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Show o t. A. LAUSER, Editor mt Propr. S." A. Kenners valuable and graphic book, entitled Utah As It la, ia attaining robust proportions, fully 160 pages having been produced from the presses of the Deseret News. The contents show striking originality in method of portrayal, are replete with unique incidents of early life and conditions hitherto unpublished, and every chapter is threaded vein of interest, humor, with a pathps and wit, all being charmingly written and strictly true to fact, and at the same time permeated with a spirit of fairness and Not the least v&lnable portion of the book is its biographies of many of the Pioneers and the States most prominent men, while many other departments set forth the manifold resources and attractions for which Utah is justly noted. It is expected the book will take a leading place among the literature of the West. The book is expected to be ready for delivery early in the spring, will consist of about 600 pages, beautifully printed and bound and well illustrated. d SENTIMENTS, TOO. The bill recently introduced in the Legislature to uniform the school districts of each county by makipg it one district with one set of trustees, is certainly not taking very well in Sanpete, jndging from the recent meeting of trustees at Ephraim. The vote againet the proposition was almost unanimous, which action we think was right. .We cannot Bee wherein the bill, were it to become law, wonld benefit the public school system. The preeent system works veiy well and should not be materially changed. Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. Home Missionaries. The following Home Missionaries have been appointed for Sunday, February 22nd, 1903: Centerfield E.twdrttoti.iMi)Mww-rtto- George Bartholomew and James II. Hill. Ephraim A. II. Christensen and John C. Kjar. Fayette Arthur Larsen, James Wasden. Gunnison Hyrum Olsen, C. C. Larsen. Manti North Dykes W. Sorensen and Parley P. Petersen, jr. Manti South Peter Petersen and J. P. Hansen, jr. Mayfield Austin Kearnee and Edmund Sanderson. Andrew Peterson and Alma Sterling Johnson. Meetings will be held at the several wards at 2 oclock p. in. Lawn AifDKBSOK, Jos. Y. JlMXN, G. A. IVBBSON, Presidency South Sanpete Stake. r Sl.OO a Year forced in this city two years ago, compelling children who were attending school to be vaccinated, having three of his children comply, and states that he informed the reporter of this and that he was open to conviction. To the Gazette, Mr. Metcalf now expresses himself as being ready to favor a compulsory vaccination law should such a measure be brought up in the present Legislature. Which the Fkek Pbess is pleased to note. COMMENT. EDITORIAL UTAH AS IT IS.M OUR NEWSPAPER. MANTI, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1003. Vol. lO. No. 11. vari-colore- THE PEOPLE'S Barbering is no longer exclusively a mans in Utah. "Woman has entered this Erofessioo too, and a college has been established in Salt Lake City to teach the fair sex how to remove whiskers without polling them out, says the Herald. w The Satina Sun will wager a keg of pick-lethe readers of pigs feet that not one-haThe Sun know the name of the Utah gentled lf A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. man who was elected to Congress last fall. The Snn thinks this is dne to the fact that no opposition has developed to his going to "Washington. Something ought to come out of the peti-tioof China and Mexico to the United States to join with them to try to give a fixed value to silver. Right there this country has an opportunity to make an arrangement which will enable American ships to dominate the trade of the Pacific, which will give her manufacturers and merchants first place in all the OrieBt and Spanish America. Our government has but to make an sgreemont that pure silver bars shall hold a certain ratio to gold in trade, that the future coinage of silver shall be on that same ratio and then, on such terms as shall be jnst, loan or sell to China all the silver she wants, taking the pay for the same in the rice, sugar, wool, tea and other products of China. China wonld quickly absorb all the product of both the American and Mexican mines and the trade with the Orient wonld be transformed in five .years, for at preeent China is so destitute or money that all her working and creative forces are paralyzed. Such an arrangement would, within a year, cause every country of Europe either to clamor for a new international conference or to quietly accept the same ratio and adjust their business to it. It required thirty years to kill silver as money; that arrangement would practically restore it in" a day, and the result wonld cause the commercial world to see, in- stantly, how shameful was the war upon the white metal and how fearful were the losses sustained through that warfare. Goodwins n You may take your hand off yonr pocket-booplease; you fellows who have purchased State lands and only paid for .them in part. The Senate has passed the tax exemption bill over the Governors veto. Persons who hold options on State lands are now exempt from taxes on the same until the last dollar haB been paid. k, It will take more than the unsupported testimony of administration Washington correspondents to convince a skeptical world that President Roosevelt is prancing up and down in a passionate determination to cut off the trust party from its base of supplies. For as the ox knoweth his master's crib, so the great Theodore knows where the campaign funds come 'from. lie knows who yields the fat. He knows who furnishes the free excursion trains and the money to round up the delegates. And he has had sufficient experience in practical Ilanna politics to feel no uncertainty as to what would happen to the Roosevelt band wagon next year if something should chance to go wrong with the supply of grease for the axles. Salina Sun. sta The Appeal, published at Carson City, Nevada, has the following to say of Hon. Joseph Judd, a former resident of Manti: The Appeal regrets to chronicle the fact that it was necessary, in the debate on the tax on patented mines, to call the attention of the members of the lower house to the platform on which they were elected. Assemblyman Jndd of Liiicoln, during the debate read the platform and pointed .out the path, of duty to the members, some who appeared to have forgotten the, fact that they were elected by the people on certain pledgee. As long as the Fusion party of Nevada sticks to its platform pledgee it can never be beaten. When it falters in its dnty it takes chances. No party that deceives the voters by pledge breaking can survive. Assemblyman Jndd showed common horse sense and the right kind of political sense when he read the platform of the Fusion party to the house on Tuesday last. " Weekly. IN THE EMERY OIL FIELDS. Manti people who are interested in the Oil City Oil company claims in Emery county, will be pleased to read the following extract from the Price Advocate: With the arrival of a car load of casing from the East a few days ago work was resumed at the well of the Oil City company near Desert Switch on the line of the Rio Grande Western east of Woodeide. The affairs Of the company locally are in charge of Driller Phillips whom it is said has orders to go from where work was lately commenced nntil a well is brought in, which is confidently expected by all concerned before a depth of 3500 feet is reached. The machinery at the well is capable of this depth. Before work was temporarily suspended there a short time since, two oil sands and .a small flow of oil ' were .encountered at "about three hundredr-anat eight hundred feet, respectively. The third sand is apt to.be run into, at any time. The water in the well is npw cased on. - . Miss Mary Woodruff, daughter of the late President Jwilford Woodruff, and teacher in academy, died on Sunday last. may'cause the lose of when blood jjoisonitig Afl danger ef ibts Concerning Representative Metcalfs views n the vaccination question, the Gunnison Jazette says: Mr. Metcalf is very indignant over the relegrams severe criticism of his stand on he vaccination question. He states that the taper misquoted him, denying that be made aid ay positive statement of b position, not do; a .without first hat he-WOsd-fl . d A Bill ie before the Legislature raising the School age to 21 fears. Why not remove the . limit esmtely? It appeals ia ustobto-acut- e money..' We hope the bill |