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Show THE nothing. In the East there are three PuBLISHED Every SATURDAY BY THE classes of society: the wealthy, WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPAXY, the poor and last but not least so Saur Lake Crry. _ Entered at the Postoffice, Salt Lake City, Utah, far as numbers are concerned, the as Second Class Matter. “squalid” poor, as paupers. In Utah we have as yet but two 7 Subscription Price: One YRaR, “ $2.25. classes; the independent rich and Six Monrus,ss 1.25. THREE Monrus, .65. the independent poor. Such people as the person Address all communications to the quoted above would do well to stay WESTERN WEEKLY, 37 S. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. away from Utah. We do not Remittances may be made by express, need them here. money order or registered letter, at our risk, the sender giving his full address. > Every possible effort. will be made to have the WesterN WerEKty delivered promptly to sub:vribers; and persons having any cause of complaint will oblige by notifying the office. Changes of address will be made whenever desired, but the postoffice rRom as as the postoffice change is made instance. must to be Advertising Rates Furnished G, Q. any given in every ROMNEY. . a ee ed Saturday, February 23, 1889. Skt Mia ha LE THE EXAMINER’S A Our ~~ town contemporary afew mornings ago gave space to the following rubbish alleged to have been sent to Governor West REPORT. You are a lying scoundrel. That name is best (for you). Weask no odds for such lying * * villians as you, nor of any robbing government or government officials, we say go to hell to all our enemies we will live to ** your graves. You and your kind shall be damned the same as The Tribune is ill-satisfied with all our enemies before you this the Examiner’s report on the in- robbing thieving government shall vestigation of Receiver Dyer. ‘We are grieved,” say they, “to be obliged to say it, but we cannot look on this report as ought else than a systematic whitewash, and we believe that will be the general judgment.” The document is a very long one and goes matter over that a vast amount has been be broken up and we the Mormons will take it and run it. When the fun begins here we will kill all the * * * * like you,yes all our enemies it will be done in one night and your houses will be burnt down and then call on your robbing thieving government to protect you * * yer of we can do it and we will do it when reiterated the signs are right which will he over and over until it has become soon. This are cur valentines for the stalest of reading. It is thieves,publish this in your * * * * enough to say that the Examiner * * of a paper for we will fix that exonerates the receiver in every particular. ‘Asa general conclu- sion I find,” says the report, “there _was no fraud corruption, misconduct,or fraudulent and unconscion- able claims or charges for compensation, or unprofessional conduct on the part of the receiver or his attorneys in respect to any of the transactions set forth or contained in said petition.” | > <> — “.. MALICIOUS MISREPRESENTATION. , An Hastern man, who has resided in this city for nearly a year past, in speaking of the condition of the people here, remarked that he had ‘seen more squalid poverty in Salt Lake than he had ever seen anywhere else in his life.” .'To say his statement is false’is merely a waste of words. Itseems _ hardly possible that any sane person could be guilty of such a bare_faced perversion of the truth either through pure ignorance or a malicious device to “pick a row;” yet such would appear to be the only motive in this case. : Tt is true that we have more “poor” here than are found in any of the densely populated parts of the East; but “squalid” is a degree of poverty as yet unknown among us. Our poor are self-sustaining, and, as a rulo, better off than the same class of working people in any other part of the country. The majority of them have ‘of: any other pars of the country, to poli- “March next he will receive the daughters are in- ‘of the high rank Manchu officers over tended to illustrate the natural sciences. ‘twelve years of age, and will choose such Most of theolder collections reflect the ‘as he pleases for the palace. Such of ‘peculiar tastes and studies of their foun his secondary wives as bear children to of the volumes contained surpasses all ders. The great libraries are not so old -him will continue to remain in the others in the world are the Bibliotheque as might be imagined because they have palace. The others may be restored to Nationale at Paris, with about 2,300,000 ‘been subjected to the vicissitudes of liberty when they reach the age of printed books and 80,000 manuscripts, numerous destructive wars. Few go twenty-five years. Manchu girls con- and the library of the British ogy, others tics and are largely diplomacy devoted and others Museum back of the fifteenth century. There is nothing older than the Vatican Library at Rome. which dates back to the fifth taining 100,000 volumes and over there century. Switzerland hasa library at are the following: St. Gal founded in 830. The library of In Great Britain and Ireland—Bir-| the University of Salamanca in Spain mingham, 100,000 volumes; University, dates from 1254. Germany appears to Cambridge, 200,000; Trinity College, have nothing older than the fourteenth Dublin, 192,000; Advyoeates, Edinburg, century. The Harvard University h265,000; University, Edinburg, 140,000; brary in the United States dates from University, Glasgow, 125,000; Leeds, London with 1,500,000 volumes manuscripts. Of libraries and con- 110,000; University Cellege, London,100,- 000; Oxford, Bodleian, 400,000. France Aix, 150,000; Besancon,130,000; Bordeaux, 190,000; Douai, 100,000; Grenoble, 170,000; Lyons, 120,000; Nantes, 1632. There seems to be nothing older in the country. 7: China’s Imperial Wedding. 150,000; Paris—Arsenal, 200,000; French Institute, . 100,000; Mazarine, 150,000; Ste. Genevie, 120,000; The Sorbonne, burnt in 1871, 125,000; Rouen, 123,000; Troyes, 100,000. The German Empire leads all other countries in the number of its assem- place among our celestial antipodes that blages of books, is frought with showing 47 libraries of more than 1C€0,000 volumes each. Of these the Royal at Munich with 1,000,000 printed books and 26,000 manuscripts stands first, while the Royal library at Berlin possesses 750,000 volumes; the library at Darmstadt 500,000, the University at Leipsic, 500,000, the University of Strasburg, 513,000, the Royal at Stuttgart, 425,000, the University at Goettingen 400,000, the City of Hamburg 350,000, the University of Dresden, 350,000, the University of Munich 323,000, the University of Breslau 350,000, the Universities of Heidelberg, Wolfenbuttel and Wurzburg, 300,000 each. In Austro-Hungary there are sever Cost the People Dollars. An important event is Ten soon Million to take considerable interest tc “Special edict of the empress dowager.”? “The emperer having reverently succeeded to his exalted inheritance, and increasing day by day in maturity, it is becoming that he should select a virtuous sonsort to assist in the administration ol! the palace, to control the membersof his household and to encourage the emperor himself in upright conduct. Let, there- ofthe world’s press.” great treasuries of books. The is at Florence, where there are largest in the “Let Ta-Ta-La, aged fifteen years, a daughter of Chang Hsii, formerly vice president of the board, become the secondary consort of the first rank, and contains 440,000 20,000 manuscripts, Buda-Pesth 400,000 manuscripts. Italy has volumes and and the Royal at books and 63,000 twenty-five as the substance or genuineness of National 400,000 volumes and 15,000 this brutal stuff is concerned, it manuscripts. The next largest is the makes little difference who wrote Victor Emanuel at Rome with 360,000 it. If he was a Mormon, as the Tribune affects to believe, he was nothing more nor less than a rant- If on the other hand, volumes. The celebrated Vatican h- brary,filled with rare and precious works, contains 220,000 printed books and 25,600 manuscripts. Of the other nations Russia contains seven libraries of 100,000 and over, the as the News alleges, it is an echo from the other side, published for Imperial at St. Petersburg centaining political stock, its own baseness over 1,000,000 books and 26,000 manuwill, or ought to, deprive it of seripts. In Switzerland there are two great libraries; in Belgium, five; in Holvalue for even that despicable end. land, four; Denmark, two; Norway, one; fore, Tet-Ho-Na-la, a daughter of Dep- uty Lieutenant General Kuei Hsiang, whom we have selected for her dignified and virtuous character become em- on the subject which are well known throughout the already Terri- He is now physician to the Deaf Mute Department of the Deseret University. These are testimonials that should secure to him a substantial recognition. He may be found at 166N First East street. See his professional card in another column. teristic, others for another. Some are rich in theology, others are philosophi- come out again, but while in the palace they associate with none but the king and his eunuchs. Tle eunuchs of the palace are most influential men of the court. the They have been the servants of the Chinese emperor as far back as the time of Christ, and they are mentioned in Chinese There are history as existing 1000 B.C. 3,000 eunuchs in tke imperial palace at Peking according to a late report on the subject to the state department, and this report states that no person not of royal blood has the right to possess or employ eunuchs. It states that princes and royal blood, sons and princesses of daughters of the emperor may use thiity eunuchs, but that nephews and younger Every sons are restricted to twenty. fifth year each of certain princes of China are required to furnish for the use of the palace eight young eunuchs, and these princes are paid about three perial household are eunuchs. of the court — grew One of the eunuchs ago because a wealthy lived not far from the angry not long Chinaman, who had sent up a sky-rocket, palace walls yard. He concluded to be revenged, and the shaft of which happened to fall in his taking the empress to the top of her palace, he showed her this man’s residence and persuaded her that she ought to have it for a certain purpose. The emperor and empress are supposed to cwn all China. A netice was sent to this Chinaman that he must raise immediately an enormous sum of money or his palace would be confiscated by the emHe could not raise the money. press. He did not want to give up his palace daughter of Chang Hsii, become imperial] concubine of the second rank.” the throne, still remains empress .Ta-Ta La, aged thirteer, also regent, is one of the most remarkable women in Thus is settled a question which has Chinese history. She will go down to been agitating the Chinese court for the history as one of the great rulers of the past rear, and which has cost the families world; through her, China has attained position among the of the Manchu nobles months of trouble, its present high hundreds of thousands of cash and an nations. Not even the Chinese ever see her, and incalculable amount. of bitter disappointment. The émperor is a full-blooded she receives the most noble of the court Every Chinaman Manchu. It is prescribed by the laws behind agauzescreen. who appears before this screen has to -of the court that he shall wed noone but a Manchu maiden, and during the past ’ get down on his knees and bump his year the distinguished Manchu papas head against the floor, no matter if he be having daughters between the ages of Li Hung-Chang or one of the princes, twelve and eighteen, have been required and it is impossible for an American to to send them to Peking in order that conceive the sacredness and the awful divinity which hedges the body of the they might be inspected by the empress The palaces dowager with aview to the selection of. emperor and his empress. such-as seemed good for the imperial themselves are surrounded by a yellow “Respect this.” among them collections of 25,000 to (€hree were finally chosen. 40,000 are classed as. large. Those of The marriage is to take place'on the 100,000 volumes and more are considered same day that President Harrison is to among the great libraries of the world, be inaugurated, and the preparations for and New Orleans is soon tohave one of it have been going on for months. The them.: board of rites and ceremonies have deIt would be interesting at least to cided that it shall be as economical as scholars, to go into some details of the possible, but they agree that iti must cost celebrated libraries. Some are particulary distinguished for one sort of charac- to and in his despair he hung himself. The empress dowager who, noty.ithstanding the boy emperor, has ascened Let Sweden three; Spain two; Portugal THE many friends of Dr. Milton two; Greece one; Australia one, which H. Hardy will be pleased to know is at Melbourne, with 111,000 volumes, and Canada, 1. which is at Ottawa with that he is now established in Salt 100,000 volumes. Brazil has one at Rio Lake City. The Doctor has given de Janerio with 150,000 volumes, and much time and means and devoted Mexico the National with 100,000. When we coin to our own country we careful attention to his profession. He is a graduate of one of the find only about a dozen collections of books of 100,000 and over. They are harem. The first inspection was held highest medical colleges in the given as follows: last spring. The maidens came by hunUnited States; has served as assistUnited States at Washington, Con- dreds from Peking and from ‘other ant physician in our Territorial gressional Library, about 500,000; Bos- northern parts of the empire. The great majority of the maidens. Insane Asylum for over three years; ton Public Library, 450,000; Cambridge, has served Provo City as quaran- Mass., Harvard University Library, 280,- were discarded at this first inspection. 000; Mercantile, New York, 260,000; As- The remainder were asked to come again. tine physician for a similar period, tor, New Yo k, 250,000; Cincinnati, O., At the second insnection a closer examiand as quarantine physician for Public 180,000; Philadelphia Mercan- nation was made and there was afurther Utah County he established a sys- tile, 150,000; -Yale College, New Haven, *weeding out of the least beautiful of the: tem of sanitation which reflects the Conn., 140,000; United States House of maidens. At this time the unsuccessful highest possible credit to his inde- Representatives, 145,000; New York State candidates were each given a rollof silk. at Albany, 135,000; Boston Atheneum, and at the third inspection which took fatigable efforts. His labors in 135,000; Philadelphia, Public, 120,000. place in the latter part of last month,the this important field are well set There are in the United States about hundreds had been reduced to fifteen,and forth in his several publications 4,000 libraries, large and small, and it was from these fifteen that the above <i sider it a very great favor to be taken into the palace, and their families regard it an honor. They have no troubld in finding husbands if they are permitted those who find pleasure in learning of the way things are done on the other side of the world. To introduce our sketch, which is condensed from a very lengthy and prolix correspondence in ‘hundred dollars apiece for them. The the Omaha Bee, the following docu- eighteen lama priests who supply the spiritual wants of the ladies of the imment will serve an excellent purpose: the organ that published it. So far Vienna the Imperial at It Will great libraries, of which homes of tory. their own, and all of them are well to do, compared with the same class in the Hast. Our paupers will not average one to four thousand of our population, and these are aS well cared for as the paupers Li- at the same time, dynamite, dynamite. » you * * * ** you all.’ The matter was of course accompanied by a series of stock commentations characteristic of ing idiot. >—~+ < cal. Some run to Oriental languages, collections are being made inthe various othersare essentiaily repositories of his- | provinces. torical works. Others have magnificent | The number of females in the royal collections of musical matters and some harem is not accurately known. ‘The contain curious gatherings of books on emperor has the right to seven legal conmagic and other occult sciences. There /cubines and to an unlimited number of are libraries of antiquities and archeol ullegal ones. Every third year after In conection with an article elsewhere on the Howard Memorial Library, the following may beof interest: The collections of books which inthe number 50,000 VALENTINE. down Tho World’s Great braries. at >~+ as a valentine: “Youhave * * * yournest. on Application. Editors: J. M. CORAY, which WEEKLY. as the burden of their support is) THE WESTERN WEEKLY. well WESTERN tiled wall, more than two miles in extent and many feet high, and around this there is a wide moat. The interior is At called the carnation prohibited city. the gates of the wall are officers in uniform, and no foreigner ever steps within it. The ordinary Chinaman never gets inside, and the masses of the empire suppose that the palaces within are upheld They think by gold and silver pillars. they are walled with precious jewels and that their majesties walk on pavements of gold. Outside of this city is the imperial city, which has a wall fifty feet high, and which is so wide at.the top that four good sized carriages could be It is from this | driven abreast upon it. wall that the stranger can get his only view of the palaces of the Chinese empire. They are a wilderness of broad buildings covered with curving roofs of bright yellow tiles, which glisten like gold under the bright sun of northern . China. They look more like temples palaces, and there are many of at least eight million'taels, which is con- than XZ siderable over $10,000,000. The royal them centuries old. Yellow is the imperial color of China, factories are riready at work ‘making silks satins, and other things for it, and and his majesty’s foot is too holy to step a DOT) |