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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-09-01


20 OF the Doctrine aud Covenants, re-
lerring 10 the church Of the first born,
The lrei resurrection, and bodies CO.
lesiial, and made appropriate appllca-
lions to the occasion, and spoke In be.
halfof the Quorum Of High Council, Of
which Elder Huffman had been a Nom.
her from the organization Of the Stake.
The choir sang, "wanted on the Other
sile," and henedicilon was pronounced
by Patriarch Richard Birch.
Al nE CEMETERY
the choir sang "Rest for tho weary
eonl, and Elder James Salmon offered
The dedieatioual prayer, after the lower.
ing Of the c,fket with It's contents into
their last resting place.
Tie grave when completed was pro-
iusely strewn with beautiful bouquets Of
flowers by a number Of the decenscd's
grand childron aud great grand children.
Elder Huffman fgnr'i some In the
carly history Of the church. When the
SANTA were eounseled to prepare with
an outfit sufficient TO undertake the pro.
posed march 10 the west, he, like many
others, fitted hlmteli with a first class
team, suitable wagon, and -four aud
other provisions for the journey. when
President Young was visiting the differ
ent places whore the Saints were To-
Gated, 10 ascertain who were and who
We're not prepared to undertake the
march, became acquainted with Elder
Hoffman, who, ~ he expressed him
self, WAS not an official or leading man
in the church, yet his sympathy was
with those who we're not able 10 extri-
cate themselves, and therefore gave Of
hls means TO assist such az needed II
worst. Seeing the condition Of affairs,
and that the presidency needed help In
The way Of teams, ETC., Elder Huffman
rendered to President Young his com.
piete Quilt, saying, II am in a eondi-
tion TO, IL tho near future, procure an
other outfit for myself and family"
President Young accepted the gift and
brought II with him to Utah.
The wagon on exhibition at the iubi-
lee in the year 1897 a. Salt Lake City, as
the wagon in which President Young
crossed the plains, lie the identical wagon
referred 70 above.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-09-01
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Boyden & Son.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-09-01
Funeral Services.

The services held over the remains Of
Elder Jacob Huffman last Friday, were
conducted under the direction Of the
presidency Of the Stake. The meeting
opened at 1880 O'Clock, by the choir
singing
when hri the glorious light Of truth
Burst idrth In this last age.
How few there were, with heart and soul,
Tobsy II did eng.sel
Yet of those icv how many
Have passed from earth away,
And In their graves sr sleeping
TIL the fcfuffocuon dayr' eio
A very appropriate and consoling
opening prayer was offered by President
Ward Il. Pack.
That choice and soul.thrilling selec.
ton from tho Inspired pen Of Sister
Eliza r. Snow, 20 My Father" was
beautifully rendered ~ 6 quartotte by
the Mossrs. Eyans.
President W. W. CluG followed with
brief sketch Of the lite Of "Unelo
Jake" az the declared was iamiliarly
known aud eNhorted the sons and tho
daughters Of the departed to emulate In
their lives the good traits that char
acterized the lie Of their worthy sire.
Sister W. q. Fisher rendered In a
touching presentation, In solo,
"'Mld .-snss u confusion and creature con.
plants.
How sweet to my .oui 10 communion with
Saints.
TO nnd at The tanqug, u mercy there's room,
And Tel, in mo prcssnca Of Jesus, at home,
Home, home svost sweet homci
Receive ne, dear SAVIOR in glory, my homs.'
President ALMA Eldrcdge. In his re.
marks, portrayed the character Of III,
deceased, aud followed his life from hi
Hrst acquaintance with him. and spok
Of him as hard working and irugt
man. a true friend, aud a man Of stor
ing integrity, whose acts are worthy
be cmulatou.
Mics Jane Sawley presented the sol
= "Nearer Ny God to Thee" In plcasir
Q and soul searching manner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
BE PUBLIC-S SPIRITED.

Why shouldn't the council lease the
south and unimproved part of Liberty
park to the Salt Palace company for a
period of ten years?
The public viii not be deprived Of
its enjoyment. The city win be bene-
fitted by its improvement. All the men
behind the project are responsible and
reliable. They agree to turn the leased
area back on or before the expiration
of the decade, not only in good condi-
ton. but improved TO match the rest
OF the park. Men object on the ground
that the salt Palace company is a pri-
vate corporation. What of it? Pri-
waite citizens often have TO advance the
interests of the public This project
viii never he a money making venture.
1t VIII help the city. 1t will advertise
the resources of the state. The city is
not so crowded that the public will suf-
fee for the want Of fresh air in the
nexA ten years. Anyhow, there is no
Intention of depriving the people of this
portion of the park. II will only be
made more attractive and enjoyable.
The council should be as public-spir-
tied as are the citizens behind the en-
terprise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
A Leading Question.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer

cleveland Plain Dealer.)
They were telling political stories in
a downtown Office the other day, and
somebody recalled this tale of the Hon.
Alphonso Hart, at one time lieutenant
governor of Ohio, with many acquain-
tances in Cleveland:
Hart was on the stump for Foraker,
and was putting in his best ticks in
the rural districts. One afternoon he
tackled a lot of Medina county farmers
and opened upon them in his usual
way.
Friends" he said, 81 know you are
a sensible, hard-headed lot of honest
toilers. You are not to be moved by
sophistry or foolish receptions. l have
only to look around me to assure myself
that you know a good thing when you
see it. Now, let us suppose one of you
farmers has a hired man. You may
feel little doubt of him at the outset,
but you give him fair trial. You
like him so well that you keep him
another year. And he serves you in a
way that insures his re-engagement
for still another year, and then anoth-
er. Isn't that a good business princi-
ple?"
Mr. Hart paused and smiled down at
his listeners. Before he could resume,
however, a shrill voice from the middle
of the crowd interrupted him.
Say" said the voice, ''how is it when
the hired man gifts to thinkin' he owns
the hull darned farm?"
1t took the wind all out of Mr.. Hart,
as he himself afterwards admitted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
COGHLAN AND GERMANY.

Good for Captain Coghlan of the
Raleigh, He is none of your two-faced
diplomats. The Germans were officious,
meddlesome and offensive at Manila.
The CAPTAIN was there. He knows the
facts and he tells the truth.
Germany is enraged over Captain
Coghlan's plain talk and her represen-
tatives are demanding satisfaction
Well, she ought to have it. The con-
duct of German naval officers at Hong
kong, at Manila and at Samoa has
been of the same kind and temper 1t
is time for plain talk. And it is safe
10 say that Coghlan expressed the SEN
timents of every man of Dewevs fleet
Who saw the conduct and felt the op-
position OF the Germans at Manila.
Some one told Coghlan yesterday that
his remarks might lead to war.
I'm ready for it, was his reply.
This is the spirit of the American navy.
No tool of the administration should
undertake to reprimand a brave officer
like Captain Coghian for telling the
truth, even if the truth does make those
vince who sought to injure this coun-
try in its battle with another. And if
Germany doesn't like to hear unpleas-
ant things said by American officers
she ought to see to it that her own
officers refrain from doing unpleasant
things to be discussed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
UTAH ON EASY STREET.

II there were no other evidence of
Utah's commercial prosperity. it would
be amply demonstrated by the amount
Of work being done in the building
trades and Allied branches. SO many
new buildings are under construction.
so many cid houses being improved,
that contractors find difficulty in get
ting men to do their work. A man
may consider himself fortunate if he
finds a painter who viii undertake an
important job within ten days of the
time ii is wanted. AS for paperhang-
ers. the traditional independence of a
plumber in blizzard time fades into in
significance beside the nonchalance of
the man with sawbucll scaffold shears
and paste-pot these days.
1t may be questioned whether this
city and state ever knew a more solid,
satisfactory condition of affairs finan-
cially. Much Of the wealth upon which
ii is based comes from the new mines
which have opened up ore bodies within
the past few months. Behind that is
the conviction of the public that mining
developments of great Importance will
come WIN the summer months. IHeSS
factors. with assured crops. good prices
for farm products, and plenty of work
for mechanics in every trade, fore
shadow an era of the good times which
bring comfort and happiness to every
home.
Doubtless the serious problems before
the nation viii continue to agitate
thinking people in this state, as else
where; but grave questions of public
policy may be solved much more easily
when the community is in a mood to
consider them without the distress Of
mind that has made men sore and dis
contented of late years because they
We're distressed by personal want.
Surely the people of Utah can afford
to rejoice and be thankful over the
outlook. They can afford to let the
rest of the nation know that this is a
good place for the investor, the home
seeker, the searcher after health-for
anybody who can appreciate a good
thing. The state is on Easy street, with
plenty of frontage left for desirable
newcomers. .-..,s,.s.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
Smoked a Fake Cigar.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)


Edison is fond of smoking, but he be-
comes so absorbed in work that he even
forgets that he has a cigar in his
mouth. When he had an office on Fifth
avenue, New York, the desk in which
he kept box of cigars was always
open, and as the boys came and went
at all hours, his cigars disappeared
with mysterious rapidity. Finally he
asked a friend. who was in the tobacco
business, if he could not do something
to discourage this disappearance.
why, yes" said the friend. I'll
put Hoffman House labels on the out
side. but I'll fill them up with horsehair
and hard rubber"
We'll" said Mr.. Edison. in relating
the story. that fellow went to Califor-
MIA and didn't return for three months.
1 forgot about him meantime, but when
he got back 1 said to him: Look here,
I thought you were going to fix me up
some fake cigars Why, did, he
said, in surprise. You did? When?'
Why, don't you remember-a fiat box
with a green label; the cigars in bundle
form, tied with yellow ribbon?' Do
you know" said Edison, nnocently. Il
smoked them all myself
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
THE DREAM SHIP.
eugene Field.

eugene Field)
I When the world is fast asleep,
Along the midnight skies
AS though 1t were u wandering cloud
The Shostly dream-ship flies.
An angel stands at the dream-ship's helm
An angel stands at the prov,
And an angel stands at the dream-shipi
side
With rue-wreath on her brow.
The other angels, silver-crowned,
Pilot and helmsman are,
And the angel with the wreath of rue
IosSeth the dreams afar.
The dreams they fall on rich and poor;
They fall on young and old;
And some are dreams of poverty
And some are dreams of gold
And some are, dreams that thrill with joy
And some that melt to tears,
Some are dreams of the dawn of love,
And some of the old dead years.
On rich and poor alike they fall.
Alike on young and old,
Bringing to slumbering, earth their joys
And sorrows manifold.
The friendless youth in them shall do
The deeds of mighty men.
And dropping age shall feel the grace
OI buoyant youth again.
The king shall be a beggarman-
The pauper be d king
In that revenge or recompense
The dream-ship dreams do bring,
So ever downward float the dreams
That are for all and me.
And there is never mortal man
Can solve that mystery.
But ever onward in its course
Along the haunted skies
As though it were cloud astray-
The ghostly dream-ship flies.
Two angels with their silver crowns
Pilot and helmsman are
And an angel with a wreath of rue
Tosseth the dreams affair."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
LYNCHINGS IN THE SOUTH.

Lynch law cannot be justified. It is
wrong. 1t is demoralizing. When men
resort to it they take the foulest
blackest-hearted fiend they can lay
hands upon and elevate him to the dig
niJy Of victim, arousing pity where
there should be loathing. identifying
his cause with the cause of law and
order. linking his fate with the abuse
of justice.
But while it cannot be excused the
application of lynch-law in the south
may be explained. No entire commun-
ity loses its self control and turns
from it's own courts and tramples its
own laws under foot except for 'ome
serious cause, and from the greatest
provocation.
Those mobs do not assemble merely
to wreak revenge on the black brutes
who outrage helpless women. There
is no revenge for such revolving crimes.
The southern people are not looking
Tor that. They want to mete out to
ravishers the punishment which VIII
prove the most potent warning to 9TH
ers. which will terrorize the lustful
and murderous wretches who survive.
and serve as the best preventive of a
repetition of the crime
This is one reason these lynchings
occur. Another is that there is no pen
atty on the statute books that fits the
offense. Ask any man who has a wife
a daughter. a sister. or any other wo-
man that is near and dear to him
whether he would rather have her
murdered or criminally assaulted, and
the answer win be that death is pre-
ferred. And to think of an innocent
woman being compelled to go into
court TO undergo the added mortifica-
ton of appearing before jury, TO be
subjected to the taunts and sneers OF
heartless ross-eXaminers, to meet in
court upon the level that the law re-
quires her assailant, it is more than
men of the south have brought them
selves to countenance; it is more than
the women have been subjected to-
The crime for which the negro. Hose.
was executed at Palmetto, Georgia,
the other night was particularly re-
voting and his punishmeI= was hor-
Tible. We have no apology 70 offer for
lynch law, but there are too MANY
champions of rape fiends who are its
victims to permit the hideous practice
to die out entirely. There are too
many negroes in northern states de-
Tending the black brutes and too many
white critics bowling about lynchings
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
ADJUSTMENTS

mater of surprise last evening was
the very large audience which gath
cred in the Salt Lake Theatre to wit
ness THE Devils Auction" This spec
tacle claims to be in existence seven
teen years-which statement can read
lily be believed if it refers to the seen
cry, the ballet and the jokes. The
mechanical effects, usually so promi-
nent, were prevented by old age from
showing their full use There were
hobgoblicns, devils, mortals, Cinnamon
and every other sort of thing-specta-
cles to amuse children, but hardly fit,
in this day, to bid for the favor of in
telligent theatre-goers. The specialties
were mostly mediocre, sometimes
worse, and never startlingly novel The
brightness of the show was all in the
calciums and electric lights. AS a
spectacle of shapeliness, it was a cap
ital burleSque. One wishes to find
words to do justice to the Originality
OF the soubrette-she has style all her
own and she need not fear that it will
be begged, borrowed or stolen. The
good feature about the engagement is
that it was limited to one night-the
company and managers will probably
escape with their lives, and it is hoped
that the future has no more such in
store for us.
The popular Scottish impersonator.
Miss Katherine Oliver, will give a Sc
ries of four readings in this city. The
first one will be given in Assembly hall
on Friday evening of this week.
Katie Emmett will open at the Grand
next Monday night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
tails in leading their people to the ac-

tails in leading their people to the ac-
complishment of some great design.
Cromwell was not power-loving ty
rant. he was not an ambitious despot,
but he was a strong man, an intense
patriot. a thorough Englishman. He
looked to Englands greatness rather
than to his own glory. Brooding over
abuses of royal authority he believed
his country doomed unless a change
was brought about. He undertook to
teach the English people the principles
OF independence and responsibility. He
wanted them to have a. voice, at least
of protest and suggestion, in the poll
cies they were obliged to support with
their sweat at home and their blood
abroad.
Peace-loving historians deprecate the
accomplish an end. He was not per-
mitted to choose the means. He would
have shaped his ideal government out
of a monarchy if possible. He would
have accomplished it with the aid of
parliament, but that body refused to
sanction his project The king attacked
and parliament denounced the reform
err But his was a Will not to be sub
dued, a spirit not to be inundated, a
purpose rot to be abandoned. So he
killed the king and drove parliament
out of doors at the point of his sword.
Then he tried to establish a new par
lament. But the nation was not ripe,
timber was scarce, honest men of at
tainments were few and far between,
and he returned to military rule as a
last resort.
His plans and policies of government,
those he tried to establish through the
parliament OF 1854. and falling, under
took TO plant in soil moistened by the
blood of opposition, included almost
every principle of social and political
reform that the English people have
since worked out step by step during
the last two centuries. They embraced
parliamentary reform, abridgement of
royal power and prerogative, church
reform, equality at law, the union of
Scotland and ireland with England,
and all the incidental questions which
he seemed to grasp with the intuition
Of genius.
And his foreign policy, rejected at
his death, has since been indicated
1t has been the policy of England for
a century or more. 1t was the founda-
ton upon which Pitt builded. For I'M
derneath his ranting and his preach
ing and his bullying he was planning
the extension of British commerce.
Cromwell lived before his time The
means he used were of his day, but
his ideas were so far in advance that
England was a hundred years in over
taking them. And so Cromwelrs work
seemed to die with him-he did not
live long enough to consolidate a So
cial or political system that would
stand against the inevitable reaction
but it was not dead. 1t began to
reappear in the natural growth of the
British nation centuries after. 1t lives
today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
Closed Her Mouth

NSulCdSO D6luOCIdi.J
Such point has been reached that it
seems as if it were impossible to obtain
any more pure homemade sugar.
James Linney, A Harrodsburg mer-
chant purchased several pounds of
what was represented to him as a
pure article the other day.
An old lady came in and purchased
two cakes. She took about half one
in her mouth and began to chew until
she could chew no more.
The merchant and those standing
about in the store, seeing she could not
open her mouth, became alarmed,
thinking the elderly woman had Sc
we're attack of lock-jaw.
But, to the chagrin of the obliging
merchant, he soon discovered he had
been imposed upon by some unscru-
pulouS person, who had made the
sugar" Of some kind of glue
1t was necessary to heat kettle of
water and melt the stuff before the
old lady could open her mouth. How
ever, she hadn't forgotten how to use
it when the glue had been removed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
Killed-snyder, Hiram.
youths Companion.)

The author of Little Journeys to the
Homes of American Statesmen" tells a
story of the civil war, when the days
! dragged gloomily, and when grief was
| likely to oYertake any who had boys in
| the ranks. He says:
One night the postmaster was read
ing aloud the names of the killed at
| Gettysburg, and he ran right on to the
name OF a youth we knew. The boy
father sat there on nail key, chewing
straw. The postmaster, for his sake,
tried to shuttle over the name, and
hurry on to the next.
'Hi!' said the father. "Wha-what' s
that you said?'
There was nothing to do but to face
the issue, and the postmaster repeated
with a forced calmness:
''Killed-Snyder, Hiram"
The boy S rather stoou up with a jerk
| Then he sat down. Then he stood up
| again, staggered to the door, and fun
bled for the latch like a blind man.
God help hlm!' said the postmaster,
wiping his ewes with his red handker-
chief; hes gone to tell the old wo-
man."
The minister preached a funeral ser
mon for the boy, and on the little
pyramid that marked the family lot, in
the burying ground, they carved the in
Scription:
KILLED in honorable battle, Hiram
Snyder, aged 49,
Not long afterward, strange, yellow,
bearded men. in faded blue, began to
arrive. Great welcomes We're given
them, and many a bic gathering was
held in their honor. At one such gath
ering ghost appeared, a lank, saffron
ghost, ragged as a scarecrow, wearing
the cape of d cavalryman's overcoat,
with no coat beneath.
The apparition was youth of about
20, with a downy beard all over his
face, and a countenance well-mellowed
with coal SCOT, as if he had ridden sew
eral days on the top of a freight car
near the engine. The ghost was Hi
ram Snyder.
We forgave him the shock of surprise
he had caused us, all except the min
lister, who had preached his funera!
sermon. Years afterwards 1 heard that
minister remark, in a solemn and
aggrieved tone:
Hiram Snyder is a man who cannot
be relied upon!'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-25

Ex-Governor Oglesby of Illinois was
one of the most popular men in that
state thirty-fire years ago, and he re-
tanned a strong hold upon the affec-
tons of the people to the day of his
death. A hero of two wars, and COVER
nor of his adopted state from IS to SO.
he passed through some of the most
thrilling scenes in its history. He was
in Colonel E. D. Bakers Illinois regi-
ment at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo,
and fourteen years later he was Sc
verely wounded and disabled while
leading brigade at the battle of Cor
NTH, in the civil war. His death was
announced yesterday.