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Show Indian summer slid easily over into the lap of November. ! If Jim Leary had been running in j Butte, the result would be different. I Now that the city election is over, j . will the cry of "follow the flag" be al-l tered to "follow the brewery wagon" ?i They grow very wise men in New ' England. A hermit jn Claremont, N. 41., is reported as saying that women j are apt to cause trouble. j 1 By long practice the sultan of Tur- j key has learned the extreme limit of ! safety in standing off the man with the gun before promising to come down. ' Salt Lake CitA- will jog along for the 1 next two years without any municipal 1 disquietude, providing the Ministerial association and the Deseret Sunday school get out of polities. I If Commander Wainwright had been ; several miles from the scene with his . gallant little vessel when the battle of Santiago was fought he might, have been an admiral by this time. Apropos of the invasion of the French fleet this would seem to be a good time to open up with the annual Thanksgiving Thanks-giving jokes on Turkey. Something might be done with French dressing, for example. ; Th announcement of additional re inforcements to South Africa is supplemented sup-plemented with the statement that "More drastic" measures are to be taken with the Boers. Possibly ""draf-tic" ""draf-tic" measures is meant. ; The election in Salt Lake resulted in an overwhelming triumph for all of the Republican candidates but one, ' ' : Richard P. Morris, the Democratic can 't; didate for treasurer, alone saved out of , the wreck. Eleven Republican coun- ; ciimen were also elected out of the tif- ! ' :, ' teen. - i : l : ' ', ,' . A campaign without slander, like the ! 1 one just ended in Salt Lake, is a tri umph for the vanquished as well as for - the victor. Where all candidates en joyed the confidence of their fellow-citizens fellow-citizens and all were endowed with about the same degree of merit, the only explanation for the defeat of the I Democrats lies in the larger number of votes polled by the Republicans. I The New York Sun explains very J well the reason for the defeat of the 1 divorce canon in the late Episcopal I convention. Divorce being made pos- I eible by civil law no church law can I prevent it" unless religious faith and 1 obedience to the authority of the I church become much stronger than they now appear to be in a circle of I our society from which the Episcopal I church draws so much of its support. I i To clieer up the drooping spirits of I !; its partisans the morning after olec- I i tion. the Salt Lake Herald displayed I i a window bulletin announcing that the ! Democrats had carried Parowan. This is a little town somewhere in the south-crn south-crn desert of Vtah. When the future I , campaign poet 'rhyme Parowan with Mary Ann, the glory of the Democrat- l ' ' lc victory in that town will be worth half a dozen roosters. i - A. London dispatch says that "Queen j ', tlexandra. following the example of j lie lale Queen Victoria, is sending ! j Christmas gifts to the troops In South j ' Afiica. For this purpose she has br- I ' dered thousands of briar pipes, each ; --1 ; Bilver-mounted and bearing the stamp : ( ? of the crown and her majesty's monogram." mono-gram." How the Bosrs will relish this piece of news. The burghers are extremely ex-tremely fond of the pipe, and the chances are that most of these Christmas Christ-mas presents for Tommy Atkins will be found in the mouths of Botha's men by New Years. |