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Show Criminals in Missouri, like criminals in Salt Lake. iel greatly encouraged tince discovering that all lhe tt-chnioaliiies arc on iheir side. oicrans of the American civil war wonder how the -7.nr will ho able 1o keep open ",000 miles of railway. The cracker line is no strorger than its weakest bridge. I Somebody blundered when Mayor Harrison of j Chicago was arrested on an indictment charging !him as the one chiefly guilty because of the Iroquois Iro-quois 1 heat re lire. ' .fier collaring two genteel hoodlums and hand- t I in lh,;m fvor to lhe police, .Too Geoghegan is jus- j j 'ifM in denouncing a police, magistrate whodis- ! I 'barged them with a mild reprimand. The offense j j was insulting ladios on the most populous thorough- j 1 fare. The rascals will get an Irishman's boot the ! I next time. : Missouri mules have lost from ,$.' to $10 per j h ad within the past two weeks. Some mean Ke- i publicans will connect this decline in value with I iho anticipated surplus of mules during the . Demo- ' 'ra1ic national convention. 'The real reason is, ; lane ami Bu-sians can fight without the help of ' the Missouri mule. i : . Like tin? lad who learned the shoemaking trade j I fr"" 1 father, Governor Taft steps into the war j I or,i ,iu, .lnnonse Ja1i filled under the Grant ad- i ministration. We can forgive the ex-governor for j mistakes in the Philippines if he only succeeds in keeping the "rough rider" steady. Hut war, as tho ! bite General Sherman said, is hell. T j The oilier day the United States senate wit- j Jifsel the unusual spectacle of a religious sen- j k-o conducted by a Protestant minister and a Jew- j Ii-h rabbi. The latter spoke of this country as "the j promised land, the new Canaan.:' Perhaps it is. ! Perhaps s..K; Jny the visionary plan of Noah j 11a vis will assume forra anl a new -Jerusalem bo j built on Grand Island, in lhe Niagara river : At la-t we have the true, story about Patti's J nfusal to sing in Butte. It wasn't the sulphur smoke, nor the small sale of opera seats. The real jv-asuu 1 given by Henry Mueller, the most popular popu-lar man in Butte. Patti declared tho affair off, because be-cause a case of Centennial Bohemian export beer j had been stolen from the diva's car. Henry Mueller I II .rows Centennial beer, but he ought to he' a writer ! "it Puck's staff. , j Before delivering any positive opinion on tho j virtues of radium, we must first consult our friend, Don Maguire. He has been 'all through j ; "hal pan of the state which is thick and thin with j radium. "From the Colorado Mate line on tho I J east." says tho well known metallurgist, ;Jike the j j .an ox a ooiuoi. a vast belt containing these ores i I stretches, clear across the southern portion of the ! state ihrough the old ramp of Silver Reef, into Washington county. The caronite ores prevail largely, although nearly every other species con-i con-i .-lining this precious metal, radium, are found mere." If Hon Maguire agrees with Prince i'Jarkhanor, the Russian scientist, the most wonderful won-derful things will follow the use of radium.' Even" Jiow in fancy we sec Don Moguirc's modest home in Ogden transformed into a palace, none equaling it on the Bosphorus or in Moeow. Prince Tark j lianov contends that when large quantities of ra- 'hum are available, 'the- whole system of modern j warfare would be revolutionized, az powder maga- f . " III i i- .. .urn . l. zincs, wliether in forts or in the holds of vessels, would be at the mercy of radium rays, which could explode them at long distance. We anxiously await further information from Don Maguire. j . 4 J The ministers of Colorado Springs recently got i their elbows in' motion at a wood-sawing contest. Rev. Duncan Lament was the winner. What an I edifying example for the Utah brethren. What j peace of toul we could have if our Salt Lake miu-j miu-j isters "said nothing but sawed wood."' I . . i The young lloosier who has slept for two years j in the' open air in all kinds of weather, in ths strong hope that such heroic treatment would euro j consumption, has our prayer for his recovery. ; Should he get well, look out for a drop in cod liver : oil and a rise in concentrated oxygen. . - . i More tears for the Southland. Mrs. Annie ; Chambers Ketchum, author of "The Bonnie Blue j Flag' the famous Confederate war song, and a i number of high class poems, died in Xcw York last Wednesday in her eightieth year.Mrs. Ketchum was a Catholic and a woman of .remarkable ability. : It is stated that a new battleship will be named Constitution, while ''Old Ironsides"' will He used henceforth as n museum ship. The old Constitu- j lion has a record as ths most famous ship of the j j American navy. Its name should u.t perish, if ! only to keep in mind au instrument of govern- meul once venerated by presidents and people in j the old days of the clean republic. i - r 4 ! Analyzing the causes of failure in the I nitcd j States in J!02, American Industries finds that oc i the 0,071 failures i'0 per cent were due to in-' compel choc. 30 per cent to lack of capital, 17 per j cent to -special circumstances beyond the business I man's control. 10 per cent to fraud and 7 per cent j to inexperience. The man who gels drunk and neg-; neg-; lects his business is not listed. Therefore there is i no moral to -this tale. i r :4 ; j 1 he mine workers, in session at Indianapolis I recently, authorized the levying of 15 cents a month in addition to the present 10 cents per capita tax for the support of strikers. This increase will go into effect at once and, on a basis of a member-ship member-ship of 200,000 in good standing, should bring into j the national treasury approximately $70,000 a month: Oh, for some plan to save that $70,000 a j month for home comforts instead of expending it j on itrikesl i .... j The. Golden Jubilee edition of The Monitor, j San Francisco, commemorating the fiftieth anni- I versa ry of the erection of the archdiocese of San ! Francisco, is a production certain to make every j Californian proud. One is at a loss to determine ! whether the State, or tho Church has the better i j right to preserve the edition in historical archives, so closely are both blended in the development of California. From a literary standpoint, it is the most comprehensive and best written review of diocesan events yet appearing from the Catholic newspaper press. As an example of illuminated typography, it is a fcather'in the cap of California printers. . ' ' A Japanese traveler who claims to have penetrated pene-trated to the interior of Tibet and "the forbidden city, says that the government of that mysterious country is organized for the. express purpose of maintaining the Buddhist religion. It is the most absolute hierarchy iu lha world. About one person per-son in every twelve of the population of Tibet, it appears, is a Buddhist priest or naonk, and priests compose a very large proportion of the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Lhassa". ' The country is kept virtually sealed to foreigners in order to shut rut ideas and influences that might prove-hurtful to Buddhism. The Dcseret Xcws, of course, hopes tho. "English expedition wili succeed in ''opening up"' the country coun-try to the world. We all know what that means. "Some scholars," says tho Xews, "have expressed the belief that the traditions of the. Buddhists go back as .far as Xoab, und that, Euddha, perhaps, was no other than this celebrated ancestor of man." This is tantamount to saying that Buddha was Xoah and Xoeh was the first man. The Xews editor edi-tor evidently errs in his form of statement. j I The wind offers an inspiring subject for lil- era ry, effort. One of the happiest fancies of Charles Dickens is brought out by a windstorm in Loudon, with Mr. Pickwick chasing his hat. The story of the "big wind" in Ireland was lately described by T. P. O'Connor, M. P. Wc are not so certain this' event gave rise to the song, "Oh, blow ye winds of morning, blow, blow, blow," as we are that ruany births, dmths, marriages and fairs date from the time of the "big wind"' among the unlettered of the peasantry of Erin. Monday's storm in Colorado Colo-rado aiid Wyoming, attended by damage to property prop-erty and peril to life and limb, was certainly strenuous stren-uous enough, for strenuous description. It received such from the newspapers of both states, but only one report has genuine literary merit. It is the report- of the storm at Cheyenne, written by some person who has read Dickens and remembers Pickwick's Pick-wick's mental agony during the chase of his hat. One is almost impaled with horror at the way the wind and the reporter get telescoped, and expects to find Cheyenne blown off the earth in the next .sentence. Xot so bad as that, however, although a j wicked wiud. It unroofed the depot, and then ' (here's where the reporter earns his laurels) it j blew two women off their feet! What! Only two I women in all Wyoming who are as light as fairies, i or, as Mrs. Partington said in describing the moon' j "as light as a feather!" ' 4 ' |