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Show THE Old Flemish | He left City. her among the Indians too Jong. | than 16,000 of whom had been in prison | It spoiled her temper, and dwarfed her A few years ago before Of the 56,000 inebriates coming | appreciation of genius. Joaquin got out an edition de luxe of his -under legal notice in New York in 1852, poems, which he embellished with: likejess than 1,000 were punished for the first time All others had been sentenced be|| nesses of himself in various picturesque | costumes and attitudes—‘‘Mr. Miller fore for the same cause. One man had || among the Sierras;” ‘‘Mr. Miller on Mount been sentenced to Deer Island, near Boston, 75 times for drunkenness, and many so | Shasta;” ‘‘Mr. Miller shaking hands with No one was ina hurry. The very beggars had a lazy whine. The shopkeepers mostly stood at their doors. listlessly chewing the stalk of some flower or star ing before them with lack luster eyes, while humming a tune, nobly indifferent to business. There was one curiosity oak, with the Filibuster Chief;” ‘‘Back view of Mr. brass weapons and books and other relics of the past. But here, too, the venerable owner of these treasures, with horn rimmed spectacles to assist his bleared eyes, sat in a high backed Fifteenth century chair, poring over a tome which was probably printed at a similar date, and scarcely deigned to glance at the stranger who was inspecting his stock in trade. was delightful to mark the indolent It en-. ume of the red shirted boatmen who ay languidly smoking on the raised poop of the gaudy barges which lay moored here and there on the wide canals, the quays of which were shaded by lime trees, amid the rustling leaves of which the bees hummed noisily. It was hard to believe that this was the bustling, feverish, Nineteenth century, and that our own in- sular Babylon was but a few ney from this drowsy town. painted country wagons, full of lace capped and kerchiefed maids and matrons, of brass cans, baskets and empty crates, were jolting and rattling with thunderous din over stones, drawn by sleek, wild looking horses, which seemed to wear the minimum of harness and the maximum of bells, and which pranced and snorted in their exultant strength. These belonged evidently to well to do peasants who had sold their poultry and their tame rabbits, their butter and general dairy produce, were now returning to the far off farms where they dwelt among the polders, and the willows, and windmills, and flat meadows, grazed —All the Year A by red and white kine. Round. Dog’s Sense The raid which upon our camp was ef Guilt. Larkins’ dog made amusing rather than Hardly had we sat down to our first lunch in camp before he called onus. But as he was disposed to be too friendly, and to élaim too large a share of the lunch, we rather gave him the cold shoulder. He did not come again; but a few evenings afterward, as we sauntered over to the house on some trifling errand, the dog suddenly conceived a bright little project. He seemed to say to himself, on seeing us: ‘‘There come both of them now, just while been hoping they are - over and know they would; away I will toward her. Joaquin sent now run quickly what they have got that a dog can eat.” My companion saw the dog get upon our arrival, and go quickly in the direc- tion of our camp, and he said that something in the cur’s manner suggested to the top of light effect behind a copy to Miss Miller with his distinguished autograph on the fly leaf. She glanced through the book; appreciated through and its contents; her own name reckless ran a _ pencil beneath the wild female, and writing below it ‘‘Mr. Miller when he was a girl,” sent it back to him.—Current Literature. Keys in Lock Boxes. There is a watchman in the New York postoffice whose chief duty is to collect the keys of lock boxes that are left in the locks by careless men and boys. Generally there is some sharper on the lookout to steal keys that are left in this way. —Chicago Herald. TRINIOAD’S Singular LAKE OF. Right and left, a flat over PITCH. forty acres of surface extends space, dull black five feet down, filled with slightly flavored with asand there a. few scrawny bushes mark where a little blown and chance into a fissure to cling, and soil has been a pole given them a whole scene larly desolate and uninviting. Near the edges, the pitch is singu- is so hard as to fracture with a blow, will support carts that carry it away and feels as firm Yet it is possessed of asingular quality. Ifa heap of fragments is piled up, it slowly levels down fat again; and a great hole left by workmen engaged in quarrying it for removal, gradually fills until no trace is visible of the depression. Where my camera stood was apparently quite solid, tut the short time needed to make two or three exposures proved sufficient for tripod to make half inch deep holes neath its weight where the feet rested. Toward the center of the lake, mobility increased until the behad this it assumed visi- ble speed, seeming to advance toward the middle with a motion like that of a land. slide—slow, steady and gliding. Here the pitch grew so soft as to be perfectly liquid and hot enough to char paper, yet devoid thrust of adhesive quality into the mass was A _ stick withdrawn without any pitch adherent to it, anda ball could be molded in the hands that remained quite undefiled. him the object of his hurried departure. | The amount exported last year was He called my attention to the fact and we about 36,000 tons, without the smallest hastened back. On cautiously nearing apparent diminution of quantity, and it camp the dog was seen amidst the pails may well prove what it appears to be—an in the shallow water of the creek, investi- gating them. He had uncovered the but- ter and was about to taste it home, ~‘kill sheep” shouted, and with he a made very when quick steps we for look. Wher we again met him at the house next day he could not look us in the face, but sneaked off, utterly crestfallen. This was a clear case of reasoning on the part of the dog, and afterward a clear case of the sense cf guilt from wrong doing. The dog will probably be a man before any other animal is.—John Burroughs in The Century. Creatures of the Deep Sea. A scientific examination of many of the animals that live near the bottom is not practicable yet, however, for the reason that when they are brought to the surface they fall to pieces, or nearly so. They are so organized as to withstand the enormous pressure of the water at great depths, and when brought up where they are relieved of this pressure they collapse. This is especially noticeable in the case of fish with soft tissues; they are reduced to a@ spongy state on coming to the surface. No satisfactory conclusion has been reached as to the effect of the darkness of the ocean depths on the inhabitants of those spaces. Many deep dwelling creat- ures were brought up that had well developed eyes, but it is thought that they were only migratory specimens, older ones were all blind. since the Itis also found that a great many of them were phosphorescent, thus carrying their own light with them. This might warn off their natural prey, or, on the contrary, attract it to them, and the latter is supposed to be the fact, because the phosphorescent fish and animals survive, and nature always adapts her creatures to their surroundings. The creatures that inhabit the depths of the ocean are the reverse of beautiful, and they all have teeth and claws and suckers and what not, designed to rip and tearand kill. Their domain is the scene of constant warfare and struggle, for nature has ordained that: they should ne by eating each other.—Philadelphia mes. Story About Joaquin Miller. T recall a very good story told of Joaquin Miller in California, which has never found its way into print. It isa pretty well known fact that his daughter does not hold her gifted father in that admiration BOE with which ~~ the world regards him. inexhaustible source of future supply and of income to the colony. From the lake a lovely road brought us back to the village, winding between the richest display of tropical verdure I had ever seen, a natural pavement through a natural park. Wonderful orchids blossomed on wonderful trees, gayly painted virds fluttered amongst wild flowers of gorgeous hues and unknown names, and clear brooks of sweet water wound their way down to the near sea between banks whose dark brown color told of pitchy ovigin, and when we ago the place where in a New O House. Buckeye Ginger Ale. | Acquaint yourself, so far as possible, with the principles of good sanitation in building operations; watch the work and you are not likely to have a faulty house. There are plumbers who do their work on Sanitary principles, and who never leave fever nests on their trails. The loveliest house may be ruined by bungling sewer Cor. Main and 8rd South Sts. connections. Many mysterious and often fatal ailments are explainable by intelligent reference to hidden pipes and ducts. Then, too, the plumbing may be perfect, yet disaster may befall a family who are in too great a hurry to get into their new abode. It is a fact. An old proverb says, as to a new house: ‘The first year for my enemy; the second for my friend; the third for myself.’’ Newly finished houses. DON’T and occupy a pretty and house.—Pioneer Press. Glass in MONEY At Low Rates and on Easy Terms of The Bank of Sait Lake, convenient THE Qld Times. Glass was in use among the Romans at the time of Tiberius, and the ruins of Pompeii show that it was in use for win- dows during the First century Christian era.—Boston Budget. A Common Throat of the follicles. These Wostern Weekly Disease. There is a very common disease of the throat, accompanied by a white exudation, which is frequently confounded with diphtheria. The mucous membraro of the throat, particularly of the tonsils, is studded with numerous small holes called follicles secrete IS THE mucus, FOR She Talks About. A Kentucky gentleman of an inquiring in favor matters of of ‘says he.’ that ‘Then there are Subscribe for {f. Tuckett’s | @: ntag, Candy Fast, 1 chance in Manufacturers of the Finest and Purest they are talking about dress, and only Groceries. All orders promptly attended to. Box 3, Center Street, PROVO, UTAH. mind has been trying to find out what the average girl talks about when on the street. He had found out that “if you hear 100 bits of conversation between two women there are 60 chances that they are talking about ‘says he,’ ‘says I,’ or ‘says she,’ with the probabilities largely 89 chances DUNN & CO. CASED STORE Choice THE Farm and Fireside. Health. What BALM TAK Crry, Cor. Main and Second South Sts., in White House Building. Full line of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gloves, Dry Goods and Notions; Paper You Want and when the throat is inflamed from any cause mucus and pus collect in the mouths of the follicles, appearing as a whitish exudation. The tonsils are oftenest the seat of local inflammation, the Cisease being known as tonsilitis. The confusion that exists is between simvle tonsilitis with points of exudation, and diphtheria with a false membrane.—Herald of PAY Heavy Interest when you can borrow are oftcn reeking with dampness. Walls may seem to be-perfectly dry when the the 100 that they are talking about something else.”"— New Orleans Times-Demoerat. In the 40S. BULL, Jr. 850 EH. First South feneral Rook and Job Printer. Market. St., Salt Lake City Only Five in a Hundred And Publisher of the Salt Lake Theatre Programme. New Type, New Presses with Steam emerged from those thick recesses upon the beach, our horses’ feet sounded hollow as they swiftly trod a shore that was of the same material. Even under the sea it still exists, and possibly forms ocean’s bed across to Venezuela, upon whose shores, only a few miles away, similar deposits of like nature occur. The Indians had a pretty legend of its origin: Ages Danger or two, half sunken, is a guide to forgotten excava.tions. There are no birds, no fishes in the water, and the (ONPECTIONERY who have in color and intersected every few rods by gullies or fissures whose sides fall into a point four or sweet water. phalt. Here known of men been sent to jail and workhouses from 20 plastering isvery damp. It is perilous to sleep in a room newly plastered. It is, of course, a strong temptation to rush into Quality of the Asphait—Legend of Its Origin. as arock under foot annoying. He was a very friendly and intelligent shepherd dog, probably a collie. as Ihave hair flying the page and a lurid hours’ jour. At last, however, I found myself ina street wider than the rest, along which and tang, her cases have been to 200 times for the same reason. —Herald of Health. ars carved Attachments. All Work Neatly and Promptly Done. Prices Reasonable. 394 s. West Temple Street, SALT LAKE CITY. TAGGART & CHAMBERLAIN] 156 E. ord South St., 5. L. City. is now the lake was land of such marvelous fertility in yield of pineapples that it was chosen by the Chaima tribe for their home. Actuated by some evil spirit, they began to kill the p:etty humming bird (‘‘iere” in their musical tongue), although they knew them feathers Great to hold their in shining coats ancestors’ spirits; Father, enraged at such ii.) to pass, with carved and | Miller on horseback,” and so on. One plate he generously reserved for his bronze tortured into shapes beautiful and daughter, Miss Myrtle Miller. She had grotesque, with majolica ware and Japan | the post of honor in. the middle of the porcelain, missals gorgeous with color, book, and was seated on a prancing muscobweb laces yellowed by age and ancient and of > ate shop that it was difficult crammed were its windows ivory D. C. Mullen, and the impiety, sank their town and its people in a single | night, replacing it with this monument Are wearing Glasses that fit their eyes, and fifteen in every hundred’ are wearing Glasses that are positively ruining their sight. of asphalt as a warning to future sinners. —Dr. William F. Hutchinson in American Magazine. Punishment “T doubt very Not a Remedy. much if a confirmed drunkard was ever reformed by punishishment,”’ says Dr. L. W. Baker, superintendent of the Family Home for nervous invalids at Baldwinsville, Mass., in an article on the medico-legal treatment of drunkards. The doctor cites the following facts in proof: At the international | i eee ce eea tL| | Us " i be Wi Nia SSSWHITECARE = == Sas prison congress in 1871 it was stated that BATTLE of GETTYSBURG to jail for The most decisive struggle of the CIVIL WAR now on exhibition. — not one in a thousand persons committed inebriety ever recovered Be- fore a committee of the house of lords in England men of the largest former <2 £es a WEEKLY. experience testified that they had never heard of a case of reformation of inebriates from punishment by fines and imprisonment. This testimony is confirmed by prison authorities all over the country. In the vast majority of cases the first sentence is speedily followed by others. In 1879 Massachusetts punished by fine and imprisonment over 17.000 inebriates. more West Temple Street, half block south of the Temple Block. Open from$10 A. M. to 11 P. M. Dealers in Behning and Conover Bros.’ PIANOS. Maichless Burdett ORGANS. _— Stools Covers, Scarfs & Guitars. Pianos Sold on easy terms. dence Solicited. Correspon- ESTATES. with Charles W. Stayner, Attorney-atbusiness. : 7 Nervous Diseases, eases of the Eye, Lung Diseases, and Urinary Organs. Skin Diseases, DisNose and Throat, Diseases of the | Office, 3 doors east of Deseret National) Bank. P. O. address Box 587, Salt Lake) City, Utah. The Sign of the Big Eyes, 50 E. Second South: St. | SALT LAKE CITY,- CONSULTATION 4 1 Spectacles and Bye-Glasses Fitted to Order. Special Attention Paid to Fitting Artificial Eyes. Lenses Ground to Order. Oculists’ Prescriptions Filled. Widows and others having business in) the Probate Court, should communicate Law, before commencing EPR. REED , RE acs In WESTERN , UTAH. FREE. - { Fe |