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Show THE TWO ' lari Published By & England Publishing Company oft-expos- ed i 1. years the Spanish been have must in existence; prisoner story and to survive for so long it must have numbered many victims, and, we expect, is still gathering in a few suckers. At least the fellow who still fish is conducts the enterprise of Logan citizens ing for them, as several have- - recently- - received copies bfthe famous letters. and When this scheme was new, it certainly must have been a winner. The prospective victims received a letter bearing evidence of being genuine, from old Madrid. Formerly, if we remember correctly, it told the story of a noble or grandee imprisoned for some political offense, Foreand his property ordered confiscated. seeing the storm, however, the gentleman prudently converted many holdings and securities into cash, and the wealth, or its evidence, was securely hidden, but the receptacle' was in charge of his enemies. Because of their ignorance of its valuable contents it might be recovered cerby a trusty friend, upon the payment of a tain sum.. The one who received the leter was selected, upon strong recommendations, as the one honest man who, in consideration of a generous share of the fortune, would come and redeem it, take his share, and turn the remainder over to a loving and lovely daughter of the prisoner, whose welfare he was also reto quested to look after. Here was a chance reto a hero; shine as an honest man and in distress, relieve beauty deem the fortune, to acand incidentally perchance to marry it; Romance, love, adventure, quire a fortune. wealth. What more could a man ask? ' The new story differs somewhat There is still the beautiful daughter, still the baggage be recontaining the precious documents to a covered, still the money needed to do it a but considerable sum and all in ready cash, remere bagatelle compared to the sum to be covered. But, shame to say, the prisoner in this Russian fa ig not a persecuted noble, but a barber who absconded with five million rubles, lived for a time in Spain with his daughter and an inamorata, and was arrested in London when his arrest just about to embark for America; the shooting of a having been precipitated by about fellow Russiaii who recognized'and was As the story goes in this in4 denounce him stance he was taken VSpain for imprisonment and trial; though why he should be jailed there for either the robebry committed in Russia or the shooting done in London, isuqtmade clear; but no import. The bait dangled in each case in the case. or plices share in the fortune; and the latest story, the one who offers to assist would, if it Were existent at all, become particeps criminis, and therefore outside sympathy and the pale of the law if he should be robbed of the sum he took with him to the designated is finally meeting spot in Spain, to which he sur-- ! directed after a season of correspondence rounded with much professed mystery. The sad fate of those who have undertaken the illustrative of journey and adventure has been his fool and money are the aphorism that a soon parted; the only difference being that the fool missed the sport that is usually supposed to attend the operation. To expose or denounce this aged and hoary fraud would seem supere-- ! rogatory in these days of general enlightenborment, and we feel an apology is due for but ; ing the general reader with the repitition difthe fact that the old scheme with slightly ferent dressing still survives; proving it profitable and perennial; that victims are being been seriously sought even here, and that it has for menexcuse considered, must furnish our tioning it. --o Much evidence has been produced during the investigation of the distressing situation thirty-fiv- e JOURNAL, LOGAN, UTAH. Tuesday, March 10, jg EDITORIAL PAGE THE JOURNAL Old Scheme Revived Fully TRI-WEEK- by some tongues, that Smoot is a great man. We are fain to ask in whaf his greatness consists. We all know that his greatness in Utah is somewhat like the peacock feather of a Chinese vice roi it may be ARE told taken from him at any moment by a stronger hand". His standing in Utah is of a precarious and uncertain kind. In Utah he has no greatness. He never boasts of his great pull in JJtah while he is in this bailiwick. While around here he andThis satellites tell of the vast power and influence he wields at Washington. While in Washington he used to sing an epic of the mighty things done by him and the mighty influence he holds in Utah. Nothing like blowing ones own horn. There are some people in these parts who would like to know what Mr. Smoot is doing to make himself great. We know all about his Utah greatness how it hapwe pened, what it is, and how it will end but recent his doings in have no light upon any of Washington, Whether he is at the front, howld ing and weeping for the welfare of the plunder-bunor crawling around among the back seats of the Senate, hiding from Wilson, we know not. The press is silent as to his comings and goings. Now and then we read of a speech that Senator Sutherland delivers at some Belshazzars feast, and in this way we may keep some account of what he is doing for the country, but it is different with Smoot. He delivers no speeches. He maintains silence. - He is manifestly laboring under the impression that it is best for him that he attract as little attention as possible in Washington. His greatness, if he has any, is now all in Utah. The people of Utah are tired of Smoot and Smootism. Smootism is at present the great-Is- t political issue in Utah. . The people want something to say about their political affairs, and they will sooner or later say something, and it will not be in favor of Smootism. The Progressive. o Making Life In OUR eagerness to succeed let us remember that making a living is not more important than making life. Large crops, fine stock and a substantial bank account are desirable, but eagerness for this gain should not cause a, narrow life. ' Let us not forget that in making life we increase our capacities for enjoying the pleasures of the farm and the association of those who live near us. There are those who have been successful in gaining wealth but in neglecting education and social relations with their neighbors, have not the capacity to enjoy it. Wealth or even moder-atemeais of little value if it qan not be of use tO rnake those with whom we come in contact better. Deseret Farmer. ns Gen. Starvation Takes a Hand The Mexican problem is nearing solution. A new general has entered the field. His name is Gen. Starvation? The aggregation of bandits and murderers who comprise the forces of Carranza and Villa have stolen everything they could reach. The supplies of food, of cattle and of portable property in Sonora have been looted and consumed. They cannot be resplenished from the United States, for all the specie money in Sonorjt is in hiding. The paper money issued by the rebels in Sonora and made a legal tender for all debts public and private passes for about ten cents on the dollar in Mexico. It is utterly worthless elsewhere. Los Angeles Times. city editor t, Into Frozen Antarctic Again master of vessel plying betw. Bussia and England, has promised promotion to a steam er m the American service, but the lady is not to suppose that mand of a vessel will seafarers of the New stunthe coast. From tie periodEngland? of the Cl roaring forties whence wive. of the captains wont on Wv, voyages with Ihclr husbands' to the Indies thef s have been New England women who we'-- iu c competent to nice a ship to sea as their men. They beguiled the tedium of the long passages i)V mastering the science e(f naviga- tion, and, truth to tell, many a captain has left the hard work of observations and reckonings to his wife. In Thomaston, Me., today lives a pair of women, Mid ow and daughter of a captain who was finally lost off the Irish coast, who could probably take a square-riggfrom their own harbor to the River Platte as e er competently as the average mariner. NO INTERVENTION. Photo, by American Press Association. Robert Scotts antarctic ship, Is being fitted out for tho bouse expedition thia coming aummer. A picture of tho ahtp a ppeared when she returned to England after Scotts tragic dash for t r south pole la here abown. Lieutenant A.' E. Harbord will command the ah . on the new expedition, which is in a way a rival of the Shackle-to- n antarctic trip. Lien tenant Harbords picture is shown. THE D icovery, BEAUTY OF THE SNOW. THE MOST USEFUL EDUCATION . In the days when people Considered in terms of color thought less favorably, of high-schoand of decorative line, winter and college education is far more beautiful than sum- than they do now, I was conmer. It would almost seem as stantly asked the questions : if kindly mother Nature, desir- What is the use of history? What is the use of literature? ing to compensate her children Will a man get any richer if he for the loss of the peas and the knows the history of Greece peaches, had provided them with and Rome? Will he be a better a special feast for the eyes and lawyer or doctor for having read ol But why, asks the spirit. asks Helen, should plain white snow be considered more beautiful than the lovely green of A sheet of summer leaves? fresh and clean and is paper to look upon, but after pleasant all it is just white paper. Ah! There you are! Snow is never white ! It will take on a thousand exquisite and varied tints you can exhaust the vocabulary of jewels and of flowers in atempting to describe them and still leave more than half unmentioned but it is nev- er white! It is an instrument which Nature plays won- derful color symphonies, with never a harsh or discordant note. It changes color a hundred times a day in response to changes of color of the sky for the sky color is always the key-no- te herald-republica- J. MARSHALL,,,, Boston Transcript ; A woman as ocean steamship captain of js mentioned something new in the navigation. Mrs. von Baudihf Scotts Ship, the Discovery, Going i And of a having during the its to this' color call response course of some comment upon the rivalry be- will invariably be the completween Mr. Dunbar and Mr. Warrum.for the mentary color ; so subtly stated, Salt Lake postmastership, unwittingly offend however, that to the ed the latter, hastens to assure him that it had eye the snow' will appear JhaMfoe -- virgin :jno candidate. ..and had ex pressed, iia pr ef e r ence to-r- e ma i n a - p u rea-ninahD)loiMQ..CQsUeidsproye situa-- I in the matter. It disclaimed all personal bias white. mine owners so thoroughly- - dominated the were their creat-- 1 If the sky is ellow, as at lion, that all of the officials against Mr. Warrum, upon the contrary, claimand no the snow will reply with could justice, sunset, get ed to have given the greatest possible proof of ures, hence a miner note of a contempt; most exquisite lavender blue supreme its friendship by printing his poetry. It then were really held in the if the sky is blue the snow will icing friend- be a contempt that even followed them beyond plaintively asks, Could if the sky the grave. As tending to prove this, the verdict ship further go? Every editor will agree that is delicately yellow; be the snowwill who this is the greenish, of a coroners jury in the case of a miner supreme journalistic test. I roseate in hue. seen even have o had met death by accident while at work was it assume an unbelieveable tone de:The being - Political predictions regarding the pros- of crimson pink in reply to the cited; the offensive portion ceased had no relatives and damn few friends pective effect of a lower tariff, seems to have call of "a violently emerald sunminimize to damages calcluated well a verdict gone far astray. From a govrenment reports set 'sky. But snow has still another of the Department of Labor, retail pricesjfof if suit were brought. --o food averaged upon such products as enter into" tribute which occasionally interwelWe notice that the standpatters are working- rupts and varies the action of daily consumption of the families-o- f s. of ranks the into back Glassmah men, were at a higher level, four months after this general law of complement-ariecoming Bill In a shy and gentle w;ay tariff their party but have they stopped to consider the passage of the Underwood-Simmoreflects it dejacent color-massthe fact that Slippery Bill may jump apin bill, than ten .days after; and yet, the New York much in the same way as water before the election this fall. This i3 especially World declaresWesten) farmers are drench- reflects near-b- y objects. From true if he sees a plum across the alley and ing limousines in tears at the havoc done to The Field of Art, in the March their prosperity by tariff revision downward. Scribner. thinks he can get it. Provo Herald. , The . EDITOR WOMEN CAPTAINH? A Great Man WE AUGUSTUS GORDON. snow-scen- e. n, non-professio- d self-sacr- if ns es ! j j poetry and philosophy? The answer to those questions is not that he will be any rich er, but that he will find out that there is something else besides riches worth pursuing; not that he will practice Jiis profession more successfully, but .that he will have ideals outside of his profession which will make him a happier man in his own life and more valuable to his friends and to his country. I am sometimes inclined to the opinion that the knowledge that really is most valuable today is the kind which seems less immedi-upo- n ately and obviously useful the knowledge of what great men have done and thought in the past, and the inspiration which comes from such knowledge. Looked at from the standpoint of America as a whole, this is certainly true. There is little danger that our people will forget how to make money. Thcrj is little danger that wre shall fail to practice Our various trades and profesions with skill. But there is considerable danger that in the pursuit of those objects we may forget larger ends ; that in geting rich as individuals we maylose sight of the things that are necessary for making of nations. The most useful knowledge, then, is that which will make us the best citizens. President Hadley of Yale, in The Youths Companion. The housewife who does not study the ads is improvident. rathShe buys by guess-wor- k er than through knowledge of values and information' as to buying opportunities. Springfield Republican: The cry for military intervention by the United Staates in Mexico arises out of that same impatience which moved Napoleon III to attempt a joint Europeon intervention in the American Civil War, whose prolonged course irritated Europeans as well as blocked Aheir commercial undertakings. There is at present no more compelling reason for us to undertake the pacification of Mexico with the sword than there was six months or a year agoo. The attempt would be costly and perhaps utterly futile. It is certain that to atempt it under the present circumstances would turn every man in Mexico, constitutionalist as well as federalist, against the army of occupation. Villa would have to be conquered, no less than Huerta. The time has not come to revise the view of the United States government, as recently transmitted to the German government, that nobody outside of Mexico could enforce arbitarily a sentiment of that countrys present difficulties. - . -- t- THREATENED TO SHOOT. Washington Herald: The German admiral, von Diederichs, admits that he threatened to shoot any American officer who undertook to carry out Admiral Deweys orders to go aboard German ships and identify them, after the battle of Manila Bay. With the great fleets of America, Germany, and England at close quarters it is not difficult to imagine that the map of the world would look different today if von Diederichs had carried out his threat. SACRIFICING THE LAMB Constantinople A few days ago, at the opening of the first electric street railway in this city there occurred what was probably more interesting than the opening of the street railway itself. This was the ancient rite of sacrificing the lamb. In countries of modern civilization there is nothing with which this can be compared, excepting perhaps the breaking of a bottle of champagne over the bow of a battleship at its chrishteing. Across the tracks of the street line, two afyoung lambs were placed and ter the customary prayers of the Mohammedans, they were killed on the spot, the rails were smeared with the warm blood and prayers invoking the blessings of Allah on the new line were offered. The ifficials watched the performances- with all the seriousness of the occasion. The line runs from the Pont de Karakeny to Sirkedji in the Ottoman cap- Among several wrinkle removing devices recently patented is one consisting of a head harness to pull back the ears arid slightly ital. draw up the skin of the face. ' i . L |