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Show I Chairman Elchnor, having been very i elck, now knows how he has made many Democrats feel. ' j , ! It was courteous oC the Japs to wait j until Gen. Kuropatkin could see them i j defeat his soldiers. ' Why not be good this last week of j J Lent, if for nothing more than to en-j en-j Joy an unusual experience? No one could reasonably ask for more 1 kinds of weather in a day than were bestowed on Salt Lake yesterday. J With many mpro good crosswalks laid, sprinkling cart drivers will of course take pains to keep them all nicely nice-ly muddied up. But will the new humane officer re-i re-i member that being a city ofTlcial he 1 must be humane to himself and not work too hard? J "" I Still, the woathcr ivould have to be a good deal worse to make some of our 1 citizens reconciled to the Idea of going Ito Washington to testify. Among the rapid weather transitions .yesterday were some that were certainly certain-ly entitled to be termed, In the language !bf the stage, lightning changes. I Will the postmasters of the State who j j are to meet here next month come pre-( pre-( pared to state why letters do not al-1 al-1 .ways come when they are expected? t Utah postmasters will feed that their ' convention has been worth holding, even if It does not do more than devise de-vise ways of benefiting the postmasters. Even the redoubtable Councilman Fernstrom was willing to go ahead Vrith the transaction of business peacefully, peace-fully, the nomination of his son being before the house. 1 General Miles Is fishing hard for the Democratic nomination for President. Bait the convention Is to be held in the , -wrong time of year for tho gaudy fly he uses. The right bait for July fishing , m Is the grub. ' 1 The coal dealers of Now Yoaw City have formed a combine to raise the price of coal. It seems to be easy to catch that itch, but It Is a curious time of year to have it. The Salt Lake deal- ers were decidedly more seasonable In , their affliction last year. i The friendly feelings of the French i toward the Russian, and their goodjwlll j toward Russian success are not altogether alto-gether sentimental, not yet all Inspired by treaty obligations. Tho French have i $1,15S,000,000 invested In Russian Gov-! Gov-! ernment bands, 5153,000,000 in Russian Industrial establishments and mines, i and enough In other ways tp make a total of $1,3-11, SOO.OOO. A bankupt Russia Rus-sia would therefore be a 'harder blow to French financial affairs than was 1 the enaction made by Bismarck In 1S71. H. W. Furniss, United States Consul Hj at Bahia, Brazil, reports under date of j January 2Slh last, that the State of Bahia, Brazil, is about to organize a school of mines and wishes to arrange for a competent professor of mining. The State will makes a contract for three years to pay the equivalent of from $3000 to $1000 a year as salary, "with free transportation. It will be neces- ; sary that the applicant be a graduate' of some recognized American school of i mines and that he have both a practl-H practl-H cal and theoretical knowledge of mln- H lng. A speaking knowledge of Portu-H1 Portu-H1 I gucso or Spanish is preferred, but lack' B of rmch will be no bar to a Good man. Applications should be addressed to Dr. Miguel Calmon du Pin e Almeida, Sec-B Sec-B retario da Agrlcultura, Industrie, etc., 1 J Bahia, Brazil, or may- be sent to tho 1 Bahia consulate for delivery. ! The break up of the Salt Lake stake 1 Into a number of stake jurisdictions, with the retirement of President Can-non, Can-non, will make a marked change in the church affairs here! The nCw men arc no doubt fit and competent, but many will look back on President Cannon's H administration with regret that It has closed; with them it will be the most B natural thing in the world to go to him yet for instruction and advice. There Is this -to say of him as an administrator administra-tor and counselor of tho people: He has been faithful to his trust as he understood un-derstood It, and firm and consistent In upholding his views and tho interests of the church. He is p. man who, whilo upholding a social system that Is abhorrent ab-horrent to proper sentiment, has won the' respect of, all for his uniform cor-teousncss cor-teousncss and his evident sincerity and manliness. |