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Floating Forts.

1t is common to speak of the great, fast
ships, superbly fitted, that are each year ad-
ded to the passenger fotilla of the Atlantic
and Pacific as Floating palaces" as indeed
they are, but comparatively few people know
that they are built to be floating forts as well.
Yet this is SO and the guns and ammunition
are waiting, ready for duty. Each vessel has
its allotted place when the alarm of war is
sounded. The Lucania and Campania, the
two last and greatest additions to the passen-
ger service of the Atlantic, as well as the
Teutonic, the Majestic, the Britannia, the
Germanic and indeed all the more important
ships in the English passenger service, were
built on plans approved by the British Adj
miralty and are at its disposal in time of war.
Lieutenant Theodore Westmark, an enter
prising young Swede, is the last candidate
for honors in the line of African explorations.
The charges this gentleman boldly lays at
Stanleys door form an undoubted basis for
suit for defamation of character. But those
who know Stanley best, declare that he cares
much more for money and notoriety than he
does of the estimate the public may put upon
his character, and Westmark is evidently of
the same way of thinking.
Many of the leading newspaper CORE
spondents of this country and Europe declare
that there will be great European war be-
fore the summer of '94 is past. There are
others who as firmly believe that the wish of
:, the aforesaid correspondents is father to the
thought.
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beautiful tactful, an interesting CONVERSE
tionalist, ambitious and rich. If there are
any other requisites to the successful salon
! have yet to discover them, and Mrs. Van
derbilt, should she make the effort, would
establish a salon that would live in the his
tory Of her country as long as will the salons
OF any OF the great women of the European
continent. There are many reasons why no
American women has up to the present time
successfully established a salon, and the
principal one of these is the fact that Ameri-
can society is yet too provincial. 1t is not
cosmopolitan enough. We are, however.
outgrowing our provincialism and outgrow-
ing it now rapidly. This season, for in.
lance, for the first time, the artists of the
opera Lave been received by the women most
prominent in the social world. Heretofore
the alleged questionable morality OF some Of
our lyric artists has been barrier which
has excluded them from social reception.
This year society has said these women are
public women, we will take them at their
worth, and leave the question of morals to
their own consciences. Our society, the
Four Hundred, as it has been dubbed Il hate
the phrase and use it only to designate my
meaning), has never accepted people for what
they are intrinsically worth. They want to
know how many clubs they belong to- how
many millions one has in the bank, whose
draHing-room one is received in, and mil
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MANTI TEMPLE,

selves of this privilege. President Woou-
ruff has in person been baptized and gone
through the endowments, as proxy, for such
presidents Of the United States as died be-
fore the truth was revealed to Joseph the
prophet.
For thousand miles, from Idaho in the
north through Utah into Arizona in the
south, extends an unbroken line OF Mormon
settlements. Colonizing in the territories
adjacent to Utah began thirty years ago, and
was carried on vigorously until very recently.
At the present time there are about $1,000
Mormons in Southeastern Idaho and about
the same number in Northern Arizona, who.
have settled there during the last twenty
years. There are also small Mormon colonies
in Nevada, Colorado, California Wyoming
and Montana. Ten years ago the church
authorities bought large tracts of land in the
states OF Sonora and chihuahua, Mexico,
upon which several considerable colonies
have since been planted. 1t is said that the
saints look to Mexico as final place of
refuge in the evil days to come. The Nor
mons in Utah now number about 10000
souls. The location of their settlements have
been largely governed by the physical char
acter OF the country.
Draw upon sheet Of blank paper score
or more of dotted, serpentine lines; imagine
that the dotted lines are broken chains of
mountains. the intervening spaces valleys,
and you will have an accurate idea of the
topography of Utah. The valleys in the
north are long and wide, but as you journey
southwark they grow narrower and shorter
until, in the extreme southern end of the ter
ritory, they are often only few hundred
acres in extent, a steep mountain defile lead
ing from one into another. The mountains
are covered with snow in the winter, which
melts in the spring time, furnishing the
water needed for irrigation. The valley
lands, in their natural state barren, parched
and almost lneless, with irrigation quickly
become among the most productive in the
world. Crops of all kinds can be raised on
them in abundance. Some idea of their
productivity can be gained from the state
ment that the agricultural products of Utah
are now worth $40 010, 900 q year, while
millions and millions of acres of beach and
valley lands, easily susceptible to irrigation,
are still lying waste.
Every valley in Utah contains one or more
Mormon settlements, from whose narrow
visioned, yet frugal inhabitants, the priest
hood has long derived its principal support,
and to whom the visitor is told he must look
in order to find Mormonism pure and unde-
fled. Each Mormon settlement is fashioned
on the same general plan with its titiing
yard, its tabernacle and its cooperative
store. The people tilling small farms, which
are the rule in Utah, settle sideby side, going
out in the morning to their fields and return
ing to the village at night. They draw all
of their supplies from the cooperative store,
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likely soon to be established, but she thinks
her friends are over-zealous in selecting her
as the head of such an institution. Miss
Marbury is the first woman of America to
establish playwrights' exchange and bureau
for the translation and adaptation of plays.
Her success in this direction proves her tact
and executive ability, but the lack of fortune
in her case and the necessity to labor in the
furtherance of her business enterprises and
literary work, she, too, thinks, leaves her out
of the consideration OF the women who are
eligible to become the mistresses of the
American salon.
'The one American woman who is dis
tincti1ely fitted to become the head of a0o-
cessful salon." said Miss Marbury, after
considerable mental soiiioquy, "is Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. She is woman Of SPLEEN
did education, a close reader, good student,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20
utah PAST AND PRESENT.
Great Changes Now Taking
DiIce in the Territory
STRENGTH OF THE MORMON cHuhun.
Che Result of the Tithins Systematic
Mormon Priesthood The Present
Head OF the Church a sunday in
Salt Lake City-The Resources
E and Future of Utah

Irecently srent a month in Utah, visited
all parts OF the territory, and talked with all
sorts and conditions of men. found Utah
and the Mormon church-one cannot write
of one without writing of the other-in the
midst of momentous and far-reaching
changes. One feels it in the very air, and
there is no installing that henceforth church
and territory must progress on lines far diff
ferent from those which in the past have
marked its history.
Ten years ago the Mormons were rudely
awakened to the fact that in the future they
We're not to have their own sweet will in the
matter of polygamy. Since then the Ed
munds act and its sequel, the Edmunds-
Tucker law, have done their work and done
it well. Polygamy has been formally aban-
doned by the Mormon church, and to all in
tents and purposes, has ceased to exist. OF
this there can be no doubt; the fact is adj
mitted alike by Mormons and Gentiles. In
but one thing has the Edmunds- Tucker law
failed in its purpose, and that is in the con-
fscation of the property of the church. 1t
was sought by this to seriously cripple the
resources of the Mormon church, but thus
far it has accomplished no perceptibie good.
Leading Gentiles do not hesitate to pro-
nounce it a lamentable mistake, for while
not visibly impairing the power of the priest
hood, it has aroused sympathy for the saints
among people whose sense of fair play
causes them to protest quickly against the
plundering of a weaker body by a stronger,
and has created precedent which many
thoughtful men, not Mormons, believe to be
fraught with the gravest dangers.
One thing, however, confscation has done
this observant Gentiles claim and the Nor
mons reluctantly admit-it has tended to
diminish in a measure the tithes which the
faithful pay into the Golfers of the church,
and which have long been the bulwark Of the
priesthood. With this exception, and aside
from the direct financial loss implied, con-
fscation has in no manner injured Mormon
ism.
The tithing system was borrowed by Joseph
Smith from the customs of the ancient
Hebrews and revised and perfected by
Smiths successor, Brigham Young. Even in
the early Nauvoo days it placed vast
revenue at the disposal of the church authori-
lies, and this revenue has ever since con-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20
NOW THE AMERICAN SALON.
Woman's Suffrage rlovement Is
RevOlutionizing Society,"
BARRIERS OF THE 400 GlyINe AWAY.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Suggested as
the Founder of the salon in Amer
tca-Mand Banks, Elizabeth Mar
bury and others Tell How it is
to be Done

Whatever the outcome Of the present agi-
tation OF the woman's suffragists and their
allies, whether or not the agitators succeed
in persuading the members OF the Constitu-
tional Convention to strike the word "male"
from the Constitution Of New York, it is de-
clared by some of the cleverest women of the
city that the agitation will work revolution
in the social conditions of the metropolis.
Society, as it is known in New York, that
part Of it which has been facetiousy and
cynically dubbed the Four Hundred, is as
much interested and as actively participating
in the present movement as are the original
agitators and advocates of womens suffrage
such as Mrs. Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Lille
Devereux Blake and other veterans of the
movement. And it is this fact the women
declare, which is to work its revolution, in
the social conditions of New York. Society
women and the working women of the city
l mean by that, those who have been noted
for their accomplishments with their brains,
who have organized businesses, written
plays, engaged in the practice of the liberal
professions-are working together for
common end. The women who have hereto
fore been known exclusively as society
women and the workers are being brought
constantly by this movement in contact with
each other, and this, it is asserted, will result
in permanently tearing down tho barriers
which have heretofore marked the boundary
lines Of society.
Many of the most advanced thinkers among
the clever women of New York have for some
time held the opinion that what is more
needed than any other one thing among
Americas women is salon conducted on
basis similar to the salons which have be-
come famous in the history of the old world.
Efforts have heretofore been made by some
of the cleverest of our women to establish
such salon, but up to the present time they
have resulted in signal and lamentable
failures. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, not long
ago. attempted to establish a salon and drew
about her quite following of clever people,
but her venture, Notwithstanding her own
admitted cleverness and ability to entertain,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20

broken bread. hymn is played, an elder
explains the significance of the bread, and
then it is distributed among the congrega-
ton by the white haired ushers, every Nor
mon, young and old, partaking. In the same
way the water, which the Mormons use in +,
stead of wine, is also distributed. The OBJ
servance of the Lords Supper occupies
about an hour, and is followed by addresses
interspersed by singing. The speakers are
commonplace, both in their subject matter
and in their delivery, combining themselves
as rule to the prosecutions of the saints
and the misdeeds of their prosecutors. Ref
erences to the Book of Mormon are few in
number, the speakers seeming determined
to thrust it into the background as much as
possible.
Every Mormon village and settlement has
its tabernacle, where services very like those
I have been describing are held every week.
The secret and mystic rites of the church
are performed in the several temples To
the latter Gentiles are sternly denied admis-
sion, and a Mormon cannot gain entrance
without recommendation from his bishop
The outsider cannot appreciate the reveren-
tial awe with which the supplemented Nor
mons regard the temples of their faith. An
gelic visitors are thought to have Joined in
the dedication of the temple at Manti, and
by many it was devoutly believed that Christ
would appear in person when the Salt Lake
City temple was dedicated. The endowment
ceremonies, which are performed in the tenn
pies, have often been described, but of other
temple rites, equally strange and absurd, but
little is known. One of the most curious is
baptism for the dead. saint assumes the
name and goes through the ceremony of i'm
mersion for a dead relative. This baptism
by proxy enables those who passed away be-
fore the Angel Moroni appeared to Joseph
Smith to enjoy the blessings of the new dis
pensation. The practice of baptism for the
dead has often been carried to the most
ridiculous extremes. President Woodruff
has been baptized for 5000 dead relatives,
whose names and ages-the data necessary
for the performance of the ceremony-he
spent months in searching out. One would
think that, with this much accomplished,
the self-sacrifcing old gentleman would have
been content to rest from his labors, but he
has gone still further in order to assure the
celestial welfare of his dead kinsmen When
he was in charge of the temple at st. George
he received a divine revelation that he could
call on the men and women of st. George to
go through the endowments for his dead.
He says that this revelation filed his soul
with Joy, and that he proceeded to act on it
forthwith. In single day 154 of the women
of st. George went through the endowments
for the same number of his dead female rela-
tives, and up to the present time the sou1's
welfare of some 2 800 of them has thus been
secured. Thousands have awaited them
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20
American Surgery.

DIR. George F. Shrady says it would be diff
icult to enumerate what has been done by
Americans in the matter of devising new in
struments for the easier and more successful
performance of surgical operations. Not
only in the creation of new things, but in
the useful medication Of old ones, the ingen-
uity of the American practitioner is most
strikingly manifest, Simplicity and effective
ness are the main objects aimed at in this
line. In these two particulars. it is safe to
say, we excel all other nations.
We speak about Mount Blanc as being in
Switzerland. As matter of fact, four. fffths
of it are in France.
Coney Island was the one place in the
United States where comparative respecta-
bility reigned on week days, during past
summers, and on Sundays human ingenuity
was exhausted in planning new devices to
break the Fourth Commandments. Now that
the great popularity by the sea has got rid of
Boss McKane, and his realm has been alb
sorbed by Brooklyn, 6unday-school methods
will henceforth prevail at Coney Island on
all days, and the barker and dive dancer will
know no more the PEOPLES s'Cfty by the Sea-
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singing of the hymn "His temple is His own"
the whole congregation joining with an Of
feet that is most impressive and awe-inspir-
ing. Prayer and the reading Of the Mormon
creed by two of the elders follows. George
L. Cannon blesses the twelve baskets Of
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-03-04

a recent peep into a jewel box Of %
years ago brought 10 light a most curious
design ia earrings namely, horn Of
plenty made Of hligrce gold, long enough
70 almost reach the shoulder. and thickly
incrusted at the opening ct the horn with
precious stones Of almost every variety
Although at first glance one trembled for
the wearer comfort with tho somewhat
empowering looking ornament dangling
from her ear, upon taking il in the hand
It proved 20 Doe very little heavier than the
solid gold bail earrings that afterward be-
came SO popular Mo-aies were also worn
about this time, and some were marvels Of
artistic workmanship.
The big, gold linked chain. from which
hung an en0rm0u. gold locket. was the
only necklace worn, while the narrow
glove band bracelet ol gold fitting tight
% the wrist was considered Indispensable
to the toilet. Ladies' jim those days thought
sapphire or emerald rings set with dia-
monds and worn on the FIRST finger 20 be
"quite the thine" Pearls were the ia
vorite stones. become SO perhaps by the
famous necklace owned by the Countess
Dudley. This necklace was composed Of
rope OF pearls which went six times
around the neck. each pearl being SO abso-
lutely perfect that six freight would have
realized a small farune.-Jewelers Circu-
lar.
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kissing as mode of salutation comes
from its use to express reverence or wor-
ship To adore and 20 kiss idols means
the same thing. The word adore signifies
TO carry the hand TO the mouth-that u.s.
to kiss it to the object of alteration We
still kiss the hand i'm salutation. Various
parts of the body have always been kissed
and are still in all countries but the Unit
ed States TO distinguish the character Of
the regard. Thus to kiss tho lips Is to
adore the living breath Of the person sa-
luted: to kiss tho feet is TO humble one
self in alteration; to kiss the garment Is
to express reverence or veneration 70 what
over belongs TO or touches the person wear
ing IL. Kissing under the mistlctoe comes
from Scandinavian mythology Bladder,
the Apollo Of the north, was killed hy a
mistletoe arrow, given 20 the blind Holder
By Loki, the god Of mischief Bladder was
restored to life, and the mistletoe, given in
charge Of Friga was never agai- to be an
instrument Of evil until 80 touched the
earth-the empire of Loki Hence in dec
Grafton 10 is always hung from the ceiling.
and when persons OF opposite sexes pass
under It they give each other the kiss Of
peace and love in the full assurance that
the mistletOe is DO longer an instrument
Of mischief. in the Scriptures there are
kisses Of reverence, subsection, peace, sub
mission and treachery. According TO Mat
thew, dean Of Westminster. IL was the Gus
tom to kiss the hand Of the pope. but a
woman of the eighth century not only did
so, but squeezed 1t. The magnate of the
church, seeing tho danger 70 which he
was exposed, cut OF his hand and was
compelled in future TO offer his foot, "a Gus
tom which still prevails.-St. Louis Post
Disnatcn
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-03-04
THE PROPER cApeR.

All indications point 60 a continuation Of
the immense sleeves that fashion has elect
I'd Tor for two seasons past.
Glossy supple faced cloths in medium and
light shades arr growing In favor for hand
some gowns worn on occasions when semi
dress Is required.
Among the delicately colored fancy wool
ems are Grape hareges embroidered with
dots and geometrical figures and cordurette
crrpons in all the lovely evening shades.
Some Of the new princess dresses are
made with the waist portion buttoued di-
agonally from the left shoulder, the but
toning extending ON down the entire length
OF the skirt.
Soft, beautifully dyed fayetta and camels
hair fabrics are made up for dressy after
noon wear, some OF these having yoked
and bolted Russian blouse. with velvet
sleeve caps and rows OF velvet ribbon on the
skirt.
shirt waists and blouses made Of washa-
bic fabrics in plain. beautiful oolors, in
pink ciel blue. cream, etc. and in stripes.
checks and fancy com hinations will again
be highly favored for both city and country
wear
Sleeves. revers, collarettes and skirt Dor
ders OF velvet appear anew ON tailor gowns
Of camels hair aud ladies' cloth, and cloth
skirts and coats are frequently made with
sleeves. vest and skirt ruche Of armure silk.
the silk very often figured.
Rather short, fiat basques, pointed front
and back. appear on many Of the new
spring costumes made with the still fash
ionable blouse, or bodice rather, for, while
the blouse suggests a species Of negligee the
bodice is often very close fitting and ex-
ceedingly smart. New York Post
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