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Show OUK BUSINESS GUIDE. Directory for those wishing the address of any of the following business men of Provo. Decker Q, Co., Fruit and Produce. C. F. J. L'l wm. Provo City, Utah. Beck, Watches end Jewelry J Ca.pifo.1, $100,000 I J3Y FREDERICK ED e L. SOOT- H- TUCKER. DIRECTORS: John T. Ta.yIor Reed Smoot E. Loose...... Groceries and Provisions L. Avenue, Provo. 335 So. Academi 518 Dooly Block, Vice-Presid- J. Holbrook. Wm. Knight, Roger Farrer, Geo. Taylor, ar, John R. Twelves. JOS, T. FARRER. Cwtkicr. Architects. Salt Take City. General banking business transacted Safe deposit boxes for rent. PB0FE3SI0NAL. Do It Now PROVO, See The D. D. IIOVTZ ATTOKNEY-AT-LA- Nos. 1, 2 and Farrer Block 3 Provo City, Ufah Attorney-at-La- Practicea Law eral Courts. fn SXBWZBSSMm SOOTH -- TUCKER, Electric Co. 38 BB work of the army of which mine Is the honor to be commander, lies vy, And get them to figure on wiring your house for electric lights. It is the only clean, safe and reliable JACOB EVANS, w. the State and Fed method of lighting. Office. 95 N, Academy Avenue Offices, rooms 3, 4 and 5 Knight block, Both Fhonea 37-- 2 Rinjf Provo City, Utah. TELEPHONE NO. 91 T. State THURMAN KAIGIIN D. F. WALKER BUILDING SALT LAKE CITY HARVEY CLUFF A. L. BOOTH BOOTH & CLUFF ATTORNEYS-AT-LA- ROOMS 5 EATES-SNO- W nd S BUILDING. Bank of Provo W. II. Brereton, Pres., John Marwick, Cashier, Alva Nelson, Asst. Cashier, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA- Provo, Utah Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Drafts on all Parts of the World. Opposite the P. 0. on Academy Avenue. EGLESTON PROVO'S LEADING SHOEMAKER 123 N. ACADEMY VOLUNTEER of. AMERICA. COMMANDER President C. BcrcK Watkins I. AVENVE largely with the poor. We are better acquainted with every item of their real life, their surroundings, their vicissitudes, than anyone could be who did not go into their homes and live wUh them their daily life. Marriage conditions among the poor have formed the theme of much of my personal research and of many of the repmts made to me. It is one of the great one of the very great and very grave questions of the day. Marriage .among the rich may mean any one of many things. It may mean social or financial advancement; It may be a mere matter of convenience; it may be the outcome of idleness and 'propinquity. But marriage among the poor is the most By making marriage cogent means of reform. universally possible among those who are not blessed with an abundance of this wo: Id's goods the most deadly blow imaginable would be dealt to vice. The greatest step would by such means be taken toward vices utter elimination. Marriage is an honorable estate and "not to be entered into lightly. But, too often, under present conditions, the poor man cannot afford to enter into It at all. Yet he, perhaps far oftener than his wealthier brother, recognizes the "honorable condition of that estate." I say this advisedly. Among the poor Infidelity Is far lesB frequent than among the rich. The poor man and his wife hold the marriage relation more sacred than do those of greater worldly wealth. It Is therefore doubly unfortunate that a class so worthy of the blessings of matrimony should be so frequently debarred from those blessings; that the people who maintain the sanctity of the marriage tie and who, moreover, bring up larger families as a rule than do persons better able to afford to do so, should be forced to remain single while men and women whose marriages are of no advantage to the community nor to posterity may wed at will. Conditions among the poor are in many rases such that the rearing and the keeping together On every of a family are rendered impossible. had the poor man's efforts to establish and maintain the sacred relations of matrimony are discouraged. How, for instance, can a poor man take to himself a wife when the cost of living is so high that he can barely support life in himself? How can he ask a woman to share his lot when he knows he may at any time be thrown out of woik and peiliaps be obliged to watch her starve? How can a man lear a family when the chances may lie all against his being able to maintain it? For a nun. cannot maintain a family when he has no work. The sight of o starving wife and children has drhen many a man to desperation even to crime. Yet it Is (he right of the poor to have a home. With them that right is as iual'emhle and perhaps more precious than with t'm rich. And social conditions should be eo arretr'cel as to allow the poo: to escaie from the bi doi of vice Those through the blessi d bom of nv.: L. .1. conditions, which are ren1 'ling mania "c among a.e oveiy the poor more and more lnpu.-n.ble- , eav bring'ig more and n ore sin into the woild I r.nlrtain most ?tu r'i that I'.mro is a re a 1j for site. And tint : on 'y con.si ts in making maniage a mule i v a F ptor uni li ro hi ing for such peni'.o a home In this eouutiy, it ie turn, there is a b'khtor side to the quesibn ha 1 in Kure.jc, us may bo proved fiom statirlus In London out of every 1,0,10 n am. iae.il. 721) are unmniried. More generally speaking, lms than 01m tail'd f the man'iag'mb.e oiml.il.on of London (the largest city of the woild) enter the state of matrimony. Moro than twothiids are single. The conditions for marriage there are all against the poor nmn and woman. They may fall in love as utterly as could any millionaire, but the gates of the Eden of matrimony are dosed against them and guarded by the flaming sword of poverty. They may sigh for marriage, but they realize that such a luxury Is far und away above their means. In this country the marriage Blatistics are almost exactly the opposite of Londons. Here about of the marriageable population are married, leaving barely a third unwed. The explanation of this difference between the two countries is, of course, easy to find. It consists in the' hotter wages, the increased chances for work, the general conditions which prevail 1 1 1 or-so- 1 two-third- s It is easier for the poor to live her than in London, but every year it is growing less easy. In proportion with the poor man's growing inability to support a wife, vice proves itself to be on the increase. This advance in vice is found even in the west, and there, us well as in tho east, it is due to the growing financial disability In America. to marry. During my recent visit to Kansas City several married women applied to me for positions on On investigation I She Salvation Army farms. learned that they had not heard front their husbands for jenrs. I made inquiries, and in each case found that r of the family, unable to get the work, had gone away, penniless, to seek a livelihood elsewhere, and had been forced to leave his wife and little ones to shift for themselves. Tho ttoiies were profoundly pathetic. For they told of men and women whose right to wed and rear families was inalienable and yet who had been forced to art from ail that each held dear, loveity, not more merciful death, them did part. Can any situation bo Imagined that would bo more crushing to a man of heart and of prlda than to he forced thus to condemn to poverty and loneliness the woman he loved? Could witnesses to such a tragedy requite a stronger deterrent 10 ni"t rimniu ? There is far more suffering of this kind among the poem than (lie wen Id nt large ever hears of. Poor peetple aie proud, and mo.--t of them have a a sletnnie love ef home. 1 have seem whole familu's leni n themselves to preibable death soe nrr limn to allow Hair homes to ho broken up. .it d.i'cl of tlu u.ifoitnnato poor is lest Tlie their chUehou be taken: away from them and committed to an institution. "Homicide, or the loeneleing up of the home, is to the poor man what tcoeieh is to oul subji'i'ts of any king. s Finn: a M'luologieuil standpoint there are for allowing tlm poor man to have a home and family. It Is IiIb right. He Is fonder of ills children, as a rub1, than .is his iieh neighbor. Ulb home is dearer to him. Home ties ara his only jojs, his only recreation. When 1 find n man starving and unable to supin tea: ing out port ids lamily I do not the t breaking up of hil his hea: by proposing home and tho commitment of his children to an institution. suggest to him rather, that he go into the country, where weak is more plentiful , and I try to find the means and living for him to do so. maxim to solve the marriage Perhaps the the poor is: problem among "Place waste labor on waste land by means ol wasle capital, and thereby convert the trinity of wasto Into a unily of production." (Copyright, by Joseph H. HowIi-- ) wage-earne- 1 i many-auinneiit- 1 elie-aper- , Farmers and Merchants Bank PROVO, UTAH OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. Thomas N. Taylor, President; HMner J. Rich, Vice President; J. D. Dixon, Cashier; James A. Loveless, Robert Bee, John J. Craner, Andrew Knudsen, Simon P. Eggertsen, Wm. R. Wallace. Business General Banking Transacted. Interest paid on time deposits. Safety deposit boxes for rent. Drafts issued on all parts of the world. Impbif IF BOt iADYERTI! AND CET.IT V 5Z WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. EACH 17AHTED-- A T0WI RIDER AGEflTs district and exhibit a everywhere art sample Latest Model Ran er bicycle furnished by us. Our agents once. offer at Wrste and special tasking: money fast. for full particulars NO MONhk REOU1KED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U7S. without a cent deposit in advance, prtpav freight, anc, allow TEN OAFS FREE TRIAL dunng which time you may nde the bicycle anc, If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to put it to any test you wish. be out one cent, keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will notit ts possible to make FJIATA&V Delate We furnish the highest grade bicycles cost. You save $10 above actual factory lAvl vnV rnlvtv at one small profit the manufacturer's guar, to las middlemens profits by buying direct of us and have a of from anyone a or tires BUY DO bicycle NOT pair antue behind your bicycle. at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory to offers rider agents. Prices and remarkable special when you receive our beautiful catalogue ana YQy VklLL CE ASTvOliStlLD Study our superb models at the wonderfully lew prices we can make you tins year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money We are satisfied with $i oo profit above factory cost. than any other factory. BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at filled the diy received. doubleour prices. Orders second hand bicycles, but SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle stores. These we clear out usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail lists mailed free. 10. to or Sit baigatn S3 Descriptive promptly at prices ranging from imported roller chain and pedaia, parts, repair and (ingle wh equipment of all iandi at half the usual retail trices. BYJfiKCjflUECEYHDEPEVf. UNITED STATES SENATOR, FROM. NEW YORK ECENTLY a young lady who had just come back from a months honeymoon called on me, "How do you like matrimony? I asked. "I am utterly wretched, she replied. I asked her why. "Because I did not try It sooner." And that speech of hers, frivolous as It may appear, sounded the keynote of the marrying question far more truly and resonantly than could the sneering epigrams of a world full of cynics. I bear unqualified testimony to the fact that the man who passes his life in what is miscalled single blessedness has missed most of lifes pleasures. Life at 20 even at 30 may seem pleasant a man without a wife to share its to enough triumphs and failures. The world is young. There is much to distract and amuse. Home perhaps seems "a place to go when all the other places Friends are plentiful; relatives and are closed. immediate family are about him. But when a man reaches middle or old age? Friends are not so many nor perhaps so disine terested as at 20. pleasures lack their zest. !, Blessed, thrice blessed, then, is the man who has home, wife and children to ease that last stage of lifes long climb. Most miserable of morHEDQERIOHB PUHCTSRE-PDGO- F tals Is he who must look forward to a loveless and lonely old age. TIRES Annexing a wife and family in youth Is merely The rejealar retail price of these tires is a higher and wiser form of putting money in per pair , but to introduce we will sellyouasamplepairior$4.SOash vnthorder$4SS). hank. No other investment yields such Interest if 0 MORE TROUBLE FROM P8KCT0SES in later years. I et a man marry just as soon as he can supNAILS, Tacks or Class will not let the last year. air eat. Sixty thousand pairs sold Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use, port a wife. The youth who puts off this great DESCRIPTION! Made in all sizes. It is lively step In order that he may search through the and easv ruling, very durable and hnedinsidewittt world for an "affinity" is foolish. In the search a special quality of rubber, which never becomes snowthe thick rubber tread he is more than liable to pass by his true affinity Notice porous and which closes up small punctures without satts- A' and punctnre strips H' ing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from and to choose at last a wife whom no stretch of been pumped and D," also rim strip H noniorethaa to prevent rim cutting. This Imagination could twist into an affinity for anysn ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being gwen tire will outlast any other one. The traditional man who wandered for days on make SOFT, ELASTIC and by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric but the lor of EASY K1UING. tread. The regular price .these tires is 5Per pair, through a forest looking for material for a cane, edvertisingpurposeswearemakingaapecialtactoypnceto We Bin C o T os and who at last picked up a crooked stick, was the rider only 4 per if that crooked stick did not turn out per fSir) if you fortunate pnee to be a snake. and enclose this advertisement. We will also send out ORDER WITH send FULL CASH if for any reason they are r plated brass hand pump. Tires to the rfitWreli.ble expense sent to hit upon his ideal A man is just as likt-l-y nickel to us is as safe as in and mTmey not aatiafactory on examination. We are ... run rale w,U faster, eaer, early in life as later on. My advice, then, as you bank. If you order a pair of these llhatjhey wear better, the supposititious mans lawyer, is: "Don't wait. know that ; Marriage halves ones privileges and doubles We want you ' TereY troubles is an idiotic saw probably Invented ones at trial and on approval TIRES Hedgct h6rn Jntf uPr Tire and Sundry IF YOU Catalogue which by a bachelor. There is too much talk of this the special iotnxluctorr price quoted abover write P. describes and quotes all makes nd kind, ofttres at bo U Men sort. a speak of matrimony as a millstone Tul?j op BrTnfo bicycle tied abcut the neck of youth. The lives of the world's most successful men give the lig to this 1 fmU SELHSEAUHG ' Old-tim- wr -- W Fffl IL BEAD CYCLE CQMIiY, CHICAGO, ILL fallacy Search the lives of the men who have made history, of the men who have achieved true greatness, who have won fame, who have acquired wealth. The vast majority of them were married. Of these the greater part married young. Their wives, instead of transforming themselves into shapely but heavy millstones and dangling about the galled necks of their liege lords, have, In nine cases out of ten, done more than all other influences combined to crown their husbands lives with success. Nearly all great men who have been married would confess they owed much of their fame or wealth to their wives. There are, of course, obstacles to happiness in mar: led life. So also are there reefs and slumls in the Atlantic. But the sailor does not for that reason become a landsman. He studies the shoals and learns to avoid them. Tho pitfalls in matrimony can far more easily be studied and avoided by any couple possessed of a moderate degree of sense. My belief, from observation, is that 75 out of 100 marriages are happy, and that not more than five out of that number are unhappy. Apart from love itself there is a companionship In married life that draws closer and more beautiful as the years go by. During my last visit to Europe I met a distinguished man who expressed the deepest interest in our country. Why do you not visit us, then? I asked him, "if you have so kindly a feeling for America and Arne: leans? Because, he replied, simply, "my wife could not stand the voyage, and I would not, for any personal or selfish reason, be responsible for one day's separation from her. The couple had been married 40 years. Again, many a man or maid postpones marriage because In neithers heart has dawned that wonderful creation of the novelist known as "love at first sight. This is a mistake. Propinquity is the most powerful factor in making two hearts beat as one. Many women form their ideals of a husband on novels and plays. Disillusionment Is bound to follow. They find that the once idealized husband is only a common mortal without even a pinfeather on his shoulder blade. Then the wife feels she has been deceived. So she has. But by her- self; not by her husband. Another grievous blow to many a wife is that her husband does not always remain her lover. She forgets that he is toiling every day for her welfare, aa, no lover would toil. She forgets also veide difference between masculine and femi the Man loves, but not quite as woman loves. While a nmn may become so wildly infatuated as to s end his business hours in diawlng Cti pids all over his letterheads, yet love can nevel permanently occupy bo large a place in his lif4 as it does in woman's. His Uf is too full, toil active, too varied in its Interests. Concession on both sides is the sovereign remedy for domestic differences. If you were to drop two strange cats into barrel and then clap on the lid you would no) marvel at the ensuing Bounds of wrath nor at th floating upward of rrant scraps of fur. Yet when a man and a woman, reared alon different lines and in separate environments, d4 not agree in .every particular the world standi aghast at the tale of marital infelicity. Whereat a little forbearance, a careful study of each other's moods and fallings will soon reduce this strife to a minimum. I believe that no couple who began by loving each other and had the right consideration fol each other ever came to serious trouble. The effort of each to please the other leads in a littia while to not having to try, because of the sympathy between them. "Kiss and make up is a good n:!e. If tho couple ds not propeily consider their relation there will be a good many kisses, but far' iuoi necessity of making up. (Copyright, by Jose; b R. Loivle.) A Handicap Now. "What sort of telescope do you vs for see'ng things on Mars? The eminent astionomer, hsbitu-ate- d to scanning the heavens at magazine space rates, stayed his pen but au instant. "I hno learned, he replied, "not to rely on any teiescepe. tbe The best of them badly hampers the pUy nine nature. t-- f imagination. |