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Show TRUTH 8 PAT DONAN. Some Reminiscences of the Man Who Used Only Two Kinds of Ink Honey and Gall. by warren foster. Pat Donan is dead. His body like of Brown John that (lies mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on. The writer knows little of the mans early history, having enjoyed his personal acquaintance only for the last few years. He was one of the plainest, most unostentatious men I ever met. Tall, slender, clad in Prince Albert coat the year round, oer topped with a broad brimed black hat, Colonel Donan looked the same every day in the year. He was a good talker, had been every where, knew everybody, and knew everything. He loved honesty and hated hypocrisy. His love for his friends and his hatred for his enemies was about a stand off. Colonel Patrick Donan was an honest man. May he rest in peace. Asa writer he stood without a parallel. His vocabulary was boundless. Not even by the limits set by Webster, but when occasion required he would invent words not found any where outside of his writings. Only yesterday I read one of his productions where he had arrayed no less than 312 consecutive words all beginning with the letter C. As a descriptive writer he was great. So goeat that the big railroads of the country kept him constantly employed writing pamphlets descriptive of the country through which they run. One. of his best is his description of the great Salt Lake. He says: Among all earth's weird wonders in water it has but one rival or peer sea whose waves of the miracle-ma- de doom and oblivion roll over Sodom and Gommorrah, the Chicagos of forty centuries ago. Think of a lake from hundred to three thousand twenty-fi- ve . SALT LAKE ICE COMPANY square miles in area, lying a thousand miles inland, at an altitude of four thousand, two hundred and fifty feet above the sea level, whose waters are six times as salt as those of the ocean; and, while it has no outlet, four large rivers pouring their ceaseless floods of fresh water into it without raising its mysterious surface a fraction of an inch, or ever diminishing, so far as chemical analysis can determine, its indescribable saltiness. Where does all the a water go? Where does all the salt, that no streams can freshen, come from? Where are the vast saline magazines from which it draws its everlasting supplies? One may stand upon its shores and ask a thousand such questions, but no answer comeB from its mysterious depths, in which nothing lives but death and silence. His happy faculty of impressing the mind of the reader is shown by a calculation he makes of the immense amount of salt and sulphate of soda that is held in solution by its water. He takes the length, breadth and average depth of the lake and computes its contents and loads the salts on a trian of cars which warrants the following statement: He says: Taking 30 feet as the total length of a freight car and its couplings, we would have a train of soda 445,500 miles long, or nearly to the moon and back; and a train of salt, 4,988,730 miles in length, or long enough to reach 196 times around the earth, and leave an 8,000 mile string of cars on a side track. Running 20 miles an hour and never stopping night or train day, it would take the salt-lad- en 28 years, 5 months and 23 days to pass a station. He then devotes much space extolling the beauties of the lake, and closes There is not a fish or any by saying: other living thing in all the twenty-fi- ve hundred or three thousand square miles of beautiful and mysterious waters, except the yearly increasing swarms of summer bathers. Not a shark or a stingaree to scare the timid swimmer or floater, not a crab ora crawfish to nip the toe of the nervous wader, not a minnow or a frog, a tadpole or a polly wog nothing that lives, moves, swims, crawls or wriggles. It is the ideal place of the world. His vivid and delightful description of Utah and the west has done much toward attracting immigration hither. As a humorist ColonelPatrick Donan had but few equals though he seemed to have seldom indulged himself in that particular line. I recall but one and that an article he wrote for some eastern paper denying the statement that it had made a few days before, to the effect that the Colonel was about to be married to a rich Mexican heiress. He blazed forth a volly of humorous eloquence, that would fill at least four columns of this paper. Fain would I have selected a few of the choicest for this article, but there was no choice. There was no place to begin except at the beginning and no place to stop except at the end . It was all or none. While Colonel Donan was by nature as gentle as a lamb, he was also endowed by the same nature with a ferocity that would appall an enraged Benthat his pen gal tiger. It was then was washed of honey and betook itself to the bitterest of bitter gall. God that pen help the man against whom was directed. So violent was his against men and methods was ne that frequently accused of being destructive instead of constructive; of tearing down instead of building up. But such was far from the truth. His idea was to make mean men appear so mean that no one would want.' to be sea-bathi- Distilled Water ..ICE.. aiSaP" 1 Telephane 43. Miss fora GleasonJ Tmachtr of Music. 2 'Won 1289 J'tudio: Ml E. First South. tyttytptttttyttyyttyttittttytyyyyyyytyytttttttt W. H. CLARK . . . rr II II STOCK BROKER. Mining Stocks and ES7&.Stocks. a W. SeciralSt. SL Phont THEODOSIUS BOTKIN, ATTORNEY AND COVNSELOR-AT-LA- 159 V S. Main SL Salt Lake City- - Rooms 2 and 8. I!!!l!TITTIW!H!ni!!!!T!M!!!!M!!himnH!i g ng mean, hence, instead of holding up a good man and advising others to patron after him, he would hold up a mean man with such awful execration that all others would despise him and discant his ways. His method was to cause people to seek the paths of righteousness by keeping them out of the ways of unrighteousness. Instead of magnifying virtues, he execrated vices. He considered that the less like a bad man the boy is, the more is he like a good one. Colonel Donan was a strong advocate of the free coinage of silver. Whether he was right or wrong in his ideas matters not, for the purpose of this article. It is sufficient to know that he blamed Grover Cleveland, then president (1896) more than any one else for his treatment of the silver question. He gave him all sorts of names except good ones. He impoverished the dictionary and then drew upon his own resources and many words never before seen in print, that he used to give tone and description to the beast This from Buffalo. demigod of a I call to degenerate democracy. the issue of Utahnian one in mind that had was been unhe editor he of which and the Cleveland on severe usually a entered protest Payson Header against speaking so harshly of our This was enough for the superiors. colonel. He dipped his pen in gall and started after him with: Our superiors! God help the man or beast of which Grover Cleveland is a superior, except it be in hog scales avoerdupois. Then followed the most scathing description I ever read of any man, a big wicked bummer, playing pedro and shaking dice for drinks in the back rooms of Buffalo gin mills and bar saloons. His only experience in official life, had been the hanging of a criminal infinitely less guilty than he himself can claim to be today. He lived over a dive, not far from the Gennessee House, with a miserable women, Maria Halpin, who was the mother of his fatherless brat. And after much more of the same sort dismissed him with: And when this miserable miscreant dies and goes to his final reward, he will break the awful solitude of Judas Iscariot and furnish the betrayer of the Son of God with his first mess mate in eighteen hundred and sixty-thr- ee years of damnation. Colonel Patrick Donan stands alone. He was inimitable. His life was unsullied. The world was many times counseled by him, but it is none the less a fact that it is better because he lived in it. Save your money and when you get a dollar deposit it with Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Co., No. 1, Main street. The largest and oldest Savings Bank in Utah. Joseph F. Smith, President, George M. Cannon, Cashier. Piazza line. For the piazzi the mooji rug, made of heavy grass. Is among the newest and most sought. These are' about a iWlf-lncthick and are very light and A li cool. Indian dhurries of cotton are also quite popular. The characteristic Indian colorings, bright tones of rich . reds, blues, yellows and greens, are the preferred colorings. Gsillcht Bad For Palms. Most palms and ferns do not like gaslight, and often when left in an atmosphere charged with it will droop. The windows should be opened and the roof well aired twice a day. The plants should be turned around each day, so that one side after another is exposed to the light, as the leaves will naturally grow toward the sunlight. Palms and ferns should never be allowed to stand in a draught. A Novel Idea. An attractive, novel and yet inexpensive idea in room decoration consists in running up in each corner of the room, from the baseboard to the ceilstrips of wood fitted boxing, four-inc- h like into the corners. A similar treatment also outlines the ceiling and side walls. The picture molding is also a four-inc- h strip of wood to hold the books, and is placed eighteen inches below the ceiling. This forms an exceedingly decorative treatment in itself, necessitating very few pictures. A Cheerful Wall Paper. ' A wall paper for a flower room is patterned with daisies, the green and white and yellow in the rolls being so stamped on with an effect of perspective that when the paper is hung the walls seem to widen out into rolling n meadows, while the ceiling above is covered with an opalescent blue and white paper to represent a summer sky. It is these perspective papers that more than any other device yet tried have solved the problem of how to make a small room look large and a big, badly lighted one look at once cheerful and airy and sunshiny. daisy-grow- Kitchen Conveniences. The modern kitchen is ideal when kitchcompared with the en in which our grandmothers wero 'compelled to do their work. The kitchen floor of y is. usually of hard wood. The boards are about three inches wide by an inch thick, though they vary in different kitchens. This floor when first laid is generally rubbed with as much raw oil as the wood will hold. After this thorough treatment it will not be necessary to oil the floor oftener than once in three months. For the second application boiled oil is better, as it dries much more quickly. There is generally plenty of sunshine and light in a modern kitchen. The modern sink is made of galvanized jron or steel. Porcelain sinks are said not to wear well if given hard usage: The best kitchen faucets are now plated with nickel. The brass faucet, which required to be laboriously cleaned and scoured, is no longer used. Galvanized boilers are pow generally painted like the woodwork of the room. Unless they are. treated in this way they are easily dis-- i jcolored. The costly brass boiler, which required cleaning every week, is rarely found in kitchens. Some of "the best ranges are still blackened, but many in use are made of polished iron. All modern ranges have ground edges that do not need to be blackened, but can be polished with brick dust, like a ground knifes .. ( ,1 old-fashion- ed to-da- ! sen-tenc- es old-fashion- ed old-fashion- ed on-slaug- hter 1 : |