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Double Duty.

A capital story was once told of the
Rev. Thomas Hunt, the veteran temper
ance orator, who was we'll known in the
early history of the Wyoming valley.
He was somewhat eccentric man, but
possessed of remarkably quick wits,
which stood him in good stead on many
occasions
During the civil war he enlisted in
one of the regiments of infantry raised
in the valley and served as chaplain.
One day in the very fiercest Of the bat
tie major rode up in front Of the regi-
ment, and seeing Father Hunt at the
head of the ranks inquired in great as
constituent:
chaplain, what are you doing
there?
"What am 1 doing?" repeated the
stanch old minister quickly. "I'm cheer
ing the hearts of the brave and watch
ing the heels of the cowards!'
He was evidently performing this
double task so we'll and thoroughly that
the major could find no fault with him
and left him to his self appointed charge.
Youths Companion.
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Allen G. Thurman's Memory.

"Among men of remarkable memo
ries will give prominent place to the
Old Roman, Allen G. Thurman, said
Lawyer Mills Ito mention slight in
cident of his powers: When was asso-
ciated with him in prosecuting what is
known as the tally sheet cases in Ohio,
was peculiarly impressed by the great
ness of Mr.. Thurman, by his strength Of
intellect, profusion of thought and mag
nifcent accomplishments as lawyer.
was also greatly impressed by his fine
scholarship, and I have this illustration
of the accuracy of his learning: While
one of the attorneys engaged in the case
referred to was addressing the jury he
professed to make quotation from
Shakespeare-'to make assurance doubly
sure. Mr.. Thurman, with affected in
dignation, turned to me and said, L
thought he used to be schoolmaster. ,
said, yes. We'll, in that case, he
said, 'he ought to know better. Shake
speare never said that. What do you
mean, judge?' asked in surprise. L
mean, said he, that Shakespeare never
wrote "make assurance doubly sure. -
What he wrote was "make assurance
| double sure. - I myself had doubts as
to the correctness of this criticism, but
afterward verified it by examining the
standard editions of Shakespeare. -
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Cumberland Dialect.

Farmer (loquitor)-So ye've Landed
at last Well, A'se proud to see you.
MI just tell the lad to louise the horses
out Of the conveyance. He's deaf, but
A I'll soon incense him. My missus has
been only very middling. She's keeping
better now, but she's very useless (help
less). What meat there is in yOn field
the year When them Irish beasts come,
they was as lean as paddocks, and now
they're as fat as butther. It's getting
sare logged up, however; we began to
ploo out a part of the field, and then
rued it and gave over. Yon great saugh
tree has mashed the dixie It's bad for
the land when the dikes is down, the
beasts carries all the management into
the paintings. This cundith has got
properly stopped with mud. Gift A was
just to rummel (stir) it bit with a
stick it would soon hush AVA. There's
mint craving here, A can feel it.
fash A 'se gotten stang from a
wesp. There's wesp 'est here. It's a
strong 'un. and the beet is coming out
thick. It's very kittlesome and can
AoIsoAAo CHlHS, Is d Woop oCduS. OA0 vi
Jobbie's lads, the Tom one, has got
venomed hand. He was stung by a slew
worm, and his arm swelled up, SO he
got it charmed by an Irishman. Them
from Connaught is best They spits and
breathes on the wound. Ave heared tell
gift an Irishman draws ring round
tead with his finger it can't stir, and
them Irish beasts is tarrible for Danish
ing snakes. A was once just about sit
ting down in some spratty grass in yon
der slack, when an adder cummed out
and fissed at me. My word A did run !!
Eels is a kind of adder. -Gentleman S
Magazine
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-21

Suggestions For Better Crop Reports.
The convention of business men and
statistical experts which met in Wash
ingtOn last month submitted a number
of suggestions for the improvement Of
crop reports, among which was the fol-
lowing:
'That arrangements be perfected with
the United States consular service for
sending by cable to the department Oh
or about the 9th of each month a state
ment giving the best available Informal
ton concerning prospects for crops of
grain and cotton in their respective dis
tricts, to be published in connection with
the domestic crop report when issued. "
Another suggestion of the conference
was:
'That the department, instead of hav-
ing principal correspondent and three
assistants in each county, as at present,
make an effort to SET ire the regular selv-
ice of one or more reporters in each town
ship, all to make their reports directly
to the department at Washington. -
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Japanese Missions.

The Japanese are the happiest people
in the world. [ have looked into the
faces of thousands of this strange little
people, and scarcely one in hundred
shows lines of sin and discomfort, and
as go by the temples that have been
beacon lights to these simple hearts for
SO many centuries I say in my own
heart, What farce this missionary
business What we call civilization
brings to this people all of our vices and
none of our virtues. Now with all the
millions that have been spent in Japan
on missions [ say to you, and with ev-
cry regard for truth, there are not 100
actual native Christians in Japan. l be-
lieve in the Christian religion, but not
for this oriental mind. Tokyo Cor
Iowa State Register.
BOstOn's Horrible Awakening.
"Table board" in Commonwealth
avenue Is this the beginning of the
end?-BUSton Herald
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Of course there is no deficiency of To-
cal color in such book. We hear much
of the "Suggarth aroon," the ''Tubber-
na-Scorney," the "Cushla Macree" and
other things -eminently Irish. Now,
the "Suggarth aroon" is capital fish,
especially when served with sauce
Hollandaise, - and all the world knows
that the ''Tubber ma -Scorney" is one Of
the most picturesque of ancient sym
bolic Irish customs. Still the merely
Saxon reader, who is not familiar with
the Irish language, is sometimes "maire
bhan astorred' when he comes across a
poem plentifully sprinkled with Irish
expressions, with the exception, Of
course, of such universally understood
remark as "Begorrah, or that touching
phrase of endearment, "Faugh bal
lagh. w. l.. Alden in Idler.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-21

What lot of slang verbiage has
grown out of the bicyclel The youth
who talks boastfully and erratically is
called down by the apt suggestion of the
bicycle young woman with the remark
Freddie, your lamp is out" The
''road hog' is borrowed from old New
England nomenclature, but 'scorching"
is of the bicycles own lingo and means
an undue haste i'll driving a wheel. The
exhausted bicyclist on the road and
needing refreshments suggests, "Let's
stop here and pump up referring to
the tagged condition of the pneumatic.
Bicycle girls are "bloomers, and "here
comes my bloomer" is equivalent to
here comes my girl. A policeman is ga
header" and the cyclometer is "the
ticker. - "He has lost his tire' is equiv
alent to "having tacks in your head" or
"being off your trolley" and no doubt
there is plel ty more of the same.-Lew
iston journal.
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WATER POWER.
American and European Methods of Using
1t In a Large Way.

III III d Large way
The standard American method of
utilizing large amount of water power
has hitherto been to distribute the wa
ter to the several consumers or mill
owners by means of a system of head
races, so called, with facilities for it's
discharge at a lower level, to be utilized
as the owner or lessee saw fit, and gen
orally ON his own premises. This led to
long head canals and to insignificant
tail races, whereas the Niagara plant con-
sists of a common tail race, mile and a
half long, with comparatively insignifi-
can't head races The old time water
power company sold or leased the right
to draw a definite quantity of water at
defined times, with the privilege of dis
charging it at a lower level, and the
mill owner did the rest, whereas at
Niagara Falls the right is leased to dis
charge definite quantity of water into
the tail race tunnel with the privilege Of
drawing this quantity from the head
canal, or from the river. But over and
above this the product-power-m be
contracted for at Niagara Falls, deliv
cred Oh the shaft.
To create a large group of mill sites
of the older sort there was necessary, in
the first instance, large, continuous
body of land, properly located for the
purpose. If this could not be bought up
secretly, and in large blocks, the whole
water power enterprise would fail to
come to fruition. In Europe, however,
several such enterprises came into being
in spite of the inability of the projectors
to primarily buy tracts of land such as
have been described This was done by
establishing central power stations near
the dam, or head canal, and then trans
mitting the power produced, instead of
the water to produce it, to the consul
mers or mill owners. Up to within, say,
five years, this had always been accom-
plished by means of wire rope trans
missions of power, and it is easy to see
that the invention of the electrical trans
mission of power would give this form
of the utilization of large water pow
er great impetus. Many such plants
are therefore already in existence, many
are building, but among them all no
one is probably so celebrated and is at
tracing the attention of all intelligent
men as this at Niagara Falls. -Cassier'
Magazine.
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BIG OCEAN WAVES.
Careful Data Show Them to Be Not Over
ThirtY-twO Feet High.

AnIFCy-CWO E00G hlSns
An article quoted in Current Litera-
ture gives this interesting information
on ocean waves. DR.. g. Schott, as the
result Of studying the form and height
of the waves Of the sea, claims that I'M
der moderate breeze their velocity was
"a. 6 feet per second, or 1873 miles an
hour. which is about the speed of mod
ern sailing vessel
AS the wind rises the size and speed
of the waves increase. In strong breeze
their length rises to $50 feet and their
speed reaches Sc or Sc. 4 feet per second.
Waves the period of which is nine Sec
onds, the length 400 or 425 feet, and
the speed % nautical miles per hour are
produced only in storms. During a
southeast storm in the southern Atlantic
he measured waves 600 feet long, and
this was not maximum, for in latitude
% degrees south and longitude 80 de-
grees east he observed waves of 10 sec
onds' period, which were 1850 feet
long, with a velocity of 1877 feet per
second, OF 461s nautical miles an hour.
DR.. Schott does not think that the
maximum height of the waves is very
great. Some observers have estimated it
at 80 or 40 feet in wind Of the force
represented by II on the Beaufort scale,
the highest number of which is 10, and
DIR. Schott maximum is just 80 feet. He
believes that in great tempests waves Of
more than 60 feet are rare, and that
even those of 90 feet are exceptional In
the ordinary trade winds the height is 5
or feet. The ratio of height to length
is about /. 33 i'll "a moderate wind, /. Is
in a strong wind and LII in storm,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-21
A Ring of Pure Gold.

DR.. o. D. Norton wears ring of pure
gold that has never left his finger since
1849. In that year friend of his got
the gold fever and went west, promising
to send back the first gold he found. He
CHANGED to be one of the successful ones,
and it was but a few months till DR.
Norton received a letter inclosing lot
of gold dust. This he had made into
heavy ring, which he has worn ever
since, but which is now but one third
it's original size The sender, by the
way is now president of the Scientif-
ic society of California. Cincinnati
Times-Star
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-21
The Same Thing.

Major John writes in The United
Service Magazine that while he was
employed between Port Said and Kan
tara he saw the waters of the Lake Men
zalek "driven beyond the horizon" by a
violent wind, so that the natives walked
about where the day before they were
fishing. This convinced him that he had
seen exactly what happened when the
Israelites passed dry shod through the
Red sea.
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HERE AND THERE.

There is miniature maize grown
in Brazil. The ears are not larger than
a little finger, and the grains are the
size of mustard seeds.
The department of agriculture re-
ports for March 1, 1895, show that 49,
100000 bushels less of the corn crop is
held in farmers hands than at same
time year before.
Scatter air-slaked lime freely
around the grape vines, so as to cover
every portion of the ground. - 1t is ex-
cellent in assisting to destroy the
spores of the grape rot.
Every reason ever offered for paw.
ing bounty to sugar growers will ap.
ply with still greater force to the cot
ton growers, and with equal force to
the growers of any other farm product.
The comb is an index to the condi.
tion of the fowl; whenever the comb
becomes pale it is sure sign that
something is wrong, and the fowl
should be removed to a secluded place
away from the others of the flock.
just after the berries have bloomed
is a good time to go over the patch and
clip off all the dead tips with pruning
shears A good deal of dead wood
will be found this spring, too, the
result of hard freezes of the past
winter.
Missouri and Kentucky mules are
exported to every part of the civilized
world, and distinguish themselves by
airing their heels on a Russian, South
African, South American Or Egyptian
with the same ease and levity that
they display in similar exercise at
home.
Twenty years ago the forest area
of this country amounted to 76O, 0OO,-
600 acres. Ten years later there were
left but $40, 100000 acres, while this
year there can be measured up in the
entire country not more than 40, OOO,-
900 acres and the daily destruction is
going on at the rate of 27,50O acres.
The farmer can only hope for sue
cess by exercise of common sense, sea-
sOned by diligent search for informa-
ton upon every point entering into
his life-the rules and regulations
governing marketing as we'll as pro-
duction. In word if the farmer will
produce all he consumes at home, and
stay out of debt, he will be able to
handle the surplus Of his productions
probably.
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from which it follows that the molina
ton of the wave is respectively about 6,
10, II degrees. The ratio of the height
of the waves to the force Of the wind
varies greatly.
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sequen Q at the Race Track.

Good horse.
" jockey.
&" track.
" money.
" by.
Washington Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-15
SUMMONS.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND
for the Third Judicial District of Utah
Territory. County OF salt Lake The Gil
John G. Mead. defendant. Summons TO
John G. Mead. defendant: You are here
by required to appear in an action
plaintiff in the District Court of the
Third judicial District of the Territory
filed therein within ten days (excfusifVvss
of the day of service) after the service
on you of this summons-if served with
county but in this district, within twenty
days; otherwise within forty days--or
Judgment by default will be taken
said complaint. The said action "a
brought to nave Judgment against de-
PENDANT on two causes Of action. as fol-
lows. to-wit: First, in the sum of $4,000.
with legal interest thereon from February
2S 1SeS-alleged to be due as monies had
and received by defendant, belonging to
ruary %. 1S93-and by defendant approprf-
ated 20 his own use, and benefit, and be-
ing now due and wholly unpaid: second
for s44S.0S, with legal interest thereon
from April II. 1898. and for costs of suit:
alleged to be due as moneys had and re-
isg2. and April II. 1893. same belonging to
plaintiff, and having been by defendant
appropriated to his own use and benefit,
and being due and wholly unpaid And
YOU are hereby rotified that IL you fail
to appear and answer the said complaint
as above required, the said plaintiff will
take Judgment against you for the sum
of $3.50, s44SO9. with interest as above, and
costs of suit.
Witness. the Hon Samuel A.
Merritt. Judge and the seal Of
the District Court of the Third
(Seal) Judicial District in and for the
Territory of Utah. this 31st day
of January. in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-five
DAVID C. DUNBAR. Clerk.
BENNETT. MARSHALL AND BRAD
LEY. Plaintiffs Attorneys -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-15
CITY ORDINANCE.

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE
riding of bicycles in Salt Lake City, Ter
ritory of Utah.:
Section BE it ordained by the City
Council of Salt Lake City, Territory of
Utah, that it shall be unlawful for any
person to ride bicycle on any of the
district, and on the south side of Second
South street between West Temple and
First West Streets -
Section Pit shall be unlawful for any
person TO ride on any of the sidewalks of
this City faster than eight miles an hour
and when crossing the intersections in
the paved district, or when meeting or
passing any pedestrians, the speed shall
not be faster than four miles an hour.
Section Sit shall be unlawful for two
or more persons to ride abreast on any
of the sidewalks of this City.
Section Amy person who shall violate
any of the foregoing sections, shall, upon
conviction, be fined in any sum not less
than Two Dollars nor more than Twenty
five Dollars, for each and every offense.
Section Amy wheelman who shall Vio-
late any of the sections of this ordinance
sion of his wheel TO the officer making
the arrest. or to any proper officer of the
City as security, pending the hearing and
determination of the alleged violation
Section 6-This ordinance shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after it's
approval.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake
City, Territory of Utah, March 18th, 1895,
and referred to the Mayor for his ap-
prevail.
(Seal) G. H. BACKMAN.
City Recorder
Approved this the Sd day of April, A
D. 1895.
3. AS. r. N. BASKIN,
Mayor
Territory OF Utah, City and County of
Salt Lake, S.:
I, G. H. Backman, Recorder in and for
said City, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a full true and
correct copy of an ordinance entitled IAN
Ordinance regulating the riding of bicy-
cles in Salt. Lake City. Territory of
Utah." passed by the City Council of Salt
Lake City, Territory of Utah March 2Sth
1895. and approved by the Mayor April
Bird, 1895, as appears of record in my Of
flee.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Corporate Seal
Of Salt Lake City, Utah, this the 5th day
of April, A. D. 1885.
(Seal) G. H. BACKMAN,
City Recorder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-15

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SALT
Lake county, Utah territory In the mat
ter of the estate of Frank H Dyer, de-
ceased.-In this cause on reading and
filing the petition of Farley L. Williams.
and Henry P. Henderson, the executors
of the last will and testament of the
said deceased, showing that they now
have on hand as such executors, the sum
of over sixteen thousand dollars; that the
debts allowed against said estate have
been paid, and averring that 1t is to the
interest of said estate that fifteen thou
sand dollars thereof should be loaned
upon such security. at such rate OF inter-
said executors and this court may APP
prove and praying for an order that they
be directed to. advertise for such loans,
to be approved by them and by the order
of this court, and that upon receiving the
said bids and presenting them to this
court that an order may be made, direct
Securities rites received therefor. and for such
other directions in the premises as may
be proper. Now, therefore. it Is hereby
%pr at 10 O'CLOCK in the forenoon at the
court room OF. said court. at the city
and county building. in Salt Lake city;
that all persons interested in the said
estate, and the matter OF said petition,
be and they are hereby ordered to ap;
upon the matter Of said petition. either in
opposition or in support thereof. And it is
be published in the Salt Lake Herald. a
newspaper printed in the city and county
of Salt Lake, and circulating. in said
county and territory being the paper
hereby designated as the one most likely
to give notice to all persons interested in
said estate for three weeks. previous. to
the time of said hearing: that said publi-
cation be made once in each week for said
period of ~three weeks. and need not be
published oftener than In one issue of said
paper N each week OF saId three weeks.
And is further ordered that copy OF
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TRUSTEES SALE.


TRUSTEES SALE.-WHEREAS 10
seph Davies and Sarah Davies, on the
10th day of July, 1893, executed and de-
livered to the Salt Lake Building and
Loan Association, of Utah, bond condi-
toned for the payment of five hundred
dollars and interest according to its
terms; and to secure the payment of the
sums OF money specified in said bond, the
said Joseph Davies and Sarah Davies, on
the same day, executed and delivered to
Frank l.. Holland, trustee, a trust deed
conveying TO him in trust the following
described real estate situate in Salt Lake
Beginning three and one-half 90 rods
north of the southeast corner of lot eight
@l, in block sixteen Q6), plat c, Salt Lake
City Survey; thence west eight 90 rods;
thence south twenty-five (25) feet; thence
east eight 90 rods: thence north twenty
five (25) feet to the place of beginning;
which said trust deed was recorded in the
office of the County Recorder of said
county in Book 80 of Mortgages, on pages
LIS and 179 of the records of said office;
and, whereas, said trust deed provided
that should default be made in the pay
ment of said bond or any part thereof, or
OF the interest, fines and dues that may ac-
crue thereon. as the same became due and
payable, for more than six months, the
holder of said bond, may proceed to sell
said real estate according to the terms of
said trust deed. And, whereas, default
has been made in the payment of dues,
for more than six months prior to this
date whereby the condition of said trust
has been broken. Now, therefore, notice
is hereby given that the undersigned
trustee, by virtue of the power in him
vested by said trust deed, and at the re-
quest of the Salt Lake Building and Loan
Association of Utah, the owner and legal
holder of said bond. will offer at public
sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the
south front door of the Joint City and
County building. the same being the
south front door of the County Court
House. facing on Fifth South street, in
the City and County of Salt Lake, Terri
tory of Utah. on Monday, the 9Th day of
May. A. D. 1885, at o'clock a. m, the
above described real estate. or so, much
thereof as may be necessary, and nve
shares of the stock of said association.
duly assigned to the said association, up
on the trust above recited, as collateral
security for the loan described herein, to
satisfy the obligation herein recited, and
the expense of executing this trust.
FRANK L. HOLLAND, Trustee.
Dated April IL, 1895.
c. S. KINNEY, Attorney for Association.