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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
THE LONGEST DAY.

THE WISE MEN tell us that a day
IN June IS the longest in the year,
and they win laugh at your ignorance
If you tell them they are mistaken.
Nevertheless. they are mistaken.
The longest day in the year does not
come in June. but in December, and
that December day is the cath. which
Is today. Our authority for the asser-
ton? Ask any small boy or any small
girl in Salt Lake City today and they'll
tell you that at least a week elapses
between the dawn of Dec. "a and the
dawn Of Dec. %. Time is a relative
proposition, after all.
Five minutes would seem an eternity
20 a man compelled to sit on a red hot
stove. Five months would not seem
longer than i've minutes TO the man
condemned to die at the end Of five
months. So It is with happiness de-
layed. Time passes very slowly with
children when they wait for the Gull
mination Of joys deferred. They have
been looking forward to Christmas for
weeks and weeks. They have been
writing their letters to Santa Claus.
they have been planning numerous
forms of enjoyment for the great day.
There is nothing much for them to do
today except to wait; therefore, the day
will be for them the longest Of the year.
And tomorrow win be the shortest. in
spite OF what the men who make the
calendars say, for tomorrow they viii
De so busy that the night viii come be-
Tore they know the morning has passed.
Blessings on the youngsters! For their
Pake we could wish that Christmas
might come oftener than once a year.
But then we fear that repetition might
pail the enjoyment and so it is best
that the merry holiday remain infre-
auent
Today viii be the busy day for the
adults. They win be doing the last Of
their Christmas shopping. Dozens Of
little odds and ends that have been
forgotten or postponed until the last
minute must be attended to. There are
curious packages to be Struggled into
the house and hidden from round.
watchful eyes; Christmas trees must
be bought and decorated and the lights
viii burn late in many a household
where the sweet Santa Claus fiction is
maintained.
But none Of us win regret the ex-
pense or the trouble incident to Christ
mas if we enter upon it in the proper
spirit, the spirit OF love which makes
all labor worth while. The payment
vii come tomorrow in measures
pressed down and running over, the
happiness Of those we most desire to
make happy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
ARBITRATION NOT POSSIBLE.

A S A MATTER OF COURSE the adj
"A ministration viii refuse TO assent
10 the proposition being prepared by
Colombia for the submission Of the
Panama matter to The Hague tribunal.
Il is as impossible for the United States
TO consent to arbitrate this difficulty
as if would be for a man who has
robbed another Of all his vaIuabIes to
permit arbitration Of the question as
90 which of the two is the real owner
Of the property From the standpoint
Of the administration there is nothing
20 arbitrate. The Panama republic is
q thing accomplished.
An agreement to arbitrate would in
this instance, be at least a tacit adj
mission that President Roosevelt has
done Colombia a wrong. Nobody VIII
ever persuade the president to make
such an admission. He has never yet
admitted that he was wrong on any
question. and it is too late for him TO
begin now. on this arbitration proposal
Colombia might just as wen save her
ink and her gray matter. The so-caHed
republic OF Panama has been instituted
by this nation. and its integrity VIII be
maintained by the United States
against all corners, and especially
against Colombia.
Nor could the Colombian republic ex-
pect the European powers TO sympa-
thize with her demand for arbitration.
The powers are not noted for their
cagerness to right wrongs in which
They may be depended upon always to
take the side OF the stronger against
the weaker. Certainly they win fully
approve refusal by the United States
10 arbitrate. They know the United
states is responsible for the republic
Of Panama, and they know that an I'M
biased court could hardly fail 10 give
Judgment against this nation il the
dispute between il and Colombia ever
went to arbitration.
The good VIII of the United States
is much to be preferred to the good VIII
cf puny little nation like Colombia.
Nothing is to be gained by an alliance
with Colombia. Everything is to be
gained by a continuance Of friendly re-
lations with our own country. An am
bassador whose name is not given all
but says this in an interview sent out
by the Associated Press. when he de-
clares that
Panama is closed chapter I'm the
history Of nations. and The Hague
court IS not the place for settled ques-
tions. but for pending problems which
are referred 20 81 with the approval of
all the parties interested
Nations can hardly be expected to set
tie questions Of sovereignty or national
honor at The Hague"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
THE WHITE BUFFALO.
Whitewashed Beast That PIainsman
Garfield Killed.
(Kansas city MOD, Journal)

(Kansas City (Mo.), Journal)
The disappearance of the stuffed
white buffalo from the Kansas State
house, presumably taken by the daugh-
ter OF the man who left it there on
exhibition for so many years, viii re-
call some queer experiences to old buff
falo hunters on the Western Kansas
prairdes. There was a tradition among
the hunters that some one had hung
up reward of $1,000 for the skin OF
white buffalo. There were white buff
falo-albinos, such as are found at rare
intervals in all the families Of the ami
NAL kingdOm-but the number of those
which existed in fact and of those
which existed purely in the magma
ton was in wonderful disproportion.
Every buffalo hunter could tell stories
Of having seen and pursued white buf-
falo. Many a hunter has been sent on
wild goose chase by false reports Of
this character. In 1873, for instance,
old Ben Garfield, who roamed the
plains with his tail, gaunt wife for
companion, followed a bunch Of buffalo
from the northern edge of what is now
Oklahoma to the sand hills Of Ne
braska. thinking to kill a big white
bull And after three weeks of patient
stalking Canfeld did kill the bull, only
to find that he was covered with a
coat Of whitewash which gave him the
appearance Of being white i'm fact
An explanation of this phenomenon
would not be needed by people famil-
lar with the natural lime beds OF
western Kansas. The habit of the buff
falo is to roll in every pool of water or
hole of mud which he comes TO. The
well-knOwn buffalo wallOw" still to
be seen over the great plains. was the
product Of this habit. Can6eld's buffalo
had simply been rolling in a bed Of the
native lime which coated his hide,
when dried in the sun, with a kind OF
plaster And no doubt these lime holes
could account for many of the white
buffalo 50 often reported by hunters.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
DIR. Heason Holds His Youth.
Boston Post.)

He is the youngest man L know. a"
says Mrs. Henson Of her 70-year-Old
husband. DR.. S. p. Henson, pastor of
fremont temple, and truly he is a won
derfUily youthful man, as they are a
charming, unaffected couple.
THE youngest man I know came
romping into the Henson parlOr the
other day. his figure as erect and even
bOyish as it was years ago. his cheeks
flushed with health, and his manner
oVerfOwing with fun and good humor.
Sweetheart" said he. holding up one
finger in delightfully."- Gliding manner,
beware of the press. III have TO oe
your censor"
Then, with both hands in his pockets,
he twirled about in a sort Of pirOuetta
and pointed tragically to a coat of arms
emblazoned behind him on the wall.
Then, laughing gayly, this extremely
hay, remarkably-yOu old man
shook hands and sped briskly away to
finish one Of those s0ul-awakening SCI
mons Of his which weekly thrill the big
temple from cellar 80 ceiling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24

So the lower court has declared that
Contestant Dean is the councilman
elect from the Second ward instead
of Mr.. Burbidge. However. in, order
that the matter may be definitely set
tied, it might be as well 20 let the su-
preme court pass on the case. Aside
from the canvass nice question as to
Mr.. Deans eligibility has been raised.
BY virtue Of the fact that he was an
employe Of a corporation holding a
franchise from the city. Mr.. Dean Ger
tainly was ineligible at the time he was
elected. True. he has since resigned.
but we hardly see how a man who
would give up position that at least
gives him a comfortable living FOR one
that pays him only S85 a month can
make a good city councilman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
an Fnelish Blunder.


Charles Warner. the English actor,
tells the following on himself. "a few
nights after I reached New York
asked a chap to have a drink. He re-
piled: i am on the water wagon
on the what2 I asked He explained.
AKA ] thought it a good one and l,e,-
solved TO spring it Immediately. Two
Gays later I met Mr.. HaWtry and he
asked me to join him i'm a hieh ball.
Sorry, old fellow. I said, but I am on
the washtub. don't you know Beast
~ blunder, but very English, was it
note"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24

It is an open secret that the Repub-
lican majority in the council viii, il
present plans are carried out. tie the
hands Of Mayor-slect Morris in the
matter Of appointments. From this It
is evident that the Republican coun-
cilmen are cheap. petty politicians be-
fore they are good citizens, and It IS
as well for the public to become ac-
quainted with the ract now as at some
later date
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
Put En- Back.

Patrick had no sooner settled himself
in the BARRIERS chair than he was fast
asleep. Some time later he was awal-
ened by the tonsorial artist
"All right sir, said the barber; rive
given you a shave"
Shave" repeated Patrick II didn't
want a shave. Put the whiskers back
and give me a haircut"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24

Memo books from 45 to . cents;
60-cent values to 45c.
Portfolios from SA00 to S275;
$500 for S2.0e.
Card cases from $3.50 to Sl.25.
BlOtters from 45c TO 33c.
Kodak books from $500 to $3.50;
$1.45 10 soc.
Magazine covers. SI.75 to S1.S5;
$1.25 to S5C.
Match safes. sec to zoe: from
25c to 1Sc.
Broom holders from $I.00 to 75c.
Letter pouches from S1.00 TO 75c
Music rolls from 500 to $500.
from $500 to S1.75.
Opera bags from S2.25 to Sl.75.
Card cases from T5c to 45c.
Wood for typography vases
from soc TO Csc.
Small bowls from soc to zoe:
zoe to 12c.
Stein racks from S1.25 TO 75c:
$3.50 to SIPS.
BunrnG Wood Specials.
Wood 20 Bwrna
Match safes from 75c to soc.
Tooth pick holders. doe to 25c.
Book racks from s1.00 to zoe.
from Sl.75 10 &iZ5.
Jewel boxes ErOn S1.75 to SIPS
Stems from $500 10 S3.25; SEQ
to $50
PLAQUES from S1.55 70 S5c.
Cigar boxes from $500 to $500.
PIN Cushions
$500 to $3.50: 1915 to $500: $500
to S1.50; $3.50 20 $500; 15c to SOC.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24

Tn spite Of everything. we can now
have merry Christmas. The an-
nouncement has been made that j.
Wigs is to pitch for the salt Lake
baseball team again next year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
Christ mas

Christ mas
Hlm5zsFchisGs.
Hemstitched. embroidered and
lace edge, 80 cent quality for 26
cents; p cent quality for il
cents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24

What a pity It is that we can't ex-
hibit some Of our Christmas weather
at st. Louis next year,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24

$500 to $3.50: 1915 to $500: $500
TO S1.50; $3.50 20 500; 15c to SOC.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
REPORT ON COTTON.
Secretary Hester Issues a Statemen
Upon the Crop.

Secretary Hester Issues a Statement
Upon the Crop.
New Orleans, Dec. 2.-Secretary Hes
ter's New Orleans cotton statement
issued to-day shows the total for No
vember was 2,2S7,9S9, against 1872, 4S1
last year.
The movement since Sept. to the
close of November, inclusive, shows re-
ceipts at all United States ports $685.
100, against S,617,7SS last year; overland
across the Mississippi and Potomac
rivers to Northern mills and Canada,
1917, against 365, 1868 last year; South
ern mill takings, exclusive of quantity
consumed at Southern outports, 595, 900,
against COL, 500 last year; and interior
stocks in excess of those held at the
commencement of the season, 431, 1865,
against AIS. 0S6 last year.
These make the total movement of
the cotton crop brought into sight DUR
ing the three months ending at the
close of Nov. 80, 4.991,9S
Foreign exports for the three months
have been 2,664749 bales, showing an
increase over last season of 254,069.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 20
leading Southern interior markets on
Nov. 80 were 1,313,00 against 1859 ,260
the same date last year.
Including port and interior town
stocks, stocks left over from the pre-
vious season and the number of bales
of the current crop brought into sight
during the three months, the supply
has been 5,159, 1872, against 5,274,766 last
wear
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
COLUMBUS Y. M. c. A.
IN ITS MARBLE HOME.
'Plant'' Said to Be First in the World for CITY
10000 People

Columbus, Ga, Dec. 2.-The formal
opening of the new building of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Columbus took place tonight, and was
an event of great interest. Open house
was kept from O'Clock this morning
to 6 o'clock this afternoon, during
which time the building was inspect
ed by "a large number of visitors.
The completion of the building places
in the hands of the Columbus associa-
tion an equipment which is said to be
the finest in the world for a city of
like size. The building, lot, furnish
ings and endowment involved an out
lay of about $4,000. The building is
of white Georgia marble, and contains,
besides the customary reading ROOM
amusement room, class rooms, etc,
found in most associations, two gym
nasiums, one for men and one for boys.
There is a separate set of rooms for the
junior department, with separate en-
trance from Second avenue, while the
entrance to the mems department is
on Eleventh street. A magnificent mar
ble-lined swimming pool is one of the
beautiful things connected with the
building, which is luxuriously furnish
ed throughout on a scale to correspond
with it's exterior. The building is To-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
MAY0RALTY CANDIDATES
WILL GO HUNTING.
Their Plans for "a Clean Election ut
WaycrOss.

Their Plans for "A Clean Election ut
WaycrOss.
Waycross, Ca, Dec. 2.-Hon. A. M.
Knight, who is a candidate for Mayor
of Waycross, yesterday published an
open letter" to his opponent Mr.. J.
A. Jones, as follows:
Now that the registration of city
voters has closed, / make the follow
ing proposition to you: First, that we
spend no money for teams, helpers or
other purpose, except the necessary
printing and inspectors of election;
second, that on the day of the pri-
mary, you and / go out hunting, leav-
ing the people to vote for whom they
please without any interference from
us. In fact, l want clean primary.
VIII you do it,"
Mr.. Jones' reply published in the
Waycross Herald to-day was as fol-
lows:
THE proposition in your letter to
me through the press meets my en-
tire appreciation. / am heartily in ia
vor of clean primary, and am con-
tent to leave the day with the voters.
Although 1 have not been bird hunt
ing in twenty years, and have little
hope of matching you in the field of
feathers, l have no anxiety about the
game In the primary. l trust that our
friends will cooperate with us in
making this the cleanest, best spirited
municipal contest ever held i'm Geor-
gia. With true regards, / am sincerely
yours"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
COLUMBUS I'm. C. AS NEW MARBLE Bull DING.

Gated on a lot 146 feet by 206 feet,
which gives sufficient space for tennis
courts, cinder running track, and ar
engagements for other out-of-d door sports
in connection with the work of the as
ISOLATION. The building was erected by
Messrs. George Foster Peabody, Royal
Garfield Peabody and Charles Jones
Peabody of New York, former residents
of Columbus. The citizens of. Column
bus furnished the money for the lot,
the furnishings, and a $4,000 endow-
ment.
The Peabody Party.
Mr.. George Foster Peabody, with
his brothers and nine others, includ-
ing the wives and lady friends, and
Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hall, pres
ident of Union Pathological Seminary,
New York, arrived in Columbus last.
night in their special car, and We're
the guests of honor in connection
with the opening exercises.
The formal programme commenced
a 1880 O'Clock, when, after prayer by
Rev. DR.. w. H. Smith, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, the Introductory
remarks, including presentation of the
key Of the building to the trustees,
We're made by Mr.. ]. A. Kirven, pres
ldent of the association. Mr.. Kir-
Ven introduced Mr.. Peabody as the
principal donor, who had made the
splendid equipment possible and Mr..
Peabody responded in few we'll
chosen words, expressing the. graft
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
CENSUS REPORTS
ON COTTON GINNED.
Total Of the Commercial Bales up to and IncIud-
ing Nov, IA Was 1910, 437.

Washington, Dec 1.-The Census Blu
reau to-day issued a report on the
quantity of cotton ginned from the
growth of 1903 up to, and including
Nov. IA, showing total commercial
bales of 7,070,437.
OF these 6,519,332 were square bales
and 510,555 Sea Island crop bales.
There were 29,5O6 ginneries operated
this season up to and including, Nov.
IA.
The cotton ginned in 1902, as report
ed by the Census Bureau. was $685.
S72 commercial bales up to Oct. IS, and
9,311,S3 commercial bales up to Dec.
1. Counting round bales, the number
this year is 6,S15,16 In this report no
account has been taken of the guam
tity of lnters obtained by the cotton
seed oil mills from reginning cotton
seed of this years growth, but statis-
tics of such cotton will be included in
the final report for this season.
This report will be followed by two
others, showing the quantity of cot
ton ginned from the growth of this
year to Dec. 10, 1903, and to Jan. 16,
1904.
No estimates are given of the amount
Of cotton remaining unginned. The CEN
sus agents were asked to submit these
estimates but the Census Bureau has
not even computed them as returned,
turning them over to the Bureau of
Statistics of the Department of Agri
culture to aid that office in the annual
estimate Of the cotton crop to be issued
tomorrow. The reason for this, as
announced by the census bureau, is that
when the final reports were received
a year ago 1T appeared that the es-
Inmates of the agents made in October,
were 4-10 per cent. short of the ac-
tual crop grown. A margin of error
SO large as that is equal to the
difference between short crop and a
normal crop; and under the peculiar
conditions existing in the cotton mar
ket to-day the Census Bureau does not
feel warranted in publishing any fig
ures in which so large an element Of
error may exist again. The policy Of
co-operation between the Census and
the Agricultural Department is adopt
ed on the recommendation of Secretary
Cortelyou OF the Department OF Com
merce and Labor to avoid conflicting
reports as far as possible.
The Census Bureau announces that
il ought to be possible In the Jan. 16
report to cover practically the entire
cotton crop Of 10000. and this will
be two months earlier than we were
able to do a year ago. 1t is to be re-
GREETED, in view Of the cotton situation
that no canvass corresponding to the
one now undertaken was made by the
census Office year ago"
AS to the call for estimates OF cot
40, ttsrOinnad In the several counties
although Il was not intended to use
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

tude he felt in connection with the
promotion of such a useful institu-
ton in the home of his boyhood.
The key was received by Mayor L.
H. Chappell, chairman of the board of
trustees, who, in his usual happy
manner, assured the donors and
friends of the building that the trus-
tees would accept their part of the
trust, and look after the material in
terests of the building in a proper
manner. He was followed by Mr.. John
T. Fletcher vice president of the as
ISOLATION, who, on behalf of the direc-
tors and members of the association.
expressed the hearty gratitude and
high appreciation of the membership
and promised the community that a
work should be continually carried
on of such extent and character that
1t should always be a source of pride
to the citizens of Columbus.
Dr.. Halls Address.
The principal address was by DR..
Charles Cuthbert Hall, whose theme
was the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation" In his felicitous and trench
ant manner, DR.. Hall described the
three-fold work of the association in
ministering to the mans body, mind,
and spirit, in order that he might be
properly equipped for all the duties
of life, emphasizing the fact that the
man who devotes his attention to one
or two of these sides of his nature to
the neglect of the other cannot be con-
sidered fully rounded and we'll equip
ped man.
DR.. Hall was followed by Rev. Peter