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Show me INDEPENDENT. I- C. JOHNSON, Publisher. SPRINGVILLE. . . UTAH Now tliat Prince Henry i3 at home he may safely uncork that bottle of Kentucky peach brandy. ' House hunting, bonnet hunting and octopus hunting are a few of the occupations oc-cupations of the present season. Another tunnel is to be built In New York. The island is destined to become a veritable gopher camp. Carnegie is making money so fast that he has now taken to giving away libraries in flocks instead of singly. . Insurance- rates are climbing bo high that any sudden descent will have to be made by way of the fire escape. - Aguinaldo, Lukban and all of the captured Filipino chieftains agree that the fat of the land is far preferable to the lean. Every time Italy looks over at Tripoli Tri-poli it thinks it ought to do a little lit-tle expending just to keep it up with the procession. J. Pierpont Morgan does not burden his mind with such a trifle as 10,000,-000. 10,000,-000. In this respect there is a number of us just like him. Nineteen Italian newspapers have been suppressed in Austria for fomenting foment-ing disorder on the occasion of the recent re-cent riots at TrSest. From the way they are fighting the Chinese rebels must have stood around and watched the armies of the allies do things two years ago. London is a poor location for the coronation. There are not enough mansions In the city to accommodate the American millionaires. A Russian has invented a monorail electric road that he believes will transport passengers at the rate of 200 miles an hour. Don't! Now that revolvers are being used in the noble art ot self-defense against hazing, the college pastime will .lose some of its zest for exuberant classmen. class-men. j The automobile appears to have" the peculiar faculty of running rich men Into the police courts. The poor man's cnance won't come till the machines are cheaper. Some of the New York restaurants now have "smoking rooms for ladies." (They should be more explicit and ilabel them-"smoking rooms for perfect per-fect ladies." When Max OTtell tells people to "re- ,main childish as long as you can," he probably means childlike which doesn't sound very different to a Frenchman. The social climber who has wasted his substance in golfing outfits Is now suffering from ping pongitls, a disease that is said to be prevalent among American plutocrats. - A long term in prison seems . to destroy a man's appreciation of liberty. lib-erty. Hardly had Jim Younger got out of the penitentiary when he began be-gan to yearn for matrimony. The new $5 national bank notes bear the vignette of Benjamin Harrison Harri-son and the new JlO's that of William McKinley. To the acquisitive taste the JlQ-'a are the more attractive. Sultan Abdul Hamid has stopped the pensions that had been allowed to several sev-eral Turkish students in Paris. Naturally Nat-urally the sultan looks with suspicion on any one who can read and write. Yet another step in the disappearance disappear-ance of gold lace from British officers' uniforms. Brigade orders of the Foot Guards announce that gold-striped trousers and overalls must be worn no longer. ! You are led to believe from the various va-rious pronunciamentosr of the great powers that henceforth it is going to !be so quiet in the far east that you jean hear a pin drop anywhere thereabouts. there-abouts. Miss Susan M. Hallowell, professor of botany for the last twenty-seven years at Wellesley college, has tendered ten-dered her resignation. Her retirement withdraws from the faculty ranks the last member who served in the opening open-ing year in 1875. The viceroy of India has announced a detailed scheme for utilizing a quarter quar-ter of a million sterling subscribed in India for the Queen Victoria memorial in building a great hall of classical architecture of white Pentellcon marble mar-ble to be brought from Greece. The news that Andrew Carnegie has refused to - become , Achilles II. of Araucana shows how really great is the American millionaire who prefers to invest in libraries instead of spending spend-ing his fortune in coronation ceremonies. ceremo-nies. A man who served a long term In the Iowa penitentiary writes to his home paper that he Is convinced crime does ot pay, since he has lost 516,800 he 1- ' " J ni.uis iraae, wane me property ne stole brought him only $67. The fight at the Omaha Medical and Dental College, taken part In by 300 students, lasted twee hours, "when the combatants were completely com-pletely exhausted." It was worse than any football game we ever heard of, or any cane rush. The students will probably require no hospital practice prac-tice the rest of the term. New York Episcopalians think Bishop Bish-op Potter's salary of $12,500 a year is too small, so they are going to raise it and build him a $100,000 residence. Being a bishop isn't so bad after all. The Chicago alderman who declared that his fellow members of the council would not- steal red-hot stoves has amended his statement. He thinks they will if the stoves are not too heavy. , A special report from the census department de-partment shows that Texas has more turkeys than any other state in the Union, with Missouri a good second. The heirs of Millionaire-Fair have succeeded in breaking his will. There is much philosophy in Mr. Carnegie's opinion of men who die rich. 3H There Is a land you may not know. Although so close it lies. I'll tell its name but whisper low 'Tia the Land of Shut-Your-Eyes " To find It? Why, Just lie quite still When dusk begins to creep. And close your eyelids with a will Don't taVe a single peep. And first you know you'll not be here. But In a wondrous place, Where Jabberwocks and Pinquins queer Will smile up in your face. Where Brownies, Gnomes and fairy folk. With Goops and InJIns too, Will crowd around you thick as smoke, And whisper jokes to you. Catch the R'ng. " In order to play this capital game, the chairs are placed in a circle, just so far apart that each person Sitting can easily reach the hand of another on either side of him. On person stands in the middle of the circle. A piece of string with a wedding ring or a larger ring of brass upon it, is then tied, of a sufficient length to reach all around the circle, so that each person may catch hold of it. The players are then to slide the ring along the string, passing It from one to the other, and the game is for the person who stands In the center to try to catch the ring. When he catches it, the-person with whom he finds it is to go out into the center. Forfeits may be added to this game, If preferred, each person caught with the ring paying forfeit. A Simple Trick. Take a glass and .fill it up to the brim and place it near a pile of pennies pen-nies or other money. Then see how many pennies can be thrown Into the glass without the water overflowing. As the pennies are carefully and slowly slow-ly dropped In the surface of the liquid will seem to become more and more canvex, and one is surprised to what an extent this increases before it overflows. over-flows. The Virtue of Economy. "I did not expect to get a cent from you," said a lady who had gone to ask of John Murray a contribution for a benevolent purpose and received $100. "You blew out one of the candles can-dles by which you were writing when I came in." ' ,' "It is by practicing economy that I save up money with which to do charitable char-itable actions," was the reply; "one candle Is enough to talk by," If we look closely at the lives of most philanthropists, and those who have acquired considerable fortunes, we shall find that they are now, or were, in a position to give largely, or to carry out great enterprises, because they never lighted, or else they constantly con-stantly practiced the h'bit of blowing out, waste candles. , Ihe people of Peabody, Mass., tell many anecdotes of the great philanthropist philan-thropist for whom the town was named, showing that he never burned two candles when only one was needed. Extravagance was to him a sin, which he, in the smallest things, avoided. Lydia Maria Child was never nev-er appealed to for any worthy object in vain. Her response was ever hearty and munificent for one with her comparatively small means and yet she turned envelopes which had been used, that she might use them again, and, in every possible instance, snuffed out the unneeded candle. Emerson used to relate an anecdote of a rich business man who, when approached ap-proached for a contribution for charity, char-ity, was found admonishing a clerk for - using whole wafers when . only half wafers were needed. When he had finished the admonition, he turned turn-ed to hia caller, heard his story, and subscribed $500. When his visitor expressed ex-pressed surprise that "a man should be so particular about the expenditure in wafers, the merchant said: "It is by saving half wafers, and attending to such litle things, that I have now something to give." "Economy is wealth." This proverb has been repeated to most of us until we are either tired of it or careless of it, but it is well to remember that a saying becomes a proverb because of its truth and significance. Many a man has proved that, if economy is not actually wealth, it is, in myriads of cases, potentially so. - English Free School Role. 1734. Imprimis, Whatsoever Boy comes to School past 7 o th' Clock in the Morning in Summer time, and past 8 o' th' Clock ye Winter time (without Shewing good reason) Shall receive 3 Lashes. Item, Whosoever absents himself from School, Either by Truantry, by trying to stay at home, or otherwise; Shall incurr his Master's highest displeasure, dis-pleasure, Suffer the hissing and Scoffing Scof-fing of "ye whole School, Tarry behind the Rest one hour at Night for a week, and besides (as a suitable reward for his ) shall suffer 12 lashes. Item, Whatsoever Boy shall at any time Curse, Swear or take the Lord's Name In' vain. Shall assuredly suffer for such offence, 15 lashes. Rem, What Boy soever addicts himself him-self to Obscure Talking or foolish Jesting, shall Suffer for each such Transgression. . Item, What Boy soever absents hlm- 4 There never was a land so strange. Nor yet more nice to see, -Each time you look the people . change; They couldn't queerer be. --And --And oh, the funny things they do! The way they jump and prance! Don't let them lay a hand on you Unless you love to dance. They dance all night, the funny things, They caper and they smile, They- fly although not all have wings They chatter all the while. To know them is a great delight, So, children, if you're wise. You'll pay a visit every night To the Land of Shut-Your-Eyes. Chicago Record-Herald, self from the services of Almighty God on the Sabbath day, and spends that Day in a wicked man'er In playing play-ing & running about, Shal receive 20 lashes. Item, Whosoever steals from or defrauds de-frauds his School-fellow of Ink, Pens, Paper, Quills, or any Other Thing Whatsoever, Shall certainly, when found out and detected, receive 9 Lashes. Notes and Queries. Birds Are Careless Builders. Nearly all sea birds are far more careless in their nesting than their cousins who . live inland. The terns, the skua, the puffins, the black-throated black-throated diver and the guillemot really real-ly make no nests at all. The puffins, however, usually borrow a rabbit burrow, bur-row, and are not particular whether its original owners have done with It or not. If they interfere, or even try to pass, a peck from the puffin's great parrot-shaped bill Is enough to warn them against trying to experiment the second time. The auks are birds of the northern seas, and are perhaps the finest divers of all the feathered tribes. Their short wings look in fact far more like fins than wings, and unlike gulls, the auks catch their prey beneath the water. The auk's selection of a spot to lay her eggs is very strange. She chooses a bare, broken ledge of hard rock, overhanging the waves. It looks as though it were a feat to balance eggs in such a place, and the marvel is that the first gale does not send them rolling over the crags. But an auk's eggs are so shaped as to prevent such a calamity; they are much larger at one end than at the other, and so instead in-stead of rolling straight ahead like a ball they turn around in a circle when started and so keep their places upon the rocks. Borne of tbe Worm. The worm's home is a hole of long halls dug in the ground. "These halls are lined with a kind of glue from the worm's body, the glue making the walls firm so they will not fall in. The halls are not very deep underground, and when the weather Js cold or dry the worms dig deeper. In 'winter worms plug up the doors of their houses, and this Is 'done often by dragging Into It a plant stem that will fit it, - They carry into their homes leaves and stalks to eat, and they bring out and throw away things which they do not like. Worms usually usu-ally come out of their holes at night or in wet weather. If they get far from their homes they cannot find their way back; then they make a new hole. Each worm lives alone. In the evening or early morning, or during dur-ing rain, you will often find worms with their heads stuck out of their doors. They do not come out when the sun is shining bright, as the heat dries worms up very fast and kills them. Birds know the habits of worms aid search for them at sunrise or after sunset, or while it is raining. A worm will die in one day in dry air, but will live for weeks under water. Young worms know as well how to build their houses and carry things in and out of them as do old worms. - Toad la Passion. In spite of the precious jewel which it wears in Its head, the toad has few friends, although one which Professor Bell kept as a pet would sit on one of his hands while it fed out of the other. No doubt it is an ugly creature, but it cannot help that. Why, then, should it also possess a temper? A toad in a passion is really and truly very angry indeed. One was once caught in a snare that had been laid for birds. The moment it found itself a prisoner. Its rage knew no bounds. It struggled furiously, and snapped at everything within its reach. Nor does it spare its brother- tcfad, but often- goes for it on land or water. Sorrow fnt River of China. This great stream causes so much distress to the Chinese every year that its original name the Yellow river is almost forgotten in its popular title of the "Sorrow of China." During the last century it has changed its course twenty-two times, and now flows into the sea through a mouth 600 miles distant dis-tant from that of 100 years ago. v It is estimated that its floods in the present pres-ent century have cost China 11,000,000 lives. . - Bow Choco'ate Grows. Chocolate Is a kind of a bean, which grows in a vegetable somewhat resembling re-sembling a cucumber. This cucum-berlike cucum-berlike vegetable is about five Inches long and three inches thick, and contains con-tains from twenty to thirty chocolate beans, arranged in fine rows, with partitions par-titions between them. The chocolate plant was first foui;d in Mexico, but is now grown inmost hot countries. It is occasionally raised in hothouses. Grant's Estimate of Jackson. On my asking Gen. Grant how he estimated Stonewall Jackson as a-general, a-general, he said: "He was one of the great generals of the world. His Valley Val-ley campaign was equal to Napoleon's Italian campaign." Edward M. Al-frend Al-frend in May iipplncott Half the pleasure of life would be lost if we didn't know how short a time we have to enjoy it THE HUM0B OF LIBJ LATEST WORK TURNED OUT THE WORLD'S FUN MAKERS. Sirs. CFlynn's New Ailment Comltvjf of the Eeeond Baby Woke Pusm ': from Their Bream What Broke tiuM tbe Flnf-Pons Social. J mum no( mas not urgent- I "I was out in a town in the InterlcJ of the state," said a Chicago business man tne other day, and, desiring ui quarters. "There was a farmer just ahead me, and he turned to me and sal 'If you wish to use the wire first, go ahead.' ""But you have the privilege, I replied. re-plied. " 'Yes, but I'll waive If T only wish to talk with Chicago, while your message may be one of life or death." Hi "'O. It's not so bad as that he re-J plied, with a grim smile. 'My wife eloped with a windmill man last nighty but you go right ahead with your talk. I Was nimnlv cninir tr notifw that enn.- i stables along the line to let her sllder1 right along.' ", - Lo and the White Men, "Is your hair cut?" "It is," answered the Indian. "Have you washed all the paint off- your face, and instead annointed your self with bay rum?" "I have." nave you cultivated habits or thrift and saved up some money?" "I have." "Sure you've saved up money?" "Yes." Well, come on. You are ready fortJ the next step in civilization. I will 4 now teach you how to play poker. Then She Froze. An attendant at Mt. Vernon not long since found a lady weeping most bitterly bit-terly and audibly, with her handkerchief handker-chief at her- eyes. He stepped up to her and said: "Are you in any trouble, madam?" "No, sir," she sobbed. "I saw you weeping." "Ah," said she, "how can one help -J weeping at the grave of the Father of His Country?" - "Oh! indeed, madam," says he, "that's it! The tomb is over yonder. This is the ice house." A fft. T . . 1 No reader of Frank Stockton's books can deny that there is a decided eie-l ment of the unreal about all of them. A lady of malaproprian tendencies J had been laboriously reading "A Storyteller's Story-teller's Pack." "What are you reading?" asked a friend. ' "Oh,' 'A Pack of Lies,' by Frank Stockton," came the unconsciously vivacious and strenuous reply.- A Hard PulL "Yes, it took my wife and me and my mother and my wife's mother and two sisters and an old aunt of mine and half a dozen of our cousins to pull our first baby through till it was two years old." - "And did the little one become stronger by that time?" "No, wb had another by that time 4 and came out of the dream." . l - UtJtto- Interest ft" "Ah! Nature, noble Nature!" exclaimed ex-claimed the maid, in a ' rapture of delight de-light "Oh! Mr. Spooneigh, is there anything more delightful than to sit here and listen to tbe gentle patter ot the raindrops?" "Ah really, I er think the supreme su-preme delight of my life Just now would be to remember who borrowed my umbrella last." A Bnslness Head. "You ought to have been ashamed to take money for that mule." . "I was kind o' shamed," answered Mr. Erastus Plnkley. "I was mighty glad to git shet of him. Uut was afraid dat if I Offered him to you foh nuffln you'd get suspicious." Innocence. He laid his heart at her feet. "But this is a heart oZ oak, while we burn only coaL" the maid protested in great perplexity. . ' .. Showing that she knew absolutely nothing of love as yet Telling the Tale. Crimsonbeak A very near-sighted friend of mine was feeling of a mule the other day to ascertain which was his back end. - - Yeast Well, did he find out? "He never lived "to tell the tale." A New Ailment. Mrs. O'Rourke Sure, and ye look bad since ye broke up houBekeepln. Mrs. O'Flynn. Mrs. O'Flynn Yes, Oi have th" furnished fur-nished room-itism now. What He Needed. "What's this thing?" asked a man who was Inspecting a music emporium. em-porium. - "That? Oh, that's used on violins. We call It a chin-rest" "Gimme one!" exclaimed the visitor. "Su'pose it would work on my wife?" Another JAm. Snappe Yes, I believe I did say you were always lying about yourself. Bragg Sir, I'm not accustomed to that sort of talk. I'm a gentleman, ir! ' " ' . . Snappe There you are again! ' A Kind Has hand. "Is your husband a good provider?" asked a sympathetic visitor. x "Indeed he Is, mum. He got me three new places to wash last week." Proof Presumptive. : A Mohawk Valley justice of the peace invariably gave judgment for the plaintiff in civil suits before him, without hearing the defendant, silencing si-lencing that unfortunate litigant with "Veil, vot I tinks he sue you for if "ou don't owe hlin?" 1 v : an UDjeenoa, v Prisoner," said the stern old judge, -the Jury, by a vote of 11 to 1, has found you guilty of smashing all t& windows and ruining the stock ot ten millinery stores. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?" "I have," announced the prisoner, rising to his feet, "Say it" L tljprotest, your honor, against this Verdict I -was not tried by a Jury ot , Aml ee On what do you base that objec tion?" "Why, only one of 'em is married. Their Sad Good-bys, "But, Agatha," said the husband whose heart was breaking, "what I want' Is your love. You seem so cold a; times. Think of the affectionate good-bys Chaffeur's wife gives him each morning." "True," answered Agatha, "but you know Chaffeur has an automobile, and his wife doesn't know but that each parting will be the last one." Wanted It Good. . Tramp Lady, I'm hungry enough to eat a house. - - Kind Lady What kind? Tramp Porter-house. V Home Compliments. , The south Georgia man was loudly proclaiming that southwest' Georgia was the garden spot of the worfd. "Yes," said the north Georgia man, "but you're d n poor gardeners!" . "That," replied the south Georgia fallow, "is because we Imported some of you fellows who thought you knw it all!" And then they went to betting on the campaign and called for . the drinks. They'd Corns Back. "Rimer's having some success with his poems now,-1 believe." "Nonsense! What makes you think that?" "He told me he was holding his own." , "Just so. He's just realizing that he might as well hold them as send them out anywhere." Used to Carrying a Load. Papa Are you sure you can support my daughter in the style to which "she is accustomed? The Suitor Well, I will enly say that yesterday I disposed of my automobile, auto-mobile, which I kept In good repair for over two years. Papa (brokenly) She i3 yours, my boy. I, too, once owned an auto. A Falie Alarm. Doctor (who has been sent for a 2 a. m.) Madame, pray send at once for the clergyman, and, if you want to make your will, for the lawyer. Madame (horrified) Good gracious; Is It so dangerous, doctor? Doctor Not a bit of it; but I don't want to foe the uftly ongwho tas been disturbed in his sleep for nothing. Up la the Air. Caseyrr-Did you say that Brannigan had quit? Cassidy Aye! He left hi3 place lasht week. Casey Shure, he told me he had a loife job. , Cassidy So he did. 'Twas In a quarry he'wurks, an' the blast wint off befoor he knowed it. A Giveaway. Young Woman I think that new novel, "Skirting Matrimony," perfectly perfect-ly Impossible! Critic Oh, I don't know. One ought not to form so decio-'d an opinion based on a flighty peiual. Young Woman But it was not a flighty perusal! I read every line carefully care-fully twice over. Furchased Scenery. A story is told of a man in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts who sold a scrubby farm for $12,000, although Its value was not more than $1,000. - "How did you do it?" a friend asked him. "Weir," he replied, "I had $1,000 worth of farm and $11,000 worth of view." " Stopped the Game. "What broke up the ping-pong social so-cial down at your church last night?" asked the young man with the clerical garments. "Some unregenerate son of Belial," said the second man in churchly garb, "substituted eggs for the balls." Judge. . - Had Him Convenient. "I have a feeling.that the devil is present in this meeting to-day," said the minister. " "Amen!" cried an old brother, from a far corner. "You've got him in close quarters. Lock " the doors and give him, where he comes from." Knew What Was Coming;. Henpeck I-dread to. start home with my wife. Henry Why? , , Henpeck Didn't you hear how sweetly she thanked me when I told her she should not have trumped your ace? , At Tale. ' Father (to George, home on vacation) vaca-tion) How are, you getting on with your- work? ' George Out of sight, Governor. I made the baseball team all right and if we don't' throw down Harvard this year I'm a lobster! A Ponetared Superstition. Swift I'm sure Friday must be an unlucky day. I lost my purse with ten pounds in It on a Friday. Don't you call that bad luck? Shaw Yes; had luck for you. But what about the fellow who found It. Advantage of Variety. . He Don't you. ever get tired of being be-ing made love to? ' She I might If it were always the same man. Detroit Free Press. Too Well. , DiggS Did your play, take well? Doggs Yes, it took all the money I had to stage it and then it failed. DECORATION DAY EPISODE. Simple but Patriotic Exercises in Western Frontier Town. "For genuine patriotism one must go to the country, or, better still, to the frontier or mountain towns. Awa from the maddening rush for wealth the people live closer to nature and also get opportunities to form social acquaintances which develop into the closest friendships. Holidays to this class are something out of the ordinary." ordi-nary." Having thus delivered himself the old-time newspaper man pondered, a while and then resumed somewhat as follows: "Away back In 1883 I was stranded in a. little mountain hamlet" in Colorado called Georgetown. It was Decoration day. My cash had run out, the two weeklies had a full complement of help and I was up against it "Going along the main street I ran across a local correspondent for one of the weeklies, whom I had met in Denver. He gave me the glad hand and asked if I had struck any auriferous aurifer-ous ore. Having told him" of the depicted de-picted condition of the treasury, he stated that a committee appointed by the G. A. R. post had met with hard luck in lassooinga speaker for the program at the cemetery. Then an idea struck him. " 'Say, pard, why can't you give us a lift? There's a five dollar gold piece in it!' "Did I take it? Well, I delivered the best speech ever made in the Rockies. But you should nave seen that procession. Miners wearing their red or blue shirts, with great leather belts to hold their trousers In place, sans coat and vest, but shod in high-top high-top boots and on their heads were slouch hats or sombreros adorned with rattlers.. Here and there was a real veteran, whose empty sleeve cr limp demonstrated that he had helped defend the stars , and stripes. Altogether Alto-gether there, were fewer than 300 men in line. But patriotism, pure and La-adulterated, La-adulterated, beat in every breast. I was accorded a position of honor at the head of the line alongside my friend, who was past commander of the post and measured about 5 feet 4. The commander was 6 loot 2, aiu we made up a great bunch. The line of march took in the main street of the town and then over two miles of rocky road to the cemetery. Once there I delivered my little talk and then the veterans tenderly placed flags and flowers on the graves of their beloved dead. Many a teardrop fell upon the, blossoms as the old boys passed them around and recalled their gallant comrades of years agone. There was no work in Georgetown that day, for it was a holiday devoted to the memory of the brave men who fought to preserve the nation's honor. Give me the frontier for the real article ar-ticle in patriotism." Let No Soldier Be Forgotten.- The significance of the day should inspire every veteran soldier and sailor sail-or to pay homage to the valorous deeds of their comrades of 1898. The annals of our country have been made glorious by the noble and heroic sacrifices sac-rifices of her sons. It Is our duty to keep ever present in our memories the historic deeds of the patriotic dead our country's dead. - - ' THE FIRST VOLUNTEER. Dr. Charles F. Rand Is Still Living at " .Washington. At this time the living as well as the dead veterans of the great war claim our attention. It is interesting to note that the first volunteer for the civil war Is still living. He is Dr. Charles F. Rand of Washington, retired from active practice by means of troublesome wounds received nearly near-ly forty years ago. Among all the war records at Washington Wash-ington there Is none of an earlier enlistment en-listment than that of Dr. Rand, and the honor has, therefore, been given him by common consent .Not only was Dr. Rand the first volunteer vol-unteer for the civil war, but he was also the first soldier to win the congressional con-gressional medal of honor for distinguished distin-guished gallantry in action. This event occurred at Blackburn's Ford, Va., in less than three months after his enlistment His command "was or dered to retreat, and every man obeyed save young Rand, at the time but eighteen years of age. - "Oil soldier's James Wbltcoml Rt'ep ' The rest of his battalion of 500 men was swept in disorder from the fisld, but Rand held his ground, notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that the field was plowed by shot and shell all about him. The enemy finally absolutely refused re-fused to fire at the boy, . standing bravely alone and shooting at them a3 coolly as if he had a thousand 'men at his back. Rand then crept across a deep ravine and joined the command com-mand of Gen. A. H. Barnum, remain-"" ing with them until the end of the engagement Dr. Rand's patriotism and gallantry has been recognized by two governors of the state of New York and by three presidents. He was twice personally honored by , President Lincoln; New York state remembered him with a gold medal appropriately Inscribed, and the United States government has presented, him with a plot in the most beautiful part of Arlington cemetery, cem-etery, where, at the proper time, tho state of New York will erect a monument monu-ment worthy of the first man to offer his services as a volunteer during the great rebellion.' -' THUNDER MOUNTAIN, IDAHO, k MINERAL TREASURE HOUSE. Fortunes ef Gold Are Beinc; Found la the Center of the State of Idaho. Thunder Mountain, the new Idah gold field, ts the most promising mineral min-eral region in the United States. Tha richness of this country was not known, until late la the fall of 1901, after heavy snows had . closed all avenues by which the region might be reached except upon srowshoes. Notwithstanding this fact, Colonel W. H. Dewey of Idaho, and others who have had wide experience experi-ence in mining, have expended vast sums in the purchase of undeveloped claims. The surface indications are marvelouely rich. Three gold bearing ledges, from 100 to 300 feet, run through a mountain parallel to each other. In the .Dewey mine, this vast deposit lias values running from $7 to 84,000 per txn, and the plates of the 10-stamp 10-stamp mrJl which runs on the ore have to be cleaned of their accretions of gold every six hours. In a few weeks two miners last spring cleaned up 87,500 in placer gold, using a small cotton hose to wash the gravel, the water coming from a small reservoir reser-voir on the mountain side. The mineral min-eral zone covers a large section of hitherto unexplored country, and is about 175 miles from a railroad. 'Ji ere are five routes leading to the Thunder Mountain country, viz: via Ketchum, Mackay, Boise and Weiser, Idaho, and Redrock, Montana, all on the Oregon Short Line railway. A great rush to this" mecca for miners is predicted, and "On to Thunder Mountain" Moun-tain" will ' be as familiar as the' old watchword, "Pike's Peak or Bust," as Boon aa tbe snows disappear so that the camp tnsy be reached with supplies, which will probably be between May 15 and June 1. A scarcity of provisions at present keeps miners away, as flour at $50 per sack is considered somewhat of a luxury even in this golden land. Surrounding Thunder Mountain is a large Bection of country adapted to agriculture and stock raising. D. E. Burley, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line railroad, rail-road, at Salt Lake City, sent an expert to report upon that country, and will cheerfully give any information required re-quired as to the routes and general conditions con-ditions in and around the great mining amp. GOD MIGHT UNUtRSTAND ENGLISH Irish Woman's Consolation tn a Priest Who Did Not Speak Oae 1c. A few weeks ago a visitor to a Lon don workhouse found an old Irish woman in one of the wards very 'al and thought it advisable that she should see the priest without delay. A few days afterward, when the old woman had rallied a little, the visitor said to her: "Well, Mrs. O'Connor, did the priest come to "you?" She replied: "Yes, a vie, but I was surprised to find a gintleman like him so ignorant." "Ignorant! What do you mean!" "Shure, he knows no Irish." Mrs. O'Connor knew her prayers in Irish. but could not say them in English. "Well, that is unfortunate," the lady replied. "Yes," said the old woman, and the crathur, he was so fretted about it I said to him, 'Well, never mind. father, God Almighty untherstands almost al-most all languages, and who knows, but he might untherstand the English. Eng-lish. " Noted Cities. Chicago Is probably the most widely known city in the "United States. Noted for its push and enterprise as well as being the Windy City. Milwaukee also has a world-wide reputation on account of the quality as well as the quantity of its annual production pro-duction of beer. St. Paul, while possibly not so generally gener-ally well known as fh two former cities, is nevertheless noted in many ways, and Is one of the popular Twin Cities of the. Northwest. . All three are famous cities and their names combined form the name ol America's greatest railway, famous and noted the world over for its superior super-ior management, elegant equipment, Bplendid service and general adoption of all the latest safety appliances for the comfort and safety of its patrons. Its electric lighted trains are noted the world over. It is the short line between Omaha t JaIas of merchandise is, once tried, always used. -Try it the next time you go East. ' " " L. L. DOWNING, Commercial Accent, Chicago, Milwaukee Milwau-kee & St. Paul Railway, Salt Lakr City, Utah. - ; -. Only Eleven K nds, "Speaking about the many kinds of climate to ne rouna in tjauiornia wnu-in wnu-in a small area," said the Philadelphia-man, Philadelphia-man, "I had an instance of it a few months ago. I was visiting a friend on a. fruit farm, and I went out one morning where he was at work on a shed and soon felt cold. He noticed me shiver and asked what was "the matter. , , " 'The air feels a bit winterish,' I re-pled. re-pled. - "Oh, I see. . Better walk over to that tree. 1 "I walked over and found such a rise of temperature that I was mopping mop-ping my brow inside of five minutes. He noticed it and said: ........ w . . . , 1 I tnink l got siuck in ouying wia place. The seller warranted sixteen sorts of temperature within a mile of the house, but I can't make out only eleven." Cheap Excursion Bates via the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe ftaUwar. On June 10th, 11th, and 12th, the following firstr-clasa passenger rates will be effective via above route from Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah, to - Missouri River and return. $32.00 St. Louis and return. 39.50 Chicago and return ..........44.50 Final return limit September 8th, 1902. For reduced rates to other points, and information regarding excursions on other dates tban above, apply to C. F. WARREN, Gen! Agent A. T. & S. F. Ry. 411 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Ut Not So Pad a That. Several journals have lamented the fact that Boston could not buy baked beans last Sunday because of her "blue law" restrictions. Happily, for humanity's sake, this isn't so. A tigress lamenting the theft of her cub would be a petted lamb compared to a Boston man deprived of his beans. |