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Show truth. been capable of receiving improveIntegrity, but rather to chop down the has ments except the violin in its present trocs that stand in their way. form. For more than 350 years it has & & been without the slightest change. There seems always to bo a labored This is not to say that the production evolutioneffort to writo popular songs and of tho violin was not along was there lines. On the contrary, catchy instrumental music. And all ary viothe an Instrument that resembled this as though good pieces of music lin, made as early as the fifth century, were not Inspirations, but could be but it was of awkward construction. reeled off by any novice who had One of the fables of history contains Nero fiddled statement that: caught a slang expression for a title. the The emwhile Homo was burning. "Hiawatha'1 was in the nature of a peror Nero never saw a fiddler, and and straightway popular composition, the instrument he played in his there sprang up a myriad of imitations drunken glee was probably a lute. It to perfect the with Indian heads for title pages, but took about 1,000 years1550. Since that to 350 or from with a kind of music that would make violin, no change whattime It has undergone an organ grinder quit his business. ever. The violin is one of the resiflts Of tho thousands of new pieces that of the highest civilization the world are often designated as "sensations' has ever known. When Titian was there are only a few that are even painting, Gasparil de Salo was making worth the while of reading tho signa- the first perfect violin. The churches d tures. A few years ago a of Italy wanted some instrument that Hebrew boy named Charles K. Harris, would resemble the human voice, and who du not know a .note from a fly the violin was the result of the poputrack, is luod a song known to the last lar demand. Nobody but a skilled megeneratioi as "After tho Ball. Now, chanic could ever have made a violin. Harris coi (d never bo guilty of uncon- It has more resisting power for the scious assimilation, fur he could not amount and kind of material used than read music, much less write it. He anything else ever constructed. A vioplayed the banjo and picked out a few lin weighing sixteen ounces will susnotes that sounded good to him. He tain a pressure of 125 pounds at the wanted ids theme preserved somehow bridge, and a tension of 1,000 pounds and so ho sent for Joseph Claudcr, a on the strings. master musician. Clauder wrote down o the detached strains of music played Warren Foster sells insurance and afterand tho Harris oil banjo, by not law suits. 300 Progress Building. wards arranged the score. Harris o filled In a lot of sentimental words GOOD TIME FOR LECTURE. that could not poslbly pass for poetry anywhere in tho world, and thus came But the Ministers Remark Was Uninto being tho song that drove many a kind, Nevertheless. man and woman to A drink. Charles K. Harris made more doctor of divinity and than 100,000 out of tho sale of "After a certain minister are great friends, the Ball, He probably would not but they dearly love a joke at each have made sixty cents if ho had given other's expense. The former once deit to a publisher. He borrowed $200 livered a series of lectures, and one from his brother, Harry Harris, who of them on Palestine was not interd followed tho and unpoetic enough to "hold the audience, occupation of a pawnbroker. With esting this money ho got out the first edi- which gradually withdrew before its tion of tho song and peddled it from conclusion. house to house to pay back tho borNot long afterwards the doctors rowed funds. When it became known house was entered by a burglar. He that Harris had made $60,000 out of gave a graphic account of the affair tho song, half tho Jew clothing mer- to his friend, the minister, and ended chants in tho United States wantod to go to writing ballads. Some of them by saying: "I had him flat on his back. I held did. and tho title pages in music store windows to this day aro suggestive of him so that he could not move an inch. roil call In a synagogue. "Good! exclaimed the other; "but, Those who do not hold tho violin as my dear sir, wliat a splendid oppora treasure, are often given to wonder- tunity that was to have delivered to him your lecture on Palestine! ing why this Instrument shoqld be reo vered above all others. The history Two of Brownings Stories. of the violin gives it an especial value. Browning was one cf the best It is the only perfect thing that has raconteurs of liis day, and in "Notes ever been mado as tli result of human From a Diary ) Sir Mount-stuar- t Grant Duff has recorded some ingenuity and applied mechanics. of his stories. One was about a mail', Everything else constructed by man in his service who had a gift for say lng quaint things. When the poet PROFESSIONAL CARDS. was going to pay the last mark of re spect to George Henry I.cwes she sail Mme. Amanda Swenson. she "didnt see the goed of catcliinf VOG.U Am Studio, Calder'n Muslo Store. Only teacher of cold at other peoples funerals. Garda Method In city. Ilours 10 a.m. toOp.m once, when he was away on a holida: and a journalist came to the door ti inquire if it was true that the poe1 Anton Pederson, was dead, she indignantly answered PIANO, VIOLIN, HARMONY. have not heard so, and I am sure Muslo Calder'a 4, No. Palace. Studio, my master is not the kind of a man to do such a thing without letting u& ' red-haire- well-meanin- g well-know- n cold-bloode- (1873-1831- Monsieur a.nd Madam de Locry, know. VOICE CULTURE and French Conversation. Breathing and Coaching for Opera a Specialty. 630 Constitution Building. Miss Nora Gleason, TEACH, a r i0o, m. mssr or MVWC THMI o Storks. Capt. Stanley Flower writes from the Zoological gardens at Gizi, Egypt, that tho three specimens of the curi-ou- r "shoe-bil- l or whale-headestork received from the White Nile in 1902 are still in good health and condition in the Gizi gardens. No living example of this rare bird has reached England since the arrival of Mr. Pether-ick- s original specimens in 1860. Whale-Heade- d d The Wlndyvllle Fire Company. They had the tax collector, They8 hadlhtheaBlour(Kat sulphur spring' That ever raided a smell. maples They had the finest That ever yet was seen, medder lands. They had the nicestas green. And other things maidens, They had the pertest men, They had the tallest lot of shoats fattest the Theynad a pen. Tnat ever hugged And then they raised a paper roe Betwixt both you and when they out started trouble The Took up the company. brothers. They all was willing, To be the Chief, and so The rivalry it started out And sot em all w. The thing has been decided Abe Foot, he Is the hoss To hold a trumpet on his arm And bo the fire boss. a corker; They had a blaze,band fire the hit It The water gave out and they pumped The demon full of sand. And when the thing was buried As nice as you could wish, and satisfied They all sot down fish. YEARS TWENTY-FIV- E BEFORE THE PUBLIC Young Bros. Go. Thur appetites on was because the pumper Sucked all the water til The dam run dry, and perch was pumpe All over Wlndyvllle. New York Sun. It ire sole agents for the following well known PIANOS VICTIMS OF THEIR NAMES. Overwhelming Burdens Placed on Luckless Infants. Many people go through life the victims of their parents lack of judgment in naming them, but few are afflicted as was an individual who lived some years ago in Augusta, Me., and whose tombstone in the cemetery attests the burden that he bore. The tombstone says: Here lies Ansel OGansel Anselo Ganselo Chandler White Huntoun Watson. Weep not for me. Scarcely less burdened was Mrs. Henrietta Tineretta Tiugtong Terio Thompson of Wisconsin, nee Henrietta Terio, which was the actual name of a resident of Oshkosh a decade ago, and Sarah Ann Gridley Hatch Holmes Panken Raymond Waterhouse of Nantucket, whose relatives were Vose & Sons Grown Richmond Royal Blasius AND PACKARD ORGANS BOTTOM PRICES. EASY PAYMENTS. 38 MAIN ST. all remembered at her christening. To have escaped such a fate as that any plain John Smith should bless his stars! Boston Transcript. Tiire Table o AN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND Worlds Coffee Plantations. There are 49,000 coffee plantations SALT LAKE R. R. CO. in the world. 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From Provo, American Fork, Lehi, Juab, Milford, Frisco, Callentes and intermediate Some Good Reasons Why They Should Not Be So Considered. 9)35 3 HI Are women meaner In giving than Provo, Lehi, Fairfield, men? It cannot rightly be urged that From Mercur and Sanpete Valley nm Ry. points they are. Women, after all, in buySilver City, Mammoth, ing or In giving are commonly making From Eureka, Stockton, Tooele and C.TC 111 use of money that others have earned. Garfield Beach They have been trustees of other peoples money for two thousand years, and long use has made them careful of their trust. Of course the petty meannesses of a certain kind of woman have afforded infinite opportunities for mens jests and contempt, but those petty meannesses are nothing in comparison with the great meannesses of really sordid men, ALL TRAINS DAILY. r r 7 Dally Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car Service Call' between Salt Lake, Milford, Modena and entes. 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