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Show i Labor day will be celebrated by the wage earn er on .Monday next. In Colorado it should be a day of rejoicing- over the end of strife and the t dawn of better things in store for the toiler. In I 'tali there is no apprehension of industrial hostility. hostil-ity. The skies look fair in Montana. Altogether Labor Day promises more To Deicns than empty dinner pails. The editor acknowledge? receipt of the Bimonthly Bi-monthly Bulletin of the Salt Lake and Latter-day Saints. Business colleges. It is a splendid specimen speci-men of the printing art. Its pages contain a fair presentation of the objects sought through collegi- Iate training for business life. The group of new ! buildings on the college square would be an orna- j inent to much greater cities than the City of the I Saints. 4- The last copy of the Xew World before us is a news book of 74 pages with colored cover. This enlarged edition is a sort of Te Deum reminder that the Xew World has removed from old quarters and is now published in a building of its own in Chicago. The last issue of the paper is just the same in excellence as the one that appeared the week before, and the only difference observable J- in the increased area of excellence. The submarine torpedo boat Plunger with the president aboard, dived and remained under water over an hour off OyMer Bay the other day! The clory of San Juan pales alongside this latest act of liooseveliian recklessness or courage (take your choice of expression) aid it may need legislation legis-lation to prevent the president from attempting a balloon ascension. It is said that counselors of the chief executive urged him to desist from embarking embark-ing because of the danger that the torpedo boat would remain at the bottom of the sea and the coun- 1 try be minus a strenuous president. It is not re corded that Vice President Fairchild appeared on the scene to add his protestation. -t- Isabella Home, aged four score and six, was the bi-t Utah pioneer to cross the Great Divide into i lie plains of eternity. Surviving Mrs. Home are I iglit children and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. A great leader in Mormon church work: so great that her name is familiar to the Saint wherever Mormonism is known. Some ! years ago when women were more active in politi- i cal affairs than they are now or ever will he again, this little old woman was a familiar figure on the stage at Democratic meetings, and no rally could be called such without Mrs. Home appearing and "speaking out her mind.'' And the way she did it would make any Tammany Democrat proud of her acquaintance. 4 And now comes the London Lancet to make poor mortals shudder. It warns us against door knobs. That reminds James li. Bandall how an old doc-Tor, doc-Tor, who used to receive and treat a certain class of patients at his home, had the door knobs well cashed after some such patients took their leave. The Lancet suggests that door knobs be banished along with mosquitoes and that foot-levers be substituted. sub-stituted. The editor of the Washington Post adds that "the hope is held out to sickly humanity that with this contrivance, by wearing heavy hob-nailed boots, to be frequently removed and antiseptically sprayed, we may keep moderately well.'' The editor edi-tor continues: "Some months ago Dr. Darlington, , of the Xew York board of health, startled the world with the announcement that a single dollar bill of age and bad associations holds precisely 73,000 bacteria, each of whom is not only willing, but anxious to do the meanest sorts of bacterial f work. The news of this discovery fell upon ears already sadly harassed. It was not so long before that the kiss had fallen under the sanitary ban, as I - being u fatally ideal method for the spreading of disease. Osculation, said the medical men, had to go. We assume that it went. And then, at the very moment when the obedient public was struggling strug-gling bravely on with its task of learning to do without kissing, came Darlington's dread flat that we would have to do without money. Is it any wonder that the American people feel pretty sore against the bacillus?" : Czar Xicholas has gracefully recognized the part which President lloosevelt played in the successful suc-cessful negotiations for peace a peace brought to a successful conclusion, he says, "owing to your personal energetic efforts." That settles it; no language could be stronger. Xow for a similar message from the Mikado; and then look out for bonfires at Oyster Bay. Plans for a federation of all Catholic military organizations in the United States were discussed at the convention of the Order of Catholic Knights of America at Chicago. For the purpose of sounding sound-ing the sentiment of members of the various military mili-tary orders, a conference of officers of the organization organi-zation will be called in a few days. We trust the plan will be abandoned. It is too suggestive of Masonic uniform. Far better to throw aside the gold ami tinsel of military trappings and adopt the sober dress suit and hat with nothing more formidable for-midable in a Knight's grasp than a summer cane. Give us the appearance of peace rather than the appearance of war. Just as well not to excite big- otry and be pointed out as American members of the "Swiss Guard." How little we appreciate the value of trifles only equals one's astonishment at their magnitude when they stare at us through multiplied units. Hen and hen fruit, for example. Our idea of the sugar trust is carried along with the idea of a vast sum of money; but it is a drop in the bucket when compared with the value of the hen and the signs of her eackle. The sugar production of the country coun-try one recent year was but .$20,000,000; for the same year "egg and poultry earnings" amounted to $2S0,000.0oO ! The great American hog, as consumed con-sumed at home and abroad, brought $ lSt,520,035; therefore away and below the chicken. What knocks the conceit out of us in this mining region is the proof presented by statistics that the value of all the gold and silver dug up and the value of all the wool and sheep in this country makes a row of ligures over which the rooster may crow in derision. It is only $272,434,315. Unless proof is presented that chicken statistics have been stuffed like the cotton report, we are forced to yield to the majesty of the cock of the walk. |