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Show J2 TIIE SALT LAKE TIMES. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1691. Walker Bros. & Fyler Co. Conspicuous Will be the Display and Attractions at Walker Bros. & Fyler C O lIE3 3ST "S" - Monday - Morrir ! Our Dress Goods Stock is simply superb; 250 Solid Dolts. Every possible weave, price, color and style, including 150 exclusive Patterns and Combination Suits, to be shown in our Shew Windowr Ready to be Slaughtered Monday Morning! Everything ticketed in plain figures for your convenience. Special 20-Pie- ce Cleopatno Crepe de Chine Eening Shades, Monday a d Tuesday only, No sample given. 87 1 -- 2c. per yard. Hifih :- -: ArtxNoTeltiBs ! WASH GOODS. We quote you simply the Grandest line you ever ga.ed upon. Preres Kocclilin ! " I i ices Genuine Imported LISTEN L-wisr-si Handsome Stripes and Figures. FKEC2I AVI) SlOTl'll .EMIRS. loO Pieces Magniliceut Patterns. 90 STYLES t'f S.viss and Mull Flo incing. 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With each order received ,y us for el x boxes, accompanied with f.00, wc will send the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the money if the treatment does not Ifect a cure. Guarantees Issued only by John-son. Pratt A Co., Urutuists, 4fl Main Si,, ball lykrn - EXPERT STEAM GRINDER Of everything under the Sim. and Dealerla jFlSTB CTTTLEIxl-s- r i EVERY ARTICLE WARRANTED. 105 Eart Tint South St 0pp. City Hal Sunday dinner at the Saddle Rock. AprlosT ls Here. Call on Joseph Baumgarten. the fash-ionable tailor, for your spring suits and overcoats. The very latest of importa-tions. 200 South Maiu street. I Sunday dinner at the Saddle Rock. ) after all is indebted to fate for some-thing. Keddy Gallagher Is now after Young Mitchell and Kat Mastersou ileclares his willingness to back the former for J.000. Mitchell will probably be in-duced to meet him. Mcllugh and O'lirien are both in training and will be in excellent feather when ou the night of March 7th, they meet in this city to decide a questiou of supremacy. Herbert Slade looks a stronger and more powerful man than ever. He has taken excellent care of himself arid is the biggest piece of furniture in F.d. Kelley s gymnasium. Phil Archibald, the California book-maker who took Ike Weir to the col-onies, is back, disgusted with the Spider, on whom he squandered several thousand dollars. W'v'.r wouldn't train, but insisted on gutting on sprees, and his only light was with Abe Willis, at Svdney. and after four rounds Weir qiiit. Tho audience roared over Weir's pranks, but everyono said he was out of condition, and Willis had tho best of it. IL.aball Not... Is Salt Lake to have a club? liutte mid Helena are both picking out material for ball clubs. William Williams of Strentor, 111., has signed with Kansas City. President Thurraan has been deposed as president by the American associa-tion. Jack Glascock has signed a New York contract at a reduced ligure, is a late report from the metropolis. When the Chicago club plays in Co-lumbus April It), they will make their lirst appearance there since lhTti. Old Cy. Sutcliffe is "out of sight." He was one of the terrible examples of "league tyranny" in the fall of 'M. Tebeau has begun to dicker over terius with Cleveland, and has sent on his uniform measurements. He will captain this year's team. The colony of baseball players at Hot Springs is daily increasing. Those al-ready there include lieatin, Heckley, Joicc, Long, Ihinlap, and Davis. Sandy Griswold declares that Perry Werden "lushed and played ball in about equal parts" when he was in the Western. Tho king has more sense now. The Chicagos have no less than twenty-thre- e men under reservation, and the Times up thcro raps I'ncle Anson for not letting a few of them go into tho league lields. "Tobacco heart," may have been the cause of John Clurkson's fall of last season. He is an inveterate smoker of "student's lamps." A medical authori-ty is out with a warning to ball players not to smoke too much. The action of the Western associa-tion in leaviim its circuit stand as it The ultimate outcome of the chapter of acrimonious correspondence be-tw-u the friend and followers of Bob Fil'.simmons nnd those of Jim Hall, not to mention the deliance with which the latter has shied his castor, is the problem in which the disciples of the arena are particularly interested at this period of tho sporting solstice. Hall has spoken his piece in language that is at once plain and vigorous. He has also been tried by the California Athletic club, with results that were so favorable to his prowess that ho has secured a place in its list of adoptions. Whatever the merits of tho two men in a light to a finish Hall has used his words without gloves. He seems to have developed some flaming antipa-thy toward Fitsimmons that ran te ap-peased no where or under no condi-tions outside of the ropes. Hall has very w isely leveled his weapon at the biggest game and the highest card that is now in the ficklo deck of continental middle weights. Fitzsimmoiis has reached tho loftiest pinacle of fistic famo, The rival who wrests that dis-tinction and prize ring honor from him draws a fortune, and even greater fame. Hall knows this. So do his backers. Hall has been firing his cartridges at this satellite. They may be blanks but they have cut the air with an awful whistle and roar. He denies the right of Fitzsimmous to Haunt tho Australian championship, ' while Fitxsimmons talks bark and pre-sents his card to the sporting world with the following upon it: "I had boxed many men in Australia and while many concede that I had the best right to tho title of middle weight champion, still there were some dis- - putes, Jem Hall claiming the title in Australia while Kill McCarthy, who had gone to San Francisco, also claimed to be the representative champion of my fatherlaud. I wanted to tight both of these men, and as Hall was easier for mo to get at than McCarthy, who was 7000 miles away, I directed my atten-tion toward him. Well, we met and I defeated him in live rounds for a small , amount. He was not satisfied with this, and kept making talk until finally I put j up t.iOO in the Heferee otlice. in Sydney, r- - to make a match with Hall or any other closed last season is, perhaps, the wisest thing that could have been done. The only change that could have been made was the substitution of Indian-apolis or Grand Kapids for Sioux City. In the litter city Sunday game are not allowod. Tho question of organizing a league to be composed os Baker City, La Grande nd Pendleton. Oregou, and Walla Walla, Wash., has beeu consider-ably discussed by the hase ball en-thusiasts of those cities (lately and the initications are that a meeting will soon be called to elfect an organization. Turf Topira. The spring races at this point are promised a larger attendance than ever before. The race to be contested in October next by L'tah yearlings will be the most interesting contest that has taken place on territorial turf. Alreatly important entries have been made and tho purse ' i middle weight in Australia. There wa no answer to this challenge, but Hall kept on talking. Finally I heard that he was going to- spar at Larry Foley's Athletic hall, in Sydney, ami I resolved to go there and challenge him from the stage, so that he would have no chauce to escape me. I did this, saying I would make the stake as large or as small as he wanted, and that I would light him again with any sort of gloves he might select. In answer to this cballeuge he said: "Gentlemen. I am going to America by the Zelandia which tails tomorrow afternoon, and so I will not be at liber-ty to accept the challenge of Mr. much as I should like to do so. If he will come to America I shall only be too glad to meet him in a contest there." I went home and had a talk with my wife, and then and there resolved to go to San Francisco to litrht him. Accord-ingly I packed up what few traps I will be sullicieut to increase them e the books are closed. Al Farrow, the big California racer, who is held at $10,000, broke out of his stable the other night and took a win-ter evening's walk from North Hudson to Fort Lee. The trip might have killed him, but it didn't, and a couple of days later Al Farrow won a race. There are two royally bred fillies in the land which will never have a brother or sister. 'They are Miss Rus-sell's two daughters "by Electioneer. Miss Russell was shipped to Palo Alto aud bred twice to Electioneer with a view to getting a stallion. Each of the foals was a filly. The latest Kentucky phenomenon in the way of a trotter is a yearling colt called Pilgrim that is an inbred Wilkes, being by Acolite 2:21 and out of a mare bv Geortre Wilkes. It is said that needed, and went aboard the Zealan-di- a about noon the next day. I looked about for Hall, but he had not yet come aboard, and I leaned over the side to see when he should come up the gang plank. Finally he came in sight and looking up, saw me. Now, of course I don't pretend to know whether it was seeing nie on board the steamship which caused him to change his mind or not. but anyway, he turned straight around aud walked away, ordering his baggage to betaken back up town aghin. Tho Zealandia sailed without him much to the surprise of the steward, who was to bring him over. When I saw Hall walk away I had half a mind to get oil' the boat and stay in Sidney to make him light again, but 1 thought better of that aud resolved to tight McCarthy in 'Frisco and thereby settle his claim or mine to the cham-pionship." But it is not the exchange of these vocal blows in which the publio and the sporting world are interested. Let tho contest go to the arena and in a few minutes the matter of supremacy will have been at least temporarily deter-mined. Ed Smith, the Denver imitation, has challenged Jack Ashton to fight for for $1(!00 a side and a purse. In Brooklyn hereafter the mayor will have to be called on for permits to give boxing exhibitions whether for amuse-ment or prizes. Boxing in Cincinnati has been legally squelched. There's waiting among tiio Chicago sports an order having been issued by Chief Marsh to the "linest" to stop ail athletic exhibitions at which boxing was a feature of the entertainment. Saturday night, as a rule, is a favorite time for displays of the manly art in Chicago and last Saturday night was r.o exception. The Chicago foncing club had arranged a little programme Pilgrim can show a 2::)0 clip down the road, and that an oiler of $15,000 has been refused Lir him, his owner being confident tharhe will beat Freedom's yearling record of 2:2lt before the close of 1MII1. Malcolm Forbes of Boston, the owner of that fast campaigner, Jack, who de-feated Palo Alto last season, advocates the grading of the standard into three classes, thus Class A to include 2:20 trotters and their produce. Class B, 2:23 trotters, and Clas C. 2:110 trotters. There has to be some change made In the standard and Mr. Forbe's idea is one well worthy of consideration by all trolling men. When Goldsmith Maid trotted in 2:17 in Milwaukee, Wis., near twenty years ago, a great hue and cry was raised about short track and bad training. Wheu Dr. Herr gave Lady Stout a three-yea- r old record of 2:2()' about sev-enteen years ago, the doctor was ac-cused of "cruelty to animals." but everybody keeps as still as mice in a meal chest, in 1X1)0 when a yearling makes a record of 2 2ilJ. A bill has been introduced in the Illi-nois legislature that is evidently di-rected at Ed Corrigan's Chicago race-track, as it contains a clause limiting the number of racing days a year to thirty. Corrigan's new track at Haw-thorne will be ready earjy in May and he expected to continue his race meet-ing this year until cold weather. Mayor Crieger is at Springlield lobbying in the interests of the bill, which gives riso to the supposition that the real purpose of the bill is to elfect the financial" ruin of Corrigan. for their rooms, at lot! Randolph street, but shortly before 8 o'clock thev were warned by the police not to go on with the exhibition. It, is said that the mayor intends to allow no more boxing iuChicago, and that all the exhibitions that have been arranged will have to be post poned. Big Joe McAuliffe adds Pat Slattery's eap to his pugilistic belt, the knock-cu- t having occurred a week ago. Jem Smith's exchequer must be badly depleated to induce him to launch a challenge at Charley MitchelK A foot race would be more in keeping with their proclivities. The Clipper fires a rominiscence of f the meeting between Tug Wilson and John L. Sullivan at Madison Square garden and says that on that occasion a patron of Wilson offered to match him to light Sullivan with bare knucks for the championship. Sullivan is said to have accepted but subsequent devel-opments nipped it in the bud. Tug THE WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF POETRY Tlia Hon. Knt.iii Field Cotiteads That Ho-race JKuhlee Wi. Its Founder. ChloiiKo News, Although it is fur from our ambition to serve the ends of iconoelasm, we must coufess that we recognize a cer-tain great injustice in t lie common practice of referring to Ella Wheeler Wilcox as tho founder of too Wisconsin school of passion poetry. The actual founder of that school wal Horace Rubleo, and the school was founded and iti actual operation before Ella Wheeler was born. To be more ex-plicit, Mr. Rubleo (now editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel) lived at Sheboy-gan Falls in lHoO, and at that time he gave ptiblieily to the amatory senti-ments which other Wisconsin poets subsequently espoused a the best ex-pression of the best thought- - Ella Wheeler was not hoard of until more than a quarter of a century later. Mr. Rubleo contributed most of his amatory verses to the Knickerbocker Magazine, nnd a number of these early bits of literature are now before us. Simply with a view to prov ing up Mr. Rublee's claims ns founder of the Wis-consin school of passion poetry, we (rive a few random stanzas from a long poem entitled "Visions:" Thou dosl corns to me In dreams. When entranced in slumber deeo. ' Anil thy rall.mt couutenanee seems Like atwel guard, to keep Wat:'h above my iulct sleep. Trees nr 'round ho-t- spreading shade Beonm Inrltinv us to rest; Let us tlien, dear bouuteous m ild. Beat ne cm earth's friiKrant breast Where the tlowers long to be pressed. Birds like Joyous f pli'itu sing 'Mid the brunches everywhere! And near, fountains upward Mug Dewy freshness on the ir, Makini? music rich and rare. Thou dost lean upon my breast, With thy sweet lip near to mine Smiles that ne'er can be suppressed I. Inner roiioit t lat rosj line In whose d pths pearls faintly shlr.e. And I feel thy balmy breathing Warm and glowing on my cheek. And thine arms around me wreathing Thr.ll my soul till I am weak W ith a Joy I cannot peak, So tho poem proceeds, waiting warmer and warmer, until It reaches the point that might be designated as the perihelion of calidity and the apoth-eosis of poetical Intoxication. When he wrote this poem (1C0) Mr. Kubiee was 21 years of age, and one can fancy the excitement that obtained in She-boygan Falls when along came the Knickerbocker Magazine with this pas-sionate outburst of sixteen stanzas. The Sheboygan Fall Pioneer-Patrio- t remarked at that time: "Properly curbed and discreetly guided, young Rublee's vivid and beautiful imagina-tion and his exquisite command of lan-guage will ultimately secure him the lirst place among the poets of America." ers' movement, and is highly spoken of for ability and progressiveness. The slgnitieance of the South Dakota result is that neither republicans nor democrats could elect their candidate, and the farmers used their balance of power with success. The victory for the farmers is in one sense greater than in Kansas, as in the latter state thev bad a walk-over- , and could practically name the new senator any time after the November election. But in South Dakota the election of Mr. Kyle has been brought about bv hard work and successful strategy, litimor connects the lllinjis seuatorship with the South Dakota result and points to a trado be-tween farmers and democrats which is to result in General Palmer's election in this state. Of the accuracy of this phase' of the question it would he pre-matura to hazard an opinion. Mr. Kyle's election is the one fact that thus far challenges tho attention of the pub-lie- . The farmers have now two direct re-presentatives in the national senate l'etfer and Kyle. Considering the re-cent origin of the organized farmers' movoment, this is rapid progress to-ward an appreciable voice in national legislation. south Dakota's Senator. Chicago News. Next to Kansas the farmers have won their chief battle thus far in South Da-kota. They have elected the Rev. F. II. Kyle to the United States senate. Mr. Kyle, although a clergyman, is a pronounced adherent of the new farm- - Mad Her I.ov Letter Photofrahhed. Chicago Hail. "I had an experience the other day which has interested me more than anything of a similar nature which has happened to me in all my business ex-perience. A young lady who moves in the best society brought me three let-ters and I photographed them for her, and at her request destroyed the nega-tives. The letters were the most ten-der and ardent love missives imagina-ble. They were addressed to the young lady herself, and were signed by a name which 1 am sure.you would rec-ognize iustantly were I to mention it. I will confess that curiosity got the better of my judgment and I finally said: " 'You'll pardon mo, but this job is a little unusual, isn't itV " 'Is it?' she said smiling. " 'It strikes me so.' f replied. 'I don't see why you want photographs of these letters, since you have the letters themselves.' "'Don't you? Well. I do. Suppose the letters were to be lost, or burned, or destroyed in some other way?' " ,Wouldn't the photographs be de-stroyed just as easily as the lettersr' " Perhaps not; especially if they were not kept in tho same place with letters' But I am not afraid of losing them by tire, or in any such way as that. The fact is, the ink is fading out. and in a short time it is likely to be illegible." "There is a girl for you who doesn't propose to take any risk in the breach of promise business." Evolntlnn and Religion. New York Ontinint. "Evolutiou and Religion" was the subject upon which Prof. Felix Alder lectured to an audience which tilled ('bickering hall. "There was a time when the world was full of consoling faith," said the lecturer, "but that faith is now dwindling. There was a time when men believed that heaven was near, but that certainly, too, is gone. Look at our churches aud see how little of that faith is loft. See how apologetic the preacher is! ' For a time tho world was believed to be small and narrow people imagined they could comprehend it, out now it is different. People did believe that the world was small and governed bv a being who had caprices and whims; but now there has arisen a conception of a reign of law, a belief that the uni-formity of nature is expressive of the uniformity of its author. Individuality now fades. "We now helicve in an abstract God. Men at one time made a God-pictur-but the picture has faded. The future will be an unreligious one atleast for a time," Thought lie Was a Napoleon of Finance. New York Sun. General Sherman was no exception to the ftneral run of humanity in his opinion that he iiad distinct qualifica-tions of a high order for success in an-other walk of life than that in which he achieved eminence. It may not be generally known to the public at large, but there is no doubt that he regarded himself as a man of extraordinary sa-gacity in the realm of finance. He very often referred to himself as a banker, and ho discussed money questions with the air of conviction that bordered al-- 1 most on intolerance. No one ever knew exactly how far the general's banking operations extended, but toward the latter part of bis life he almost invariably prefaced his talks on money subjects with the sen-tence: "My opinion, based on thirty vears' experience as a hanker is ." lie made a shrewd investment in his Seventy-thir- street property, ami never ceased to congratulate himself upon it. He had but one fault to tind with the location of the house, and that was the service of the elevated road. He de-tested the step and would go to any amount of trouble iii changing street cars rather than climb up to the elevated platforms. He was extremely demo-cratic in his habits at all times and pre-ferred street cars to carriages. A fa-vorite method of his going to a down-town theater was to take an Eighth avenue car to Fifty-nint- street, then a cross-tow- car to the end of Broadway, where he would make another transfer to a Broadway car. The Oanirrr of Fatigue. Was'iini:t'n St.tr. Fntigue should not bo treated as a light matter. Women often say: "I am perfectly well, only I get tired easilv." then you are not perfectly woll. lou need rest, care and possibly medical treatment. Try the rest first and set j your mind free from worries and re-straints. With the rest take nourishing food, not tonics of necessity, but instead of waiting until luncheon take a cup of beef tea during the forenoon; .between luncheon and dinner an egg lemonade or a glass of milk or a cracker. Do not exact from yourself work which you do not fool equal to; make it a rule to lie ilown two hours each afternoon, and go to bed earry. Keep this treatment up for three months:, with all the life that you fee) equal to. and yon will realize what rest can do. The tired feeling means that you need rest; it is, assure an indication as that a clock needs winding when it runs down. Fasting for Dyspepsia. Wasbinntnt, Letter. The latest craze at the capital is fast-ing for dyspepsia and other diseases of the digestive organs. Dr. Fisher, the high priest of the starvation doctrine, is making more money than any other physician in town, though his prescrip-tions are very simple: "Don't eat any-thing for eight days," or ten or tifteeu, as the case may be, is the formula. Some of the most prominent society people of the city have fasted from ten to eighteen days, and they all claim to have received benefit. Mrs. Harrison,-- ; who has been troubled by grastritis, is trying the fasting remody in a nod itied form. Wheelmen aod Good KoaUs. New York Tiihune. The users of bicycles are especially interested in the maintenance of good roads. Connecticut wheelmen have adopted a novel plan of arousing pub-lic sentiment as to tho condition of tho roads. They are collecting photo-graphs of the worst patches of road that can be discovered and of vehicles damaged by passing over rough places or sunk in muddy spots. When the collection is completed it will make a curious exhibit of the carelessness of officials or the parsimony of communi-ties. The wheelmen will be entitled to great credit if they can bring about any reform in this matter. Needs a Dictionary. New York Sun. The syrup-voice- d poet of onr es-teemed "contemporary, the St. Paul Globe, is guilty of this eruption: "My name Is Henry James. And I hannt the turbid Thames." The olliee of our esteemed contempo-rar- v needs a pronouncing dictionary of geographical names, and the syrup-voice-poet needs a rest. |