Show too late for or publication last week we received an article from south bountiful complaining of a certain class ot of persons persona having been wronged by injudicious remarks made by some one la in a public gathering the article stated that a piece of smutty poetry had been taken into the public schools and in the gathering heretofore alluded to the outsiders wore were credited with having introduced it when it was wag a member of 0 the speak ers family that did it the person who ho brou bronert elit in III tile the complaint seemed to fully folly sense the sayings of shakespeare that he ha who steals my parse steals trash but ho he who filches from me my good name steals all a ll 11 I 1 have and leaves me poor indeed we dislike to treat upon such subjects but as they are of a public nature we feel obliged cosay to say something about it we think that public speakers should be very careful that they are right before they make an assertion of that kind and then perhaps it would be more just to restrict it to individuals instead of a class As nearly all classes of people love those attributes that elevate mankind luan Rind and but a few who are indifferent in this regard we also desire to say eay to the class accused of writing this poetry do not be too sensa sensitive lve tIve when anything like that is elated as we are quite sure it Is s not said with a desire to harm those who are innocent As not all of the people are ot of on mind as to the course that the tha city council of bountiful city should take in ia regard to flaming tile the creeks we who lave have mot met with the council considerably sider ably and who are much interested in the creeks being flamed will say that la in our oar opinion the council is taking by far the br abst st course that could bo be taken with the experience they have lind in that direction and with the hp prospects that lio lie before us wo are perfectly satisfied that all of the councilmen are interested alike but some are more anxious to got get to work at the flume with whatever material they conclude to use wine while the majority at via favor of 0 considering tile q question well before the work is begun while tile the CLIPPER CLipp jin sees tile great of 0 good the flume would do in one season bet et it does doea not think it would be ba wiss to attempt to imperfectly accomplish 60 much in onedea one season seabon taxing the people who have very poor prospects of c it a crop 0 on account of the lie grasshoppers to death anti and the worst of 0 all ot of running tho the risk ot of putting in something no ono one here as ae yet has thoroughly investigated and nine chances to one it would be a failure and aa these theao hasty halt half considered undertakings of the have been thousand Thou sandi of dollars aro are spent annually dually by and private corporations po rations as well as by individuals la in investments that are almost entire ly worthless only a week or so 80 has past since a large number of fine mulberry trees that stood around the house where the council now holds its meetings were uprooted had the persons interested thoroughly investigated the matter tho the trees would never have been planted public houses have been built in III this town which have hato scarcely been used and had bad the subject been better they never would have hav been baen bommen commenced bcd because they were not needed people have lived in this thia town over ever since mace the full fail of f arty eight with much drier seasons than the th prospects are hat this oae will b in and hae no even yet begun to lame flume but bat now it should be commenced and completed in one season As an argument against making the tax lighter than the people voted it some say eay that it would have been better to have levied it high and then not collected all it if it had proven too burdensome and further they say that next spring the wort work begun began this year could not be continued because they would have to wait until tall fall before another tax could lie collected collect eJ we think the people will bo be roady ready to assist tile the council in whatever they may decide to do when they have bave considered the ton well they will not hare bare to force the people to do anything bat merely hint to them what is wanted it will bo just as aay easy for the poop 0 3 to save tho the money arid and have it ready tor for early spring work next year as a it would bo be tor for them to pay it in this year we have hare a local paper now through abick the council can talk to the people and tho the people express their feelings toward the council before leaving the question we here have been talking to wo we might say that the people ought to think about this flaming question and wake make suggestions 8 to 0 o the council through the paper it Is to your interest and is your duty to do so BO account of the hopr town irvin F fisher again Z sends a newsy and interesting letter to his father and wrote it from laic baliu oahu march 26 1893 through the kindness of liis his father we are able to give our readers a few of the most interesting paragraphs of the same lie ile first speaks of receiving 0 the 1110 money ney sent him by his father and says 1 I trust I 1 shall now be supplied p lied in the money line for the next six months to come at least still it takes considerable be as careful as we may and if we did not get assistance from the mission fund to which the saints here contribute quite libe liberally rully considering their circumstances we would be obliged to get a great deal more from home or do without wit many contorts con forts As it is however I 1 believe we elders here on these islands fare better temporally than do our elders in any other part of the world speaking of the elders ciders lie he says awe we are all in pretty fair health three of the number however are are bothered with colds conference will commence on ath and last five days said lie he and that they expected to have MI an unusually good time ile he gives an account of a visit to tile the leper settlement which we give in ill full and reads as follows well now a few words about SIo lokai and tile leper settlement I 1 left maui tuesday morning the dinst in company with my two native companions on oil tile the little steamer Mo kulii little island of fifty tons burden so you can see what a little cricket we were on and we landed at pukoo molokai in two hours later but the sea was very rough the result of a high wind so that we were all quite seasick short as was our voyage on oil landing we walked three miles to the kaijala branch and staid there till friday the then Kaull lawe and I 1 procured horses from one of the saints and road six miles nearer the leper settlement when we stopped over night with will another family of saints leaving our companion Nawa Nawab hive ive at the branch as he had bad no do permit to visit the leper settlement saturday morning early we set out for the leper settlement some seven seen or eighteen miles distant wo we arrived at the summit of tile the great precipice or pali as we call them here abbot 1 p m here we wd left our ponies picketed out and descended the almost perpendicular mountain on oil foot reaching the village below about we spent the remainder of that thai day in hunting up the superintendent of the place and in gett getting fia located for the night we were quartered in a nice fee gover ment meat building reserved especially for visitors and very kindly treated and well cared for sunday we met with the members of the Ka laupapa branch in their little frame meeting house I 1 feet in sabbath Sa blath school genera meeting slid and hit aini opio or Y peoples 31 1 I A during the general ernI meeting 0 the little room was literally packed and fifteen to twenty outside arid and during tile the other two meetings the house was comfortably filled we reorganized their sabbath school ordained two priests and one teacher and set apart two new counselors to the president of the branch there are members in this branch till all lepers but quite a number of them are ewt far along with that dreadful disease to be able to attend meetings monday morning the saints furnished us nico nice horses and we road over to the Kalai branch about one and one half miles distant and here met in three similar meetings adga as those of the day before here we also reorganized their sunday school setting apart a new presidency and likewise their relief society and ordained one elder and one teacher and excommunicated one male member at his own request f for or apostasy this branch las has eighty members enrolled but a somewhat Bome what larger meeting louse house being both branches have good presidents and are in good running order which is more than can be said for many of the branches on other parts of these islands at the present time the saints were most tickled tickled to death to see us and did all they could for our comfort and well being tuesday morning we had tile the house packed again at Ka laupapa andar and organized a relief society there and left the settlement at 1 p 1 in and returned to the branch there are 1100 lepers in ill the village about forty old residents non lepers and between 80 and non leper assistants As near as I 1 could learn about are catholic and calvins calving there are nine half whites here who are lebars and a few chinese we saw many realy hideous look ing betings there blough the worst ones we ded not see at all I 1 dont suppose theae have been seventeen baptisms there during the past year well I 1 shall lave have to stop short without saying abord about our beautiful temple present this time the following la is from the bouth companion souvenir for the current year it is an interesting fact that the paper upon which the companion Is printed is made by the eminent business house of the late samuel D warren the tha man who as the youngest boy la in the employ of the house of which hs he afterwards became the load head often carried in 1832 the paper for the weeks issued issue of the office off fee of its the large mills built by mr warren where the paper Is mades madea are at cumberland mains maine it comes to the columbus avenue building dally daily in endless end les tolls rolls which weigh about seven hundred pounds each when the typesetters typesetter in I 1 n the compos ing room on the fifth floor of the building have hare put into type the articles which make up the paper and the editors aud and proof poof readers have hate corrected the error that have been made in setting the type the pages are electro electrotyped typed and then are placed upon the printing presses in the basement of th the building THE ins WONDERFUL PRINTING PRESSES here the round roll of white paper is placed upon one of the six alx lx large cottrol cottrel perfecting presses each of which will print in a single second one sixteen peo page paper upon both sides or two eight page papers one hundred and twenty eight page companions ft a initiate the six print forty three thousand two hundred companions of the eight page size an hourt hour it would take a long time to explain the ingenious arrangements of those these re marna oie presses they seem almost human la in the skill anil and comple completeness tene as of 0 their work it Is enough to say that when the completed paper leaves the press on which it has been printed it has been cut off from the roll counted and dropped into a pile all bv bt the machinery of 0 the press itself itsek I 1 there are so BO many subscribers for the paper that the type alono alone from rom which the names of 0 the five hundred and fifty thousand subscribers of the youths companion are printed weighs forty tons tona this will giro some conception of the size of the list 11 comparison showing the enormous enor mona editions of the youths companion it if the five hundred and fifty th thoai busand and papers that make the weekly edition ol of the mouths companion were placed in a pile one above the other they would make each week a column more than five times as high as bunker hill monument it if bunker hill monument feet were wera pieced on toe the top lop of the elifet elfeel tower 1000 feet the height or of the two would be less lees than that of the weekly edition of the youths companion placed in a column at tile the side of those well known structures place the abe capitol at washington feet on st peters cathedral at kome feet and that on the great pyra feet and together they will not equal in height the average weeks issue of the youths companion it each copy wail waa placed in a pile one above the other |