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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.