Show I THE EDITO EDITORS EDITOR'S S TABLE TALK OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY FREDERICK FUNSTON N. N A subscriber to The Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram today asking If we ye were not Unnecessarily unnecessarily un Un- necessarily unkind to General Funston in saying that he oweS his present greatness to the press ss We do not think we Ave were T This lis journal has praised him for his splendid splendid splendid did work In capturing Aguinaldo But what would the achievement have profited him but for the t newspapers It Is notorious that the the Adjutant Generals General's Generals General's Gen Gen- eral's department is Is' Is Washington In Intended Intended Intended In- In tended to drop him at at the end of his volunteer service and after arter his feat of arms to rew toward rd him hm im with a a. Captains Captain's Cap CaP- tain's tams commission in the regular army At that point the and correspondents correspondents correspondents corre corre- at the National nal Capital made his cause own and worried and guyed the Wa Into making malting him a a. br ga i r general It Isto is isto isto to be feared that this thu was was not done so much out of admiration Ion of Funston as asto asto asto to seize an opportunity to take a rise out oCt of Root and Funston Is isan all an right In most respects but he makes a mistake In throwing ing ugly rem remarks at the press He 0 ofeS owes eS it too much Cl CHARLESTON AND AND JENKINS JENKINS The The sword nr nephew Phew Tillman wired President Ro Roosevelt Rodsevelt sevelt was was not to tobe tobe tobe be by him presented presented to toMajor Major Jenkins late of the Rough Ri Riders k s was yas s a sixty sixty- dollar affair It is i rusting s ng in a Charleston Charles Charles- ton l bank ank subject t to the the order of the persons who subscribed for it Jenkins declines to touch t t regarding it as assoiled assoiled assoiled soiled with a a. Tillman smirch Another er r r sword has been provided by contributions contributions con con- from people all over the State It has cost fi five e h hundred n red dollars and is something worth talking about The President w will I hand and it o over oer er to toM toMajor toMajor Major M Jor Jenkins In th the presence of the best best elements of or Carolina Carolina society and the Tillmans natural naturally y will be absent They are not and none none of of their kind ever were of the ele elect r In the Palmetto State t THE THE CHIMES OF OF NORMANDY NORMANDY Not many month ago representatives tye tives of French and cosmopolitan Art Ait Drama and IJ Letters met at in Normandy to hear the first ringing of lof the es chimes chime Les de Lune Lune- ville which which had been been beeri presented to the town by a world world full of admirers of of th the beautiful opera opera which the best amateur organization In the United States is to o pres' pres n to the public of Salt Lake City at the Grand Theatre next wJ week ek The tn incident id nt to which we have haye referred sho shows v the tle estimation in which th the work i is held by music lov ers era jn n this al and atIl d other other lands and it is J justly ad admirable r ble if any c com companies corn corn- m- m of professionals rials In the country would be equal to the e production in sense that our Salt Lake Opera company company com corn pany is Nearly the same ladies and gentlemen gentlemen who made thade memorable the OJ recent rendition of Martha be beIn bein In Inthe the cast east We shall miss the sweet voice and remarkable comedy acting of Miss Clar Clark Clarl and Mr name name does appear in the announcement These we may count as a positive loss but the company nevertheless Is a stron strong strona one and we pi predict edict a rare treat for all who attend the performances ESTRADA PALMA On May 20 20 if It he lives live e 1 Senor Tomas Estrada Palma will be inaugurated President nt of the Republic of Cuba and the p pi les le's are that his name willbe will vili willbe be considerably before the American public then and thereafter I It Is on m that account that The rhe Telegram is compelled to assume assum the role of schoolmaster schoolmaster school school- master and to Instruct the American public in Ia respect of the gentleman's name Even so profound a scholar as s Secretary Root seems not to know what It is In a communication the theother theother theother other day h he referred to the Cuban president elect lect g as Senor Palma Now he is not Senor Palma Palms at all He e is Senor Don Tomas Estrada whose mothers mother's maiden name was Palma No Cuban Spaniard or other knowing ving one would think of speaking of him as anything else than Senor Estrada Spaniards and their Lati Latin American American n-American kinsmen always hitch the their r mothers mother's to their fathers father's name name as a matter of identification and generally llY use the conjunctive y which is equivalent to and Thus John Smith y Brown signifies that the person named is John Smith and that his mother was born borna a Brown n But t he would be surprised ed were vere any of of his his his' friends to call him I Brown his patronymic being Smith Let us remember then that the President President resi- resi resident dent of the Cuban Republic will be Senor Estrada and not not by any manner of means Senor Palma J THE EASTER BIRD As Easter approaches it is well welt for or us to think for a moment upon the great benefits laid before us by the ge gentle gentIe and arid industrious biped with feathers whose fruit is so closely identified with the great Christian celebration What should we e do without the noble the venerated hen Where would be the colored Easter egg typical of resurrection resurrection In any hue of the rainbow Where should we find material for the soul-soothing soul egg nog or the resuscitating resuscitating tating Thomas and Jeremiah We I seldom think how much we owe to Biddy Biddy Diddy Bid Did dy of the barn yard for many of the comforts not to say the luxuries of life And then consider consider- her as an in infant in- in infant fant Industry According to the census census census cen- cen sus In 1900 sh she deposited sixteen bil billions bU bil- lions of eggs in the United States estimated estimated esti estl mated to be worth one opo hundred and four forty million dollars If for no other reason then c considered as a capitalist capitalist capitalist cap cap- the hen is entitled to respect and heartfelt admiration |