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Show 4 )t .. THE SALT LAKE TIMES. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5. 1890. SALT LAKE EYENING TIMES. "THK TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY. T. A. Davis, Prest. W. B. Gibbs, Mangr. ALFRED 8QREN8QN, Editor. Subscription t the Daily Times. tt months 8 2.00 1 M " 78 (Always In advance.) "MONDAY, MAY 0. 181)0. 1877, aud him in 1883 and again in 1888. Ho was a staunch d a conservative and cautious man. Before he took any definite ac-tion on any important question, he carefully considered it from every standpoint, and having once made up his mind it was almost impossible to in-duce dim to change it.v His Opositlve-ues- s was one of his principal charac-teristics. His career, stop by step.from the stable to the United States senate, shows the glorious possibilities for young men of bralus who take advan-tage of the many opportunities offered them in this country. FROM THE STABLE TO THE SENATE. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, who died very suddenly on Saturday afternoon, was one of the prominent statesman of the country. He was a self-mad- e man. Born in Scotland, in 1822, ho acquired an academic education, and iu his early manhood he came to the United States and located in Lexington, Kentucky. Not being afraid of work, he foivud oc-cupation for a time as a hostler in one of the stables of Lexington. Ho next . studied law, and graduated as a lawyer at the age of 24, in 1840, at the Trausyl-- , vania university, iu Lexington. Ho be-gan practice in that city, and met with success. Mr.Beck was elected to congress aud served iu the fortieth, forty-firs- t, forty second and forty-thir- d congresses. Declining a the people of Kentucky, who greatly admired him, ent hi to the United Stales senate in YESTERDAY IN H1STOKY-MA- Y 4. IBM Peter Minuit, director gen- - JK trol of New Netherlands, yjlfSJfc bow New York, purchased y9 gT Manhattan Islanl from the t 4f Indians for the Putch West WVJf India company for the sum 55. of sixty guilders or twenty- - A. four dollars. The island, flf-- WmS-zS- fi teen miles in length and from 'iMraWf to two miles v wide, comprises about SB,- - m. mtonoston COO acres. 174S-D- of Louis XIII, king of France; born im. ITSi-B- lrth of John James Audubon, famous nat-uralist; author "Birds of America;" died 1851. lrth of William H. Prescott, American his-torian; died 18M. 1814 Napoleon arrives at Elba. IBM --Minnesota admitted to the Union. 1861 Lincoln calls for 42,000 volunteers. 1884 After four days' fighting, Hooker retires acroHS the Rappahannock. of Gen. Dick Taylor In the Mis-sissippi department. 1672 Horace Greeley nominated for the presi-dency by the Liberal Republicans. 1678 Death of Dr. Llringstone, the African ex-plorer, In Central Africa; born 1818. 1865 Death in Son Francisco of Uen. L McDowell, U. 8. A., aged 67. The voice of O'Brien is heard in the land, and the democrats claim that it is heard with no uncertain sound. It is certainly loud enough. EvEitr public spirited and enterpris-ing citizen should attend the mass meeting this evening at the federal courtroom. Matters of great import-ance will be discussed. TnE New York Herald devotes a wholo page to prove how easily a for-eign foe could wipe Ban Francisco off the matf of the United Slates. Wo are glad we live in Salt Lake The Times will in a few days show conclusively that it lias the largest city circulation, by carriers and newsboys, than any other Salt Lake paper. P. j our eye ou Tub Times. . THIS DATE IN HISTORY MAY S. 482-B- lrth of Emperor Justinian, famous Roman law giver. I of England surrenders to the Scots. 1815 Battle of Fort Meigs between Indians and British under Gen. Proctor and Tecuunseh, and Amcrloans under General, afterwards Presi-dent Harrison; the Americans victorious, but sustained a great loss in killed, wounded and prisoners. 1821 Death of Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena. i85H Prince MenschikoSf presents the Russian ul-timatum to the port and leaves Constanti-nople May 21. 1882 Battle at Williamsburg, Vs. Union loss, 2,226; Confederate loss, 1,000. 1884 Gen. 15. F. Butler lauds on the south side of the James. K4 Sherman advancing on Johnston. Engages the Confederates at Rocky Face ridge, (la. Heavy fighing for five days. Union loss, 837; Confederate, OilO. of the Wilderness, Vo, Union loss, 18,387; Confederate, 11,440. ISM Ram Albemarle attacked by Federal gun-boats. .. 1872 Death of Isaac Butt, 51. P., Dublin, Ireland, ged 04." - The labor "demonstration in Denver on Sunday was a great success. The eight-hou- r movement has won a victory In that city. All tho union men arc now working under the eight-hou- r rule. WANAMAKEKS DEPARTMENT. tacts That Will Interest Yon Whether You Expect s Letter or Not. Boston Herald. The heaviest mail carried over any mail route in the Unite States is between New York aud Philadelphia: The average daily weight of the mail carried over this route last year was 201,813 pounds. For trains carrying the mails the best time is made on tho Lehigh Valley rail-road between Easton, Pa., and Metu-che- n Station, N. J., distance tifty-foii- r and miles. The average times of all mail trains is forty miles an hour. The longest continuous run made by postal clerks is from Omaha to Ogden. a distance of l.oaJ.oO miles. , The greatest number of clerks on any railway postoflice line is 851 on the New York and Chicago. There are 8,257 letter earners, and they delivered last year 1,703,22,430 pieces of mail matter. Total number of clerks in the railway mail service is 6,448. The number of casualties last year was 193. Three clerks wero killed and ninety-liv- e seri-ously injured. The total number of pieces of matter sent to tho dead-lette- r office was 0,471),-29- The sale of postage stamps of all kinds amounted to $52,921,784.17. The weight of the mails dispatched to foreign countries was 4,111,852 pounds. Of this amount 3,151,555 was seut to trans-Atlanti- c countries. Great Britaiu, leading the list, received 1,549.689; Germany comes next, having received 644,073 pounds, while France. is third will) 239,469 to her credit. At tho close of the last year fiscal year there were 59,838 postmasters in theUnited States, whose compensation was $18,168,990, an average, salary of $220 each. The number of clerks employed in postoflice was 7,809. They received for their services $5,919,301, or an average of $758 each. Tlie number of clerks in the railway mail service was 5,610, who were paid an aggregate sum of $5,234,067, an average of $928 each. The total sura paid by the govern-ment for the transportation of the mails, including railroad, steamboat, and star route service, and also compensation for the use of postal cars, was $25,732,-545.5- The total sum paid for transportation of foreign mails was $521,338.03. The largest sum paid a single steamship lino was $188,633.19 to the North German Lloyd. The Cunard Line was second, having received $100,812.53. There were 13.324,240 pieces of. mat-ter sent in the registered mails, aud 3,998 complaints were made of delin-quencies in the service. Of this latter number 1,610 cases were reported as losses, but subsequently the letters or parcels were received by the persons addressed. In 1,099 cases it was as eertaiued that there was no just ground for complaint, the irregularity arising from improper address of the sender, from the failure of tho sender to inclose the sum intended to have been remitted, and other similar causes. There were 5B8 cases in which the investigation resulted in the restoration of the amount lost to the proper owners, mak-ing a total of 3,283 'cases in which no loss was sustained, leaving 715 cases in which it was not possible to make recovery. The Tribune is a little off in regard to protests against pavements. No uch protests have been made. The protests that were seut into tho council were against sidewalks. The senti-ment of the Tribune's editorial, how-ever, applies equally as well to side-walks as to pavements. The men who object to sidewalks will do tho same thing in regard to tho paving of the Streets. During the four weeks ending Friday May 2, there were added to our circula-tion 702 subscribers. On last Saturday fifry-tbrc- e more new subscribers were obtained, quite a number being unsoli-cited. Thus do we grow. At this rate The Times will havo in tho vicinity of J 0,000 subscribers within one year. An average increase of twenty per day will be over 0000 new subscribers in a year, and we expect to beat that average The Old, Old Story. F. Mathsrsou. Havo you forgotten the old, old story You whiskered to me on that golden day, When the sun was flooding the earth with glory And hedges were fragrant und white with Mayt - Our path led over the cowslip meadow. Where birds bang gaily from every tree'" And the way was flecked with sunshine and shadow ; But only the sunshine fell on me. With tho lads and lasses to go That morn we had left for a space life's toil ; And we heard the sound of the footsteps stray-ing - Where the hawthorn promised abundant spoil. Their hearts grew glad in the golden weather; They gathered the flowers beneath their feet ; But we two loitered behind together, For the old, old story seemed new and sweet. 'Tls May time again ; and youth aud maiden Hasten away to the country road, To cut down the boughs that are blossom laden, Or help to carry the fragrant load. The sunshine Is flooding the earth with glory; The birds are singing on every tree ; But you hav e forgotten that old, old story, And only the shadows tall on me. THIS HOT SPRINGS. There appeared in the Sunday Tri-bune an article describing tho Helena hot springs in Montana, and the won-derful improvements which have made of that place a most attractive resort, uuequalod anywhere iq this country. The sum of $500,000 has been expended upon a maguiliceut hotel, a lux-urious bath house, nn immense swim-ming pool, beautiful fountains, grand driveways, hundreds of electric lights and other features of a marvelous character. Iu describing the bath tho Tribune'writcr says: - It Is constructed of masonry and cem-ented. A million gallons of hot mineral water runs through it dally and ,m(XX gallons or cold water Is required daily to temper it for bath-ing. The water Is brought Into the bath over an artificial cascade forty feet high, constructed of granite boulders, some of them weighing pounds each. This structure looks like the point of a mountain tossed Into place by an eurthquako and smoothed of its soil by the rains of centuries. Numerous fountains play here and thoie and It Is surrounded by tropical and aquatic plants Imported from California, which flourish In the warm moiHt air better than in their own native climate. The tem-perature in this building will not, vary live de-grees all tho year round, being heated In win-ter by tho hot water. A walk ten feet wide sur-rounds the bath, aud 100 large dressing rooms open from it. These room are also heated by steam. In the construction of this building there was used 20,000 feet of cathedral glass. In the winter season a person ran enter this room and see 100 bathers sportlug In the hot water, and stepping through the door, can see 100 skaters enjoying themselves on the lake In an atmosphere at zero. Think of a structure 30U feet long and 100 feet high, filled with windows aa flue as those that line cathedral walls and all flashed at night with electrlo lights. Think of an arti-ficial waterfall of forty feet, through which the different colored lights make perpetually changing rays and these falls are so natural that Innocent rustics gazing upon them wonder why the rock was not blasted away before the great structure was built over it. t We make tho above extracts in ordor to show to our citizens what ran and ought to bo done with tho hot springs just north of Salt Lake City. Although the bath houses arc old and unattract-ive, hundreds of citizens and tourists visit these springs daily and take a bath in the curative and invigorating water. This place could, with the expenditure of money, be transformed into a resort equal in its attractiveness to the Helena hot springs. A new bath house, a largo hotel, gardens, walks and drives, and so ou, would make of our hot springs a most delightful spot. Such an improvement . would bo a great benefit to Salt Lake. It would draw to this city thousands of visitors where now only hundreds come. Salt Lake City is a much more central aud attractive place for a great, sanitarium than Helena. It Is on the direct line of transcontinental travel, and hence much more convenient for tho tourist and tho ordinary traveler. The investment required for the proper improvement would certainly prove profitable, and we believe it would mako an immense fortune for tho in-vestors. While it is true that the Hot Springs property is held at a very high figure the owner well knowing what can bo mado out of it there is no doubt that $500,000, tho sum expended on tho Helena hot springs, would bo amply sufficient to buy the ground and to pay for a palatial bath house, a superb bote aud "other accompany-ing improvements. A syndicato of wealthy men, and there are plenty of thorn in Salt Lake City, can easily be organized to carry out tho plan we have suggested. Wo understand that some effort has been mado in this direction, but tho high prices put upon tho pro-perty has scared off the proposed in-vestors. However, we believe that if the proper steps are taken , by the pro-per parties the property can be secured on favorablo terms, and we hopo that tho mattor will be agitated among our citizens, and that good results will soon follow. The improvement of the Hot Springs is an enterprise that would iu various ways bo beneficial to every citizen of Salt Lake City. England proposes to maintain its supremacy as the greatest commercial nation by acquiring a vast extent of territory in Africa. Tho conquest of Africa by various European natious principally England, Germany and France may result In some very inter-esting complications and possibly con-siderable friction between those pow-ers. England Is now arranging plans to reconquer the Soudan, and to spread its rule over other sections of the dark continent. Germany, which has al-ready, a strong foothold in East Af-rica, intends also to add to its territory, and will push out in every direction. Life. Francis Rawlins. Lite is a narrow way beset with briars, Filled full of ruth as well as vain desires. Where Joys appear 111(0 angel's visits rare, And budding hope sinks into deep despair. Where honest effort often dies unknown, And gilded shams sit perched upon a throne. ' Where haughty mouarchs cruelly oppress The starving serfs who kneel their names to bless. Where Joys and sorrows, smiles and bitter tears - Commingle closely through tho passing years. Where youth and age alike must pass away, And flowers fairest quickest do decay. O Life! Whilo living oft you make us ll wo love thoe when we come to die. y Pesky's FIRST Addition , SUBDIVISION OF GLBNDALE PARK. Deskj's SECOND Addition f COR SECOND WEST & TENTH SOUTH ST i 1 Pesky's THIRD Addition BET NORTH & SOUTH TEMPLE ST. leskfi FOURTH Addition : For Particulars in regard to this Addition Keep Your Eyes Of The Prices of Lots in all of these Additions at CHEAPER ... THAN ANY ON THE MARKET!- - - For Prices and Terms address or call on: 32 & 33 SCOTT-1UERBMC-H B'LDG. SALT LAKE CITY "Sljht and Hearlne He Gve DR. G. W. TIBBITS, Oculist and Aurist, . No. 16 East First Swuth P. C Box 1 020 . Salt Lake Cjty v nr"fl'sstonat skill is commended bv ?Ztr?n to V Your rewl one success." c F.HHEK Worth"! bL"""5"" Iver, Tr Fort TuE inaction of New Yorkers regard-ing the Graut monument will probably result in the removal of tho hero's to Arlington, a suburb of the national capital. If tlie request comes from congress, it is pretty certain that the Grant family will interpose no ob-jection. Should such a course bo de-cided upon, it will bo an everlasting disgrace to the American metropolis, whose citizens begged that General Graut's remains should be buried there; they promising that a suitable monu-ment should be erected over the grave. Even at this late day they can make amends by bestirring themselves, and raising fuuds for a grand monument iu memory of one of tho world's greatest warriors. What West Says, West of Utah, was in New York the other day. and the polit-ical reporter of tho Press interviewed h'm ou the Mormon-problem- "It is the great drawback to Ulah." said he, 'that tho difference between these sys-tems is not ouly wide but fundamental. There can bo no substaulial and perma-nent political growth for Utah until that difference is settled, and it can only bo settled in one way. There is at present a growing sentiment among Mormons to drop polygamy, and if it continues the Mormons themselves may thus bring about the chango in Utah which public sentiment over the coun-try demands." The Newspaper. Concord Monitor. Who would uot be surprised and shocked at an announcement that the publication of all the newspapers of the country was suddenly to cease? Could there be a greater blow to the progress of civilization, the spread of knowledge and the development of the arts? Prob-ably not. Give the world the railroad train that speeds like the wind from city to hamlet, but in it bring no bun-dle of papers; its coming will excite ouly a passing interest. Let us have a tele-graphic service, tho s of newspaper correspondents aud reporters, and it will hardly pay for its own maintenance. The newspaper is tho most influential agent in the world. It moulds the opinions of the people. It entertains, amuses and instructs. It is felt in the election of public officers, and it controls very largely the policies of government. What the press univer-sally condemns must go down; what it universally and persistently advocates must ultimately bo established. The newspaper is the accompaniment and the sign of intelligence and enlighten-ment. Wherever a respecable paper regularly tinds its way there must bo a regard for truth and a desire for know-ledge. Where the newspaper is pro-hibited or where it is not wanted, there is sure to bo despotism, darkness, ignor-ance and crime. . In our local columns will bo found tho outline of a proposed plan to estab-lish a normal school in Salt Lake. The location of such an institution on any ground near this city would draw to it a thriving settlement of a most desira-W- o class of people; aud the lands ad-jacent thereto would consequently be enhanced greatly in value. Thescheuio is a grand one, and there is no doubt of its entire feasibility, Tho opportunity to Inereaso the city's oducational Is one that should uot be lost; (and when it is understood how greatly the city's material advancement would ho benefited by tho plan proposed, there should be no hesitation among those who can afford to do so to take immediate steps towards its consumma-tion. ', ' Mali License tlie ltest Keuiody. Denver Republican. It is probable that the decision of the United States Supreme Court the affirming right of liquor dealers to ship liquors into prohibition states like Kansas and Iowa will havo tho effect of procuring a repeal of the prohibitory laws iu those states. If foreign firms can supply all tho liquor for which they can obtain orders iu Iowa, the peoplo of that state will naturally conclude that they might as well permit the trade to be earned ou by residents, who can be compelled to bear their share of the burden of tax-ation. High license is tho best remedy yet devised for the regulation and con-trol of the liquor traffic. Revised on the People. The poet of a Salvation Army bar-racks in London, having the hymn VBy the River of Babylon," which ho wished to "bring down to the people's level," the following version: By the waters of Babel we sot oursells down, We sot oursells down for to croy ; And hs for our 'arps they were wringing o' wet ho we Ming 'em on trees for to droy. An' them hs had copt us- - rhe they arsed us to sing songs of our country, so dear ; How the deuce can we sing the Lord's songs says we. In a blooming rum place like this 'ero? There is no good reason why the citi-zens of Salt Lake should not encourage th4 coming carnival iu our sister city of Ogden. That tlie carnival will prove a grand success there is no doubt. Im-mense crowds will attend from all parts of the country. They will be well enter-tained, and will receive a favorablo im-pression of the beauty aud enterprise of Ogden. At tho same time ttiey will come to Salt Lake and view tho many enter-pstin- g places of iutcrest, and seo a thrivi-ng," pushing city of over fiO.OOO people. No visitor to Ogdon would feel satisfied without taking a trip ro Salt Lake City. On the other hand when Halt Lake has her great festival, visitors who come hero will naturally take in Ogden also. So it will be seen that enterprises of this character will prove profitable to both cities, no matter iu which place they may be held. It is high time that the petty jealousies between Salt Lake aud Ogden be shelved. I'KHSONAL FAKAGKAl'HS. Mrs. Burnett is said to have made a half a million dollars by her literary work. King Humbert of Italy drinks whisky aud water with his dinner for dys-pepsia. William Wirt? Robinson, tho Balti-more lawyer, who died ou Thursday, was a graudson of William Wirt. Queen Christine of Spain is 81 years old. She is said to bo the most popular queen the nation ever had. Mrs. W. S. Hancock has given to the soldiers' homei at Miunehaha, Minu., a lino portrait of her illustrious hus-bau- Sybil Sanderson, the only soprano whoso voice ranges higher tlian Patti's, is a tall blonde, with dark eyes, a pretty throat, and a willowy lignre. Dr. Joseph Jones, of New Orleans, is collecting material for a confederate medical and surgical history of the war. It will be a collection of hospital records. Dom Pedro is writing for a German scientific journal a valu-able paper upon the language of tho Tupi race, the principal Indian tribe uf Brazil. Aden Starks, who died at tho ago of seventy-liv- e near Milford. Indiana., a few days ago, was one of the charac-ters in the storv of the ' Hoosier Schoolmaster," which made Edward Eggleston famous as an author. It is expected that the Duke of Or-leans will be married whilo undersroinsr his iniprisoniuont at Clairvaux. It is said that he has refused a pardon of-fered bv the French government, ow-ingt- o the conditions imposed. Sarah Bernhardt is studying a histor-ical play. "La Dame d'u Challant," adapted from the Italian. The action passes in Milan in the sixteenth century, when Lombardy was the battlefield "of French and imperial armies, One of tlie haudsomcst women of the Spanish court iu the days of Queen Isa-bella was the Duchess Mediua-Coch- . She is still living, and her grandson, a boy of twelve years, is the richest no-bleman in Spaiu, .having a fortune of $25,000,000. How Asbestos is Mixed. Popular Science Monthly. . . Mining is carried ouoby cutting down the hills of asbestos-bearin- g serpentine, much as a farmer culs down a staek of hay and straw, or by open quarrying ou the level. The rock is blasted out aud the the asbestos separated from the containing rock, is "cobbed," that is separated by hammering from inferior forelgu matteri This cobbing is a com-paratively easy matter in the ease of the liner quality, as it usually separates readily from tho gunge, but iu the hwer grades much difficulty is experi-enced in separating the fibrous matter from tho At best there is a great waste. Much of the asbestos is waste. Much of the asbestos is iu thin and narrow veins and is wasted, as by the present mode of operating it does not pay to Separate this from the ser-pentine. A machine that will enable these narrow veins to be utilized is needed. When "cobbed" the asbestos is grad-ed according to purity, color and length of fiber into three grades and bagged for shipment. The finest quality or "firsts" finds ready sales at prices rang-ing from $80 to $100 per ton; "seconds " fetch from $30 to $70 per ton; while "thirds" may be valued at $13 to $15 per ton. Iu good mines the yield of asbestos is from 3 to 5 per cent of the-roc-quarried and the cost of niiuins: may be put down at $23 to $30 per ton. Returns obtained by the geological survey of Canada show that for tho year 1S8S Canada's output was 400 tous valued at tho mines at $'.)5,000, and this tho output of uine different mines. Over three fourths of the whole was shipped to the United States, small quantities going to Great Britain, Germany France, Belgium aud Italy and being used in domestic manu-facturing. A Definition. New York Sun. ""Papa, what is an agnostic ?" He is a man who says he don't know anything aud lectures on it." |