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Show MARYSYALE, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 189R. II. VOL. WONDERS OF A WORLD A NEW OF THE MIGHTIEST THINGS. EDITION Electricity Changing the Whole Order of Unman ExUtence force and Factor Take the Place of Inani' mate Bodies. The ten wonders of the world, what are they today, within two years of the beginning of the twentieth century? If fifty persons were severally asked to mention the greatest ten wonders that confront the human race, it is quite unlikely that any two would give the same list. The Giants Causeway in Ireland, the Natural Bridge in Virginia, Niagara Falls and the circulation of the blood, formerly set down as belonging to the ten, would be passed by as accepted results of Nature s laws, no more to be wondered at than the flight of a bird or the drowning of a land lubber who topples over the bulwarks of a big seagoing liner. well-inform- ed Electricity and its widening field of service to mankind, It seems to the writsr, is entitled to about the foremost place in the list. Without the telegraph and telephone our swiftest modes of communication between distant cities on the same continent would be by railway trains, carrier pigeons or balloons, all subject to delays and uncertainties of weather or accident. On the sea, market quotations would travel by steamboat instead of flashing with the speed of thought for thousands cf miles through the depths of the watery wastes. Wonderful beyond the grasp of the mind is the quick dissemination of news, business orders and payments, and all kinds of information by means of the telegraph and telephone. Speed in transmitting and delivering such speaking and writing is greatly facilitated by stenography and the typewriter. Electricity drives trains, propels all kind3 cf machinery, cooks food, heats buildings, operates delicate recording instruments, puts Niagara's power to use in the distant city of Buffalo, lights cities, houses, stores, places of public assemblage, boats and mines. It has winked its glittering eye at its friend, the bicycle, in Ihv proud' knowledge that they as a pair have largely done, away with horses and rivaled steam travel. And the silent bike the double hoop-snakas a Western Indian called the first one he saw has quietly announced that its rider is the advance agent of good roads all over the world. long-distan- e, The printing press might be called the second wonder. Without it including the typewriter as one form ( f press our mode of putting our thoughts on paper would be writing. This would carry us back to a primitive condition. The teeming thoughts of a million writers could never be imparted to the understanding of hundreds of millions of readers without the wonderful agency of the press. It3 power in molding the character of nations and communities is immeasurable, its greatest agency being the The preacher, the doctor, newspaper. r, the lawyer, the sheriffs, soldiers, courts, producers, workingmen, teachers and idlers all have special lines, but the newspaper has a wider field than any of these. It reflects the operation of them all. It is the mirror of the world. law-make- Modern transportation is the third The bodies of living and wonder. dead men and animals are swung across continents, and over rolling oceans, like the fleecy clouds that fly We are so used to along overhead. this that we do not pause to think of it as a wonderful exhibition of mans controlling power on land and sea, but it i3 none the less wonderful. Look at the flight of the fast mail3 on the American continent, or In Europe. See yonder gold digger, crossing the blazing equator, sitting in his bunk room beside an outfit of Arctic clothes he will wear in less than a month far north of Juneau. He is trotting around the bulges of the earth like a flee crawling on an apple. W wonder no more at his world-wid- e journey for gold than we would at a farmers trip to the back forty for a load of pumpkins. Wonderful journeys are made in balloons, but they, too, hve ceased to excite surprise. The economy in the saving of products used for food and in the mechanical and industrial arts i3 the fourch wonder. Nowadays nothing goes to waste. The parts of a steer slaughtered at Chicago or Kansas City at one of the great killing and packing establishments may go in forty different directions to be applied to as many uses, but not an iota of that valuaale animal is thrown away. Paper is made largely of waste material and constructed Into thousands of beautiful and useful articles, from pen holders to car wheels. An ingenious man Las Just discovered a process by which he cities into transforms t.ie garbage a high grade of coal. Another inventor has outdone the alchemists by making gold from common metals. Restaurant keepers in the great cities grow rich on profits of a cent a meal because nothing is allowed to go to waste, either by the wholesaler or the restauranteur, who play into each others hands to use all the cheap meats. Economy is practiced in heating, lighting, the application of power in factories, and in the shifts of large bodies of men employed by big factories. As the population of nations and the world multiplies hundreds of fold, the wonder as to the means by which these people will all 'subsist will be explained by that one word, economy. Chemistry and microscopy are doing much to keep the food of the human race pure and wholesome; mineral storehouses, for the use o CAMPFIRE SKETCHES. The earlier finds of precioui metals have been outdone by the air plied uses of gases and oils of latei aOQD SHORT STORIES FORTHE years. Crude petroleum made it posVETERANS. sible for John D. Rockefeller to become the most powerful business man In a IlnridH'i Jolt on Grant II Gave nil great nation. Natural gas gave westa Clear That Made Him Superior a ern Pennsylvania new life and for flick Twenty Thousand few years changed Pittsburg from ' 4adT Old. althe smoky city to a place most without smoke. The mme fuel Tho Mound by the Lake. rushing through pipes in supplies that man. . oe-in- g seam inexhaustible, has dotted eastern Indiana with factory tov-n- s that rival the manufacturing dis'ricts cf England and Wales. The fields of th Klondike region have c- - me opportunely into notice, like a separate mineral wonder, to give employment and hope to needy thousands of I Vj people. The development of hidden forces is This may be said to be connected with the insanity of genius. The ancients believed that there were four principles in man, and that their destiny was the flesh to earth, the ghost to the tomb, the soul to hades and the spirit to heaven. A ghost, according to the rules of phantasy, ought to be without matter or form, or indeed any sensible properties. Yet are very serious tales related of guns bursting when fired at them and swords broken by their contact, and of loud voices issuing from filmy phantoms through which the moonbeams are seen to glimmer. A spirit ought, of course, to communicate with us in another way than that which we know, and possess those etheral faculties of creeping through chinks or keyholes, and of resuming its airy form, like the sylph of Belinda, when the glittering ferfex had cut it in twain. The prophecy of specters has never been doubted by many persons supposed to enjoy sanity of mind. The shade of Romulus appeared to JuliJ3 Proculus, a patrician, foretelling of Rome. The fate of the battle cf Philippi was shown to Brutus in his tent by the evil spirit of Caesar; and Cassius also saw the phantom of Julius on his horse, prepared to strike him, shortly before his suicide. In the Talmud ve read of the announcement of the Rabbi Samuels death to two of his friends six hund-e- d s miles off. There is no greater thatr Yhe mystery of death''.' In that awful moment when the spirit is soon to burst from its cell of clay, the mind is prone to yield to these feelings which it might perhaps in the turmoil of the busy world and at another period deem superstition. There is something in the approach of death of so holy and so solemn a nature, something so unlike life in the feeling of the dying, that in this transition, although we can not compass the mystery, some vision of another world may steal over the retiring spirit, imparting to it a proof cf its immortality. As in these extreme moments of life, so in the hour cf extreme danger, when an awful fate is impending and the world and our sacred friendships are about to be lost to us; a vision of our absent friends will pass before us with all the light of ical-it- another wonder of the world. woi-dertO- y. The sixth wonder in my list is the appearance of women within a short time in nearly all cf the fields of human endeavor formerly occupied exclusively by men. They are weaker, they admit, but machinery assists them in the factories, and the courtesy of men helps them along in the profesWomen now sions and in business. are clerks In stores, operatives in factories, waiters in hotels, telegraph operators, candy makers, cigar makers, brush makers, watch makers. They teach nearly all the school children of America, write for newspapers and magazines, set typo, sell tickets for railroad corporations, form the largest parts of theatrical troupes, and work in art, music and making all kinds of fancy goods for big dry goods and department stores. They instruct at bicycle schools and natatoriums, ride the mowing machine, stack straw, and occasionally drive street cars and work at new railroad grading. Thousands of young men in every great city complain that they cannot find employment owing to the competition waged successfully against them by young women. The mighty army of youthful ladies as a rule detest domestic service. If they marry they must learn after marriage how to mix the batter for their first batch of pancakes. Like an invading army, driving the men before them, this volume of women sweeps on while we step aside and wonder what the end will be of such a movement, which i3 a new problem in the worlds history. Some social students attribute the vices of our large cities as the natural result of the congregation within their borders of so many bachThis conclusion may elor women. he erroneous, but the disagreeable fact remains that many of the young men are still searching for employment, with little hope of success. ever-increasi- The seventh wonder comprehends the startling discoveries of natures HE grass shall never forgot this grave. When homeward footing It in tho sun After the weary ride b? rati, The stripling soldier passed her door. Wounded per-chano- e, or wan to the crest of the walls cf CuViaus, nearly all were of antique model ami Inferior caliber, practically useless in modern demonstration, but over upon Morros walls, half a mile away, as they were told, there were rows of big new guns, especially just to the right or eastward of tho castle. And so having shown an interest in the matter, the party must go over to Morro, traversing covered ways and long open spaces in the noonday heat. All might have gone well, however, but, unhappily, Grant ran out of cigars. He searched despairingly through his sundry pockets, but, alas! all in vain. Then came Sheridans opportunity, the chance he had been waiting for, after a long and varied experience of Grants marked fondness for telling army yarns at his expense. lie had a cigar. It was not particularly large or obstrusive. Just a regular A1 Havana, but oh! It was black and rich and wicked looking. Sheridan had been shown through a tobacco factory the previous day. While he waited this cigar was made for him, and he carefully put it away and smiled a contented little smile. So General Grant, with a deep, happy sigh of relief, touched a match to General Sheridans, and Sheridan he lagged and gyrated like a bad little boy who has put a lack on his teacher's chair, it took a little time for the strongest cigar ever made In Cuba to get In its deadly work upon a old smoker llko Grant, and Sheridan began to grow despondent. but joy once more suffused his rugged but features as ho saw his old commander, with a pallid face, talking hurriedly with the interpreter, a funny mixture of English and West Point Spanish, and a moment later he collapsed Jn the shade of a wall. There was Instant alarm among all who gathered around, and even the Jolly Sheridan got a bit rattled at his own success, but lie only winked solemnly at tlie secretary and said Tell em to keep quiet and give him air. Hell be all right In five minutes. I thought it would fetch him. Grant was all right. Indeed, as soon as he got up among the jumble of defenses at the top of Morro castle, where the cool sea winds blew some of that nicotine out of his lungs, and ho gazed at Sheridan with a deep Indigo look of suspicion, but he smoked no more unlUthe .next uioiniug,- - - and pale. The universal spread of the English She left her house-- h o d work unlanguage is the eighth wonder. It It done spoken to some extent everywhere. Duly the wayside table spread, Wherever it becomes the language ol With evergreens shaded, to regalo travel-spea a nation it' carries with it highei Each and grateful one. It is the Bo warm her heart childless unwed, civilization and citizenship. Wh like a mother comforted. language that brings with It the diffusion of knowledge. It Is for peace, A Battle 80,000 Year Ago. commerce, the brotherhood of man. Twenty thousand yaers ago, accord ing to the announcement of Prof. Wa. The ninth wonder is the worlds fair tersj the archaeologist,, a terrible batmethod of educating the people. tle was fought on the Arkansas river, Worlds fairs have come to stay as a in the Indian territory, between the popular form of education. They en- mound builders and the Mayas, in which over 75,000 warriors bit :h gender good will among the nations. dust, says the Detroit Free Press, lie has reached this remarkable concluThe tenth is the wonder we feel reflect on the centralization o! sion on account of his investigation of wealth, population, commerce, power, a prehistoric burying ground in the art and skill in the great cities. Sci- Choctaw Indian country, which he has ence, which plays on the keys of skill found to cover thirty acres and to rewards the city in wlicse libraries and contain fully 75,000 skeletons. His atlaboratories it has gained Its expcri tention was first called to the remarkNo small part of thil able number of human skeletons to be knowledge. Is the provision made for sci- found there several months ago, when reward entific sanitation, the preventive the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf which keeps the population at Hit railway was built through the Choctaw dense centers from rotting cn masse country. The workmen, in gradins, brought to light tons of human bones s and a remarkable number of COLLECTORS ARE VANDALS. of savage warfare, and Prof. Floods Aro YVttliuu. Walters set about to investigate the The llook-lTut- e matter scientifically. To his amazeIteaaon or Honor. ment he found a large tract literally of Miss Jenkins Bath, England, to answer for. Long since dead underlaid wdth these relics of a forgotthe potency of her example is nor. ten race. The skulls were pierced abroad in very appreciable degree, ray with darts or arrow heads, one specithe New Y'ork Timc3. In 1820 she ha1 men containing thirteen moss agate they become a devout collector of bool jprow points. This proved that were in .a3ei ,Artle skeletons plates the fint of fi, .Joas. anjJ m Sand and abtfYe thb ing line and, while others might hav sand were two distinct strata formed u taken up the pursuit had she failed These facts en- do so, the opprobrium of founding thl. in geological periods. to abled Prof. Walters compute approxindustry seems to belong to her. the battle when the period imately It is possible to understand stain; occurred. He has the facia completed it of to the see and utility collecting of seventhe result with learned Just especially for the young, who ncct teen years previous study of fhe knowledge of states and geography; o mound builders, and formed the theory he the Grangerite, fer produces unique battle was one of a long and curious copies of books; or tin that the series of sanguinary encounters beto do for he aims publi tween Bowdlcrizer, that mysterious race and the morality some service. But what bee which latter race came from Mayas, efit to hi3 own mind cr the minds o South America and sought and Central hivn collector others can the book plate of North America. to possession gain to accomplish through the pastime o' books ai from extracting plates Sheridan Joke ou Grant. True, lx mounting them elsewhere? From the New York Sun: They lx few werse but a do might tli.ngs, had done Florida that is, as much might also engage in very many tb.v would be better. We have long feared of the peninsular state as people gensc-seventeen years the ravages be would ultimately in- erally managed to and the ago, party, composed of Genflict. Here is a record from Literature of his work in London that com eral Grant, General Sheridan, their wives, two nieces of Mrs. Grant, the firms the worst fears. soli"The most deadly modern enemy oi secretary, Byron Andrews, and a the down had Just voyaged tary artist, the London stall is undoubtedly tht an for coast, stopping evenings gulf growing cult of book plate collecting send-ofand a very lively time It Thousands of octavos and duodecimos at West, and now they were was, Key the little eighteenth century classics, hound in calf series like the Tattler domiciled in Havana. Grants perpetwas a pillar of cloud early and Spectator, and books like Thom- ual cigar and a twinkle of lire sons Seasons, with Westalls plates in theat morning The Cuban colony late night. :!u to to which used formerly drift West had stoml at Key barrow, are now destroyeifor the bool, Uicir staterooms full of their choicest Is deaa There contain. plates they while the famous manufacturlers shop within sound of St. Paul's goods, ers of Havana had all brought nut where any uay one may see numbers brands, sending sample hunof these innocents massacred merely special to the palace for the approval of dreds for their armorial plates, and it is the two famous soldiers, it would questionable whether even Grangerizhave been a breach of etiquette to kep ing led to the ruin of a larger numbm a check upon ones smokirg unde: of books than the now flourishing hob- such tempting conditions. So the by of the book plate collector. American visitors puffed away at Moral suasion alone can be invoked countless incomparable cigars while to arrest the growth of this practice the gayly clad officers of the jfLla.ee Editors may denounce the culprits Household rolled their cigarettes and preachers may appeal to their bettei wondered how long the famous smoknature, the conscience of the book er could keep It up. world may be Invoked to stay their Presently there came a day when hands. The time has indeed come the program Included a visit to the when the cause should enlist support- lofty fortress of Cabanas, over the hay. ers. The heavy state barges rowed the brilWhat after all can be the charm oi liant little party across the breezless this vice? Why should any human harbor, and, oh! it was hot. They being possessing a book that once was cV.mbed the zig-za- g path which leads Washingtons or Paul Reveres or By- up to the portal cut Into the grim rons deliberately separate the plate front of the great military prison, from the book, thus lessening the in- which was, even then, nearly filled terest, and, we should think, the value with prisoners of state. They were of both? Compared with this pursuit, shown through courts, deep, dark pascollecting door plates would seem to sageways, parades, barracks and prisbe honorable and collecting coffin ons, which fill the Whole vast interior of this great, gloomy, terrible place. plates understandable. General Pocurul, then commandant of Cabanas, paraded the troops with a Remarkable Old Kleptomaniac The French have produced the most fine fanfare from a bugle squad, and remarkable kleptomaniac on record. then lunch was served at headquarThis is an old lady named Bide, whose ters, high up on the battlements, coma grand view of the city and passion for smoking has impelled her manding village-dotte- d country, which in those to pilfer pipes from Parisian shop; with such industry that no fewer than days presented a prosperous and beauGeneral Grant saw tiful appearance. 2,600 were found in her lodgings. All ?verything and smoked on faithfully. were meerschaums, and thirty-nin- e Ge noted that of the hundreds of can-ao- n 4 were well covered. planted everywhere, from the water batteries beneath the palms far It i3 not the best fighter but the best 'jdow, up along the precipitoun atopes runner that wins the ooiitical battle. 1 nt at-w- imple-menT- ttuluned well-season- rub-cun- A Slkli Keglnicut n Parade. Sikh regiment on parade Is a spectacle which offers some points ( f difference when contrasted with most European armies with which the unprofessional observer may be familiar. When first seen in the distance they present the appearance of a long scarlet band of uniform thickness, supported by slender black lines; as they approach they are seen to be unusuald fellows unily tali, formed in red tunics, and with great red turbans which increase their apblack parent height, while close-fittin- g gaiters accentuate the thinness of their legs. Whoever has watched the drill of the Grenadier Guards in London may form an idea of the precision which seems to be the standard of the sikhs. They may be, perhaps, a shade more rigid in their good form, with an appearance of greater effort, due to the fact that European discipline la as yet to them like a strange garment to the wearer. The observer will not bo olow in realizing that, he has before him not only a different race, a different but of the species human animal. As in Europe there does not exist at the present day a strictly military caste, the conscripls who people the casernes are drawn at haphazard from workshops, farms, and from the slums of cities, and do not impress one, save in the case of a few bodies of men, as having any special aptitude for the calling of arms. These men, tall, sinewy and athletic, supple and feline in their movements, are evidently endowed with a peculiar fit' ness for their vocation, and look as if little were needed to arouse their traditional instincts. In the average regiments of the Punjaub no men are taken under five feet six Inches In Inches around height, and thirty-thre- e the chest; in some regiments none un- er ve ee- seven hut judging from the strapping fellows In the Sikh regiments, their standard must be still higher. Although the Pathans and Sikhs are usually given the first rank for soldierly qualities and bearing, the Goorkahs, of Mongolian race, from the hills of Nepal and Assam, ere nearly if not quite as efficient. E. L. Weeks. A black-bearde- e f, cigar-make- NUMBER 44. rs s The Spider's Threutl An eminent naturalist says that every thread of what we call the spldeis web is made up of about five thousand If a pound of this separate fibers. thread were required it would occupy thousand spiders nearly twenty-eiga full year to furnish it. The author of this statement does not Inform us how long the thread would be, but it is safe to say that it would reach several times around the universal world. ht Montreals foreign trade was over greater in October than in $2, 000,000 the corresponding year. year month laat PAYING INVESTMENTS BUILDING AND LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATIONS LEAD; A l.e Percentage of Failure Than Bank, ltallroada or Insurance Law Enacted In Tlielr Interi'it Court In New The Regard Them With Increased l'avor. For several years the feeling has been spreading in the West, as well as lu the East, that speculative investments are seldom desirable for wage earners or people of moderate means, and men and women of this class have been turning their attention to safe, regular and legitimate business invest inents. In view of this fact it speaks well for building and loau associations that during tills period they have steadily increased their membership nnd capital, while t lie business of other kinds of ilnnueial corporations has greatly decreased. According to recent official reports, the national banks have an aggregate paid-ucapital of $650,000,000, owned while thj by 288,000 stockholders, building and lonu associations have a paid-ucapital of $607,000,000, owned by 2,500,000 stockholders. The number of stockholders in the latter exceeds those in the former nearly ten to one. The comptroller of the currency shows that during the past four years the capital stock of national banks has decreased more than $10, 000,000, while (heir assets decreased 1240,400,584, and the records in most lines of business show a greater decrease than In the ease of national banks. How Is it with building and loan associations? There are fourteen states that issue official reports, representing more then 70 per cent, of the active associations of the country. In his bulletin, issued In May, 1807, the commissioner of labor says: Comparing the figures for fourteen states for the period covered by the ninth annual report of the commissioner of labor, tlie fiscal year of the associations ending nearest to January 1, 1893, with the figures for those fourteen states ns shown by recent state reports for 1805-6- , a growth is shown in The number of every Item. associations reporting, which represents practically all active associations a year old or over, had Increased from 4,443 to 4,531, or 2 per cent. The shares outstanding had Increased from 9,500,-75- 5 to 0,085,000, or 5 0 per cent.; and the Installment dues paid in, plus paid up and prepaid stock, nnd profits had Increased from J370.471.280 to or 21 0 per cent. this great Increase Notwithstanding in assets, these associations during the pnst year have paid to withdrawing members and on stock that has matured, more than 5134,000,000. Since 1803 the records show that 149 national banks failed, involving In assets and $22,745,020 In cnpital. During tho same time 134 building and loan associations hnve failed, involving assets of $14,211,000. or $51,323,381 less than was Involved In the 149 nntlonnl hank failures. Another feature shows a still greater disThe stockholders of the crepancy. failed national hanks, out of $84,842,-00- 0 of paid In capital and assessments, have only received in cash the sum of $1,117,384, which Indicates that their holdings have little or no value in the event of failure. On the other hand, the assets of the associations, which are almost exclusively invested in first mortgages upon real estate, are tangible nnd usually repay to shareholders, iu any event, a large per cent, of their Investment. Since 1803 there have been 523 failures of this class of hanking institutions, involving assets of $.84,303,745. They have paid their depositors less lhan 25 per cent., while in nearly every instance tlie loss of the stockholders has beeu total. The records of the national hoard of fire underwriters show that 827 Joint stock fire companies have failed within tlie pnst few years, involving a paid-u- p capital of $117,312,033 nnd aggregate assets of $101,878,452. nnd the most of these companies failed to pay their creditors in full, while their stockholders met with a total loss. Compared with these tlie losses of building nnd loan associations are insignificant. The commercial failures during the pnst four years have boon enormous. Duns revleiv shows that during 1S9G the ratio of defaulted liabilities to clearing house exchanges was $4.37 per $1,000 and that tlie ratio in 1893 was $0.39 per $1,000, with losses almost as great for the two intervening years. These statistics show that tlie failures of national banks during the past four years are about five times greater than those of building and loan associations, and that tho percentage in other lines Is very much greater. A careful review of recent legislative enactments and decisions In state and federal courts shows that building and loan associations are constantly coming into high favor. Laws are made for the express purpose of promoting and fostering them. The associations offer one of the best plans upon which to borrow money, for since the loan is constancy reduced in amount by monthly payments, tho property is certain to become free from the debt. The record shows that the proportion of the foreclosures in the associations is very small as compared with the plan of borrowing for a term of years, the principal nil falling due at one time. And now, surveying the home situa, tion, the New Years editions of Colorado newspapers have surprised everyone with their showing of tlie marvelous production of the state. In the new era of development which is opening so prosperously we may expect to see building and loan investors reap continuous and constantly increasing profits. Rocky Mountain News. p p $449,-643,04- $05,-534,3- |
