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Show Washington Goss'p1 A New Line of GREAT FLEET SAILS Leather Goods Has just arrived, and while the quality is the very finest the prices are about the same asked for inferior Admiral Evans Leads Atlantic Squadron from Its Anchorage at Hampton Roads Will Meet the Vessels Interesting Bits of News Picked Up Here and There at the National Capital Shopping bags and for ladies; wallets and bill books for goods. purses of the Pacific Coast at San Francisco. SENATORS TOSS TO COIN 1 DECIDE STATE PATRONAGE 1 sill 1" i and office by appointment to agree, If possible, upon a distribution, but when they exempli- they confronted the president fied by President Roosevelt In the found themselves Just as far apart as The It they have been In his absence. White House the other day. macks a departure In the usual pro- president saw the difficulty, and procedure governing the selection of posed that they draw lots. The senThere Is ators agreed, and the position of napresidential appointees. nothing complex or intricate In the tional bank examiner being the place It is merely a case of for immediate dispute, the president process. tossed up a coin, saying that heads "Heads I win, tails you lose." should win and There were a large number of va- meant Kittredge should name the Gamble Senator tails to due cant offices in South Dakota the fact that the two senators. man. The piece of money fell heads up, Klttredge and Gamble, have been unable to agree upon applicants, thus and the nomination was then awarded permitting the old office holders to to Mr. Kittredge. retain their positions long beyond the The twirling of the coin by the time to which they were appointed. president also determined the appointSanafors Klttredge and Gamble scarce- ment of land agents, Indian agents, a ly have spoken to each other since United States district attorney, a colthe former started In to defeat the lat- lector of internal revenue, an assayer two years ago. of the mint and an auditor of the ter for The senators met In the president's treasury department. newest The WASHINGTON method of foderi patronage was dlsrens-ln- g 170 MAIN ST. CITY, UTAH. SALT LAKE 'FnrrA InhhS i IlkkV PLANTS, SEEDS nestonearib. 'Tii r merle, euver, Colo. AKeuta Wanted. 1. 1 I i For the Cosy Corner. An elderly man from the country, Intent on purchasing some furniture, proceeded to the city to put his skill for bargaining to the test. On entering an "old curiosity" shop he found himself confronted by the proprietor. After turning over the stock the old man purchased a chair. A few days - - to the shop again with the chair in about half a dozen pieces. The proprietor looked at them very gravely and examined them all ever, then suddenly exclaimed: "Ah, my friend, I see what is the matter; somebody has been sitting on it I" later the purchaser returned ... . ... . n -- wm u. Tit-Bit- ODD P0ST0FFICE ON DEPARTMENT NAMES RECORDS Some poetic fancy not long ago substituted the harmonious name of Hell-viefor the old fashioned and pioneer name of Sallle. California comes bravely to the rescue of modern language by the establishment of the post offices of Crack-erjacIt also shows its and Skidoo. aversion to unpleasant refreshments by abolishing the office of Hitter-water- . of the mist of bank failures, finance, horse shows and e the like, Douglas county rises to heights of esthetic devotion, reviving the Hull Run controversy and changes the name of the classic town of BttrVOUt to the more tragic name of Booth. Time was perhaps when Starvout was a euphonious and appro- OUT sur-lim- for the little cluster other more or less necessary structures the sage brush from the bosom of Douglas county, but that day has passed, and now It is Booth on the records of the post office de- priate cognomen of saloons and ornamental and which kept back Florida has caught the habit and has cut Cat Creek off her visHing list while Idaho has disguised her desire, spelling her new town according to the phonetic system. Buhl. Indiana has cut out Gent and Wishtown. Louisiana, preparing for the future, has established the town of Brimstone, while Maine, suddenly unfriendly, has throttled Dutch Neck. Mississippi, in remembrances of certain insects, perhaps, has christened a new town Crawley, but has relegated to the past the burgs of Dido, Mike and Shute. Missouri, utilitarian in her endeavors, has created the village of Useful, but now that the war is at last a thing of history has abolished Arnica. Montana, not yet weaned from her other days, has dubbed a new place Hellgate. while just to the oposite North Carolina has put Outlaws Bridge in the catalogue of the past. partment. Rut. Douglas county does not seem to be the only one, nor does the great and Important question of whether the name Hull Hun contaminates the water Portland drinks seem to affect all parts of the country alike. The post office records show that many different municipal christenings have been celebrated throughout the country In the immediate past. New baby cities have been entered upon the roll and, sad thought, some have had their names changed or lost In the darkuess of the records of other years. Alabama has started things going In good shape by creating a town bearing the energetic name of "Getup." well-know- n GOVERNMENT COIN MAKERS ARE WORKING Tills the is busy OVERTIME season States mint at In the ciallzed workers have been working overtime, some of them 14 and 16 hours a day. They have succeeded only in giving each city less thai half what was requested. Peremptory demands have been made for an unlimited amount of dimes, and dollars quarters, Within the last two weeks $2,000,000 in gold has been coined. Kvery department has been ordered to get busy. About $40,000,000 In bullion is already within the vaults. More is coming. It Is all to be coined without delay. Massive new machinery has been added lately and is now being tried for the first time, very satisfactorily. The mint officials are confident they can complete the task on time. The now issue of gold eagles will have 46 stars around the edge instead of 45. as heretofore, Oklahoma having become a state. Philadel- phia. All the country Is calling for money ' Kvcry bit of coin making machinery in the big institution is working overtime. Streams of bright new coin, stiver and golden, trickle from the big Millions of money stamping presses dollars' worth of bullion is coming to the mint from all directions for coinage Secretary Cortelyou has ordered the coinage of 60,000,000 In $20 gold pieces within the next three months. The iiilnt machinery has a capacity of 4,00(1 nt these coins an hour. Meantime there is an Insistent demand from all over the country for stiver coin of the smaller denominaThe mint officials have been tions wholly unable to supply these calls Day and night coiners, assayers, weighers and the countless other spe- half-dollar- s PRESIDENT A BUSY MAN; CANNOT SEE ALL CALLERS of Washington sightseers go S CORKS to the executive offices every day The representative, 99 times In won't be a bit pleased at being under the belief that all they have to called on. but he will take good care do Is to ask to see the president and Rot to let his constituents know It. II the tiling an t find an excuse that Is ample done They are a sorely disappointed lot whei they llnd that iihI that won't give offense, he will hil callers to the executive man they can't get In. They go away miir n where they will have a chance muring at times, and occasionally say lug things above a murmur about aris- to shake the presidential hand. tocratic government and head in the Mr. Koosevelt will say that he Is air presidents u'iy glad to see each one of them, and If Mr. Kcxmevelt saw every person he will tell the callers something who wanteil to see him there wouldn t about their home town which they be any messages written and there I, new before, but which they will be wouldn't he any pollctet outlined for rVTJ much surprised to know that the the progress of the greatest detnoc president knows. Mr. Roosevelt ap racy on earth 1'iuently knows something about every ;t :i Whet, elty. town and hamlet in the United tlon bent on eelng the president h stales from which there is any possl or she should call on the representa- bility thst s li'iirn ...' ' Washington tive in congress from it'" home II" nay come. trlct livo, I ' ,1 ' -- Entertains and Instructs the Boys. and "On the "Rob the Ranger" Trail of the Arabs," two books by Herbert Sti mg, the celebrated English writer, recently published by company, of Indianthe Bobbs-Merril- l apolis, Intl., are two stories of ad. venture that are bound to prove fascinating and instructive to the average boy, the kind of clean, wholesome youth who has a longing for adventures of all kinds. Mr. Strang is a writer whose stories have attracted the attention of thousands of persons interested in providing boys with reading that is at once wholesome and entertaining, and whose information is accurate and whose is above reproach. While both stories are entertaining enough to tie the most fidgety little fellow to the hearth-sidduring its perusal, each has an instructive and educational turn that is truly delightful and h e Hampton Roads, Va., Dec. 16. The of the great Atlantic departure squadron for the Pacific is only another of the many great proofs of the nation's marvelous growth and development. The iron clad warship is only 45 years old, yet, passing through a process of swift evolution to its present perfection, this American discovery has revolutionized the science of naval warfare throughout the whole world. There are now 270 vessels in commission in the United States navy where at one time, in Washington's administration, there was not one. Of these there are 13 battleships of the first and second class, carrying guns into whose mouth this country's first and only "commander-in-chie- f of the navy," Ksek Hopkins, might easily have hidden his disgraced head when an outraged continental congress summarily dismissed him. It was in Hampton Roads that the first chapter in the world's history of iron clads was written. It was in Hampton Roads that the nation gathered 16 of her finest sea fighters ready for a trip of nearly 20,000 miles. Where the Merrimac swung clumsily across the channel long ago and drove terror to the hearts of seamen who had never yet seen such a monster, Iron clads as graceful and as swift as greyhounds have come and gone all summer until they have become a familiar sight. Among these is the Minnesota, the largest of Uncle Sam's big battleships, and next only in size to the Dreadnaught, which King Edward of Kngland launched with such ceremony a year or so ago, and to the Satsuma, Japan's new monster of the deep. y History of American Navy. The first appropriation made for a navy for this country was that of the continental congress In 1775, and the sum of $100,000 was expected to purchase, equip and generally outfit 13 For the present year, ending ships. July, 1908, the navy will have needed $125 041 399. an increase of $5.00!0O0 ovct last year. Nine million alone go fur ordnance stores. The last appropriation of congress for the building of ships was $20,000,000 to be expended on two big ships, each of which is to measure 510 feet in length. 85 feet beam, and make 21 knots an hour. Three million dollars was appropriated for submarines of the Holland type, snd In September five torpedo boat destroyers were contracted for. Think of this In comparison with the $100,000 that cost the continental congress so much thought, and which was furnished by the people of the colonies after so much privation. "If we are to have a commerce we much have a navy to defend it,' wrote Col. Humphreys from the Barbary States in 1793 after he had been sent to see if there were means of Stop ping the piracy of Algiers and Tripoli n American trndlng vessels rot years the nntton had endured thJ hu mlllatlon of paying tribute to tjhese countries, and after Washington had Incorporated this sentiment In his message of 1794 the United States! still paid tritiine, necaiise mere wal no avy to prove her Independence. low- - ever, that congress appropriated $700,-00with which to build six frigates. Among these were the Constitution, now the oldest ship afloat under any flag? and a training ship for apprentices at Portsmouth. With this fleet Decatur and its later auxiliaries taught the rulers of Algiers and Tripoli a stern lesson, and America soon took her place among the naval powers of the world, a place which none disputed after her victories over Great Britain in Quick Work of Preparation. The president issued the orders for the sailing of this fleet on August 23, and since then coal mines, railways, provision dealers, and manufacturers of heavy ordnance and ammunition have known the busiest season they have had since the Spanish-Americawar. Altogether 35 vessels go to San Francisco, and when all have assembled in the waters off the coast of California, "Fighting Bob" Evans will have under his command the largest, most invincible, the most perfectly equipped fleet that has ever mobilized in one place since the history of the world began. The aggregate displacement of the vessels sailing is nearly 42,000 tons, and the aggregate power is 661 guns of four inch calibre and over. The four divisions of this fleet will carry 581 officers and 11,500 enlisted men, as fine an array of jackies as any navy has ever known, and an earnest and eager set, too, for as soon as the news of the cruise was noised abroad enlistments increased rapidly throughout the navy and desertions became prac tlcally unknown The moaern wife who puzzles for days over the packing of her husband's grips and lunch basket when he is off for a week's hunting trip, can never begin to appreciate the enormity of Columbia's task in fitting out her 11,500 sons for an outing of 115 days, In which they are not expected to set foot on land at all. Besides all the stores that each ship can carry when her capacity is taxed to Its fullest, there will be two ships that carry supplies alone, the Glacier and Culgoa, and they will carry many-nove- l foodstuffs that have never yet been carried by any navy of the world. Immense Supply of Coal. The item of coal alone Is not Inconsiderable. On October 12, contract were let for 133,000 tons to be delivered at the six seaport towns where the fleet will stop, Trinidad. Rio Janerlo, Punta Arenas. Callao, bay and San Francisco. It is mined In West Virginia, shipped by rail to four tide water cities of the Atlantic, and whom there Is handled by five American companies In 30 foreign steamers to the ports named, where It Is piled on the piers ready for the battleships Fifteen of these steamers go all the way to San Francisco with their cargoes. The cost of the coal will be about $3 a ton, and the cost Of transportation will come m over $755,000. Eight colliers accompany the fleet. The Mareellus, Hannibal, Ueonldas and possibly the Sterling accompany the fleet to Trinidad, and then re 0 1812-181- n Mag-dalen- a turn for more coal. Others will go as far as Rio and return to join the fleet again at Magdalena bay, and all that have free space 'tween decks will carry general Supplies for the Mare Island navy yard. The Connecticut carries 150 tons of briquettes made of slack coal and pitch to test them as a suitable fuel for use In the navy. The cost of coaling, exclusive of the amount of coal carried by the ships from Norfolk to Trinidad, will be $1,229,280, a sum more than equal to the bonded debt of the state of Idaho or the state of Washington. Provisions in Plenty. As to provisions, Columbia must pack enough in the giant hampers to feed her sons for the long 115 days, and have enough extra goodies for Christmas. New Year's and Washington birthday dinners, and the list shows she has not been niggardly id her selection. Five million pounds of provisions are carried on board the 16 battleships and the supply ships, the supplies from the attending vessels being transferred to the battleships when they stop at the ports for coal. There are 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of fresh meat in the refrigerators of each ship, and for the first time there will be a widely varied bill of fare where the meats are concerned. There are a variety of foodstuffs, including tons of cereals, salt meats, dried fruits and canned goods, and 593,300 pounds of flour for making fresh bread in lieu of long anathematized hard tack. There are tons of dessicated foodstuffs that have already been tested and found good, and the more recent additions dried eggs and dehydrated vegetables. There are 9,000 pounds of dried eggs, an equivalent of 36,000 dozen fresh eggs, and when the Christmas baking is on and the 30,000 fresh eggs also carried are not available, the mixer of cakes will find that the dried product when mixed with water will froth as easily as the fresh. New methods of communication between the ships have been installed, and new methods of controlling the fire from the guns. So new Is this system of fire control that a retired naval officer was heard to remark when the news came to him: "That Is a good Idea, a good idea. I am glad to hear it, indeed, for fire Is a most dangerous thing aboard a ship!" The Coloradc was flrst in this experiment. Wireless telegraphy has been a part of a equipment for so many years now that It is quite an old story, but the fleet decided It must have wireless telephony, too, so the past few weeks have witnessed a busy scene In Hampton Roads, and In New York and Brooklyn harbors, where experts have been busy putting In the appliances Connecticut It Flagship. Admiral Evans chose the Connecticut as his flagship. Capt. Ingersoll is her commander and chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet. Upon the shoulders l of Brownlow at Wash-- j Ington, much of the work of prepara-tlonfell- . The splendid condition of the fleet when it left Its anchorage here to day shows how well he has done it. s Rear-Admira- Flowers as a Cult. One of the, most practical plans for Inculcating among the masses a taste for plants and flowers has been hit upon by the city fathers of the little Hessian town of Alzey, where each girl in the public elementary schools receives every spring two plants to care for. Inspectors at the end of the season make their report, which is Invariably good. The Pepper Family. "Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House," by Margaret Sidney, author of the famous Pepper books, which have gladdened the hearts of many thousands of juvenile readers, has recently been issued from the presses of the Lothrop, Lee & Shep-arBy the art of the Co., Boston. author, "Margaret Sidney," in private life Mrs. Daniel Lothrop. who lives in Concord, Mass., in "The Wayside," made famous as the residence of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the irrepressible Pepper children with their many human and lovable qualities have become familiar acquaintances, and the presentation of situations Is so genuinely humorous that ill ages are en tertained. The recent addition to the Pepper family is equa'ly as good as its predecessors. d To Have No Trouble. One way to avoid trouble is to make it impossible before it appears. On the day of the Sunday school picnic the trolley car stopped to take a bright-eyed- , middle-agewoman with six hatless boys. "Yes, we're going to the picnic," she chirped, in response to the conductor's query, "but you won't have to stop to pick up any lost I'm perfectly willing to headgear. take care of six boys; but there Isn't money enough to tempt me to look after six boys and six hats." d How to Invest Your Savings. There Is perhaps no more universal desire than that to acquire money, and for this reason peculiar interest attaches to "How to Invest Your Savings," by Isaac F. Marcosson, which has just been published by the Henry of Philadelphia. Altemus company, This book has many qualities which make it distinct among books of its kind. Mr. Marcosson's book is written In the Interest of the average man or woman with savings or funds to Invest, and Its sole purpose is to furnish accurate facts and knowledge essential to safe and conservative Invest, ment. Perfectly Lovely. The most consoling pleasure of old age. looking out of the windows of hope. Is the sweet sense of the heart and soul that you have spread the flowers Of life about the rugged road of humanity Instead of the nettles of contention Baltimore American. Revive Ammonia Victim. When a person Is overcome by ammonia fumes a good stiff drink i vinegar will help to counteract the ao tlon of the ammonia, revive the U conscious, and In many cases savs lit |