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Show I Sill vu Urtle to encourage there it'c )uiiuf prophet Joseph in the f that tin gatherings of U ini's profile magnitude AT at ions. Hut it cits all ciiiue true. The eaktr said that the iili-of migrating to Utah with jdi'l nut originate Brigham but i it h the prophet Joseph, (:,UKDeclares who predicted that in these regions .a fruitful and pleasant place of abode would lie found. At the atierniHm session Apostle Franci F. Lyman spoke on the trill-- ! that the pt ranee qtieMion, saying of the church are a tem- people and that w lien tlila great wave of temperance ia Sweep-Sal- t 'Lake City. At the Aliening ses-inthe country no people are an well Sion of the seventy-eightSaints. In annual cou- - ' prepared as I fie 1 Jitter-da- y ference of the Church of Jesus Christ further praise of the cleanliness of Sainta. Mr. of Latter-daSaints, in thla city on rhe Iiv' ? the Latter-da- y of 8aid thal ",h April i. it is estimated that the at- testiour the church may question waa tendance larger than for any mony, but they cannot question our opening day in the past. With few lhes. all the high authorities of Apostle John Henry Smith conexceptions the church were present. gratulated the mothers who had been In addition to President Smith, given the opportunity of thoroughly there were on the stand the counsel- instilling into their children the rulei lors of the first presidency, John II. laid down in the Word of Wisdom, W'indor and Anihun II. Lund. All of in this they were much more fortuthe apostles were present save two. nate thau many of those la othei The absentees were Keed Smoot, who tailhs. Heher J. Grant also spoke is in Washington, and C. W. Penrose, on Apostle tin subject of temperance, and ol who Is on u mission to Europe. he condition of the church and the President Nmith, in his address at nourishing condition of the auxiliar the oieuiug session, declared thal the p.j, church was in sympathy with the1 Second Day's Session. movement that ia sweeping the coun of the addresses at the Sun lu all try fur a curtailment of the liquor traffic. Ollier sjicukerg, members of day session, the second day of the confined the quorum of twelve aiKisiles, also conference, the of the discussion a their to remarks mure the general observance urged of the Mormon doctiinal aspect of the rules of temiierance, saying in a making comparisons, that the embargo laid ou excesses lu wa-the Mormon between the Word of Wisdom is a command churches, faiths and ment, not only with regard to strong rturUt and otherwas t Ihere throughout the ress-cas in well but to tie drink, gratifiesbacco, profanity and tea and coffee. addresses an expression uf continued The church waa declared to be in a tion at the condition and thf. c)lur.cJ1' better condition than ever before. The:!'11 an ProtiI'rl,y declared The auxiliary societies were reiiorted to churchspeakers ia in a more flourishing state be flourishing as never they had in than it has ever been before, the past. The testimony of President today Smith and other speakers was that and that the outlook for the future is the favorable conditions were a fact, more than bright. M. Ajioatles Hudgei Smith, George Ah in a spiritual as well as a temporal Clawson, Hyrurn F. Richards and bort Smith George way. The laws laid down in the gos-jie- l were the speakers at the morning sesare observed with greater fidelity sion. than they have ever been, it was asSpeaking of the members of the serted. church. Apostle Clawson said: SevPresident Smith, in the beginning of training have inspired enty years of his remarks, extended a welcome them with the spirit which Is unconto the Saints. It was extremely gratithe spirit that fired the querable, outso to an he Bee Bald, great fying, of Joaeph Smith, the spirit that We have every heart pouring of iieople. fired the heart of Iirigham Young to when reason, said President Smith, led his people into the wilds feel grateful to the Lord for his man- of the he Rocky mountains and there es ifold blessing showered upon us since tabllshed a great and flourishing comour last conference. The eyes of the the munity, spirit that fired the heart his people, and he of John Almighty are upon the champion of Taylor, ia mindful of their welfare. We do fired the heart the that truth; spirit not claim any honor for the deliver- of Wilford Woodruff, the great misance of our people from enemies and the spirit that fired the heart opposition; we thank God for his mer- sionary; of Lorenzo Snow, who also carried and cies blessings. the gospel to all the earth; the spirit The president said that it was writ- which heart of the fired ten that woe is unto them by whom leader of thethechurch, who haspresent lived offenses come, and a day of reckon- to see the culmination of hi happy come. The speaker efforts to free the church from debt.'1 ing la sure to said that he did not for an instant At the afternoon session doubt the truth and divinity of the Orson F. Whitney delivered aApostle docgospel that baa been restored to man. trinal address, and among other to waa made the reference Feeling declared that the "Mormons brothers and Bisters who had been things were not the enemies of the Gentiles. confercalled by death since the last He gave Vthe definition of the word ence, saying that they had gone to Gentile, saying that In the ancient await the resurrection. time It meant one who waa not On the subject of temperance the Jew, and in the present usage of the la I the time believe said: president word it meana one who ia not a Morwe shall when observe near at hand mon. No attaches to the the laws of temperance In accordance designation,opprobrium said. he The mission of with the Word of Wisdom. We find Mormonlsm is It alma to bind that the Lord knew better than we together ail thepeace. people of every nation when he gave that revelation. of the earth.' to man a see When professing David O. McKay spoke on be a member of the church befouling theApostle of choice of service subject his mouth with tobacco and liquor it whether one shall serve the Lord oi me heart and goes my greatly pains the world. Apostle McKay said that out to him in regret. Wa believe in It was the hour for the 20,000 people abbelieve We in strict temperance. on the sacred temple grounds which stinence from all poisonous and per- they would choose. He believed nicious things. the gospel of doing, and If the Latter-da"Just now there is a movement Sainta at once would resolve to for the over this country spreading serve the Lord, much of happiness I and extension of local option, hope would for in nothing la there Saint will co- a sourceresult, that every Latter-daao much happiness aa In of operate with this temperance move right living, which meana serving ment. I and my brethren are In har- God. The hour has arrived, he said, mony with the movement. We think to choose between truth and error. to have the right . the people ought to One cannot go on always serving part say whether they will have drunken- of the time the enemy and part of ness, murder, robbery and riot In their the time the church. The Lord said will have or whether they midst, that no man can serve two masters, peace. and that he cannot serve God and The president declared the auxil- Mammon. exceliaries of the church to be in Closing Session. lent condition. He said they were active and energetic and declared The conference came to a dose with that the aplrit of contention la not the attaining of the general authoriknown among the Latter-daSaints, ties of the church at the afternoon sea and la present only among those who slon on Monday. The audition committee of the have become apostates and have lost church submitted Its report, which was the aplrit of the gospel. President Smith, In making a par- accepted. The conference adopted tial report, aald that on December 31, resolution expressing the confidence 1,810 at the conference in the Integrity ol 1907, there were in the field who Is President missionaries. During the year there the trustee-ln-trus- t, were sent out 927 elders, and 707 re- Smith. There were five speakers. Chief turned, the returning fees of these among these was Brigham H. Roberta, being paid by the church. Forty-fou- r slaters accompanied their husbands one of the first presidents of the sevPresident Smith said enties, and Apostle Anthony W. Ivina, on missions. that the elders who go out into the who was elevated to the office at the field do ao at their own expense and October conference. All of the speak-erconfined their addresses to a dissupport themselves while in the field. John R. Winder, of the first presi- cussion of the doctrines of the church. dency spoke of the work performed Apostle Ivins, however, went a little (n the temple last year, referring to the further, and aald that the Saints gatiflcatlon felt at the additional In- should take part in politics to the exterest taken In the work of redemp- tent of seeing that only the best men tion for the dead. The work per- are chosen for civic offices. formed in the temple, said Mr. WinCara Run on Frozan River. der, baa often been ao great that people have been turned away not InfreEvery winter, aa soon as the Nava quently. at BL Patersburg ia frozen over, a President Anthon H. Lund spoke service of electric cars la started to on the principle of gathering. He run acroaa it on tho Ice. said that Moroni taught It to Joaeph before any one waa baptized Into Wind Motors Coming Into Uot. the church. President Lund said that use of wind motors as generaThe revelations bearing on the subject of electric power la greatly on the tors of to church were the given gathering In Denmark. Increase existence. ita of the first years during At first T OUT OF THE HEAVENS be-!i'- i WIAT SCIENCE HAS LEARNED civil in 190:! In the recess of a forest and only tin in northern Oregon, CONCERNING METEORS. iiiercht accident revealed Its resting-place- . Two humble mineral prosjiect-ui'- s came aciosM the artly sunken Metal Masses Which Have Reached maos. Here (they Imagined) wa. the Earth Not Without Their Assowiulih in the form of a vein of metal-liciated Romances Involving lint by digging about th. iron, Discovery and Ownership. monster they determined its limits, ami then it dawned upon them that Time was when srieure knew little It was a meteorite. visoiul raied less about our heavenly Bacuhlrito, a Mexican iiickeiiferous itors, known aa meteorites, but iron meteorite, was tracked to Its collection It Is different and the and excavated by Dr. Hcniy and i In study of meteorites are car- bourne A. Ward, a famous American collector, of branclf a as ried on systematically A lately dccerna-d- . piece of it. science. 11 pounds, is now In th? It is. perhaps, hardly necessary to weighing ilia- American Museum of Natural say that these visitants from space VOOT CY6TZ21 Of YAU77A SHOWING give no preinuniiary warnings of arTOP, NADRS AV TUEZRsS rival; they fall upon our planet (whether by night or day I irrespecOnce tive of munduue complexities. domiciled as a terrestriul body, tin men uf science may begin to elucidate msvLSTiNG YAUTIA the structure und composition of a bars wlim linked are highly prized In meteorite by the triuls uf tlie laboraJamaica and sum of the other British tory, but Its mysterious celestial chap, West Indies. If harvested before fully ter of origin belouga to the realm or develo ed the tubers art liable to lie conjecture. wateiy after boiling, and it left in the Some uf the largest that have ground till the lip sends up a leafy rearhed the earth were never seen In about the old root is likely to have a flight by human eye, while their very strong taste and requires a longer existence us mineral masses remained time fur cooking. unknuwu for long iieiluds of lime. If The yellow-rooteespe- - we consult the catalogue of meteorites varieties, rlally the Martlnica. require a some- - in the British museum it will be what longer time over the flrn than j seen tlmt three main divisions of THE WILLIAMETTE METEORITE do the ordinary yams or sweet pota- classification are maintained FOUND IN OREGON. namely, toes, but the white varieties, like Itol-llz- alderlles. sldoruliloa and aerolites. The Thla View Shows Upper 8!de with cook in about the same time as first consists chiefly of iron (80 to 96 Eroded Holes and Furrows. The is required for Irish potatoes. When per cent.), the second mostly of iron Meteorite Measures Ten Feet In Its boiled the white varieties are removed and atone, and the third almost Greatest Length, and Four Feet wholly from the water as soon as done to pre- of stone. from Baae to Summit. -QLD PLANT. vent their falling to pieces, while the These unsbaiiely lumps of metal are tSHOWNG HA3TJUZL&& Martlnica or the Amarllla are left any not without associated romance, aris- tory, New York. It contains nearly S9 length of time without danger of their ing, as clmnre decrees, from mode of per cent, of Iron. crumbling in the kettle. In fact, the discovery, struggle for ownership, or a from The question will jierhaps be asked Both from u cultural and dietetic standpoint the yautia holds Martlnica Is at Ita best if mashed man's employment of them. In a whether these sky tokens, great or third piare among the root crops of after boiling and made Into small jiortlon of the gigantic (and burled) small, reveal Intelligonrn of worlds bePorto Rico. Thla plant, though of cakes or croquettes, fur otherwise, un- Canyon IHsblo meteorite of Arizona, yond our cirblt on which life may Such an inference could only ba lower taxonomic rank than tho sweet less eaten at once while hot, its firm- the late Prof. Moissun detected and ness is objectionable. The water in extracted minute diamonds, and it waa formed by means of a scrutiny of the potatoes and yarns, possesses many which the tubers are boiled is well this discovery which prompted him to physical and rhemlcai conitosltlon of points of superiority over either, and salted. lull late his meteorites. It la a matter Intensely few, If any, economic plants deserve In boiling the tubers the thin skin more careful ecological study. exiierimenti in regard to the Interesting to the physicist. laing Is removed previous to putting them genesis of the diamond, resulting ulti- ago. In a British association address. Though possessing no true stem, the into the water. When baked the mately In Ha artificial production in Lord Kelvin put forward a of Is appeara striking daring yautia plant ance. The general aspect Is like that mealiness and peculiar flavor of the his Paris laboratory. The flndera at hypothesis in connection with metalllx out are much tier brought the Arlspe meteorite In the state of ic stones and life ujain the earth. of the taro, or elephant's ear, ao much yautia used aa a summer ornamental In the than In any other method of cooking; Sonora, Mexico (1898), supposing the Every year, said he, thousands, the skin may be left on In baking or mass to be some form of silver ore, millions, of fragments of probably north; but the leavea are always arroroasting. concculed It near the place of fall: solid matter fall uKin the earth . Instead of shield-shapeThe various kinds and colors of thither, however, It waa traced and and because we all and with prominent venation on both confidently believe surfaces. The height of the plant yautia are well adapted for use In spirited away. Subsequently, It came that there are at present, and have stews, soups, Into the hands of a siioculator, who, by been from time Immemorial, many ranges from one foot In some types to puddings,etc. croquettes, pink-rooteThe varieties drilling, concluded that It contained worlds of life beaidea our own, we purees, color In feet and the others, eight make an when served neither gold nor silver, and discarded must dish attractive whitish runs from pale green with regard It as probable in the highentire. the mass In disgusL Another Mex- est degree that there are countless petioles to purplish olive with blackish-A favorite manner of serving the ican meteorite, the Rodeo, did duty as mauve meteoric stones moving petioles and veins. The leaves at first stand erect above the yautia ia as follows ; The tubera are an anvil at a forgo. It is now in the about through apace. But the closest In salted water, and Field Columbian museum, Chicago. analysis has never yet shown any rhizome, but gradually droop and after peeled, boiled or egga, and Casaa Grandes, a prehistoric then mashed; milk, a few months die, remaining attached Iron, vestiges In meteoric maaaes that have grated cheese are added, and the mix- was found in a cave In Mexico, with reached our earth of fossils, whether by their bases to the top of the root ture Is made Into croquettes and fried. mummified objects. The notabla Iron animal or vegetable, and fcowaaet kmiw- Yautia, or yahutla, waa the name apTiarboiled, cut In thin slices, and meteorite, Wllllametle, was dlscov- - ly. plied to the plant by the Arawaka at fried ia a native method which brings the time of the arrival of the Spaniards. We offer the following tenta- out the characteristic flavor to good tive theory for the etymology of the advantage. In fact, the yautia may be uaed In word: "Ya, the Arawak prefix meanany way In which the aocailed Irish noun or and the ing place of, locality la naed. Rut while there la potato hulla, the native name of a nearly rodents very little difference in flavor of the extinct genus of splny-halremany varieties of potatoes, there Is (Capromys) which waa hunted by the variation In flavor, as ONLY BEGINNING TO BE KNOWN known building Blone from every atat Indiana and which was probably abun- considerable in the union, was a gift from him, and WHAT HE DIO FOR 8CIENCE. vawell as dant wherever there waa a patch of rieties. In color, among the yautia is of great practical value to builders esculent tubers. It la thus possible and contractors, who consult It often Since yautia ia almost entirely that the tubers themselves were first unknown the In tropical AbIs and Africa, Millions of Hio Money Wont to tho for accurate Information. called after the place In which they Ita His greatest undertaking In the field Introduction there should prove of Furthering of Reaeareh and were found. of anthrojiology waa the field work Tubera uf Rolllsa great of Natural Importance. Study Three species of yautia exist in a have and resulting collection of the Jesuit already been sent to Manila, History. wild state In Porto Rico; these are North Pacific exiieditlon, which peneSingapore, Queensland, Lagoa, and the found In shaded ravines, usually near Gold Coast of West Africa. About 15 Great and generous men paaa away, trated British Columbia, Alaska and water courses. They flower freely, varieties have been sent to Hawaii, but the good which they do lives after Siberia, the whole project being but no seed has been noted thus far. where they are aa growing them. The debt which science owes financed by Mr. Jeaup at an outlay of reported The numerous varieties which have well and thus far are resistant to the to Morris K. Jeaup, the late financier about 975,000. f At hla own expense he early placed been under cultivation for perhaps taro root disease which causes the and philanthropist of New York city, a party In the field which procured acof the crop of many thousands of years belong to lose of nearly one-hai- f curate Information concerning the the very similar If not identical spe- that staple article of the Hawaiian vanishing tribes of North American cies, Xanthosoma aaglttaefollum and market. The better varieties have Indiana. X. atrovlrens, or else to X. vlolaceum. been distributed in several district! He supported the Lumbolts expediThe last la readily recognized by Its of Florida, Arizona and California, tion of among the Hulchol Indiana of two varieties with considerable success; but since purplish leavea; only Mexico, which brought back a large this species are known to the writer. t least nine months are required for and intereating collection. He also The intense localism of the 16 or 20 the maturing of most varieties, the contributed largely to the purchase of distinct native varieties of yautias In urea In the United States adapted to the Sturgis collection of material from Porto Rico la difficult of explanation, their culture must needs be very a the South Sea islands, and the and it can not be accounted for by limited. maand collections of nor Terry or W. O. prejudice BARRETT, popular preference terial from North America and the Porto by varietal adaptability to soil cond- Botanist and Entomologist, United States. Rica itions. Numerous cases have been He purchased and gave to the excenoted of the absence of certain the Robley collection of 35 tatllent varieties In districts of easy ac- The aa an Ornament. tooed human Maori heads, which wen 60 cess. On the average, fully When Mra. James B. Eustis posed per assembled In New Zealand by Maj. cent of the varieties in a given dis- the other day for her New York guests Gen. Robley of the British army. trict are confined to that district. The with a live twined The series of ten marble busts of most tenable theory auggested for this around her body, some of the specta-torAmerican men of science, ar leading localisation of varieties la that alexpressed alarm and disgust. So In niches surrounding the foyranged though all' varieties were common to much depends on the point of view. er of the museum, were the gift of all aectlona of the laland at the time The late Mr. Frank Buckland once Mr. Jesup, coating him about $10,000. of the Spanish discovery, the 100 yean aid that one of the prettiest sights EARLY PERUVIAN JAR. of subsequent strife and sweeping he ever saw" waa a lady of bis ac- Mr. Jeaup Contributed Liberally for as was also the painting of Von Humboldt which hangs above the entrance Reaeareh in South and Central changes, the extermination or absorp- quaintance dressed In black velvet, to the president's office. tion of the original cultivators of the with her favorite America. colled He waa one of the founders of the plant, the existence of slavery, and the around her; the contrast of colors and was a member of tho museum, be to la appreciated, only beginning m tire change of agricultural cond- was simply lovely." The lady was the to select the site itions In the last 300 years have caused wife of a Dr. Mann, and the boa was and his bequest of 61.000,000 to the committee appointed He waa elected first for the Natural of building. Museum History American tome varieties to become extinct In a household pet. He used to sleep In on May 10, 1880, and each section, and aa there la little bed, twined around Dr. Mann's foot. Is small in comimrlaon to the generoswaa made its president on February need tc import others when each lo- "He Is perfectly clean, wrote that de- ity displayed by him toward the in his lifetime. Then he gave. 14, 1881, holding the office continumuseum aurli voted has to three six of ita own, cality naturalist, ilea still, and very to thousands uion thou- ously to the time of his death. exchange of varieties haa not pro seldom disturbs me; occasionally he In addition hours uf crawla to my face to lick It So that sands of dollars, hours uon greased. in the case or a man of which, time, the Still Another Excuse. boarconstrlctor fashion offers still Without the yautia the people of the hla wide financial Interests, were probAre you further willing to chop some wood New smartest to interior of Porto Rico would be largepossibilities ably worth millions or money. To for your dinner?" ly dependent upon one native article York. these contributions of money and time Lady, answered Plodding Tote. of diet the Chamaluco, or Mafafo bamust be added the vast amount uf "I'm interested In de preservation ol General Strike In Rome. Says Wife ia Guiltless. Star That Outshine 8un. nana. Unlike the yam, the yautia may workwhich he threw Into the SL Louis. Lying at the point ot the forests, an' it would be ag'in' me Rome. A general strike has been One of the government astronomers, energy be cropped at almost Any time of the out of his pet project to make principle to put an ax Into one of de death in the ing B. City, John the aa a hospital, or protest against proclaimed and unlike either the yam teferring to stars tbst are so distant the American Museum of Natural Hisyear; monarcha of de forest, even though fatalities In connection with the dis- Barry, streetcar conductor, wounded the sweet potato It can be grown in l hat they have no measurable the foremost institution of Its he lay prostrate at me feet. tory Washorders on the streets here on Thurs- by a bullet, begged his wife to re- moist soil along the beds of streams asserts that one of these, the kind In the world. Star. ington day, when the troops fired on and tract her statement that aha shot him in the clayey soils of the coffee dis- brilliant Canopus, can be said, with The collection of North American killed three rioters and wounded fif- accidentally while he waa trying to tricts, as well as In the swampy al- confidence, to be thousands of times woods, Including 600 of the 510 forest a take morfrom her were whom with of which revolver, teen others, four luvium along the rivera near the coast. brighter than our sun. Whether we listed In a recent report of the govGrowing Old Slowly. tally Injured. The strike ao far baa she had threatened, to commit suicide. The tubera, boiled, form a large part should say 20,000. 10,000 or 5,000. n ernment bureau of forestry, was asPatience Some iople grow He to renher In himhe the that successful shot say urged not been very of the diet of the laboring classes; 'ne can decide. The first magnltui' by him at a cost of nearly much slower than others. ter of the city. Most of the shops are self accidentally while cleaning tho fried, they enter Into many dishes on tkrs, Rigel and Specs, also are at at sembled ratrlce I know it. Why. there'a $130,000. open, although shutters have been put revolver. But Mrs. Barry persisted In the planter's table; unfortunately the Immeasurable distance, and must, li: A mlncralnglral collection, made np that Styles girl, who has beea 28 for view of their actual brightness, enor up in the buildings as a protection saying she had fired the shot. It la custom of baking la comparatively of spcclnu n rube cut from every 12 vears! Yonkers Statesman jnot believed that Barry can recover. rare In Porto Rico, but the large tu- - nioualy outshine the aun. gainst possible riots. e s ; e i g h to-du- j i y Sf ! j 11 J v- a, - S tx-1s- t. world-renowne- d d w-shaped d seed-bearin- g THE DEBT TO JESUP d y y Em-mon- mu-aeu- s a vice-preside- par-Hax- 1 , |