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The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20
A Miss ionary I'm Tennessee.
Continued from first p-ge.

Next day Pres. Young and several
of us elders witnessed a sham battle
between the State militia and veter-
ans of the late Confederate army.
1t is enough for me to say that the
sham satisfied me, and l don't
banker after the reality; may the
Lord deliver me and mine from it.
Next day. June 3rd. Elder Chris
tenson and again, grips in hand,
started out distributing tracts in the
suburbs northeast of Nashville
After visiting some twenty-seven
families, and having been refused
entertainment twelve times, night
still found us supperless andl without
a shelter-strangers in strange
land. At one house where-I asked
for shelter, the lady (?) replied that
her husband was holding services at
his church near by, but they could
not entertain us for the night.
asked if they would receive a tract.
and she answered with a scornful
laugh: ooh! no! Ha! ha! we don't
want any of your tracts!' And thus
we went on, but the Saviour says,
Matt. Is: 81 was a stranger and We
took me not int, hungry, and We
gave me no meat mas
much as We have done it.unto one OF
the least of these, my brethren, We
have done it unto me-" Finally
che keeper of a toll-gate allowed us
to occupy a small coop by the road.
side. where the receiver of tolls sat
through the day to take up his fees
from the vehicles passing to and
from the city. Elder Christensen
spread newspaper on the floor, ant
with his grip for pillow lay down
like Jacob Of old to dreams of the
night, only the patriarch had nc
paper to keep his Prince Albert
from the dust and had the canopy
of Heaven for covering instead o.
a cabin roof. lay down on bench
and thus we spent the night.
To be Continued
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20
Levi Strauss OWeralls at White
heads.
COOPERATION.
heads.

When President Brigham Young
who in his day was looked upon
with respect which almost amount
ed to idolatry among the Latter
day Saints-urged the adoption cf
the principle of cooperation, in
commercial and manufacturing
concerns OF the people, who looked
up to him as their guide, both in q
temporal as we'll as in a spiritual
sense, he did SO with the far-sight
edness SO characteristic of great
leader, and to the credit Of his
followers be it said, that general
disposition to enter into the
scheme suggested was manifested
throughout Utah, and the other
Territories where Latter-day
Saints had made their homes, and
for some years the interest and
desire to sustain the home institu-
tons; but after a while changes
came over the people, and the
teachines Of President Young
were apparently forgotten, or their
value was lost sight of. and this
too, when tbs benefits of the sys-
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20

"I-I don't think we'd better,
said his companion, "my fathers ter
ribly opposed to saloons. l don
know what he'd say if he knew thai
I'd been in one, and drank liquor
there"
Gust for the fun of the thing, you
know" urged his friend. "Of course,
we'd stop with one drink. There
couldn't be any harm in that"
"My boys said the old man. COM
ing up to them, "you don't know
what you're talking about. If you
go in there and take one drink, you
are not sure of stopping there. The
chances are that you won't, for | tell
you-and l know what am talking
about from a bitter experience
there's fascination about liquor
that it takes a strong will to resist
after the first taste of it sometimes.
Take the first drink and the way of
/ the drunkard is open before you.
Only those who let liquor entirely
alone are safe. I know for I've been
a drunkardla good many years. I
expect to ba one till L die. 1 began
by taking a drink just as you pro-
pose, for fun, but l didn't stop
there, you see. Take the advice of
a poor old wreck-that is, never take
the first drink. ~
"Nou're right" said the boy, who
had proposed to vsit the saloon. 81
thank you for your good advice, sir.
say, Tom, let's promise each other
| nexer to take the.hrst drink"
Cali right" said Tom, and the
boys clasped hands on their pledge.
| THAT'S good temperance society
to belong to-" said the old man. 81
wish I'd joined one like it when
was boy. "-Eben E. Rexford.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20
Saturday, February 20, 1897.
THE EDITOR NEVER
DOCKED.

No, the editor is never locked,
except when some of the subscrib-
ers or advertisers euchre him out
OF his hard, earnings. We say
hard earnings; because the editor
does more work for less pay than
any man on earth. He has TO
work overtime either in the sane
tum, composing room or press
room thirteen months in the year,
while all other classes of humanity
are quietly taking solid comfort iii
the beautiful arms of Morpheus;
and yet, if, through sickness or
otherwise, the paper happens to
be late, the editor is then duly
"cussed" in way nottagreeable.
Oh, no! the editor is never locked!
But who wants to be an editor?
Let him step forward and put on
the editorial attire for only the
brief period of fortnight, and we
will venture the assertion that he
will be more anxious to doff the
cares of an editor than he was to
don them, and will also be wiling
to concede the fact that the editor
should not be locked; but that he
should be aided in every way pos
sible and paid every cent due him.
When he is we'll patronized his
paper will show it by fair repre-
sentation of well-paying advertise
ments, as we'll as an ever-increas-
ing subscription list. Prompt pay
is what aids an editor in obtaining
and giving you newsy shetland
gives MN encouragement substan-
TALLY, and we trust that all editors
hereafter will "never be locked"
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20
NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned after
the publication thereof for threesucc- ssive weeks
will make application to- the honorable Secretary
of the Interior, Washington. ID. c.. for peripit t.,
cut timber under the act of March g. 1901, hom the
following descrih-i mineral pubic, lands Ia
Washington County, Utah. vizt All of, sections 10
and II, township SO South, Range II West con-
tanning 1880 acres. Tire tinber to be cut aud
relov is lot manufacture into lnrsbuS products.
and for sale to residents OF Utah.
Dated at St. George, Utah, January 18th, 1897.
HARRISON, j. BunsGEsS,
b. II BURGESS,
EDMOND II. THoRNToN..
Isaac c. Macfarlane Atty.
list pub Jan. 49,. Io~3+7,,
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20

tenn had been made manifest in
large dividends, and most excellent
returns on the investments made.
1t is possible that the interest Of
some began to flag upon the un-.
avoidable epoch of hard times
making it's appearance, when divi-
dends became less, and in some
instances there were practically no
returns at all. This certainly was
not conducive to intense. admira-
ton of the cooperative system,
but the dissatisfied ones forgot to.
stop and thinl, that they in their.
carelessness had helped to bring.
about the bad state of affairs by i'm
some instances transferring their
patronage to rival places of bust
ness through some fancied slight,
or private pique at the manage
ment, instead of taking the precau-
ton to make their real, or fancied
grievances known to the proper
authorities and demanding the
rights theW as stockholders were.
entitled to, and continuing to sup
port the institution where their
means were invested; had this.
course been adopted the.multi--
plicity of business, places which,
now abound in nearly all the
settlements Of the Mormon people
would have had a limit, and the
grand success which was. promised,
by Brigham Young, wouidi have
been fully realized!
The fact that many co-operative-
stores are going to the wallis am
pie evidence that they are not re-
ceiving the support Of the pr oplo-
that mutual protection would sug-.
gest, and at the same time, if dis
aster should follow the business,
efforts Of a superintendent, he.
alone must be the scapegoattfor.
censure. u The same ne,
cessity for self-presemation exists.
now as it did thirty orforty years
ago; and there is no,safer or more
sure plan to adopt to- obtain the
successful result SO much desired
as community OF cooperation of
tfort.-Bearer County Ne,es.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20
No. 3I4Sl
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATIONS.

LAND OFFICE At SALT LAKE CITY. UTAn, /.
January 1877.
Notice Is hereby given that the following canned
settler has filed notice of his intention TO make finaB
proof in support Of his claim, and that said proof
will he made before th- County Clerk of Washing
ton County, Utah, at st. George, Utah. on Febru-
ary az. 1897, viz: Joseph H. Crawford, Fl. +. No.
1920. For the NWA ~W14 and Lots and 4, Seo-
%, Up. A $. X. ISW.
IIs names the f)owing witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of, said
land, viz: Peter Z. Van Orden, T., Andrew
Sproul, Andrew H. Larsen and Isral Nelson, all OF
Washington, Washington County, Utah.
BYRON GRoo,
Isaac c. MacfaTlane, Atty. Registss.-
list Pub Jan. is, 1897, Io-3-ol.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20
On Temperance.

The boys stopped in front of sa-
lbon, and an old man standing near
listened TO what they said.
"Let's 60 in and take. drink"
said one of them.>
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-02-20

Entered at the Post Office at st. George,
Washington Co., Utah, as second class
matter, March ~, 1896.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

would be very lucky to have come
from the ordeal debt and tax free had
he lived in any other town in the
State.
Now it is useless to close our ewes to
an inevitable result because its con-
contemplation is painful. We must
look at the situation as it Is. If this
project fails-and it will be abandoned
unless met in a more friendly spirit
the rails of the Light and Power Co.
OF Olympia will probably be taken up
as have those at Port Townsend and
Vancouver, and be used in advancing
the prosperity of more enterprising
community. This is no idle threat.
i is just what is likely to occur within
Il few months, unless this, or some
other plan is adopted by which the
owners of the plant may be afforded q
reasonable guaranty against further
loSc
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

PORT ANGELES, it seems, is in a fair
way to become an important manu-
featuring center. Besides the steel
works to be established there, repre-
sentative of capitalists is. figuring
upon a tin-plate works. 1t is said
that the Pacific Coast annually uses
$1,000 tons of these plates. Port
Angeles is near the ore and the coal,
and is splendid point for shipment.
Everything used but the tin may be
obtained near at hand, but that will
have to be imported from Tasmania,
unless the deposit known to exist in
Mason county developes into a COM
mercial factor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
A Very Small Matter.

The Olympian announces that his
accidency has pursued the usual course
of small minds and ordered his paper
stopped, because of that journals com
ments on his public acts, which puts
us in mind of the way Horace Greeley
served an iratc subscriber who attempt.
ed in that way to show his spite.
Meeting the white-coated philoso.
pher trudging along the street, he
rushed up to him with the exclama-
ton, "Well, Greeley, I've stopped
your paper"
"What!" replied Horace, "you have
stopped my paper? That is serious.
Come along; let us see about it,"
"Let us see about it. Let us see
about it," murmured the impurturb-
able journalist as he hobbled along
with the wondering kicker by his side.
Arriving at the Tribune Office Gree
ley passed through the counting-room,
into the editorial rooms and finally
down into the press rooms, when turn
ing on his companion he said: GLOW
is this? You said you had stopped
my paper. I don't see that it has
stopped. All the men seem to be at
work, the presses are running as usual,
and the boys are crying the papers on
the street, as you saw and heard when
we came in"
"I-I-mean," stammered the
abashed subscriber, al mean that I
have stopped my paper; the copy you
have been sending to me-"
ooh, indeed" snarled old Horace,
"you mean that you heve stopped a
single copy of the Tribune coming to
your address. That is very email
matter, and I would have never Lnown
it had you not accosted me In that ex-
cited manpe.~Go home, and you
may m time learn that you have done
a very foolish thing in supposing that
you have inflicted an injury by your
precipitate action. Your patronage
was as drop in the bucket, an atom
of spray to the wave-crest, never
missed and by no means essential to
round out perfect amplitude"
And the irate subscriber departed
with bowed head under the crushing
rebuke administered as only a master
mind could do it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

WHAT is the use Of State Board of
Equalization if it don't equalize the
rolls of assessment submitted as ba:
sis for taxationf There can be no
excuse for compelling Thurston coun.
ty to pay only fourth less aggregate
of taxes than Whitman, which has
three times the area and sixty times
the improved land; or of Walla Walla
paying half a million less taxes, with
three times the area and fifty times
the improved land, or of the rich coun.
ty of Lewis, with three times the area
and many times the improved land
paying only 1.-THE more than Thurs
ton
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
Death of an Eminent Man.

\ di>consolate feeling comes over
one when the death OF the great and
good is announced. Such is strikingly
the case in the death Of the venerable
Neal Dow, who closed his earthly ca
rccr at Portland Maine, last Saturday,
the 81 nf this month. General Dow
was born in 1901, and thus was in his
ODD year at the time OF his death
He was Colonel Of the Thirteenth
Regiment OF Maine Volunteers in the
war OF the rebellion. His fame rests,
however, more especially Oh his ac-
tivity in promoting the temperance
cause. 1t will be remembered that he
was the author OF the noted "Maine
liquor law" which has been intro
duced into many other States with
varying success.
General Dow was also strenuously
opposed to the use of tobacco in all its
forms. He held that nobody had a
legal right to faint with the fumes of
tobacco smoke the air breathed by
other persons. A little incident illus
trates one of his characteristic traits
ON this point. He was riding one day
in a horse street-car with q mixed
crowd of men, women and children.
A young man was standing on the
platform by the side of the driver,
smoking cigarette, and as the for
ward door was open, the air of the car
was soon loaded with the tobacco
smoke which came in great clouds
through the doorway much to the an
noyance of the passengers. Mr.. Dow,
then over eighty years of age, was sit
ting near the forward door. He polite
ly asked the young man to either cease
smoking or close the door. "What
are you going to do about it?" blurted
out the smoker in a loud voice. In a
twinkling old Dow was on his feet
and, whether Samson-like he prayed
for an instantaneous renewal OF his
young manhood's strength, we are not
informed, but God gave it to him all
the same and springing up like a tiger
he seized the saucy chap by the collar
of his coat, stretched him prone upon
the floor of the car and wrenched with
his own trembling hands the offensive
cigarette from the teeth of the aston
ished youth. "That's what 1 am 60
ing to do about it," exclaimed Dow
amid the uproarious cheers of the pas
Mr.. Dow has been criticized for his
radical views on the various
reforms of the day, but his redeeming
traits so -far-nuswrigh his alleged
that his name is honored
in two hemispheres and his memory
will ever be cherished by the true adj
vocates of human integrity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
The State University.

According to the mildest way in
which the regents themselves put the
matter, the University of Washington
is in a state of anarchy. Ever since
the publication Of the last catalogue,
insubordination and rebellion have
been the ruling powers in and about
that institution. Politics, religion
and physical culture, are reveling in a
deadly triangular warfare with no
present indications of immediate peace.
Not only is the Board OF Regents, ap-
pointed by Governor Rogers, composed
of ambitious cranks, but they are men
of heterogeneous instincts, without a
trace of moral, intellectual or political
affinity. AS the people of Seattle
have it, there is bitter elimination
and recrimination from the Governor
down through the ranks of the re-
gents, the faculty, the students, even
w tAlC AOWCSt ouUOIuludtCs
President Edwards is accused by the
regents of being an unmitigated ma
terialist, ignoring the existence of God,
and the immortality of the human
soul. And then, on the other hand,
the President is quoted as calling the
regents set OF Intermediates, lobby
heelers and bum politicians; while
the students cut the matter short and
sum up the whole business by declar-
ing that the regents are ga lot of id
FOOLS"
The Governor says he regrets" the
sorry state of affairs, and then SUBJ
sides into silence, inactivity and inef-
ficiency.
To say that this stupendous mud
die is unfortunate, is feeble expires.
sion; it is disgraceful; it is prostitut-
ing and running the time-honored edu-
cational interests of our fair State,
and it is already the but of ridicule
among the newspapers of the north
Pacific coast. Populism, hierarchy
and State executive incompetency, con-
stitute the miserable compound that
now rankles in the body polite of the
University, and nothing short of an
old-fashioned cathartic, administered
the old-fashioned way will ever bring
order out of the confusion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

the extensive coast lines on all sides OF
our country-wlich employ thous-
ands of hardy lifc-Savcrs, who have al
ready rescued many thousands of
ship-wrcckcd mariners and given relief
to hundreds OF disabled vessels, be-
sides saving unknown thousands OF
dollars worth oi property. The State
OF New jersey twice honorcd Newell
by making him its Governor and also
by sending him to the National Con-
greSs. President Hayes made him
Governor of the Territory of Wash
ington, and all old settlers know how
patriotically he served the common
wealth. 1t is desired to show this
faithful servant of the people that he
has not been forgotten in his old age,
and thus convince him that Republics
are not always ungrateful.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

Mr.. Livernash, the Examiner cor
respondent at Klondike says there are
about $500 people in that country,
some of whom have supplies to last
them through winter, but the large
majority were wholly without outfits
or partially prepared for winter. The
combined stock of the North American
Trading Co. and the Alaska CONNER
cial Co. is inadequate for relief, and
no more can be obtained unless rains
should raise the river abnormally,
which is acknowledged to be forlorn
hope.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

SOME of those little, wee, "two-for-
accent" souls, who are unfit for any
thing and whose influence is confined
to their own vote, rush to the aid Of
his accidency in the hope that they
may be allowed to lick the crumbs
from the floor under the official table.
A cause is indeed a "forlorn hope"
that has to welcome such aids.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

WHENEVER an emergency arises in
public affairs, to whom do the people
turn for relief and protection of their
rights, but the local newspapers?
When it passes away, in niue times
out of ten, the service is soon forgot
ten and little effort is ever voluntar-
lily made to strengthen the bridge that
carries them over the chasm. If news
paper men would only keep a debit
and credit account of such transac-
tions, they would have a large bill for
liquidation sometimes when their SER
vices become indispensable.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

Ex-PREsIDENT Cleveland, it is said,
is trimming. his sails to secure seat
in the upper branch of Congress, from
New Jersey, his native State. Senator
Smiths term expires in 1899 and Sem
ator Sewell's in 1901.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

IT is said that his accidency's regu-
lar beverage, on junketing tours, is
champagne-Mumm's extra dry. 1t
used to be plain Hennessy, and with
out the "6ry," Mumm's or anybody
else's.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
A mal.oderou. Suggestion.

Olympia claims to have felt an EARTH
quake Monday. AS no other part of
the State felt it, it is thought that the
shock was caused by the Governor TAX
ing off his boots.-Vancouue Coluna-
h;nn
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

1T is very small man, indeed, who
when he gives newspaper a 4" two-bit"
advertisement, expects to control its
general policy and dictate its political
utterances.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

"SrAR POINTER" the PAGER, made
a mile in 2.003, at Springfield, ILL.,, on
the LIST inst, beating the worlds record.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

A cAR-CONDUCTOR's wife in st. Louis
lately sold her husband to another
woman for $4,000 and then commit
ted suicide.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

SPoKANE's new city directory con-
tains 14,604 names, and the population
OF the city is estimated to be 1851.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

THE total assessment of the State,
as returned by the State Board of
Equalization, foots up $225, I3O.784.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08

THE Olympia Presbytery is In session
at Tacoma with a large attendance of
delegates.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
STILL A DEFICIT.
SHORTAGE FOR THE QUARTER is
S3o,ooo.Ooo.

Mckinley Will Speak In Ohio, Al.
though u Vas an Improperly
So: "The King Can DO No
WrOng," You Know Pensions
Expedited to Help the Campaign
Etc.