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Show SONGS THAT STIRRED TH? BLOOD. e Tunes Thai Originated in Sunday Magical Influence of Some School Concerts Before the Gvil Var. Old-Tim- "What has become of tbe Sunday said a man who came out of a church In Firth avenue after a visit to the Sunday school room. "Maybe you never bad Sunday scbixd concerts in New York? "We did not call thru that in iny part of the country, but that is what they were. The Sunday schools were held in the afternoon. About an hour was devoted to muidr, to singing. It was the sort of music which children could sing, and the words were so simple that a mere tot could understand them. "Every now and then I read or hear about a concert of civil war songs. I should like to hear some of tbe old Sunday school muaic which Sam used to direct. "Of course you never heard of Sam McGlbbona. He was a Boston commercial drummer, but on Sunday he was a singer, lie was employed to conduct the Sunday school music in my town and he gave up the road and established business where he could give his time to the Sunday school concerts. There was a lot of hew Sunday school music about that time which nobody ever hears now. Sam McOib-bon- s was the first man in my county to bring out There's a Light in the Window for Thee. "He sang it first himself, and then he drilled the Sunday school to it until every boy and man in town whistled it on the street. About tbe same time there was another Sunday school favorite, March-school concert? Tapping Maple Tree. of tbe Vermont station ys: There are aome flue pointa to bo observed even in such a simple matter as tapping a sugar maple tree. Here are five points. Just for instance: Point 1. Only a sharp bit should be used one that will make a clean-cu- t A bulk-ti- n hole. 2.' Point The hole need not be more than three inches deep. The Investigations of the Vermont Experiment station have shown that hardly any sap comes from a greater depth. Point S. The hole should be carefully cleaned of chips, because even a very small quantity of waste matter will clog the spout, obstruct tbe flow of sap, and seriously reduce the yield of sugar. Point 4. A spout should be chosen of such a pattern as will allow the freest flow of sap. It should interfere with the wood tissue of the tree as little as possible. The bark, rather than the wood, should plsy an Important part in holding the spout Arm. Point 5. The spout should be strong enough, and its hold on the tree firm enough, so that It will safely support the sap bucket Moreover the spout should be easy to insert and easy to remove. The various spouts commonly sold at the hardware stores differ materially in their merits when Judged by the foregoing tests. The sugar maker will do well to examine them all carefully before buying his supply for the coming season. Plants of Colored Gloss. Colored glass may yet be used In the growing of certain plants, especially of those intended for ornamental purposes because of their foliage. In France some quite elaborate experiments have been made to ascertain the effect on plants, of different colors. One experimenter tried growing strawberries under different colored glasses. The largest and greenest plants were obtained when the yellow glass was used, but this gain was offset by a decrease in size of the fruit, by a decrease in the aggregate quantity obtained, and by the lateness of tbe fruit in maturing. Glass without color proved the best when large and early fruit was required. This of course proves that present SCUce in this lpjtter is correct. Tft largest!' number of fruits is not obtained under colorless glass. This result was obtained only when violet colored glass was used; but this kind of glass decreased the size of the fruit, injured the quality and rendered It later in maturing. It was found that green, red .:nd blue glasses injured the foliage of the plants. The natural conclusion is reached that glass should be used, except where it Is desired to stimulate the growth of foliage. Illinois Swinebreeders Meeting. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Illinois Association of Swine Breeders and Expert Judges was held in the agricultural building at Champaign, 111., Tuesday and Wednesday, January 6th and 7th. It was one of the most profitable meetings in the history of the organization. The program as published In the Review was carried out with but few exceptions. Only three of the speakers failed to respond. Several very interesting papers were read and the discussion was general and instructive. Resolutions were passed favoring the conrecords solidation of the Poland-Chlnand in favor of selling for cash or Its equivalent The meeting closed with a banquet at the Beardsley Hotel, to which about one hundred guests sat Officers were elected as foldown. lows:' President, II. O. Minnls of Edinburg, 111.; vice president, G. L. Burgess of Bement; secretary, Rainey Miller, Champaign: executive committee A. G. Woodbury, Danville; J. F. Kelly, Sullivan; J. A. Rosenbery, Goodwine. a Results of Thinning Fruit Pruning by thinning the fruit may have a very important, though Indirect effect in controlling the bearing year of many plants. If an individual fruit spur be carefully studied, it will be seen that there is usually an alteration in fruit bearing for the reason that the demands made by the fruit are so great that a fruit bud cannot develop the same year. So in the to develops bearing year, a leaf-bucontinue the spur tbe following year; and In this following, or barren year, a fruit bud is developed for the succeeding year. Alternate years fruit d bearing is then largely a question of food supply. If we wish to make a tree bear every year, it is necessary either to supply more food material, or to remove a portion of the fruit Prof. W. M. Munson. If you hsve built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that Is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Thoreau. IAS J. W. LAWRENCE, Manager. major-genera- WHERE SILENCE WAS GOLDEN. Effect on . l chorus of that old ing Along. sung had a a, jug to it like Marching Throiigh Georgia.' When Sam McGib-bun- s swung hit baton fur the Sunday school to come in On that chorus the standees Juinci in until the windows rattled. ) "When Co, Sana Curtis, who commanded the. jprrt Iowa Infantry he l afterward berime a was stationed is my town for a while in the beginning of the civil war, he went up to the Sunday sebool one day and heard that sing. He got Sam to go to the camp and sing it for his regiment, and they picked It up ; quickly. Col. Curtla asid if he could get hla men to Bing Jt when they went into battle he believed they would be inI don't know whether he vincible. ever tried it oa or not. Like unto it was the old Sung: 'I'm glad Im In this army, uui I'll battle for tbe T cause. "Another Sdmlay sebool favorite of that time waj' Homeward Bound. If Marching Along was a good army song, surely Homeward Bound must have been popular in the navy. "Sam McGlbbona used to sing alone a song called My Mother's Bible. With a good voice, such as McGibbons had, it was as effective as Sankeys The civil war Ninety and Nine. songs, however, began to come In along about that time, and the old Sunday school songs went to the rear. I reckon It was about that time that the New Sunday school concerts ceased. York Sun. THE Effective "Argument'" by Which Missouri Lawyer Won Verdict for Hia Client Against a Railroad Company. Bert Norton! of Macon, Mo won a lawsuit in the Federal court at Hannibal a few days ago in a way unusual among lawyers by silence. Mrs. Martha B. Phipps of Macon sued the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway company for $15,000. She claimed that a spark from one of Its engines caused the burning of her deceased husband's business property st Ethel. Tbe testimony showed that the Santa Fe train stopped at Ethel four minutes the night of the fire, but also that the fire was well under way before tbe Carries a Complete Line of GROCERIES AND MEATS Main Street, Stockton. The Best and Largest Meat Market in Tooele County. Fresh Meats, Always on Hand, and Always a Variety. Jurymen leaned over and looked down at the watch. Then they got tired and settled back in their seats. Mr. Harlan lowered bis hand and rested It on his knee. The attorney shifted hla feet a few times and sat down in a chair. Judge Adams looked at the clock and then out of the window. A deputy marshal put his head in at the door to see what the matter was and waited the result of the ruriouB scene. Nearly every man in the room that had a The watch was studying its face. speaker was sacrificing four minutes but he felt that it an$L Lhr, wuullw statfir At last Juror Harneys argued that it was ridiculous to was well lsvet-ld- . maintain that a fire could be Btarted lan announced? the four minutes bad by a spark and get well under way in expired and handed the watch back to such a short time. Mr. Norton devoted Mr. Norton!, bnly four minutes, and practically bis entire argument to this yet to every man in tbe room it had seemed, under the suppressed tension, point. THOS. BEBB, "He Bald, says the Macon Repub- to have been twice as long. The court decase had been the was after remarked fellow "If a lican, young sitting on a sofa, playing hands with his girl, cided that It appeared fully fifteen time traveled like an express train, minutes. The wearisome suspense but If you dumped a lot of engine was an effective object lesson to the parks on the pine roof of a dry build- jury, and was a startling exposition of ing in summer time, four minutes were what might transpire in that time. The ample to nettle the fate of the struc- jury found that the defendant's engine ture in spite of all efforts to save it. had ample time In four minutes to fire There were some incredulous smiles at the restaurant building, and they this. The attorney took out bis watch brought in a verdict for the plaintiff Parrots as Advertisers. and handed it to Juryman L. S. Har- for $14,198.28 the exact sum her A London Instructor of parrots lan, a banker of Clifton Hill, Randolph proof showed her loss to be. The cate ten courts the in to been bad him of a and makes signal pending training them requested county, specialty Kansas City vMo.) Journal. to he advertisers. They are taught so when four minutes had elapsed. The years. that whenever they see anyone enter a shop they say, Have you tried ORGANIZATION OF THE G. A. R. 'Milk Porridge? or Hair Restorer? or whatever the commodity is. The parrots cage, bearing a Veteran Printer Tells Some Interesting Facts in Connection With the label advertising the patent commoon the shop counter, and "Setting Up" of the First RituaL stands dity, the bird puffs the article all day first post, and I had to make affidavit long, for he has been purposely taught "Do you know," said Farmer nothing elBe. Some of the mammoth a compositor to it food manufacturing firms have bought of central Illinois, "that If Joe Pryor different was The organization and me hadnt been printers Decatur then, and had a somewhat different several of these advertising parrots, might not have been the birthplace of idea. You will remember that It be- and lend them out to the shops that the Grand Army of the Republic? came involved in politics and came puff their particular specialty. Stephenson and Routh, tbe origins-tor- s near going to pieces until Gen. John Peculiarity of the Letter "O. or the Grand Army, planned to A. Logan was chosen national comwhich was sued in the WestA firm make It a secret affair. They got up mander. Its idea was to uphold the county court reminster (England) of stuff a lot contained which of a ritual government, and It was a sort a sign defended of the for price and were anxious that nobody but old patriotic vigilance committee. It even cently on the that the o case ground the to came soldiers should see it. Routh passed resolutions asking for the re- in their name was smaller than the Decatur from Springfield and engaged moval of antne whose letters. It was proved by Pryor and me to set it up. They took records did not suit the old soldiers. other however, that It was a measurement, solold the up subscriptions among Right after the war things were In sixteenth of an inch larger, allowance us for our work. diers to pay bad shape, and It did not take much ' having been made for the fact that, "It was Intended to organize at to excite the public mind. to an optical illusion, the letter veterans Deratnr but the Springfield, "I dont know but what Routh ought owing looks smaller than the o always became Interested, and it was tried to have the most credit for starting letters. Judgment was Decaneighboring how and that 'is on them first, I guess Stephenson the order, though makers. the for sign tur defeated Springfield for the dis- thought of it first. 1 thought more of given tinction of being the birthplace of the Routh. He was a genius and of greater A Peculiar Philanthropist G. A. R. The ritual had a lot of stuff caliber than in the New York Press tells a I Tip had Stephenson. in it that was afterwanl rut out. The lot of the rituals we printed of a peculiar philanthropist who has original Sons of Malta was the tblng then, stored at my house for a good many been doing his good work regularly for and the G. A. R. ritual was patterned years, but I finally destroyed them." years. He goes from undertaker to that of the Bloomington Corresitondence considerably after Chicago undertaker about once a mouth and Maltas. asks for the unpaid funeral bills. If Inter Ocean. and "The copy of Stephenson he can buy for fifty cents on the dob mess, Routh was a badly mlxcd-uhe lar he does so; if for seventy-fivIt so that It an Dick Steele New York in Farming Business.' does so; if for ninety he docs so. If became intelligible for the composiThe city of Xew York does a little he Is asked to pay in full he does so. tors. It had long eulogies of Lincoln in the agricultural line occasionally. The undertaker is required to send a and Douglas, and did not resemble Thus $182.;n has been received from receipt in full to tbe debtors, but withthat in use by the Grand Army the net proceeds of an auction sale out mentioning the name of the one to any appreciable extent. I read It of apples held on the new Croton dam who paid the bilL The philanthropist all some time ago, when the conten- division of the new acqueduct It understands well the hard strain It la tion came up between Decatur and has been transmitted to the city cham- for the poor to dead detheir bury Rockford as to which had the better berlain for the credit of the water and knows the rapacity of the cently, authenticated claim to having the fond. undertaker. BEEF, MUTTON, PORK, VEAL ! . The Honerine Confectionery Proprietor. All Kinds of Delicacies in the Confectionery Line. Main Street, Col-trl- well-know- n old-tim- Elk Horn WHISKEY A Fine Old Bonrboa Nine Years old. 4 n, e office-holde- rs p e to-da- y Stockton. 3 .Sift. saeneso $3.40- phopaid- - to snv point on railroad In Utah. Idaho and Wyoming. Four full quarts packed la plain hoxoa. No marks to ahow what u inside . Send for trial order. If yon are not ot perfectly satisfied with Roods,willreturn rebe my expense and your $3.40 turned by the next mall. Kemit hy 3 postal order or hank exchange. 3 Keferenoa, National bank of Republlo, 4 Dun and Bradstreet'e Mercantile Agencies. 1 C. H. R.EILLEY, 1 ELK LIQVOK CO. E. First So. St wsm 3 : 80 toi Salt Lake City, Vlah. nnnnmTTmrn'HMMMimiwffwwn Current Time Card Salt Lake & Mercur Railroad, In Effect April , ISOS. Leave Salt Loka via Ol B. L VKio Leave Fairfield via 8. L. A II 0Ma Laavo Manning via S. L. A M IS Mom 11 Mom Arrive Mercur via S. L. A M Leevo Mercur via S. L. A 1C I SO p m Leave Manning via S. L. A M....... 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