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Show THE REVIEW. ,4 The Review. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Editor and Manager, ANNIE M. BRADLEY, 241 E. South Temple St. .... SUBSCRIPTION : - One Year. Six Months, - - $1.00 .50 Rates for Advertising made known on appli- cation. Entered at the Post Office at 8alt Lake City as Second class matter . SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1897. is said that Iceland has no criminal classes. There are no prisons It there, and no policemen. Looking back over its history for a thousand years the records show but two thefts. Of these two cases, the first was a a native. Being poor he stole a sheep. He had broken his arm; his family was destitute. When he was found out and the facts concerning his theft were known, he was provided with medical care, his family furnished with food, and later, upon his arm getting well he was given work. The constigma attached to his crime was sidered punishment enough. The second theft was committed by a thrifty German, who stole seventeen sheep, simply for the sake of gain. When his crime was discovered, he was ordered to sell all his goods, restore the price of the seventeen sheep to the original owner, and leave thr country at once; failure to comply with this decree meant instant death. ' The German restored the property and left the island. The Icelanders are distinguished for honor and honesty, and for pure morals. The island has neither prisons nor lawyers; it has neither paupers nor criminals. Though crime is rare yet provision is made for the administration of jus- First there is the sheriffs courts, next the court of three judges at Reykjevil the capital, and lastly the supreme court at Copenhagen, tice. Denmark. The Pall Mall Gazette refers to the municipal election of Greater New York, saying: Such an organization as Tammany could not exist in Lon- don. A man or an organization once could proven guilty of corruption never return to power. Tammany, under the leadership of Croker, has done so in a manner which must afford food for serious thought even in a city so accustomed to bad government as New York. Much as we wish the best fortune to Greater New York, we cannot congratulate its citizens upon the manner in which they have contributed their share towards the achievement of such a desirable result. In Switzerland, insurance against sickness is compulsory in all cases where persons do not possess independent fortunes. The National Council passed this law by a vote of ioi to 9. Secretary Alger will recommend in his annual report that the military bands of the U. S. be reorganized, and to thirty or increased from twenty-tw- o thirty-siThe pay of the musicians is only that of the regular soldiers, and much objection is made by union musicians to the competition of the military bands. The Secretary will recommend that an increase of fifteen dollars per month be paid the leader and ten dollars the other members of the band, in order that there may be no need for the military bands to compete with other musical organizations. x. The late Geo. M. Pullman in his will bequeathed 1 0,000 each to thirteen hospitals and charitable institutions, 200,000 for the erection of buildings, and 1,000,000 for the endowment of a free manual training school in the town of Pullman. The whole estate amounted to 7,600,000. The provision made for charity and public benefaction is nearly cent of the whole estate. 18 per Berlin, November 3. The Page-Ma- tt , referring to the New York elec- tion, deplores the victory of Tammany, adding as it places the undesirable elements of the Irish on The victory top, and concludes: in Greater New New York will have a sinister effect throughout the United States, for it means that the awakening desire for municipal reform has received a terrific setback. Not with the skill of an hour, nor of a life, nor of a century, but with the help of numberless souls, a beautiful thing must be done. A great horrid man wrote the following suggestions, but after all, between ourselves, isn't there some truth in them ? Are you enough of a scholar not to prepare your paper on the classic varieties of architecture by the simple process of copying word for word from the encyclopaedia? Are you enough of a gentlewoman not to drag in family anecdotes when asked to say a few words on the Transvaal, or the place of modern French musicians ? Are you enough of a logician to manage to keep somewhere near the subject under discussion when making an address ? Are you enough of an artist to enjoy the pretty frocks of the rich members of the club without envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitaleness? Are your children all so old that nursery cares need never interfere with the meetings of the club? N. K Post. A recent criticism on the work of three New England women is headed, with charming masculine sarcasm, Men Must Work and Women Must Write. We should, perhaps, feel grateful for the admission that women can write. Even this inference would doubtless be qualified by the writer, who has not yet gotten beyond the term advanced woman. He displays the sensitiveness of his sex in the following not wholly original paragraph: Generalizing entirely from the fiction of the days, one would say that in England women felt increasingly the need of being loved, and that in America they were gradually relegating man to the position of an interesting but unessential figure along the wayside. JSTFor Private Tea Parties, Music-ale- s, Clubs, Socials, Dancing, etc., there is no better place in the city than Landrum's Terpsichorean College, Third South Street, between Main and West Temple. Advertise your Christmas Goods in The Review. Woman in Utah will read your ad. Every Club |