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Show "'"'TRUTHS Re getting ready to write it 1908. Girls leap year will be here in a few days, but' don't say wc told you. ' The new senator from Florida is William J. Bryan. However, lie is not the other Bryan, no relation. It transpires thai Japan is not afraid of our fleet going to the Paci- f' fie after all, and never was. So long as she continues in that frame of mind she never needs to be. . . . The underwriters of fire insurance want Former Chief Bywater to be chief of the fire department. On that ' condition the insurance men will reduce re-duce the rates for fire insurance. That is a great compliment to Mr. By-water. By-water. That old-time and all along dealer in trinkets and trifles, Santa Claus, ias usual did a bigger business than any similar establishment in the country and took in less for it. But he never complains and continues business right along year af'er year, on 'he same terms. The Skclton Publishing Co. has issued is-sued . in advance of the Compiled Laws, those portions of them relating relat-ing to Juvenile Courts and Corporations, Corpora-tions, in separate pamphlets, properly proper-ly indexed and conveniently arranged. arrang-ed. It will be quite a handy thing t for those concerned, which means pretty much everybody. v Admiral Fighting Bob Evans of Utah, in supreme command of the American armada headed for the Pacific, Pa-cific, is booked for. so many receptions, recep-tions, official and personal, that he is likely to forget that his charges are fighting machines' and come to the conclusion " that they are pleasure craft 'out on' an errand of time-killing and fun-making. Better that than what many people have been looking 1 for. Word comes from Chicago that the scarcity of br.rley and a consequent increase in the price of beer will probably have the effect of closing 1,000 saloons in that city. A's a tern-' tern-' perance measure it is now up to Carrie Car-rie Nation and others of her kidney to bury the hatchet or use it upon the - farmers of the country (Kansas in cluded) to cease the growth of grain. On second thoughts, however, this means of closing thirst parlors would , prove ineffective in most of the south ern states which are just at the pres- J ent time experiencing a temperance wave, as the juice of the. corn is the only' drink which goes below the. old Mason and Dixon line. A joyous and prosperous New Year to all hands; and may those who don't deserve it be made to sec the error of their ways and so reform that they will be entitled to it and much more. It is characteristic but not pleasant reading that in New York City on Christmas day, a dozen murders and as many offenses of but little smaller grade were committed. The crime wave always rolls a little higher and further than elsewhere in the country; coun-try; but why it should make such an extra effort on Christmas is unexplained. www Fred C. Richmond, for many years manager of the mining machinery department of the Salt Lake Hardware Hard-ware Company, lias resolved to go into business on his own account and will soon open offices in the Atlas At-las block, and store rooms by the depots. Mr. Richmond's name is .1 sufficient guarantee for anything h does. Mayor Bransford did well in vetoing veto-ing the ordinance for an advance of salaries of a few of the city officials. Just why the city, officials attempted to be benefitted by the ordinance should expect or should be entitlcJ to more remuneration than they arc now receiving is somewhat difficult to imagine. Why the attempt for an increase should be made at this time is even more extraordinary. Talking of "affinities," as the word is now used, did it ever strike you that the peculiar thing about the whole thing is that these affinities are seemingly only found when one of the parties o the affair hive formed other ties. The fact is that the modern mod-ern affinity bears very strong resemblance re-semblance to old fashioned cussed-ness. cussed-ness. A section of the- coming compiled laws reads: "Optometry defined The practice of optometry Is the 'employment 'em-ployment of subjective and objective mechanical- means to determine the accommodative and refractive conditions con-ditions of the eye and the scope of its functions in general and the application appli-cation and adjustment of lenses for the correction of errors of refraction, etc." What is needed now is something some-thing to define the definition. The reports from Goldfield regarding regard-ing the labor situation and the chances of rioting and destruction of property are so conflicting that at this distance it is next to impossible to arrive at a definite opinion as to the real facts. Wc don't, however, think it would hurt anybody for the Federal troops to Yemain there for a white Ionger,-just for the purpose' of maintaining law and order and the dignity of the United States. Truth misses none of its friends from their customary walks in life, which is by no means the least of its pleasurable feelings during this holiday holi-day period. 4 The acquittal of Fred C. Walker from the charge of murdering of Dr. Beers was quite a victory for W. R. Hutchinson, the attorney for Walker. Mr. Hutchinson handled the case with a great deal of skill from start to finish and brought out his client all right. He has received many congratulations con-gratulations from his friends 'both in the legal profession and in other walks of life. m The Mt. Pleasant Pyramid indulges in the following pardonable crow: "Mt. Pleasant, the best town in North Sanpete; North Sanpete, the best county in Utah; Utah, the best state in the United States; The United Unit-ed States nothing on earth to compare com-pare with it." Why "North Sanpete?" If there were any isuch country the expression would be all right, but as it is the distinctive dis-tinctive term spoils the run of an otherwise pretty paragraph. Occasionally a whisper oozes forth from those who talk politics on the street regarding who is to be put forward for state officers, which is crowding things some, for while wc arc close to the year within which the choice must be made, the date of actual ac-tual or even preliminary choice is a good ways ahead. However, there can be no possible harm in discussing such things, because the more interest inter-est that is taken in the matter of whom the people will have to serve them the better. Even then about three out four on an average are disappointed, dis-appointed, and as to the work of the conventions which place the candidates candi-dates for such servitude in nominations, nomina-tions, the disappointment is greater in a widely extended ratio. However, How-ever, what wc have in the way of such things is the best we can get, and we might as well make the most of it. The Peterson-Frazier, tempest in a teapot candy investigation, is over. Through it all Frazier maintained that Peterson, who is the State food and dairy inspector, had a sweet tooth, and was in the habit of getting get-ting samples from the various manufacturing man-ufacturing confectioners without placing down spot cash for the same. Frazier full of civic indignation demanded de-manded an investigation at the hands of the board of examiners, and the investigation proved, in all cases where the petty transaction was remembered, re-membered, that the sweets had been paid for after all. So it has all turned out all right after all. Frazier Fraz-ier has had his investigation. The state chemist hrs tested the samples. The confectioners have received he cash. There is now only one more thing to say and then eternally keep the peace. Frazier is the city food inspector-and i9 not blessed with any more sense than he absolutely nccdi? |
