The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-05-19
WOES OF PERSIAN pRUNkARps
Are Placed on the Black List and
Socially Boycotted.

DrunkardS nave been regularly
black-listed in Persia for at least
twelve hundred years past. II is no
joke, either, for the individual thus
held up to opprobrlum. He. is not
permitted to enter any place Of
public amusement. When at pray
the other members Of the congrega-
ton.
Nor may he even frequent the
bazaar in order to purchase provis-
ions and other necessities, except at
certain stated hours and under police
surveillance.
Moreover, II after having been
listed" he again offends, he is pun.
ished with eighty lashes. There is
no escape, no laws delay" Provid.
ed only that the offender is seized
while in state Of intoxication. or
while his breath smells Of drink, the
punishment is inflicted forthwith.
How Writer Gets Copy"
Clay Emery, author of "Cap'n tt.
tus" ana in private life Clayton Mayo
of New York, says that he hunts copy
and local color with decoys. On the
shore of little bay on the Massachu-
sets coast he has boathouse
equipped with comfortable chairs and
settees. Every ancient mariner in the
neighboring fishing village knows the
place and has pipe marked with his
name In the cupboard that hanks on
the osthouse wall. When Mr.. Mayo
is "at home" he hoists a big flag on
the top of a sixty-foot pole and then
the sailor folk flock down to the boat.
house, levy on the hosts tobacco, find
their especial pipes and spin yarns by
the hour.
| Afflicted.
A bright girl asked to be absent
from school half day on the plea
that company was coming. ITS my
fathers half-sister and her three
boys" said the girl, anxiously; land
mother doesn't see how she can do
without me, because those boys act
dreadfully" The teacher referred her
to the printed list of reasons which
justified absence, and asked II her
case came under any of them. oh,
yes, Miss Smith," said the girl, eager.
| ly, ''it comes under this head" and
she pointed to the words, domestic
affection. Boston Christian Regis.
| ter.
Fanny Crcsby's Popular Hymns.
Miss Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn
and song writer, recently celebrated
her eighty-fourth birthday at her home
in Bridgeport, Conn. Miss Crosby be-
came blind in her infancy owing to i'm
proper treatment while suffering from
fever. When she was Is yeas old she
| entered the New York institution for
the blind. She was so apt in her
studies that she subsequently received
an appointment as teacher of rhetoric,
English grammar, Greek, American,
English and Roman history in the in.
stitution. In 1854 she took up hymn.
writing and since that time has writ.
ten nearly 5000 Of them, notable
among which is Safe in the Arms of
Jesus" Her favorite hymn, she says,
Is Rescue the Perishing"
Worlds Most Eminent Persons.
The thousand esteemed and most
eminent persons Of the world-emi.
hence being determined by the promi.
nence given. them in encyclopedias
are grouped according to nativity by
Prof. Cattel in Popular Science
Monthly. France leads, followed
closely by Great Britain. Then there
Is considerable fall to Germany and
Italy. Greece has produced more pre-.
eminently great men than Germany
OF the eighteen greatest composers
Of music Germany produced twelve
and Italy six. Russia has to her
credit but nine men who are eminent
In the 1000 but thirty-two are wo
men.
Mechanical Mixer Satisfactory.
The Elgin dairy report says, In
speaking of the Lawrence-Kennedy
milking machine, New Zealand In
vention: 80 far as the experience
Of users has gone the results are OF
such satisfactory nature as to Justify
the belief that at length the mechani
cal mixer has arrived"
Mexico's Big Millionaire.
Pedro Alvarado, the Mexican mil
lionaire, who, two years ago, was {
penniless peon, is to-day the mos
famous man In our sister republic
He keeps 100000 always on hand
In his palace at Chihuahua and makes
practice OF carrying the sum O
100000 In his vest pocket every day
Only Two Veterans Left.
August Emmett Maxwell is one o
the only two surviving members O
the Confederate Senate The othe
is G. @. Vest of Missouri Judg,
Maxwell, now about to retire, is
jurist OF renown. He was born IL
September SO years ago at Elberton
Ga.
Husbands More Cautious.
Immediately following the notice
that three red hairs found by Jack
sonville (Texas) wife on the coat O