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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
Lansing Gossip.

Rep. Colby, of Detroit. will soon in
troduce bill making only the briber
guilty in cases where lobbyist offer
money for votes. The law as it now
stands makes both giver and receiver
equally guilty, hence making it al
most impossible TO get evidence of
bribery.
There was no contracts made by
Michigan officials with can goods deal
ers TO furnish our soldier boys an in
ferior article says Quartermaster-Ge Gen
eral Will White There was only one
instance were the meat proved unsatis-
factory and that was made good.
A bill will be introduced by Rep.
Pack at this session which will pro-
vide that sleeping car companies shall
not charge more than 81 per night for
berth. Pack says that there are at
least 40 of ''us farmers" in the legisla-
ture who will vote for it.
Senator Ward will introduce bill in
the senate which will compel the rail
roads to issue mileage books which
are transferable and can be used by
different persons without any red tape
or formal notification to the railroad
company.
Sen. McGraw, of Detroit, would like
to have mem bers of the legislature paid
by the year or session instead of SO per
day as at present, and will introduce a
bill to that effect. 1t may be that
more work could be accomplished in
less time by the proposed change.
The upper peninsula members of the
legislature decided by ballot that the
new State Normal should go to Mar
quette. The bill appropriates S25, 900
for the building and $4,000 for run
ming expenses for this year and next.
Rep. Aldrich has bill provided for
graded income tax. 1t begins with
tax of = per cent on incomes of from
81 900 to So, 900 and will increase grad
ually, making the tax per cent on all
incomes of $4,000 and over.
Senator Loomis offered resolution
in the senate congratulating President
Mckinley Senators Burrows and Nc
MILAN on the ratification of the peace
treaty.
Rep. Mccall, of Eaton county, has
no use for cigarettes and will intro
duce bill prohibiting the manufac-
ture of ''cof1in-nails" in this state, with
penalty of 500 for each sale.
A Farmers Legislative club has been
organized at the capital. The club
has 90 members and there watchword
is do little talking and lots of voting.
In response to the question "when
are you going to bring up your taxa
tion bill" Rep. Dudley replied, When
ever the boys get ready to pass it,"
The senate has concurred in Rep.
Heinemans resolution asking the sec
rotary of the navy to name the next
battleship the Michigan.
Gov. Pingree is credited with the re-
mark that ''if this legislature dosen't
pass the Atkinson bill, I'll find party
next time that will"
Senator Flood has a bill which pro-
vides that druggists shall pay the full
liquor tax whenever they sell anything
else except alcohol.
Gov. Pingree thinks that the pro-
posed bounty on iron would be good
thing, but ne wouldn't make it per-
manent.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
Caught in n Shaft.

Samuel Chapman. aged so, an en-
ploye of the Ohio Paper company at
Niles, was throwing straw on paper
carrier belt when his ragged coat
wound around a shaft that was MAX
ing 100 revolutions per minute. His
body followed and each time around
his feet struck against the side of the
building. His left thigh was broken
above the knee and the left knee joint
disarticulated, his right ankle broken,
both feet and legs below the knees
severely bruised, left lung injured and
nose broken. His recovery is doubt
ful
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17

Two sections of a freight train col
Iided at Standish and four cars were
demolished.
The village dads of Bad Axe have
purchased a new water works pump,
which has capacity of $50, 900 gallons
in "a hours.
State Oil Inspector Smith reports
total fees for last quarter of '9s, S14,-
COZ, net proceeds, $6,s9l; net for the
year, s11,s43.
Charles o. Del.ng has entered suit
against the city of Flint for $4,000
damages, for injuries sustained by
a detective sidewalk.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
Peace Treaty has Been signed.

The official copy of the treaty of
peace with Spain, bearing the sigma
lures of the Spanish and American
commissioners and which was recently
ratified by the U. 5. senate, has been
signed by President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Hay. The same has been for
warded to Madrid.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17

Ten postal employees have gone to
the Philippines to aid Director of Posta
vaille in establishing modern service.
A postofiice is to be established at
Iloilo.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
Jumpcd From a Window.

Levi Hall, of Lowell, aged 81, died
from the effect of injuries received in
jumping from an upstairs window of
his home. A few days ago he at
tempted to cut his throat, but was dis
covered in the act. His wife died a
few weeks ago and the old man became
deranged on account of it.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17

AS result of terrible fire in an in
sane asylum at Yankton, S. d., II lives
were lost. Loss on building and ma
chinery, Sis, 900; uninsured.
The total receipts derived from all
sources since the occupation of San
tiago by the military forces of the
United States on July IS, 1898, to De-
cember 81, 1898, amounts to S33s, SIC. 30.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
Chlnese.Japancse Engagement.

About the middle of January bat
tie occurred between the Chinese and
the Japanese troops at Talpehfu. The
engagement resulted in victory for
the rebels, who, after succeeding by
their flank movements in lodging the
Japanese fire and coming to close quar-
ters, fought hand 30 hand for three
hours. Hundreds were cut down, and
when the Japanese were finally beaten
back they left between $50 and 400
dead on the field. The rebels loss did
not reach 100.
The Manitoba hotel at Winnipeg,
the largest and finest hotel structure
in the west, has been totally destroyed
by fire. Over 400 guests were in the
building, but all escaped uninjured.
The building was owned by the N. p.
X. II. Co.
The large five-story brick building
occupied by the book and stationery
firm of A. c. McClurg & Co., Chicago,
was totally destroyed by fire. The loss
was nearly $3.50. 900, of which $500, 900
was in stock. The stock was insured
for about $500 Stock in adjoining
buildings was damaged to the extent
of S12, 500 by water.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
GRAIN, ETC.

+Detroit-Hay, No timothy So ~ per ton.
Potatoes. SSc per bu. Live Poultry, spring
chickens Sc per Id; fowls, 7Isc: turkeys, lie;
ducks. &C. Eggs, strictly fresh, 17c per doz.
Butter, best dairy, i5c per Id; creamery, &c.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07
COMPARE MEANS OF GRACE.

William E. Curtis, in the Chicago
Record, notes as curious the fact that
in the matter of morals. orderly con-
duct and means of grace, Philadelphia
is way ahead of Chicago. ''Notwith-
standing the large difference in popu-
lation, there are 600 churches in Phila-
delphia for only 500 in Chicago" says
Mr.. Curtis. 1t has 102 Methodist
churches, and we have ninety-six: 102
Presbyterian churches. and we have
only fifty-two; ninety-three Episcopal
cans to our thirty-nine, and eighty
three Baptist churches to our fifty
three. In Philadelphia last year there
were $4,000 persons arrested for crimes
and misdemeanors; in Chicago. $1,000.
Chicago employs $500 policemen. Phil
adelphia only $500. The number of ar
rests for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct in Chicago was 1000; in Phil
adelohia. $1,000"
Mr.. Curtis needn't have limited him
self to Philadelphia for comparison. He
could just as well have said that any
other city in the country is way ahead
of Chicago" as a center of piety. The
windy city is all right for pork and
politicians and gamblers in options, but
nobody ever suspected Chicago of ex-
cessive piety.
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he is correctly quoted. he has made an
extremely bold declaration.
FOR uNDEReRouND WIRES.

General approval viii meet the an
nouncement in yesterdays Herald that
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company intends to place its wires I'M
derground in the business district. Nat
urally, Salt Lake is one of the most
beautiful cities on the globe. Its loca-
ton. wide streets and magnificent topo-
graphical contour destine it to be the
great metropolis of all the intermoun-
tain region. Its chief beauties have
been marred hitherto by the network OF
wires and unsightly poles necessary to
a large telephone and telegraph sys-
tenn. With these wires underground,
with the paved district extended, the
residence streets parked, no other city
in this country will afford so inviting
an appearance to visitors.
The aesthetic advantages of the i'm
provement are even less considerable
than the practical benefits that will
follow. The fire risk will be lessened,
the value of property increased. The
city Will be the gamer in every way.
Doubtless such heavy undertaking
will progress slowly, but it will be ap-
preciated none the less, and every rea-
sonable facility should be accorded the
company by the city authorities in aid
of the enterprise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07
THE COLONEL,S EXCITEMENT

Just that the public may know into
what state of frenzied excitement q
widely known editor may be thrown bv
the steady expansion of a competitor
circulation list and the contraction of his
own, The Herald this morning reproduces
an editorial published by its contemporary
yesterday morning:
The Salt Lake Herald deserves a snaci.,
notlce now and then. The people who are
strangers IN the city need to understand
II. 1t was conceived in fraud. 1t was
born with a neck-yoke, that ii might
carry water on both shoulders. In The
Old days 1t was sort of Medusa. III had
one face for Mormons, one for GentiIes.
and a third. with blinking ewes for ~ .
world outside. From the first its whole
cry has been in part sheer and in part a
wall for hash. -
Always ready to prostitute itself for
money, its stock in trade has been covert
insinuations that others have sold out.
1t never possessed a principle, hence ii
cannot understand that any other institu-
ton ever possessed one
1t has always been ready to condone an
otense If there was promise that thrift
might follow fawning. For years it
gnashed its set of purchased false teeth
that any here should advocate the right
lest 1t might injure business and drive
away investors.
When the right temporarily triumphed.
II crawled out of its obscurity TO shout
Its pursuit of a supposed enemy could
always be Modified by a s. advertisement
II has always been a stupid, bigoted
partisan. that mas never yet been able to
give reason for its belief The thing
seems TO have been hypnotized by Mean
ness and Ignorance from the very begin
ming. If new man who had acquired a
reputation for decency ever accepted a
situation beneath its roof. a few weeks
has always been sufficient in its at
mosphere to burn out his better nature
and make him as base and treacherous
and stupid as any of his predecessors ITS
Would-be friends blush for 1t. The men of
the party il pretends to champion despise
1t. 1t is the great journalistic modern
another falls away. still the original iiga-
ment. remains and taints all to whom it
-
1t has been a false friend, a sneaking
enemy, an excrescence from the begin
nlnS- II Is as cowardly as IL is vile IT
loves to draw pen pictures of decent people
in supposed compromising attitudes TO SET
the tongues of the vicious to wagging and
the fingers of the base to pointing. and
then to pretend innocence. 1t grows in
nfamy as IL grows in years.
Its original watchdog bark has degen- |
Grated into coyote yelp. 1t spends its |
lays in indolent sleep and all the night IT. |
n discordant howls, reviles the moon. Its |
mission seems to be by example TO make
iecent men recoil from its indecencies-
IL lives to charge corruption to opposing |
)artlSanS. and II is always ready for n |
Iittance TO defend a Democratic steal of |
any magnitude. 1t hates itself so much
hat 1t hates all the world. but this is it;
me redeeming feature. that il has intelIi-
renee and sense of justice enough to de-
pise itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07
GEORGE Q. ON POLITICS.

While at Denver last week, President
George Q. Cannon talked to a Denver
reporter on. the subject of Utah politics,
and this is what he is quoted as say
ing:
Political agitation is not much in
evidence at present, but still there are
some straws TO show which way the
wind blows One thing is certain, there
will be no fusion. There will be
straight tickets, and each party will
stand separate. l cannot forecast, but
] should say that silver and anti-im-
perialism will be the banner legends
of the Democrats. But in Utah silver
sentiment is losing ground, owing to
the large number of gold mines that are
being opened. 1t may be possible that
the Mormon church will have some
power in the senatorial campaign, but
not in the presidential. The politicians
of Utah are waiting for the national
party machinery to get to work, 10 line
out the issues
The above clearly indicates that Mr..
Cannon still views things political
through Mckinley spectacles, but there
has never been anv doubt about that.
The point Of interest TO local politicians,
and senatorial candidates, especially
Republican candidates. is the Implied
intention of this church leader to con-
tinue mixing politics with religion. If
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07

longs to the woodland; botanists choose
to call it a cryptogamous plant, because
there is a mystery about ii, an irregu-
larity in comparison with the regular
ity of the rest of vegetation, a hidden
truth which requires some digging out
from concealment. The fact is that the
fern produces no true flowers with
stamens, pistils and so forth, and ii
fructifies by means of spores (simple
cells) instead of seeds.
If we examine the back of a fern
leaf, we will say the one called COM
mon polypody (Polypodium vulgare),
we will find it spotted with terra Gotta
colored grains. Here we are face to
face with a strange fruit principle;
these grains are the spore boxes which
finally split open and discharge the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07

and most heroic measurements of what
the soul of man can do in exercising
sovereignty over matter.
And now, Christian Science comes
in at the front door. bringing with il
the truth which we have neglected and
perhaps scorned. The whole wretched
pretense of materialism has vanished
as thick cloud. Away to the outer ex-
IRENE the human soul has gone. and we
can hardly get enough matter together
10 seriously influence the scales of
thought.
Il thank God for the bumptious, pes
tiferous. unchristian. unscientific thing
called Christian Science, just as 1
thank God for the thorny, scraggy
rosebush, because with it 1 can get a
rose, and without it 1 will have none.
The rose justifies the thorns by
which and with which it comes. and the
great truth in Christian Science, that
men can live so as to be free from the
haunting tyranny of the flesh and that
the soul of men can be conscious of
God that it is TO be taken into the
heaven of heavens, where Paul does
not know whether he is in the body or
out of the body-that truth justifies
any process or means by which it
comes.
THE tide of interest in that truth to-
day, after the dreary wastes of mate
rialism, is proof to me that at the CEN
ire of the worlds thought the Holy
Spirit abides. and he works with the
old energy that oftentimes has rein
vigorated the world.
THE greater a truth is spoken into
the ears of humanity by the Holy
Spirit, the more serious and harmful
are the abuses of it in the hands of an
uninspired humanity. The truth of
Christian Science is an inspiration; the
errors of the movement are proof that
only an inspired humanity can hold in
spired truth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07
DIR. FRANK GUNSAULUS
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Eastern church circles, especially the
Congregationalists, have been stirred
up by recent utterances of Rev. Frank
w. Gunsaulus, pastor of Plymouth Con-
gregational church, Chicago, and head
of Armour institute. DR.. Gunsaulus is
a brother of Mrs. Clarence T. Brown
of this city, and has always been noted
for his independence of thought and
fearless way of saying what he thinks.
His most radical sermon, one that has
brought out a good deal of question as
to its orthodoxy, was delivered before
the Illinois Congregational association
and touched on Christian Science. In
his introduction. as reported by eastern
papers. DIR. Gunsaulus declared that
there is not a solitary doctrine of or
thodoxy that might not be made heresy
itself by life uninspired by the spirit
of holiness. Unprogressive orthodoxy
he pronounced the worst of heresy.
"A God creating and maintaining a
universe" said DR.. Gunsaulus, "coN
Quoting its processes, rearing men upon
ii, guiding man from Eden to the grave
in strict conformity with the Westmin-
ster confession, is a God repudiated by
conscience and love of goodness and
hope, which have come into orthodoxy
by the administration of the holy spirit
"a personal power which for 1900 years
has Illuminated the face of the loving
Jesus with his gospel of universal
fatherhood and universal brotherhood,
with his SCARED hands embracing the
whole world in his enterprise of saliva
ton, saying unto mistaken and blunder-
ing theologianS, who would make God
either a cruel tyrant or sensational
visionary. He that hath seen me hath
seen the Father
True orthodoxy has nothing what
ever to fear so much as that faithless-
ness which is frightened at every
healthy heresy. True orthodoxy will
always regard every influential heresy
as the appeal of neglected truth for
recognition.
For example. for twenty-five years
we have been trying to get our theo-
logy in harmony with materialism, and
have been very careful not to say too
much about spiritual powers. lest in
the event that materialism triumphed
entirely we would have some things
that would be awkward enough to take
back. So. out of the back window in
the eventide of our faith. we put quietly
and resignedly our Hottest conceptions
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07

| forms the prettiest carpet for the for
est floor, because of its spreading hor-
iZontal branchlets. Its running stems
are distinguished by scattered, fiat,
/ sharp pointed leaves.
In company with these Lycopodiums.
and, perhaps, most frequently in some
moist locality, we will see the beauti-
full scarlet bunchberry (Cornus Cana
densis), a startlingly brilliant little
plant, which is at home in the depths
of the evergreen forests that clothe the
cool mountains of the north. Great
patches of the handsome bunchberry
decorate the mountain tops of New
Hampshire, and certainly nothing could
be more effective and charming than
its splendid bright red dotting the SOM
Der brown and gray-green hueS of the
gloomy wilderness.
There is an infinite variety in the
green of the forest leaves, few realize
the extent of the variation. Early in
May the budding leaves of the shay
bark hickory are pale, delicate yellow
green. or green-yellow. L have watched
the fitting about of the pretty little
yellow warbler from stem to stem and
wondered at the close resemblance of
his yellow feathers to the spring foil
age Then ii has occurred to me that
the great French artist. Corot, with all
his wonderful rendering of spring tintS,
failed TO see the true beauty OF the
spring forests, for he failed to produce
its pure green-yellow tints! But he did
succeed in getting the sober tints of the
aspens and alders, for these have
suspicion of solemn gray shadows in
their makeup. But how short a time
it lasts-this spring cOlori A few days
and it is gone. Then comes the mo-
notonous green of summer. l say mo-
notonous, but this is really not half of
the truth. The fact is nature is always
full of variety; the brown-green of the
spruce, the waxy deep green of the
sugar maple, the silky green of the
beech, the brilliantly vanished green
of the gray birch and the silvery SHIN
mering green of the aspen, what could
possibly be more variable than all these
effects of the so-called monotonouS
green leaf Truth to tell, the leaf is
sometimes not green at all and it hap
pens that when we paint a picture of
the forest we find pure green occurring
well. just here or there, where the
sunlight catches the birch or the beech,
and nowhere else; all the rest is
complication of hues modified by dusky
shadows with which green has nothing
whatever to do,
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portion of the margin. The long, wiry
stems of the tall fronds, from one to
two feet high, are dark polished mad
derbrown in color. The leaflets are ex-
Gee 1ingly dainty and delicate, and the
branches spread horizontally exactly
as one would spread the fingers of ones
hand
The oldest fern of all is the Hart
ford fern Gygodium palmatum),
climbing character scarcely less dainty
than the maidenhair species. Its color
is pale green. and it's little leaf is spread
out as the fingers of a baby hand. The
tiny little leaflets or frondlets are in
pairs. and are of the usual cinnamon
brown color. This is a rare local fern,
common in the vicinity of Hartford,
Conn, found in shady woods or tangled
among the plants in some woodland
opening.
Still other odd children of the wood
pass by the name of Lycopodium. They
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07

George H. Wall of Cadillac, Mich,
has invented a mechanism for hand
ling baggage. 1t is in reality a pneu-
matte elevator, attached to the side of
the baggage car door, on which may
be lifted grips, trunks or other bundles
One of these machines was completed
recently, and has since been in use on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway.
Wall must have got tired of the pc
rennial baggage smasher joke that
takes the place of the plumber With
cisms when summer comes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07

The powder. from the candle-like fruit
ing spikes grouped in pretty yellow
clusters of two or three. is used by the
druggist as a filing for his pill boxes.
II this powder is scattered about the
flame of a candle. as soon as it catches
fire it scintillates like miniature Japa-
nese fireworks.
Lycopodium complanatum suggests
in its leaf-form bit of light-green ar
Dor vitae. 1t abounds in dry, sandy
woods. where the evergreens are young,
and it consequently has some slight
chance of sunlight 1t is frequently
found in company with Lycopodium
clavatum, and of the two it certainly
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are truly children in one sense, for
they all creep. The common name for
this curious little group is the club
moss family. l suspect the Virginia
deer. if he could talk, might tell us
more about the evergreen Lycopodiums
than the botanist; certainly he is very
partial to them as a winter diet, and
probably he knows the distinct flavor
of each Species There are three of
them which are quite common in our
northern woods, where they may be
found trailing along the ground, in and
out among the roots of the evergreen
trees and the dead pine needles. One
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powdery contents called spores. Notice
in my drawing that there are seven or
eight of these little brown spots in a
row; each one is situated at the end of
vein, or at a point where two veins
meet. This fern is pretty little affair
about seven or ten inches high, stocky
in character, evergreen and simple in
the leaf. 1t is a splendid fern for Gull
tivation and it is found in the rocky
woods northward.