The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19

city officers, In which case we Will have q
second Omaha, and you won't know the
city the next time you cene here" This
enthusiastic friend is full of business en-
terprise and he is hustler. He believes
the brethren" somewhat slow. Perhaps
they are. But she tendency OF the age is
to go too fast, and it is not a bad plan to
go slow and plant yonr foundations
deep and broad and strong before
not believe my friend realized the
situation at Omaha when he predicted that
Salt Lake City would be another Omaha if
the Liberals should carry the February
election. The Omaha Bee, in recent ISSUE
gave the following picture of the situation
in that city: Omaha is full of enterprise
that has two sides to ii. 1t is estimated
that it will cost S350, 900 to operate the
machinery of the city government this
year. This is equal to a tax of $3.50 for
every man, woman and child within the
city limits
ON TOP OF THIS CAME
hundreds of thousands of dollars levied or
property-owners for grading, paving,
sewerage and permanent improvements,
1t is not surprising that the taxpayers
are calling halt on extravaganza, and
grpmbling loudly. Extravaganza is as bad
should be struck"
With such a picture of the loneliness OF
of falsely-styled enterprise, at Omaha, dc
not imagine my friend would wish to crowd
1.-The brethren quite so fast, il
ne looked for its inauguration
in Zion. He is not of the
Doodle class. He is neither q
vulture nor fanatic. An old
resident, he has accumulated a handsome
little property which Liberal administra
ton would soon dissipate. Metropolitan
airs are very charming to look upon, but
1t is better to go slow with the brethren
than to bankrupt yourself and your child
rem
TO FATTEN THE BooDLERSi
More than one city in this country has
learned this by harsh experience. 1t will
be fortunate for Salt Lake city if she con
tlnues to keep the Baskins and the Nc
Brides in the background, and remain in
control of her founders and their descend
ant yet many year.
We are having another remarkable win
ter season. AS l write, am sitting with
my window open and without fire, the Their
thermometer standing at sixty-four
Christmas was like day in June
The sun was bright and the
air balmy and the thermometer
registered siXty-siX in the shade. The alb
sence of snow-birds and of the verdure OF
summer alone indicated that it was not a
different season of the year. The Hudson
river has been clear of ice since last March
We have had but one snowstorm, and then
the snow disappeared as quickly as it does
in your own city after an April storm
There is no frost in the ground; our prev
alent winds are from the south, and rains
are as frequent as in May. We have had
But FIVE DAYS OF FAIR WEATHER
during the month of December, and Janu.
airy bids fair to equal that record. Coast
ing and skating are becoming lost arts i'll
this latitude, and violets, pansies and dan
Last summer was also season of great
humidity. People are constantly and as
tonishingly asking each other: Ibid you
ever see such weather. and the universal
reply is-"Neverm Old farmers pre-
dict late spring as conse.
quence of the mild winter, but it is
unsafe to pin ones faith upon such
representations. Post facto conclusions
are safest. The spring of 1889 was unusu-
all, early, after winter almost as mild as
the present. II knew it last November, u
says one weather wise Individual Il never
knew the goose bone so thin and white be
fore. The muskrats and woodchucks bull,
almost on top of the ground, and crows
didn't 60 south at all. We are going tt
have
THE LATEST SPRING
next summer, since l was born. And YOU
don't catch me planting before the tirst
moon in June" But this granger NAV
awake too late, next summer. after all
Many did so last year, and the rains rustec
and destroyed their late crops, while the
early, wide-awake agriculturists harvested
big returns. One of the queer events OF
this season was the moving and gathering
of crop of excellent hay il
the Hoosic Falls moving machine
man. Perhaps he may claim this was al
because Of the superiority of his machines
This remarkable change Of climate here
abouts is now attributed to a shifting OF
the channel Of the Gulf Stream, so that
instead of shooting east off the coast OF
Virginia, it now follows our Atlantic coas,
as far north as Cape Cod. If so, may not
this be another indication that
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
are becoming united in all things, even tc
the Gulf Stream, which heretofore has
been SO sectional! But even this fails tc
make all men happy. The great ice-h ar-
vest of the north is threatened by this in.
road, iif the theory be true. And ice men
are at present greatly alarmed. Last year
much ice was secured in December, but
three fourths of the crop ripsned in Feb
ruary. Thus far this season, not a cake of
Ice has been cut in the Hudson river. Less
than $4,000 tons now remain in stock,
against the usual surplus of GOO tons at
this time of year. A full crop on the Hud
son is put at 100000, all yet to be gath
cred. But If we have no ice: we have a
widespread epidemic of la grippe; and a
great portion of the population OF the east
is in the grasp of the demon. My letter is
too long to permit description of
its effects at this writing | delegate this
duty to the humorist of the Washington
Post, merely promising that many people
are greatly alarmed about this disease.
Now listen to the wall of victim:
| thought TO give
The grippe
The sllppe,
But DIS L live,
The thing got hold
OF me,
You see,
Immedjatelee,
With first cold.
And then begun
The dread disease.
With every breeze
/ sneaSe
And whease
And almost freaSe
And both my knees
Lord! how they achel
And how they mache
Me lie awache
And twist and Shache
Although l tache
Pills by the tun-
/ ache all through;
My back and thighs,
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