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Show ABOUT TOWN HENRY M. STANLEY, whoso death ha3 Just been announced, Hko innny other of tho great men of the world's history, wan hampered by a clouded birth. Ono of Salt Lake's best-known citizens, a native of Wales, was reared near tho place whorn tho great explorer was bom. Othor Salt Lake" know, too, of Stanley's illegitimacy 1I0 was born in a workhouse at Di-nblgn, Wales, and his proper name Is John Rowlands. Row-lands. The Welsh workhouse corresponds to the poor asylums of this country. In 1SSC. when the explorer was hero on a lecture tour, a citizen of Salt Lake Indiscreet Indis-creet but honest, and now dead, approached ap-proached Stanley, and bclntf Introduced, declared that he had known his . Stanley Is said to havo turned from tho speaker and directed his attention to another an-other group of cnMors. When Secretary of State Storms t of Indiana In-diana returns to Salt Lake during tho summer. Secretary Hammond I has promised prom-ised to show him ono of the choice trout streams of the Stnte. J c H is not generally known, but It is nev-erthelosfi nev-erthelosfi the fact, that the father to County Clerk John Jn"10?.,0"':,,,,1-,1 mombors of tho famous "Light BrlK: tho "Noblo Six Hundred." whoso deeds havo become such a conspicuous part of the history of tho world's great armies Mr James was wounded ln the famous charge m d hls son now has a medal granted the father by his government. Judge Parker, the very excellent e tlcrnan whom 13 W mmnulled to scalp In a few montns u mo DeSatsTlace him on tho ticket cla Ims that ho was born at Worcester. Mass. his mother says he was bom at Cortland. N. v qinee the Judge was very young at ie uSo It is presumed that his mother s Element will havo tho greater welglU in splto of the fact that most every ono has pnascd through tho annual oprlng houflc-cJeanlng, tho courtroom of City Judgo Dh;hl continues to waull Hko a monkcy-cago. Tho Judgo rdiould declare tho old place a nuisance and turn It over lo tho sanitary officer. Ho could hold a fow cases on tho street until tho placo could bo fumigated. It might not be considered con-sidered at all dignified, but an "open air" court would bo a novelty, to say the least. "Spring-fries will be scarce this year." This Is tho opinion of a poultry dealer, and he gives the weather as a rcuaon for tho flhortagc. llo sayx that tho prolonged winter, tho many rains and nnowa, and tho thundor siorrss contributed; to retard tho raising of chickens. Many a young chick died rum disease superinduced by tho damp weather, and tho thunders spoiled thousands of eggs aftor they had been placed with tho hrns or In tho Incubators. Incu-bators. Decoration day Is but a few weeks off. and. as will alwaya be the caso, a fow persons per-sons arc looking forward to that dato as a time when tho most patriotic mcinorlcfl aro awakened. But with the general public, pub-lic, tho day has degenerated Into a holiday, holi-day, when basoball, pastlmoB and Idleness predomlnata Tho placing of fiowcrs on graves of the Nation's dead, participation In parades and oratory aro but Incldcntn of tho day. The now generation falls to appreciate tho full purposo of tho occasion. occa-sion. Fishing oxcurslons. picnics, lawn fetes and the like attract thousands to the hundreds that attend tho regular Decoration Decora-tion day services It Is not a lack of patriotism that has brought this about, doubtless, but it is a lack of appreciation for the sacrifices and struggles of the men and women of tho great war days. Yet It is none tho less regrettable. re-grettable. Possibly tho tlmo will como when Decoration Deco-ration dav will be but a memory. The lessening les-sening of Interest year by year Is most notlcenble. How tho good old hearts of the war-Bur-vlvors and the war mothers would be qulckoncd If the people would suspond business and pleasure again and participate partici-pate earnestly ln an old-time observance of tho Nation's great day of mourning! And every one should. La It Is a matter of wonder that the moralists moral-ists of Utah have not tumbled to tho fact that It usually requires a day or two longer to Impanel a jury to try a murderer than It does to try the case. Thcro la ccr-tnlnly ccr-tnlnly something ln this to think about. U ft 9 Democrats and Republicans of the Third Judicial district will nominato their candidates can-didates on the same date. In this particular particu-lar they havo an even start. But It Is tho quality of tho running stock that will count. Republicans claim that theirs aro all derby winners. Democrats fear they aro handicapped. It's oven money that thcro will bo a mix-up. "There Is ono thing I Hko about Salt Lake girls," said a visitor from Now York. "They don't iunter Into a restaurant restau-rant like the glrla you see In New York, with that trailing air of 'Now I'm hero I might as well cat, though I could Just as well do without." Not much. The damsels dam-sels in this town walk In as If they meant business, and when they Atart to order they don't let you forget It. As far as tho eating goes. It's the same anywhere, but 1 like to seo candor " |