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Show 1 A Ion of coal in the shed is worth two in ihe mine. People want a square deal, but they employ politician? poli-tician? to polish off the corners. The enforcement of Boston's blue law? fur-I fur-I nishes the paragraphcrs a Bostonian subject nide I from the bean. " ' A collection agency would have a hard time with some of the bills of the present legislature, infis- j much as they are no good. k. Telescopes are all right for use in viewing the I heavenly bodies, but opera glasses are much more. satisfactory for the inspection of theatrical stars. We do not hear any agitation this winter against the smoke nuisance, probably because people would be willing to endure the smoke if they had the coal to make it. 1 I The subject of dry farming is attracting much attention in Utah just now, but there is small likelihood like-lihood of the prohibitionists increasing their vote in the country districts. If the Utah legislators had more silk tiles among them iheir appearance might impress the natives more favorably. But the judicious prefer high quality within rather than upon the head and the two don't, go together in the average legislator. Maybe the city administration, by its order closing clos-ing the saloons on Sundays, had the good and welfare wel-fare of the unsophisticated rural legislators at j j heart, inasmuch as tho absence of railroad passes necessitates their staying in the city over Sunday. A grand jury in Findlay, O., recently, returned 939 indictments with possible fines of $60,000,000 and 939 years' imprisonment for officials of Standard Stand-ard Oil. We trust the dawn of A. D. 2540 may be brighter than the possibility of collecting the $0u-(00.000. $0u-(00.000. Contrary to expectation, Lindsay B. Hicks, the miner who was buried alire in a California mine and rescued after two weeks, did accept one of the theatrical engagemnt9 offered him, but gave it up because of stage fright. He preferred honest work in the mines to $500 a week and stage fright. Sancho Panza has furnished a proverb peculiar- v ly applicable to one Sir James Alexander Swetterf-; Swetterf-; ham, governor of Jamaica, who disliked the errand I of mercy of the United States to the afflicted peo- ! pie of Kingston. Sancho said: "It is a waste of I lather to shave an ass' The daily performance of the United States senate sen-ate was last week likened unto a minstrel show by Senator Tillman of South Carolina. The incident precipitated in that body the most intensely exciting excit-ing time since the civil war. All of which goes to show that Senator Tillman is a humorist, and some other senators mere boors. A recent fire in Salt Lake demonstrated the nse-lessness nse-lessness of fire fighting paraphernalia that is worn ut and rotten through disuse. Rotten hose is worse ' than no hose, for much time is wasted by the firemen fire-men in attempting to get water on the flames through means seemingly more rapid than stringing their own hose from the street because they have to use their own hose after that in tho building has proved inadequate. It is negligence most reprehensible repre-hensible that allows fueh conditions to exist, and results in preventable losses whose extent probably reaches a quarter of the fire losses in the cities of J ! ' f the country, a sum approximating $75,000,000 per annum. A rigid inspection of the fire fighting apparatus ap-paratus provided in buildings is 89 necessary as the enforcement of the building ordinances nd an efficient fire department. Recently the Spanish government brought up a bill in their parliament to regulate the rights and liberties of the press with the result that the newspapers news-papers agreed among themselves never to mention the name of any member of parliament who should favor its passage. Under similar circumstances in , America, the newspapers would hunt up the skeleton skele-ton of offending legislators and assiduously parade it. Oh, for the adoption of the Spanish idea of oblivion! ob-livion! The work of a church organization cannot be done by one man. There is too much of it; it is j too intricate. Its ramifications extend from the cradle to the grave in the life of every member of the diocese. It follows that every member should help in the work. The church is like a great army marching forward through unexplored lands. It would be a poor soldier who expected his captain to forage for food for the entire company. Lend a helping hand. There was never any lack of candidates for the position of congressman when the salary was 5,000, and at $7,000 the position will be looked on a a sinwrnre. In the business world salaries are increased in-creased for ability in individuals, nd to kee-p Jiblf dipt in certain positions. and salary increases of $2,000 a year are received only after a thorough demonstration of lie Twipirafs ability to earn the inojrese. The prrrser-t congress has failed lo demonstrate dem-onstrate that ability. The shrewd, f ar-seei ng mining manager and superintendent in prosperous times, when the monthly dividends axe sure, have their little army of select old miners prospecting in the mine, the prosperous merchant, and business man have their prospectors out also looking for future contingencies contingen-cies and an increase of trade. Those who advertise adver-tise in the paper are always in the lead. All who advertise in this paper are reliable and should share in the patronage of every reader. The wienie of tunneling under the Englis-h chuineL though snggc?ted in th? time m Napoleon Bonaparte more than a centnry ned. i again brought to mind by a bill introduced in the British parliament for sanctioning the project. Alonj; abont 1S75 or 1876 the British and French governments govern-ments began the construction of a tunnel to connect the two countries, but the work was abandonee! after a little more than a mile had been built. The es- timated cost of the tunnel is $30,000,000, and ten' years would be required to finish it if the scheme is fttempted again. Tho obvious advantage of a tunnel tun-nel are a saving of f,ime between England arid the continent, the doing away with changes from railroad rail-road to boat and tho ever-present seasickness on the channel. There can be no doubt that travel and intercourse between Great Britain and the continent conti-nent would be increased to mutual advantage, and a better understanding would decrease the likelihood likeli-hood of war between the different countries. |