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SIZE OF OUR SOLDIERS.

1t may not be generally appreciated
in this country but it is a fact that
the American soldiers are the largest
in the world. Attention is called to
this matter by every foreign officer
stationed with our troops in Cuba or
the Philippines. An officer in the
British navy returned to Vancouver
the other day after watching opera
tons in Luzon for several months,
and, in a casual reference to the COM
mander at Manila, said: 1T is a pitt
full thing to see the sacrifice of the
tall, splendid men of the American
soldiery to his gross incompetency.'
American soldiers are not only the
tallest in the world but they have a
lung expansion unequaled by any
people to select from and the rigid re-
quirements for enlistment the army
we sent against Spain last year was
the finest in physical manhood that
ever went to war.
The ravages of tropical diseases
made some inroads upon their splendid
constitutions, but the bows who are
coming back from Luzon are in far
better health and spirits than were
those who were held in pest camps or
Porto Rico. After taking time to re-
cuperate in San Francisco the battery
boys will reach home feeling very WELL
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PRESIDENTIAL FAVORS.

Our politician president has found the
New York situation far more compli-
Gated than that in Ohio. A combina-
ton of Cincinnati Cox and Mark Han
ma saved the state convention of Ohio
10 the administration ticket, whatevey
may be the effect upon the public in
general. But New York is not so easily
controlled. Choate's appointment to
the court of st. James satisfied his per-
sonal friends and professional associ-
ates, but the fine Italian hand of Boss
Platt was so discernible in his selection
and the motives behind it were so APP
parent that the anti-machine members
of the party are not hoodwinked. The
choice of Lawyer Root to succeed Al
ger is regarded by a very considerable
and respectable percentage of New
York Republicans in the light of a deal
in which Plat and Roosevelt united to
receive the consideration for which they
are to deliver the Republican vote of
the state to Mr.. Hanna.
But this does not seem to please the
rank and file of the party, for whom
the New York Tribune ever speaks.
The placation of ambitious generals
does not always insure the surrender of
the army which has been accustomed
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to march behind them. And the men
who voted for Seth Low in Greater
New York are among those who are
not TO be traded off to Platt and Hanna
for honors and emoluments received by
Root, Choate and Roosevelt The Tri-
bune Mr.. Whitelaw Reds paper, ex-
presses the views of the better ele-
ment of his party when it says that
men who cooperate with the Plat
machine to oppose the Croker machine
are neither patriotic nor consistent.
1T is a mistake to assume says the
Tribune, that the 10000 persons who
voted for Seth Low did so in order to
secure offices for Mr. .Choate, Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr.. Root, and in their
gratitude for the honors conferred upon
those gentlemen have materially modi-
fed their opinion concerning the ma
chine leaders whom they recognize as
the source of such honors. Their atti-
tude in the campaign of 1897 was not in
fiuenced by the fact that Mr.. Plat had
recently bestowed a federal office on Mr..
Bliss-perhaps in part because they re-
membered that Mr.. Bliss has already
put himself on record as declaring that
Mr.. Platt was man with whom it was
impossible to cooperate even for good
cause-and there is no sufficient war
rant for thinking that their point of
view and state of feeling have lately
undergone a change. Having deliber-
ately and for good reasons revolted
against Mr.. Platt's rule. they have not
been particularly gratified by his
prompt and ostentatious choice of can
didates for the government service and
the presidents equally prompt ratifica-
ton of his selections on the theory that
it gave to the 10000 all that their
movement stood for"
And again it says that the great mass
of Republicans are not to be won by
Mr.. McKinley's surrender to the spoils-
men. 1t is good government and not
offices they want.
If that isn't a rather caustic reference
to the bartering and dickering of the
chief executive for the New York dele
cation, no Republican is capable of
writing one. The Republicans of New
York are almost as much ashamed of
Plat as those of the nation at large
are ashamed of the methods and states
manship of Hanna.
It is by no means certain that the
president has strengthened himself with
the Republicans of New York by his
open and notorious alliance with Boss
Plat. Still, the machine will doubtless
control the state convention. 1t is Mr..
business to secure renom-
nation. After that he will not worry.
1t will be the business of the trusts and
money powers to see that he is elected.
1t depends on how many newspapers
can be subsidized; how many laborers
can be inundated; how many voters
can be corrupted. But these are prob
lens that will be solved in Mr.. Hanna's
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FOR BUSINESS REASONS.

At the national encampment of Grand
Army veterans next month business of
Importance to this section will be
transacted. The place of next years
grand encampment is to be selected,
and there are several reasons why this
city, with the proper effort and the
usual inducements. should be able to
secure it.
People are everywhere taking inter-
est in Utah and the intermountain
states. The veterans of the civil war
are representative of the various dis
tricts in which they live. They would
like to see the west. They would like to
light a campfire on the backbone of the
continent They would like to assem-
BILE on the mountains as well as on the
plain. They have heard a great deal
about our inVigorating air, our noun
tain cascades, our wonderful inland Sea.
1t wouldn't take much 10 secure their
decision for Salt Lake. But other cities
Will be after the encampment. Their
beauties and advantages will be por
trayed by master hands. Inducements
Will be offered and the efforts to secure
II VII NC OeiNhC0 Oy lliOlANS anu Vi san
ization.
And no wonder. 1t is worth going
after 1t will benefit any city that gets
the crowd. When % 900 or more Wis
itors from all over the Union spend
week or fortnight possibly in a place it
is always the richer for their coming.
Nor will the hotels, restaurants and
stores reap all the benefits. That num-
Der of strangers investigating the re-
sources of the state, looking over the
city, dwelling upon the beauties of the
surrounding country, breathing the air
from lake or canyon, bathing at the
grandest resorts in the world, cannot
help doing the city and state thousands
upon thousands of dollars worth of
good when they scatter to their respect
i've homes.
AS a business investment it is worth
considering.
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SELF GOVERNMENT.

Admiral Dewey has said that the
Filipinos are better prepared for self
government than the Cubans are. Yet
the president assured the latter in his
last message TO congress that they We're
entitled to their independence, and that
the United States government would
give it to them. The Filipinos listened
in vain for similar assurance As
it was not forthcoming they inquired
as to their status. They wanted to
know the intentions of this government
towards themselves as eX-subjects of
Spain. This inquiry met with a rebuff.
The claims of the natives to recogni-
ton were ignored, in spite of the fact
that the Tribune designated them as
patriots fighting for a cause infinitely
higher than Washington, or Marion, or
Hamilton, or Greene fought for in the
American revolution, and in spite of
the warning the Tribune gave that it
was extremely perilous to startle or
aggravate the natives of that unfortun-
ate and oppressed land; they have been
abused robbed and slain so long by
white men that they take alarm at
once on the slightest appearance of
danger" to themselves or their liber-
ties.
They have not yet had an inkling
of what their future is to be. No as
surance has been given them that the
independence for which, according to
the Tribune, they were fighting when
our army reached Manila, would be
their portion. On the other hand, in
the case of a people less capable, with
leaders less persistent, with education
and industrial habits less conspicuous
every assurance has been given the
Cubans. 1t has only been a few days
since the New York Mail and Express,
an administration organ of great in
1uence in the east, commented upon
the Cuban outlook as follows: There
can be no doubt that the government
of the United States will demonstrate
TO the world the sincerity of the reso-
luton declaring. in effect. that the pur-
pose of the war with Spain was not to
acquire sovereignty over Cuba. 1t is
that an early task of the
secretary of war, Elihu Root.
will be to devise a plan of government
for the island so formulated as to be |
acceptable to its inhabitants and agree
able to their social and commercial re- |
lations with the people and institutions |
Of the United States
Such an assurance from the presi-
dent or from his insular commission
would end the conflict in the Philip
pines. says General Funston. But it
hasn't been given. Why?
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colony-the gathering of nectar for
honey, the pollen for bee bread, the
secretion of wax and its construction
into comb, the care of the young and
the protection of the colony from inva-
sion by robber bees.
The workers are the smallest men,
bers of the colony. The drones are
next in size, while the queen is the
largest of the three. Each form is rear
ed in a special size Of cell.
The queen bee is queen in name
chiefly. She is not a ruler in the sense
that human monarch is likely to be;
she is rather the mother of the colony,
laying the eggs from which all the
other members develop. She is atten-
lively cared for by the workers.
The Bumblebees.
The bumblebees are among the larg-
est members of the bee family, and are
also among the most interesting forms
In spring you may often see the large
queen bumblebee flying about. Some
times she will be visiting the blossoms
of willow or columbine or lilac while
at others you will see her flying close
to the ground in a rapid zigzag man.
ner.
This queen is the only member of the
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are those in which the colony remains
fixed from year to year as with the
honey bee and the ants, while the sea-
sonal colonies are those which exist
for only one summer, all forms but the
female dying in autumn, as with the
bumblebees and the wasps.
The Honey Bee.
The honey bee is probably the best
known of the insects which live in
colonies. For a very long time it has
been utilized by man as a producer of
money, and its habits have been care
fully studied in artificial hives by
a great many observers. Doubtless
originally the bees built their nests in
hollow trees or under overhanging
cliffs, as those which escape from man
do now. In Bermuda l have seen
large colony with its combs fastened to
one of the inaccessible limestone cliffs
along the shores of coral sand.
There are three forms in the colony
of honey bees-the female or queen,
the males or drones. and the workers.
The latter are vastly more numerous
than the other forms. Upon them de-
wolves practically all the work of the
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which pollenize them are very small
bees.
These bees enter the blossom through
the opening in front. They then find
themselves in a large chamber, from
which there is only one way of escape
This outlet is not the opening by which
they entered, but another that leads the
bee by the pistil and stamen in such
way that cross-p ollination must be
brought about as the bees go from
flower to flower
The Leaf-cutting Bees.
In the summer you may often find
leaves of rose bushes with neat in
cisions where part of the leaf has
been removed. This is the work of one
of the leaf-cutting bees, which carry
the pieces to the place they have cho-
sen for their nest. This may be a
some soft wood. The, pieces of leaves
are used to make cup-like cells, which
the mother bee fills with pollen-food
before depositing her eggs. Each egg
soon matches into a footless grub that
feeds upon the material about il until
it becomes large enough to change to
pupa. later again changing to adult
bees.
These leaf-cutting bees have a spec
ial apparatus for carrying pollen. Most
bees carry pollen in the curious bas-
kets on their legs, but these leaf-cut-
ters have long hairs projecting from
the under surface of the abdomen. The
pollen is caught by these hairs and
held in place as the bee flies from the
flower to the nest
Note-This paper will be concluded
on Monday. Aug. 81.
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VACATION STUDIES
FOR YOUNG NATURALISTS.
VI. BEES. WASPS AND ANTS.
BY CLARENCE MOORES WEED.

Insects that live in societies have al
ways been of peculiar interest to the
human race, because men have seen
in these colonies of lowly creatures con-
ditions of existence suggestive of the
widest dreams of the philosopher and
the philanthropist.. The most notable
insects which lead such colonial lives
are the bees. the ants and the wasps.
In a general way these colonies may
be divided into two great groups-those
which are permanent and those which
are seasonal. The permanent colonies
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Courses of Instruction.


SufnIner Term. 1893.
Mondays: Vacation Studies for Young
Naturalists. Tuesdays: Historic Cities
of Europe. Wednesdays: Popular Lee
lures in Physical Science. Thursdays:
and Fridays: Three Centuries of
French Literature. Saturdays: Royal
Women of European History These
courses will continue until Sept. 30,
1899. Examinations will be held at their
close as basis for the granting of
certificates.
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in the five long spurs shown in the pic
ture; the nectar is so far from the
mouth of the blossom that it can only
be reached by an insect with a tongue
as long as that of the queen bumblebee
So if you visit a field where columbines
are blooming you will find many Of
these queens busily gathering nectar
and pollen from the flowers. In return
for these materials the bees carry the
pollen from flower to flower and cross
fertiliZe the tiny ovules, which soon de-
velop into seeds. There are many other
plants for which the bumblebees per-
form this important service.
A Strange Adaptation.
One of the strangest adaptations be
tween bees and flowers is that of the
lady's slippers. In the case of most
flowers there is some sort of relation as
to size between the blossom and its
visitor, large flowers commonly attract
ing large visitors and vice versa. Thus
the goodsized columbine and the large
queen bumblebee seem well fitted for
each other. The lady's slippers are
large flowers, occupying much more
space than the great majority of our
blossoms, as may be seen from the
picture herewith of the pink lady's slip
per. One would naturally think that a
blossom of this size would have for its
visitor insects of corresponding size.
But as a matter of fact the visitors
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STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.

BONDS.
Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks and
other High Grade Investment Securities
bought and sold. Loans on Stocks.
Dividend-paying stocks bought and sold.
Investment orders from institutions.
trustees of estates and capitalists will
receive the best of attention.
JOHN e. CUTLER. JR.,
Tel III So Main Street.
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DO
YOU
REALIZE

that it pays to buy reliable shoes.
No matter if you pay only 81 for our
Child's Rochester made, you can de-
pend upon their good wearing quail
tiles.
We carry various grades, from the
low-priced to the highest, but all our
shoes for man, woman or child have
that DISTINCTIVE look of STYLE
and DURABILITY.
4 A O .
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bumblebee colony TO survive the win
ter. When she is thus flying close to
the ground she is looking for an old
mouse nest or some similar mass of
soft materials hidden away where she
can simultaneously start the new coll
ony which she is to produce. When,
after much wandering, suitable place
is found. the queen makes a few cells,
deposits an egg in each and feeds the
little white footless laR'ae that hatch
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HER SAD FATE.
adrian Roos in Litera,u ,

adrian RooS in Literature.)
The wife Of a poet. biographies show it.
has happiness rich and rare;
In rapturous revel he degns to dishevel
her carefully done back hair.
lie calls her to listen. with glances that
Siisten, TO songs OF his sensitive soul
While she is discerning by doors of burn
ing that cook, with her fancies of
penny romances. is finding a heaven
VITA y 81. and dinner is done 10 L
coal,
Oh. there's nothing that's weary or hard
In the life OF the wife OF bard;
NO maiden would choose 10 reject or
The oner to marry a son of the Muse:
Her duties should bring her to cherish her
singer with readiness prompt and
When nature beseeches for pines or for
peaches, clear turtle or Crown
Tokay:
For him in holder of jewels must
smolder cigars of a flavor unique,
And as Tor the payment for food and for
raiment, II creditors claim IL she
never must name II. for II he should
know it the sensitive poet would
warb-e no more tor d week,
For a singers flower in the sun,
And he shuts at the sight of dun;
The creditor storms and the creditor
sues
There's not any money in sons of the
\ poet in passion must follow the fashion
by choosing a love for life.
Some Beatrice. or Il Petrarchian Laura,
or somebody not his wife.
rs strictly de reggie Tor her 10 inVeiSie
the bard into tropical rhyme;
The wife If neglected. must not be de-
Jected or deeply affected. but try TO
be happy ON prose that IS scrappy
and frequently snappy. and leave 10
her betters, the ''Onlie begetters,"
the sonnets and letters whose rap
lures and RACES the subsequent ages
will read in his pages, and weepingiy
wonder why destinys blunder had
torn him asunder from somebody
htted with, him 10 be knitted If law
mad permitted and he could have
ntted and quietly quilted the woman
half-witted and not TO be pitied who
Iettered his fancy sublime,
For the wife who would check or control
Such beautiful union of soul
Deserves 10 be slated in all the reviews
For marring the life of u son OF the
MuSei
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Not ALWAYS.

Boston Transcript
1t does not follow that the young man
who fancies he is a devil of fellow is a
fellow OF the devil
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ana St Louis. Without Change.
TINE CARD IN EFFECT JUNE 2s. 1893.
S VIII WI, arrive and depart at Sals
Lake City Daily as follows:
Arrive.
from Ogden, Chicago. Omaha.
~, Lo1is. Kansas City and
From ogden. Portland Spokane. '''' -"'
Byte Helena and San Fran
'FrOm Milford. sanpete. Provo 500 an
r,a and intermediate points -. s:ss an
I'm Ceden. Chicago. St. Louis.
~ M1iisas City. Omaha and Den
E. ana Terminus -. ............. 400 pm
Er mediate 1 points -. ..,...... S:s9 pm.
E ogden and intermediates points SAG pm
rom ogden, Butte San Fran
cisco and intermediate points. ESQ pm
Depart.
ogden, Omaha. Chicago,
font.er' Kansas City and St.
For or. 7; Tirtlc. Mercuri' and interme- ~ an
.. 9iate points 7;SO am
Fd derm anus -. ...........-.... 7:45 an
5d TisSton and intermediate
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.F Iard pS ana San Franc:sco 60: s:45 am
roT froVo, Sanpete, Milford and
For r'Ser dda points .--..---.... $50 pm.
SSinana, st; Louis. Chicago and
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days ~ NV 4un sum
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The Benefits of Bumblebses.

Few people understand that the bum
blebeeS are beneficial insects. Yet
they are. AS pollen carriers for plants
they do good service for mankind.
1t is strangely interesting fact that
large proportion of the Towering
plants are especially adapted to GER
tain special groups of insects. In con-
sequence it is correct TO speak of some
flowers as butterfly blossoms. of others
as moth blossoms. of others as humble
bee blossoms. The common but beau
tiful columbine is an example of
bumblebee blossom. and it is also an
illustration of a plant especially adapt
ed to one form of bumblebee, the queen.
The nectar of the columbine is secreted
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Oh, there's nothing that's weary or hard
In the life OF the wife OF bard:
NO maiden would choose TO reject or
refuse
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n;lllH5SI!|l||
|hxi)1!ll3|
Good Work
At Chicago.

Last year 100000 passengers
were handled at the Union Passen-
ger Station in Chicago without an
accident, and $5O,Ooo,ooo worth of
baggage without the loss of single
piece. This is the third successive
wear in which no claim has been
made for lost baggage.
The Union Passenger Station is the
station into which all Burlington
trains run. Like pretty nearly ev-
erything with which the Burlington
is associated, it ''holds the record"
Two trains a day. Denver TO Omaha,
Kansas City. St. Louis and Chicago-the
Chicago Special at 1:iO p. m. and the Yes
tibuled Flyer at 500 p. m.
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from these eggs upon the so-called bee
bread-a mixture of honey and pollen
These larvae finally develop into
worker bumblebees. smaller than the
queen, which assist in building new
cells and feeding the young that de-
velop from other eggs laid by the
queen.
can find are the large queens. but by
midsummer the smaller workers are tc
be found in abundance. Then you rare
ly if ever see a queen until autumn.
when they again appear. The reason
for this is that the workers are devel-
oped through the summer, but in au-
tumn brood of true males and females
is produced. When cold weather comes
all forms but the females, or queens.
perish, but these remain in the nest or
find some suitable hiding place where
they pass the winter
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For the wife who would check or control
Such beautiful union of soul
Deserves TO be slated in all the reviews
For marring the life of u son OF the
MuSei
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The ofIer to marry son OF the Muse.
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OREGON SHORT line RAILROAD

! De De Only Line Running Through Cars to
foIuard. Butte. Missouri River Chicago
anu 81 Louis. Without Change.
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Her duties should bring her to cherish her
singer with readiness prompt and
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LIME CARD IN EFFECT JUNE %, 1899.
AialnS VIII arrive and depart at Salt
Lake City Daily as follows: