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Show II Minors have a great many tips and downs in f their lives. ' i The mushroom bonnet will make its appearance with the ides of March. ; Some men are horn great and some have great- i ncss thrust upon them by the grand jury. Sometimes girls who are nice looking overlook f the importance of being as nice as they look. : Some claimants to the possession of a warm . heajt cling so tightly to their purse-strings that ; the warmth never escapes. I;., ' It used to be said that one half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives, but we are j . being enlightened on the upper ten. There wouldn't be a car shortage if the intcr- state commerce commission would prevent the rail- , roads from destroying their equipment by wrecks. I , The members of the legislature are reported to I be getting down to work, blather should it be said lhat they are elevating themselves to the dignity of i , labor. A good many men seem to think that because I they provide a living for their wives in this world I their wives should pave the way for their husbands J in the next. : j , j f The policeman who arrested King Edward for i 1i 'exceeding the speed limit in his automobile was ; promoted, while the king was fined. Isn't there a : ! suggestion herein for Salt Lake's bluceoats? . The privilege of inhoritajicft. which places one j , man at the head of a kingdom and another at the I I head of a grciit fortune refutes the statement that f all men are created equal. Who wouldn't choose an honorable citizenship in America to the bur- dons of cither of these underlings . I It is asserted that building permits calling for f nn expenditure of 10.000,000 have been issued in j Son Francisco since the fire, and that plans are al- I ready made for further building to the -extent of .0().(Xm"),In0. Surely 'Frisco will soon be literally a "bird of a town'' another phenix. With all the hub-bubb raised by anti-pass legislation legis-lation nobody seems to bjaiefit but the railroads. Everybody paying full fare with no reduction in rates ought to just about double dividends if the roads have been as grossly imposed upon by an un-; un-; scrupulous public as has been intimated. The incident of the Iroquois theatre tire is closed, the manager of the house having been acquitted ac-quitted last week on a technicality of the charge of manslaughter. Thus has the blame for the greatest great-est tragedy due to carelessness the world has ever known been placed on no one, as one by one everybody every-body connected with the rfbrror has wriggled out of the meshes of the law. The Czar of Russia has been the victim of much censure from Americans who little understand the causes for the conditions in the empire which are described in press dispatches?. The czar is not an autocrat, lie is just a man who has inherited the title and all the hungry crew which has been preying prey-ing on the empire for centuries who would not hesitate hes-itate to place him hors dc combtn if he attempted any reforms which would impair their "rights." Between the demands of the bureaucrats and the i t . ; people the .zir has a hard time to maintain that equitable poise hch is supposed to characterize ruling monarchs Maybe the bill introduced in the legislature, to give the railroad companies a monopoly of the coal mining and merchandizing business in Utah is only intended to legalize a condition that already exists. It seems hard to say it. but there are many law .breakers in Salt Lake among the owners of automobiles, auto-mobiles, who not. only exceed the speed limit, but travel thirty miles an hour faster than that limit. Brigham street is positively more, dangerous than any railroad crossing in the city. Because an opera company in singing "The Barber of Seville" at El Paso, Tex., omitted portions por-tions of the show, the audience cornered the financial finan-cial manager and demanded a refund of the ad-uiisison ad-uiisison price, and got it, too- Texas never does anything by halves and doesn't propose to be done in that way, either. A dynamite explosion occurred last week at the Pennsylvania railroad tunnels under the North river, riv-er, New York, which shook up the country, wrecked houses and shattered window glass for miles around. Now the authorities are probing into the matter. They will no doubt find it safer 'to probe into the explosion than into the dynamite .itself. Statistics given out by the secretary of the interstate in-terstate commerce commission on the railroad subject sub-ject show that the organized employes are getting 17 per cent more wages than formerly, while those unorganized get about 1 per cent more. The companies com-panies are at the same time earning 85 per cent more dividends. All of which shows the benefits of organization. Idleness is waste. An hotir "Spent in a saloon is . worse than idleness, for it takes time and money., and the accumulation acquired therein unfits the possessor for honest service. In these prosperous -times it is well to provide for future days, and every hour wasted and every nickel squandered is just that much robbery of yourself. Don't be a thief, even if you are the victim. In ancient times Italy suffered some big invasions, inva-sions, but the invaders were but a handful when compared with the thousands who leave her sunny shores every week to make new homes in America and other parts of the world. ' .Nearly half a million mil-lion Italian emigrants yearly bid a fond farewell to their native land to seek fortune in newer regions, re-gions, and most of them never return. Strange things are happening. United States Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, after fifteen years' service in the senate, has, resigned, "to provide a competence for himself and family" in the practice prac-tice of law. In the old clays the law was looked upon as a stepping-stone for something higher, and a United States senatorship was always considered an honor second only to the presidency, but, in this case at least, there seeros to be a reversal of the rule, with the senatorship a mere stumbling-block in the way of success. The efforts of certain individuals to live '"'the simple life'' arc just a little bit more than amusing. amus-ing. Their efforts show they are striving for artificiality arti-ficiality rather than simplicity, and the affected idiosvnerasies of diet and dress are not dictated by sense or even ft. decent regard for the rights of others. Those who are really living "the simple life'' have not discovered the fact. It is merely a matter of eating what you need, dressing as cus'tom and prudence suggest, paying your debts, ' living within your income, and not worrying yourself with discontent. Whiskers are not essential. One of the most successful of modern "new" religious, covered by copyright laws, 'has been in the limelight as the result of the filing of a petition peti-tion for a receiver for the estate of the founder. The profits of the prophetess are estimated at $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 to $i:,000,000, to get' a portion of which is the cause for the petition.- Imagine the Son of God accumulating a fortune in preaching the gospel, gos-pel, and employing attorneys to look after His financial interests! How differently we interpret the words of the Master: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." Tiiches was the one possession tho young man to whom these words were addressed which rendered him unfit to follow the Lord, and he was very sorrowful. The quotation we have made is not a palindrome, and is therefore not "scientific," but it means what it says. The city of Houston, Tex., is one of the cities under a "Galveston'' system of government, though it is called the "Houston" system there. Foui commissioners look after the city's business. Un--der the present system of commissioners, a floating' indebtedness of $400,000 was," retired within a year and the city placed on a cash basis. Ward politics has been eliminated from the city's affairs by the substitution of concentrated responsibility, and the municipality's money buys its worth in work and material instead of being dissipated as a slush i fund for ward heelers and favored public contractors. contrac-tors. The system in operation at Houston has elevated ele-vated the public ideals of political economy, has accomplished a reduction in the rate of taxation by abolishing useless offices and tho unnecessary expenses ex-penses attached thereto. Municipal government under the old system is a failure, corrupt, impregnated impreg-nated with graft and incompetence, an unutterable curse nn the people living in the cities, Although tho bill to ffive Salt; Lake a charter providing for the so-called Galveston Idea of government has been defeated, if. the experience of other .towns under control of commissioners continue to meet with the approbation of their citizens, it will no doubt be brought up again at the next session, aud with the fuller knowledge possessed nt that time may be considered worthy of adoption. Heretofore when the burden' of wealth became too heavy to bear, .Mr. Rockefeller, with a great flourish of trumpets, has divested himself of some of his millions, but press dispatches last week announced an-nounced .that, he is about to give a "stunner," the announcement being only to gain for the oil king the evident publicity in his- ostentatious benevolence. benevo-lence. To be sure, large gifts can hardly be kept secret, but advance notice of intention to give smacks too strongly of guile to be commendable. It is a studied effort originating in a cunning brain to test public sentiment, to purchase public praise. ' |