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Show v STANDING WIXOM, $1 Office 25 to & luree Mouths...., at Brigham City as second class inattei HYKl'M STANDING, Editor. INSTRUCTIONS to correspondents. Items of news are solicited from all parts of thev country rite upon one side of the paper only Write proper mimes plainly In oUer to protect tne publisher from 1m positious from irresponsible persons, the full name of Vie author mould be signed to alt com muoic.iiloiis Ine identity of correspond nts am be withheld whenever desired PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NWS. Nells J. Hertvigsen, one of the best known citizens of Mt. Sterling, Is dead. Another opera house is one of the possibilities of the near future for Ogden. Salt Lake physicians are opposing the appointment of a city physician who Is opposed to vaccination. It has been made unlawful for any one to drink Intoxicating liquors upon the streets or alleys of Malad City. The son of Mrs. Susan WInward, of Salt Lake City( fell Into a tub of boiling water and Is In a precarious condition. Lasca Btck, an girl of Kanosh, was tripped up while running from school by a boy and her collar bone broken. The San Pedro Is pushing the work on the seven-stal- l round house at Tin-ti- c Junction and material is being rushed t.bere as fast as possible. While hauling ice at Deweyville, 6. M. Burbanks had the misfortune to lose blB team, The horses slipped into the river and floated uner the Ice. Andrew Marx, convicted of casting two ballots at the last regular election held at Mt. Pleasant, has been sen-fenced to six months imprisonment. collision at Promon-ty- , In a rear-enon the Lucln cut-olthree Greeks were killed and six injured, a being overturned and falling on the men. eight-year-ol- , d f, car-plo- of pitchblende, from Large deposits wiilch radium is obtained, have been discovered in southern Utah, and quantities of this will be shown at the St. Louis fair. , Secretary Shaw has transmitted to congress a request for an appropriation of 55,000 for the construction of beds at a modern hospital for thirty-siFort Douglas. John Peterson and 'Joseph Thorpe have contracted with Salt Lake parties to furnish ten carloads of oolite stone. Their quarries are located about two miles east of Ephraim. Mayor Morris of Salt Lake City has decided to allow boxing contests in Salt Lake City, so long as the fight are conducted in a clean, legltmate way, and do not savor of fakes. Mrs. Karren Maria Morcnsen, who recently died at Moab, was the oldest woman there, being 89 years of age. She came to Utah in 1867, and until three years ago had lived in Salt Lake. John Smuln, an aged and prominent resident of Ogden, was found dead in bed at his home. ' Death was caused by apoplexy. He was 83 years ofg-an- d leaves a JNBfeSHhUdren! x NORWAY WIPES TOWN FROM FACE OF EARTH. w i WAR CLOUDS LIFTING BOTH JAPAN AND RUSSIA STRIVING FOR PEACE. It Is Believed That Settlement Will be Reached, as Points at Issue Are of Snail Importance. The following is said to be the pre3 ent status of negotiations between Russia and Japan: Russia recognizes d one-thir- d , y ,nd v four-fifth- n p Mittel-deutsch- Frankfort-on-the-Mai- p banks. Pure Food Bill Paste the House. The house passed the Hepburn pure food bill on Wednesday on a rising churia, which Russia thus far has declined to grant, It is pointed out, however, that the assurance given a few days ago by Russia regarding open ports in Manchuria and respect for treaty rights Is a concession on this point. That the two countries are not so far apart may be fairly inferred from the following statement made by Mr. Kurrino, the Japanese minister: War now would only be disastrous to both countries. Owing to the geographical situation, an armed conflict would result in a great drain on the men and treasury of both Japan and Russia, without being decisive. Besides, I believe it would not be worth while to go to war on the questions still in disThere is a strong indication pute. that through the czars personal acts the peace party Is completely In the COLOMBIAS CLAIMS. Declare Conspiracy Was Formed to Organize Repubiie of Panama. President Roosevelt transmitted to the senate Monday additional correspondence touching the relations of the United States with Colombia and Panama, covering the period from December 23, 1903, to January last A statement of grievances on the part of Colombia was presented to the state department by General Reyes on December 23. General Reyes says that the course of the United States had worked deep Injury to Colombia, and he cited the treaty of 1864 as showing that the independence and sovereignty of Colombia waa to be JharaUlned intact between th.wo governments. General Rejig said with reference to n ft treaty that the same course waa followed In Bogota as was If the treaty pursued in Washington. he said, had been rejected in Washington, the disapproval would have involved po grievance for Colombia and that the Colombian congress in its disapproval of the treaty simply exercised a vested right This action, he maintained, did not disqualify the Colombian government for the conclusion of enother treaty. As to the recognition of the republic of Panama, General Reyes says it is Hay-Herra- People Meet Death and hr J. BULL "HUM! NOWS Womans Scheme to MY CHANCE! The fire the Coast of Bachelors. Ernestine Schmindt of San Francisco is determined that ail unmarried women may have husbands if they want them. With this object in view, she has filed with the board of supervisors a petiton asking that an ordinance be passed providing that any male person over the age of 21 upon being proposed to by an unmarried female over the age of 18 years and who is of the same and religion is not engaged or prohibited by the law from Intermarrying, who shall refuse to accept such proposal and to marry said female, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." Rid Ghost Haunts Hawaii. The steamer Aorangi brings news from Honolulu that an entire district of Hawaii is because of the reported appeal ance of a ghost When Shem Unoaka. a well known native, died, his relatives buried him In the ground, instead of In a cave In accordance with the native custom and they claim that on this account retun,ed to haunt them. Ihe natives are panic-stricke- n -- DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Idaho Town le Visited by a Destructive Blaze. The town of Meridian, ten miles from Boise, Idaho, was visited by a bad fire early Monday morning. The drug store of Compton & Reynolds was destroyed. The postoffice in the same building was burned out and all the mall destroyed. Loss to Compton A Reynolds, $4,500; insurance. $2,000 The Tribune plant In the basement was destroyed; loss, $800. A small building adjoining was also burned. Courts After Colorado Smelters. Iroquois Theatre Sits Will be Offered In the quo warranto suit brought by to City of Chicago. the attorney general of Colorado Arthur E. Hull, leader of the Iro- against the American Smelting & ReanMemorial quois association, fining company for a forfeiture of its nounces that he will offer the eite of failure to pay $8,000 corporation tax the Iroquois theatre for the erection under the law of 1902, Judge Carpenof a memorial to the victims. Mr. ter in the district court gave JudgHull refused to say who authorized ment for the state. The effect of the him to make the offer, but he declares decision Is to deprive the company of It Is one of the foremost surgeons of any standing In court. The company, the city of Chicago. The heirs of in common with other corporations, the estate of which tbe .site is a part has held that th law was invalid, and have agreed to convey It, with ail will teet it in the supreme court leaseholds, to the association, Mr. Hull ay a. Boston Herald. Marriage to Son of Senator Hanna Waa Bigamous. Justice Jeune, In the divorce division of the high court of justice in London on Monday granted Major Walter De Sumarez Maud a divorce from his wife, on the ground that her marriage to Daniel R. Hanna of Cleveland, 0 was bigamous. were married in New York April 19, 1897, While Maud was fighting In South Africa his wife obtained a divorce from him in America and on February 19, 1900 ' married Mr. Hanna. The-Maud- s Preparing for Trouble. A supplemental estimate for an appropriation of $3,445,000 for "armament of fortification was transmitted to the bouse Monday by Secretary Root With this appropriation it is proposed to procure thirteen automatic machine guns for use in sea coast forts, also 160 antom&tlc pom pom guns, also 200 guns of a caliber large enough to fir effective shrapnel, 700 guns. Ammunition for th different guns has been requested. y XMAS Business Instinct Highly Little Freddie. It was Christmas Eve. Freddi on his way home from the school, where he had been a !!L attendant for several weeks h nual conversion had been reward Families Entire Perishing. a substantial way, for he had feasted upon the good things m over tornado swept A disastrous world, but he bore under his Moundviile, Ala., a town of 300 in- beautiful blue and gold book habitants. early Friday, and as a re- showed him how to get to th r. started in one of the smaller rooms from a defective electric wire and spread to the larger stock rooms, com- - n A PERVERTED More Than a Hundred Are Injured, o The United States Steel corporation sustained a $3,000,000 loss by fire Wednesday at the plant of the Shelby Chance for Cheap Salt The greatest fight In the history of the salt trade on the Pacific coast is now at its height. Conflicting interests are warring for the control of the market On one- side Is what is left of the old combination known as the federal salt trust now known as the Imperial Salt company. On the other side is the Amalgamated Sait company, which includes in its member ship the owners of many salt works around the bay of San Francisco. Prices are so low no more quotations are made. Thirty-Seve- FACE THE 5IRST A Three Million Dollar Fire. pletely destroying them. The product of the entire plant for the past six months was destroyed within an hour, consisting of 800,000 tons, making in all 25,000,000 feet of finished product, valued at $3,000,000. SWEPT FROM THE OF THE EARTH. TOWN sult thirty-sevepersons were killed and more than 100 injured. Every business house, with the exception of a small store, was completely destroyed. The tornado struck the city from the southwest, and mowed a path a quarter of a mile wide through the town. Surgeons were rushed to Mound-vill- e from .Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and all possible was done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. By the GUN force of the storm persons were Mown hundreds of feet from their beds in the blackness of night. Through terror, a father, mother and three children fled from their home to seek refuge, and in their excitement left a boy in bed. Later he was pulled from beneath some timber and thus far it is impossible to find any other member of the family. Bedding, carpets and wearing apparel are scattered over a distance of ten miles through what was a forest, but which is now as clear as if cut by the woodmans ax. Freight cars were torn to splinters, the trucks from them being hurled hundreds of feet from the track. The depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins, thirty homes, seven storehouses, together with their stocks, were completely destroyed. Where they stood It is impossible to find even the pillars upon which these structures rested. Bales of cotton which were stored in warehouses were torn to atoms, the fragments of lint lodging in trees, making it appear as though that section had been visited by a snowstorm. Heavy iron safes, the doors of dhich in some instances were torn from their hinges, were carried away by the force of the wind. Minneapolis Tribune. The town of Hull, four miles north a matter of public knowledge that the of Moundviile, suffered from the tormother country commands sufficient nado. The Bates Lumber companys forces to subdue a revolution. General planing department was completely wrecked and the negro firemen Reyea continues; Four residences and one Before tbe coup da main which crushed. church were demolished. the of the proclaimed independence isthmus took place at Panama there PAYS THE PENALTY. were in this very city agents of the authors of that court In conference Pleasant Armstrong Executed for the with high personages clothed with ofMurder of His Sweethjart. , . ficial character, as Is asserted by Pleasant Arm8tv-,g''whmurdered reputable American newspapers. I have Minnie EnspJager near Haines, Ore., received Information to th effect that 0 ChrAimas morning, 1902, was exea bank in New York opened a considcuted In the jail yard at Baker City erable credit in their favor with- on Friday morning. The trap was knowledge oIth?f9B28h,'use for at 6:58 oclock and the doctors VuifMTwas Intended, even though un- sprung him dead nine minutes pronounced aware that it was to be applied. In after the drop. His neck was broken part, to the bribery of a large part of by the fall. the garrison at Panama. The execution was perfect as to detail. Armstrong was brave and mainPERISHED IN MOUNTAINS. tained his iron nerve until the last. Woman Frozen to Death In Lonely He made a brief address to the asPass In Colorado. sembled crowd, saying that he was A telephone message received In sorry for his crime, but that he was LeadvlUe from Tennessee Pass states going to meet the girl, Minnie that the frozen body of Mr. John L. Scott, who left Leadvllle last Tuesday The murder for which Armstrong to join her husband in the mountains, paid the penalty was committed at the had been found in a lonely pass in that ranch of his victims brother-in-law- , section. The woman had been dead Joseph Henner, on Christmas night for several days, and distorted 1902. Miss Ensminger had broken a features told only too plainly the ter- marriage engagement with Armstrong rible death she suffered from cold, who sought her life in revenge. hunger and exposure. vote, 201 to 68, Its opponents being unable to secure a roll call on the bill. The amendment of Inserting the word with reference to persons wilful, who sell adulterated or goods, and which would have compelled the government to prove Intent to violate the law by the venders, was Stricken out on a yea and nay vote In the house. No material change of the original bill was made. (O.) Steel Tubs company. TORNADO IN ALABAMA predominance in Korea and Japan recognizes Russia's special position in Manchuria. There are two main questions still at issue the Russian demand for a neutral zone upon the Korean side of the Yalu river, which Japan met with a proposal for a similar neutral strip on the Manchuria side. Japan also asks for certain guarantees covering Man ascendant Japans $60,-00- 0 liSIKaUieatrical performance , at I some one shouted 'Fire, a panic resulting, no one being seriously injured, however. The fire proved to be in a building some distance down Colonel Lynch Released From Prison. Colonel Arthur Lynch, who comtbe street ... A special election was held at manded the Irish brigade against the Springville last wepk on the prohibi- British forces during the war in South tion question, and resulted in a victory Africa, and who was afterward confor prohibition. The vote stood 344 victed of treason and sentenced to for prohibition and 212 in favor of imprisonment for life, has been liberated on license. Lynch has not regranting a license. Florence Fullmer, aged 9, of Abra- ceived the royal , pardon. Colonel Lynch will enjoy personal liberty and ham, walked off a moving train be- may even leave the should he tween Salt' Lake and Ogden, while care to do so, but notcountry having received asleep, sustaining a broken nos and the royal pardon, he is disqualified being badly shaken up. She is rapidly from sitting in parliament and from holding any public office. recovering, however. At the annual meeting of the Utah War Outlook is Ominous. Press association, held In Salt Lake Reports of an alarming nature of City on the 8th, it was decided to ac- the situation there continue to pour cept the invitation extended to attend out of the far east. These include the Editors congress at St. Louis dur- the statements that the Japanese are ing the week of May 14. landing an army at Sara Pho, Korea, The new officers of the Utah Press and that 3,000 Russian troops are association are; President, William crossing the Yalu river. The reported Buys, Wasatch Wave, Heber City; first dispatch of a Chinese army of Vice president. Major E. A. Littlefield, trained by European officers, Utah State Journal, Ogden; second beyond the great wall to preserve orJ. M. Boyden, Mt, der in Manchuria cannot vice president. be conPleasant Pyramid; third vice presi- firmed. dent, J. B. Graham, Bingham Bulletin; Trade With Philippines. i ''corresponding secretary, I. E, Diehl, The Philippine trade statistics of Mammoth Record; secretary, Parley P. Jenson, Blkuben, Salt Lake City; the insular bureau of the war departtreasurer, W. R. McBride. Provo Dem- ment show that the imports during ocrat; historian, J. T. Jakeman, Mer-cu- r the eight months ended August, 1903, Miner. , aggregated $22,266,580, and exports Utahs mining exhibit is expected to $20,867,313. These figures are exclu-slhe one of the most interesting made of coin and government supplies. by' any state at the St, Louis exposi- The aggregate of exports and imports tion. A miniature concentrating plant is an increase of almost $6,000,000, s of which may be credIs nearly finished and will be one of over the Interesting features of the minltig ited to shipments from the archipelago, the hemp and copper output besection. ing especially large. Work on the San Pedro is . Makes Financiers Smile. Ing rapidly. The rails have been laid near! to the Kiernan ranch. The The financial papers of Berlin regrade is rapidly nearing completion gard the capital of $5,000,000 with as far down as Moapah, and it is ex- which the German Petroleum compected that the rails will be laid that pany was organized to compete with far by May 1. , the Standard Oil company as a As the result of "an entertainment trifle compared with the paid-ugiven in Salt Lake City on Friday capital of the Rockefeller concern. night of last week, the sum of $1,500 The founders are the Deutsche bank, was realized, the amount to be do- the Vienna Bank Verein, the e nated to the families of the street car Kredit bank, the National men who were murdered by a hold-ubank, Jacob Stern of and the Handel and Industrial a short time since. WJ' fnralm, COURTS WILL NOT INTERFERE. Governor a',d Militia of Colorado Are Oniy Enforcing Law. Judge Mosea Haliett, in the United States district court at Denver, os The Eleven Thousand Inhaoitants Are Wednesday, after consideration of the Compelled to Camp Out, Only One Sheriff Parker habeas corpus suit Building in Town Being Saved. authorities of against the military Colorado, anonunced that his court is The fire which swept over the town without Jurisdiction in the matter. of Aalesund, Norway, Sunday morning( Parker is a miner of Cripplo Creek destroyed every building in it, with who is held in the military bull pen the exception of the hospital. The without warrant In his opinion ll.OtlO inhabitants of Aalesund were Judge Haliett says; compelled to camp in the open, as In times of turbulence and where only a few damaged and uninhabitthere is a probability of violence, disable houses were left standing. The cretion may ho exercised on the part children of the town had to be housed of the authorities in holding prisoners temporarily in the church at Borgund. without bail and holding them in cusThe panic among the people was tody until reasonbie Investigation has so great after the outbreak of the been made. flames that all attempts at leadership In concluding his opinion Judge or discipline became out of the ques- Haliett says: The people of the tion; no excesses, however, were com- state are to be congratulated in havmitted. The destruction of the town ing a governor who will enforce the was complete within a couple of hours law. The court will not Interfere with from the time the fire started. him In the execution of his duties. Over twenty steam fishing boats and WOULD ANNEX PANAMA. many sailing smacks were sunk in the harbor in order to save them from the flames. It is believed now that Senator a Bill Morgan Introduces only three persons lost their lives. to End. That Looking Succor has arrived and provisions are Relief committees being distributed. Senator Morgan on Wednesday informed have been and have invited troduced a bill providing for the anpublic subscriptions. nexation of Panama to the United A majority of the inhabitants of the town lost everything they possessed. States, the rights and property of Thousands of persons had to spend Panama resting in the United States twenty-fou- r hours In the open fields, without reserve. where they were without food and exTbe bill appropriates $10,000,000 as posed to a bitterly cold wind and a compensation to Panama for Its cesdriving rainstorm. sion; places $10,000,000 at the disposal WAR ON AMERICANS. of the president for the compensation Korean Mob Partially Wrecks Elec- of Colombia, and appropriates 000 for the purchase of the proptric Car at Seoul. of the new Panama Canal comerty The war department has received In Colombia, including the Panpany Information of an attack by a mob of ama canal. It is especially provided Koreans on an electric car, the lino tbfkt the provisions of the bill shall not being owned by Americans, because have the effect of repealing the of the fact that it had killed a Koact. rean. A cablegram from Seoul gives Spooner this account of the trouble; An acciBEHEADED HER CHILD. dent on the electric street railway here today, which resulted in the kill- Awful Deed of an Insane Mother In ing of a Korean, led to rioting on the New Jersey. part of the populace. The marine Mrs. Arthur Oswald was arrested on guard at the American legation, however, who had recourse to their fire- the charge of murdering her arms, succeeded in preventing the son at her home in Oakland, N. J. She trouble from assuming serious propor- is believed to be Insane. Tbe tragedy tions. was discovered by the womans husTowns Submerged. band when he returned home late at The crest of the flood at Wheeling, night. As he entered the dining room W. Va., was reached at 4 oclock Sunhe was horrified to see the headless day afternoon, when the stage was 44 body of bis 6 year-olson lying on feet 2 inches. Fully of the the floor. Tbe head lay near the body. homes in the city were wholly or par- Nearby lay the body of hia pet dog, tially inundated and the sharp fall in which also had hen beheaded., Oswald temperature has caused a great deal fopnd his wife lying In bed with of suffering, On the Island very few her young baby in her arms. She was streets are out of the water, and many singing softly to the Infant Near second stories are invaded, but the the bed her two other children lay residents are accustomed to floods and have made arrangements accord- sleeping In a crib. The woman did ingly. The weather remains cold and not recognize her husband nor seem many halls and churches have been to understand what Was said to her. thrown open for the accommodation of those who are sufferers. Nearly ANOTHER UTAH ROAD. the whole town of Rupert, Pa., is submerged, in some places the water Electric Railroad From 8alt Lake to windows. coming up to second-storOgden to bo Completed. In Qrip of Blizzard. Ogden and Salt Lake are to he Extreme cold weather is recorded linked as soon as possible by an elec-tri- o in various sections of the north and was railroad. An agreement west The cold wave extends over a signed in Salt Lake City Wednesday wide area, embracing the upper Mis- whereby J. J. Burns . EL'kigo, sissippi and Missouri valleys and the builder of the JfcllKouri Pacific into western lake region. Particularly seconstructor of one other vere weather is reported in the DafSm railroad and two electric roads, kotas, eastern Montana, northeasJn joins hands with Simon Bambeger of Nebraska, northwestern Jawj' Salt Lake in the construction of a no18 MlSl'aid Portions railroad betv.een the two cites. Mr. ?? . . r Jut Michigan. j .DTst. Paul Sunday the minimum Burns, whose fortune is rated close to On the official thermometer was S3 dethe million mark, has decided to close grees below. Other - thermometers out his extensive eastern interests and registered as low as 40 below. Bis- cast his lot in Utah, making his homo marck reported 28 and Superior, vis., 36. In a number of places in the In Salt Lake. Work on the extension northwest it was the coldest weather of the road is to begin within forty ' of the year. days. FIRE Proprietor. OP SUBSCRIPTION One Var. in advance Six Monibs Enured at the Post THOUSANDS HOMELESS yews CSlher (Che panic-stricke- Utah Ores Rich With Radium. Announcement recently made at a meeting in New York City of the Technology club that radium had been extracted from Amencau ores has brought from Professor Alexander H. Phillips of Princeton university, who conducted the experiment, the state-methat this latest discovery by scl- durert3i'kl .1iS0,n be 80 P'Pntlfully L"ited state to be n f 8,1 branches Th? ore used in the exneri- ments came from Utah. See Pretty Indiana School Teacher and Murdered. The body of Miss Sarah Schaefer, teacher of Latin in the Bedford, Ind High school, was found in a house Friday. She had been carriage assaulted and robbed and the body mutilated. The appearance of the shed indicated a struggle with her assailant. Miss heTe!; Came t0 edfrd from Elk- - begiven IT Hi world. He was well pleasedffo and anon he would look at the x," t and fairly gloat over it. As he the house of an old maid, whoT he had often made miserable th lady noticed how he regardedhi day school present and rejoiced' ceedingly. I always said he wasn't a at heart, she remarked to herj Oh. if his father and mother only see him this blessed moment he thinks of the home abcAie and solves to live just as the imu i and girls in the book." But listen. Freduie is also rem, ing to himself. This is a pretty good book, by It must have stood the Sunday people in about a dollar. y0Ur wh, in great luck. I must burry around the second-hanbook store before closes up. I ought to be able to tL a book like this for half a dozen novels at least. , Jf PREY OF THE BIRDS. All Forms of Insects Food of ered Songsters. C No-Yo- a able s) even ' You! mercy canno Yo placer as a f even also quits, I can fered, But Her 1 sadde agree Thl from much Nove Ma hours not she and pMtk There is hardly a single groin, , insects which does not suffer from a appetite of one or more species . s answ birds. The eggs and larvae are fo. and pried out of their buirows in til wood by woodpeckers and creeper those underground are scratched a clawed up to view by quail, partridge and many sparrows; warblers us vireos scan every leaf and twig fu catchers, like the cat family 0f mals, lie in wait and surprise the t sects on the wing, more particularly those flying near the ground, white swifts, swallows and martins glean a harvest from the host of Insects. When we think of humtnlu birds are taking dainty sips of honey from the flowers, they are in reality more often snatching minute spidem and flies from the deep cups of fin calyxes. When night falls the insects which have chosen that time aa the safer to carry on the business of active life, are pounced on by crepuscular feathered beings; the cavernous mouths of engulf them as they rise from their hiding places, and the bristles of nighthawks brush them into no less rapacious maws if, perchance, they have succeeded in reaching the upper air. New York high-flyi- once beau and tions they Mat! Lord nam I Pari J did and but mor ven hen ed t Rost The Demon of the Pit A din of voices shouting hoarse, A whirl of outstretched arms: A little truth, a mass of lies, A so. i of false fit1 s' v ' And stand, ..Ig .a-t- he midst of if We see the Demon of the Pit! A hundred faces, white and strained. Are peering to behold The man whose name throughout the land Is hailed the leader hold; And standing in the midst of It We spy the Demon of the Pit Another cent! Another cent! A madding, fearful sway The King of yesterday goes down. Another rules But monarch over" all of It We hail the Demon of the Pit A crash of wasted, blighted hopes, A pistol shot a scream! another life Is yielded up To Join the awful stream; And grinning In the midst of it We see the Demon of the Pit. A ruined mill, with crumbling walls. Ten thousand starving men; How long, O Lord? How long? they cry Then cotton jumps again, A"d eloatlng over all of It The King is Demon of the Pit' McLandburgh Wilson. fe m h w a Pat Lesson in Golf. Pat had been helping the greenz keeper construct several tees at th new golf links, and during the noon hour had been given a few lessons In driving. A day or two later he wu telling his friend Casey about it "Faith, Casey, he said, this gamo they call golluf do be a funny gams Yez have a little white ball an a long stick wid a knob on the ind av it, an yes put the white ball on a little hape ay sand. Thin the game is to haul all an knock the ball so far yez kin niver find ut agin. An did yez hit the ball whin jre tried? asked Casey. Did Oi? said Pat. Thotf the funny thing about golluf. Shure, the first toime 01 hit ut, 01 niver torn died utl Sympathy Misplaces. Edward L. Adams, representing the United States 'as consul gsneral at Stockholm, Sweden, was for several years editor of the Roches er Democrat and Chronicle. While occupying that position he Wrote an obituary notice of a neighbors child, whose trousers had caught fire during t Fourth of July celebration, burning the little fellow so badly that he died in consequence. Mr. Adame ended bis article with the statement that the sympathies of friends would go out to the bereaved parents. His shock the next day may possibly he Imagined when the types made him say that the sympathies of a large circle of friends will go out to the burned pants. New York Times. The Fond Parents Pride. reporter was endeavoring to find out the particulars of an accident that had befallen a boy, and was asking the questions necessary in such cases of the father of the injured boy. Did the little fellow stand the opA eration well? asked th reporter. Like a major came through it T aB right Did he have to take anything? continued the reporter. Not a gol darn thing tut chloroform, was the proud reply of the aA miring parent Took Eight Turkey, Left $200. John Krider, a farmer near Lebanon, Pa., discovered that his flock of eight turkeys had been stolen one night last week. Farmer Krider, however, is not mourning, for the robber dropped a wallet containing ten twenty-dolla- r bills. It is supposed the thief obtained the money while ransacking some residence in the neighborhood. Georgetown (Ky.) News. o |