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PUT! IF ii 1 II UNiTED STATESTOCROff.
UTAH'S BIG JUBILEE.
RECENTLY CELEBRATED
SEMI-CENTENNIAL.
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WHAT BETTER PROVES
AMERICA'S GREATNESS?
TEXAS; Ifcl
JWnti'nn ' Mt":wm
Mil!, . A
Texas Creator in Area llian England and
Germany. Its Population Only i-lli of
Them.
St. Louis Pott-Dispatch
TO REDUCE HER WEIGHT.
Lilian Huaaell'e Never- Ending War
Asulnet Obeaity.
My system of wluit Is coiiiiiiouly cull
ed "doing bunting" if a vigorous one,
mivh Lillian Russell, In the New York
- Journal. I rely inulnly upon severe
exercise, producing profuse persplra-
clwe all I can In the open air. By these
iueann I prevent my weight from ever
exceeding 150 pounds.
I. U.I. UN HI SSK1.L.
As Shu Wits. A" She In.
lion, followed by vigorous nibbing uuil
a very abstemious diet. For my pur
oHe 1 li lid tin' bicycle unil the skip
ping rope the best iiii'UIIn of Inking ex
ercise. I rise early mid take a very
light breakfast, largely of fruit, espe-
Only Carniverone Horse.
The most extraordinary appetite
known lu a borne belongs to Billy, a
handHotne bay owned by A. Deeour
tleux & Son, the butchers of the Pacific,
fruit murket. Horses are frequently
known to show a strong liking for
sugar, and Instances are related where
bey would drink beer, but who ever
saw a horse that was fond of meat and
Huh?
Billy's duties are to draw the firm's
delivery wagon and his stand Is on
Merchant street In front of the shop.
Here he Is often on exhibition, eatlug
with nn apparent relish steak, liver,
tripe and, In short, almost any variety
of meat handed him. Sometimes-, after
having lind his till of oats and hay, he
refuses to munch meat, but this seldom
occurs.
Billy's appetite developed several
months ago. No one knew of it until
one day he was seen to reach Into a
butcher cart that was tied just ahead
of li i i ii and calmly begin eating a steak.
ATI or that be was fed often with the
linn's wares, and many a bet hits been
won and lost on his appetite.
The horse formerly varied bis carnal
meals by purloining tlsli, but he wus
cured in u manner that was ludicrous
to the spectators, but very painful for
the equine phenomenon. lie reached
into a fish wagon one day when his
JEAN INUELOW.
The DJatlnsniahed Poet end Noveliat
Who Died Recently.
Jean Ingelow, the distinguished poet
ess and novelist, who died at Loudon.
England, recently, was the daughter of
William Ingelow, and was born at
Boston, Lincolnshire, England, In 1820.
Her father was a banker, and her
mother was of Covenanter descent. She
was 33 years old before her first book
JEAN INGELOW.
TWO THIRSTS WITH BUT A SINGLE CLASS.
dally smir oranges, for 1 believe that
acids arc valuable agents in the re
duction of Mesh. HniiiiniiH and crack
ers urc also Important features of my
i mi ( ii 1 1 in I meal. Milk, starchy, or sac
charine foods of any kind 1 entirely
avoid. It has been truly said that the
only proper way to chew tobacco Is to
eschew it, and 1 think the same re
mark applies with equal force to such
foods as 1 have mentioned, if one de
sires to become thinner. After break
fast 1 dou a loose gymnastic bloomer
dress and take a good long turn with
my skipping rope. After resting for
ii I hiii t nn hour, I don u bicycle costume
ami mounting u nineteen pound w heel,
I am soon taking a spin out of the Riv
erside drive or through Central Park.
This lasts for two hours. After lunch
eon I take a long walk and devote the
remainder of the time In-fore dinner to
reading, study, vocal practice, writing
letters, etc. Of course, the alove rou
tine has to be varied somewhat when
rehearsals claim a considerable portion
of my time. Again, when I am on the
road traveling from city to city, my
habits must lie somewhat changed, but
even then I adhere to my dietary rules,
take my skipping rope turn, and exer-
olfuetorles detected the odor of his fa
vorlte smelt, but an active and belliger
ent crab took offense at the Intrusion
and promptly fastened to his lower lip.
Billy shook his head frantically aud
whinnied In pain, but the cmstacean
held on tiutll be was crushed by being
banged against the side of the wagon.
Since then the horse has kept clear of
fish. San Francisco Call.
The Ilarlcycorn.
The table of measures sys that three
barleycorns make one Inch, and so they
do. When the standards of measures
were first established, three barley -i-orns,
well dried, were taken and laid
end to end, three Mug understood to
make an Inch In length. The hair
breadth, now used Indefinitely and eon.
venflonully for Infinitesimal npnce, was
a regular measure, HI hairs laid aide by
aide equaling one barleycorn.
Cheering Indication.
The fact that $14,225, the largest
amount ever paid at one time Into the
"conscience fund" of the United States
Government, has been received within
the last year. Is a cheering Indication
that some men are growing better In
stead of worse.
appeared, and It made such an Impres
sion that she was hailed as one of the
greatest poets of the century.
"Poems of Jeau Ingelow" appeared
at an opportune time to attract atten
tion. Tennyson bad been silent for a
long time, and the novelty had worn
off I-ongfellow's "Tales of a Wayside
Inn." Her poems even ranked next to
Longfellow's and above Tennyson's at
that time. The English-speaking
world was especially captivated by
"High Tide CUT the Coast of Llncoln
shlre,'' n ballad cast in strange form,
so musical that It sang Itself, so quaint
aud tender and exquisite In Its turn of
phrase that there was never a word
for Its defects. Her second volume of
poems, entitled "A Story of Doom,"
followed in 1807, and her third in 1885.
In addition to her poems she has writ
ten Parlous prose works for children,
and four novels. Her "Song of Seven,"
"Divided" ami "Laurance" are sup
posed to be autobiographical. Many of
her verses were set to music. Among
these Is "Oh, Fair Dove, Oh, Fond
Dove," the sweet but mournful tale of
a sailor's love. "Mopsa, the Fairy," was
a fantasy that attracted much atten
tion. Then followed her first novel,
"Off- the Skelligs," her best work In
that line, but Miss Ingelow is kuown
to the present generation only as a
poet. . .
New Treatment for Hiccough.
A female patient presented herself at
a French hospital for a rebellious hic
cough, which hud resisted all treatment
for four days. She was asked to show
the tongue, ami It was noticed that
with the putting out of the tongue, the
hiccough ceased. The same thing has
been since tried, and with success In
other coses. All that is necessary ap
parently la to strongly push the tongue
out of the mouth and hold It so, for a
minute or two. It Is also suggested
now to try the same thing In suffocative
cough, as whooping cough, and choklug
by Irresplrahle gases.
Secret in Naval Circle. '
Oreat secrecy Id observed over th
construction of a number of shallow
draft gunboats now building for the
British government by the Yarrows.
The destination of the boats, as well
as the model. Is being kept dark. They
may be for China, the Nile, or the
Niger, though some believe that tbey
are to be used on the Zambesi In the
event of war with the Transvaal.
Fifty Years Ago Urlgliara Tonne, the
Mormon Prophet, Led Mia People
Into the "Promlaed Land" and Laid
the Foundation of a State.
Founding a Mate.
The people of the State of Utah re
cently completed their big celebration
of the seml-ceutenulul anniversary of
the arrival of Brlgham Young aud his
bund of 1,1!0 pioneers In the valley of
the Great Suit Lake. Almost a full
week wus required to fittingly observe
the great emplrc-bulldlng work of Brig
ham Young.
It was on July 24, 1847, that the pio
neers emerged from the rugged defile
now kuown as Emigration Canyon and
faced a broad and sunny valley, which
sloied gently to the shores of an In
land seu. On the east, the Wasatch
Mountains, aud on the south and west
the Oquirrh range' made grim walls
about the desert. When the pilgrims
had proceeded a little further they saw
a large fresh lake a few miles to the
south, emptying Its surplus waters Into
the Inland sea through a slender river.
These odd conditions suggested a strik
ing comparison to Brlgham Young, who
felt that he was a Moses leading a new
tribe of Israel to a new promised land.
The fresh lake was the sea of Tiberias,
the suit one the Dead Sea, the river
was, of course, the Jordan. This, then,
was the new Palestine; nnd here the
leader and his followers would build a
new Jerusalem. Advancing a few miles
Into the valley, and halting near the
banks of a roaring brook, Brlgham
Young struck his staff upon the ground
and exclaimed: "Here we will rear our
temple lu holiness to the Lord!"
The small party of emigrants who
ended their tiresome and dangerous pil
grimage in the Utah desert fifty years
ago gave but the slightest promise of
founding an enduring State. They
had come to an arid laud, and possessed
neither canals nor the sllghest knowl
edge of the art of Irrigation. They had
but a scanty store of provisions, and a
thousand miles of deserts and moun
tains lay between them and any base
of supplies. They hud no shelter save
that offered by the canvas coverings
of their crowded wagons, and there
farms range from three to twenty acres
the smallest of any State Id the
Uulon. They are universally devoted
to diversified agriculture, aud thus ren
der their unmortgaged proprietors ab
solutely self-sustaining.
In another important resjieet these
farms differ from those elsewhere.
Their owners do not live, us a rule,
upon the farm acreage, but In villages
or home centers. These are located ut
central points In bodies of 5,000 to 10,
000 ucres. The ftirtners huve their
homes on acre lots In these villages,
getting from this small area many of
years of political solidarity appears to
be genuine, and the people carry on
their discussion with the proverbial
zeal, of new converts.
HE WAS A BRILLLANT CLERK.
How a Vlralnla Prodigy Gave a 10
Per Cent. Discount.
I once had a promising bud of gonlus
In myjtore down on the James Kiver,
said a Virginian td a reporter. I keep
a general store there, and this bud, that
promised to bloom Into seven kinds of
a loo loo flower, came to me from the
THE MORMON TABERNACLE.
BUIOIIAM YOUNG.
were no forests near at hand from
which lumber could be made. But tbey
went to work under the direction of a
masterful leader, turning the waters of
a canyon stream upon the hard alkaline
soli and staklug the lust of their stock
of potatoes on the veuture. The result
of this desperate beginning is seen lu
the Utah of to-duy.
th of Today.
This lntest of American States con
tains nearly 300,000 people on the occa
sion of Its fiftieth anniversary. Of
these less than one-third live In large
towns, Salt Lake City, the metropolis
and capital, containing about 00,000,
and Ogden, Its cheerful rival, about 10,
000. More thau two-thirds of tFle total
population Is dispersed in mining
eauqw, on the stock range and over a
myriad of farms.
Willie Utah owes much of Its present
the things they consume, and having
the social advantages of town life to a
considerable degree. The church Is
also the dance bull, and In the remotest
ha-mlet there Is a Sunday night dunce
led by the bishop. These soclul ar
rangements have contributed much to
the contentment of the forming popu
lation. There hat been less tempta
tion for the boys and girls to leave the
soil and go to the large towns than
elsewhere. The people live under such
conditions that neither panics, strikes
nor wars could seriously menace their
three meals a day.
The Mormons are admittedly the
founders of Irrigation among Anglo
Saxons. Until they made their first
rude canal from City Creek on that
July day, in 1847, men of their race had
never dealt seriously with this indus
try. As the pioneers enjoyed a practi
cal equality in the matter of property,
their Irrigation works were necessarily
built by means of co-operative labor.
Every man performed his share of the
work and received his proportion of
stock In the company which owned the
canal. It was nearly forty years after
the Q rat settlement was made before
costly works were built by outside cap
ital, and the Innovation was not re
garded with favor by the Mormons. In
Utah the stores, factories and banks
are owned very generally by Jolut stock
companies, consisting of multitudes of
small shareowuers.
The Mormon Chnrch.
After a half century the Mormon
church Is still a dominant factor in the
life of Utah. In numbers and In wealth
it Is, of course, a far greater church
than it was fifty years ago. The prac
tice of polygamy, suspended by formal
edict lu 1800, Is now a thing of the past,
speaking In broad terms. But the doc
trine Is still religiously held among the
tenets of the church. It Is doubtless
sincerely believed In by the majority of
the people, aud Is usually more vigor
ously defended by the women Jhan by
the men. There are occasional arrests
under the Edmunds-Tucker law, but
there seems no reason to doubt the
good faith of the church In discounte
nancing the practice.
The older generation of Mormons
rule the church, but the younger gen
eration rule the State. The Governor,
the two Senators and one Representa
tive are natives and of Mormon parent
age, though Senator Rawlins Is said to
be an apostate. Contrary to general ex
pectations, this fact has not deprived
THE GREAT MORMOX TEMPLE.
Patience with a husband is equally
as good an investment for a woman to
make at pattence with a too.
prosperity to lu mines, and will be
oven more deeply Indebted to this Item
of Its resources In the future, the broad
foundation of Its economic life Is In Its
Irrigated soil. There are some remark
able facts to be recorded about Its 19,
816 fanns. In the first place. 17.I5S4 of
them are absolutely free of all incum
brance. The average aire of tbe.e
farms U twenty-seven acres, but as
some large ranches are Included In this
estimate, the figure given for the aver
age U rather too high. Tlia typical
him of strong support among the mem
bers of the church, not even when be
vigorously attacked the leaders for
"using the livery of heaven to serve the
devil In," as he once did In the heat of
the campaign. The first Representative
chosen to Congress, C. E. Allen, had
been for years a powerful and uncom
promising opponent of the church. But
be was elected with the aid of Mormon
vote. The twelve apostles are divided
between the two great parties. The
division which has come after forty
far end of Prince George, County, on
the Introduction of a friend of mine
and bis, who said as he wasn't good
for anything else, perhaps he might
be made handy In a store. I took him,
just to be accommodating, of course,
and promised to give him a chance to
rise.
He was about 19 years old, and wrote
poetry between times, so I put him to
sweeping out as a starter. He could
sweep well enough, and after a week
I put htm to doing the chores, and ad
vised him to study the stock while he
was resting.
After about six weeks of this kind of
training I concluded he knew enough
to take charge of my scrap counter,
which was a counter where I put all
my old stuff about every sixty days,
with the most of It marked In big fig
ures and with the additional Informa
tion to those looking for bargains that
there would be 10 off for cash.
Trade was lively the morning I put
him at it, and he was doing as well. If
not better, than the more experienced
clerks, for I noticed several people get
ting around his way and getting out
pretty quick with what they had
bought. I didn't think much about the
whys and wherefores until the young
fellow came to me at the desk with a
suit of clothes in his hands to ask me to
explain something. The suit bore a
large white card Inscribed with a big
black "$8." -
"I don't quite understand this," says
he. "The others I sold were marked
$10.75, $11-50, $11.08, $12 nnd $12.48,
and It was easy enough to calculate
what 10 off would lie and sell them for
75 cents, $1.50, $1.08, $2 and $2.48, but .
I'll be doggoned If I see how you're go
ing to throw $10 off of an $8 suit, un
less you want to give the customer $2,
nnd I reckon you ain't that liberal, .
even at the scrap counter, are you?"
It mighty near gave me a spasm, that
did, concluded the gentleman, and I
put Another clerk at my discount coun
ter p. d. q.
Present Decision.
If, Instead of being Influenced by a
hazy and undefined feeling, we bring
clear thought to bear upon It, we shall
find that the only supreme and final
test of conduct must ever be the convic
tions which we hold at the time.
Not whether any other person or the
whple world approve or disapprove, nor
even whether we may or may not con
tinue In future years to maintain them
ourselves, must be our question, but
whether at the present moment we be
lieve In our Inmost heart that such a
course Is the true and right one to pur
sue. "
If this be not our guide if any other
voice, opposing that of conscience, be
obeyed then we act In defiance of our
own moral sense, which is plainly the
snapping of character.
A Congressman's Homes hoes.
Congressman Russell, of Connecti
cut, has something like a bushel of
horseshoes which he has picked up.
Six or eight fine specimens ornament
or disfigure his apartments at the Ham
ilton In Washington, and the remainder
of the bushel, except a few, are stored
In an old bos at his home In KUlingly.
The few which are especially reserved
from the collection in the box are
hanging on the port waist oar which
Russell used to pull a winning stroke
with In the old six-oared crew of Yale
College in 73.
' Lives on Insects.
There Is a quaint plant which growf
In pea bogs. It has large flowers, with
an odd umbrella-like shield in the cor
ner. The leaves are generally about
half full of rain water, in which many
Insects are drowned. Some naturalists
say that the flower lives on the drowned
Insects.
Uncrowned Rulers.
There are many reigning sovereign!
at the present time who have never
taken the trouble to be crowned.
Among tbem may be mentioned the
German Emperor, the King of Italy,
the King of Spain, the Queen of Hol
land, the King of Bavaria, the King of
Saxony.
We do not admire everything Cupid
does, but there la no denying his good
tate and serae In dressing.