an expression that hardly looks human. They are almost hairless, and the skin looks as If it is mumified before death. The flesh has gone from their hands, and their uncut fingernails gives them the appearance of claws. Age unutterable is depicted in every feature. The visitor stands aghast in their presence when he sees them for the first time. than They have no the tribal one, and live in different lodges, very seldom going far from their homes. They speak only a little of the English language, so must be conversed with in their mother tongue or through an interpreter. The man is far more the intelligent of the two, and is looked up to with a members degree of respect by the other of the tribe that is akin to awe. He was born a chief, and though his mental powers have become very weak, his advice is always asked, and very often closely followed by his tribesmen. State Universities. During his absence he visited several of the foremost State standard of work. universities of the East. Many changes have ocurred in the teaching corps of the city schools, owing to various causes, yet the schools are in a very satisfactory state. Profs. Allen and Stewart gave their illustrated lecture, The Moral Value of an Education, at Taylorsville last Sunday night. Emily Davis, formerly of the Franklin, fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Cochran. Miss Robert F. Heyward addressed the engineers on Monday. The dramatic association is now holding two rehearsals a week, preparatory to presenting The School Mistress, Miss Ella James of Woods Cross is on December 19th. Miss Potters assistant at the Jackson, in place of Miss Cape, who has been promoted to the Irving. The senior class have as their committee to select and submit designs Miss Lytle, who has been having for class pins, Elias Hansen, T. F. double sessions in the Sumner and Jack, McDonald, Jay Groo and Will Ray. son, now has charge of the room at the Franklin formerly taught by Miss Davis. Prof. G. M. Marshall will meet the teachers of the city and county today to ogranize the English Literature Mrs. Leatherwood of Hiawatha, class. This class is under the auspices Kas., on Monday assumed control of of the University, and is to meet the Miss Carrie Daviss room at the requirements of teachers who are deWebster. sirous of completing the work necessary for the State certificate and diplomas. The meeting will be held at Miss Sedgwick of the Union school the city and county building in the has been granted a leave of absence for City Superintendents office at 1 the rest of the on o'clock. ill account of year health. Her place will be filled by Miss Georgia Wheeler of the Whittier. Red and Black made its first appearance yesterday in an artistic Miss Louise Morris of the design in red and black Carpenteria, tal., takes the place at the Whittier cover; the was by Sheckell, Owings niade vacant by Miss Wheeler's transfer to the Union school. staff of the Others staff artist. in charge are: Assistant Murphy, manager; Thomas Gibbons, assistant Lewis Sowles, editor; literary Miss Katherine McDonald is in manager; cnarge of the new room opened at the editors, Evelyn Mason, Ethel Conelly, Louise Walden; reporters, Fern Hobbs, Jackson on Monday morning. Brenton Tempest, Amy Addoms, Louise Baseom John Jensen, Elizabeth Palmer, Maude Wheeler, Mamie Comstock, Teachers Reading circle of Big Georgle Whitehead, Edwin Tolhurst. Clawson, Arthur Moreton. There East Mill Creek and Grace 500 ntflwo)d were copies issued, and its manheld a very enjoyable session assurance that the paper gives evening at Big Cotton- - ager wrJrdtsday of be full will high school news and a The following programme was way, Mum? te: .,,,LIfe of Eousseau, G. M. creditable periodical in every though the price has been reduced to 5if,?rdi. His Work and Principals 25 cents. It starts out on a good finanion E- - H. Drummond; Life S basis, andTruth extends best Parker, Miss Mary cial wishes for Its success. 01d and the New Edu- catlft? Nelson; "Condition of C,,W thi s In Which the Plot of Quo Va.ii;as, Laid," Miss Alice Horkin; Mlss EtookraRpeer?f 'Qu0 Vadls re-cec- other-relationshi- - UP invade?nasl. In epelHng contests has high school classes. Stol8thn'u?dlrd,s en MondayUdy second-yeclass bef the Anclent Mariner ar I:l?Ures hlffh school students the Art inBHfa7arded the prizes by aUte have attracted much aDle ntice at the exhibition. h are now sounded and noon assemblys. J Dolls, T oys, Games, Books, Xmas Cards, Calendars i Which ttornlmr NOW OPEN. without the spur of for Max And Novelties. 4 Stock In the City. 4 Largest and Best Selected and get your Choice at Right Prices. Purchase Early 4 4 i i CANNON BOOK STORE, a Deseret News, Proprietors, II and 13 South Main Street. 4 VC i &F V WW "Yes. Where was it? By the great water. How long ago was that? When your fathers were in their childhood. . How many moons? Many hundreds, I think. "Do you remember the first white man who came into these parts?" "Yes, he came from the south. Did he speak as we speak? No, he used another tongue. "Do you remember the great war? My people have had many wars. Of the white men, we mean? I have heard of many. "What was the first one? My fathers told me of one, beyond the great river by the rising sun. Did they see It? No, they heard of it from others who came to our country from that direction. Did you hear of the great war which was made by the first great father, Washington? I was a child then. I heard my father speak of it." Do you recall the first of our people you ever saw? Yes, he was a hunter, and his wife was a squaw. Who was the next one?There were other hunters, and then came a chief with his warriors. Have you children ? i "Yes, and their children have children. My own are all gone. "Do you recall when the company came and settled in the valley? "Yes, I watched them as they came their through the great canyon with buildwhite top waggons. I saw thqm ing their lodges and planting their cane. Many more questions of a like character were asked, the answers , all being along the same lines. Though he has lived to twice the age alloted to man, his life has been cramped and narrow, shut in by the Wasatch range, which has bounded his hunting grounds. For the past twenty-fiv- e years he has scarcely been beyond the sight of his tepee in Skull valley. a The old woman is his senior by few years. When asked about her, the old man said that she was a maiden when he was a papoose. There is no romance in lives like these two have lived. If there ever. had been any, it has been dead for a hundred years. The great world has moved on at the most rapid pace known to humanity since the pair first saw the no light of day, and they have had hand in it. The century and a half through which they say they have been upon earth, has left them where it found their fathers before the advent of the white man. A nation has been born and grown to a lusty manhood within the limit of their memory. The locomotive engine has penetrated the mountains, breaking up their quiet forever, and bringing the civilization of the white man, and it has passed them by without effect, only to make their I if any thing, worse than it was before, driving the game away from their hunting grounds. They may live for years yet, as their condition has not apparently changed since the pioneers settled In the wilderness. Even their memories are useless to humanity, their chances of observation having been too cramped to be.of any1 practical use. They have lived to a great age, and this is all that can be said. . tjr. Sca In spelling has not awL !;i,eres,t th.0U8:l1 the contests In some of thus&l8 have closed yet the The woman is far in her dotage, and seemingly has lost every faculty except the power to live. The village waq visited a short time ago for the purpose of learning, if possible, the history of the pair. The old man glared at the intruders when they entered the lodge, and shrinking into the farthest corner he could find, refused to say a word. When given a piece of tobacco, which he still uses, he accepted the gift but was only half mollified, and still refused to answer a. question. It was only after much persuasion on the part of several members of the tribe, as well as the presentation of other gifts than tobacco, that he would consent to talk. "How old are you? was naturally the first question asked. The moons are so great in number that they cannot be counted, was the reply. Can you remember the first white man you ever saw? was then asked. - ed con-dio- n, J . Extra copies of back numbers of Tbuth can be had at the office, 11 and 12 Central Block. |