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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-09-17
county court Prooeedlngs.
sept. term. 1897.

sept. term, 1897.
PROBATE.
Drace estate--Ordpied that p L Me
Quinn pay to tie heirs amt Oh hand iu
conformity with his report filed July
1897.
E.tate Of A spaulding deceased-
ordered that semi.annual report lie filed
10 lie accompanied by all vouchers on
hand
Estate Of Phil flcppner deceased--
Adm authorized TO file new Bond n the
sam u 1000.
Estate Of Thos Rose deceascd--sale of
real estate confirmed. final hearing set
ior Nov. 1897. Notice to be published
in Fossil journal,
Estate II Aves w Anderton. minor.
Resignation q W II silvertooth guard
ian accepted and Nellie Il Barnard ap.
pointed guardian with bonds fixed at
1900.
Estate o. John Sing deceased- in
admitted 10 Probate -Sena u Sing aud
John knox, executors.
Estate ot Silas Brown deceased--estate
declared settled, subject 10 the proper
distribution Of the residne.
Estate Of Ernest seekamp deceased
estate declared fnlly settled subject 10
the proper distribution Of the residne.
a
tinned TO complete service until Sept.
n 1897. .
Estate Of l. Parker deceased final set
tlement continued 10 Nov W term.
Estate Of Laura + Weaver, minor. -
Resignation " Geo y Ely guardian nc.
cepted, + Weaver having been APP
pointed guardian ii Malhenr county.
An matters transferred TO Malheur coun-
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-09-17

County Warrants at Face.
! will take county warrants at their
face value in trade at my store in Con-
don, S. B. BARKER.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-09-17

How about new wagon, gang pillow
or seeder this fall? We have ear
load-jHsi arrived Lord & Co.
The Progress., 1897-07-10

But go further, and pray for your COM
mon council, II your city has a common
council. They hold in their hands power
splendid for good or terrible for evil They
have many temptations In many Of the
cities whole boards Of common council men
have gone down In the maelstrom of polit-
ical corruption. They could not stand the
power Of the bride. Corruption came In
and sat beside them, and sat behind them,
and sat before them. They recklessly
voted away the hard earned moneys Of the
People. They wero bought out, body, mind
and soul, so that at the end Of their term
of office they had not enough of moral re-
mains left to make q decent funeral. They
went into office with the huaza of the mul-
titude. They came out with the anathema
Of oil decent people. There Is not one man
out Of u hundred that can endure the temp
tations of the common council men in our
great cities. If man In that position
have the courage of n Cromwell, and the
independence of an Andrew Jackson, and
the public spiritedness of John Frederick
oherlip- md tho n,etv of nm Edward Pay
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23

I am with the movement for the reg
ulation of trade and commerce. so tar
as it viii benefit the different lines of
business and afford to every man a
field for fair competition.
The department stores may have all
these effects. still it is hard to see how
they can be legislated out of business
so long as merchandising is a legiti-
mate calling, as it certainly is. There
would be no department stores were
there no demand for them by the pub
lie. They truly fill a long felt want,
for they are a great convenience TO
purchasers as contradistinguished from
mere shoppers. They are also another
evidence of the tendency of all business
to concentrate and come under large
capital and small management. 1t is
in reality another phase of the same
tendency that has caused trusts TO
spring up. They are much smaller con-
Germs and are limited to cities. What
will be their fate in the large cities
where they flourish? The result of the
Chicago movement may furnish an in
dication-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
TAKING BACHELORS.

All writer's on government agree that
the power to tax is the power TO
destroy. Most writer's on economic sub
jects admit that the best interests of
the state are subserved by all men
marrying and rearing a family. Now,
Georgia evangelist who has been
preaching in Kansas City, Mo-, would
use the taxing power of the state to
destroy bachelors. In his sermon he
said: 81 am here to plead for the
home. 1 want to see our men marry.
Let them marry young. I'd rather have
them marry at 10 than at 80. Young
men who arrive at the age of % and are
still bachelors 1 am for taxing 500. If
they are still unmarried at %. 1 would
tax them 5000, at "a $500, ard so 1
would go on up to 80. Any man who
wasn't married at 80 would send to
the penitentiary God meant that men
should marry. A bachelor is only half
a man."
The plan has genuine merit. There
are many bachelors and their numbers
are constantly on the increase. Some
are bachelors from necessity, some
from choice. A man who has tried to
inveigle some girl into matrimony and
has failed, and who has not ceased at
one or two trials, should not be fined,
but should be pensioned, seeing that
modern governments do not sanction
such proceedings as the rape of the
Sabine women. But the bachelor from
IL
for whom all the sweet, lovely and
trusting girls are signing, he should be
fined, fined until his life was made as
miserable as those of the girls who sigh
over him. When, in his perversity. he
has reached 90 years of age and fines
have had no effect upon him, then he
certainly should be sent to the peni-
tertiary; and this in the interest of
society, which is thereby saved from
crusty old bachelor.
It may be that bachelor is only half
a man, but it is a fact. regrettable it
may be, painful perhaps, that many
married men are not even half men.
What should be done with them? Such
married men are nuisance to their
families and no good to the state. If
confirmed bachelors should be sent to
the penitentiary for life. such married
men as are here referred to should.
probably, be made to suffer capital
punishment. This should be, if it be.
on the utopian theory that when man
has lived so long that he has become
useless he should be killed. And a
mans becoming useless doesn't depend
upon length of years by any means.
All useless men, bachelors and bene-
diets, should be disposed of.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
THE STREET LIGHTING SERVICE

The street lighting service of this
city is really an outrage and imposi-
ton upon the public. The city pays a
big round sum for the service, sum
that should give it the very best serv-
ice; yet it is inferior. The light sent
out from the lamps is not half what it
should be. The cause is that the cur
rent of electricity is not sufficient TO
produce the light there should be. The
reason the current is so insufficient is
because the power used to generate it
is inadequate. Were the street lighting
system less extensive than it is, the
power used might be sufficient to gen.
crate enough electricity to give a
proper light. The result is, of course,
a saving TO the electric light company,
but is a great imposition, to use no
harsher term, upon the taxpayers.
If the company can give a service
that is very inferior at a minimum of
expense to itself, and the city officials,
whose duty it is to see that the terms
of the contract with the company are
lived up to, permit this, there can be
no blame attached to the company; it
is simply looking out for its own
financial interests, though it may be in
a very short-sighted way. But what
of those city officials whose duty it is
to see that the taxpayers interests are
looked after and respected? There is
great laches somewhere; that is much
palmer than the lights in the streets.
Why is it that the electric light COM
pany is permitted to so impose upon,
we had almost said swindle, the people
of this city in the matter of the street
light service it renders? This service
is splendid example of the Wander
bilt theory: THE public be id"
There may somewhere in the United
States be worse street lighting service
than in Salt Lake City, but no citizen
of this place can be made to believe it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
THE HOME OF sAPPHo.

This is the Isle of Beauty: II Apollo
Shake morning sea-dew from his shining
hair
Or if at noon in grove or grassy hollow
Or if at eve Chameleon changes follow
In waves more bright than those of
otherwhere.
And oh. the nights; with what look of
Above the hills the moon reveals her
Surprised 10 find. her own realm stretch
ing under,
The level seas illimitable grace.
Or seems to pause mid-sky to list the
Of waves against some headland's
gloomy base
This was the home of sapphO. the
Of lyric splendor. brighter than its day;
EosS of passion poesy; word winger
OF signs that linger in the world for
Tenth Muse, and best of all. the woman
singer
Whose roses last while nations fade
away.
Somewhere mid times unsifted ashes
hidden.
The Lesbian's lines like deathless en-
bers glow:
Perchance some maid of Asia Minor
chidden
By Christian priest. concealed them
long ago;
Perchance the Sphinx may give them I'M
hidden
From tomb of Pharoah's daughter, lying
low.
Howe'er that be. there is an island sap
phic,
That neer touched by human caravels,
Whose seas, unwhitened by the sails of
traffic.
Bring lotus-eaters on their summer
SwellS;
And there. full-famed of all her songs
seraphic,
Rose-loving. violet weaving sappho
dwells.
George Horton, In Unknown Seas"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
DEPARTMENT STORES.

So used are the people of this city
and state to department stores, though
not very extensive. that they can hard
Iy realize what a crusade is being made
on them in some of the eastern cities
where, ot course, they attain dimen-
sions unknown in the west.
The business men of Chicago are
aroused over the question as they have
rarely been aroused over any other
matter. 1t is said that $500 business
men of that city have formed them
selves into an organization to urge upon
the legislature the passage of a bill
taxing each separate department of a
store 500. The cumulative plan of tax
ating them has been approved by some
of the meetings held to further the
crusade. Thus, according to this plan
of licensing them it would cost 500 to
run q hat store. 5000 TO add a shoe
stock, $500 to put in groceries, and so
on. For ten departments the license at
this rate would be s51,200 per annum;
for Is departments, 81, 63S, 400; and for 20
departments, $50, 416, 900. When this
plan was approved it was suggested by
some LAWYERS who were present that
it would be unconstitutional If it
wasn't, the license would be a guar
antee of the killing of the department
store.
One of the chief movers in this or
ganization to kill off the department
stores sums up that side of the case
as follows:
This movement is a growing one. 1t
is the feeling of merchants that they
must protect themselves or be driven
out of business. The cumulative license
system is, l understand, in effect in
Germany. 1t would certainly result in
great revenue to the state. even if the
stores could manage to thrive on it.
I do not think anything can stop this
movement, which seems to have sprung
up spontaneously. When the Solomon
bill was before the legislature it was
laughed at and ridiculed. The investi-
cation that went with it was treated
superciliously. Now the movement is
strong and growing. New clubs are
being organized eyerywhere-not alone
in the cities.
The department store is destroying
villages and towns. Thousands of men
who have been dependent on mercan-
tile pursuits are forced out of business.
and have TO come to the large cities
to work for starvation wages.
The tendency of the department store
is 20 the crushing out of small bust
nesses. I carry other things beside
furniture. but like others we must do
il, and we NAV be driven finally into
the regular department store business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
THE IDAHO LEGISLATURES.

The Idaho legislature. which has
been visiting our city and mingling with
the Utah Legislature, has returned to
Boise. We trust the lawmakers from
our northern neighbor had a pleasant
visit; we believe they did. The MEM
bers of the Utah legislature and all
who met them were delighted with
their visit. If it is a good thing for
the people of Idaho and Utah to mingle
together and become better acquainted
land who would deny this?) it is an ex-
cellent thing for the members of the
legislatures of the two states to mingle
together and become better acquainted
with each other.
The subjects in the two states upon
which legislative action is required are
almost identical, for the resources of
both are substantially the same. This
being so, it is very desirable that those
entrusted with legislative power over
them should meet and exchange views
The consequence is that they have a
broader and firmer grasp of matters;
that they take a juster and more lib
eral view of them.
This visit of the Idaho legislature to
this city and the commingling of the
members with the Utah legislators
cannot but result most benefcially in
every respect. Some of the Idaho pa
pers have been somewhat inclined to
criticise the action of the Idaho legis-
iature for making the visit. The criti-
cism is not warranted, and we believe
our Idaho contemporaries will so con-
clude when the matter is calmly con-
sidered
The Idaho legislators have been well
come guests. They carry back with
them to their own state the best wishes
of the people of Utah. A pleasant re-
turn trip. Success to you in your
legislative work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23

he replied. ell these people seem to me
only parts of the great machine, and,
on the whole. l think they are doing
their work very satisfactorily Then.
continued the sage, L took him doun to
the Hoose o Commons. where they put US
under the gallery. There l showed him
ing, and leeing. Then l turned to him
and said. And moo. man, dye believe in
the deevil noo?' He made me. however.
just the same answer as before, and l
then gave him up in despair
The following about F. d. Maurice
shows Duff's faculty for seing both
sides:
Went. as usual, about this time. to hear
F. ID. Maurice preach at Lincoln's Inn.
L suppose | must have heard him, first
and last. some 80 or 40 times, and never
impression that he had more than the
faintest conception of what he himself
meant. Aubrey de We're was quite right
when he said that listening to him was
Jowetts answer was not less to the pur-
pose. when ! asked him what a sermon.
which Maurice had just preached before
the university, was about, and he re-
piled: We'll. all that l could make
out was that today was yesterday, and
this world the same as the next john
Stuart Mil. who had known IN early
IN life. said to me about this time:
Frederick Maurice has philosophical
powers of the highest order. but he spolls
them all by torturing everything into the
he should have exerted a distinctly stimu-
lating and Hberalizing influence over
many more or less remarkable people is
sufficiently strange; but it must be re-
membered that he was a noble fellow
with immense power of sympathy. and an
ardent. passionate nature. which often led
him TO right conclusions in spite of his
hopelessly confused reasoning
A glimpse of the famous Metaphysical
Society" is given as it was in 1870:
OF course such society could only exist
on the understanding that every ques-
ton was to be treated as an open one:
apropos of which Arthur Russell made an
excellent house of commons answer TO
Simeon, who, meeting him as he came
out of one of the earlier gatherings which
took place at the deanery in Westminster,
rushed uD with an appearance of great
empressement, and said: well. is there
a God?" "Oh. yes" replied the other.
I'VE had very good majority
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
NOTES FROM A DIARY.
Stories Told by Sir Monstuart Grant
Duff

New York Evening Post: Sir Mon
stuart Grant Duffs Notes from Diary
1s51-72.' purposed to be, according to the
author. zone of the most good-natured
books of its kind ever printed 1t GER
tainly appears to have met this inten-
ton including much that is amusing and
gossipy with little or nothing to offend.
Here is an entry in the diary for 1852:
November is. At the Duke of Yelling
toms funeral in St. Paurs. AS the rider
less horse, with the boots slung across it,
was being led down st. James street. Mr..
Brookfield's little daughter said; Nam
ma when we die, shall we also be turned
into boots?
A well known story about CARLYLE and
Emerson was given Duff by Charles
Kingsley in the following version:
The most dyspeptic of philosophers had
been terribly bored by the persistent
optimism of his friend Emerson. Il
thought" he said that l would try 10
cure him, so took him to some OF the
lowest parts of London and showed him
all that was going on there. This done,
l turned to him saying, And moo, man.
dye believe in the deevil noo?' oh. no
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT.

Prune thou thy words; the thoughts con
troll
That Ger thee swell and throng:
They will condense. within thy soul,
And change to purpose strong.
But he who lets his feelings run
In soft luxurious flow
Shrinks when hard service must be done
And faints at every woe.
Faiths meanest deed more favor bears
Where hearts and wills are weighed.
Than brightest transports, choicest pray
erS.
Which bloom their hour and fade.
John Henry Newman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

New York Evening Post: Secretary
Fairchild was the last head of the treas
ury able TO estimate the national revenue
without being ludicrously wide of the
mark His successor. Mr.. Window. COM
plimented him on his accurate forecast.
but since then the guessing has been wild
Senator Aldrich. the great tariff expert.
was S21, 900. 900 out of the way in stating
what the revenue from the Mckinley bill
would be- Yet he and Mr.. Dingley VIII
soon be telling the country to a dollar
what amount of revenue the new Nc
kinley bill will yield.
San Francisco Examiner: Nobody can
have the slightest objection to the medi-
cal verdict that the brain of murderer
Duestrow was abnormal. Nobody can
have objection to any verdict concerning
such creatures, provided il is based on
facts ascertained at the post mortem-
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Corbett
fears the effect of suddenly changing his
usual altitude to that of Nevada. His
predecessor as champion changed his alti-
tude nearly every day and the result was
certainly disastrous.
Chicago Times-Herald: The Missouri
legislature has voted to send 4 committee
to Nevada to see the Fitzsimmons-Cor-
bett fight. A man must be an all-round
statesman in order to meet the exacting
requirements of Missouri legislation.
Atlanta Journal: The officeseekers are
already swarming in Washington and
most of them will be broke before they
see Mckinley riding down the avenue to
be inaugurated.
Pittsburg Dispatch: The Kansas
Lycurgus who proposes to fine every IN
married man above p. and send every
one over 80 to the penitentiary. should
make his scheme of personal liberty COM
plete by providing that the young women
the penitentiary also, and be married
there to the bachelor convicts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
PARTY BATTLES OF THE FU-
TURE.

a Washington dispatch to the New
York Evening Post says that the. re-
ports that Mr. Cleveland intends to re-
enter politics after he becomes settled
in his new home are without founda-
ton. 1t is further stated that he be-
lieves that the silver "heresy" will soon
pass away, and that the party battles
for the future will be fought on the old
lines of revenue and expenditure.
The silver ''heresy" will not pass
away until silver is restored to that
place in our monetary system it occu-
pied before its decentralization in 1873
1t may be a long or it may be a short
time before that is done, but until it is
done, there will be no passing away of
the silver ''heresy." When it has
passed away by the restoration of sill
yer to its proper place as a money
metal, then party battles will be fought,
most probably, on the old lines of
revenue and expenditure. Even now
the Republican party is endeavoring
to force the tariff to the front in such
4 way as will make it the issue in the
next presidential campaign. That is
an easy matter to do, but it is not an
easy matter to get the endorsement of
the people. Even if this country had
as its revenue the tabled wealth of In
dia, still Republican congresses could
be relied upon to make the eXpendi-
lures greater than the revenue. I'm
less this country shall eventually take
up a vigorous" foreign policy, that
which will most deeply interest the
people will be the question of revenue
and expenditure as it has in the past
When the silver "heresy'' is taken up
by all the people, irrespective of party,
az it will be, and thereby becomes
orthodoxy, then will the Democratic
party. all past differences healed. again
go forth to do battle for the right in
the matter of revenue and expenditure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23

Small wonder that Weyler cannot
find Gomez. for William E. Curtis,
writing from Havana to the Chicago
Record, says: There is good deal of
mystery about Gomez. An agent of the
New York junta who came down with
important dispatches and instructions,
IS reported to have been in the insur-
gent lines for twenty-four days search
ing for him without success. He had a
guide and an escort of ten mounted
mes, and visited eleven different camps
to learn that the old general had gone
elsewhere or was expected next week
or had not arrived to meet his appoint
ments. The envoy finally became dis
couraged, left his letters with one of
the subordinate generals and came
away"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
THE BIG FIGHT.
Dan Stuart Sends Message to The
Herald

Dan Stuart, manager of the Cor
-Fitzsimmons fight. writing to The
Herald, says:
Indications now point to a very
large attendance from all over the
United States.
Il have perfected arrangements in
connection with the Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons contest for several other attrac-
tfons, among which will be the live
bird shooting for the worlds champion
ship. Medal now held in Kansas City
and $1,000 added money. Many of the
most prominent experts, among which
is DR.. Carver, have signified their in
tention of being present and compel
ing"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23

THE HERALD In n franchise mem
hex o. The United Press, and re-
ceiyes the complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
ca, embracing accurate intelligence
of ell current events in the whole
world. with fits special wire and
operator in it's own ONCE THE HER
AID IS daily in immediate possess
sion of the latest news MP till the
hour of SOiHE to press.