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W A S H IN G T O N
COUNTY
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HATCHET.
UTAH'S BIG JUBILEE.
RECENTLY
CELEBRATED
S E M I-C E N T E N N IA L .
TEXAS.
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iih POPpLAT IO*
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WHAT BETTER PROVES
AMERICA'S GREATNESS?
HEP
F ifty Y e a r » A g o B r i g h a m Y o u n g , t h r
M o r m o n P r o p h e t , Led *»i. F e c p l r
I n t o t h e " P r o m i s e d L a n d ” an d Luid
the F o u n d a t i o n o f a State*
F o u n d i n g a S ta te .
farms range from three to twenty acre-
_
smallest of any State In he
Fuion
They are universally devoted
diversified agriculture, and tints ren-
j der their unmortgaged proprietor* a >
solutelv self-sustaining-
In another Important re*Pfo t . ,1h^ f
elsewhere
farms liffer from those ........... “
0WUers do not live, as a rule.
u||<m t|„. farm acreage, but III villages
located at
or home centers. These an
central [mints in ladies of 5.<x*> to 10 -
tNin acres. The farmers have their
bornas ou aciv lots in tlifso villages,
"•ottîntf from this small area many of
The people o f the State o f Utah re­
cently completed tbetr big celebration
o f the semi-centennial anniversary of
the arrival of Brigham Young aud his
baud o f 1.JU0 pioneers In the valley of
the Great Salt Lake. Almost a full
,
,
.
week was required to fittingly observe
the great empire-building work of Brig­
ham Young.
It was on July 24. 1847, that the pio­
neers emerged from tlie niggl'd defile
uow known as Emigration Canyon and
faeed a broad and sunny valley, which
sUqiod gently to the shores of an in-
luud s* a
On the east, the Wasatch
Mountains, ami ou the south and west
the Oquirrb range made grim walls
alu m the desert. When tlie pilgrims
ltad 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 isld conditions suggested a strik
lug comparison to Brigham Young, who
felt that he was a Moses leading a new
trils- o f Israel to a new promised land.
T lie fresh lake was the sea o f Tiberias,
the salt one the Dead Sea, tlie river
was, o f course, the Jordan. This. then,
th e mormon
was the new Palestine; and here the
leader and ills followers would build a
the things they consume, aud itaviug
new Jerusalem. Advancing a few miles the social advantages of town life to a
Into the valley, and halting near the considerable degree. The ebureh is
banks of a roaring brook, Briglui.m
also the dance bull, and In the remotest
Young struck liLs staff upon the ground
hamlet there Is a Sunday night dance
aud exclaimed; "H ere we will rear our
led by the bishop. These social ar­
temple in holiness to the I » r d ! ”
rangements have contributed much to
The small party o f emigrants who
the contentment of the farming popu­
ended their tiresome and dangerous pil­
lation. There has been less tempta­
grim age in the Utah desert fifty years
tion for tiie boys and girls to leave the
ago gave but the slightest promise of
soil ami go to the large towns than
founding an enduring State. They
elsewhere. The people live under such
had come to an arid land, and possessed
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
conditions that neither panics, strikes
neither canals not tlie slighest knowl­
nor wars could seriously menace their
edge o f the nrt o f irrigation. They had
T O R E D U C E HER W E IG H T.
hut a scanty store o f provisions, and a three meals a day.
else all I can In the open air. By these
J E A N IN U E L O W .
The Mormons are admittedly the
thousand miles o f deserts and moun­
means I prevent my weight from ever
I . t l l a n K i i H . r i r . N e v e r * K n d ln ir w «
founders
of irrigation among Anglo-
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tains lay (s*tween them and any base
exceeding 150 pounds.
A g a i n s t Ubenity.
Saxons. Until they made their first
W h o tiled R e c e n t ly .
o
f
supplies.
They
ltad
no
shelter
save
M y system o f wbnt Is commonly call­
Jean Ingelow, the distinguished poet­ that offered by the canvas coverings rude eannl front City Creek on that
ed “ doing banting” Is a vigorous one,
O nly C a ro lv e ro u s H orse.
ess and novelist, who died at London. o f their crowded wagons, and there July day. in 1.847, men of their race had
«a ys Lillian Russell, In the New York
The most extraordinary appetite Kngland. recently, was the daughter o f
never dealt seriously with this indus­
Journal.
I rely mainly upon severe known In a horse tielongs to Billy, a
try. As the pioneers enjoyed a practi­
W illiam Ingelow. and was I Kirn at
exercise. producing profuse persplra- handsome bay owned by A. Decour-
cal equality in the matter of property,
Boston, Lincolnshire. Kngland. in 1820.
tleux & Son, the butchers o f the Pacific H er father was a banker, ami her
their Irrigation works were necessarily
fruit market. Horses nre frequently mother was of Covenanter descent. She
built by means of co-operative labor.
known to show a strong liking for was 33 years old before her first book
Every man performed his share of the
sugar, and 'nstauces are relnted where
work and received his proportion of
they would drink beer, but who ever
stock iu the company which owned tlie
saw a horse that was fond o f meat and
canal. It was nearly forty years after
tlsh V
the first settlement was made before
Billy's duties are to draw the firm's
costly works were built by outside cap­
delivery wagon and his stand is on
ital. and tlie Innovation was not re­
Merchant street in front o f the shop.
garded with favor by tlie Mormons. In
Here he Is often on exliibltlon. eating
Utah the stores, factories and hanks
with an apparent relish steak, liver,
are owned very generally by joint stock
tripe tuul. in short, almost any variety
companies, consisting of multitudes of
o f meat handed him. Sometimes, after
small shareowners.
having had his fill o f oats and hay, lie
T h e M o r m o n Church.
refuses to munch meat, but this seldom
A fter a half century the Mormon
occurs.
church is still a dominant factor in the
Billy's appetite developed several
life of Utah. In numbers and iu wealth
HHIGHAM YOUNO.
months ago. No one knew o f It until
it is. of course, a far greater church
one day lie was seen to reach into a
were uo forests near at hand front titan It was fifty years ugo. The prac­
j butcher cart that was tied just ahead
which lumber could Is- made. But they tice of polygamy, suspended by formal
o f him and calmly begin eating a steak.
went to work under the direction of a ! edict in 18! hi , I s now a thing of the past.
JEAN INGELOW.
A fte r that he was fed often with the
masterful leader, turning tin- waters of speaking in broad terms. But the doc­
I.11.I.IAN Kl s.KI.l..
firm's wares, anil many a bet has been
a canyon stream upon tile hard alkaline trine is still religiously held among the
U M m Waa
a * «he is.
appeared,
and
it
made
such
an,Impres­
won anil lost on his appetite.
soll aud staking the last o f their stm-k tenets of tlie church. It Is doubtless
tiou, followed by vigorous rubbing and
'1 be horse form erly varied Ills carnnl sion that she was hailed as one o f the o f potatoes on the venture. The result sincerely believed in bv tlie majority of
a very abstemious diet. For my pur­ meals by purloining fish, but be was greatest ¡Kicts o f tlie century.
of this desperate beginning is seen in the iieople, and is usuajly more vigor­
•'Poems o f Jean In gelow " appeared
pose 1 find the bicycle and the skip­ cured in a manner that was ludicrous
the Utah o f to-day.
ously defended by the women than by
at
an
opportune
time
to
attract
atten­
ping rope the best means o f taking e x ­ to the speitutors. but very painful for
U tah o f Today.
tlie men. There are occasional arrests
tion.
Tennyson
had
lieen
silent
fo
r
a
ercise. I rise early and lake a very the equine phenomenon. H e reached
This latest o f American States con­ under the Edmunds-Tuoker law, but
light breakfast, largely o f fruit, espe- Into a tlsh wiigou one day when his long time, and the novelty had worn tains nearly 300,000 people on the occa­
there seems no reason to doubt the
off Ixm gfellow 's “ Tales o f a W ayside
Of good faith of the church In dlscounte-
Inn.” H er ikmmiis even ranked next to sion o f Its fiftieth anniversary.
Isnigfellow 's and above Tennyson’s at these less tIvan one-third live in large uaneing the practice.
towns. Salt IJtke City, the metropolis
Tlie older generation of Mormons
that
time.
The
English-speaking
and capital, containing about Ho,otto, rule the church, but the younger gen­
world was especially captivated
by
and Ogden, its cheerful rival, about 10,- eration rule the State. The Governor,
“ High T ide Off the Coast o f Lincoln­
000. More than two-thirds o f the total the two Senators and one Representa­
shire,” a ballad cast in strange form,
population is dispersed In miniug tive are natives and o f Mormon parent­
so musical thnt It sang Itself, so quaint
camps, on the stock range and over a age. though Senator Rawlins is said to
and tender ami exquisite In Its turn of
myriad o f farms.
lie an ajiostate. Contrary to general ex­
phrase that there was never a word
W hile Utah owes much o f its present pectations. this fact has not deprived
fo r its defects. H er second volume of
|H>ems, entitled "A Story o f Doom."
follow ed In 18t57. and her third in 1885.
In addition to her poems she has w rit­
ten various prose works fo r children,
and four novels. H er "Soug o f Seven.”
"D ivid ed ” ami "Laurnnoe" 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 F a iry." was
a fantasy that attracted much atten­
tion. Then follow ed her tlrst novel
"O ff the Skelligs," her best w ork In
that line, but Miss Ingelow is known
to the present generation only as a
poet.
TW O TH IR S T S W IT H B U T A S IN G LE GI.ASS.
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Area id Sanare
ARE* I* JÇI ARf A»|US
50,879.
HE
W AS
A
How
a Vimini»
B e r Cent, 1, , ^
I once had a promising,
in my store down on tiie i
said a Virginian to a rep«!
a general store th.-re, and
promised to bloom into ».J
a loo 1< k > flower, onme to ,
m - - - - ~ rn
«sä g *.
N ew T rea tm en t fo r H iccou gh .
olfactories detected the odor o f his fa ­
A fem ale patient presented herself at
vorite smelt, but an active ami belliger­ a French hospital for a rebellious hic­
ent crab took offense at the Intrusion cough. which had resisted all treatment
and promptly fastened to hts low er lip. fo r four days. She was asked to show
Billy shook his head frantically and the tongue, and it was noticed that
whinnied la pain, but the crustacean w ith the putting out o f the tongue, the
lu-ld on until Is’ was crushi-d by lieing j hiccough eeasixl. The same thing has
banged against the side o f the wagon. lieen since tried, and with success In
Since then the horse lias kept clear o f other eases. All that Is necessary ap­
tlsh. San Francisco Call.
parently is to strongly push the tongue
out o f tin* mouth am) hold It so. for a
T h e Its r ley corn.
The table o f measure« iwys that three minute or two. It is also suggested
lairleycoma moke one inch, and so they now to try the same thing in suffocative
do. When the standards o f measures cough, as whooping cough, ami choking
were tlrst c»tablislusl. three Itarley- by Irresplrable gases.
tabernacle .
far end o f Prince <ieorge
the introduction of a fric
and his. who said as be
for anything else, perbi|
I«' made handy iu a »ton-
| and v
just to he acconunodatint
-dot t
aud promised to give him
|t being
rise.
a butt
He was alsitit lit yean ni
poetry la-tween times, mi [I k* ou tin
sweeping out as a «tarter] lire a be
itbe upii
sweep well enough, awl
1 put him to doing the d | to the ci
*w ill
vised him to study them
|books to
was resting.
are i
A fte r alsiut six week*oil
training 1 concluded he ij lorners
which
to take charge of my «ci
i-uritig
which whs a counter wl
t above
my old stuff about every
with the most of it markt its of I lit
ures uud with the additif [that the
the i
tiou to those looking for
there would tie 10 off for Ithis arr;
I the skir
Trade wns lively the
in the
him at It. and he was dolt
toilers f
not better, than the wore|
clerks, fo r I noticed sever feel cover
ting around ills way andl i of the
pretty quick with what[ -parts a
i1 her tin
iMiught. I didn't think mi
whys and wherefores unt Hove up <
fello w came to me at the j
Told i
suit o f clothes in his hai
I respec
explain something. The| Hr over-le
large white card inscrit
verity,
black
iter slioi
" I don't quite understat to “ontdi
he. "T h e others I sold
ily the
*10.75, *11.50, *11.08. $12
wi mem
and it was easy enough
carded
what 10 off would lie and [never con
75 cents. *1.50. *1.08. *2
No on
I'll lie doggoned if I see
the pres«
lug to throw *10 off of at the is we
less you want to give the| it all time;
and I reckon you ain't
ler childrt
even at the scrap eountf
her q
It m ighty near gave mei crown,
did, concluded the get
table
n
put another clerk at my
of manifo
ter p. d. q.
one thin;
in who t
Present
two, and
If. instead of being in
spends (
hazy and undefined feelij
the hair-li
clear thought to bear up
discretio
find that the only supri
test o f conduct must ever|
Its general
tious which we hold at I
| filial respe
Not whether any other j
lperhaps, l
whole world approve or<
la mother
even whether we may or |
riate her
tlnue In future years to t
f articles o
ourselves, must be our i
Jl policy o
whether lit the present \
|or later hre
lieve in our Inmost hearj
rone's be!
course is the true and t
lor theit
sue.
urnal.
I f this be not our guk
voice, opposing that of
obeyed—then we act in «
own moral sense, which |
snapping o f character.
A Congressm an’s
Congressman Russell, I
cut, has something
horseshoes which he
Six or eight fine speetn
or disfigure his apartmej
ilton In Washington, and I
of the bushel, except a
In an old box at his 1
The fe w which are i
from the collection in
hanging on the port
Russell used to pull *
with In the old six-osr
College In '73.
Lives on 1«
There Is a quaint pl^J
in (tea bogs. It t*H:‘
an odd umbrella-like s J
ner. The leaves arc
half fu ll o f rain water.
Insects are drowned,
say that the flower
insects.
eorn*. well dried, c-erc taker, and laid
end to end. three lieing understood to
make an inch in length.
The hair­
breadth, now used indefinitely and cs*n-
ventlonally for Inflnltesttnal space, was
a regular measure. 1»! hairs laid aide by
aide equaling one barleycorn^
Secret In Naval I'trcte*.
TIIE GREAT MORMON TEMPLE.
Great secrecy .«* obeerTed over tin
construction o f a number o f shallow
pro*|>ertty
to
Its
mines, and will lie ; him
draft gunboats now building fo r tin*
Uncrowned
f strong support among the itiem-
even more deeply Indebted to this item i
British government by the Yarrows
There are many * *
o
f
Its
resources
in
the
future,
tlie
broad
i
vigorously*
c^
un.
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j
*
Iw
|
The de*tinatk«i o f the boots, aa well
attacked the leaders fo ri at the present time 1
as the model, is Ite-tag kept dark. They foundation o f Its coouoinic life is in its
Ur ' V °f 'M
'aV*'" to -«W »he taken the trouble
C h eerin g In d ica tio n .
may be fo r t'hlna. tin- Nile, o r the Irrigatisi soil. There are some remark
a'
<>« In the heat o f Am ong them may
The fact that *14.225. the largest Niger, though some believe that they able facts to I k * rei-orded alunit Its 19,. ; .!* U
1
Th“ flrHt '‘ ^ - " » « L v e ! German K;mw r" r-
amount ever paid at one time Into the are to bo used on the / jtn h e«i In the 81« farms In t V first pisce. 17.HM of ( In Men to t ongre«s.
c. E A den, had tiie K ing of
them are alisolutely free o f all inemn-
' conscience fund” o f the United State« event o f w ar with the Transvaal.
branee T lie average size o f these i.’r m.t f7
“ poW‘' r f “ 1 ar* ' uneom - land, the K in g 'd H*
Government. has ln«en received within
ot
nut Saxony.
the last year, la a cheering Indication
Patience with a hushand Is equally farm s Is twenty-seven acres, but as
that some men are grow ing better in­ aa good an InvcMment fo r a woman to some large ranches are inrluded in this
W e do not admir* ^
, estimate, the figure given for tt iver bet ween
divided
stead o f worn*.
make aa patience with a son.
n i
th* ,w o * PPS,t parties. Tlie does, but there i* ^
age Is rather too high. T h « typ!
division which baa come after forty untie and sense °
?ote, T t l T ' : i ,h ,b ,," M of N,<'nnon
-Æ.
•si
rf
Texas Create!* in Area Ilian England and
Germany. Ils Population (Inly t-3titli of
clally sotti- orattges, for I la-lieve that
nelds are m inatile ageuts In thè re
duetlou o f desìi, llananas and crack-
era are alao lutlsirtant features o f my
inalili inni itieal. Milk, starchy. or sac-
charlne fonda o f nny kltul 1 entlrely
avoli!
Il lina In-nu truly salii that tlie
only pro|>er way to chew tobaceo I* to
eschew It, and I thlnk tlie sanie re-
mark applica w ltli eqiial force to nudi
fiMHla an I bave uictitloncd. If oue de
slres to liecouie tlilnuer. A fte r break­
fast 1 don a baine gym iiastic bhsniier
drena and tnke a gissi long tim i wltb
my sklpping mpe. A fte r restlng for
nbout au liour, I don a b leyd e costume
aud. niounting a ntneteeti |sutnd wheel,
I ani aisin taklug a spiti otti o f thè Rlv-
emide drive or tlimttgh Central Park.
Thls Insta for tw o hnura. A fter lunch-
eon I take a long walk and devote tlie
remnlnder o f tlie tinte before dlnner to
rendlng. sttid.v, vocal practice. wrlttng
lettera, et e. O f course, thè alni ve rou­
tine bus to he varlett somewhat wlit-n
rehearsals d a lie a oonsiderable portlon
o f my Ulne. A galli, wheii I am oli thè
road traveiing from city to city, my
liahlta must lie somewhat clianged. luit
even then I adliere to mv dletary rules.
take my aklpplng-rope tura, and exer
years o f political solku-7]
I k - genuine, and the
their discussion* wiih i2 l
/.cal o f new converta, ^