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Show THE INDEPENDENT. "William F. Gibson, - - Editor. . H. Jordan, Bruinee Manager. 1 entered at the Pott Offloe at prlnrrtlle, Utah, for transmission through tbs aula a eosd-olaa matter. Issued Evry Thursday Mornlntr. terms or SCBSCBtrXIOX. One Year $2 00 Six Months 1.00 Throe Months .60 ASH. FOR ADVIRTHWG KATES. THE PERFUMED WOMAN. He (iors Into Kactacle Oyer iler Oenulne. Femininity. "I observe," said a coarse, fcrutal man who doesn't know the difference between 'the higher and nobler' and a load of ash coal, according to the Washington Post, "that the advertising ends of this month's magazines are publishing a testimonial as to the merits mer-its of a certain brand of toilet soap, written by one of the ladies who has been doing her little bit during the last half century toward securing the franchise for woman. Her picture is run in with the ad and her testimonial is surely a heap fulsome tor a voluntary volun-tary contribution. In the course of her remarks she says, 'I abhor a perfumed per-fumed woman.' It is to take a short. Jerky biff at this remark that I emerge from my cave and leap into the fracas. I love a perfumed woman. I think a perfumed woman is the real thing in femininity the daintily perfumed woman, who. when she swishes by you, has something about her that makes you vaguely remember the old honeysuckle covered porch that you knew a quarter of a century ago; who carries with her the suggestion of asphodelian dales and starlit meadows. It isn't particularly because of the elusive, hop-smoky, garden-of-Daphne fragrance that the perfumed woman daintily emits that I think she's the one and only real thing in long draperies. drap-eries. It's because she typifies the feminine fem-inine woman. Gimme a lyre, or a harp, or a fuglehorn, or a kazoo any old thing that I may sing the praises and the glories of the feminine woman! wom-an! She was here in the world's early dawn, and she's going to be right here alongside of us when we're having $2.48 round trip excursions to Mars! It's because she's feminine that she's adorable! It's because every once in awhile she gets her work done early so she can "go upstairs and have a good cry;' it's because she crushes us into pulp with her 'because'; it's because be-cause she admits our premises and denies de-nies our conclusions; it's because she'll begin to purse her lips for baby talk when she sees an infant a block away; "it s because she loves roses and lacey things and only $2 per pound candy; it's because she gives us the reproachful eye when we ought to be sewed up in a blanket and clubbed; it's because she'll dig and delve and scrape and scrap for her husband and her little ones until icy stalactites hang from the roof of Gehenna; it's because she dabs her eyes with a little wad of mouchoir until her nose is red when she sees real human suffering; its just because she's feminine, Bill, and therefore such a derned big sight better than we are, that she had us on the lope and plum loco over her ever since the. days of the Hyksos kings of Egypt! Gimme a lute that I may chant of the physical, mental, moral and spiritual loveliness of the perfumed, who Is also the feminine woman! May she be with us until the grand bust up of all things!" CHINAMEN FEED THEIR DEAD. Curious Custom of the Orientals That Is Observed Tulre a Year. Twice a year, in the first week of April and October, the Chinese feed their dead. They think that once their friends and relatives leave this mortal coil they ought to stay away from this world, and to prevent their return they faithfully transmit to them all the necessaries of life. It has been discovered by oriental wisdom that the way to transmit servants, songs, plays, books and money Is to manufacture manu-facture them in paper and burn them. But actual eatables must be carried to the grave. The Chinese are not stingy, and wagon loads of roasted chickens, pigs, ducks, various sweetmeats sweet-meats and fruits are taken to the cemeteries. cem-eteries. The food is piled before each grave, amid burning red, carrot-shaped candles and joss sticks. Then the living liv-ing prostrate themselves before the dead and beg them to rise up and enjoy en-joy themselves. Chinese wines are then sprinkled liberally over the graves, while some graves receive boxes of cigars and packages of cigarettes. cigar-ettes. But you must not suppose that the eatables are left on the graves. Oh, no! That would be throwing too much temptation in the way of heathen hea-then tramps. In about two hours it is believed that the ghosts got the essence es-sence of the eatables conveyed to them, and then the devotees gather up the offerings and carry them home again to feed their own material bodies. But the cigars and cigarettes are burned on the graves. KING ALFONSO'S HUMOR. His Spirit of Fun Refuses to Be Quenched. Th vnun? kinz nf Snain sppm tn have inherited his mother's cheerful temperament, and to have a spirit of fun which even and this is saying much Spanish etiquette cannot quench, says the London Chronicle. The following story is told of his majesty: maj-esty: The little king had been reading read-ing out to his tutor a sentence In the words, "She possessed in the highest degree the distinguished manner and grace of speech inherent in princesses," and to bis tutor's amazement remarked, "That writer didn't know much about courts." "Why do you say that, sir?" 'Well, look at that pair of princesses." One of his royal sisters, evidently dreadfully hot and sleepy, was sprawling sprawl-ing over her desk In a very degage attitude, at-titude, while the other, apparently unable un-able to solve a difficult problem, was absently rubbing her eyes and looking dazed meanwhile. Hi3 majesty tugged the halr-of one and pinched the arm of another princess, evoking some very strong and familiar terms of sisterly reprobation. "There are distinguished manne? and grace of speech for yon!" he explained, regarding triumphantly the tutor. riaelnsr the Blame. She Why is it that you never take me to a decent play? He Because, my dear, this Is the end of the 19th century and we live In New York. Life. ' What Next? . - Salesman Sox, sir? Yes, sir! How many pairs? Cocky One, of course; d'ye think I'm a bloomin' centipede. Brisbane Review. He who is won by a feather may ha lost by a straw. FBIEND OF THE BOERS OLIVE SCHREINER IS ACTIVE IK THEIR BEHALF. Want the Tyranny of Britain Clenrly Caderstood Sketch - of Peculiar Woman' Life From South Afrlaan Farm to Merited Fame. One of the most peculiar of contemporary con-temporary writers is Olive Schrelner, who suddenly leaped Into great popularity popu-larity over ten years ago by her strong romance. "The Story of an African Farm." Since then she has neve produced pro-duced another sustained bit of ' Imaginative Im-aginative work, but in several smaller books she has shown creative power of a rare kind. Her father was a German Ger-man missionary and her mother an English woman, and all her girlhood she spent at a remote station in Cape Colony. This lonesome life she has reproduced with startling fidelity in her book, which was a powerful protest pro-test against the world's failure to permit per-mit a girl to enjoy the same training as a boy. Her sketches of Boer life were as graphic as Rider Haggard's in "Jess" or "Swallow." Olive Schrelner feels deeply the wrongs of the Boers, and her pen has been active for months In presenting their side of the controversy contro-versy with England. HOW WASHBOARD WON FAVOR Mrs. William Warren Says She Had Much to Do with It. Mrs. William Warren of Erastina place. Mariner's Harbor, Staten island, claims that she was the first woman to introduce the washboard into the interior part of England. Mrs. Warren, War-ren, who is of English birth, says she returned to Gloucestershire some twen- ty-six years ago, and it was zhen that 3he first noticed the primitive mode of washing there. When she saw the long, coffin-shaped tub and noted the great labor made over a wash, she told about the American washboard. Some utilized util-ized huge barrels, with pounders; the clothes were put in and oft Eoap was poured on. After two hours' pounding the clothes were rinsed in brooks or streams, and then bleached in the sun. Others used large tubs and rubbed each part of the garment with the open palm of the hand; some had "6lid" boards, through which the clothes passed back and forth '.n a slow manner. Mrs. Warren sent for a washboard, wash-board, and when it arrived a holiday was taken. Everybody triad it, and a great rubbing took place. Mrs. Warren, War-ren, to show how the board was used, traveled from house to house Everybody Every-body bought one, and the villages around soon caught the fever. All old-fashioned old-fashioned designs were put aside, and the Yankee washboard found its first friends among the country people of England. New York Tribune. HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED. Ratine; of a Country Jndr Which Made Lawyers Gasp. "Church congregations are always mightily well pleased to see their pastors pas-tors in their pulpits after the summer season is ended, but not as thoroughly grained as are members of the bar when the judges return from their vacations," va-cations," remarked a prominent Brooklyn Brook-lyn lawyer. "Why do you make the distinction between the emotions of church congregations and lawyers?" I asked. To which my friend replied: "Well, a congregation is not forced to accept the views of a poorly informed country parson who comes to the city as a substitute for a brighter man who has gone to the mountains or seashore. But it Is different In the courts. You've got to knock under, at least until an appeal can be heard; have got to submit sub-mit to the rulings of this and that second-class country Judge who comes to the city to make a show of his un-familiarity un-familiarity with law, until the regular judges return to their seats. During last summer a case came under my observation ob-servation which will illustrate the incompetency in-competency of some of these country judges who visit us in vacation time. In a surrogate's case an order had been Issued for ths arrest of two executors on the ground that they had failed to turn over certain moneys as directed by the court. One of these executors 3id comply with the order of the court, but, nevertheless, was arrested and locked up. His counsel appeared before be-fore one of the country judges sent iown to this section temporarily, and applied for a writ of habeas corpus. Whereupon the judge made the remarkable re-markable decision that a Supreme court judge could not grant the writ called for; that the Supreme court eould not interfere with a case under the Jurisdiction of a surrogate. And so the poor prisoner had to sweat in Jail because this countryman did not know the law. That ruling made every lawyer In the courtroom gasp for Dreath." Brooklyn Eagle. Cleveland to lectnre. Princeton's one hundred and fifty-third fifty-third year was formally opened in Marquand chapel by prayer, scripture reading and an address by President Francis I. Patton. Dr. Pat ton commended com-mended to the undergraduate body. the new dean of the university. Dr. Samuel Wlnans. Dr. Patton made formal announcement an-nouncement of a gift to the college of 1 ( j OLIVE SCHREINER. $160,000 for the endowing of a chair of political science. This chair will be filled as soon as a suitable man can be found. The president also announced an-nounced that GroTer Cleveland, ev-president ev-president of the United States, has been prevailed upon to deliver a few lectures on some phase of public life. After the many rumors, regularly denied, de-nied, of Mr. Cleveland identifying himself him-self In Borne way with the university, the announcement of the lectures came as gratifying news to the students. stu-dents. The subjects on which Mr. Cleveland will lecture are not yet announced. an-nounced. The principal part of Dr. Patton's speech was directed to the freshman class, being In the line of an exhortation. MISSING BASTION. Search has been made at Oxford, England, for the missing bastion of the city wall. An extraordinarily fine piece of the wall surrounds the garden of New college, and makes it really the most beautiful in Oxford. But between be-tween this and the bastion vhlch for-nwrty for-nwrty exfsted in the garden of the rector of Exeter college all trace had been lost except the fine mediaeval carving in the house facing the Bodleian, Bod-leian, which was, as known from documentary doc-umentary evidence, abutting on a bastion. bas-tion. Excavations now being made in the angle between the Bodleian and the Sheldonian theater reveal ample traces of the missing bastion and a number of ancient tobacco pipes and glass bottles, bot-tles, resembling those in which benc-dictine benc-dictine Is sold, with a protuberance on the top of the bulb to receive a seal. The next bastion was, as 'las been mentioned, in the garden of the rector of Exeter; the next is in the premises of the furniture-maker opposite Bal-liol; Bal-liol; and the next adjoins the ancient church of St. Michael's, In the Corn-market, Corn-market, famous for its perfect Saxon tower. The bastion opposite Balliol is particularly interesting as having formed the prison of Latimer and Ridley Rid-ley before their martyrdom. MEXICAN SECRETARY OF STATE Although President Diaz of Mexico was prevented from visiting the United States this fall on account of the illness ill-ness of his wife, his minister of foreign affairs came. Senor Ignacio Mariscal stands closer to President Diaz than does any other official at present connected con-nected with the government of Mexico. Mex-ico. Before he accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs in 1884 he had been minister of Mexico to Great Britain. Senor Mariscal is said to be the best informed man on either side of the water in regard to the intricate nature of Spani3h-American politics, being thoroughly conversant with the situation situa-tion in every republic in all Central and South America. This is by no means an easy task when one considers consid-ers the frequency of revolutions everywhere every-where else but in Mexico. Senor Mariscal has a great admiration for the United States, and every plan for more cordial relations between the two republics has had his cordial approval, IGNACIO MARISCAL. whJJ, indeed, many of them originated in his active brain. Mrs. Howard Gould Sued. Clifford Leigh, an actor, served upon lawyers for Mrs. Howard Gould a notice of trial in an action in the Supreme Su-preme court, instituted by Mr. Leigh to recover $ 14,000, alleged to ' be due him from Mrs. Gould. The return of Mrs. Gould to this country is the occasion for pressing the suit, which has long been pending against her, and it will soon be brought to trial. The suit upon the record is against Col. William F. Cody and Catherine Clemmons (Mrs. Gould). Mr. Leigh alleges that he was engaged for forty-two weeks in the season of 1894, to play with Katherine Clemmons in the "Lady of Venice." Mr. Leigh alleges in his complaint that he reported daily at the theaters where "The Lady of Venice" was produced, and that he was not permitted to perform per-form his part. He was not paid anything, any-thing, and alleges that the defendants violated all terms of the contracts with him. Clews and Criminals. From London Tit-Bits: "I have discovered dis-covered another clew," said the detective. detect-ive. "What a good thing it would be, returned the nan who aad employed klm, 'f clews were criminala," " L0YED BY SOLDIERS. MRS. JOHN F. MERRILL'S WORK IN LATE WAR. Visited the Camps In Person to See What She Might Do Has Just Been Honored by the Convention of Military Mili-tary Surgeons. (San Francisco Letter.) One of the last acts of the convention of military surgeons, recently held at Kansas City, was to gracefully acknowledge ac-knowledge the work of the women who gave aid to the surgeons in the Spanish-American war. It elected to honorary hon-orary membership in the association Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross association; Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, late director In the D.- A. R. hospital corps, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C; Miss Helen Gould of New York, and Mrs. John F. Merrill, president presi-dent of the Red Cross society of San Francisco. Mrs. John F. Merrill of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, upon whom has been conferred the honor of membership in the Association Asso-ciation of Military Surgeons, is the wife of John F. Merrill of the firm of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson. She was among the first "to respond to the call for Red Cross workers in California. Within a few weeks the calls were so uigent and so many that San Francisco MRS. JOHN F. MERRILL. men and women perfected separate organizations, or-ganizations, and Mrs. Merrill was election to the executive position, a post which she still holds. In addition addi-tion to this, she was a director In the state organization, of which Mrs. W. B. Harrington was president. For months Mrs. Merrill worked every day and far into every night. She directed an untold number of activities, for the Red Cross work in San Francisco knew no bounds. Thousands of Red Cross workers and thousands of soldiers who were encamped in that city will remember re-member the sweet-faced, gentle woman who found a way out of every difficulty. diffi-culty. If the laws of the organization precluded the doing of something necessary, nec-essary, Mrs. Merrill made it a matter of personal concern. Nothing was too much trouble for her. Besides the executive ex-ecutive work, she gave personal attention atten-tion to the letters from mothers who were spending anxious days in other states. On Sundays, when the routine work of the society lapsed, Mrs. Merrill Mer-rill visited the camps and hospitals to see for herself what she might do for the best interest of all. Her work has not ceased with the war. She is almost al-most as busy as ever, for the Sal Francisco Fran-cisco society of which she is head maintains the reading, writing and living liv-ing room at the Presidi for the convalescent con-valescent soldiers and the well ones who want to avail themselves of it3 privileges. All these responsibilities have not made Mrs. Merrill neglect one of the dearest interests of her life the children's hospital. Added responsibilities respon-sibilities have simply mada her a still better economist of time. She is a member of Sorosis and the Century club, but has been seen at their gatherings gath-erings but a few times since more serious se-rious matters have occupied her attention. atten-tion. 'X: NEW PRESIDENT OF WELLESLEY Miss Caroline Hazard, who was recently re-cently inaugurated as president lof Wellesley college, is not a college graduate. grad-uate. She has, however, had many advantages. ad-vantages. Her father, Rowland Hazard, Haz-ard, the wealthy mill owner of Peace-dale, Peace-dale, R. I., is one of the men who have led In working for the higher education educa-tion of women, and his daughter; was not neglected. While living in Providence Provi-dence she enjoyed semi-collegiate privileges priv-ileges at Brown university, and she ias attended lectures at other institutions. Miss Hazard has wen a reputation as an author of papers on hUtoricaJ topics, top-ics, in which she has shown traces of the gifts of her grandfather, ;Row-land ;Row-land Green Hazard, the philosophical writer. Miss Hazard is young for her Important post, being only 43 years of CAROLINE HAZARD, ige. As president of Wellesley she vill have charge of eighty Instructors ind 700 pupils. Earthquake In Japan. The new palace of the crown prince t Japan wiy be built of 3,000 tons of Uuerican structural iron..,and will ost more than 15,000,000. - This is affl nnovation, for Japanese dwellings, as i rule, are of .one storyv because of arthquakes. They hate heavy tile oofs, no cellars, no chimneys,, paper lartitions, paper windows,- and sliding lanels or paper colored screens for ioors. The new palace is to withstand tarthquakes, which are of f reauen t oc- mrrence in the islands. Eight years jto an earthquake in Japan destroyed : 0,000 houses and klllftrl A 00(1 iwnnla The most severe Japanese seismic dis-iirbance dis-iirbance was at Yeddo in 1703, when 100.000 persons perished. , . American Bride'. Abroad. The American bridge is flinging its ' majestic spans and arches across the ' rivers of many lands Egypt, Siberia. ' Japan, China, Peru and others and a ' roup of twenty-six skilled American 1 Juilders has departed for Rangoon. ! Sritish India, where an American com-any com-any has one of its constructions la rogrees. v, FIRST SIGHT OF INDIA. Bombay an Elaborate Combination ef Strange Slehts and Sounds. From London Mall: The first sight of India is amazing, e?,tincing, stupefying. stupefy-ing. Of other oounhies you become aware gradually; Italy leads up to the Levant, and Egypt passes you on insensibly in-sensibly to the desert. Landed in Bombay, Bom-bay, you have strayed Into a most elaborate elab-orate dream, infinite In variety, blurred with complexity a gallery of strange faces, a buzz of strange voices, a rainbow of strange colors, a garden of strange growths, a book of strange questions, a pantheon of strange gods. Different beasts and birds in the street, different clothes to wear, different meal times and different food the very commonest com-monest things are altered. You begin a new life in a new world. It takes time to come to yourself. At first everything is so noticeable that you notice nothing. When things begin to come sorted jand sifted, Bombay reveals re-veals itself as a city of monstrous contrasts. con-trasts. Along the sea front one splendid splen-did public building follows another variegated stone facades, with arch and colonnade, cupola and pinnacle and statuary. At their feet huddle flimsy huts of matting, thatched with leaves, which a day's rain would reduce to mud and pulp. You sit in a marble-paved club, vast and airy as, a Roman villa, and look out over gardens of heavy scarlet and purple flowers toward choking chok-ing alleys, where half-naked savages herd by families together in open-fronted open-fronted rooms, and filth runs down gullies gul-lies to fester In the sunken street. In this, quarter you may see the weaver twirling Tils green and amber wool on a hand loom a skeleton so simple and fragile that a kick would make sticks of it; go to the street corner and you see black smoke belch from a hundred roaring mills, whose competition cuts the throat of all the world. In the large, open space Parsees bowl each other full-pitches and cry "T'ank you. t ank you," after each ball; by tne ran squats a Hindoo, who would like, if only the law would let him, to marry babies and burn widows. Yet, for all its incongruities, Bombay never lets you forget that It Is a very great city. If it had no mills, it would be renowned for its port; if it had neither, it would be famous for its beauty. And if It were as ugly as it is fair, it would still be one of the most astounding collections collec-tions of human animals in the world. Forty languages, it is said, are habi't-ually habi't-ually spoken in its bazaars. That, to him who understands no word of any of them, is perhaps more curious than interesting, but then every race has its own costume, so that the streets of Bombay are a kaleidoscope of vermilion vermil-ion turbans and crimson, orange and flame color, of men in blue and brown and emerald waistcoats, women in cherry cher-ry colored satin drawers, or mantles, drawn from the head across the bosom to the hip, of blazing purple or green that shines like a grasshopper. If you check your eye and ask your mind for the ' master color in the crowd, it is white white bordered with brown or fawn or damson legs. . COST OF A CHURCH CARPET. The Pasfor Does Some Figuring; and Cyphers Out a Grand Total. Following is the estimate of the direct di-rect and collateral cost of a church carpet car-pet The price was $800, but as the women of the church raised the money by giving entertainments, the pastor's estimate was that when all the items of cost were figured in the carpet had Cost fully $4,000. He reached this astonishing as-tonishing total by estimating the worry and , heartaches of one hundred women; the heroic efforts of men, women and children to eat the things which were to be eaten and hear, see or buy things which had been provided to extract money from them; the colds, fevers and other ailments contracted while attending at-tending the entertainments, and the consequent doctors' bills; the money spent in other churches, for If they come to your entertainments you must go to theirs; and worst and most costly cost-ly of all, the demoralization of the church and the curtailment of the legitimate legi-timate giving which follow in the train of such methods of raising money. But they got their carpet. ENGLISH IRON AND CO AL TRUST Sir Christopher Furness, one of the greatest millionaires in Great Britain, is believed to have on foot a scheme for the control of the iron and coal of the united kingdom. He has just purchased pur-chased the Weardale Iron and Coal company outright, paying $10,000,000 for the plant. The mills at Tudhoe turn out 60,000 tons of steel yearly, and the company owns iron works at Tow Law, iron mines, limestone quarries, coke ovens, gas plants and street upon street of houses, besides a dozen collieries. col-lieries. It is said that Sir Christopher has succeeded in interesting Lord Lon- SIR CHRISTOPHER FURNESS. donderry and other capitalists, and that they will form an iron and coal trust whose ultimate aim will be to control these great industries in the united kingdom. Sir Christopher is now best known as a. ship and eirgine builder. Inheriting a small fortune, he has made it one of the greatest in his nation, and his wealth is now estimated esti-mated at $125,000,000. Capable Weapon. An ingenious Chinese military man has recently invented a weapon which the mandarins at Pekin think will cause terror in the hearts of the invaders, in-vaders, and an order ha3 been issued for the manufacture of a large supply to be distributed throughout the army.. According to a description In the Chinese papers, this terrible weapon is a combination of spear and shovel At one end of the pole there is a large, sharp spike, such as knights of mediaeval times used to carry. At the other end there is a shovel or spade with a blade about eight inches wide,, which can be used both as an intrenching in-trenching tool and as a weapon. It Is especially handy In beheading prisoners, prison-ers, and all the Chinese soldier has to da is to stick the pike at one end of his pole through the body of his enemy and then turn around and cut off his head with the shoveL Instead of sending the inventor of this terrible weapon to The Hague to represent China at the peace conference, the empress em-press dowager rewarded him with a button of the second class. 1 " JOHN LIVINGSTONE. EXPLORER'S BROTHER HAS LATELY DIED IN CANADA. Had Iiived in That Country Since 180 Followed the Occupation of Merchant Mer-chant and Became Very Wealthy In Money and Lands. John Livingstone, brother of the noted African explorer, David Livingstone, Living-stone, died at Listowel, Ont., recently, at the ripe age of 88 years. John was two years older than David. In many respects they closely resembled each other. Both were men of unusual strength of character and both were fond of adventure. John Livingstone was the eldest son of Neil Livingstone of Blayne, Scotland, Scot-land, where he was born on the 15th day of May, 1S11. He was married In Scotland in 1S34 to Sarah MacKenzie, who predeceased him In Listowel nearly nineteen years ago. He came to Canada in 1S40 and lived in Lanark for twenty years, engaged in the mercantile mer-cantile business. He came to Perth county in 1860, starting a general store in the then small hamlet. He was among the earliest merchants of the place, and built up a large and prosperous pros-perous trade, retiring in 1873. Since that time Mr. Livingstone indulged in a fondness for traveling, for many years spending his summers among his friends in Scotland and of late passing the winter with his sons on the Pacific coast, his last trip to the coast being in the winter of 1898. The surviving members of his family are: Mr. Neil Livingstone, Rock wood, Ont.; Dr. Henry Livingstone, California; Mrs. J. W. Scott, Listowel; Mr. John Living- JOHN LIVINGSTONE, stone, Jr., Listowel, and Mr. Charles Livingstone, Seattle. For the last eight years he had made his home with his son in Listowel. FRANKLIN'S MONUMENTS. There are as many statues of Benja-nin Benja-nin Franklin, probably, as of any oth-lr oth-lr American, unless it be Washington; ut the city of Philadelphia, whi.ch was franklin's place of residence through :he greater part of his life, possessed ao really splendid memorial of the treat man until recently. On June L4th a statue of Franklin, presented to ;he city by Mr. Strawbridge, the work f the sculptor, John J. Boyle, was un-reiled un-reiled in front of the postoffice. The statue is of bronze, and represents repre-sents the philosopher and statesman seated, in an attitude of that thoughtful thought-ful and courteous attention which, it leems to us, must have been characteristic charac-teristic of him. It is in the costume of Franklilv's own period. It represents, undoubtedly, the Franklin whom Philadelphia Phil-adelphia knew; for he was best known In the city of his residence, as the philosopher, the journalist, the author, the man of science, rather than as the statesman or man of affairs. The def-srentlal def-srentlal smile which the seated figure in the statue wears was certainly characteristic char-acteristic of Franklin. The gentleness of his ways always endeared him to bis neighbors, although ' they found much to deprecate in his opinions and in his way of life. Even when, on his arrival in Philadelphia, he was once seized for falling alseep in a religious meeting, account was quickly taken of the fact that he was young, and greatly great-ly exhausted by travel. Franklin has received one sort of monumental tribute to a degree second only to that of Washington. More towns and postoffices have been named after him than after any other man, even Washington himself, although the bestowal of the name Washington on the capital of the country transcends, of coune, any of the similar honors accorded ac-corded to Franklin. Thirty-six places in the United States, in as many states and territories, bear the name of Franklin simply, and thirty-four others bear names into which the word enters In combination, such as Franklinville, Franklin Falls, and so on. As against this there are twenty-seven Jacksons In the country, thirty Washlngtons and twenty-five Jeffersons. Thirty-one counties bear the name of Washington, twenty-four the name of Franklin, twenty-three the name ot Jefferson and twenty-two the name of Jackson. The naming of the first town for Franklin was re-jaided by him as a great honor. This was in. 1778, during the revolutionary war. The town of Wrentham, Massachusetts, was divided, divid-ed, one part of it taking the name of the celebrated diplomatist and philosopher. philo-sopher. In recognition of the honor Franklin presented the new town with a bell for its church. One Dollar for a Wife. One dollar was the price which James Cary of Elizabeth, N. J., paid for the common-law wife of William Runyon, a florist of Elizabeth. Cary was Runyon'slandlord and noticed with pity, which soon begat love, the efforts of the Roman to please the latter, lat-ter, who seemed unappreciative. At last Cary made the proposal which ended in the purchase of the woman, and he made preparations to marry her. A properly drawn up and signed bill of sah had been made out by Lawyer Samuel Schliemen of Elizabeth. Eliza-beth. Before, however, Cary could arrive ar-rive at a consummation of his plans, Runyon regretted the sale and demanded de-manded his wife. The fickleness oi woman asserted itself, and, leaving Cary, she returned to Runyon. Th same evening they were married by Rev. Henry H. Oberly of Christ church Elizabeth, and are now enjoying a tardy honeymoon. A Possible Dilemma. A judge of the old school, loving port wine and hating trouble, is said , to have once summed up a very complicated compli-cated case in the following terms: "You have all heard the evidence; you have also beard what the learned counsel coun-sel have said. If you believe what the counsel for the plaintiff has told you, your verdict will be "for the plaintiff; but, if. cn the other hand, you believe what the defendant's counsel has told you, then you will give a verdict for the defendant. But if you are like me, and don't believe what either of them baa Mid. then 111 be banged if I know what yon will do." Housbold Words, SUBSCRIBE FOR . . HTM E IMPENDENT . . ONLY . . 2.00 PER YEAR. ...All the News Each Week... A GREAT RAILWAY FOR- PASSENGERS on FREIGHT. . . . ft- -. Tile . . Chicago, inilwaun.ee k St. Paul . . Hallway. . . . . . 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