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UTAH’S BIG JUBILEE. RECENTLY CELEBRATED SEMI-CENTENNIAL. TEXAS, t. 1. ' englan ™! !¡j L ''OPULAIIOIM 27*03 *'JO Il li 'm 1 |j WH AI BETTER PROVES 1 JMï AMERICA'S GREATNESS? LIVERPOOL U|l> AREA IN JQt ARE Milts 2,235,523. LOUDON* HAM a U R Cl ^ÄREA 3 TU T T GA R / MUNICH its TO REDUCE HER WEIGHT. else all I can in the open air. By these means I prevent my weight from ever exceeding 150 pounds. Kilian RiisseB*» Never-Ending War Agulnst Obesity. My system of what is commonly call Only Carnivorous Horse. ed “doing banting” is a vigorous one, The most extraordinary appetite says Lillian Russell, In the New York Journal. I rely mainly upon severe known in a horse belongs to Billy, a exercise, producing profuse perspirn- handsome bay owned by A. Decour- tieux & Son. the butchers of the Pacific fruit market. Horses are frequently known to show a strong liking for sugar, anil instances are related where ■they would drink beer, but who ever saw a horse that was fond of meat and tish? 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, eating with an apparent relish steak, liver, tripe and. in short, almost any variety of meat hand'd him. Sometimes, after having had liis 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 him and calmly begin eating a steak. After that lie was fed often with the I.II.I.IAS KI SSKI.l.. firm's wares, and many a bet lias been As She Was. As She Is. won and lost on his appetite. 'I he liorse formerly varied his carnal tlou, followed by vigorous rubbing and a very abstemious diet. For my pur meals by purloining tish, but he was pose 1 timl tlie bicycle and the skip cured In a manner that was ludicrous ping I'ope the liest means of taking ex to tlie spectators, but very painful for ercise. I else early and take a very tlie equine phenomenon. He reached light breakfast, largely of fruit, espe- into a tish wagon one day when his THIRSTS WITH Fifty Years Ago Brigham Young, the Mormon Prophet. Led His People Into the "Promised Land" and Laid the Foundation of a State. Founding a State. The people of the State of Trail re- ieutly completed their big celebration of the semi-centennial anniversary of the arrival of Brigham Young ami bis band of 1,160 pioneers in the valley of the Great Salt ijjke. 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 rugged detile now known as Emigration Canyon and faced a broad and sunny valley, which sloi>ed gently to tlie shores of an in land sea. On the east, the Wasatch Mountains, and on tlie south and west the Oquirrli 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 Brigham Young. who felt that lie was a Moses leading a new tribe of Israel to a new promised land. The fresh lake was the sea of Tiberias, the .salt one the Dead Sea, the river was, of course, the Jordan. Tills, then, was the new Palestine; and here the leader and his followers would build a new Jerusalem. Advancing a few miles into tlie valley, and halting near the banks of a roaring brook, Brigham Young struck his staff upon the ground and exclaimed: "Here we will rear our temple in holiness to the laird!” The small party of emigrants who ended their tiresome and dangerous pil grimage in tlie Utah desert fifty years ago gave but the slightest promise of founding an enduring State. They had come to an arid laud, and possessed —St. I.ouls Pott-Dispatch neither canals nor tlie slighest knowl edge of the art of irrigation. They had but a scanty store of provisions, and a JEAN INGELOW thousand miles of deserts and moun The DiatlnauiHlieil Poet and Novelist tains lay between them and any base Who Died Recently. of supplies. They had no shelter save Jean Ingelow, the distinguished poet that offered by the canvas coverings ess and novelist, who died at London, of their crowded wagons, and there 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 BIT A SINGLE GLASS. THE MORMON the things they consume, and having the social advantages of town life to a considerable degree. The church is also the dance hall, and in the remotest hamlet there is a Sunday night dance led by the bishop. These social ar rangements have contributed much to the contentment of the farming popu lation. There has been less tempta tion for the boys and girls to leave the soil anti go to the large towns than elsewhere. The [>eop!e live under such conditions that neither panics, strikes nor wars could seriously menace their three meals a day. The Mormans are admittedly the founders of irrigation among Anglo- Saxons. Until they made their tirst 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 tirst 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 stares, factories anil banks are owned very generally by joint stock ' companies, consisting of multitudes of | small shareowners. the Mormon Church, were no forests near at hand from which lumber could be made. But they went to work under tlie direction of a JEAN INOKLOW. masterful leader, turning the waters of appeared. and it made such au impres a canyon stream upon tlie hard alkaline sion that she was balled as one of the soil and staking tlie last of their stock of potatoes on tlie venture. Tlie result greatest poets of the century. "Poems of Jean Ingelow" appeared of this desperate beginning is seen in at an opportune time to attract atten the Utah of to-day. Utah of Today. tion. Tennyson had been silent for a This latest of American States con long time, and tlie novelty had worn off Ixingfellow’s "Tales of a Wayside tains nearly 300,000 jieople on the occa Inn.” Her poems even ranked next to sion of its fiftieth anniversary. Of Longfellow's and above Tennyson's at these less than one-third live in large that time. Tlie English-speaking towns. Salt Lake City, the metro|>olis world was especially captivated by and capital, containing about tlo.ooo. “High Tide Off the Coast of Lincoln and Ogden, its cheerful rival. al>put 10.- shire," a ballad cast in strange form, 000. More than two-thirds of the total population is dispersed in mining so musical that it sang itself, so quaint camps, on the stock range and over a and tender and exquisite in its turn of myriad of farms. phrase that there was never a word While Vtah owes much of its present for its defects. Her second volume of poeuis, entitled “A Story of Doom.” followed ill 1867, and her third in 1885. In addition to her iioenis she has writ ten various prose works for children, mid four novels. Her "Song of Seven.” "Divided” and "Laurance" are suit- 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 tirst novel, “Off the Skelligs.” her best work in that line, but Miss Ingelow is known to the present generation only as a poet. 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 tifty years ago. The prac tice of polygamy, sutqteuded by formal edict in 1890, 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 bv the majority of the people, and is usually more vigor ously defended by the women than 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 tlie 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 HE WAS A BRILLLANT CLERK. How a Virginia Prodigy Gave a IO Per Cent. Discount. I once had a promising bud of genius in my store down on the James River, said a Virginian to a reporter. I keep a general store there, and this bud. that promised to bloom Into seven kinds of, n loo loo flower, mine to me from the olfactories detected the odor of his fa- 1 vorlte smelt, but an active and belllger- ent crab took offense at the Intrusion nml promptly fastened to his lower lip. | Billy shook his head frantically nml whinnied in pain, but the crustaceau held on until he was crushed by being i banged against the side of the wagon. Since then the horse has kept clear of tish San Francisco Call. The Barleycorn. The table of measures says that three barleycorns make one Inch, and ao they do. When rile standards of measures were tirst established, three barley corn«, well dried, were taken and laid end to end. three living understood to make an inch in length. The hair breadth. now Used Indefinitely and con ventionally for infinitesimal since. w as a nirular measure. lit hairs laid aide by side equaling one barleycorn. Secret in Naval Circles. far end of I’rince George County, on the introduction of a friend of mine and his. who said as he wasn’t good for anything else, perliapa 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 write poetry between times, so I put him to sweeping out as a starter. He could sweep well enough, and after a week I put him 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 be 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, it 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 why» and wherefores until the young fellow came to me at the desk with ;iv, 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.” say* he. “Tlie others I sold were marked .$10.75, .$11.50. $11.98. .$12 and $12.48, and it was easy enough to calculate what 10 off would l>e ami sell them for 75 cents, $1.50. $1.98, $2 and $2.48, but I'll be iloggoned 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, and 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 whole world approve or disapprove, nor even whether we may or may not con tinue in future years to maintain them ourselves, must lie our question, but whether at the present moment we be lieve In our Inmost heart that such a course is tlie true and right one to pur sue. If this be not our guide—if any other voice, opposing that of conscience, l>e obeyed—then we not in defiance of our own moral sense, which is plainly the snapping of character. A Congressman's Horseshoes. A female patient presented herself at a French hospital for a rebellious hic cough, which had 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 ceasixl. The same thing has been since tried, ami with success Ln other cases. All that Is necessary ap parently la to strongly push the tongue out of the mouth amt 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 choking by Irrespirable gnses. Great avrecy hi olwerved over U m construction of a number of shallow draft gunboats now building for the British government by the Yarrows. The destlnatiiUi of the boats, as well as the model. Is Isdug kept dark. They Cheering indication. may be for China, the Nile, or the The fact that (14.225, the largest Niger, though some believe that they amount ever paid at one time Into the are to be need on the Zambesi in the “conscience fund" of the United States event of war with th-? Transvaal. Government, has been received within the last year. Is, a cheering Indication Patience with a husband la equally that some men are growing bettar In as good an Investment for a woman to stead of woraa. make as patience with a eon. TABERNACLE. 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 au old box at his home in Killlngly. 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. New Treatment for Hiccough. daily sour oranges, tor 1 believe that adds art* valuable agents in the re duction of flesh. Bananas and crack ers are also Inqsirlaut features of my matutinal nival. Milk, starchy, or sac charine fissls of any kind I entirely avoid. It Inis been truly said that the only pro|H'r way to chew tobacco Is to eachew It, and 1 think tlie same re mark applies with equal force to such food* as I have mviiilomsl, if one de sires to become thluuer. After break fast 1 don n liaise gymnastic bloomer dress and take a g<ssl long turn with my skipping i - o | h >. After resting for alsiut an hour. I don a bicycle costume j and. mounting a nlneteeii | m » uii <1 w heel. I am soon taking a spin out of tlie Riv erslile 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 before dinner to reading, study, local practice, writing letters, etc. Of course, the above 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 liablta must Is* somewhat changed, but even then I adhere to mv dietary rules, take my skipping rope turn, and exer years of political solidarity appear* to l»e genuine, and the people carry on their discussions with the proverbial zeal of new converts. P(H’lll.ATI0N-45,234.061. IN SQUARE MILES 212,028 iOLUGtJÈ. TWO HER farms range from three to twenty acre* —the smallest of any State in the Union. They are universally devoted to diversified agriculture, and thus ren der their unmortgaged proprietors ab solutely self-sustaining. In another Important respect these farms differ from those elsewhere. Their owners do not live, as a rule, upon the farm acreage, but in villages or home center*. These are located at central itoints In I hm II ch of 5.1100 to 10,- 000 acres. The farmers have their homes oil acre lots In these villages, getting from this small urea many of Live» on Insect*. THE GREAT MORMON TEMPLE. : prosperity to it» mines, ami will be hint of stroug support among the mem even more deeply indebted to this Item bers of the church, not even when be , of its resources in the future, tlie broad vigorously attacked the leaders for foundation of its economic life Is in its "using the livery of heaven to serve the : Irrigated soil. There are some remark devil in." ns he once did In the heat of able facts to be recorded about its 19.- the campaign. The first Representative Sltl farms. In th* first place. 17.684 of chosen to Congress, C. E. Allen, had them are absolutely free of all incum been for years a powerful and uncom brance. The average slxe of these promising opponent of the church. But farms ia twenty-seven acre», but as he was elected with the aid of Mormon I some large ran*’lies are included in this vote». The twelve apostles are divided | estimate, the figure given for the aver between the two great parties. The age 1» rather too high. Th» typical | dlvUlon which ha* come after forty There is a quaint plant which grows 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 lusects. Uncrowned Rulers. , There «re many reigning sovereign« at the present time who have never taken the trouble to be crowned. Among them 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 I* no denying hl» good taste and sense in dressing.