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Show truth. BOOKS AND AUTHORS, Something unusual in the book world is the work of Henry C. Morris, who has written a history of the First National Bank of Chicago. Banks with more than $100,000,000 deposits are so rare in this country that Mr. Morris thinks he has taken up a 'subject that will prove of great public interest. The publication of the book is a sort of celebration of the first forty years of the bank's existence. It shows that in 1900 the bank absorbed the Union National, with deposits of $14,607,735. In 1891 the Metropolitan National was abAt sorbed, with deposits of $22,273,265. deown National's this time the Firet posits amounted to $77,000,000. After these two consolidations the statement of the Fifrst National as regards principal Items was approximately as follows: capital, $8,000,000; surplus, $6,000,000; loans, $60,000,000; depesits, $100,000,000. ft Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, the wife of a lawyer in: Oregon. City, Oregon, has written 'a history' of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the form of a; romance. Mrs; Dye has spent two years jn gathering data, but it is questionable whether her work will meet with its proper appreciation. The inspiration of tne author came from purely mercenary motives, as it was confidently exthe pected that the book would sell at LitPortland. in coming celebration a erary promptings that anticipate brass-ban- d sale are seldom of the right sort. ft ft The New York Times Saturday Review has the following notice of the book written by Miss Ada Patterson By the and Miss Victory Bateman: Ada Patterson Miss Stage Door, by and Miss Victory Bateman, has just been published by the Grafton Press. The book- - deals with stage life, with which the authors are familiar. Mrs. Annie Adams, the mother of Maude Adams, contributes the brief introduction. The cover of the book has a John Drews neice. Miss Georgie Drew Meldrum, to whom the volume is dedicated. Almost all the stories of the book are true, There is the story of the friendship of Ada Rehan and Augustin. Daly, and incidents in the lives of Miss Maude Adams, Miss Bateman, Miss Georgia Cay van, and others. . por-trait- of . . ft ft ' The Founder of Mormonism is the title of a new book that has just reached the dealers. It is said to be a psychological study of Joseph Smith Jr., and is written by I. Woodbridge Riley, at one time instructor of English in New York University Those who have read the book declare it to be full of homely expressions that verge upon the uncouth and vulgar. For instance, it of Brigham speaks of the weight who assumes man a For Youngs paw. allowis this hardly to teach English is book The clearly able. in all its tendencies, and will no doubt take its place among the countless other efforts all along th same line; Most of tin critics of Mormonism have been had the deignorant persons who have sire to write something without haying the talent to write anything. anti-Morm- on ft ft John Philip Sousa, aside from being a reat musician, has written a charmIt is ing little love story in book form. and deals Fifth entitled The String, with the love affairs of a violinist. In the platform which the Republicans presented1 to the public at their late county convention, I notice .that atnong. other things Editor Truth: they pat themselves on the back for workhaving raised the wages of the men of the county, and I wish right here to observe that they have not done the same for women. On the contrary, they have paid women for exactly the same work aud the same number of hours, from 50 cents to $1 a day less than men. Some of the women have grown very indignant over this discrimination and a week or two ago a number of them waited on the Salt Lake county com- HkkkikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkUiLUUmimi for the same work surpasses our under. standing. Gleason ana Already conventions have met have honored women by naming several Jjachirqf for something like sixth vice chairman or fourteenth assistant secretary on not indie: permanent organization. Would iteven IFhmn : I3t E.FirjlSoulh. he in order for the Democrats to 1269 make a feint at treating women with rmrrifimmnTmmifmTinfnfiinmn A Woman Voter. justice.. Miss flora J mmaummuauiimiuiiniimiqmm, The promised rate war between the THEODOSIUS BOTKIN, rail and lake lines operating between ATTORNEY Detroit and Bnffalo is now in full blast, AND COVNSELOR-AT-LAthe opening gun was fired when the. 189K S. Main SI Salt Lilts City. missioners and demanded that they be Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Company, Rpoma I and I. announced that it had established its given equal pay with the men for an first-claof rate at exactly one-ha- lf ffffnwnnifffmywimniHHHHHfffwmy equal amount of work. They urged second-clas- s Free the rail says the rate, first that sex should not be considered in the matter since the work was Press of Detroit, thus making the rate jffwwwirfmfffTWTTHffwwwffmffiwTTwng than one cent a mile, and equally well done by men and women; by boat less first-claprivileges. : second, that if women did the same allowing all j and the the rail between trouble The well as work as men they should be : S. C. EWING, Prep. i when the former bef paid, because, being weaker physical- lake lines began week-en- d excursions to Buf: Sal Lake City Street Cars from i ly, they gave more of their life than gan to run mil Trains Pan the Door. t -; men gave; third, that men were con- falo and selling second class' tickets for s stantly complaining about women cheap- $5, and on them allowing ening labor, and by so doing usurping privileges, checking baggage and all the positions which are well paid granting sleeping car privileges withand to which men are entitled. This is out restriction. General Pessenger a complaint the women are getting Agent A. A. Schantz, of the Detroit & tired of hearing when the fault is not Buffalo line, when he learned of this, the passenger agents of the theirs; fourth, that tax payers have a notified Grand Trunk, Wabash and Michigan right to find fault if $3 per day is paid Central roads that unless some restricfor work that can be done just as well tion was made he would proceed to cut excurthe rates, not only on week-eat an expense of only $2.50 per day. ' fixed on He sions traffic. but regular The chairman of the board began oh on a but limit the this that well-wo- rn argument about a man railroads could not seeaction, the situation having a family, but was interrupted from his point of view and would not by one or two widows reminding him meet his'proposition. The ten days has expired and the Dethat they were the heads of their house& Buffalo line at once inaugurated troit holds; and, also, that men of families a $2.50 regular rate to Buffalo, a diswere not the only men employed, and tance- of 256 miles less than a cent a furthermore, he was not supposed to mile. Mr. Schantz said that should the know the obligations of each individual railroads want a rate war and meet the presentcut he would come down another PimiAiAiiimmmimimmmmiuumAug woman, and he was given to under- dollar, if necessary, carry passenstand that what was done with the gers on and, the Eastern States and Western Utah Light & Power Go. j States for 50 cents. money was no concern of the board. Then the board took a new tack. One The new rate fixed by the steamboat INSTALLATION. and all assured the ladles that there line will make a through rate to New LSCTHIOAL.1 was no discrimination whatever no, York on all lines except the New York hot at all. Women were paid the same Central, $10.50: Boston, $13.40, and Salt Lake...... Water 2400 H. P. Steam 1500 H. P. Lake Salt as in every instance the men. But Philadelphia, $10,40, with special rates 5000 H. P. Water Ogden women would not believe in to eastern summer resorts: from Buffalo that the Water-20- 00 Leased Plant H. P. the face of the order to Mr. Eldredge to Detroit $2.50, Saginaw $5.66, Bay to pay the women $2 and the men $3, City $5.96, Grand Rapids $7.09, Chicago AS. and another order to Mr. Dale and Mr 400 M Cu. Ft. Dally. Salt Lake Wood to give the women $2.50 and the 60M Cu. Ft. Dally. Ogden men $3. And still worse, when these HOW ARTISTS ARE ENCOURAGED. " 7 8. MAIN STREET. gentlemen put in the pay rolls giving all employees $3 each, the women were alt tan CITV.' so called cut down The and Utah the claims for promptly society of art or SimmnfiTmnnnTmfWfnnnnmmnmfl the men allowed in full. whatever its name is has had a show at Well, after palavering a while the board dismissed the ladies with a lot of Provo, but it. was nothing more or less PAYS taffy abont the promptness, efficiency than a benefit to Alice Merrill Horne, fend accuracy of the female sex as com- - and the artists say it is a perfect farce. Look at the prizes. The $300 goes to fiared with that of the male; but, as one TO SEE... remarked, they underrate our a of iriend Mrs. Horne an4 particular good sense when they think that will she exhibited the same picture here win our votes. We protest most heartily against the last year and it lost the prize. Then egotism of men who draw good salaries the friend got the $50 prize, while John themselves for almost no work and in- Hafen, the artist, gets a medal. Mrs. dustriously slice at the salaries of those Horne took the $10 for silk and $10 for they believe can make no trouble over still life and $5 each ($15) for designs; . it. Miss Merrill, a sister of Alice, took $25 The Jeweler As this world moveB nothing is made for a lace collar. The whole show apcheaper to a woman because she is a pears to have been strictly in the woman. She must pay as much for her Horiie family, Still there are a few For Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry at lowest board, clothes, amusements, books, car- artists in Utah such as Culmer, Mail orders given poaalbleprioea. attention. fare, etc., as a man, and why she should and others but they are not in prompt be expected to take less than a man' it on occasions like this. 75 CAST SICOND SOUTH STREET . ss Hotel Cvillen ss first-clas- nd 10-da- y ; IT - Sal Sickle Lam-bour- ne |