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Show TRU T H 15 ed, she felt her way to the door, crept The coming legislature will be asked down the dreary istairway, out Into the to enact a statute establishing a maxinight and storm. mum of freight and passenger rates to o be charged by the railroads between all points in the state. There have RUBBER CULTURE IN MEXICO. been bitter complaints from the merchants of exorbitant charges by the Manager Noble Warrum, of the Utah railroads between points in the state as Mexican Co., has just returned from well as of discrimination against Utah from the east. in the matter of the companys plantation in southern The Commercialfreights club has the matter Mexico and reports that the work of in hand, and will probably draft the clearing land and planting It to rubber bill, which will be introduced in the legislature. It will include clauses inis progressing satisfactorily. tended to stop discrimination in favor The trees of the first series of 2,000 of large shippers and against the all hallows college. There was the golden glory of the harvest moon, the nights when under All Hallows college was founded of the ties of her country home, she had by the Right Rev. Bishop Scanlan, was in walked hand in hand with him whom Salt Lake City, in 1886, and In she unconsciously had learned to love bis charge during three years. and trust, until in the blindness of 1889 the Marist "Fathers assumed conher diable passion . trol, and under their wise and Yet he would come She was sure of rection the college has grown to its it. In all the darkened hours since present prosperous condition. It was she had stolen away from her home to of wants the founded to meet the the city, telling none but him of her Catholic parents in this section of the country, by offering them, for their destination, she had never given up children, convenient access to the ad- the hope that his promise was a sacred vantages of a good, sound education. compact that would not be broken. The college buildings are commodi-cus- , But now the last hour had come. She and the study halls, had been notified at noon to give up bath rooms, dining halls and dormi- her room that night, some one who tories are arranged with a view to could pay wanted it, the landlady curtcomfort and convenience, being well ly explained. The long search for emventilated and lightsome, and fitted up ployment had been fruitless, she had with the latest improvements, steam no training that filled her for other than the humblest positions. There heating, electricity, etc. was no way to turn. structLast year a large, handsome ure was erected at a cost of nearly The landlady entered with a letter. This new building contains Thi3 came while you were out, she $100,000. I sixty rooms and affords ample accom- said, and, as told you this morning I room tonight. must the have modation to the rapidly increasing The girl scarcely heard the last student body of the college. for. as she took the envelope words, inSpecial classes under a skilled womans hands, one glance from the structor, offer rare opportunities to those in search of pleasant recreation at the handwriting changed all her or physical development; whilst the despair to hope, all her gloom to sunshe was recently acquired property adds con- light, made her forget that was from cold. and It siderably to already extensive play weak, hungry him. There could be but one message. grounds. The health of the boys is carefully He had written to tell of- hi3 coming, of her waitsafeguarded, and, in case of serious to say that the long night ing was over. His promise was sacsickness, the parents are at once red, her sufferings were at an end. So fled. The Fathers are untiring in their Eudden was the revulsion of feeling efforts to instil into the hearts apd so sharp the transition from the minds of their pupils those principles depths, that not even conscious of of religion and virtue calculated to when the door closed and she was make true men and useful citizens. left alone, she sat, how long she knew of the They are resolved to keep the college not, dreaming of their reunion, would that and comfort hours of joy abreast of the times, and, whilst harthe of agony she monizing it with local wants and de- banish every memory sires, they are marking it a center of had suffered. mental and moral culture. Half entranced, she listened for his The courses of instruction are very footsteps, expecting him at any moHe may complete. They are divided into three ment. Then she thought: primary, the Minim, Junior and Aca- be miles away yet. It may take him demic and four advanced But the waitcourses, days to come to me. Commercial, Classical, Scientific and ing seemed insignificant now, the weakness and hunger did not count. That she would have no roof to shelo ter her until he come was unimportDESOLATE. ant. He is coming He is coming. I Slowly, because weakened by hun- can wait, somehow, some way, she ger, she climbed the dark stairway said to herself, over and over again. the writing hat led to her lonely room. A slushy She tenderly kissed the envelope before she opened snow had fallen the afternoon upon during To it. read the familiar My Own Litwhile she walked the streets, but he tle Girl, was happiness to be postmental suffering had reachel the stag where she became oblivious to he poned for the moment. Perhaps he would come tonight or Cr? wet feet and skirts This, she had said to herself in thi tomorrow. Perhaps if she explained morning, was the last day of the bat just a little of her approaching hapshe must win before the physica piness, she could keep her room a knew of his wealth, collapse came. With a she sanl day or two. Shewant for nothing. upon the bed, and- whilesigh would soon she the twiligh shadows gathered, tried to think. Why did her hand tremble so as Then she truly Christmas eve? N she tore open the message. nothing JJf : dwell upon that. As she ha remembered having eatenas she drew smiled she ndered through the 'day. Yet city not one o that kad hurried by, in forth the letter. tent ousan8 w A sheet of blank paper, twice foldUpon the Pleasures of giving, hat Mot tIlan a Passing glance a ed. Was there nothing else A newsher 1?re Married, his name, called up, one by one, an paper clipping. trevi, a . recollection, the mem and nrte No cry, no sob, no tears, dazed, haiiK0 what the Past few monthi to her. stunned, groping as if physically blind class-room- s, . - t Post-Graduat- e. be-draggl- ed - acres are growing and the second series is being cleared and will be ready for planting in April or May. The outlook for rubber, says Col. Warrum, "was never better than it is right now. The demand is such that manufacturers are trying to induce men to make it from milkweed, grease-wood, or any other plant that belong3 to the rubber family, whether it can be obtained in sufficient quantities to make its exploitation a success financially or not. But they want the rubber for manufacturing purposes, and cun not wait for the trees which have been planted during the past two years. When these groves are finally producing they will scarce!; supply the demand, which seems to be growing beyond the possibilities of the rubber zone, which is naturally limited. Castilloa trees, which are the only ones susceptible to cultivation, will grow outside of the rubber zone but will not mature so quickly. Even in section of Chiapas, on the semi-ari- d the Pacific coast, rubber is being cultivated, but it requires from 12 to 14 years to mature the trees. In the higher lands of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, where wild rubber trees are occasionally found in the forest, rubber trees thrive and yield under cultivation, but the growth is slow compared to the growth of trees in Tabasco and Chiapas, on the Gulf slope. "At an elevation of not to exceed 300 feet, on well drained soil, with plenty of heat and moisture, rubber trees will mature in five years and be ready to produce in the sixth year. Commission men are paying $1.42 (Mexican) per pound for crude rubber in the small towns of Tabasco, but they are getting $1.20 per pound in gold in London and Paris. When a planter produces enough to justify shipping it himself, he stands a chance to make most of that profit. Colonel Warrum reports an excessive rainfall covering the month he just spent on the plantation, this being the season of the greatest humidity, although there is no period of the yeT which might really be called a dry season, as the term would be understood here in Utah. There are about 450 native laborers employed on the place at the present time. Associated with Superintendent Cluff in getting the best work out of them, are Messrs. Wm. C. De Wit, a Hollander of many years experience In the tropics, Don Bruno Hickert, a German planter from the East Indies, Andreas Hendricksen, a Norwegian with 25 years residence in the tropics, and Joseph Adams of Utah, all of whom speak Spanish fluently and take great Interest in their work. The Utah Mexican Rubber Co. owns about 80,000 acres of fine land in one of the richest sections of the republic. The choicest portions of the tract are being planted to rubber. Wherever natural drainage is lacking no planting is done. It is the intention of the company to eventually plant 10,000 acres to rubber at the rate of about 2,000 acres per year. When completed it will be the largest enterprise of the kind in the world. o Try Shepard Co. on collections. smaller fry. Ever since statehood Governor Wells, in his messages to the legislatures has called attention to the constiutional provision that the legislature shall (not may) pass laws maximum reasonable establishing of rates charges for the transportafor tion of passengers and freight; disabuses and correcting preventing crimination and extortion in rates of "reiglit and passenger tariffs by th2 different railroads and other common carriers in the state and shall enforce such laws by adequate penalties. Previous legislatures ignored the governors suggestions In that regard and failed to comply with the requirements of the constitution. The consequence is that for all these ysars tli oeople have been at the mercy of railroads. That is the principal reason why coal is $5.25 a ton In Salt Take instead of $3.50, as it should railroads naturally are . gettng ready to fight the enactment, of anv such law. They have succeeded in at.aving it off for nearly ten years, an'1 may do so for another ten years Th daily papers, owned and controlled as railroaa they are by the magnates, Senators Clark and Keirs who, in turn, are controlled by t e real railroad magnates, will, of course either openly oppose the propose'" measure or keep silent regarding it Certain it is they will not advocate it t-- o be.-Th- e so-call- ed MARRIED TO A VASE. Unique Ceremony Not Infrequent in the Celestial Empire. One of the most extraordinary ci Chinese customs to Western minds is the not infrequent practice of marrying celebrated widows to native vases. An American traveler witnessed such a ceremony, which was The performed with great pomp. widow was of high station. When the news of her husbands death reached her she was inconsolable and wished to enter the state of widowhood, but her father demurred. Somebody that another husband might be fori I coming, and, as may readily be surmised, at this stage of the proceed ings the woman was in despair. A wise teacher of the Confucian philosophy was consulted and he recalled to mind the ancient ceremony of a marriage to a Cower vase. It was a rite of great sug-gelle- d antiquity, legend attributing its origin to an empress who ruled before the Christian era. It was decided that the woman might marry the red vase. It was necessary, however, to procure the imperial sanction. This the great wealth of her father obtained, and on May 1 the wedding was solemnized. In the procession the vase was carried under a silken canopy on a palanquin borne by youths of noble birth, while the bride followed in another palanquin guarded by twelve maidens and twelve matrons. A military guard and a civic escort made up the parade. Her bridegroom, the vase. Is a specimen of great value and. antiquity; indeed, it is said to excel in delicacy of ornamentation anything of Its kind in the Flowery Kingdom. |