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Show ' ' J 4 THE SALT LAKE TIMES. FRIDAY. MARCH 20, 1891. g f TIIK SCHOOL. IIOND8. Tlie address of tlio school board to the people of Salt Lake in support of its domand for $:l()0,)0() with which to build a number of school houses, is a siniplo statement of facts, borne out by an array of Inures that must impress everyone with thu urgency of tlie re-quest. A Much estimate taken from tlio detailed report of tlio finance com-mittee shows that at present no less than 2:m pupils are eurolled in tlie imblii! schools for whom no adequate accommodations exist, and still the en-rollment is more than '.'OOO short of tho actual school population. In other words, there are ut this moment be-tween lotM) and .WOO children in this city who are cither ill provided for or not provided for at all in the common schools. It is needless to ray that, the absence of '.MM)!) pupils is duo maiuly to the Inek of room, though of course some children attend private institutes while tho new ,system is being tesled. U'lth every succeeding year this proportion will decrease, and as the population of Salt Lake is growing tlie demand for more school houses will become ever more imperative. I'nder the circums-tance.'!, we reiterato tho statement that the request of tho school board for $ !0;),(l0() is very moderate and we know it will bo readily granted. Tho Ameri-can people, never parsimonious, aro willing to bo liberal where thu comfort, health and happiness of their children are involved. Anybody studying the ligims presented by the board will concede that live new buildings.ono for each precinct, are a minimum required for immediate need. are designing toon who may try to prolit by it. A frontier war is not an unmixed evil altogether, as the con-tractors, teamsters, antlers and other interested parties will testify. It is said the young bucks are being taunted, gibed and goaded by the squaws into resentment for the slaughter at Wounded Knee creek. It will bo well to look after thosa squaws and it will be better still to look after the adven-turers who stand behind the squaws with sugared wares anil words. I.OMK A FT Kit THK.W. From Pine Kidgu agency come fresh rumors of a contemplated Indiau out-break in the spring, w hich means in May. Wo do not believe the Sioux, after the experience of last winter, hanker for war. They have had all they can bear without being extermi-nated, and the season following im-mediately upon the surrender of their arms to tho government is scarcely a propitious ono to renew hostilities. Moreover congress has been very geu-erou- s with the redskins in providing them with extra food so that the chief cause of their dissatisfaction must be removed. And yot we would not liko to see the government disregard the rumors that come from Pino Kidgo. There are no doubt some agencies at work among the Indians sowing trouble. As the dispatches read the animus is plainly to discredit the interior department with the aborigines. Tho whole tenor of the telegrams is in that vein. This is not surprising, as tho relations between the Indian and military departments are very much strained since the recent visit of the Sioux delegates in Washington wheu criminations and recriminations were passed between the hvo services. Of course this feeling is not allowed to spread among thu ludiaus; but there j THE SALT LAKE TIMES. ' Jiy THE TIME3 PUBLI3HIN3 COMPANY. NRW VOKK OFFICII, Temple. Court. Eastern advertisers l!t please make their romraets Willi uiir eastern mtvuitiaiiit' agents, Mciics. Palmar 4 Koy. "The Tim in pubUshed every evening (Sun-!a-exrcptedi, and la delivered by carriers In (Uh Lake city and Park City at Ji cents per aconth. Tun Tiuis contain tne full Associated lfc Itwrt. ami has special telegraph nervlce t thin eutlre iDtermountalnreirlon. Tn Tivss In entered at thepoetoffire tn Salt Lake city for transmlsciou through Uie uiai'D e& second class mutter. Perilous deslrtnij Tint Tim" delivered at their tonne run secure It bv potM card order or tormina telephone. When de.tvery Irregu-lar n,a'u Immediate complaint to (hlsodVe (Always In advance.) HBiouUia J-- ' ! z , . : --i AMresTnajriktrs , Suit Lake fWjJ-lljL-t)u- Telephone Number, 41. THE CAROENS OF PLEASURE- - She walked upon the beds, and the sweet rietiacent arose, and she gathered bar bands full of tlowers. Then Duty, with hli clear while feathers, came and looked at ber. Then she reused from gathering; bnt she smiled and walked away among tha flowers smtunir, and with her hands full. Then aualn he came to her and she moaned and bent her head low aid turnfd to the gaU. But as she went out she looked back at the sunlight on the faces of the flowers and wept In anguish. Hut still in ber band she held the buds she bad gathered, and the scent was very swe t In the lonely d"si rt. Once more he stood be for- - her with his still, white, d athlllte face. A n 1 she knew what he had come fur she unbent the finger and let the tlowers drop out, the flowers she had loved so, and walked on with-out them, with dry arhlnir eye. Then for the last time he came, and she showed him her empty hinds. lint still he looked. Then at Ion. rth she opned her bosom and took out of It one small flower sh hid hidden thereand laid It In the rand. Rhhal noth'mt more to give now, and she won 'red av and the gray sand whirled about her Olive Schrlner Poor sinless Eve. thrust out by cruel Duty Into te desert all alone no flower. No fa n'est svtnb ! of thv young life's beauty Allowed to carry with thee from thy bower Even thv last sweet b id plucked from thy b' som And li ft to wither on the sand thy tears Unheeded and unnltl"d -- dreary, gruesome Ai d like the des-- rt all thy future years-L- ift tip thine eyes! The desert sand blows foiled thee. Far-eU- h the s waste on every side No palm t'ee shade, no cooling spring hath ronn thee, l'ho seest 1 ut desoiutlon far and wide, And yet. lift up thine eves! With clearer vision WM eomea d'ff rent scene; this desert plain Mav to thy elttlit become a Hold elysinn. When thou hast drkd away the tears of pain. Not lone art tbtrn. Lo! through the desert shadows Sweet fae 'S ansa It their silent sympathy; Long stnci they roamed llko theo In Pleasure's mea lows. I.onif s u e. by duty, were east out like thee. But seest thou not that eaeh some irre-- n oasis Hath ma le evea here? and. watering with her The barren soil, hath made the desert, plares To "blo-iso- as the rose." Cast out thy fears. Fairer than any brilliant bloom of Pleasure Thef.e blossoms; ats sweeter than any breath Of rout b iltn ; surpassing every Of ,Iov, as life it-- e f surpasses death. Nay. ftnd a Joy In anirniah : rro-- Its nortal, C.ilnily, serenely gazo on Sorrow's f.ve; Know that for deathless souls, for souls Im-mortal There Is not, cannot be a "desert plare." -- Klanor M. Deany. INSURANCE J --) HeberJ. Grant & Co. The Leading Insurance Agents fSult Lake City. Representing the Following Companies: ASRRTR. Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., of Liverpool W3,37,00O Insurance Company of North America, of Philadelphia 2 ( Home Insurance Company of New York J'' German-American- . Insurance Company of New York Hartford fire Insurance Company, of Hartford 'o 'n , I'htrnix Insurance Company, of Hartford . . WWj Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Corapanv. of Philadelphia American Fire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia 2,613,600 Niagara Fire Insurance Company, of New York 2.4!0,6M WesrVhester Fire Insurance Company, of New York 1,821 703 Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, of Brooklyn 1,1)93.811 Home Fire Insurance Company of Utah 27,9tj3 J. F. Grant - - Manager. Office in Stats Bank of Utah, No. CO Main Street. financial financtal. BANK OF COMMERCE. ' Opera House Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. SAVINGS DEPAETMENT open Daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satur. days irom 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Five rer Cent Interest Paid on Deposits. Transacts a General Banking Business, J DIRECTORS: Royd Park, President; W. V. Chlsholm, S. F. Walker, Cashier; S. II. Fields, Jr., Assistant Cashier; Wm. II. Mcln-tyr- e, J. IS. Farlow, Geo Mullutt, C. L. Ilannnman, W. 11. Irvine, L. E. liioh, E. B. CritcUlow. CAPITAL. $250,000. SURPLUS, $10.000. American National Bank, SUCCESSOR TO THE BANK OF SALT LAKE. Salt Lake City, - - Utali Territory. Interest Paid on Deositi. JAMES H. BACON President Skc. E. Sk lls T. A. Davis H.M.BACON Vice-Preside- Gov. A. L.Tiiomas M. J. Grai F. L. HOLLAND Cashier S. M. Jakvis D. O. Ti'Nvicmfv W.B. HOLLAND. ...Assistant Cashier J. W. Jldd i'. y. Kosi C. F. LoOFBOt'ROW. QTAH RATIONAL g'ANK.. Of Salt Lake City, Utah. CAPITAL - - - - $200,000.00. X3i2Xx:cn,ortS: J. M. Stout, President; A. B. Jones, t'asiuer; Iloliyer Roberts C W Lt-- man, Boyd Park, P. L. Williams, Alexander Rogers, Jos. A Jennings W l- - ,1HY;.i'ir- - K' Wr'".V"r- - Thomas Carter. J. A. Gro9sbeck, Win. F. Co'lton.' PS A. L. Williams, U. Lyon, fc. C. twin?, Jos. Baumgarten, W, . Jos. M. Stoutt. Russell I Capital, Fally Paid . . $400,000 ( SURPLUS, $30,000, Union ilal Bant Successor to Walker Bro.. Hankers. KutabA. lished, 18M. X UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY, Transacts a Ganeral Banking Business Sale Deposit Vaults, Flro and Hurglar l'roof. J. R. WALKED President M WAU.ER vlee'-- l re. nl M. J.I HLKSMAV Ax'st.mt'rash'5 J. it. Jr Assl t int Cashl I FRANK KNOX, ft. h. 0. KARRICK, V. P'r J. A. EARLti. Caitutr. The National Ml of He Replc. Capital, $500,000. Fully Paid Up. 47 MAIN eTRKifiT. Transact a general banking business. Money loaned on favorable- terms. Accounts oX merchants, Individuals, flrma aud corporations solicited. Flva pr cent In erent pld on savings aud time deposits. DIKECTOKS, L. C. Karrtck G. 8. Holmes Km1l Kuan J. A. Earls W. E. Snisdley O o A Low frank Knox II. L, A Culmer J. O. Sutherland. Ms, Fargo & Co.'s SALT LAKE CITY, . . . UTAH. Muys and sells exehancs, makes tele (rraphie, transfers on the principal c.tlen of the United Htaie and Europe, and uu all points on t.'ia ttlc Coast. Issues lett-- n of ere lit available in the prin-cipal e t es of the world. Bpectil attention given to the selling of ores and bullion. Advances made on coojltrnmeuts at lowest rates. Particular attention (riven to collections throughout Ui ah. Nevada and a.ij dn 11 ter-ritories. Accounts solicited. COR RESPONDENTS: Wells. FarKoACi .....Lonlon WeilH. Far o 4 Co New York Maverick Nat onal Bank Hoaton Kir-- t National Hank Omaha First National Bank rienver Merchants' NaMona1 Hank Chic.tifo Poatmen s National Bank St. Louis Wells, Fargo & Co San Francises J. E. DOOLY, - - Agent Lombard Invdnicnt Co. ore ' Kansas City, Boston, Missouri. Jkisu. Branch Office for Utah and Soufhsni idaTia. COTwar.ti2s,.,huMts:8t','' W.H.DALE Manager. bXF&IS?" oa Farm and Clty p'wt at PaciSe States SavingJioan & Building Authorised Capital, fJJB.ooo.OOO g,,.,. Cisco, California. JOHN C. BOBIfiSOH, BTiAL Office E. 2nd South, Salt Like City. Banking Department OlahTitle, l is. & Trust Co. - Pald-n- p Capital $150,000 Surplus $10,003 Pays!) per cent imprest oo time Ueiiomts-(wt- as Trustee, Guardian, Administrator aii txecutor; UansactA frenemi trust busiest Insures real entato titles; Itisnrauce teeoot.-- , ail charges for attorneys and abstracts. STO KBOI.IJRIW, Bankers J. E. Dooly, T. H. Jones, L. S. Hilts M. H. Walker, W. 8. MnCJornlck. K. A. Smith 11. T. Duke, Jostah Harrett, Hyde 8. Youna M B. PenderKast, T. A. Kent, W. T, Lynn, I' r! Walker. VapitaUtin B. C. Chambers, Kelsey A Oltbs-r,l- e, Jamee Sharp. John J. Daly, K. Molntojh. Bi. L. Thomas, (fovernor of Utah. . HtrchanttT. H. Auerbacb, T. O. Webber, Hugh Andareon, W. H. Kowe, A. W. Carlson, 8. II. Auerbach, W. F. Colton, James Audsr-so- n. ' Lawn John A. Marshall, Wm. C. HaU, gUmtocmrnte gALT JjAKE rpiiEArlai! CBAE. 8. BURTON, Manager. TWO ITIGXiTS TWO Commencing Friday, March 20. Saturday Matinee First time in Salt Lake City of H O Y T ' S f-- SATIRICAL COMEDY, pf XAS STEJ1 YAS-A.s- Tr TTn A Ptudvof Political anrl Sim tal Development J' by the Author of XI "A MMiiijrlit Hell." "A Trip to Chinatown," '.V llrass Monkey," i:tf. ONLY MATIXKK SATTKOAY! "Lets Go Round and Seethe President." tr-Bo-x Offlee opens Thursday morning. Pop-ular Price. WOXDKKLAN1), Second fouth Next to Cullen. I h. S V'KCTT, cnl I J J. E. SACKETT, Wm. Lawijck, r roprs-- Agent. ALL THIS WEEK MONSTEK PKO ii'AMME DEAVES- MARINETTKS. A C imedy and Nnveltv Show; the Clown and the Krog. the Bidder and the Fiy, and i.rk 'V wit i his Cans. HILLY YOUNG, in new Kongn. --TAYLOR. THE WONDERFUL," CHAS. DIAMOND, In a repertolra. THACMA. tho livina half lady, a wondrous Illusion. THEGLEASONS in a medley. COL. COOPKR, THK til ANT. THE WAX FKiURKR. HARNEY NELSON, the urmlos. Friday Ladiee' Souvenir Day. Saturday Cflllureno Day. " WoBtUtiaml Open from 1 to 10:3 P.M. ADMISSION, 10c. TJ T --A. U Ccmnorcial Savings Bank OF SALT LAKECITT. Capital $200,001 Surplus Fund 25,00j GENERAL BANXINS BUSINESS. Five per cent Interest paid on savings depos- it a. Loans on Heal Estate. No. 32 and St E. 1st South, Salt Lilcs City McCornick&Co. BANKERS. Salt Lake City, - - Utau. Careful Attention Given to the Sale of O.es and Bullion. We Solicit Consignments, Guaranteeing Highest Market Price. Colle:tlois Hale at Lowest Rates. Active accounts Solicited. CORRESPONDENTS: New York Imp. and Trad. National Dank, Chemleal Natlouul Darilc. Kountze Bros, tthl-cuk- Commercial National Hank. San Fran-cisco First Nanonal Dank, uroeker- - Wood-wor- th National Bank. Omaha Omaha Na-tional Bank. St Loui-e- Slate Hank of hU Louis Kansas City National Hank of Kan-sas City. Henrer Denver National Dank, City National Hank. London. Kng-Lao-d Maasra. uutla ft Ca 33 Lomhurd St. Capital, Fully Paid $300,000 Surplus 30,000 Comrcial laticnal Bank OF SALT LAKE C'TY. General Banking in all its Draneliei. Issues rert firatjs of deposit payable on de-mand, beam g iuternst if left a specltle I time Hells drafts and Bills of ei. h mice on all priu. clpal cities in the United States and Europe. Obo. M. Downey ....President W. P. Nout.K Vii Thoh. Mahsh-u- Snd Vice Prenl lent John W. Donnki.i.an Cashier DiHK'l-nBs-iF- H. Auerbach. John J. Dalv O. J. Ssillsbury. Moylati (J. Fox. Frank H. Dyer. Thomas Marshall. VV. P. Noble, Geors M. Downey. John W. Donmtllan. LINCOLN'S HOUSE. Aad Ills Old Chum. On meet In the Capi-tal of Illinois. Oath's Bprliiglleld Letter. In tho town of .Springfield is Mr. Lincoln'! house, rather thinnish, ob-long, of clapboards, with a back build-ing right at the corner of a street, the corner upheld by a brick wall where earth is filled in to give the terraco a height. No dormers aro in the blank roof of this house, which might have cost ,000 in its day. There Linooln matured his campaign against Douglas, I suppose; at least he received there news of his nomination. The state has purchased thu house ami keeps a custo-dian in it, who shows the rooms morn-ing and afternoon, but not at dinner time, and as I arrived at the dinner hour I stopped at the front stops. Over the door is tho sign "Liucoln's House;" tho carriage block of stono says ''Lin-coln Homestead." A good many persons live in Spring-field who were intimate with Lincoln, and among them that blue-haire- Diogenes, Herndon, who, not having been raised by a contemporaneous age and posterity" to Mr. Lincoln's pedestal has been industriously proving through the aid of Kentucky letters that Mr. Lincoln's mother had no marriage cer-tificate, etc. Indeed one can go to this biographer and almost soe the kind of brood that Lincoln was of when ho was a south Indiana boy. The assistant to Mr. Herndon in getting up much of this pious biography has been the son of one of I5uchaniin's cabinet minis-ters, who thought it incumbent upon tha age his father served to show Mr. Lincoln up in the least inviting light. Thus, while one set of resurrectionists is tussling for the bones of thu great man, another set is tussling for his poor and ordinary antecedents; and both bones aud antecedents are equally uuimportant to those who know that oportunity is fame and that even tho Christian era was-- perhaps due to the humiliation of the Jewand the exten-sion of their provincialism to the larger concerns of mankind by the accident of the Roman conquest. The Jew, so to speak, had beeii taken into the Ameri-can union of that day, aud his mind was pointing toward Washington, oth-erwise ltorue. In his pristine condition he had no right to give general maxims since his gospel was for himself and the posterity of Israel, but having been raised from his territorial condition to become a citizen of the world by the help of Ciesar, he thought it incumbent upon him to teach the world how it should live ami moye and havo its be-ing. Some of the streets of Spring-field, which are generally wide, are pretty, though the tearing 'down of the cemetery fences which inclosed the houses let those houses stand out in thu light of grass aud liberty. Among such houses I noticed that "of Malcolm Hay, a lawyer and close friend of Lin-coi-the undo of Colonel John Hay of Washington. Old chums of Mr. Lincoln remain who tell curious stories upon him. He was a good (leal hen pecked, aud on one occasion a distinguished party came from the east and was invited home by Lincoln, who had become the presiden-tial nominee. The mailame at home said she had been bothered enough by these people and that she was not go-ing to get up any dinner. Lincoln felt humiliated, nnd yet he knew the hard typo of woman he had to deal with. Ho had a friend intown who was well-to-d- o and had a good house, and to him he related bis disability. "Never mind," said this rich man, who was a sort of Joseph of Arirnathca, not to-ward the corpse, but toward the man; "you come around to my holme aud in-vite three or four friends, if you want to, and you can just say that "for priv-acy and to get away from the crowd, you have brought them into a little nook of your own." The dinner was there given and the host related the circumstance to a prominent railroad man in Kansas, who told mo tho same but yesterday. My informant also said that among tho curious letters his friend had at ispringlield was one from Carl Si'hurz, who was in want of a now political job, and Mr Lincoln was advised to find some nllice for him and have paci-fication. Mr. Lincoln's reply was in something like the following iauguagn: "Tho trouble is to find a place for the man when no place seeks the man." Mr. Lincoln bids fair to go into the list of legendary characters in tho course of time since tho pharisee in huruau nature is so undying that wo refuse to take our hero from tho dust of the earth, as (iod is said to have made him. We in-sist upon endowing him after he has become famous with all the social charms and tiie niceties of conversation. We waut to polish him up, wipe his face, wipe his conversation and sternly stand by the fact that his grandmother never danced a hornpipo before a pine wood fire, but that, on the contrary, she was reading the history of Queen Klliibeth and switching the (lies oil' with a brush of peacock's feathers. The age of decoration has left Lincoln far behind. Ho has no place at the bargain counter. Now and then some person will ask why all this apology for the horo of an importunity, who was like great body of his fellow citizetis, of poor and du-bious extraction, but who learned from the command of his fellow citizens and the institutions of liberty that to do right is the highest law. We are iu .danger, however, of doing justice on another side, ami a person in Kansas said to me, with the best intentions, that ho hoped it would be proved that Lincoln was not the sou of Thomas Lincoln, bnt of some Mr. Hardin or other iu Kentucky. Who knows ' ': that tho social assumption of Mrs. L.n-col-brought her husband half way on-ward toward that amount of behavior which in the end fitted him so well? Socrates was the Lincoln rff antiquity, and yet his wife was Xantippe. Since Senator To w Kit of Montana antagonized silver in congress ho reads the handwriting on tho wall and to avert his doom, if possible, he slights no opportunity to pose as "one of tho most ardent silver men." He took pains to havo that sentenco embodied in an interview with himself in New York and wired all over the country. His record, however, belies his words, "it will not do for three silver-producin-states to attempt to dictate tho financial policy of tho whole coun-try," tha senator is quoted as saying. Mr. Pow Kit's memory is very bail if he has already forgotten that tho members of at least twenty-liv- stales voted for free coinage in tho senate and that the same proportion of representatives in the lower house of congress would have acted In thu samo way if left to its own judgment. In trying to extricate himself from a disagreeablo position, into which he deliberately placed himself in opposition to his con-stituents, tho Montana senator blun-ders more than cer. The verdict in the case of the Rev-erend Hdwaicii M acijkl' Aiilf for her-- ' esy, announced yesterday, is a mild one. A preacher who persists in pros tituting his church by inveighing against it, deserves to be summarily dealt w ith. aESIVAI.8 ANDOL0CE OF MAILS. S helnleof arrival nnd closing of mails at t ilt I.alteCltv Y atoftao, Nor.KSi: MAII.3. CLOSE. t'n'on l'aelfle- -E t. al- North to Italen. loi Kl.ter, 'ollinnt. n ami R,. uran'ii' W'i.'fii-Atiam- le Mall .'.Sl P.JU B.Ul. feii.n I'alhe-- ' I.ou.l Mali Kast.alao N irth o Lou and lutermeJlm e x m BloBda'we'it-ra-Ma- f'or'6'g- - den V'm- - Ciil m lJaeifle-M- ail for hlnho. Moo- - .ma ai.d I'cirtlacd, ftlso to San Haaelsco T:0 Pm ; Ulo oruiide Western-Denv- er and Aspen Mall V ,:ft" ,1, tnion Paeltio-Par- le City. Coaivllle ati.t Kclio ':3 TJnton Hacltle. Frlco, Mtlford aad Ititermed'ate t'oints W a.m. Vnloti nr. Stockton and Inter-- medti.to Points T:TO a.m. tiKoii arliie- - E'arlt City, Mill free!, and Local m- Eloi,rri,ie Weptorn tlinghara .... T:2S a.m. maTL3T arrTvb. TT P.- - Eaitern Fs ft:n a.m. T. P. Park Cltv snd Cm he Va'.lev 10 to a ni. V. ' Idaho. Montana and Oregon. 6:10 p m. Vi. P. rrlsco.Mllford and allpoinU North - : p m' C. :I5 p m. X. (J. Mail 4:30 p.m. It. '(. W Krpress 1:60 a.m. K. a. 6. an p.m. V. O-.- Park Citv. Mill Oreelc. Bto... 4:30 p.m. k. li. W Calllorulaaud Wet 4 90 a.m. OFFICE HOURS" OPEN. CLOSK. Money Order Window.... B IO am 4:00 p.m. ,eg!Htei- Window :00 a m. (:U0 p.uk (. Window 8:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m. Carrara' Window (except Sunday) 8:00 a.m. T:CO p.m. SUNDAY HOfllS. OPEN. CLOSE. Cerri DItary and Stamp window 11 :no .m. l:on p m tarrli-rs- ' Window ia:i) m. I :U p.in' I. A. PKNTO.V, P. M Fit DAY MARCH. .'O, 1HIM. Metmoniblit Htgn. Tiie s'lftly-plpin- green-hacke- toads, Tlie di'ep'nlng mud in country roads, Klietimatl.- twlnires in our joints, A shiver that to a(ii;' points. Way binnetn oru by Hpriuhtly laswes. Hot wh s.tvs side tr'tc'rf'd by tlieiiiusse.. An Incn-a- in tiie sao. .f beer, A 'I her note from chante-leer- A hunting 'round Tor bet r Hats, More niuMc from the backyard cats, A heart una.' from a (unit wellini-- , Tlie iilo buds wit h green nap swelling, A tab h of Jersey inaplu randy. This verelut -- isn't it a dandy All Hung", lu Nhort. from far and near, Proclaim t'uofact that sintig is here' New York Sun. MKIll'liA.NT LICKVSK. In his annual report to the mayor and council Treasurer Wai.ddn advocated the abolishing of the merchants license. His reasons for this change were fully set forth, and the council w ill do well to carefully weigh them. Further, L'D'J merchants of the city have endorsed his recommendation by petition to the council; tho entire press of the city re-gardless of politics has approved of it, and the chamber of commerce volun-tarily communicated to the council its hearty endorsement. In other words, an informal demand has been made by tho people upon the council to re-lievo our merchants of this unfair tax upon their enterprise'. I'nforlunately, few members of tho council are merch-ants, and consequently they are ill pre-pared to appreciate tho leel'mg in this mailer. While other inequalities may yet ex-ist in tho matter of city license, nil of which aro susceptible to adjustment as time rolls on, it is ovidctit the treasurer has taken up the greater evils, nnd de-sires that they should take precedence in the action of the council. In reach-ing out for trade Salt Lake's competit-ors are Missouri river cities Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis aud Denver, none of w hich charge a merchant's li-cense. Our merchants today are pay-ing a double tax. Tho principle is neither democratic uor republican, liberal nor mormon. Tr.o sys-tem was instituted by our city fathers in the primeval days of yore. aud should be abolished now, as times have changed. With the light, before us we believe thu treasurer's position is unassailable, and in tho interest of progress. If the council wills otherwise, if it insists that our merchants shall still bo placed under this unfair discrimina-tion, it should vouchsafe us a reason therefor, a reason at once terse and convincing, and fully borne out by fact3. THE FUNERAL JUNKET. There are some public abuses that constantly ereat scandal and are only curable when the scandal becomes so great as to shock the entire public into a demand for their abatement. The e pensive and entirely unless junketing indulged in under the guise of a funer-al excursion when a senator or con-gressman dies is one of these. The fun-eral of Senator He?.rt has created a scandal of this kind which promises to causo a revolution that will wipe out the congressional funeral abuse. Philadelphia Times. The scandal over tho Hearst funeral is in keeping with the record. When a senator or member of Congress dies there are always enough disreputables among the survivors to attempt to make his deatli an excuse for disgraco- - ful enjoy men tat public expense over thu corpse." Tho theory of the practice seems to be that tho death of one con-gressman ought to make a picnic for the rest. St. Louis Republic. Senator Stanford showed a just in-dignation when he refused to let his car be attached to tho funeral train of the late Senator Hearst, tilled with a party of poker-playing- , wine drinking junk-eters, who somehow had got free trans-portation to California on the plea of aecompanviug as a funeral party the remains of California's dead senator. Boston Traveller. The refusal of Senator Stanford to al-low his car to be alt ached to the Hearst funeral tjain seems to have brought the scandalous junket to public notice in so marked a w ay as to lead to the hope that it will be the last of these public funerals that will bo turned into a pleasure excursion at tho government expense. Philadelphia Ledger. The Washington dispatches say that tho Hearst funeral committee in its seven or eight Pullman cars is having a particular "high" time in performing its duties. The party is unusually largo and it is very clear that some of its members are intending to make the most of a free ride across tho continent. l!o-to- n Kecord. It was unfortunate for the plans of these goulish statesmen that the widow of the senator should have heard of their intention to to convert a funeral into a pleasure jaunt, for the result was that Senator Stanford declined to ac-company the partv, while the list of ex-cursionists were materially reduced. Kansas City Journal. It is to tho junketing feature of these trips that the people object, and they will continue to criticize as long as the custom is observed, as at present. Re-spect for the deait is eoitirnedablc but turning a funeral journey into a pleas-ure trip is quite another matter. -- Utioa Herald. At every meeting of tho school beard R complaint of overcrowded schools is filed. The new school houses cannot be built too soon. WICCINS. Wiggins, the weather prophet, pro-phesies that a great storm is about to sweep the earth. Wiggins always makes this prophecy on the eve of tho regular equinoctial blow. Memphis Avalanche-Appea- l. Weather Prophet Wiggins declares (bat we are to have somo more bad weather yet. What Wiggins don't know about the weather is enough to make Genoral Greeiy green with envy. Philadelphia Call. Professor Wiggins' assurance that there will be no great earthquakes un-til 1U04 has calmed the minds of the people of North America. If Wiggins doseu't know the condition of the earth's bowels, who does? Louisvillo Courier-Jo-urnal. Professor Wiggins has predicted a general earthquake in 11104. It issuppos-e-d to have something to do with the de clination of Jupiter, but as 1901 will be presidential year it may be caused by another declination from Mr. Blaine. Kansas City Star. Si'HOitiuv.VTK private hobbies to pub-lic demands, gentlemen of the city council, and the joint public building will crown your efforts. Odtu'.N feeU complimented to havo Salt Lake 1,'ity nlway i hold'.ntt up tho example of this city as a worthy one to be Imitated This from the Commercial and that, too, after the recent municipal election, sounds ominous. Thk argument in The Timk.s yester- - day with regard to the new site for the joint public building will bear careful consideration. If tlie council can unite ' ' on the Eighth ward square so as to in- - aure speedy work, it will kill a whole flock of birds with one stone. Malsionlar's Band. Court Journal. A mould has been taken off Meis-sotiier'- hand. It was beautifully formed, delicate and small, and it has been said that he often painted before strangers to lot them see it. Every morning he paid particular attention to its toilette. A manicure was often engaged to shampoo both bands care-fully, exercise the different muscles and keep them from stiffening. The painter was most careful to preserve the tactile sensibility of his lingers, and always wore thick gloves traveling, riding or driving. He said that his fingers wero so sensitive that he could with his eyes shut lay on the exact amount of color that lie wanted on a given spot if some-body placed the point of the brush upon it. While Kditor DkY'oi-n- discreetly withdrew from tho senalorial fight in California he succeeded at least in the leading candidate, Ktee. ami ellecting his own man Fki.ton. As a preliminary in the senatorial contest In issi:j this is quite a victory for the editor. - Jav Cori.D has a forcible way of ex-pressing himself. In an interview on the preference of surface over tunnel rapid transit, he said that people do not care "to go underground before their time." Still the big town believes the time for an underground railroad to be on hand. Only Wh n John I., Is Gone. Philadelphia T nies. II. is only when John L. Sullivan is away from Boston that General Butler bobs up to the surface to talk about war inns. 'THOMAS NUT IN IT." Tho Herald gloats over the fact that Governor Thomas is not included in tho board created by a late congres-sional act to make a reapportionment of I'tah. At the risk of dampening the enthusiasm of our negative contempo-rary we desire to say that the governor did not wish to bo "in it." lie went to Washington to urge the reapportion-ment bill, no matter who were to be the executors of it, while all the time Delegate Caine iusUted he was there to promote the tji'itt t.i.e bill. When linally our misrepresentativo d his mistake ho at ouco opened war upon the governor in the hopo of defeating tho measure which the latter sponsored. Governor Thomas was quite willing to sacrifice his place on the board for the sake of saving the bill. Indeed, he preferred not to be "in it" from tho first and he would as lief have assigned the duty to the supreme court as to any other body. The main thing was to get the reapportionment made, and made fairly, realizing as he dues, and as all people do, that it is ono of the most salutary steps in the progress of this territory. The mistake of as-serting that tho governor was one of the board occurred through a mislead-ing dispatch from an usually well in-formed correspondent. It will be com-ical, however, to note the contortions of the organs which ins'sted that the membership of the governor was the one danger to a fair apportionment. What will they say now since t'ney dis-covered that "Thomas isnotiu it?" What a piece of demagogy on the part of the Nebraska grangers that was to walk up to the speaker's chair and destroy their passes! If these legislators are so vehemently opposed to accepting these favors, how is it they waited for the passage of an anti-pas- s law before they rejected them? A wrong is not right because it is not legislated against; and if the fanners really believe a rail-road pass is a bribe they were all guilty of bribij taking. This exhibition of righteous indignation at tho issuance of pusses near the close of tho session would bo funny were it not con-temptible. A contemporary shows that the high prices for farm products now obtained and the higher prices in prospect offer more encouragement to agricultural pursuits than they have had for years. The condition of affairs in the west, too, 5s very favorable for agricultural expan-sion. At its last session congress ap-propriated more than $!l,000,(il( to ex-tinguish the Indian titles in land and open the same to white settlement. Ok-lahoma will have more, than 5,000,000 ncres added to it, most of which js good farming land with a pleasant and healthful climate, which can bo bought and settled under the hmtestead and townsite laws for the usual fees required by law and from $1.'." to $1.50 per aer in addition. la the states ' of Norlh Dakota and South Da kota, there is a million acres or fo about the Sisseton and Wahpeton reservations that viill be on tho market at 2.5D per aero. In North Dakota about the Gros Ventres and Maudan reservations there will be more than fiO.000 acres and in Montana about tho Crow reservation about (100,000 for J 1.50 an acre. About the C'u'ur d'Alene res-ervation in Montana there will be more an 300.0(H) tit the same price. In Utah, too, the better proceeds from farm products should stimulate, the in-dustry which is still in a state of primi-tive cultivation and subject to immense improvement. A better year for Hmkm k Gheki.kv's advice than the present does not often occur. Hood, cheap land in abundance is to be got aud high prices for the products of the land for several years to couiu ieem to Lu assured f.lv Itftts Six lliindrsd Feet l.'ndar Uround. St. Louis Kepublte. When workmen were drilling the ar-tesian well at Centerville, Iowa, they tapped a subtcranean passage which seemed to bo completely tilled with bats, uot dead or petrified bats, but those of the real live kind; thia at a depth of nearly six hundred feet below the surface. Twenty-fiv- or thirty of them were brought out alive aud well. They seemed to lie of tho common gray species, but were much larger. Klnirtailedi Monkey In the Everglades. Tampa Cor. Florida Tlmo-Unlon- . Jark Kobnaon, of r t. Meaile, has boon down in the Everglades since last Oct-ober surveying. Due ilay, not long since, he captured a genuine South American rinptailed monkey in the top of a high tree dow n therts. The Indians have known these monkeys to be there, for the last tifty year, ft is supposed that a vessel from South America was wrecked on the coat. and that some of the monkeys aboard escaped to the where they have thrived for half a century. Boston's New Fad. Re Chester Post Express. Boston literary people have a bad at-tack of the Chinese fad just now. They had a Chine', play some time ago, ami one night last week ate a dinner in a Chinese restaurant. The menu was: 1. (teal. 'J. Xin Wov (Jong (bird's nest soupl. 8. Look (Jtiot Ton Ap (boned duck). 4. (ii Took Chi (sturgeon wing). 5. Look Quot Ci (boned duck). Moy Qua Ton (rose wine). 0. Chow (.'hop Sui (fried stew). 7. Gui (low (lish belly). Toug Moy Taon (apricot wine). 8. Chow Cai 1'eu (fried stew and slice chicken I. 0. (rice). 10. Char Tau Tonjt Soo (tea nnd cake). The next developement in the fad series will be awaited with interest. A Mail's Idea of an A proa. Ilah'H Letter. As for the apron tho average man knows he likes it, and yet he can't tell just why. lie says, very vaguely: "Well, you know, it's white ami has such cunning pockets, and the strings tie so prettily about the waist; and then, don't you know, it's so essentially womanly. The fellow who looks at it always thinks to himself that girl knows something about making a home and he can imagine her with an apron on walking around in the morning and Feeing that her household is the order." j In the apron is the very esseuce of co- - toiletry. J, American Industries Acrotg the Water. Jluai;o Mali. 'The campaign lie Is now working over-tim- e in Canada. |