Show GERMANY AND mm people of europe boast of their civilization and we are want to look upon teem as tending gradually to more democratic notion ignoring the power of royalty bat bow very unstapled un staple the peace of europe heully is was illustrated just week during the visit to pans of Emp iress FREDERICK appears that she went to the gay city to invite french artists to allow their pictures to be sent to berlin for the coming art exhibition and some claimed that she was asked to perform ahe mission by her son the young emperor of in order to work up a better feeling in france toward the waterland terland Va be that as it may the french artists decided they could not patronize the art exhibition and they politely told the empress so in the mean tima the royal lady from berlin blent borne time in paris and concluded she would take a drive to versailles during this drive courtesies were shown hor that displeased the populace and the parisian blood began to boil the press took up the cry against tho royal visitor and there were great fears in the old world that she would be insulted and thereby cause a war so high did the passions of the parisians Pari run that the empress had to be secretly escorted from the city and at the station du nord five hundred policemen gathered to protect her in cr se of mob violence the incident goes to show how easily war could have been begun had thosa hot heated frenchmen insulted the royal visitor war would have boon declared inside of twenty four hours some of these prosperous days the royal etiquette of europe may be ignored and thus precipitate one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the world everything is in readiness for general bloodshed and carnage at short notice J park city miner takes us to t j asar bathe question of railroad connections between provo and that city claiming that a new company is formed for building road and it quotes from the press to substantiate its position we are sorry it has auch utterly unreliable authority since tho miner is frank enough to admit the source of its information we will pardon its mistake this time and would advise tha editor thenceforth to read the ESQUIRES of tho sickness this spring is surroundings alabell ing places see to that your yards are cleaned up and nil decaying matter is carted away THE expulsion of russian jews is still progressing from the city of Novo garod alone families have been expelled many have flocked to england of late and wo here the workingmen clamoring again ff them and ask that further tion bo prevented the friends of the Kussian Jews have been stirred up on account of thi md the noted champn of his writes it is a fiendish invention ip assert that this small portion of the human family can be formidable competitors peti tors in the labor markets of the world they have the same right to live as any people on earth I 1 trust that an international arrangement may be come to by which the jews i of cussia may ba distributed in countries whore they can be taken under the protection of the english the french and the american govera ments precaution should bo taken against high water this season as al ready warning notes reach us from the higher altitudes the snow which has fallen is not packed so well as other years and when it once commences to thaw the water will rush down into the valley with great force and volume ditches should be cleaned out and dams strengthened at the earliest opportunity land owners on the shores of atah lake should protest against the outlet being dammed up to the injury of their property it is better to prevent the evil now than to sue for damages next fall SINCE the recent in the management of the nephi ensign there is a very noticeable improvement in the tone of its references to provo city the individual who formerly controlled that paper took delight in applying to provo such epithets as frog town the village by the shore of mud lake etc he used privately and when away from little chicago to tell people it was who wrote the stuff but it is a noticeable fact that since became principal manager such dirty flings have appeared in the columns of the jension JEn sign SOME of our liberal papers cannot endorse the radical mormon legisla tion in idaho this is what the payson leader says the idaho legislature is rather severe in its treatment odthe Mon rons especially ally so when because a person has in the past helito certain church creeds that it shall bea bar to performing the rights and privileges of citizenship we areef the opinion that such a course is not only unwise but it smacks a little of THE citizens of salt lake are much opposed to of the old fort square as they all should be the present council at the capital have but small regard however for public sentiment as shown by their acts in the past year they feel that they are elected to rule disregard less of the opinion of the great majority tonight to night there will bo an interesting session |