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Show v SALT LAKE TIMES. SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 1890. 7 the celFin "order. One his cot while the otto .SZe8 it came to the question rrf f. V L- - VICTIMS OF FOLLY Girls There Seems to Be Small Ue-W- hy Do Thoy Prefer to Do Evil? GOODWIN'S . DOWNFALL. Slain for Leading Daughters ) r1w Wives Happy With One Man. creeturs is women." declared a of fiction long years and his utterance RTjM remains an axiom. he couched the idea the phrase of the the gentleman . would have ,t the fair sex sometimes as-th- e world by startling exhibitions ronntalile folly; and did he live York City at the present day he ive point 10 his state,ue- -t by :.e cilSe of Annie Goodwin. HKKET IULL.. meals,' hut Elliott settled the difficulty by stating that the divorced wife should him with serve breakfast, the other woman should give him his lunch and so on, while both should divide the honor of buying his cigars. Elliott sat in his cell with a wife on each knee, and received their advice as to the conduct of his defense. All day long the women hovered around him, and the one who ia his lawful wife did not object to the attentions lavished upon him by the divorcee. Yet this man, who could secure and hold the affections of two silly women, was wanted in Oregon for what? For placing a minor girl in a disreputable resort. But can any of these cited instances of female folly more than equal the colossal Idiocy recently displayed by that scion of British nobility called Viscount Dunlof Here is a young man born to fortune, es- - A5XIE GOODWIIt, 3 one hardly need look further fo? il example of feminine unwisdom. m s girl, young, attractive and with loving relatives and a good She had an excellent position in a e factory, and earned 113 a week, .admired by her friends of the op-e-and one at least of them sought din honorable marriage. Appar-- ) one had less excuse for leaving i of decency than Annie Goodwin, he left it. an about town" dazzled her foolish rith smart presents and smarter he received him at her home, a ide over which her married sister s. She went with him to entertain-an- d one night returned luto fud-t- h liquor. The sister, good, honest otested, and warned Annie that her lad other than honorable motives. !, bent on her own destruction, re-- listen, left the house and secured s with a complaisant chum. For a terthat the "man about town" had ling his own way. One day Annie that she was destined to become a She begged her betrayer to mar-H- e laughed, declined the honor, arette and walked away. .. de her shame the girl took apart-wit- h strangers, and sending for a us old man named Dr; SlcGonegal tod to a criminal operation. tVlule bed she was ordered from tho prein-he- r suspicious landlady, and the " conveyed her to the filthy quar-- a disease scarred female who was There Annie Goodwin died, aloDe, ded, suffering unspeakable torture. :tor wrapped a quilt about her form, dumped it into his obtained a false burial certificate LADT DUNLO. tates and a good name. When his father dies he will be tho Earl of Clancarty, and must sustain the dignity and responsibili-ties 'of an historic title. Yet, with this honorable and onerous prospect before him, the lad, scarcely past his majority, joins with two other hilarious friends in pitching pennies to determine who shall marry Belle Bilton, the pretty concert hall singer. Dunlo wins, proposes, is accepted and gets married. The honeymoon lasts nine days. Then tho viscount's father ' captures him, sends him away, arranges "details," and then causes the young hus- - band to begin divorce proceedings, alleg-- ing unfaithfulness on the part of the wife. But Belio Bilton's rough contact with the world has sharpened rather than lessened her common sense. As she remarked the other day: "Lord Dunlo knew what I had been when he married me. Since my wed-ding no one can show, aught against my conduct or character." ' j DR. M'GOKEGAL. services of an undertaker, and hid e in aa unmarked grave in an Both crime and victim he t were concealed until the judgment 'accident brought the horrible and placed the whole crew of lis and accomplices in the hands of ice. 14 not be fair to class Mrs. Emily foolish" in the same sense that dwin was, for if the reports are Hair, foily WRS of the doliberate- - kind, and affected those Who 0 have received her tenderest care Mughtera. When her husband, aall,sb.ot her dead at Council the other day it was generally 1 'oat the man committed the mur- - -s-ane regarding the disgrace of V. Several months ago Hall un-t- f "ought legal aid to get the chil- - Were still at home away from ftw, desiring, he said, to place Mw they might be surrounded by law?8-- He averted that his wife "Mthe other girls, and was pursu-M- e ooUree with the two youngest, 8 bit of taking them with her s on the "Row." The neighbors I i p11 to 8 a whip and Emma home from the house 'Pttte where she resorted. After ' Home he did nothing more than 'a4 her, but Mrs. Hall took the and said she should do as she lite expedient, wasn't ying lwt his daughters might be saved sgracep v toother instance of folly of still Vp 'p,?-'b- "ther-da- detectives at a hotel in San Fran- - re- - the ner rs to "Wrs so uld no-Iv-of The Twives" 1 the da. if he Ww a ELUorr-- ,mt,w&8 bigamist, but he av Zlr nB of the women was hia i" is the other was the one to aTw'?1 at Present. They foi-st k. n he ieft Portland. When ,;i , Was under arrest tho two thema hU D6-C- -- d 'i aPPearing to be the least is', fondling ha received at ied hi ot the ot- -- They ac-- ion the ' th Central WOUId one to his PerWrfi niht " the prison reg- - 1 and0rntog,ll0weTerthewiveB' f of no,?r vinue of an order from tT access to their of them kissed him iMpga-i- a tnor from my point at view. On the wholo I feel convince! that I only succeeded iu changing Mr. Bellamy from no. exagger- ated Rip Van Winkle into a luiinti;-- . The remark that closed' the conversation cer-tainly points in that direction, "Wail, by Guy! The cyclones and the rarthqnakes seems to be moving eastward, but I did hope they'd keep thorn uir west-ern anarchies where they belong. I don't give hislt o' my boat nor half o' my jaekknife to nobody. I want you to un-derstand that just now and then." I couldn't help wondering, as I leaned back against a rock a few tuomcuts later and stared out upon the soa, if there was any reform possible except that which may ba termed an alphabetical evolution and a heart to heart contact with humanity. I don't believe there is. Both head and heart must bo educated to receptivity, and taken as a whole these are pretty tough or-gans. But wbat'a the uso of bothering with great questions on a hot day Eleanor Kim. MR. BELLAMY IS NO KID. A Curious Iidea Regarding the Author of "Looking Backward," Which Has Been so Extensively Bead, HIS NOTES BEACH COTTAGE. Where He is Passing the Summer Months, and Has Excited the Dubious Interest of the Natives, "IT 0YES BEACH. Aug. 12- .- For several years a little spot on the extreme southern coast of Rhode Island has been known only to a favored few, whose chief desire has appar-- 1 eutly been to enjoy it to tho 1 utmost during the summer, and then to lock it up and leave it. So quiet has been its growth that the sound of the ham- - KDWARD BELLAMY'S COTTAGE, mer has scarcely been heard in the build-ing of the many pretty cottages which have been erected from year to year. This place is Noyes Beach, or Noyes Point, and is about six miles away fram the wide-awake town of Westerly. It may lie said to have been discovered by Mrs. M. F. Butts, one of our sweetest American poets ami a native of Westerly. Scarcely above a whisper did this lady speak as nho de-scribed the grandeur of the ocean view, the wonder of the great green breakers and the beauty of the grass clad earth extend-ing to the very edge of the shingle. Noyes Point must be kept sacred to peace and harmony. And so it has been, and so it is now, and so may it ever be. Noyes Point juts into the sea, and is con-nected by beach with Watch Hill six miles away, and by road seven miles. From "The Point" to "The Hill" the beach at low tide is as smooth and hard as a marble floor, and a twelve mile tramp back is consider-ed only a fair constitutional by those who are fond of outdoors and accustomed to walking. The great hotels at "The Hill" do not look more than a mile away, and Montauk Point, twenty miles across, seems in this clear air distant only a stone's throw. Narragansett Pier is sixteen miles to the eastward along the coast, while Block Island, separated from Montauk by a great stretch of ocean, just now flecked withfoam, looms up like a mighty city, flanked by a great white wall, which hap-pens in this instance to be a huge saud dune. There seems to be no stable point of view from Noyes Point. For some reason known only to those who have made a scientific study of the atmosphere, Block Island rarely seems twice in the same place, and the end of Long Island appears sometimes a dozen miles at least longer than at other times. Many of us know from experiences that have not been over A NOYES BEACH RESIDENCE. pleasant, if not absolutely mortifying to our amour propre, that morally and Intel-- ' lectually our points of view are more or leas shifting. If these are not chronically teetering wo should consider ourselves of the elect. Tho analogy between human nature and nature as embodied in earth and sea and sky is decidedly comforting. It makes us feel that the atmosphere of the soul has as good a reason fir its exist-ence and its shifting propensities as the atmosphere which surrounds us. Among the new comers at Noyes Point this summer is Mr. Edward Bellamy, who, as I write, is sitting on the piazza of hia pretty cottage, looking out upon the rain-bow tinted waves that break with thun-dering noise against the rocks that cover this part of the beach. If I had not read from various sources that the uthor of "Looking Backward" was summering at this point I should not have mentioned It, for in my opinion there ia nothing that Mr. Bellamy wants so much or stands so much in need of as being let alone. A hundred years' experience in looking back-ward is enough to tire any man, and friends, admirers, reporters and reformers , will be doing a wise thing for humauity if they allow this distinguished writer to in unmolested on the edge of the At-lantic. A long acquaintance with the natives of the coast has made it possible for some of them to speak to me with the greatest free-dom about things that bother them, and the other day I was much amused by hav-ing one of the moat eccentric of the num-ber invite me to step round the side of the house for a minute. "What is it?" I asked in some wonderment, "Why, say," said he, "they tell me that that air man that lives t'other aide of you is a little off-ki- nder weak and gone up here, you know, tapping the crown of his old slouch Lat aa he spoke. ; . Mr. Bellamy," I re-plied, "Oh, yes; you mean not only willing but anxious to lead him on. the fellor. I wns told," lowering his voice to aa oral- - OVEBLOOKHtO THE OCEAX. nous key, "on what I call the beat author-ity, that he ain't no kid.'! "I didn't know that he pretended to be a " kid," I answered. "Wall, now, it can't be that you am t heeard," my companion resumed, with a look of wonder on his weatherbeaUsn face "Why they say that one o' tbem old witcn work doctors cast a sort o' spell over him. and that he went to sleep in a hole under-groun- d and woke up in Boston a hundred rears arterward. Guy! ft makes me feel creepy every time I look at him.' "He isn't too old to pick the bones ont of nah?" I remarked interrogatively. --Wnv no, he's aU right en flh, and no-body'd 'ever guess he waamora'n thirty-fiT- . or forty, but when yoo add a hundred onto thorn" Aggers you've got something that too. don't often see in tn way of an age." It was not, hunuuiJyepe-kin-g. an easy Job to explain the plot of "Looking Back-ward" to this rustic, and it was an utter frBnyjhflitv." nit, Vf" "fard- - aft-- THE POWE: OF THE TELEGRAPH. A Lesson to Be Drawn from tho Keren t Fire la New York City. No other local calamity of equal pro-portions could go quickly and so widely exercise a disturbing influence as did tho recent fire in the Western Union building at New York city. The bluza for tho moment partially paralyzed the business of the country, and its effocta were more or less felt in the retuot set hamlets of the North American couti ONE OF THE TEMPORART SWITCH BOAKP9. nent wherever, indeed, there resides some dealer who must have quotations in order to know the prices to pay for grain, hides and produce. There was a lull in the transmission of money by telegraph, of financial ad-vices and of the great mass of personal messages important only to sunders and receivers in fact a break of electrical communication extremely annoying ami involving large losses simply because a half million dollar fire took place on lower Broadway in New York city. To use a homely phrase, "all the eggs wore in one basket." In other words, tho damaged building was the solo center of the Western Union system, from which everything, even electricity for the wirea a thousand miles away, was supplied, and tronWe there meant trouble at each of thousands of stations scattered over the land. To a large extent, and as swiftly as energy, intelligence and money could collect resources, the dnmuge was re-paired and communication with new headquarters furthorup town, and before many weeks are gone the fire and its consequences will have becoino simply memories. The calamity, however, has served its purpose in calling publio attention to the gigantic hold the telegraph has on modern life. Thirty-fiv- e years ago, when there were many companies in-stead of a few, the destruction of a building filled with electrical apparatus would have affected only the owners and the residents in a comparatively smull region of territory. But the last quarter of a century has been an era of consolidation. A few giants have swal-lowed up many pygnries, and when one of these giants has heart trouble there is disturbance and anxiety throughout hjs whole immense frame. To Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y., is due whatever credit attaches to the amalgamation of many rival lines into the one immense corporation., known aa PORTION 0" THE DESTROYED OPEKATOO BOOM. the Western Union Telegraph company. In face of great obntaclen Mr. Sibloy achieved his purpose, aud he lived to see the day when it required (2,000,000 of Western Union stock to purchase fiO.OOO of tho original issue. By 1809 a property originally costing $220,000 had increased in value to $48,000,000. The capitaliza-tion of the company at present ia about twice that sum. "Absorb and extend" have been the signs in which the inanipnlatora of tho electric wire have triumphed, but the country in general had no idea of the power wielded by the teletrraph mag-nate until the accident of a fire the other day compelled them for the mo-ment to drop the guiding rein. COHNBROS. MIDSUMMER BARGA1NO 1 B A R G A I N O , We arc determined rLTep Qt We offer ill our French Sateens at 20o PER TARO. 85o quality Scotch Zephyr Ginghams reduced to Wo. 60o " " 33c. 40c " ' 80 SOc " " ! U.'Ja Taney Irish Pre Linens reduced from 50c to 80c per jarl A larjre lot of Checked and Ptrlpwl A lot of Check I and Striped See Seersucker Ginghams at 10c, reduced sucker Oldham 16 yards for II. former from 15c price 10c, Our entire stock of Canton, Shanghai and Japanese Lyons printed Silks at 75 eta per yard. We are clearing out Checked and Striped White Lawns at lo to 22a per yd; former prices i to 4rto per yd; Us line U offered at lma than cost. We have gathered tip a lot of short ends of Table Linen and brokaa lota of Napkins and Towels, which are offered at leas than coat 100 dozen Ladles' Sheer Lawn Handkerchiefs la faney hematite-l- a at 10c each; regular price 25a 100 dorm Ladles' elegant drawn-wor- Sheer Lawn Uao rellehi at 5o apiece; lormer price 60c 100 dozen Ladies' Sheer Irish Lawn Initial Handkerchiefs t for 60c; this is our well known 25o Initial handkerchief. We offer to close out a lot of hand tome Rlark Iaoe Financing Chantllly and LaToaca and offer them at the following reductions: At $1.10) reduced from $1.60 At $1.25 1 raduosd from $1.75 " $1.75 " $2.60 " $2.00 " $325 " $2.25 " $360 " $3.00; " $4.60 " $3.60. " $5.00 " $4.26) " $8.00 Closing out balance of 111 ark Drapery Nets al bare cost 100 dozen Ladles' Ethiopian Dye splendid quality Black Cottoa Hose at 2'hj a pair; reduced from 40a. We offer special bargains in Ladies' and Misses' White Muslin and Cambric Skirts for this week. A line of Tucked Skirts at 25 cts. I Tucked with Cambric Rufflee at 1 eti Embroidery rullle with tucks at 75 rta Embroidery and lace trimmed at II. Our entire line of Metier priced SkirU will ba found open on our counters and will lie offered at reduced prices fur this week. The liuo Includes an endleaa variety of it lea In Torchon, Halt Val, Mcdecls and Embroidery Trimmed. ztisrft m waisb aa'LKtSr TOHN BROS. jet i The People' $ Paper! For the Newt Read j jj - It Hits the Mark! if TV The Daily Timt$ f lAfK 8 J Keep Your Eye On It! Tht Paper of Thit t Best "Ad." Medium I jjjjj Crcua(0I, Great Mining Ren JL STBAM W Carpet Cleaning. IrTiT Feather and Mattress llenova tin& in, Carjets ljX&&ffl' Made and Laid, Mattresses made to Ofllre Under I'ostofllre. Ftf tor 40 Union Street Salt Italic Transfer Co. PATTEN & GLENN. T" 111 Orders Promptlj Ittaodel ti tr " Car Lots a Specialty. QI Offlc, US W. Fint South t. " ' ' " " '"' - - - Ellis, Cwono 0," Gndinj, Ditching ind Eicanli.j, Um 121 S. Main St. Street Grading a Specialty. Pjjjmpr ESTIMATES ri'RSISHEDL ' CORRESI'OSDESCE SOLICITED The Inter-Mounta- in Abstract Co. Incorporate- -. Capital. $100,000, a. y HAVE a complet art of Abstract Books of Rait Laka county aoJ r 1 I prepared to furnish abrtrarU on ahort notic II A MAKL compIeU Abstr-ct- a, that will pas a thotough exmlnatla 1 1 I by the niot technical examiner. I! j SHOW ail tax jadiDte nmcbanka lien, mum peodin; we the original papers and th record in probata matter a4 alio ejamine the papers and record in district court iroc-ii- n,r We are the only eomp-- n making coin plets abstract; we bow ail fact at every nature affecting the title, and aa opinion can be tendered oa tha aana without re examiniog the record a THUS. HOMER, Xaaw. Can M Main elreet. UUltf ban-- Of I--- THE ITAH POILTEY lOWlVT, nboleaale Prepare Healers, Ueaeral lomili Xerebaala. Sole WmWD Ai"nia t' l he IleaUsa and Bll Bprir- - Ilutir. l West sm4 nnh st . Te)epai TV, Y. O. twieil. ttraur k-- faraCu, LUa. salt -- Lake city." Sights and Scenes in and Around the Intexmountain Metropolis. PLAGES OF INTEREST TO VISITORS. A GUIDE TO THE TOURIST. j j Useful Information for the Investor, the Home-Seek- er and the Visitor. i G- -lt Lk't Locmtlon, Attraetteaf --ud Cliui.t. ' Garfield Beach andOthar auaiMf Ror The .city of Salt Lake has a tame whirl reaches around the world. Th population 11 atxmt .V,(U, and la increasing at a rapid rata, j It Is slluatril at Ui base of the Waa-U-'h mountains In a lovely valley, rich In tmcul- - tural resources and Is eifthteea mile dlntnut j taun Great Bait Lake. Iu elevation above ea level la 4,:vi) feet. There are many point of Interest to vlltors In the city and Bear IV. Here are some of them: The Temple. Thl magnificent creaiu-whl- grantte at lo. lure was begun April , 1S5S, It ! lUOxSD feet, the walls are lit) feet high, and the towera,whea completed, will be UUO feet In height. Over IK.VO.OOO have been expended on the Temple, and It Is now niarliu oomplettou. ID the same square wiih the teui pla la the spa-cious building called Vlie Tabernacle. Here are held the iwvlcrs of the Mormon rhnroh, and these are alU'tuted every Huu.lxT bv Immense congregation of people, both Mormon snd (it utile. The ntmctur I oval III shape. Heveuly-Av- e feet high ul KOOxlJO feet In length nud Itreiullh. It hn a neutlng rape-rlt-of 1S.UO people, and here wuy be heard what laelalmed to belhe fliieet organ In the world. I'm II once sung lu the tabernacle, aud demonstrated that Its acoueMc powers are very fine. The Oardo llouae, or Amelia Palace, was built by Brtgham Young who willed that It ahoiild be the reelileure of hie fsvorlle wife, Amelia Kolwitu Young, but since h!n death It h been ueed a the olUclal resldeuce of dlgulUrlos of the church. Hrlgham Young's Keeldeneea, known as the Hee lllve and the Lion House are old fashioned slrucliiree, rtirlnua from eoclatloiiK. Vheen am elttmled In what whs once Hrlgham Young'e domain, all of which ban panned luto other hauda, save the large lot lu which la Hrlgham Young's rave. Thl can be reached by passing through tha Eagle Date, an archway In the old mud wall which at onetlineencompaiuied Hrtgtmm'e prl vale proiMrtv. One or two of the prophet s wives repoae beside his last resting place. A slab of granite rovers the grave ami there Is space left near by fur the grave of hla other wives. tteseret aluaettni ThU Institution la situated on Bouth Tempi street, dlroctlv opposite Temple aipiare. II contains a large number of Intereetlna curios-ities, chiefly pertaining to the early history ol Utah. It Is well won h a visit. l'rospeet Hilt with its lookout tower command a splendid 'view uf the oily aud lu aumiundluga. The Tithing llulldlng possesse Interest a lielng the general depot for tuxes collected by the Mormon ohuruh from its disciple. Liberty Park, In the amitheaatern portion of tha eity I a beautiful resort and can be reached by rapid transit train. The Chamber of Commerce, on Second South treet, Is vlsltod by those who take an Interest In the commercial atamllng of the eliy. There are several large oases con tattling specimens of Utah mineralogy which attract much attention. Tha Grand Opera House, on Beonnd Bouth street. Is under able manage-ment and la handsomely and comfortably fitted np. Borne tif the best talent In the renin-tr- Is oonatautly passing between the Atlantic arid the Paclnc, aud Halt Lake (Uly I always made a stopping place (or perforiuanoai, either the opera huuee or the Bait Theater being selected. This latter planeef amuse-ment was built by Urlgham Young over thirty years ago. it la a large and beautiful temple and 1 comfortably arranged. Assembly Hall, near the temple, 1 used In winter fr worship by the Mormon, the Ubernaol being too large to admit of proper heating. Assembly hall la lauxiw feet, and cost elMMMU. The celling Is with church pictures, among them the Angel Moroni dim lining the hiding place f the golden platea to Joseph Htulth. The Natatorlua Is a large circular bathing houee. the center of which, under a glass a swimming p.Ml. The water Is brought In pipe from Beak's Hot Kprlngn. There are also a large number ol bath room. Electric Street Car connect with every point of Interest In the city. The system la new aud the appointment good. Kapld transit 1 assured. Camp Douglas, three mile eaet of the city and over gWfeet above It, la beautifully laid out In the midst of lawn and orchards, and th liarrecks and house of the odlcera are built ol atoue. The pott commands a wide view of the city and hevond where Great Halt Lake lie like molten silver at the foot of the western mountain. Heck' Hot Springs are in the northern part of th city ahout three miles from the biislnea center. They Issue from the baae of the mountain, and are regarded an a very valuable aid In cuaea of rheumatism. dyafiepsla and irorula. Th waters are used beta In-ternally and externally, and there I an excellent hath house and neteaaary appointment for the comfort of patienu. The Warm Hnlpliur aprlugs are betwee- n- Hot Hprlng aad the city, ahout on mil from the .ston!o There la a good hotel and oomfortabl b oh bona Id connec-tion with the spring, and they ean be reached by Uot railway. The Mountain are unsurpassed In magnificent canyon, aad atleaat a dozen of the grandest are within reach of the oily. These luvlte the tourist U) spend days, weeks or months among their wild recesses to fish, to hunt, to aisle the peaks and ridges, and to g ither wild flower fy th id" of mossy springs, beneath the stindeof umbrageous pines, lilg iitoBl canyon should be n by every tourit. Here are Ink Mary and Martha from wnloh flow the turbulent Coitonwood river; and at the baa of the mounUlna are lake lllanchn, Florence and Ulllan. Hesirte these are Mills creek. Parley's, Emigration, and City Creek ratiyoue, all extremely plctureau.u and delightfully romantic. Pleaaant Drives abound In score around tho outskirts of the city; along th unlet country road, and through the lanes dividing meadow of rich grerti alfalfa and fields of grain: while the majestic mountalna are never entirely loet alKbtof Yom under the branches of tree arid above bedk-- of the wiht dog-roe-am caught of snow covered peaks A 5llrop to r'ort Douglas, anil then a mile further ou to the mouth of Kinlgratlou canyon l most delightful. It was here that the alxhl of the Mormon pioneer wis flrst nwla glad bV the vast expanse of Halt Iike valley sud-denly bursting upou them, on the Mtb of July, 1M'' Th tlreat Salt Lake. "I think," y Krnest Ingeraoll, "few per-to- n rllw how wonderfully. trangei)r beautiful this inland sea Is," and speeioi.g of luaunset Phil Kobtnaon has said; Where have I not anea sunsets, by land and aea. In Asia A Irtca. Enrop and Amertce, and where can I say I have ever seen move woDderons coloring inore electrifying efferts than In the suneet on the Oreat Halt Lake of Utah " Halt !tke la aa beautiful a aneet of water a ran be found anywhere. The waves are a bright bius or greeu, and as they dan-- - on IU urta- - It would be bard to which color prevails It Is dotted with beautiful Islands, and It aSord tie finest salt water bathing in the world. ;erfleld Hear Is within easy distance of the city, being but eighteen mile of a rid by train. Here I 1mrA every luxurv and comfort for a dip ta the myswrioti aea. and alao all the things nee-er- y for the comfort of the Inner man. The cfe afford enjoyable meal at feaeonatile prices, anu row are to be had foe a quiet poll" on the waters which p a rorootl Interest for every vmitor. lTe rntunroeiit of the TCoTim1iUon at ;arfleld Heacb on m the direction of th Union Pacl&c IUU-w- y company, as la that at , Lake Park andr th imperelston of th Rio Grand West-ern. Thl resort I aorta of th city, a boa I half way between Halt and C'gden. and I mus h frequented by visitors it U similar la ittnettna- s- to and is wsU wonky visit. Why a Train I Badly Bun. A queer state of affairs was disclosed the other day by the experience of Lawyer Hobert Goode in trying to catch a train. The cars didn't stop at the station, but ther conductor signaled the attorney to run. He did so, and finally got aboard at the risk of his life. Says Mr. Goode: "I learned that my experience was due to averype-- i culiar state of affairs. One of the passen-gers told me the conductor, J. B. Martin, a man about 40 years of age, but good look-ing and still young, had married the en-gineer's daughter about ' two years ago. The girl was going to school at the time, and the conductor eloped with her. Since then, I am told, the engineer, James Ewing, and Mr. Martin have never spoken, though they have been running on that train ever since the elopement. I was told that such things as I went through were not uncommon, and it was a very common thing for the train to pass per-sons waiting on a platform. I understand that the conductor and the engineer give and take ordors through, the brakeman. This breach between tho train hands is, I have since learned, the cause of no little annoyance to passengers." Shorn of Ills Locks-Ne- York has a genuine cowboy police-man. Until he "got on the force" he was known as "Suspender Jack," and wore long hair and buckskiu trousers. Now he answers to the name of John Clinton Mo-- Gee and rides about in a brass buttoned blue guit, while the hair beneath bis helmet is hardly long enough to tomb. Jack feels the change of at tire and manners greatly, as it is seven years since his locks were trimmed before. gPEKDEB jack. He is a native of . New Orleans, 88 years of age and is said to be the finest horseback rider in the city of New York. He was called "Suspender Jack" because he once in emergency made a bit and bridle out of a pair of braces. The Lawyer, of Course. A man who had been appointed receiver went to a lawyer and asked: "Out of $ao,000 passing through his hands how much ought a receiver to PI"Wen, about W9.000," was the reply "Only $19,0001" he exclaimed. Who is thousand, I'd like to to get the other know?" Texaa Siftings. Secretary Trmcy' Assistant. The office of assistant secretary of the navr is a new one, cr atud not long ago by act of con-gress, and the first to receive appointment to the position is Professor James. Russell Soley, of Mas&achusetts. Professor Soley was born at Rox-bur- y Oct 1, 1850, and graduated from Harvard in 1870. A year later he began his act-- rR0V- - 6fjLET- - ive career aa an instructor at the Aap-- ! olis Naval academy. In he wa J transferred to Washington, and has con-tinued in service at that place up to j date. To accept the new appointment i he resigned his potion as superintend-ent of the naval library and records. Profeesor Soley has achtered quite a rep-utation as an author, hia published worka including a "Histrr of the Na-val Academy," "Foreign 8yntetnsof Ka-ra! Education," "The Blockade) and the Cruisers,? "The Rescue of Greely" and "Tho Boy. of.:812." Fifty Tears Married. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Balmer, who cel-ebrated their golden wedding The other day at St. Louis, have, throughout the V MR-- AKD MM. CHARLES BALMEB. whole of their married life, been identa-fie- d with the artistic progress of the southwest, ad, it to oldest musicians in America. Their consequently, was made the oSnfor a suitable demonstration on SnlWt of a host of friends. Before her rnaS Balmer, then M18s Theresa Weberfwas the owner of the only sraa. pJano to be found Lu St, Loms. |