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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
WHERE rnr FLAG WAVED.

According to reports the Fourth of
July was celebrated with great onthusl-
assn In Porto Rico, aud tho natives en-
tered into the spirit of the day with
wonderful enthusiasm,
one little incident is told, 10 the cf-
feet that a crew OF eight Porto ucuns
beat crew u American tara In q boat
race. with astonishing ease considering
the reputation American sailors have
earned In foreign ports. This b. cunsld-
cred M an intImatlon %, where 10 look
Tor good material for recruits TO tho
American navy
In cuba, too, Independence nay was
celebrated by the Americans ana many
NJ the natives Havana was guy win
nnrs ana bunting salute was fired
from tho old fortress Cabanos, and
bands played national airs. while tire
crackers were set OF, just aa at home
Gu the evening hanqucts were giyun
and oratory nowed
A hgnlncant fbct was TINT nt Matnn
zls 5000 Cuhnns called ON Genera
James II. Wilson and expressed thci
appreciation OF his work aH milituu
governor. There ~ no reason Tor Tea
OF trouble between the Americans uul
/ Cuhons ns long nH they can join In cole
bruuoh OF tho birth OF liberty u On
! world.
In Manila Filipino, Spanish. ou
chinese children Joined iu "a
singing N our national hymn, aud eve
the Spanish consul displayed his cuun
try's nag In honor ut our great day
There 10 Boz nll this tho pleasant sul
gcauun that the work of unlnoauon ha
commenced IN earnest and that M
umo lH not remote when the Hwo,
fruitH ot the hltt.r strife viii appoa
Just ur now the results of tho civ
War are apparent n tha strength OF
united nation uuI its Influence BOO %
world iur good.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

The celebration Of the Fourth of July
with dangerous explosives became long
since n public menace ana "a public
nuisance. Notwithstanding the dlF.
courngiuT weather Of this year In CHI.
CnHn the city reports one dead and
scores injured no result of the days
Observance. and tho list OF casualties
from an over the country II appalling.
Life. limb ana property have been SAGE
ritced 10 nm utterly reckless. Irritating
and foolish custom. which IL condemned
sufficiently BY IT, nhuminnble noise "
there were nothing else 10 urge
against Il.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

with events. Just ns the colonies. which
held the day rncrcd. developed under
tho stimulus OF manifest destiny "
represents. ne IL has never represented
before. the trlumphH NJ nur ships and
arms ln war for humanity against On
enemy ~ liberty. 10 represents tho
glory 81 Maniln'a battle and the
double victory nt Santiago ~ rep
Hcuts ~ nation united na never before,
with the map % feCtluulHm wiped
out, and II represents n people prosper
Gus. royal and confident that the rcpub-
iic will continue % live along th. lines
laid down BY the patriot fathers.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

We have learned the wisdom M co.
operating, ana we have bound our
crowded cities together hy railroad
and telegraph. Tharr are mo- longer any
Daniel llo0nrs and Robinson Crusoes
The EtyUtpr part of our troubles Zoo th1
business world will continue until 1921
recognize this fact. No man, whether
rich ur poor, can act today aH n hc were
tho only man On the world, The aim NO
each individual must be- the welfare ui
900, else our civilization will be- uH brit.
tlr MS "a rope OF sand.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10


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ht " the authorities of shlt LAKE
county Ih,5 llgnl"l, s H,,
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| piacoa for the sale Of other articles.
They cuunlly bear upon oil counties W
we STATE
There arc none ao blind na those who
do not want 10 see. The muuro Of vision
or comprsbension Of the standard I'D
I - 81. .trft.t,,.s ~ 49,. F,tttrg Of ItH We.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Manila had n cordial Fourth Of July
celebration. the natives taking part
with q vim which shows how much they
like n fostn. no matter what the aus
picoa. Tho Spanish consul displayed
his fhg. and Filipino. Spanish and
sang America" II was a singular
spectacle and one that Agulnnldo might
not have appreciated, but seems TO have
done something 10 inspire good feeling
between all GLASSES at the Philippine
capital.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

~ Zola says that statements made
In tho press that be would write a play
on the Drcyma ease, and that he had
contributed several articles recently for
publication. are not true. In consid-
orinR this disclaimer. the public viii
hardly FORGET that zola Is something
of "a novelist himself.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

a good old-fashinocd Fourth NJ July
Grafton cannot bee delivered except from
90 platform nf r0urh pine boards. with
frosh F,rn houghs nailed 90 the root
and prominent citizens sitting On row
uf BtDight-h1ckgd wooden chairs be-.
hind the speaker nor 90 an audience
that "a not disposed along low plank
benches with lunch baskets near by
Hence tho utility and appropriations
OF the picnic through which alone city
people can return 90 good old Fourth OF
luIN unmlLLLlnu-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Columbus, o., has its parallel Mt
Murray, Utah. In tho deadly railroad
crossing. In tho ohio town on Sunday
six out ot q family OF seven persons
were killed, and at Murray the same
day. a gentleman with 1--WE children In
his buggy had q remarkably close os-
cape FROM the morning II, q. W. train.
The number of deaths that have oc-
CURED already at the last named place
has not yet seemed TO cause sufficient
concern ON the part OF those having
jurisdiction to lead them to take tho
mntter ID hand ana eneet o chnngn.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Kansas had a iynchlng bee Sunday
evening. In which an accused murderer
was left hanging 10 d telegraph pole.
The officers cut him down before he
was dead, but the mob had already
placed the man 20 he could not live.
Notwlihstandlng this. the feeling IL 20
bitter that tho mob wants 10 hang
the man again. II IL evident that the
Kanrans engaged In the lynchlng and
their sympathlzers have little conf
dpncc In the administration VI Tho
criminal law In that state.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Twenty thousand negroes are now
being led In Texas, from the funds
raised Tor thu flood sufferers. and yet all
who are needing It are not supplied.
Accounts OF floods that cause such "a
condition need no cVaEgoratlon 20 np.
pail the people at their magnitude and
..u.rLLN
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

In London yesterday, a New York
captain OF the national guard said
America would stand by England In
case Of war. Yes, when England Is
right and this country II interested.
nut Uncle Sam II not going TO fght an
other nations battles merely for tho
fun OF the thing.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

There are a good many strings in the
Alaskan boundary line dispute. and the
unwlso pulling OF any one Of several
OF them might spring "a trap-gun that
would stnrtlo the world. Better take
plenty Of time and have the matter
fixed nmlcubiv.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Governments derive their Just pow
ora frum tho consent % the governed"
now uH they ala In l15G Whatever may
ho the errors nr wrongs of tho rxocu-
tive department the American people.
through their Congress. win see a. 10
that our national policy shall result IN
the expansion OF freedom, not iu n
rpyerHlou 20 tyranny
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
THE MERCURY AM rnE MON.


Tho Bristol. England. Mercury r. ono
OF tho Tow influential papers that man.
lfosts spirit II fairness towards tho
"aiornons" II has defended the rights
of Latter-day Saints 20 the same free
dom Of worship and faith az IL enjoyed
by orthodox churches, and has opposed
the mobocmCy that ragged In Bristol
until checked by the stern hand Of tho
law.
Recently the Mercury, desiring TO give
the Elders an opportunity to speak for
themselves through ~ columns, had
an Interview with Elders Henry W.
Naisbltt and n. l.. James, The former
Is Counselor TO the President Of the Eu-
ropcan mission. and the latter IL Proai-
dent Of the Bristol conference.
The Mercury dovotcs much space TO
the Interview. which will no doubt do
much towards rcctifying false impress
slons upon the public mind IN Great
britain. II sots forth the chief doc-
/ trlncs II tho Church and gives many
historical points, an OF which arc
familiar to tho people or Utah but not
to the British public. That paper states
OF iis own accord:
1T r. fact which we have verified
from official sources IN tho American
government. that they Che 'Mnrmons)
are e peaceful ana agricultural people,
and have made the once desert region
81 Utah fertile and prosperous, by their
| pcrHvNerlnE cultivation and system "
Irrigation"
1T may Boz added that Independent
! inquiry rntiuIy confirms the state
menH that the practice u polygumy ia
offectually ended"
The Mercury also published an ac-
count OF AN attack. on June 22ud. by a
mob upon four Elders engaged In mis-.
slonnry work at Tottcrd1wn. The paper
maumly stood up for the Elders and
remarked that ''all law-nbldlng clti,
gems, ana indeed everybody who has
the slightest respect Tor the prlnclpl,
OF fair play, viii regret to learn" OF tn,
, occurrence. which II characterized "a
, brutal and most uniustlnable."
II appears that Elder Jamoa an,
4 three others were holding out-doo
, services nt Marmldukc street sevcru
, persons, Hiid tn belong 60 an anti
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Another hero Of thl TFonty.fourth.
well known and respected IN salt Lake
gets promotion. captain John j..
Brercton Of the Twcnty-fourtn imam
Try has been made re- lieutenant colonel
In one VI the now volunteer regiments.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
OUR
Cloak Department

offers comprise SUM NJ " u
gKfUTs. WRAPPERS. HATHlNG
SUITS. BLK WAISTS. chill
DuEN's WASH DRESSES, Etc,
fHfa
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

The Fourth 90 July can never be- the
same aH DC has been 90 The past, The
day itself has expanded TO keep pace
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
Six Days Special Selling.
OF SeasonabIe Goods at Z. c. M. l.
Wash Dress Goods Dept.

Just arrived. a shipment Of Lawn.
Dimity. Batiste, etc.
call and see these goods. They are
now and they viii be offered at
prices that will sell them.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
FANCY SILK WAISTS.


our entire line Of Ladies' Fancy
SIR Waists viii be- closed this week
at 81 Per Gent OFT
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Martial law In London ont soon
brought the riots of street car strikers
20 an end. beyauae The law was en-
forced
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
WRAPPERS.

20 PER CENT OFF.
Another Of those Wrapper Hap
pcnlngs that have made this depart
mont no popular.
TWENTY PER CENT OFF our
already Low Prices makes ours the
very Rest Wrapper Value obtain
able anywhere.
our entire line goes, from the
Work Wrapper up 10 those Fine
shear Goods with Ncallgce collars
the Ideal Of Summer Comfort
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

some beauties IN Exclusive Pat |
terms amongst this lot Pick Early .
DO Get Size.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
LADIES' HOSE.

Ladies' Drop stitch Llslc Hose.
n SOC value. Tor only 25c Pair
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
SUMNER SKIRTS.

oNE.THIRD OFF
The Hnlanco u our Stock n Plque.
Linen. Denlma. Duck and Grass
cloth skirts. In white ana colored,
will be- sold this week at
33ii Per Cent less than Regular Price
ono lot of white Plquo Jackets.
worth from $500 10 $500. WIZ be
sold this week az Si.oo
a limited number of Chlldrrn'H
White Duck Sailor Suits t6 years
oniyl. WIN be- closed out at
Hall Price
Chudron'a white Duck Jackets.
ages Q TO G years. ONE.thlRD OFT
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
ChIIdIElS GlLlIRd NlSh Dresses

At p PRICE.
An our Childrcn's calico. Pcrcnlo
and Lawn UroHroH. ages 9 90 Il
years, VIII BE- sold this week at Just
Half Price.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10
Ladies bingham Underskirts

that soil regularly for 20 cents.
DufinE our july sale for only
25c each
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

Ladies' SILK Sleeveless Summer
Vests. Black. Cream, Pink and
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-10

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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-05-06
VOICE AND A FACE.

Now, first let 1t be understood that
all men are full of superstition.
In the second place, let it be under
stood that all men think they are not
superst.tious.
So did we. So especially did Jim
Beasley, the artist, at whose diggings
we had gathered to help consume a big
thanksgiving turkey that his mother
had sent him all the way from Yer
mont.
Beasley was a skeptic in all things.
He was born that way. Yet he was a
member of the Society for Psychical
Research, and the time hat he did
not put in in the artroom of his news
paper he spent looking into hypnotism,
telepathy, spiritualism and kindred
subjects.
80 1t was Beasley who proposed,
after the turkey had been disposed Of
and cigars smoked, that we try some
psychical experiments.
Il am sure we can get results" he
said. "Allenton here will make a good
subject, l know"
All of US were newspaper men except
Attention. He was a young lawyer re-
Gently arrived from the East. He was
q rather silent, peculiar chap, but a
thoroughly good fellow. None of us
knew much about his past or cared to
know. Among newspaper folk a man
is taken for what he is-not what he
has been. Attention had a high-strung,
nervous system, and this 1t was that
MAJ Beasley say he would be a good
subject.
We pulled a card table into the CEN
ter of the room, turned down the gas,
and, sitting down, formed a mystic cir
Gle around the table, with hands touch
ing. Then we waited for the spirits
to come. For half an hour we sat in
silence. Then Rogers leaned over
to me.
Were a pack of fools, old man." he
whispered. AS he spoke a sound came
from the plano in the corner. 1t was
followed by another and still another.
An unseen hand seemed to be passing
over the keyboard. Each Of US looked
at he piano in blank establishment.
The lid was closed.
This did not bother the unseen per-
former, who was evidently looking for
a keynote. In a moment 1t was found.
Then through the room the sweet
tones Of a woman's voice stole softly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-05-06
SYMMS GOT RID OF CATS,
tanned the Felines and That Removed

Canned the Feiines and That Removed
the Great EVIL.
Mr.. Symms' back garden has been
for many years infested with cats.
Affections sore from this particular
cause he bore, and bootjacks were in
vain. The voices of the cats were to
the last degree exasperating to his
nerves, and a month ago Mr.. Symms
was apparently on the way to fall a
victim to persistent insomnia. One
night a peculiarly melodious sound
hoated UP to Mr.. Symms' back win
dows. 1t was a gentle, soothing sound,
of delicious timber, and, while totally
different from the yell of an ordinary
cat, 1t suggested what the voice of a
celestial and gloriled cat in another
and better world might be. Mr.. Symms
listened with admiration and delight,
and in a short time was lulled to sleep
by the melodious voice. In the morn
ing an Investigation In the back gar
den resulted In the discovery OF what
appeared to be a new species of ami
mal-half cat and half tin cana sort
Of connecting link between live cat
and canned sausage. 1t appears that a
can containing a little preserved sal
mon had been carelessly thrown into
the garden by the servant. A predatory
cat had squeezed her head into the can
in order to get at the salmon, and had
found out, when 1t was too late, that
the fragments Of tin around the mouth
4f fha mn. prouanfal Lo, x;kAJ-~ .l--
her head. In these circumstances she
wandered about the garden, blind and
unable to escape. The voice was so
modified by the can that it lost its
harsh and distinctive feline character,
and became the delicious music which
had charmed Mr.. Symms' midnight ear.
Mr.. Symms at once saw that the means
of rendering all the cats Of the neigh
borhood harmless was at his command.
The next night he placed t%wenty-four
salmon tins in his back garden and in
the morning he found that twenty-four
cats had bonneted themselves. For
nearly a week these animals roamed
about the garden, unable to steal, fight
or destroy Mr.. Symms' geraniums,
while the neighbors called on that
gentleman to thank him for the public
spirit which had induced him TO put
in his window such a delightful Eolian
harp. 1t was not necessary to use
more than twenty-four cans, for the
other cats Of the ~neighborhood, the
moment they caught sight of their
canned companions, fed. At the end
Of a week the cats gave up the efforts
to live with their heads permanently
canned, and Mr.. Symms buried them
in his garden.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-05-06
Frances Decadence,

Some figures recently computed by
Edmond Thery, a French statistician,
show how steadily France is falling be-
hind compared with Germany. Today
Germany numbers 52.250, 900, whereas
France counts no more than 3s, 500, 900.
To every hundred Frenchmen there are
1876 Teutons today, and there will be
25s TO the 100 at the close of the TWEEN
tisth century. In Germany the state
owns eleven-twelfths of its railways,
and In Russia the state has purchased
or constructed two-thirds, whereas in
France the republic owns but $500 kill
ometers outof a total of 4s,1oO. The
principal proprietors Of French rail.
ways are Germans of Frankfort.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-05-06
AGAINST TREATING.
Requires q Good Deal of Nerve to Stick
to tho Resolution.

Requires a Good Deal of Nerve to Stick
to the Resolution.
The chaps who join the no~n-treating
club Of this city usually have thin
lips with natural congresses Of forty
horsepower. The treating habit has
many ramifications and no ending. The
man who stoutly refuses to treat every
acquaintance who happens to enter a
cafe when he Is there against the rail
Is of a hero than the regiments
at Santiago. 1t strikes me that he In
also a man Of brains. 1t is q genuine
pleasure at times to invite an old
friend to have "one on me-" but why
does the old friend always insist on
returning the compliment then and
there, and why do you ST., Cant you
go another" And why should he say,
after going another, "Well, Just one
more, and that's the last? And then
you say, 1--WE might as we'll have a
night-cap. This is positively and abb
solutely the last" And he ads, to keen
the ball rolling, Let's have a cigar"
And then a mutual acquaintance drops
IN. Gentlemen, have just one with
me- I've got to catch a train" And
he rebels family. then buys cigars for
the crowd as a return for the drink to
which you have treated him. And why
should this thing go on until business
and duty to family are forgotten? The
members Of the n~on-treating club say
they have the best of the argument,
and doubtless there are many who wild
agree with them.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-05-06
ARIZONA, DATE STATE
ARID REGIONS WELL ADAPTED
TO THEIR CULTURE.
Grow In Great Big Bunches and Get
Ripe Whenever 1t Suits Their Indi
vtdusl InclinatIons We Consu ne
Millions of Pounds Annually.
Especial letter.

Luscious American dates are being
raised by the Agricultural Experiment
station at Tucson, Ariz. The choice
date palms imported and distributed
by the department of agriculture near
ly a decade ago are yielding a fine
quality Of dates. This is the first
success made in raising fruit grow
Ing palms in the United States. The
climate and soil of the arid region Of
central and southern Arizona and the
southwestern corner of California have
beer found to be similar to that of the
natural date growing countries and
northern Africa. Crops of as high as
300 pounds Of fine flavor and a fair
size from single trees are reported. The
trees are not yet grown in established
orchards, but are scattered over many
Of the larger ranches. Dates are
~propagated either by seeds or suckers.
AS with other fruits, dates do not
come true to seed, hence, unless the
desire is to obtain new varieties, the
only sure way to obtain good dates Is