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Show TRUTH Issued Weekly by TR.UTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. 11 and 12 Central Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. : 7 JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. Entered at the postofll rt Salt Lake City, for transmission through the mails as Utah, second-claR- S matter. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 17, 1902. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE TEAR (In advance) SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS 82.00 Postmasters sending subscriptions to TRUTH 100 75 may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. not desired beyond the date subscribed for the punlicatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. If the paper Is DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid in their paper Requests of subscribers to have mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Death, the mighty Angel of the Apocalypse, who rides his pale steed up and down the earth at an eternal gallop is indeed a spirit of many moods. At times he is as gentle as a loving woman, while at others he is a perfect fiend. One moment he is laying a soft hand on the anguish marked brow of pain, stilling it forever, and in the next he has dashed a strong men to earth in the bitterest agony. He kisses the eyelids of the infant and it goes to its final sleep with a smile on its lips; he strikes down a fair woman on the street and she passes to the grave with her face distorted with pain. He breathes consolation into the ear of the aged and sings a song for the stricken soldier on glorys gory field. To some he codes a radiant being; to others the emperor of all the horrors. - At- - times he contents himself with picking here and there a ripened fruit and at others he demands the fairest blossoms. Some days he fires random shots; on others he charges down battalions and armies. At the moment communities feel most secure he ruthlessly rides over all. He has held many a high revel since the earth was peopled. Over many a hard fought field he has paused to watch thousands fall. He has smiled as great ships sank in the mighty deep, with the last wails of the drowning ringing in his ears. He has watched the rushdeing torrent carry its thousands to struction and has seen the souls of multitudes mount toward the judgment on the smoke at the holocaust. But never in all his career, so far as knowledge of man gceth, has he held such ghoulish carnival as at St. Pierre a few days ago. Armed with liquid fire, which might have been borrowed from a lake infernal, he sprang at the doomed city like a thousand tigers at their prey. No one was spared who stood in his blazing of its pathway. The babe in the arms mother; the son who would have pro. . tected the sire; the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the strong, the weak, the wise, the ignorant, the just, the untogether and their just, all went down the awful funeral on ashes mingled pyre. Nor was he content with killing. He must needs blast and lay waste the land, destroy the hut of labor and the mansion of the rich. To one common level he reduced, not alone the dead, but the living who now cry piteously for aid from this domain of distress. This government, in common with others, is responding nobly and very soon the wants of the survivors will have been supplied. The dead are beyond the need of human aid and safe from the great destroyer, who can. harm them no more. Let us hope that this awful harvest will suffice him; that in future he will not come armed with a sword of flame, but that with the sweet odors exhaled from the flowers which grow in the gardens of love out in somew heres undiscovered country, he will soothe us to sleep as a mother lulls her precious ones. Notwithstanding the terrible out- cry of the morning papers, the City Council passed the resolution granting the Oregon Short Line Railroad com-paa franchise to lay tracks on Fourth West street, and the railroad company 0 agrees under penalty of forfeiting to build, within two years, a new station to cost not less than $100,000. This is just what Truth said last week the Council would do, and perhaps it is the best thing that could have been done. There appears to have been no possibility of the Rio Grande Western and the Oregon Short Line railroads coming together on the proposition to build a Union depot. There is nothing to hinder the former road from building a station at Third South and Third West streets according to the original programme. In fact, if the Short Line builds, the other road will have to build, and then there will be two stations instead of one, which isnt bad. There is no magic in the words Union depot, as many people seem to imagine, and in Salt Lake, where there is practically no transferring done, there is no particular need for a Union stany $50,-00- tion. announces that he who advocates administering the water will not attend King Edwards corona- cure to the benighted heathen beyond I used to think the mert tion. Well, there are whole families the Pacific. its in all simplicity, was just about plan, who will not. the right one and could cot be improved upon. But that was before I had in I want to go on record as Reed Smoot says he was a Republi- vestigated. civil service rules are a the that can before he became an apostle. There saying nuisance and should be changed. Gentle are plenty in Utah who were Republi- reader, listen, and when thie narrativo is finished if you do not agree with me cans before he was either. why, your head needs fixing, and you cannot attend to it too soon. The work of securing a jury in the ft 8 Mortensen case illustrates aptly that Some weeks ago, we in Salt Lake many are called but few are chosen. City were apprised, by due notice given and had, that on April 22 would be held now will readily an examination for the position of asClyde Shropshire must sistant anthropologist in the bureau of dance who those believe that needs pay for the music. tribes of the Philippine Islands. The salary is $2,400 per annum, Nixon has resigned the leadership of forty days off each year and a half Tammany. Bourke Cochran will no holiday on Saturdays; expenses to Manila refunded, board $35 per month, doubt succeed him. hours of labor short. The place is a good one. Special training is required Ogden's latest claim is that it has a for the performance of the duties, the examination covering 'the following: cut-oto Thunder Mountain. Academic training, 25; experience in publications, 25; essay on ethnologic Smoot and Harrington! There are subjects, 25; and knowledge of the two names to conjure with. ethnology of the Maylayo-Polynes- ia country, 25; total, 100. Well, I looked over the requirements and decided it COLUMBIA'S FIRST BORN. was a snap. ft ft Next Tuesday will witness the inaugBefore one can take this examination uration of the Republic of Cuba. he must make an application to the Since the adoption of the American of the civil service commispresident constitution, 113 years ago, various atat sion, Washington. Ordinarily one tempts to set up independent National would imagine that a certificate of good governments, republican in form, have moral character from two or three well been made in both hemispheres, with known citizens and a medical certificate more or less success, the most con- showing the applicant to be in ordinary spicuous example being the Republic good health, would be sufficient. Not of France. All or nearly all of the so, however. I speak from experience. ft ft attempted Republics have been partly was I a blank by the young given in imitation of the United States. man office the at post window, and told However, the case of Cuba is distinto fill it out. Knowing that my acadguishable from all other instances in this particular. Cuba is the offspring emic education was fairly good; that of the United States. The severance ethnology had always been a favorite of Cubas territorial relation with study, and having had about twenty Spain is all but entirely due to the years experience in publications, I felt United States. The conservation of or- as if that $200 per month was mine. der during the interim between Spanish But alas for human hope when it butts rule and autonomy as will exist after against a civil service blank. There next Tuesday is wholly attributable to up was a whole lot of questions about my the United States and the form of government itself now about to assume birth, when and where it happened. I control in Cuba is embrionically answered just as I have been told about after the American model. In- it. You see I got all my information deed the limitations contained in it, second hand. Of course I was present which were prescribed by the United at the time, but it was a long while ago States, make it identically the child of this Republic. and I have forgotten most of it. I wrote It is the first historical instance of a down in the little space how tall I was nation made free and formed republiwith my boots on and what I weighed can by this nation. with my hat off. That may sound odd, Truth joins with all loyal partisans of popular government in the world in but it is a fact. In the blank asking if welcoming to the roster of nations the I was married I inserted an affirmative. ' Republic of Cuba as Columbias first Then I bumped into another query: born. Were you ever married? Of course was meant for widowers and dithat CHATTER. vorced persons, and what it has to do with ethnology I dont know, so I passed (Being the personal opinions ol the writer it up. Then followed a lot of questions and for which no one else is in any manner as to whether I use morphine, opium, responsible.) cocaine, or if I hit the pipe or g0 out In common with large numbers of my and paint the town red, or ever did any oi these things. I do not mind the fellow citizens who, like myself, knew present tense in which they were nothing of its inside workings, I have, couched, but why should a man be comat various times, extolled, endorsed and pelled to cough up his unhappy past? encouraged the system maintained by But after filling up the page it looked that aggregation of wise men known as very good to me, and the chances for ulling down $200 per month were quite the United States Civil Service Comright indeed. mission. It is so pleasant to think that ft ft in this great and growing country of Page 2 had several ruled lines reours all stand an equal chance for served for a history of the applicant, getting our arms up to the elbows in the showing .every kind of occupation folpublic crib. That no matter if one does lowed since he first began work, inbelieve the president is a reincarnation cluding when and where he was emof the man on horseback, he can ployed, the addresses of different emsecure place as easily as the partisan ployees, etc. So I told them , that in Senator Kearns ; non-Christi- " ff pat-ern- ' Uncle George Frisbee Hoar, the senior senator from Massachusetts', says something funny every once in awhile. Here is one jokelet which will not be extensively circulated by the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. Cullom had the floor for the purpose of making a report on the Cuban diplomatic bill. Senator Hoars gray head was suddenly raised and his voice heard as follows: .Will the senator kindly state what title is given the government of Cuba in this bill? The Republic of Cuba, answered the senator from Illinois. Why I thought we had been told, said the old man, that when the American flag had once been raised over a territory, it always would stay put. Then the senior senator from Massachusetts sat down, while Henry Cabot Lodge looked as unconsciously virtuous as possible. Boston ministers are going to try to circumvent further growth on the part of the Mormons down east, who are in- creasing at, to them, a dangerous rate. Wonder if they will designate the work as diabolical. an ed ! |