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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-30
orsrRrT EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY, MARCH 80, 1901

Ing down from the ceiling so near one
another that they almost touch YOU
may have some idea Of free1'ns
chamber. .,, ma.
suppose we enter. How cold Il ls' me
temperature is eight degrees above Noro.
the sheep put in three days ago aIe
already as hard as stone. Iap one
Of the carcasses. The sound IS llhe u
tap on q drum head Take one do s.l
and rest It on the floor. Il Is so sun tnat
Il stand alone. It feels like Ice NY m mn
gers freeze as l take notes ana we uie
glad TO get out ,..., T.,
We row 20 on into the chambers ~
which the frozen mutton Is st'I1u.
They are equally cold. The carcassts
have been put into bags of white COY
ION and they are stacked up IKE cory
wood They are now ready for the snip
and the cars win carry them down 70
The harbor. They viii be thrown mo
trough-llke ohutes and will SLIDE down
into the hold, not to come out OF inc
ship until they are landed IN Lon
don
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-30
THE BIGGEST WOODEN MILLS BE,
LOW THE EQUATOR,

You people Of the United States look
upon New Zealand as q half-savage
country, You think It may perhaps have
some good farms and sheep ranches
but | venture you have never Sonsid-
cred II a land OF great factories. These
people have wooden mills which would
be considered large in New England,
They MAKE as fine cloths as the best
mills of Great Britain. although their
mills have to be protected by the tariff
in order to live. At Kaipol near Christ
Church, there Is a wooden factory en-
pioying 600 hands. It Is the largest
WOODEN mill below the equator, and II
makes every variety Of goods, from
knit underclothing to the finest Of la
dies dress goods The mill takes the
wool in bales Of 400 pounds each, just as
II comes from the backs Of the sheep, II
Is sorted according 10 fineness, for the
hair on sheep varies as much as that on
Evening star., 1901-06-22

ii"'h 'he thicaSp record uf1erald
A wealth Of history and romance lies nm
told in the half-forgotten stories of aban-
doned state capitals Kaskaskia. the first
capital of Illinois, has been swallowed IN
by the encroaching mississippi river, and
others have shared In varying degrees the
stings and arrows of misfortune.
Cahaba, the former capital of Alabama
is not even town now, being returned bv
the census as precinct 16, in Dallas county.
Several years ago the town site was sold
for taxes and was bought by negro for
a few hundred dollars
The owners Of plantations and the rich
traders lived In baronial style, their houses
being Of the architecture of the south at
that day, with large halls and rooms. and
verandas occupying almost as much space
as the rooms themselves Extensive
grounds surrounded each and flowers
blOomed in profusion. while magnolias.
oaks and cedars were found in abundance
Blooded horses neighed and pranced in
and about the stables and cocks strutted in
the barn yards.
The capital had been moved before the
confederacy was born, and when the war
was over the few men who had any money
left tried to start up business and put
new life into the old place, but could not
A few years later even the county seat was
transferred to Selma, and Cahaba was
dead. Some wealthy men tore down their
houses and had them rebuilt in Selma, and
soon the few remaining houses were left
tenantieSs
Evening star., 1901-06-22

From the Cleveland Hlain Dealer
For an animal that is a lover of peace
and concord the American mule certainly
has unpleasant experiences. Doomed by
strength and patience to act as an impor-
tant factor in the belliSerent movements of
great armies, the mule occasionally finds
the issue of battle dependent upon the
speed with which muie-drawn artillery can
be brought into line, or similarly propelled
supply trains can be hurried to the front.
And now mire mule appears to be the
cause of a cessation of labor on the part of
600 skilled workers.
MIR. Murphy was the attendant In charge
the former permitted the latter to wander
alone from the mouth of the mine to the
water trough. the freakish creature, instead
of heading toward food and drink and a
comfortable bed, turned back and trotted
into the mine. Thereupon the superinten-
dent ordered Mr.. Murphy to bring the stub
born brute out. Mr.. Murphy refused. The
superintendent discharged him, and almost
Immediately the 600 miners declared that
more work should be done until MI
Murphy was taken back. The superinten-
dent was obdurate, and so the mine was
closed.
AS to the whereabouts Of the instigator
of the trouble the dispatches are not clear.
If the parties most interested have not
quite forgotten the cause of the msadven-
ture. they presumably will have little trou-
BILE in finding it stubbornly ensconsed In the
recesses of its underground retreat.
Evening star., 1901-06-22

usually knows. there was an appearance of
water mile SO away under a cloudy
sky, and the old travellers cried: "Heyi
Look at the mirager' And ioi II wasn't a
mirage, but real water, which was wet.
The air Is wondrous clear, unspoiIed by
exhalations of factories or smelters,
well as free from the microbes that abound
where humanity has strewn them, and In
this thin atmosphere the distance comes to
you with suddenness. You know the old
yarn about the Englishman who started
to walk to the foot of a mountain before
breakfast, to get up an appetite. He toiled
into camp at night. and he had not got so
far as the base of the mountain. Next day
he came to the creek and began to undress.
for?'' asked his guide
ITO swim the river
Why. you can jump it,
mo, You don't. That mountain didn't
away. and this river doesn't look to be
more than four feet wide, but IL may be
half a mile before I get over
Has It's own Charm.
Spite of it's tragedies. the desert has a
never ending charm. Whether below the
level of sea, or on plateaus more than a
mile above it: whether the sun is blazing
upon it, cloudless, dazzling or clouds are de-
scending and the loveIiest opaIescent frag-
ments, which you have trouble in believing
to be rainbows. are drifting, playing, fad
are shut in by crags and terraces, with
fronts sculptured by the elements into
likeneSses of towers that the gods alone
could have built or lived in. or are vending
across vast reaches of plain where the
mountains recede into clouds and needles
and pillars of rock pierce the sky as phan-
tasms evoked from the mirage, there is no
place nor hour that has not its beauty.
Health is here. they tell us. in its dry,
untainted air. and certainly there is exhil-
aration of spirit and the sense of a great
freedom in which one loves to draw big
breathS and gaze to the utmost horizon.
feeling that he owns it. The double-roofed
houses contrived for torrd summer. and
the adobe villages. so near to the color of
the soil that they are not discovered till
you fall over them, bring one to the earth;
but looking off at the tender colors of the
distance, at the tawny capes pushing into
the sage-specked levels, at the purple
brown mountains. worn into thousand
forms of ruin, or rising into a thousand
forms of grandeur, and cooling their sun
scorched tops in cloud and snow, one ex-
pands and rejoices. The desert is the
abode of Death, but Death wears a smile.
Evening star., 1901-06-22

a foot and a half long, with a very gaudy
plumage of red. yellow, blue and bright
orange, arranged in the most fantastic pat
tern. These Macaws, of several species.
are frequently seen in geological gardens
they are big, powerful parrots, with i'm
mense beaks and long tails. In plumage
they are always extravagantly high-col-
ored, the birds being in nature, generally
gregarious and extremely noisy.
Doubtless there are a number of Cuban
birds still unknown to science, and in my
limited space here it is not possible even
to allude to the many species of the palmer
kinds, though to naturalists these are Of
ten of far more interest than the richly
colored ones.
Cuba is rather poor in mammals. and.
as rule, they are of small size. I under
stand that the white-tailed deer has been
shot on the island. but they must have on
some former occasion been introduced by
man and bred there. In fact, many of the
smaller mammals have thus been intro
duced, especially the rats, mice and other
rodents. Speaking of rodents, however,
there are three species of them found in
Cuba, and found nowhere else in the
world. The Cubans call them Hutia, as
Hutia Congo and Hutia Carabali while
the genus Is known to science as Ca
promys. There are rough-haired rat-like
animals, though very different from our
rats. They live in the woods and on plan
tations and are great tree-clmbers. BY
habit they are herbivorous. and in one
species the tail IS Drehensile, and this fits
II Stlli Detter Tor arDOreal life. The
short-tailed Capromys is sometimes kept
captive a pet OH the plantations, but
the prehenSile-tailed fellow Is very shy,
lives principally in the woods away from
the habitattons Of man. and spends most
of its time In the highest tree tops, where
1t Is but rarely observed.
BY far one of the most remarkable NAM
mails found in Cuba is the Solenodon, there
being but two species of the animal known,
the other being indigenous to the Island of
Hayti. They attain length of about
seven inches, and SO 1t Is one Of the largest
OF the fnsectivora, the group to which it
belongs. This Soenodon has a long pro-
truding SnOut, and Is covered with coat
of long, coarse fur and it's tail is round
and good deal ike the tail of a big rat
But strangest of all, the female has the
mammae situated just beneath this latter
appendage, and in both sexes the feet are
formed for scratching and for running. l
have number of engravings of the Sole
nodon, and one of them. presented to me
by Prof. Felipe Poly, Cuba's oldest and
best known naturalist, who has now been
dead a number of years.
l have some "are old books on Cuban
natural history. having obtained them in
Havana. Then the Manatee is found on
the coast. the same that is found In our
FlOridan waters, where ruthless sportsmen
are doing their best to bring about it's ex-
t1nction for us, as they have so many
other interesting animals Of the country
The insects and shells of Cuba are rich
and varied, as are many species Of beauti-
full fish found in her waters, but it Is not
my intention to speak of these here.
Evening star., 1901-06-22
YANKEE IS PASSING AWAY.
Native-BOrn New Ens1anders Now See
Minority There.

- Minority There.
From the Springfield Republican.
That the native population of New Eng
land is not maintaining it's numerical
strength is pretty well known. Hence the
facts brought out in the vital. statistics of
Connecticut for last year, that the native
population is fast being overwhelmed by
the element of immediate foreign extrac-
ton win surprise no one. 1t appears that
in all sections of the state the deaths
among the native population exceed the
births from native parentage, while the
burden of providing a natural increase In
the population rests wholly upon people of
foreign birth.
This is true Of the country as well as the
urban districts In forty-one back towns,
peopled largely by natives, the deaths ex-
ceeded the births last year by 2io, In the
cities of New Haven Hartford. Merden.
Waterbury, New London, Norwich and
Bridgeport the births from native-born par
ents number 1893, while the deaths of ma
tve-born numbered 1927; among the for
eign-born births were 4,227 and deaths only
1.S6I-there possibly being an error in the
duplication of the figures 4,227 but in any
event, for the whole state the native births
nun bered S,229 and deaths 03SS, and the
foreign births S,219 and deaths only 367S
From such facts it is easy to figure out the
early displacement of the older native ee-
ment by a population of Immediate or very
recent foreign origin.
The Massachusetts vital statistics reveal
the same population tendencies.
Ihere are some count ervaiiing cOnSidera-
tionS to be taken into account when study
ing such statistics as the above. The for
eign-born element possesses a much larger
proportion of persons of child bearing age
than the native born. for immigration
draws chiefly from the youth of other coun-
tries and the adult of low ages Hence
also the death rate among the foreign-born
is favored above the native born by the alb
sence OF normal proportion of people of ad-
Vanced age. Furthermore as the death
rate Is large among young children and as
the number of children born here of for
elgn-born parents Is relatively large and
as the deaths Of such children count
against the native element in the above
statistics, another and very material de-
ductlon is obviously to be made on behalf
OF the native population. But after all al
loWances are made the fact remains that
the population of New England. of more
than one generation of American nativity
seems TO be losing ground This NAV rise
-doubtIess does arise-from the emigration
or the Yankee youth toward the west and
IN making account of this the old New
thgiand family is unquestionabIy proving
to be at least barely self-perpetuatine bnf
on New England soil this Yankee eIemant
IS slowly but surely being enguIfed bv other
people who are comparative strangers TO
the region. W
Evening star., 1901-06-22
A Seven-Masted Schooner.

From the Providence Or. H. Journal.
Captain John G. Crowley manager of the
Crowley fleet. says that the stock for the
seven-masted schooner which he proposes
to build is all taken, and that the contract
will be made for her construction within a
few days. The seven-master will be of
steel. the largest sailing vessel ever built
in this country. She will be able to carry
1000 tons of coal more than the six-mas-
ters Elanor A. Percy and George w
Wells. The dimensions of the vessel will
be as follows: Length on water-line, 375
feet: length on keel. $50 feet; beam, 80
feet: depth of hold. 80 feet; draft loaded,
26 feet: displacement, 1880 tons.
The seven masts will be of steel, with
wooden topmasts set into them. The top
mast heads Will be 80 feet above the deck
The vessel will be fitted with steam steer
ing gear and lighted by electricity. She
will cost $50, 600.
Evening star., 1901-06-22
EASTERN ART.
Interesting Controversy as to Origin
OF the Various Schools.

From the lutarna ti0nal Monthly.
Very sagacious writers. and some whose
works embody -he latest research. hold
that all the arts Of the east originated in
Persia. except indeed the art of the Chi
nese with it's offshOOts; and that even this
has been always much affected by Persian
design" says Russell Sturgis There is
an interesting controversy as to the origin
of the Noslem styles of architecture, Da~
mascene Cairene, Moorish in North Africa
and Moorish in Span-whether those styles
of building are the immediate result of the
employment of Byzantine workmen by
Arab con1uerors. whether Persia. once
that state was conquered by the Arabs, be-
gan to spread her powerful artistic in
ffuence over the whole Moslem world. And
the reason for these lofty claims on be-
half of Persia's right to be first in the
world of art Is the evident mastery of
the people living there over many of the
most beautiful and many of the rarest
methods of design. From the time of
Xerxes through all ages of the world, the
Persian artist has Eeen the greatest mas
ter known of pure color decoration; that is.
of abstract designing in harmonious colors.
OK their use as fat tints In contrast, their
use in delicate graduation From the earli-
est times the Persian has been the only
artist who knew how to design a flower
a blossom which no man had ever seen or
dreamed of, but which he knew how to
compose, anu IfoLH liie tdiiieSI tliHeS lie
Persian has been the undisputed master of
those who would use elaborate and beauti-
full patterns in spite of restraining difficult
ties of mechanism. Therefore the Persian
has always shown the way in the delicate
and difficult task Of making carpets rich
in color and complex in design Even II
we find many of the pieces of undoubted
Persian make too crowded with details and
too sOphistcated-rhat is say, too artificial.
and with not enough natural impulse of
the workman following traditional patterns,
but still free to active have still to ad-
nit the origin in Persia of all the lovely
and powerful styles, freer and more Sc
Vere with which western Asia is filled"
Evening star., 1901-06-22
An Aspiration.

.E
A dreaming heart and a daring heart,
And a heart that fronts the skyl
o give me strength to live, my Lord,
And give me grace to die.
A sinewy heart and sinless heart,
And stanch heart beating high,
A pure brow barred to the winds Of God
And clear unsullied eye
Sorrows may come troubles may fall.
Sickness may sap my health;
But shall hold to the hand Of Him
Whose company is wealth.
This be my prayer from dawn to eve.
Working between the suns:
Lord, make my arm as firm as a knight's.
My soul as white as a nuns;
Make me strong to smite and gentle to heal,
And quick to comfort and bless,
With lips that can harden into NO.
Or soften into Yes P"
This be the word wnen come to die:
He scorned the false and mean;
His strength to serve Gods world was great
Because his soul was Clean
FREDERIC L.. KNOWLES
Evening star., 1901-06-22
Misapplied Industry.

From the Chicago Post
Have L not been an earnest and con-
scientious worker" asked the young man
who was about to be ''let out"
Possibly, possibly" replied the practical
politician. Indeed. L may say that l have
no fault to find with your industry, except
that it is misapplied.'
I'm what way?'
1T has been devoted to the interests OF
the taxpayers instead Of us. You are a
good man in some ways, but you seem to
lack Judgment
Evening star., 1901-06-22
Philosophy.

From the Chicago Tribune.
A ring at the telephone disturbed the
suburbante in his office down town.
'Hello,' he said, placing the receiver to
his ear.
us that Mr.. Longway?' said a voice
through the phone.
Yes"
'Your house Is on fire.
He reflected a moment.
Well" he said, by the time can get
ont there the fire will have been put out or
the house will have burned down. Good
byer'
Evening star., 1901-06-22
He BuiIded Better Than He Knew.
>rnm tha pbilsdalnhis press


The lesson had been about the prodigal
son. and the entire Sunday school had
been properly impressed The superintend-
ent rose at the close. and. with view Of
intoxicating a highly moral lesson. asked;
Now my little friends. who stood by OBJ
jecting to this proposed banquet to the
prodigal?' And a voice In a far corner
answered, 1.-The calf"
Evening star., 1901-06-22
The End.

From the Philadelphia Press
Miss sharpe-Vera." he, began. you
must know why I've been coming here so
much: why I sit here oin the parior with
you night after night and"
II suppose. Mr.. Pinchpenny," Miss Vera
Sharpe interrupted. IFS cheaper to do
that than to take me out anywhere"
Evening star., 1901-06-22
Friendly Interest,

From the Smart Set.
Grace-"Why do you persist in repeating
that awful scandal about Lucy?''
May-'Fm trying to find out II there is
any truth in it.
Evening star., 1901-06-22

Bifkins (who is giving a party)-"What
do you get an evening for waiting at en-
tertainnients?"
Waiter-'Five shillings. sir: but If there
Is to be singing. L must ask six, sir."-Tit-
Bits.
Evening star., 1901-06-22

Misnamed.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Tess-"Young Mr.. Saphead tells me his
first name is Noah What do you think of
that?'
Jess-"Sounds funny. doesn't it?'
Tess-"Funny? It's ridiculous Noah had
sense enough to go in when 1t rained."
Evening star., 1901-06-22

The accidents which have happened both
10 the challenger and defender of the
Americas cup have stimulated a feeling
that IS growing up in favor of returning
to the more spOrtsmanlike and older meth
cd of yachting competition, when almost
everything depended upon seamanship.
Under present conditions the builder wins
the race and the men who sail the yacht
are a part OF the machinery. One of the
best training schools for seamanship in
yachting is the Bembridge Club in the Isle
of Wight.
Members do not sail their own yachts,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-16
MARKED BY PEACE
WAS THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.
EXPECTED CLASH AvERTED.
LEADERS OF RIVAL FACTIONS
REACHED AGREEMENT.

Yerkes Receives Nomination for SUI
preme Court Judge and Palm for
state Recommendation Con-
fined Entirely to State Issues ana
ScathingIy Arraigns Every De-
partment of state Government.
"Honeycombed with Profigacy
and Dishonesty"
Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. 15.-The Demo-
cratic State Convention to-day nomi-
mated Judge Harman Yerkes of Doyles-
town, for Supreme Court judge and
Representative Andrew J. Palm of
Meadville for State Treasurer. The
platform makes no reference to Will
liam ]. Bryan or national affairs, being
confined entirely to state issues. The
contest between the rival Philadelphia
ton resulted in a harmony agreement
between the recognized leaders of the
two elements.
The platform declares that "every de-
partment of the state government is
honeycombed with prohigacy, dishon-
SSly anu d IeChleSS OlSISBdiQ VI COli-
stitutional or moral obligations" and
goes on to say:
"Shamelessly and openly the votes of
legislators are bought and so persist
emily and constantly that market
values for Legislators have been estab-
lished by settled custom.
The apparent indifference OF our
people to these outrages emboldened
the corruptionists to such an extent
that the last session of our Legislature
out Heroded Herod in its infamies.
"All men pronounce it the most cor
rupt legislative body that ever con-
vened in any state of the Union. Its
very organization was founded on the
purchase of venal legislators with
money and place, and it closed its ses-
sion with the crowning infamy of that
most stupendous franchise steal shock
ing the moral sense of the entire coun-
try. The election of an United States
senator was accomplished in a carni-
val of corruption and bribery"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-16

Some small boats were damaged. but
no lives were lost. Wires running to
Fort Eads are down. The backing up
OF the water in the river caused the
oNernoWlng of much land along and
Delow the forts Much of the low sec
tlon of New Orleans is under water
ana scows have been brought into
requlsluon to enable people to get from
their homes to the higher portions.
several factories have been compelled
to shut down.
Lake Pontchartrain has been back
ed into the old and new canals. Both
overfiowed their banks for a consider
able distance
The rear, or low portions of this
city, a thickly populated territory
two miles in width, is flooded to a
depth of two feet. There is considera-
bic suffering among the poor
A Louisville and Nashville train
from the east, due at 7:25 a. M. has
not yet arrived, nor have the coast
trains over that road. The high water
in the lake and the flood in the rear of
the city doubtless have caused the de-
lay. Hundreds of business men of New
orleans live along the gulf coast dur
ing the summer and thus far have been
unable to reach the city.
NO advices have been received to-day
by the Fort Jackson and Grand Isle
Railroad from Grand Isle and Cheniere
Caminada.
Many Louisiana people are spending
the summer at Grand Isle, which is
adjacent to the Cheniere. Over 1000
lives were lost at the latter place when
that neck of land was swept by storms
few years ago.
At Milneburg the excursion steamer
Nell Camilla capsized at it's wharf dur
ing the storm and is pounding heavily
against the pier. Those aboard
escaped. The tugboat Neptune is also
reported to have capsized.
The Mississippi river in front of the
city to-day resembled a miniature gulf.
Many harbor craft had to hug the
shore in order to avoid being swamp
ed.
Regular west bound Texas and Pa
cific trains could not be sent out be-
cause the transfer boats which carry
the trains across the river were una
BILE to make their landings
All the tugs in the harbor are en-
gagged to-day in trying to save the fleet
of about 200 boats lying above the city.
Between six and ten boats have al
ready been lost.