Show EltOR eitor E dri urr av 1 ILS 1 IS djie A tie THE gay capital of ofia lat lal belie belle franco is angularly ingul ingui arly ariy cleab lt sf a in matter of great Eur surprise plse pise t to 0 va visitors S mra mrs qaher large cities bow how ib ibis this is 14 ia iran iian aged no are permitted in its Et fe and aad no rubbish piles or scattered refuge disfigure gure the tho roadways or sidewalks of the festive city on the fhe seine beine A correspondent of the baltimore american designing to dle die discover cover coven how paris preserved its pres presentable epta appearance arose very early on one e morning and getting on top of the first street car rode through the city and learned how it was done he writes as follows follower the housekeepers bring out oui all thelt their rubbish and pile it up la in the street one pile for every four or flye five housos houses it is no sooner emptied than the rag pickers who swarm the tho streets with their ba bags s and buckets and band carts pounce upon it and gatherum gather gathen gat herup up all the fragments of paper rags raga or metal to be fount found in the piles they seem to take away one third of the rubbish bery Sery servants ants aUts are everywhere to fro be seen with broom and bucket in hand cleaning oft oil the fronts front fi the streets are being sprinkled with hose and an army of men inen and women with birch brooms are sweeping th streets on anthe the boulevards horse boree brushing machines mae hines are in motion and the garbage carts are removing remo iVing the piles thrown out by the housekeepers men with hose are watering all the roots of or the hundreds of thousands of trees on boulevards the thi a and ud takang taking up the gratings so as to loosen tilo earth around them by these means and a complete system of underground drainage by immense sewers sewera the bright t and beautiful city of paris ia Is kept fit to be seen by the tho votaries yot vot vota iota ries aries of pleasure who chaie from every part of the civilized world to euvoy its enri attractions other cities might take a leaf out of its sanitary sani bani tary with profit and aud advantage A DOUBLE ard AUD the above heading the denver vei mirror makes m akes the following i pertinent and sensible s remarks on the recent rejection of a lady applicant of thia this thi city for naturalization in the third district court no just or sensible journal or judge will see thia this subject in any other light than that reflected by the mirror the united states officials in utah refuse to issue naturalization papers to murmon mormon women jhb live in a state of polygamy unless they are the first wifel wife on the ground that they are women of bad repute live in a state not recognized as marital by the laws jaws ol 01 the united states does the government inquire into the moral character of men when it zes zeb westhem them have these officials any right to designate the parti pard cular culat mould of conscience one must have or what ones onea religious faith must be to entitle them to citizenship does the government require men who apply for naturalization to bring each a certificate of good moral character charae tei tel to prove that they are chaste that they do not practice adultery that they do not violate law or morality by the practice of illicit commerce in any auy way if not why demand suen hueu i things from women under the same samo circumstances why should those Infinite smal officials up in utah try women by a severe savere code evolved from their own narrow minds and imaginary consciences and not nol try men at all ali why does the government sanction such petty tyty rany in the nanae of liberty and justice if none but moral women are to be permitted to vote then disfranchise the immoral men meu and counting the votes come a matter of little trouble and less time for the franchise would reach its minimum if ous women are to bo be refused the right of frage suffrage suf auf on account of their polygamy why in the name of heaven not reluse it to their poly z the mirow believes that polygamy ia Is wrong but with the mormons it ja Js a matter of and they believe it right and we do not believe in persecute agany ng any people or individual for conscience who of us has less re for abraham abrhham isaac jacob david or solomon because they lived in poli polygamy gamy would those little off leial official fellows who sit eit in t the he seats of the tho scornful up in utah refuse naturalization to rachael because jacob had first draw the line iino where you yog please gentlemen but let it be fairly done dond bett bevc set up the same bame jaw law for men that you do for women bo justl just HINTS TO congregations W Y is it that most deop people le in la a public congregation are BO so quickly diverted from the sermon seimon or the services upon the slightest sligh test teat i occurrence r e aee dee ace or noise of any kind hind if a person sneezes or has a violent cough or enters after meeting has eom dom commenced mended or pr a book or opens dr knuts a wandow window it as though the majority m ri of the congregation gre gation consider it an imperative duty to turn and I 1 T investigate the matter or see aee that it is properly dohe dona thib this is not a I 1 peculiarity 3 of a Mor mormon assembly the same thing hag has been noted and commented dented dupon upon in other othlar communities in either hemisphere neither is it a distinctive feature of religious gatherings gatheridge the same thing occurs in the lecture room and in audiences generally it is 18 not in consequence of lack of interest for it is noticeable just asmuth aa much when a first elass class orator has fastened the attention of his hearers bearers as when a humdrum unattractive speaker akier is dealing out oat dry as dust duat platitudes whatever may be the reason we think it is very improper i and ind be cievo the practice might be easily abolished with a little reflection a and belf self govern government merit the entire attention of a body of worshippers wor shippers or listeners to a discourse religious or secular ja is demanded for the thy first by that spirit of reveren reverence ce which should enter into all devotional exercises and for the second by ordinary politeness if not respect for the speaker YG ivel ha bave have observed impropriety briety in religious we think ought to be remedied doting mothers will en encourage courage their little ones to display their precocity for the delectation beholders and tho gratification of their own vanity forgetting in the exhibition of ways they think so cunning that they are guilty of a gross breach broach of good manners to say nothing of the interruption of the proceedings thus caused and tho the distraction of the con eon congregation are gre gation from the speaker or exercise in progress children should be early tr affied in 1 11 due attention to public worship and be kindly restrained from disorderly conduct rather than encouraged in their put t of place pranks no matter how they fh ue may be admired by fond mothers or silly nurses order in the house of god is one of the essentials to the presence and enjoyment of the spirit of devo devotion t fon ion and peace and anat anything h ng that causes disorder or confusion should be carefully avoided by all the latter day saints 0 VISITING A polygamous FAMILY A correspondent of the new york evening express writes over the signature Y from san francisco in relation to a visit to salt bait lake mi city he jie gives a very fair account of what he saw and heard beard which appears in the of the uit after describing the president ples Pies ident youngs grave hon wm jennings Jen ninga residence and other places he makes some remar remarks ks upon social matteis matters from irom which we clip the following ol 01 iwas lyas fortunate enough a few yeara ago to make the acquaintance p af pf a loading g mormon in your cit city eity ty and knowing him to be the pos poi possessor sessor of four wives and sixteen children I 1 left my friend J to take a peep into what would be a bedlam in 14 the states a household of twenty inmates ail all husbanded hus banded and fathered over by one man they were all at dinner and seemed to be enjoying themselves ax exceedingly cee each one of the four mrs aa alo wore a contented happy look aa as the sixteen children chil ehll dren dien made away with their bread and butter and und sweetmeats sweet meats it was a sight I 1 cannot well describe and filled me with admiration in spi bpi spite teof of my repugnance pug nance of the mormon doctrine 11 the secret of this perfect love said mr A as I 1 will term him Is our love of the doctrine we profess we do not all live here together get got h br usually he fie but there thero is little or no friction in our dur families no n 0 fc half as much as many marfy of you have east with one wife the bad stories you hear of us are nothing more nor less than any families once in a while create all people do not live happy but generally speaking we live happier happler in the church than thlin others do out of it although we have a multiplicity of lof wives the respondent dived into ou our slums alums for his information and his exaggerations were frightful we do not like to be misrepresented every family has its secret troubles and it be natural if we did uld not have ours oars have you been married more than once asked be he to which c h I 1 replied I 1 had and had the misfortune to loseby iose lose by death two wives and was now married to my third ahl be he exclaimed jou are more of a mormon than I 1 you yoa to be pray let me ask you a ques question tion which wife do you expect to live with in the other world to I 1 replied I 1 had often thought the matter over and had come to the conclusion that all three had bad an equal right to me and aud I 1 would be obliged to adopt their system exactly he replied you will be a full fuli fledged mormon in the future now we believe in commencing that life here that thai is all the difference between the mormon and the gentile I 1 naked asked mr A if be he a and aud nd bi hib his s family all lived under one roof root or in what way he supported and lived with hiti bis numerous family we live ee separate parate he replied each family by themselves ves unless they feel more happy together and I 1 provide for them giving each boneso one so much per week for support and live with each wife dividing my time as I 1 think proper with each and here hoe by the way waya I 1 would remark that I 1 from another source I 1 learn that each mormon wife wire prepares pre paris for her liege lord as carefully eare tare fully when apprised of his coming as it if he hb were a visitor the mormons cormons Mor mons as a clouss are bot sot as intelligent as our people the great number of emigrants from orom the uneducated classes ju lit europe of every nationality are ari in preponderance and while they have many citizens I 1 of culture the majority are willing subjects to the mormon faith some of the women wear a downhearted down hearted and discouraged cou coa raged look while others are as happy as if they were the sole possessors ses sef ors odthe of the hait bait lake liske city and a whole male yet as mormon subjects they are both clannish and contented believing with thel their r whole soul fully fally in the doctrines and dogmas of the mormon creed they claim that the constitution of the united states protects them as it distinctly states that every man shall worship god after the dictates of his own conscience and that their conscience and religion say that they may haye a plurality of wives A CORREO TION THE associated press dispatches en on saturdays contain a number of items under the head of intelligence if they are no more reliable than one piece of information sent all over the union today today as the exact status of the mormon church they are not entity entitled to much consideration the total membership of the church is placed at and ahe the he number of apostles ii huld cad to be seven we presume the compiler of the dispatches has haa got hold of a stake report reports most likely of the salt lake stake of zion and not knowing anything of his subject has tele graphed the figures of one branch or stake as statistics of the whole church in our ecclesiastical organization in this territory the people in each county or of such district as aa is convenient to a central point are united into a stake ll 11 presided over by a president and his two counselors the subdivisions sub bub divisions of the stake are called wards and each ward la Is under the charge of a bishop with hi hib his 3 two counselors each stake holds a quarterly conference when statistical and financial reports are given twice a year that is on the ath of april and ath of october a general conference of the whole church is 14 convened and those who wish to make any comments or give any figures in iti relation to the mormons cormons Mor mons should be careful not to confound a stake conference and its ats its re report part with the general conference and the stana of the whole hole church we hope that the papers which publish the dispatch will be juau juat enough to make this thia correction there are twelve apostles Apost iea lea ili in the church and the number of its members is more than ten ton times the total given in the A RARE BABE BOOK THE worcester spy has bas has a long article under the beading heading of A rare bare book giok j in which it is state stated d that the ae tu or original lional edition of the book of mormon 1119 is without doubt the scarcest book published in the nineteenth century which has obtained a any ny kind klud of xe 11 ands and further it is supposed that copies have been purposely destroyed by the authorities of the church of the so called latter day saints BO so that the discrepancies of their later faith and practices with the tenets of their founder might be concealed 11 the spy also relates the old and attenuated spaulding story to account for the production of the book of Mor mormon mori morl we do no purpose repeating the evidences which have been so frequently adduced completely refuting the stupid attempt to identify that thai book with dings bup sup posed romance there Is no relia ble proof that there ever was such a work as the latter and if it ever existed ith ita alleged characteristics a are lre totally different from those i of book of mormon while the statements ments of supposed fact face connecting the manuscript with joseph i smith are certainly an and ana it anilo undoubtedly the baldesi baldest kind of fiction without the thin shadow of a bair of df brath truth IA 1 1 is antso abo a real leal krent kresl teat to suppose that copies of the first edition edic edit foil of the book ot t cotmon au are aie ao so extremely scarce 0 there are quite a number of or them in this city and many of them inace in the different settlements tie tle clements ments in this territory tory also not a few I 1 in n various states of the union the tile spy dinn finn announces ounces that a mr 0 flynn flynnoy of front street worcester has a copy on exhibition we give publicity to this announcement because bome some persons may be induced to inspect the book who will be led to investigate its contents and perhaps be honest enough to obey its mandates on of its truth and we assure al all ail who have the curioli cur iosi ty to see the original edition that they will find nothing in its pages in with the latest each succeeding edition being a strict copy of its predecessor we make this proposition to the Wo worcester cester e editor if he can aspy spy out any discrepancy between the first and any subsequent edition of the book of mormon we will agree to publish the disagreeing quota eions and admit that a change has been made if he cannot find any difference in the text of the two books be he shall acknowledge 0 |