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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
why She Cooked Il.

The happy faced man swung on TO a
College avenue car, ana this was the
story he had to tell as an explanation
for his good humor:
II have good joke on my wife. We
have new girl, German, just over
from the fatherland. She is hard and
willing worker, but is greatly in need
of judgment aud common sense. Yes
terday my wife ordered fish and in
structed the girl TO serve 1t for dinner.
As soon as ! tasted 1t | knew there
would be something interesting when
my wife discovered II was not as fresh
rs 1t should be- Her first mouthful
caused her to ring for the girl.
MARY, is this the fish that came to-
day?'
"'Yes, ma'am.'
"Didn't you know 1t was not good
when you cooked 1t?
"'Yes, ma'am.'
"Then why did you cook it?'
We'll, you bought 1t. and thought
you knew IL, too. '"-Indianapolis News.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
AN ACCIDENTAL eENsEAc1cR.
Settling Ashore, the old Sea Dog Solves
Great Flathousc Problem,

II used to wonder.' said fine old
salt-a sturdy old chap yet, but his
eyesight not so good ms il once was, his
seagoing days now ovcr-"to wonder
why people didn't use the hammock
indoors as well as out, using II indoors
and at all seasons, as bed; there's no
bed so comfortable.
when | came ashore TO stay slung
hammock in my small room as n
matter of course. I'd slept In ham.
mock all my life and | don't believe
could sleep soundly now In anything
else. But my sleeping that way here
led to something quite unexpected An
| old shore-going friend OF mine that
| comes in to see me one day says to me:
We'll, you've got n pretty snug,
looking little room here, but where do
you sleep? | don't see any bed.
'BedT l says. why. there you are.
the incest and comfortab.est bed in
| the world; and I unhooks one end of
| my hammock from where il had been
hanging over the other and stretched
1t across the room and hooks II up in
| Its place. l had rugged that hammock
| up, you know simply because | pre-.
ferred it. and without any thought ut
| all of saving space. or anything of
that sort; but the minute my friend
| sees 1t:
| Salty, old boy says he. you may
not know it, but you've solved the great
| fiat house bedroom problem And so
l have, l suppose. for him, anyway.
HE lives in fiat, and in his little
bedrooms he'd been using folding beds
and couchbeds and two-story bunk
beds, and l don't know what not, but
now he's got hammocks everywhere in.
stead and lie finds them in every way
practicable.
Some of my friends family didn't
like the sag of the hammock in the
| middle when they first took to them,
and so l showed him how to put on a
tackle at one end and bowse the ham
mock up till you had it pretty near as
| fiat as Il board. Some of the children's
hammocks had to have netting sides
put up on 'em, but that was only an.
| other matter of detail The general
fact remains that my friend had found
the hammock to be perfectly practi-
cable bed.
And l suppose that what he tells
me is true. that, as I've solved the prob.
lem for him. I've solved the problem
for ALL You could fill the whole tween
decks, so to speak, you see. of fiat
with hammock beds at night and have
your full fiat space available without
| obstruction by day, and suppose that
when the great utility of the hammock
bed becomes generally known. not fold.
ing beds, as now, but hammocks. in
very great variety, will be the princi.
pal article of manufacture and sale
for flat-house bedroom equipment
Sun.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
WORDS OF WISDOM.

find nonsense singularly refreshing.
-Talleyrand.
Repentance is the hearts SORROW
Shakespeare.
A man must become wise at his own
expense Montague.
Smiles are smiles only when the
heart pulls the wires.-W Winthrop.
There is nothing more fearful than
Imagination without taste.-Goethe.
The essence of knowledge is, having
1t, to apply 1t, not having it, to con-
TESS it.-Confucius.
Pitch lucky man into the Nile.
says the Arabian proverb, and he will
come up with fish in his mouth
Willis.
We do not believe Immortality be-
cause we have proved it, but we for
ever try to prove it because We Jelieve
it.-Martineau.
One thing is clear to me: that no In
diligence of passion destroys the spir.
itual nature so much as respectable
observation-disclosures Macdonald.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

One of the most valued treasures of
the Harvard University Library Is the
historic Bible, now 26S years old, which
was used by President Benjamin
Wadsworth during his administration
OF the college from 1925 to 1877. The
Wadsworth Bible was printed in 1875,
and its fyleaf bears the names of a
long list of notable Americans through
whose hands it has passed since Wads-
worth's days.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

Wellesley, that staid old Massachu.
sets college town, is to have a new
apartment house to be erected by syn.
dicate Of Wellesley land owners. II
is also said that the college authorities
have leased the prospective building fol
a number of years, to be used exclu.
sively as dormitory for students, and
under college direction. This, with the
new dormitory soon to be built by the
college within its grounds, will give
largely increased accommodations for
the student body.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
One of Natures Jokes.

A species of Australian fern which
grows in the shape of the horn and ant
lers of deer and stag have been aptly de-
scribed as zone of natures jokes" The
cause of this extraordinary reproduc.
ton OF feature of animal life has not
been accounted for. 1t is altogether
battling to behold the thin green horns
curving out of the tree trunk as realis-
tlcally MS If they We're growing from
the head of Il stag, or to see the branch
ing ana magnificent antlers of a moose
inflated even to the finest detail. This
striking eccentricity is not by any
means the only remarkable feature OF
fern growth. The wonderful manner
in which these plants are propagated
has challenged the admiration and awe
of students. Under a magnifying glass
hundreds of the minute spores which
perform the function of seeds look like
only the smallest atom, and so lmper.
ceptibly are they scattered from fern
to fern that Shakespeare could think OF
no better synonym for love than "the
secret of the fern seed" which walks
invisible"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
LAWS FOR MAO DOGS.
British II ,ducss Hyiroph ,bio Cases by
Leg,slating Against CANNES.


1t is still, we believe, an open ques-
ton among people who don't know any
thing about ii whether there Is such
thing as rabies among human beingy.
But we are hound to say no doctor has
any doubts ON that score. Besides. It
is useless to discuss the question sline
human beings who have been bitten by
mad dogs do die of something extrem,-
~ horrible. whether it Is an actual fatal
toXicaton or n form of acute mania
induced by fear We speak of this
matter with some seriousness because
OF the alarming number OF cases of hy-
drophobia reported in the papers IN the
last year. The blame must rest on To-
cal health and police authorities who
do not insist upon the passage of laws
that would prevent the Infection Of ami
mails with rabies. or. IL the laws exist.
fail to enforce them. Whatever tie
disease my he. hydrophohin has been
stamped oGt iH Norway. Sw zen. Hoi-
land. Switzerland and DenmllS.
In Cay..t .,.,";a y -; id quarantine
against imported dogs and sharp laws
on muzzlng reduced the number of ia
tai cases from 1913 in 1889 to three in
1892. Some such action is needed In
this country, Every real lover of dogs
for we reverse the old cynical saying
and put II that "thc more one knows Of
dogs the more he thinks of men"-every
real lover of dogs Should he in favor Of
regulation that. while aiming at the
protection of the human community,
also saves the brute CT alton from dis
ease. As for the people who don't be-
lieve there Is such n thing as rabies"
and the folks who have more sympathy
for dogs than for men. we shall not at
tempt to convince them. The present
situation Is. ms n physician has said.
precisely the same as IL centre OF
smallpox were allowed TO exist" be-
cause a few persons did not believe in
vaccinatlon.-C Weekly.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

1t was nearing the hour of midnight.
4 faint light was burning in a poorly
furnished room of three-story tene.
ment
At table In the centre of the room
sat man. His thin, nervous fingers
trembed as he eagerly read the long
expected letter at is just as WELL" he
murmured, as laying down the finished
letter, he took shining revolver from
his pocket. at is even better So"
Slowly the hands on the clock APP
preached the midnight hour.
almost time" he muttered, huskily,
'and all will be over. Perhaps 1t is for
the best; she-she will never know"
Then n pause as his griZzled locks sank
low on the table.
One-two-three minutes passed ST.
lently away. Then, low, wailing cry
was borne up on the night wind
through the open window. Again 1t
was repeated and again the cry reached
the ears of the desperate man. Now.
now is the time" he cried as the slow.
musical bell of the clock struck H. and
seizing the revolver he strobe heavily
to the window.
Again that low, mournful cry was
waited on the air.
Bang! Bang Then deathly 81.
lence.
The next morning an old gray cat
was found dead in the lley.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
SUNS Antics mt sunset.

Curious determinations of the suns
disk as 1t sets have recently been
studied by DR.. Prinz, of the Royal Rel.
gian Observatory, by the aid Of photo
graphy, says writer in Success. The
most common of these are simply in.
dentations of the disk. Sometimes
there is appearance as of flames is
suing symmetrically from opposite
sides and uniting above in single
jet, which disappears to give place to
another, formed in the same way.
These phenomena, according to NJ.
Prlnz, are due to horizontal layers of
air of different density, which refract
the SUMS light. Some such appear
ance OF the solar disk at sunrise may
have originated the familiar legend
that on Easter morning the sun dances
us he rises
1t Is calculated that more than $4,000
New Workers dine every day in the UNI
derground restaurants.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
IN THE RAIN.
In the rain

In the rain
Perched upon my window.pane
Sat sparrow sleek and vain.
Wondrous wise, all sound and sane.
CHIPPING sharp pert refrain:
"Let me I'M"
"Let me in!S
Fast the rain
Dashes DER the window-pane;
Why should sparrow not complain.
Scarce a foothold to retsins
Bolder now her shrill refrain;
let me in!"
Let me in!"
How the rain
6urges 'gainst my window-pane:
will breast it might and main.
Open wide now. not in vain
Soft khe wee things glad refrain:
okx am in"
81 am in!"
Fierce the rain
Struggling at my window-pane.
Hark! mid city's roar and din
Voices of human waits in sin,
Out OF the darksome street and lane.
With means of anguish. cries of pain.
Eobbing like the sobbing rain,
This, o God, the sad refrain:
Take me in"
Take me in,"
Frances Fenton Sanborn. in the Bosto,
Transcript.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

The latest haunt to which science
has traced the merry microbe is the
raw vegetable, and one is adjured, as
he wishes to avoid typhoid fever and
cancer, to avoid also lettuce, cress
radishes, tomatoes, and all those delec
table vegetables without which salads
are impossible. The trouble rests not
so much with the vegetables, 1t seems
unless they have been allowed to col.
lect the dust of the highway by ex.
posture in shops, but in the water in
which they are washed, states the New
York Tribune. Drinking water is
filtered and boiled for table use when
typhoid turks in the neighborhood; but
no one hesitates to wash lettuce in
suspected water. One may easily take
into his system in this way few thou
sand typhoid germs, and the only safety
seems to lie in the use OF sterilized
water for the washing Of vegetables
that are to be eaten raw.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

At last an animal has been found
whose fur is suitable for automobile
coats. Bearskin, the fur of foxes
lynXes, minks and other animals have
been tried, but they Were not durable
when exposed to the pelting OF dust
and gravel, and they were easily soiled
by gasoline, grease and rain. The
wombat is the animal which has come
to the rescue of auto cranks. 1t is a
member of the marsupial family, and
halls from Australia and New Zealand
The fur can be dyed nearly any color,
but brown has been found to stand the
test better than any other shade. "a
valuable are the wombat iielts for auto
coats that they are not used for any
other purpose. New York Press.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
According TO the Louisville Courier

According to the Louisville Courier
Journal the bloodhound Of mythology
has become COMPOUNDED with the blood
hound of commerce. The bloodhound
Of mythology has more sagacity than
all the detectives of the world done
into one. The bloodhound of commerce
is only dog with keen scent. entire
ly incapable of performing miracles or
Of conducting an inquiry with even
ordinary human intelligence. Yet there
are people who are still willing to re-
gard their own differences from the
hounds behavior as sufficient to ex-
clude all reasonable doubt and serve
as the basis Of summary and irreg-
ular execution of person suspected.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

Have you observed the frequency
with which the specialties of modern
surgery figure in short stories? Time
was, you know, when delicate surgical
operations were only discussed with
solemn faces and in voices keyed to a
sombre pitch. But the writer's of small
fiction have brought about change
In the popular estimate by imagining
all sorts of operations taking place In
all sorts of imaginary surroundings.
1t is true they do not make light of
any one of the fashionable operations;
they rather take them for main incl
dents as means to exciting emotions
and sentiments that could not be
aroused in any other way. And then
they give themselves a free hand In
describing these sensations experienced
by their characters. But with this lit
erary treatment of the theme witnessed
In one or the other Of the popular mag
azines almost every month, it win not
be great while before we see such
Incidents treated jocularly, and even,
perhaps. made part Of comic opera
libretto, remarksthe Boston Transcript
After that comes to pass, Of course
we shall look to see the word passed
along that an intimate and personal
acquaintance with the surgeons knife
is strictly questionable.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
Flowers Change Their scents.

Some flowers appear to change their
scents at different times. The common
jasmine flowers, when first opened.
have n delicate fresh perfume which.
after a tine, becomes grosser and at
tracts biue-bottle flies. Mr.. j. O'Brien
draws attention TO flowers of the Or
child o'.ontoelossum hebraicum, which
have cinnamon fragrance ami
hawthorn scent at different periods
OF tncir bloom.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

The Australian death rate from can.
GER for every 10000 living has risen
In the last twenty years from 2.75 to
572. 1t has more than doubled fol-
males and nearly doubled for females
Cancer is, however, distinctly dis
ease of later life, increasing in prevail
ence as age increases beyond its mid
die term
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
ItaIy's Newest Fortress.

The Italian Government has Just
erected fortress on the great Chaber.
ton summit, opposite Brincan,, for the
defense of the Simplon tunnel. This
fort is 10000 feet high, and is believed
to be the most elevated fortified point
In the world.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

The United States Postoffice De-
partment in 1902 issued domestic
money orders amounting to over $751;
100000 and foreign amounting to near
ly $23,000.000. The money sent abroad
was almost entirely remittances to
relatives by immigrants.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

The automobile record for mile has
been beaten in Cleveland. and hospital
lists in Europe and America prove that
the automobile records for injuries to
men, women and children from the
running of these vehicles at excessive
speed by reckless drivers are broken
almost every day in the year.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

Throughout the world about three per
cent. of people gain their living direct
ly from the sea.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11

In their eagerness to speak well of
the dead some people slur the living.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
SSN&%SdS,
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SGsfT s>~~ WTV'
Tho National Convention.

~ OIONEL j. Il. KILLEBREW,
| I of Tennessee, writing for the
Manufacturers Record gives
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
THE 1OBOdQAN.
A Tale of the Italian Fish.
Ing Fleet.
by BERNARD BARRY.

N the little cottage on the
southern slope of Tele-
graph Hill, Nita was re-
peating many Ave Marias
hpfOrn IN ntrncinur 1.-The
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-11

the position that in framing a bill
with the avowed object of protecting
American industries South Carolina
was entitled to just as much of the
dement's to accrue from protective
tariff as was the state of Massachu-
sets. really think that the Dingley
bill WAS the only tariff bill ever tram
ed wherein the slightest attempt was
made to protect southern industries.
1t rs not a question of whether one
was flor or against the principle 3of
protection. IF we were going ito
raise our revenues by means of the
tariff it necessarily meant that there
was more or less protection under it,
and that in adjusting duties we
should consider the various sections
and industries. l may say that have
never found a Southern industry that
could be benefited by the tariffs
where there was not just AS
much clamor for it as there was for
ANY industry in any other section oOf
the country. III anybody will take the
pains to investigate what & reason
able and proper adjustment of the
sschefnae on rice and lumber has done
for the various Southern states .fee
cannot fail to be convinced of the
wisdom of this course. Since the
passage >of the Dingley bill thare has
been nc further tariff legislation, and
it's operations have been so satisfae-
tory that, for my part, 1 hope there
win not now be any tariff agitation.
We are going cafong very well On this
line, and it is wise to let wen enough
alone"
1t is a curious anomaly in political
conditions and tendencies that just at
time when a considerable element
in the Republican party is turning
toward free trade through direct or
indirect tariff INSTRUMENTATION
through legislation cor by the round
about and eheckered route of reel
procity in competitive products-at
this identical time the Democratic
party in the Southern states is veer-
sng squarely around, away from free
trade and toward protection. To find
IN a Democratic senator from South
Carolina a better prefectionist than
y01 can find In one of Iowa's Republi-
cas- senators is indeed political
paradox The explanation would seem
to be that Democrats in the South are
just beginning to taste the full fruit
age OF protection prosperity, and they
like II and want more of it. while GER
tain Republicans in the North are
afraid OF too much prosperity and
are planning how to have less of it.
A singular state of things. truly!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-11
SOME NEW QUESTIONS
TO THE SOUTH BEARING TO-
WARD PROTECTION.
Southern Democrats are Beginning
to Taste the Fruits of the Policy
Which Develops Natural Resources
and Builds UP Some Industries

The wonderful transition that has
taken place in the Southern states in
he past twenty-five years from
surely agricultural to manufactur-
ing section is brought into view by
Senator McLaurin of South Carolina,
in an article in the New York Com
mercial Advertiser of Feb. 25. In a
generation, says Senator McLaurin,
South Carolina has become a competl-
tor of Massachusetts for first place
in cotton manufacture, and Blrm1ng-
ham has become a formidable rival
of Pittsburg in iron and steel produc-
ton. And yet the South has only be-
gun to cultivate the edge of the vast
field of her industrial possibilities.
One-half of all the timber that stands
in the United States is south of the
Mason and Dixon line. Alabama,
only one among a nnmber of South
ern states possessing great coal de-
posts, has more bituminous coal
than Pennsylvania, much more iron
ore than Pennsylvania, and ten times
more timber than Pennsylvania. In
view of the enormous industrial de-
velopment that has already taken
place in the South, and the stin more
enormous industrial possibilities,
Senator McLaursn says:
Consideration of these facts has
led to a great Change in the views of
many of our leading men on the tariff
question. When the Ding1ey bill was
being framed Z was a member of the
Ways and Means committee of the
House of Representatives, and 1 took
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-11

make themselves ridiculous by pre-
tending that they are suffering from
economic evils in the midst of an
Astounding prosperity. If the British
should rise up and denounce free
trade as a calamitous policy we might
regard the movement as a reasonable
one, for workingmen are parading the
streets of the chief city of the king
dom and leading publicists say there
are 100000 inhabitants of Great
Britain living on the border land of
starvation; but for Americans to con-
denim protection while every one is
employed and all are making money
is a preposterous political anomaly
due to the existence of an undue num-
Der of citizens with wheels in their
heads.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-11
In Case OF a SURPLUS.

When supply aovertakes demand in
the steel industry, so that the Ameri-
can product is equal to itGor in excess
of the demands of this market,
should there be a reduction of tariff
duties in response to the demands
of tariff reformers, it would encour-
age the dumping of European surplus
stocks upon the American market at
a price lower than the domestic
manufacturer could meet. Every
ton of this surplus, so disposed of
here, would take the place of an equal
amount Of the American product
and thus operate to reduceitae Ameri-
can output and limit the aopportuni-
ties for employment of American
workmen-
When supply overtakes demand,
American manufacturers shunlld not
be criticised, but rather encouraged,
to dump their surplus supplies, IL any
they have, upon any market which
can absorb them. even at a price
much below that paid ant home, and
even at loss, rather than that such
q surplus should remain in the mar
ket, depressing prices below the mar
gin of fair profit, and thus soon or
laEe forcing a cessation or a reduction
in production Such reduction in
production would mean the loss of
employment to many; the reduction
of consumption in other Departments
of trade, through a reduction in the
consWnptive capacity OF those en-
gagged in the iron and steel 1adustry,i
and general disturbance to trade, |
which would proceed with a eamula-
tive effect through every avenue of
industry-Seattle Post-Intelligeacer.