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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-12

There Is a strange feeling OF prejudice
against the Mormons tor some unknown
cause, and VIC often hear accusations
made about them which we know, and
which all intelligent persons ought to
know, are wholly false
Last week we received three applica.
tons for baptism, and as no suitable
place could be found IN this city Tor the
performance OF the ordinance. we took
the opportunity OF cheap rates to Lon.
don and engaged the public baths where
the ordinance was performed They
make charge OF ONE chilling for each
person baptized and accord us excellent
treatment This wish TO London had a
two fold meaning as it was one oi Lon
don's great holidays called Lord
Mayors day, and We were dcsirous OF
witnessing this grand performance
Hundreds OF thousands assembled on
this occasion to see the Lurd Mayor and
the other notable features o. this pro
cession
Nawuury being the birthplace OF
Brother Fred LangtUn, he has met many
friends and relations who were acquant
ed with him in his childhood ana who
are pleased TO sec him return to visit
them We receive the best ol treatment
ioll tlG DdlllA auN tlllIh We WIZ SUE
coed ia organizing branch before
spring Anyone having friends or re-
lations in or around Newbury, and wish
ing us to call on them, will please send
their addresses and we shall be pleased
to comply with their request
Wishing all the readers OF the News
q Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year, we remain YOUR brethren in the
Gospel. FRED LANGToN
l.. { STRATFoRD
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-12
FROM VARIOUS MISSIONARY FIELDS. -

while we were to call sinners, not ihe
righteous. TO repentance.
We had quite an experience las.
saturday the 2Ist Of November We
called on the Rev. Mr Bail, a Baptist
minister TO see II he had a key TO a
Union church where NC wished to hold
some meetings. He said he did not have
the key but we got into a conversation
win him about Utah and her people and
our religious views and talked until sup
per, so we were invited to partake.
When his son, one Of Muncic's dashing
policemen, came home he treated us
very kindly and invited us to take
walk up in town and he would show us
around where he had 10 travel We de-
elined, and although at late hour they
informed us they did not think they
could keep us, they finally fixed place
Tor us until policeman Ball came home
IN the early part OF the morning and
sent us adriit out in the cold. But there
was another place for us; we called on
the National hotel at p. m. Saturday
morning and were given a bed free OF
charge. All is well that ends we'll.
Muncie las population of about IS,
600. 1t has fiity.three iactories-glass
bottles and fruit jars, also iron works
and pulp factory where they take
wood and grind 1t up and make pulp
which Is sent OIL to the paper mills for
making paper think there are but
few il any that have time to think OF
their hereafter and religion is below par,
at least the Gospel OF Jesus Christ as
contained in the B ule. But we have
some very good friends in this city and
we hope TO be able to do some good
while here, and If there is a stray lamb
we hope to find il.
banking you Tor your welcome visitor
the NEWS Your Brother,
w. +, MAYHEM.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-12
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HaoA l..por,. from rIorld

CYPRESS, Jackson County, Florida.
November 26lh, 1896,
To the EdiioG
Proselyting continues in this the
'I.aud OF Florida" The Elders of the
Church Of Christ are making many
friends and saints. The "Meteoric'
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
What a Kurd is Like.

In color they are usually no darker,
and often not nearly SO dark, as Southern
Europeans. The eyebrowssand lashes and
eyes are generally black, the nose aquiline
and fine, and the mouth we'll formed.
The face ia Iong and oval, while in stature
a medium height seems to be general.
This chin is shaved, the mustache alone
being left, and over it no end of trouble
is taken with comb and wax. The hair
is Usually shaved along the top Of the
crown, but left long on either side,
though little or nothing of. it is visible
owing to the peculiar and characteristic
manner iii which the men deck their
heads The Kurd' s costume is distinctly
his own, and except III the South, where
he has como more or less under Persian
influence, he never abandons it, A high
silk pointed cap crowns the head, round
which is woven numb3r of silk scarfs
and handkerohiefs in skilltully arranged
disorder.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
Personal <AND PECULIAR.

After studying for some time the prob
lam of how to get the people into his
church, and after trying number of old
schemes, a Methodist minister of Thomp-
sonville, Mich, hit on the not altogether
novel idea of going to the people who
would not come to him. He went into
the principal saloon in the town and
preached an eloquent sermon to the
crowd about the bar, and has since been
following up this practice, undisturbed
by the owners of the places in which he
pitches his pulpit
The Oldest white man in Sonoma coun-
ty, Cal, William Blackman, died in
He9ldsburg last week at the age of 100
years and three months. He was espec-
tally anxious that it should be known
that he did not die of old age. Pneu-
monia cut his life short, and there is
little doubt he would have lived some
years longer in the natural course Of
events. He was very active and healthy
up to the time he took cold He smoked
and drank intoxicants in his early life,
but abandoned both habits half century
before his dsath.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
NOT THE HYDRARcHus.
An Alleged Prehistoric Monster Proves
Very Much Like Whale.

The Smithsonian scientists have spot
ted colossal fossil fraud in Oklahoma.
Recently clerk in the pension office re-
ceived photographs Of a skeleton which
had been dug up in the Cherokee strip,
and which represented the fragmentary
romans of an animal of such prodigious
dimensions as to dwarf all similar dis
coveries in this or any other country.
A letter accompanying the pictures de-
scribed the bones as having been found
in such position as to prove conclusive
~ that the creature musu have been not
less than 300 feet long. The skull was
16 feet around and measured four feet
across the eye sockets The partly de-
cayed nose of the monster, of which IL
feet remained, was calculated to have
originally been seven yards in length
The discovery of what appeared to De a
toe bone, two feet long, indicated that it
might have been a land animal. or pos
sibly an amphibian. This theory was
soon dispelledi by the finding of fin
bone II feet in length; then it was do
cided that it must have been some mon
ster Of the ocean. The photographs were
shown to Mr.. T. A. Lucas, curator of
the department. of comparative anatomy
of the Smithsonian Institution, and he
at once rendered d verdict that WAS dis
astrous to the hopes of the Cherokee strip
Savants. Mr.. Lucas is ali expert in bones
"Why, that is a whale" he said, stand
a big one, too. Those long bones are
not ribs, but jaw bones, and the whale
| waslof modern species. But how did
| it get away out there?"
On examining the photographs more
closely Mr.. Lucas detected square hole
in the skull, which, he said. showed that
| it had formerly been mounted for exhi-
| bitjon.
"Some years ago. he continued, 'the
carcass ofsa large whale was carried
| hiblted. It's stay in Washington was
short and it is quite probable that it soon
ceased to attract sightseers who had any
olfactory organs worth mentioning, and
| it became a serious burden to its owners.
| 1t disappeared, and has not been heard
| of SINCE"
! Although Mr.. Lucas did not say as
much, tho inference connecting the mis-
sing whale with the attenuated monster
of the Cherokee strip was quite plain.
The fact that joints of the spinal column
were found ut a distance Of $50 feet from
the skull aroused no enthusiasm in him.
They might have been skillfully placed
/ in that position by the parties who
s'lost'' that whale some years ago, with a
view to future rediscovery and use.
There was no evidence, however, that
the present owners of the remains had
any but the most honest intentions and
| belief in the matter.
| Mr.. Lucas said this reminded him OF
clever fraud perpetrated by one Albert
Koch in this country in 1916. He joined
the bones of three whales together in
such a way as to appear as the skeleton
of an ocean monster of the pre-Adamite
world, the skull of one whale forming
the breast bone. Koch opportunely eds
covered" the remains of the strange
creature, which he named the 'Hydrar-
chus, or great water king" 1t drew
crowds of sig htseers.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01

The favorite colols of these turbans are
dark claret and gold, with here and there
narrow stripe of some brilliant hue. The
rough fringes are left hanging down, as
often as not covering the eyes and ears of
the wearer, and adding not little to his
fantastic appearance.
Over a white linen shirt, with sleeves
that end in points more than yard long,
SO that they touch the ground, silk coat
is worn, crushed strawberry being the
favorite color, though cherry color and
these coats are made collarless and open
at the neck, and fold across the breast.
being held in place by wide silk sash
skillfully folded and intertwined. In this
sash the long pipe and curved dagger are
thrust. -Blaokwood's Magazine.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01

bic truths. Speaking of municipal reform
he said the great obstacle to it was not
the masses of the people, the poor and the
impecunious, butnthe rich. This is his
language:
| who is it that comes into the Common
council and asks for such privilegess
/ VINO Is 1t who are accused Of Offering
| brides for such franchises? Tt is the
same ones-the prominent citizens. tell
| you these questions scome home. Talk
about anarchy; talk about breeding the
spirit OF communism What does it more
tnsn the representative citizens of Chi
eago? Your high-toned business n en-,
your patriotic men, prominent citizens of
Chioago are the mon who knock at the
door OF the Council and ask for illegal
Ianohises 1t is not the common people.
VINO brides the Common Council? 1t is
not men in the common walks of life.
IL Is men III your own walks of life. sit
ting by your dresides, at your clubs. 1t is
mon in the common walks of life who
demand brides and who receive brides
from the hands of the legislative bodies
or the Common Council? No. 1t is your
representative citizens, your capitalists,
your business men. Who is responsible
for the condition. of affairs in the city of
Chicago? Your representative business
men. If an assessor grows rich while in
office, WlthsWhom adoes he divldeY Not
with the common people. He divides
with The man who tempts him to make
| a low. assessment; not the man who has
the humble little house, but tho capital
ist and the business man. "
The Mayors words contain nothing
but the truth. At the bottom Of
much OF municipal misrulo is the
Eselhsh self-seeking or the indifference
Of influential citizens. 1t is not the
rabble, nor the foreign element
which is frequently made the soapegoat
Of municipal corruption, that devisesythe
schemes for looting the public treasury
and diverting public money into private
channels, though frequently they furnish
the necessary assistance in the shape of
votes, but men Of standing and inf1u-
enee. If every man Of this character in
our great cities would resolve on the first
| day Of the year not to seek from the
municipality special privileges, and not to
shirk any of his public obligations and
to be active at the primaries, and
| would put his resolutions into practice we
should hear little in the future about
municipal corruption. The rabble could
never corrupt municipal government I'M
aided, indeed they neverl would try to-
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
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The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
nTUNTcTpAL RETsRTrEf1.

The Mayor Of Chicago told the rich
men assembled at a banquet of the Com
mercial club in that city soma unpalata-
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
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The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
BIaine's Objection to His Own Nomina-
ton, in 1884.

ton, IN 1884.
said the conversation occurred the
week before the meeting of 1.-The national
Republican convention ia 1854, at Mr..
Blaines house in Washington, whittier
Mr.. Halstead had gone in answer to a
summons from Mr.. Blainel: ''Mr.
Blaine, I think 1T is too late. 1 have
looked over the field, and your nomina-
tiorf is almost certain--tho drift is your
way. Why precisely do you object, and
what exactly do you think sho uld hap
penn"
He replied in his rapid way with much
feeling, and I believe his very words
were: 1.-THE objection to my nomination
is that cannot be elected. With the
South solid against us we cannot succeed
without New York, and / cannot carry
that State. Thore are factions there and
influences before voting and after voting,
such that the party cannot count upon
success with me- / am sure of it, ha We
thought 1t ali over and my deliberate
Judgment is as ] tell you. I know, too,
where l am strong as we'll as where i
eplA NCeoAATe@ ANA NO AAIShb, II We oLOulU
get into the campaign with my name at
the head of the ticket, think we were GO
ing to win. We would got to believing
it, perhaps, but we should miss 1t in the
ind, if not by a great deal, just little.
With everything depending on New
York, he continped, lit would be a
mistake to nominate me. This is not
new to mel have weighed all the
chances. Besides'-and here he kindled
-'twby should we let the country go in
to the hands of the Democrats when we
can name ticket that is certain to be
eIeoted-one that could sweep every
Northern Slater"
f'What is it," I asked.
The answer came with vivid ANNA
ton: William I. Sherman and Rob ert
i. Lincoln" This idea was instantly
amplifed. The names Of Sherman and
Lincoln put together would be irresist-
lille. That ticket would elect itself. We
should have "A campaign of marching and
song. We need the inspiration and
Marching Through Georgia. and We
are Coming, Father Abraham, would
givs it. We must not lose this campaign,
and I am alarmed by the prospect Ct los
ing it in my name. I'M urat Halstead in
AIcClure's Magazine.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
ar that it viii be oyorthrowns

The year 1895 has passed into history.
1t has been year of stirring events in
many parts of the world, though at home
there hassbeen little of unusual or extra
ordinary Importance. The event eli the
greatest Importance was the war in the
East between China and Japan, which
opened the eyes OF the world to the weak
ness of the former and the wonderful
progress that had been made by the latter
Z the arts of both war and peace. NADIA
gasoar has bowed to the French arms and
is noW virtually province of the French
Republic. In Africa England has extend
ed her dominion, and the wonderful finds
of gold in the Dark Continent have added
to her wealth and that CT her citizens.
Mussulman fanaticism and the inpo-
tence Of the Turkish government have
nearly depopulated Armenia Of it's Chris
tain people, while the great powers
of Europe, paralyzed by their own jeal-
ousies, have uttered nothing ,bu feeble
and futile protests. Throughout the year
Spain has been stIaining every nerve to
retain the faireet Of her jewels-the island
of Cuba-and to suppress a rebellion
which her own misrule had precpitated.
In the Western hemisphere peace has gen
orally prevailed, the only exception being
the rebellion in Cuba. The South Ameri-
can republics have enjoyed year Of IN
woatsd quiet. In our own country there
has been peace and a gradual return to our
old thine prosperity, The most stirring
episode Of the period WIS that sprecipitat-
cd blythe Presidents Venezuelan message
which is fresh in the public mind.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01

The Interstate commerce. law is about
to be tested in the courts in a way that
will settle its constitutionality finally,
and make or break it according as the de-
cision may be. The government will file
complaint this week against the rail
way combine" known as the Joint
Traffic Association, alleging thatit exists
in violation Of the interstate commerce
law This viii bring the question of the
constitutionality of that law directly be-
fore the courts, for there can be no CUES
ton of the illegality of the Joint Traffic
Association if the Interstate lazy is CON
stitutional. The government is by no
means certain that the law will be sus-
tanned, and if one may judge from previ-
Gus decisions of the courts in cases some
what analogous it sshas good reason to
fear that it will be oVerthrowns
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01

George W smallay, whom the New
York Post used to call 'rhe Old Tory
Squire jumps on Mr. Cleveland with
both feet for his Venezuelan message.
in a letter to the New York Herald. He
alleges that Mr.. Cleveland has not only
alienated Englishmen, which in the
Squire's opinion is an objectionable sin,
but worse than that, has closed the purses
Of the Rothsohiids to US. The Squire
appears to think that with the purses OF
these bankers closed, there is moth
ing to do but to file petition in insol
Yenoy.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01

DR.. Dalton's note, published elsewhere,
makes it clear that his allusion to cur
civil war was not intended as a parallel
70 The French war and also that he did
net intend to convey the impression that
compromise was possible at the time Of
MIR. Lineoln's administration. We sup
posed the report of Dr. Dalton's sermon
was printed from his manuscript and was
therefore authentic, but it appears that
the report published was taken by a
stenographer who was prevented by ill
ness from writing out her notes as. care
fully as would otherwise have been done,
and in the paragraph quoted there were
undoubtedly some omissions which
obscured the meaning that Dr.. Dalton in
tended to convey.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
IT'D PRESS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, /.

A Detroit correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune says that there has been great
change in Michigan on the question of
Presidential candidates, and that the
prevailing sentiment among Republicans
is now for Reed, though while ago it
was in favor of Mckinley.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
NOTICE.
The Chapman National Bank.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Chapman National Bank of Portland, Me-,
will be held at its Banking Rooms on Tuesday
the 14th day of January. 1896, at 10 o'clock
a. M, for the election of Directors for the en-
suing year. and the transaction of any other
business that may legally come before the
meeting. CHESTER H. PEASE, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. "A, 1895 dec13td
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Seed should be saved from the Sec
ond crop of clover.
Oxen and sheep are believed by some
stocEmen to fatten better in company
than when kept alone.
Sandy soils may be kept fertile by
seeding with grass, and only blowing
when the seeding runs out.
Look out for your fences. a corn
field is a bad place into which to allow
cattle or stock Of any kind to break.
Go through the field and mark the
ears Of ccrn that are wanted for seed.
This may be done very conveniently
with Il piece of colored string.
Supplement- failing pastures with
green corn fodder-it is easier to keep
up flesh or milk than to regain it
when il is once lost. 1t takes less
feed, too.
Let young stock, as well as the milk
cows, have access to salt and fresh
water. Ii salt is not where they CAP
get 1t whenever wished salt them reg.
ularly at least twice a week.
1t is not likely that the COW pea will
ever supcrsede the corn crop with
Northern farmers as stock feed. 1t
requires n long season, is harder to
cure than corn, and will not yield so
great bulk of food.
Stock are fond of turnips. a stable
patch Is acceptable to almost any herd.
The soil should be thoroughly prepared
and the seed sown thin. They are very
small, and most people err in sowing
too many per acre.
a fair estimate of hay for a COW is
from fifteen to twenty pounds per day.
A mich COW will eat four or live
pounds more than dry one, and n
large COW will, of course. eat more
than n small one under similar condi-
tons.
of rye-it will shade and protect young
clover and assist very materially In
getting stand, and perhaps it should
further be suggested I'm this day of
economy that its straw is more val
liable than that of wheat as feed,
both in quantity and quality.
Rye has probably been sown more
extensively of late years for a fertil-
izer than ever before. Perhaps the
cheapest method of sewing the fertil-
izer is to sow in corn, just after the
last blowing. In this case 1t must be
sown Immediately, or at least before
a rain, as the rain will to some extent
beat down and harden the surface Of
the ground and the grain will not be
covered.