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Show Ih It Is not thought the lake will reach I Its highest level ot the season until Pat I' j , People's day. ' , ' Furthermore, Butch Cassldy was too , , proud a man to ever descend to a quiet" ' and honorable life. ' I I i This Republican National convention j J being- tho thirteenth, It will certainly II be an unlucky one, for the Democracy. , l i ( Did the Hon. Fred Dubois forget that ' j ,' he Is a Democrat, and go to the TCepub- j llcan National convention by mistake? Republicans had their Frost yester- jjj ' ! day at the opening of the National ccn- i ' ventlon, and the Democrats will have j'l ' ( theirs on election day. ; j "Will President Lucas be fair enough l . to admit that Salt Lake did good work I v for baseball In putting off ram until I ' after the teams had departed? Y y , 1 Though you cannot hear the speeches t 1 i made In the big convention, local ora- ' ' tors will be around later on delivering ' to you some that they are sure are just 1 ( as good. 'j ',,1 It was a most timely lesson the j, 1 "Weather Bureau gave the sprinkling V V. department yesterday, In showing that . i ! the way to sprinkle streets Is to sprln- kle them, jji Clerks can save the money they would j spend on a mid-week half-hollduy, and some day buy stores of their, own, and thus become opposed to half-holidays themselves. : i ' , i While a number will win, prizes of 4 1 i Salt Lake property on the day of the i real estate men at the lake, many a ( 1 1 i person will lose a little Salt Lake dirt, 'I'll J ! if tho bathing Is good. ' 1 Now that they are not to ba required 1 i !j to go out and seek tiresome recreation i j, Wednesday afternoons, clerks can 1 i spend the time pleasantly and chattily ' showing custohnjrs the goods. ( j y J The selection by Senator Lodge of J " Senator Spooner as one of the sub-committee sub-committee to draft the platform, does ' , not indicate any doubt .that the decl- ' slon of the National Republican com- I mlttee In fa'or of the "stalwart" dele-' dele-' jgation from "Wisconsin will be sus- ' ' I) talned by the convention. 1 I, ' , ' The third public sale of quinine for 1 p this year was held in Batavla, Java, on I I April 16th, when 13,503 pounds were sold at ?3.-12 per pound, as reported li 1 to the Department of Commerce and ' . Labor, by TS. S. Consul B. S, Ralrden. That la quite a contrast with the price quinine brings in this country. ' i A saner view seems to have succeeded i the hysterical one which for a time pre- w ' , ' vatled in regard to the alleged "cormp- 1 r tlon" in the Postqfflce Department, i l,J ' .-Madden was originally one of the , ( "conspirators" who had done something ; H "perfectly awful." But it turns out that ' I 1 he liad done nothing worse than to con- . I form to the usage of the department . ' from the first. There was "nothing in- H, ( j i proper In Mr. Madden's conduct," i I, and the postage stamp specimen book ' gratuitous distribution, anent which so V much fuss was made, had always ' prevailed, though It is "theoretically . 1 wrong from an administrative point of view." That 13 to say, practically there , Is absolutely nothing in the charges i " t made against Third Assistant Post- ' master Madden. And yet there was an 1 i i immense amount of intimation, sus- H, I picion and suggestion of fraud and H' I wrong doing which it la now found did i j not exist ill A Rlchdale (England) engineer is said ' j , 1 to have discovered and sold for 20,- .j ' '(' 000 a process for making a fiber i. ' (. from ramie grass that is -an excellent I I ' r ; subslltutd for cotton. A Mr. J. "W. H ( Ji, . Lodge of Sowcrby Bridge claims that H ' Lm he is able to produce from that grass Hi li i a fiber at considerably less than the H t j price of cotton, which can be had in H,'! ji unlimited quantities and which In HH j ! 1 u'i "purity and intensity of silky whitc- j ( ' ness, in softness and tenacity, .exceed H t' j' I 'anything that can be obtained, in my '' I . opinion, from the best American or Hl 'j , Bg'ptian coton." Mr. Lodge states H I that be has manufactured the H j ) ! grass into cloth, dres goods, ropes for J i ' j! lifting or driving purposes, -and other If ' Articles. The jnatoricU, he pays, Is lil ! if'ir ( capable of being made up into the flncot plush on account of the length and tenacity of its staple. If all this is true, it would seem that the days of cotton's kingship were about over, as that grass can be grown anywhere. But the cbtton planter's -will take heart when they remember re-member tlie many substitutes for cotton which have been found before, but which in the long run did not pan out. . V |