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Show ' ST Ur r V THE PIUTE VOL. I. NUMBER 85. MARYSVALE, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897. . TEMPERANCE CORNER. NOTES ANTI-LIQUO- OF INTEREST TO THE R LEAGUES. What a Barrel of Whiskey Really Contains State Liable for Costs Churches and Saloons of Wicked New York. BARREL of headaches,, of heartaches, of woes; A barrel of curses, a barrel of blows, A barrel of tears from a world-wear- y wife, sorA "barrel-o- f rows, a barrel of strife; A Barrel of all un- availing regret; A barrel of cares and a barrel of debt; A barrel of hunger, of poison, pf pain; A barrel of hopes ever blasted and xr vain; A barrel of falsehood, a barrel of cries. That fall from the maniacs .lips ere he dies; A barrel of poverty, ruin and blight, A barrel of terrors that grow with the night; barrel of crime, and a barrel of groans; barrel of orphans, most pitiful moans; A barrel of serpents that hiss as they ' pass, . "From the head of the liquor that glows in the glass. y Liquor Problem. VENUS OF MILO. A DOUBTFUL GOOD. The one valuable fact in the useless expedition of Nansen to the North Pole, to which ha approached 150 miles nearer than any previous explorer, is that he is the man who first advocated abstinence from alcoholics by Arctic explorers. It is to be feared that this new proof that alcohol does not help us out in winters cold will be the least considered of all his story. ,, Premier Laurier, of Canada, has given official assurance that the promised plebiscite of the whole Dominion on prohibition will be taken, and the temperance people are preparing their campaign of education. The best temperance news of the season is the general adoption of the fourth Sunday of November as the Worlds Temperance Sunday. The London Sunday School Union started the movement. The Worlds W. C. T. U. seconded the motion. It has been supported by official action of the national conferences of "Methodists, Presbyterians and others, and so is as firmly established ps "Childrens Day. As the temperance lesson had been previously placed on December 13, and as it can change pulpits with the lesson for November 22, with no loss to the historic order. The Reform Bureau and W. C. T. JO. are suggesting the change. The Women of the Present Day Co Too Mach. The women of the present day at least many of them are remarkable for a lack of reposeful atmosphere, of that leisurely individuality which made an older generation so charming and refreshing, says Harpers Bazar. It may be inevitable, if a woman has too much to do that she should always be at high pressure, no sooner through one task than grappling with the next but why has she too much to do? Simply, in the majority of cases, because she attempts to do too much, under the mistaken notion that activity, in whatver direction, is more useful and praiseworthy than repose. In the effort to do a great deal she ceases to be her true and possible self. For Instance, have we never been in a summer resort in the mountains where some intelligent and active women happen to be spending the summer? Do they rest in the delicious atmosphere of the hills, breathe in its balm, assimilate the feast of beauty so generously spread about them, and enrich their very souls and hearts by deep communion with nature? Do they, as the poet so truly although whimsically puts it, Loaf and invite their souls? Not at all. They make balsam pillows, scouring the woods for the material Medical Practice. in Liquor without stopping by the way, and passDr. Drysdale, an eminent British ing the glorious mountain days sitting physician, says: For my own part, I in their rooms, cutting up the spicy in alcohol use never confess I should. branches and sewing the covers on and any illness that might befall me perthe ruffles around them; and somesonally, and, though I am sometimes times, by organizing a band to sell the to the results for the benefit of some charity compelled in my practice, owing unreasonable theories of Liebig and his to their fellow-guesthey manage to numerous disciples, both in Great Britall the hours of all the occupy pearly emain and in Germany, to tolerate the summer in this praiseworthy pursuit. ployment of it in some cases, yet I proa concert, or theatricals, Or test as much as I can against it on the they get up and preparation for which practice to the ground of the danger it involves absorb a week of their time at least, the patient both in fever and in cases out of the very heart of the golden mothown of accident. My weather. Or, worst of all, they play iner, who lived to be 100, never took duplicate whist in the parlor in a nev n.ty chil--drtoxicating liquor, and series of games, with their have never tasted it.- American Leads in their laps to refer to, an excellent mind training, no An Enormous Loss. doubt, but 'hardly that relaxation and 'Years ago the late Professor Jevoils, refreshing of soul and body which the great . political, economist, thus v. spells recreation of both, . t touched on the saving power of. the ( These same overdriven women, working classes: We know that the home, in the winter will be found do- money spent on drink is enormous in' lng embroidery in every spare moment! between social engagements, club-dt-t$ amount; in, this country it is about 140,000,000 a year,' o about M ayear' ties, visits among the poor or church for every man, woman and child. To work; and, while they are rushing evsay the least, half of this might be erywhere their presence brings nosaved with the greatest advantage to where that peace, that Meep helpful-;nes- s, the health and morals of the saver3. that quiet charm that belong to And thus the working classes would reposeful and individual womanhood. be able to lay by an annual sum not If only they would not attempt to do so much less than the revenue of the namuch, but to be something instead, not tion. to touch the world at so many points, but to lift and strengthen where they Restore the Balance. do come In contact with it, it would be Every solitary kind action that is an incalculable gain. done the world over, is working brifk-l- y in its own sphere to restore the balance between right and wrong. KindREMARKABLE ENTERTAINING. ness has converted more sinners than Furnished Everything for His either zeal, eloquence or learning; and The Host Guests. these three never converted anyone unwoman has confided to a A young conless they were kind also. The New Times a someYork In the writer tinual sense which a kind heart has of its own need of kindness keeps it what extraordinary account of then manner in which a wealthy and humble. Perhaps an act of kindness New Yorker treats those who never dies but extends the invisible unat his are invited to the house-partidulations of its influence over the She was informed home. by suburban centuries. F. W. Faber. a note from her hostess. that a carriage Labor a Blessing. would call for her and her luggage at .Mans real happiness consists in a certain hour, take her to the ferry, where Mr. X. would meet and take keeping alive his several faculties. The indolent man suffers his capacities charge of her. At the ferry she found to slumber and unrest follows as a naincluding mathe entire house-parttural consequence. Rest follows labor, trons with their husbands, y&ung men and the rest of the laborer is sweet. and maidens, assembled to be looked The vigorous body, the vigorous mind after by Mr. X. The valet checked and the vigorous soul have become so their luggage and In each Instance a round-tri- p ticket was returned with the by a vigorous exercise of the material as well as of the immaterial thing. The checks. At the house, in each room the world would be wretched without lawriting desk was supplied not only bor. Rev. L. C. Shelp. with an ample 'stock of letter paper, engraved with the estate name, but also with a box filled .with postage Churches Vs. Saloons. , stamps of various denominations, inRecent statistics show that there are New cluding special delivery ones. A longYork city and 555 'churches in distance telephone, connecting with, That is to say,- - there 7,300 saloons. among other places, the station teleis one saloon for each 240 inhabitants graph office, made it possible to talk and one church for each 8,430 inhabitants; and there were 4,600,000 barrels or wire all over thecountry and quite impossible to pay for the service. On of beer consumed in the city last year, (the little guest- - card in each room, which wqs at the rale of two and a half barrels for each man, woman and j which gave the hours of meals and the schedule of mails and trains, was a Ut-- ! child. tie notice: Visitors are kindly request-- ; Draw Upon .Him. ed not to fee the servants. Finally, to When you hate used the power God icap the climax, on Sunday morning a has already given you, then ask for j maid brought to the young womans more, but not until then. You may be j door, on a tray which was loaded with presumptuous in asking,, but God is similar missives, a small envelope never improvident in giving. He is which She proffered with the simple able to do exceeding abundantly above message: For the church box. It all that we ask or think, or are worthy contained money for the offertory plate to receive, but it is for use, not for and one of these envelopes was left hoarding. Draw upon Him for service. ' with each guest. ts State Liable for Costs. It Is stated byjthe British Medical Journal that the .highest .criminal court in Magdeburg, Germany, recently' gave judgment in a trial at the in- -' 'stance of the state attorney, or Dr. Hirschfleld. whp was accused of having caused or, accelerated the death of a man whp had been 36 hours under his care whom he sent to the hospital, where, after treatment for eight days with large doses of - alcohol "and qul- -, nine, the patient died. The accused had administered no, alcohol.. The disease ,was stated- - to .have been serpus inflammation of the Cellular tissue of 1 the 'left arm, ushered ' ip by pyrexia (bipod poisoning). The district medi- offleerand tilie of the hospital tdaff attributed the death To&ie withhold-itof alcohol. In justification Dr. Hirschfleld pleaded' tha1: he believed alcohol to be mischievous in all diseases, taking away the patients strength. Smith of Marbach quoted Harnack of Halle and Drysdale of London, and there were two adjournments to procure an authoritative opinion from the General Medical Council of Saxony, which opinion called attention to the great change of medical opion-io- n as to the therapeutic value of alcohol, and upheld the principle that it is inadmissable to put any limit to the exercise of the individual judgment of the physician. There was a verdict of acquittal, and the state was made liable for the costs of the prosecution. A Gladstone on the Bible. t In a passage of great eloquence and beauty taken from his Introduction to the Peoples Bible, Mr. Gladstone thus speaks: - Heaven and earth shall pass away, - but my words shall not pass away. As they have lived and wrought, so they will live and work. From the teachers chair and from the pastors pulpit; in the humblest hymn that ever . mounted to the ear of God from be- 'ijieath a cottage roof, and in the rich - melodious choir of the noblest cathedral, their sound is gone out into all lands and their" words into the ends of Nor here alone, but in a the world. thousand silent and unsuspected forms - will they unweariedly prosecute their holy office. Who doubts that, times without number, particular portions of Scripture find their way to the human soul as if embassies frbm on high, each , with its own commission of comfort, 'of guidance, or of warning? What - crisis,- - what trouble, what perplexity of life bias failed or can fail to draw from treasure-hous- e its .jm inexhaustible proper suppli ? What profession, what position is not daily and hourly enriched by these words which repetition never weakens, which carry with them , now, as in the days of their first ut- terance, the freshness of youth and im-- . mortality? When the solitary student opens all his heart to drink them in, they will reward his toil. And in forms yet more hidden and withdrawn, in the retirement of the chamber, in the Btillness of the night season, upon the bed of sickness, and .in the face of death, the Bible will be there, its several words how often winged with their several and special messages, to heal and to soothe, to uplift and uphold, to invigorate and stir. Nay, more, perhaps, than this; amid the crowds - of the court, or the forum, or the street, or the market place, when every thought of every soul seems to be set upon the excitements of ambition, or of business, or of pleasure, there, too, even there, the still small voice of the Holy Bible will be heard, and the soul, aided by some blessed word, inay find wings like a dove, may flee away and be at rest," - ' ; , well-know- es i y, ! Barfed In an Oak THE Coffin Mecca of During n T War. The death of M, Henri Brest, whose name was celebrated many years ago in connection with the statue of Venus, now one of the great treasures in the Louvre museum, brings to mind some ranco-Prussia- interesting souvenirs connected with that statue, says an exchange. It was indeed M. Henri Brest who discovered the wonderful statue which had been unearthed by a peasant in the island of. Milo and who bought it of him for a mere song in 1$20. He soon sold it to M. de Marcellos, through whom it reached the Louvre. The wonderful statue remained undisturbed in the gallery of the Louvre, of which it was the principal ornament, till the Franco-Prussia- n war, in 1870, when the means of preserving it against the possible pillage of the Germans caused great anxiety to the curators. Few Englishmen are probably aware that the Venus dp Milo was on that occasion placed in an immense sort of padded oak coffin and buried mysteriously in a great trench made to receive it in the courtyard of the prefecture of police. This was done in the middle of the night, in the presence of very few witnesses, with the object of keeping the hiding place M the statue perfectly secret. It was thought by the officials of the Louvre ihat the statue was in perfect safety there; but their anxiety for the fate of the treasure was revived, .tter the signature of peace, by the outbreak of the commune and the setting fire to the prefecture of police and to the Palais de Justice opposite. Fortunately, however, when that insurrection had been put down the curators of the Louvre on once more unearthing the statue, found it had suffered no deterioration. The inscription on the pedestal of the Statue in the Louvre does not even 'mention the name of M. Henri Brest! It relates simply that it was bought by M. de Marcellus for the Marquis de Riviere, thq French ambassador, who presented it to King Louis XVIII. in Notes. hs n, A , brought them to the promised land of better The blue peter was the introduction to whist of a purely arbitrary signal or convention, and its seed has spread like a thistles, until it has entirely overrun the old game of calculation, and tenace, observation, position leaving in its place long suits, American leads, plain-su- it echoes, four signals and directive discards. These seem to have choked up all the dash, brilliancy, and individuality in our whist players, reducing them all to the same level not by increasing the abilities of the tyro, hut by curtailing the skill of the expert. MATCH BOXES FOR GIRLS. Auother of IT Mans Prerogatives Seized Upon by just-engag- one-side- just-engag- ' Mulberry Bend. As to the moral status of the streets west and north of Chinatown. I need scarcely do more than mention that Fooled. JOSEPH C. H. SWAN. THE SAGE, What makes you ored record in the army and is a man look so melancholy? Second Student noted for his scholarship as well as his I have been fooled. I asked my moral life and character. father to send me 60 marks to pay my tailor and a few days later I received Worth of a Curio the receipted tailors bill! -Fllegende A lady who was looking about in a c ' Blaetter. shop with a view to purchasing something old noticed a quaint figure, the head and shoulders of which Unless. "Hubly, What in the deuce did you appeared above the counter. What is mean by letting that note I indorsed that Japanese idol over there worth? she Inquired. Tae salesman replied in for you go to protest? Why, man, there was no other way unless I paid a eribdued tone: Worth about 19,000, amdaia; if the proprietor, tb thing. Detrojt Free Press. bric-a-br- - these are Mulberry, Baxter and Bayard, and that within a stones throw1 of Mott street 4s the notorious Mulberry Bend, for many years past the hiding place of criminals, and the last and lowest resort of the abandoned and vicious of both sexes. The tales of Mulberry Bend, that until recently assailed 'hs ears of the missionary are absolutely unrelatable, and to bo comprehended only by one used to the sight and knowledge of the lives of criminals eyd outcasts of the lowest possible character. Within the last few years tne police have driven out the worst itees of the region, but thr evil effects of those evils are athl to be seen there, and unfortunately tell sadly upon the Italians who have filled up the quarter. The Chinese of New York, by Helen F. Clark, in the November Century. .ArfJ f' t A UNEARTHING MARINERS TREASURE IN SOUTH AFRICA. a History The Old Po-tStone" Where Sailors Used to ave Tholr Betters Burled for Two , Centuries. A Stone With al $ ,r STONE has Just been unearthed in South Africa which bids fair to take its place among the historic stones of the world, in the estimation of the people of that part of the globe at least. It is the old Postal Stone, beneath which, for at least two centuries, the mariners who touched at what is now Cape Town were wont to deposit their letters to await the visit of the next homeward or outward bound vessel. It is of hexagonal shape, about five feet in diameter, and bears in old English lettering the date of 1622. After this homely auxiliary to the precarious letter carrying service of the time was superseded, and Cape Town sprung into being, it was lost sight of until the other day. Now it will be placed in a museum. There is no doubt about this stone being authentic, in which respect it differs from many another reputed find, like that, for instance, of the Runic stone which was dredged up in the harbor at Havre not long ago. This at first excited no end of speculation and controversy, as it was thought to be a relic of the old Viking settlers of Normandy. It subsequently transpired that it had formed part of a Norwegian exhibit at the Paris exposition in 1867, and had been lost overboard on its return to Norway shortly afterward. Though the Blarney stone the only and original was reputed to have been at the Chicago exposition, and is said to be yet in this country, the one in the castle wall of Blarney, which has been sanctified by the kisses of sip many generations of pilgrims, is still an view, as it has been near three hundred wars, since Cormac MacCarJjiys soft premises and delusive delays made his sieger, the Lord President, the laughing stock of Elizabeths court. Another example of the occasional fallacy of lapidary legend is furnished Stone of Job, situby the ated not far from Damascus. From time immemorial it has been asserted that it was upon this hard couch that the patriarch rested m the course of his wanderings. It was only recently that Its inscription was deciphered and found to refer to Raineses II., of Egypt, who flourished after Job had been dead and dust two hundred years. Probably there is no stone in the more legend clings world about-whicthan that upon which the rulers of England have been crowned since the days when Edward I. bi ought it'frijm Scotland to Westminster. This corone- t- .. tion stone is also called Jacobs Pillow and the Stone of Destiny. According to the most ancient traditions it was the stone on which Jacob slept when he bad his dream of the ladder, and was originally preserved in Solomons temple, whence it was conveyed to Egypt by Jeremiah. ds First Student L1 trary convention, but it has never just-engag- i A Flayers of the New S hool. There is a house in London which should be the mecca of all whist players who believe in the new school and the information game, a shrine before which they should bow respectfully as the fountain head of all that is modern in the game, says the MonthThis is 87 St. James ly Illustrator. street, and it is within sight of Marlborough house. Its fame rests chiefly on the fact that it was at one time known as Grahams club, and that within its walls Lord Henry Bentinck first introduced the blue peter, or signal for trumps, which consists of playing a higher card before a lower when no attempt is made to win the trick. That signal has been to the whist players of the world like the pillar of fire to the children of Israel. For more than forty years it has led them .up and down in the wilderness of arbi- IS DEAR TO MANY. A11 hand-paint- , Temperance IN WHIST. the New Woman. Until this year the match box has been the unquestioned, exclusive property of man, says the New York Journal. Never once did he .think of such 1321. a thing as the fairer sex borrowing It. He may have had a presentment of her MANY YEARS OF PREDICTION. laying claim to his necktie, but hie never. matchbox But the bicycle Joseph C. H. Swan, the Sage of t White girl, who makes whatever she wants a Feeble Man. Old Water, possible, has now laid siege, to mans Joseph C. H. Swan, the sage of nJatchbox. I! she contemplates riding White Water (Kansas), is in a feeble at night she needs matches to light condition and his services to the farm her lamp, and necessarily she must nS communities of the west have not then in a matchbox. That is the carry made him a rich man. Weather forereason that there are number of casting is not a profitable business and new match boxes this any which are year the old man is now traveling about the smaller and more dainty than anything country selling his book for a living Do girls buy Old Probe Swan was born in in this line seen before. was asked. a them? prominent jeweler of Wayne county,- Ind., where the city Richmond now stands on July 3, 1821. To which question he answered: Yes, The smaller sizes are made He came to Kansas in 1875. Mr. Swan indeed. particularly for their special use. The received little or no education, and tha: fact made a weather prophet of him. prettiest of the new match boxes for He began to make daily records of the girls are of gold with an enameled deweather and finally discovered that it coration. The enameling either takes moved in cycles of twenty years. The the form of a college or yacht club repetition of a severe frost in his flag or it resembles a twenty-seve-n miniature showing a girl on a wheel years of daily observation led him to go over his data, and or the head of a dog. Many of these to his surprise he learned that he was matchboxes are made with a concealed repeating or duplicating his past rec- recess for a photograph. It is only when ords. Making this discovery in Sepa certain spring is touched that the tember, 1863, the following January he picture can be seen so skillfully is it wrote a brief forecast to cover the next hidden away. The silver matchboxes, four years. After coming to Kansas he decorated with the outline of a tiny wrote an article or two for the press bicycle in enamel, are also new and and began to write for the Kansas farmuch less expensive. mer. His readers began to call for the She Was Not Silly. publication of his predictions and in The 1880 he printed a volume of prognostigirl was telling the cations covering forty-si- x years. He other girls all about it, or more claims that all his predictions have properly, him. Yes, she said, Im come true. Between his weather ric-orvery much in love, I know, but not in and his experiments he Is believed the blind, silly, illogical way that most by many to be the best posted man as girls are. Im not so far gone but to farming now living. He does his what I can see tHht he has defects forecasting from history, covering cenoh, lots of them both in looks and turies of the past in addition to the character. Im able to regard him, proof of his records. He has looked up thank goodness! from a perfectly imstatistics and meteorological reports as partial and dispassionate standpoint. far back as can be found in America. After which the girl proHe refused an appointment In the ceeded to go into detail. to According weather department some years ago, her impartial, statedispassionate preferring to remain at his home here ment he was, it seemed, handsome and be independent. He has an hon- - and amiable and clever and courageous and charming and See here, interrupted one of the other girls, Isnt How about those this rather many defects you said you saw so Please mention some of plainly? them? Well, said the girl, heroically, after a minutes silence, one of his front teeth is just a little New York Commercial Adcrooked. vertiser. i The 106th anniversary of the birth of Father Mathew, the apostle of temperance, was fittingly observed by various temperance organizations In the different cities. The chaplain of Auburn prison, New York, says: Directly or indirectly, of the prisoners there were eight-tentled to commit their crimes under the influence of drink. The warden of the state prison, Car-soNevada, in his report for 1893 and 1894, shows that of 77 prisoners only 6, or less than 8 per cent, claim to be temperate, "BLUE PETER Chinese Trust One Another. I have said that a Chinaman trusts his friends to an extent that we would consider almost imbecile. Among them money is loaned without interest and without written acknowledgment or witnesses. If a man is short and apto peals to his cousin or his friend will divide up friend that him, help without specifying a time for its re- payment. If the man is sick or poor, the creditor, in all probability, will never mention the matter again, and will certainly not ask for its return while the debtor refrains from gamb- ling or opium smoking, and honestly does his best. I have known men to be for a time without employment, and while they were trying to obtain it. If they conformed to the strict moral code of Chinese law, they were helped by the various cousins with gifts of money sufficient to support them until work was obtained; and not only to support themselves, but their families also And then, as turn about is fair play, they were expected to he equally generous with some one else. The Chinese of New York, by Helen F. Clark, In the November Century. Look to Your Shoes Why will women wear handsome gowns, beautiful hats, neat new gloves, aqd neglect their shoes as completely as if their feet were invisible? Can anything be uglier than unblacked boots, buttons off of laces ragged or untied? If Americans would learn the lesson that French women set them, they would not be under the suspicion of washing the outside of the platter. New York Evening Telegram. Water Hyacinths. Tides in the Sabine river carried a floating island of fifty acres of water hyacinths up and down stream past Orange, Texas, for a week. , -i .. iU A |
