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Show . ; THE SALT LAKE TIMES. SATURl)AYjmY WER THE RIBR. WM 160 Acres at $50 per Acre. 320 Acres at 100 per Acre. 80 Acres at $50 per Acre. Only eight miles west of the Jordan. Just the land to plat and only ,6 miles You will be glad to buy this at $150 p, This is a snap and will sell for $100 per west of the river. acre next spring, acre inside of six months. 50 Lots in Is it something in the City you Want ? Davis, Sharp & Stringers Addition, DO YOU want omethmg cheap? West and 10th South. If so, we can please you; 20 lots, 25x140 Co, 2nd CaB If so, can sell you b4U acres or any por-- ft n pjat q at to $400, will be running past this addition within ' tion of same at $15 per acre. v on terms to suit you. 60 days. Now is the time to buy before ... the advance in price on these lots. Residence and Business Property in Different Parts of the City!? DAVIS&STRINGER! 23 I'est 2nd South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. three large windows, aud contains a number of lockers to meet ail re-quirements. From this room we pass into the toilet and wash room on one side and the library and reading room on the other. A NEAT ENGINE HOUSE. Quarters for the Fire Department of a Town of 10,000 Inhabitants. This structure is designed to meet the requirements of a town of about 10,000 in-habitants. Its approximate cost is about $8,000. It is designed in the Romanesque style of architecture, the first story being of brown-ston- e, rock faced. The upper story and tower are built of pressed brick and terra cotta, and the roof of the tower is of tile. Bed B. B. a B. I ' SECOND STORY. The toilet room is well lighted and contains a bath, water closet, and wash basins. The library is a large room, 15x18 feet, and lighted from the rear by two large windows. It is intended as a loung-ing room for the men when not on active duty. This floor is finished throughout in cherry. David W. Kino. ENGINE HOUSE ELEVATION. The portion of the second story above the arches is built of brick of two colors-bl-ack and red and arranged checker board fashion. The string courses, cornice, etc., above tho first story are all of molded terra cotta. On the first story are situated the office, stalls and harness lockers. The stalls are arranged so as to be with-in easy distance from the engine, which stands in the central space ready for use. Directly opposite these are the harness lookers, containing spare harness, trap-pings, etc., with drawers underneath for the various grooming implements and tools necessary for the keeping of the engine in good order A staircase leads to the cellar below, used mainly for the storage of fod-der for the horses and fuel. FIRST STORY. A spacious staircase leads to thsfloor above, while more rapid egress may be made from this floor to the one below in case an alarm is sounded by means of the slide pole on the left, a device which has of late come into general use in all first class engine houses throughout the coun-try. On the upper story is situated the dormitory, sufficiently large and com-modious to accommodate a working force of seven men with coaifort. It is well lie-hte- and ventilated from the front y A BURGLAR AT TWiRTEEN. Johnny Jone Starts Early en a Criminal Career. Six months ago Johnny Jones wassn honest little country lad living with hii parents on their farm near Springfield. Mo. Now he is in jail at Sacramento, Cat, charged with house breaking, and is wan-ted atVisaliain the same state for burg, lary and jail delivery. When Johnny left home he didsowitt the good wishesol his father and m-other, who gavt him money to t fray the eipeiutf of a journey to tbi Pacific coaat ud back. Almost soon as nereacW ' California he d-eveloped all tbt characteristics of a depraved yontb. H wb first u- - JOHNNY JOJJES. rested for burgla-rizing a saloon. The jury acquitted bun, but at the same term of court he came up again for trial on the charge of breaking Into a store. He was convicted of thii o-ffense, and pending transfer to state prism he occupied a cell in the jail at Tisalii He occupied his time in planning an e-scape, and not only got away himself but also letoutfonr other convicts. HatoM his way north Johnny returned to bis oM tricks and was caught one night while cleaning out the stamp drawer of the at Elk Grove. This crime brought him to his present lodgings in the Sacr-amento county jail. Young Jones is n yet 14 years of age. talk slang and Venture upon expletives, as near profanity as they dare, for after all they ore generally thoroughly good women and would shrink from immor-ality with an angry kind of virtue all their own. One cannot after all say that these attract men to their society, for they give the men no choice; they force their coinpaniouship upon them in all those sports which men have chosen to con-sider especially their own, and conse-quently in the conversation resulting from those sports. They have thus tho pull over their "gentler sisters of a com-mon topic and common occupation, and it not infrequently happens that a man marries such a woman just because he sees her all the time; tumply a case of propinquity. They make undesirable wives, however, especially if poor, for they are as impatient of woman's self sacrifices and quiet drudgery as a man is. I knew ono such girl, and when her baby was three months old she took it upon a yachting excursion and had a hammock slung on deck for it. But after all, the kind of woman that men generally marry belongs to none of these classes, but is simply a nonentity. There is no fault to be found with her; she is tolerably good looking, tolerably edu-cated, tolerably good mannered and re-fined, negatively moral, but quite un-tried by temptation; her ideas of mar-riage limited to new clothes, wedding presents and cards with Mrs. instead of Miss upon them. She has never considered i the question of whether Charlie and she are adapted by habits, temperament and mutual intentions to make each other happy; she has never even resolved to do her best to make him happy; Bhe has never thought anything about it at all, and plunges into matrimony as she would into the ocean at a new bathing place, without the least idea- - of what may lie beneath that summer sea. That is the average woman chosen as his wife by tho average man, and hence the average marriage which forms the topic of the satirist, and the cynic. What, then, is the description of "the' best woman," who is so seldom chosen, do you ask? I have not just now time to tell you, but you may, if you like, d the' quotation from the Vicar of Wakefield and draw your own inferences. Mrs. Frank Leslie. FAVORITES OF THE MEN Mrs. Frank Leslie Wants to Enow Whether the Lords of Oreation Like the Best Women Best. MEN'S IGNORANCE OF WOMEN. They Get Mad Because They Can't Under-stand, and So Say Bitter Things. ' r Do men like the best women best? So, they don't, and it is one of the most re-markable things in the study of the cruder sex to see how they pride them-selves upon their discrimination with regard to women, and how very, very, very little they know about them. And this no doubt is one ground for the cynical, jaundiced, bitter scoffs and taunts flying about the world with re-gard to women, and all emanating from men. They thought they knew some-thing about women, these poor cynics, nd they found they didn't, and instead of blaming their own stupidity they turned and rent the elusive objects of their mistaken theories. It is very annoying, I grant yon, for a (nan to build up a fine ideal temple 'heroin to enshrine his own image and watch the goddess of that temple sitting at the feet of her chosen lord, and then to suddenly discover that the temple was founded upon the "laughing Rands," and in some unusual quake the whole affair tumbles down, and his image is left ignominiously stranded in the mills! I suppose one woidd be tempted to re-Ti-the goddess who had mortified us to sorely. No, they don't understand women at all, these poor dear men, and nothing Vexes them more than to have this con-sciousness brought home to them; they are eo accustomed to feeling that the world runs on the lines that they have laid down that there is nothing in heaven or earth beyond or above their comprehension, and that they are, as Alexander Selkirk remarks of himself, "Lord of the fish and the brute," that, although woman is neither a fish nor a brute, they consider her as surely the Vassal of man as either of these. And then, when all this has been com-fortably arranged and Milord Man has settled himself pleasantly upon his throne, lo and behold the chief vassal isn't at all in the place he had arranged for her, but has shot off in an eccentric cfbit of her own and is away out of reach, "Such conduct as these" natu-rally annoys "the monarch of all he sur-veys," and as it is impossible for him to do anything about it he vents his wrath in aaying a great deal, sometimes in the style of the fox who thought the grapes were sour because he couldn't reach them, and again, in the light and flippant fashion of a majestio intellect stooping to trifles, he flicks the woman question aside as one quite unworthy of his con-sideration, declaring that the habits and manners of the ephemera who dance for an hour above a sunny summer pool are more deserving of a man's attention than the yet lighter ephemeron, woman. One consequence of this process is that a tradition has grown up in the jnascu-- line mind and Is transmitted from ra-ther to son as carefully as the unwritten laws of the Incas to the effect that women are deceitful exceedingly, are fair to the eye but deadly poison to the taste, are trivial and shallow of mind, and yet past masters in the art of hoodwinking men; that they are at once the weakest and most formidable form of creation, and although an unhappy instinct of man's nature, but no men don't have instincts although the profound pro-cesses of reason show that the world would not long continue without wom-an, and therefore it is necessary that man should condone her offenses and seek her society, he should do so with the same fear and trembling that he handles dynamite or introduces electric wires into his warehouse. They all are powerful agents and the Lord of Creation does not intend to con-fess any object in bis dominion to be too many for him. So, although quite aware that dynamite may blow him and his to the farthest limit of limbo, and elec-tricity will most likely set bis buildings o fire, and woman will oh, dear me, what words can describe the indescrib-able ills that woman can work in his life I still he does not, and does not in-te-to, do without any one of the three potencies and fuels quite sure that though other men have been hoisted with their own dynamite, conflagrated by their own electrics and destroyed with nameless horrors by the wouum whom they had either made or wished to make their own, they should escape. But just as every man tries to seenre the safest form of dynamite and the best protected electric wires would it not be supposed that he would be very careful to seenre the very best and least danger-ous kind of woman? But here the vaunted wisdom of the Lord of Creation seems to utterly fail him, and in choosing a wife he shows no more discrimination than tho child who dives into a grab bag at a fair. If there is any method at all in the matter it seems to operate the wrong way, for it is very, very seldom that a man fixes his affections upon the best woman of his acquaintance, or even npon the best wo-manor him. What are the grounds of his choice, then? What kind of women do men like better than the best? Well, of course, youth and Iwauty are always sure cards, and I should be sorry indeed to lose the pleasure I derive from contemplating them myself; but we all know that there are beauties and beau-ties, and while some pretty faces are as attractive and refreshing as a handful of dewy flowers others are as monotonous as a photographed smile, and others again as deadly 6weet as nougat. And when we come to the matter of choosing a wife, which is of course the only very important result of men's preference of one woman over another, prettiness becomes merely a detail and not the one k'm qna non at least it ought to so become if the man is capable of looking before he leaps. A ijood many men are not. and instead of imitating the Vicar of Wakefield, who begins his memoirs by stating that ha chose his wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for the present effect, but for its promise of good wear, they end as a friend of my own did. He married a beauty, a sweet little Dresden shepherdess sort o.' thing, who one day came to me with a puckered brow to ask: "What conld Tom mean, do you sup-pose? Last night ho looked and looked info my eyes, .and at last he, said, .'Noth-- , ing but blue eyes nothing more.' What should there be more do tell me?" "Why, nothing, dear," replied I truth-fully. "They are very pretty blue eyes, and just as pretty now as when Tom first fell in love with them." But besides beauty, which is an obvi-ous temptation to choose the wrong woman, there are at least a dozen other false lights wooing this poor, short sighted creature man to his destruc-tion. There is the style of woman which I have studied a good deal, but thus far with no satisfactory results. She is not pretty; she need not be very young; she may be maid, wife or widow, although rather apt to be the last. She in not very striking in any way and seldom allows herself to be conspicuous, but in some inscrutable way she "always gets there," if I may be allowed a bit of slang, and will never appear at any place where men do congregate without attracting them, as surely as the candle does the moths. She is not too brilliant a con-versationalist a quality which gener-ally frightens men but she makes pretty speeches in a soft, low voice; she has a way of lighting up her face at the ap-proach of some favorite cavalier; she possesses infinite tact in harmonizing conflicting tempers and smoothing over rough places; Bhe is chameleon like in her power of adaptation to the moods or, prejudices of her companion of the mo-ment. She is, in fact, charming, if one can get rid of a certain uncomfortable sense of the machinery. It is a IHtle too much like admiring Juliet, when you happen to know all about the actress' domestic and financial troubles, and, although you cordially exclaim, "How well she does it!" you never for a mo-ment fancy that she means what she says or is what sho appears. Now this kind of woman is not what I call thtt best for a man to choose as wife, and I am always sorry when I see it done. There is, however, one safe-guard for the sex; the charming woman is generally quite as practical as she is charming, and doesn't resign her power over all to take up with one unless it is very much to her ad-vantage to do so; and if she does marry she is apt to become innoxious to other women, for great prosperity has a stulti-fying effect, and your "very wealthy woman seldom takes the trouble to charm. Another style of women apt to attract men, and not at all the best women for them to choose as wives, are the women who pay the coarser sex the compliment of imitating it. Happily this style is rather exotic with us, coming in" with the Anglomania so prevalent of late, and as it is by no means adapted to the cli-mate or to the delicate type of American femininity it has never thriven here as abroad. These are the women who bonst of never being tired; they rise at unearthly hours and drag their reluctant admirers with them to see sunrises and "catch morning effects," a euphemism forin-fhuw-put on short skirts and thick boots and taking alpenstocks in hand climb Mont Blanc as a morning's recrea-tion (if that inaccessible top peak is ever reached it will be by one of theso wo-men); they ride at "big fences" and are "in at the death," and slash their riding habits with their whips as they loudly proclaim their own prowess in the chase; tbey "take a weed" more or less surrep-titiously; they demand liquid refresh-ments of the most heroic nature; they Called Her a Jezebel. In a suit now pending before the superior court at San Francisco Mrs. Anna J. Joh-nson, a healing evangelist from New Yr city, demands 16X1,000 damages for sland from Dr. John Alexander Dowie, of V bourne, also a healing evangelist. In W complaint Mrs. Johnson declares that the Austra-lian called her "in false and scandal-ous words a fraud, an impostor and a Jezebel." The trouble arose at a lecture recently delivered by thefi doctor, who saw jflt to "expose" iMrs. Johnson. lae woman wasin dr. j. A. Down, the andience, and fired back her opinions as fast as the lector-e- r uttered his. A great hubbub follow and the result is the appeal to the conn already mentioned and a split in the camj of the faith healers. Hints. ' Figured deal, consisting of the amber variegated dark parts of the wood, associat-ed with the delicate white and softer parts, is being introduced into furniture by some of our cabinetmakers. The wood is simply polished and varnished. The application is by no means new, for in the room used for cabinet meetings in the royal palace at Berlin the wood work is of this material, and so handsome is the effect produced that visitors usually suppose that it is some fine and rare exotic wood. It is a singular fact that in England there earue a time when the wainscoting itself of an apartment was considered "mean" if not covered with tapestry and painted cloth, although it consisted of British oak and polished red fir from Sweden. The idea of rich hangings being employed to conceal decoration has something humor-ous about it. Later, in 1316, came the painting of wainscots. A record of that time states that the subjects were "from sacred and profane history;" this, of course in the dwellings of the wealthy. The wainscot usually rose only some six feet, and the upper portion of the wall was a virtual frieze, being "frequently starred with roses, whilst tho borders were of different pat- terns." Up to 1613 green, red and tawny colors were those chiefly used in the dis- temper decoration. Some of the frieze pieces were landscapes.. ...... Probably the simplest way of waxing a floor is to apply a mixture of wax and tur-pentine. The pores wiil be filled up and a surface given which only needs rubbing with a lmen cloth forming the exterior of a woolen roll to secure the desired luater- .- Decorator and Furnisher. Lucretla Matt and Slaver-- . Fir many years she allowed no pro-duct of slave labor to be used in her family, neither cotton nor sugar, nor rice, and another form of protest was of almost dramatic effect. At that time colored people were not allowed to ride inside the horse cars in Philadelphia, and so long as this rule was enforced Mrs. Mott refused to enter the cars herself. When the conductors, seeing this gra-cious lady standing on tho platform, would approach her with the offer of it seat, she would say: "Friend, does the let our colorsd brethren and sisters sit in this car?" Of ronrsa the answei would be "No." "Then I will stand here," she would gently reply, and no stress of weather would force her to take shelter within., Shot HU "Wife's Betrayer. tally wounded Dennis Crowley as the lal trhaeiiaaelpma. It seems that Bencher h.j night before obtained ocular prooff his victim's criminality, tethe pistol itSTlS An American Girl. Blie's great at frying terrapin; A canvasback delight her. When served la pie with dainty cn Her conscience seldom fights her. The roelet shad she serves in balls. Iced fruit she's (Imply lost on: Tou think she lives to Baltimore? But no; she hails from Boston. This one can stew amackerel Or bake a beefsteak finely ; The fatty porgy dressed with ere Comes from her hands dtvtneiy- . Ton'd swear the near she deftly Wj. Came straight from old Mount Tou Ye off the scent, my trussing tr" The girl resides in 'Frisco. Another makes a tarpon hash With rind of watermelon. While alligator fricassee Her family likes t dwell Her spranta at sugar cane in la. Drowned la a sauce of Bourbon. Would make you think her TamP She's yet at hone in Auburn- . . rK Uiis Olooe-PeiW- " ii . lvoutliig the Knemy. "A friend of mine a consumptive-w- as set npon by ten cowboys out in Arizona one day. He fought like a tiger for ten minutes and the his as-sailants took to flight." "What did your friend do"' "Stayed where he was he had to. They'd killed him." Chatter. Even wealthy men do not of income. TBuLo, Westminster each vrr . |