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Show ' f f i i 1898. JUNE o F ALL the pious frauds tho fraud is tho worst. Non-parti-sa- -- n A bluffer, if not as a tighter, Spain is As almost equal to the Into Jim Corbett. T7KANK J. CANNON says that his father is a McKinley Republican. It is to bo hoped that this finally locates George Q. politically. left of tho Robbers Roost yiiAT ISwill no doubt conclude that gang robbing banks, especially in Springvillo is not a profitable business and will give that town hereafter a wide berth. WILLING Workers piIEsong, and they sing it have a new just after an energetic appeal has been made for contributions. The title in question is, There's a Barrel on tho Corner, Neighbor Mine. the influence city council into dismissing good, tried men from tho police forco to make room for tho friends, partisans and relatives of Chief Pratt and Mayor Clark? Tho unseen hand must have used its silent power at the right time. hood-winke- d VIIAT JONGRESSMAN King came all the way from Washington to deliver that lecture for the benefit of the Mutual Improvement League. This may be taken as conclusive evidence that Mr. King is still very much in politics. Frank J. Cannon had best look well to his laurels. King is devilish sly.. . SEEMS, to be an unlucky initial for naval officers. No bee can live on water alone. Six members of the class of 97 of the Naval Academy have met with serious misfortunes since this war began, and the names of five of them begin with B. It was known as the B class, because the names of so many of the boys began with that letter: Brumby, Baldwin, Butler, Barnes, Breckinridge, Bennet, Bag-leBostwick, Boyd, Bagley and Bose. was killed on Thursday; Boyd disabled the torpedo boat Cushing and had to come home; Breckinridge was swept1 overboard from tho Cushing and was drowned;' Bostwick had his chest caved in while on tho Ericsson, and is now in ahospital; Baldwin was knocked down an open hatchway and had his ribs broken, and Merrit, of the same class, went down with the Maine. . . .i NO. 16. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. : . . y SPANISH HONOR SiuuUb honor wan saved at Manila." Sai;uia In an interview. We did nntnotlce it, I swear. We saw Home sinking worshljwthere. Or luard a Spaniard s final prayer, The while our cannon's thunder Hulled o'er the hay und down the shore, While all your decks were red with irorc And Spanish seamen prayed or swore. If you saved honor, very well. 'Twus all you sated from out that hell Of rending shot and bursting shell For which your record pleaded. We sank your ships: we stilled your puns; We set death's seal upon your sons: Your blood ran forth as water runs So trifles were not heeded. And what's your honor? It Is told In dark deeds done for lust or tfohl. In crimes whose tale the centuries hold Your honor is dishonor. Murder and rapine in the past Have stalked where'er your shade was cast. And Cuba merely was the last To feel your clutch upon her. You talk of honor, sodden Spain!-You- ! While the torn and shattered Maine Hots where you set the deadly train Hell holds Its honor higher. And if such honor, sooth to tell. Was all you saved from out that hell In which the Spanish squadron fell, Your hour of fate draws nigher. A. J. Waterhouse. A CHANGE OF AMBITION. Horatius at the bridge, and he Who fought at old Thermopylae; Great Samson and his potent bone By which the Philistines were sloae ; Small David with his wroudrous aim That did for him of giant fame; J. Caesar in I is Gallic serai s That made him lord of other chaps; Sweet William, called the Conqueror, Who made the Briton sick of war; King Hal the Fifth, who nobly fought And thrashed the foe at Agincourt; Old Bonaparte, and Washington, And Frederick, and Wellington, w-a- The truth will out; it cant be hid; The doughty deed that Dewey did, - - In that far distant Spanish sea,Is really good enough for me. . . - . r' , The grammar's bad, but, O my son, . I wish Id did what Dewey dne! . .1 John Kendrick Bangs." A , Possibility. Now simple folk one hope may trace.' Unless France moves with care Plain English may achieve a place Upon our bills of fare. J T WAS Lincoln who said that All tho people could be fooled part of tho time and part of tho people could bo foolod all the time, but that all of tho people could not be fooled all tho time, and no doubt that was true when Lincoln said it. But if Honest Abe lived in Utah at this latter day and could see the way politics work, and the kind of officials that the city has been and is at present governed by; wo believe he would think all the people could bo fooled about all the time.' ' TN THE 1 present day, when we have so many startling instances of the power of vast corporations in determining the choice of senators, and the scandal and expense of prolonged sessions of state legislatures taken up with the selection of a Senator a duty which the people could discharge more satisfactorily and without any expense, by electing the Senator on the same day Members of Congress are chosen it is more than ever imperative that the Constitution should be revised and made Democratic in the mode of choosing Hon. Walter Clark, upon the Senators. Revision of the Constitution, in the v Arena. - pROM a truthful witness Decatur, Nelson, Fighting Joe, And Farragut, and Grant, and, oh, A thousand other heroes I Have wished I were in days gone by Can take their laurels from my door, em any more." " For I dont 7 'TMIE BEE is reaching out and gaining now friends daily. Its subscription list is experiencing a steady growth and its advantages as an advertising medium are boginning to bo appreciated. It will continue vigorous, progressive and independent. Our friends may feel assured that Thk Bke is not an experiment. It is already an assured success. down south the following story comes:' A rural justice, with a morning war extra and the code of Georgia before him, delivered the following remarkable decision It appearing to the court that the prisoner at the bar has won a remarkable -- -r- ecently: battle m the Philippines, and that, iri stealing the hog, he was only acting in a spirit of in a country .where food is so scarce that the insurgents are eating horseflesh, it is, .therefore the opinion of the court' that, in conferring the title of rear admiral upon him the government , self-preservatio- n, acted w6li and wisely' and that iLhebe reinforced in time, he will yet take full possession: and it is ordered that he be released on parole and prove by the daily dispatches that the Spanish officials are -- the biggest liars in the worldP . |