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, 1904-02-18
RAWLlNS ITEMS,


The eastbouud shipping of oranges
will commenced in a few days over
this route and it is said the amount
air lady in sight exceeds that of any
previous year.
The Salt Lake papers report that
j. +. Cosgritf, vice president Of the
First National bank in this city, has
been elected president of the Com
mercial National OF Salt Lake.
c. Ray Ferris has purchased the
Honchon u Flamme mine on Jack
creek in which the sensational strike
was made II couple of weeks age, and
has organized IA stock compauy to
work it,
The city authorities discovered that
the peddlers who were in the city last
week violated the auti-pedAliug law.
aud late Saturday afternoon they
were arrested aud hued SO each.
They paid aud left the CITY,
A number of townspeople are be
coming Interested in "A land specula-
ton in Cuba and we learn that George
Tanner will take a trip I the island
about the first of the month in the
interests Of u local syndicate which
contemplates the purchase # q large
tract there.
Shipments of meat aud other sup
plies Tor the Russian and Japanese
armies and n%avies, who are busy tight.
ing each other in the far east, ron.
tinue to pass through by the train
load. Conductor Cusick had as sec
ond No. ) Thursday night n specia
shipment of salt meats consisting OF
20 cars.
, 1904-02-18

SENATOR Hanna is dead. Those
are words fraught with much import
for the world. His was IA place that
cannot he filled. 1t is seldom that
the world has I'VE sren Il man Of Just
such callbre as his, and it is seldom
that the world has ever seen a mau so
abused aud lambasted by the news
papers as was he. and that, too, without
the shadow of Il cause. other than
that he was loyal to his friends. The
laboring man has lost one of his
ablest friends and advocates, and his
sinceIe.t mourners will be among
that class of people. The Republicau
party is also a great loser, for he has
been, for many years, its safest and
wisest adviser. carving it to victory
IN two different occasions. Senator
Hanna was best loved bv those who
knew him best, and it is said that the
public has but IA dim and imperfect
idea of the really great aud noble
soul gha. has now gone to its rest.
, 1904-02-18

demned. and why! What is the dis
tinction that justitirs the m and
holds the other wrong? The majority
holds the killing of the one as wrong
but the public. conscience of the
world has not yet reached the stage
of growth where war is wrong, and
may not be engaged in by civilized
peoples. Private malice and public
wal for the seeming, though perhaps
mistaken public good, are two very
different affairs. The soldier does
not crafty "A personal feeling, serves
no personal object, and seeks no per-
sonal gain. The men are killing in
obedience to a command of the gov
eminent on whose shoulders rest the
responsibility for the righteousness of
the cause that led to the war.
The lessons learned by the soldier
are an important step in the expert
ence OF an evolving ego. He learns
obedience to order, cleanliness, rapid
Ity, accuracy, %promptness in action,
and Willingness to undergo hardship
and privation for an ideal. While we
would preach peace from every house
top till wal is no more, we can not
help seeing the value of this TO the
soldier in the evolution of his soul.
Mrs. Besint says: "When the ideal
OF the country fires the heart, when
life is sacrificed FORT gladly by rough,
common and uneducated men, they
may be rude, violent, drunken, but
they are passing through "A training,
which in lives to come viii make them
better and nobler men" Such men
learning, perhaps for the first time,
the beauty of fidelity, courage, and
devotion are stepping onward in their
evolution. Perhaps it is this that
makes the world see a difference be-
tween private killing and war; for the
interest of one is personal; that of the
other belongs to the wider self-tbe
nation.
Oliver G.. Sheer
, 1904-02-18
PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES,
What Is a Crime

There seems to be d common rule
of action in every civilized ouutr
characterizing as wrong certain things,
such as murder and theft, both of
which are recognized as crimes. But
Is this view borne out by the facts2
Do we really hold these things i'm
moral in practice? And. finally, WHY
do we recognize them rs wroug9 II
we study the evolution Of the human
race, we find there was u time in the
history Of the race when these things
Were not wrong. Now the majority
of the people in the nations have
reached such a level IN their growth
that murder aud theft are considered
as evil and against the progress
of the whole people, And
whit OF the minority who have
not yet reached the level where mur-
der and theft may not he resorted 10
rs an rXpedIency? These pc pie be-
ing below the level of the minority in
moral tone ate called criminals s.
The law is made by the majority who
are beyond murder and theft il the
pursuit of their selfish ends. Thos,
who have not risen up to the mora
stature Of the lowest Of the m~aiorii,
belong tn the criminal rla.s
, 1904-02-18

souls. infants in the school of life,
aud we do not help them by trampling
them down and brutalizing them fur
ther. because they are scarcely a
should use all the means in our pow
er, all that reason can suggest, to
guide and teach these child souls, to
discipline them into "A better life.
Let us not treat them as hardened
criminals because they are mere babes
in the nursery. The other type pre-.
4ents to us "a more hopeful phase of
development. They feel remorse and
repentance after the commission of a
crime. They know the difference be
tween right and wrong but are as yet
too weak to choose always the better
course Human law imposes suffer
ing and that very suffering will help
them to resist evil in the future. All
experience is necessary in order that
discrimination between right and
wrong can be developed. When that
discrimination is reached We need the
evil experience 10 longer. The mo
ment right and wrong lie distinct be-
fore a man aud he chooses the wrong
he commits "A sin and goes against a
law that he knows and admits. Here
he is with desires too strong to he
withstood prompting him the evil
course. His conscience pricks him if
the act led to simple results. remorse
haunts him if it led to great results,
and the suffering is what he needs to
cur him of the folly of yielding to
his lower nature. II he knew it was
wrong, in that moment in which he
yielded, there was deliberate degrada.
ton. The experience of the wrong is
only needed by any soul before he
recognizes it AS wrong, and that it
may, through the suffering that fol,
lows, come TO he recognized as wrong.
II two courses are open to a man
neither of which appears to be NOR.
ally different from the other, then he
is free to choose. Treason to himself
only ome when we allow the brute
in us to dominate the God in ms
This is the test Of sin and nearly all
II wrongdoers stand in this
today.
Let us see how we arrive at the de.
cision AS 10 what is a crime. We
make distinctions between killing and
killing, Nearly every nan has a per
soual code which saws for certain acts
committed TO mo or mine will take
life no matter what comes. But, ON
genera principles, for "a man 10 take
his knife when in anger aud stab his
enemy. we hold him a murderer If
an army Of men take up their knives
or rifles aud kill a thousand enemies.
W. call it war. In the one case we
laud the host of murderers. while we
condemn the man who has only taken
one little life. Wholesale murder il.
praised-the act Of iL. oue /. oo,-
, 1904-02-18
THE Living Of Life

(From the June Irend.J
If when the Spring hath kissed the Earth 80
warmly
That. smiling. it breaks forth in blushing
flower.
Thou dost not feel, each year, Life's deepest
ysarning,
And Loves e~cstatic, magic-wiuiding power,
Thou hast not lived.
II when each Season comes in turn so strangely
Unfolding Natures laws in beauty shrined,
Thou art not thrilled with full, profound con
That these are thoughts of an Eternal Mind
Thou hast not lived.
If Music never spoke to thee so sweetly
y poets thought, some dream of painters
But thou hast found thy soul in rapture trem'
bling
And taking wing. as 'twere, to Paradise,
Thou hast not lived,
IL Friendship whispered not to thee so toniy
But that thou wast II brother TO thy friend
Uplifting and en%shielding him in trouble,
So far thy power aud fortune might extend,
Thou hast not lived.
II thou hast never loved a soul so deeply
That for its peace thou would'st not glad
have died,
II thought or mem'ry of that loved ones vision
Hath not Ger since thee blest and purified
Thou hast not lived.
II Duty meier hath called to thee so strongly
That thou would'st not have battled on Us
side,
And, standing bravely all alone il need be-
Deiied what fortune might for thee betide'
Thou hast not lived.
II joy or grief of man hath left thee coldly
The pain Of beast, the song of bird above
lfthou hast not the tender, plying, heart-thr'o'
ProclaiminR kinship OF a deep world-love'
Thou hast not lived.
II thou hast schooled and trained thy soul so
nobly,
E~Nalting it with each refining grace
That thou might'st yield each thought anu
each emotion
la conservation 10 the human race
II thou hast grasped the truth of God socleafD
That thou dost see Him in each atoms stn'e'
II thou hast ear for what all Nature's speaklnS
That Life is Love and Love is quivering LIE
Then hast thou lived,
Then hast thou lived
Louis II. Enrich
Colorado Springs, Colo.
, 1904-02-18

II we are not going to be able to
dispose of our water bonds, it would
seem the part of wisdom for the
Council TO take some steps, looking
toward pro9idIng some Kind of fire
protection, if it is nothing more than
a bucket brigade. We are going to
see the eutire north side of the bust
ness portion of Bridge street in ruins
some of these days unless we make
some provision for lighting fire. just
what j. best to be done would be hard
to say, but certainly some steps must
DE taken. The town has fallen into
a kind Of lethargy on tins subject,
and it would seem that nothing short
Of a serious lire is going 10 make
them wake up to the helpless situa-
ton we are in just at the present
time.
, 1904-02-18

Ir is greatly to be hoped that the
reorganization of Co. "G," w. n. g.,
can be effected. But this cannot be
done unless the citizens of the town
will take hold and help the matter
forward. The company might lie
made "A very effective social club, MS
well as "A strong company for service
in time of need. We have IA number
of Young business men who ought to
be members Of the company, and If
they will consent to come into it, its
numbers and effectiveness can he
very much augmented. Thepreseuce
of this company organization brings
into town the SUN of $500 yearly, and
it should he maintained from Il busI-
ness standpoint, if from no other.
The company of National Guards at
Douglas, in this state, owns ITS own
armory building, has its dress drills,
and regular balls, and is II of the
most substantial social institutions in
the town, respected aud patroniled
by the entire community. We could
make just such an Organization of
this company if the Young business
men will but take hold Of il.
, 1904-02-18

IT is certainly hard to believe that
Editor Chaplin, OF the Laramie Re
publican, is sincere when he trots out
the name OF Uncle" lvinson as Il an
didate for Governor. But a man that
will advocate the expenditure Of $500
on the construction OF a bridge, over
which nothing even travels except
wolves, bears and coyotes, is liable to
do anything, no matter how rldicu-
lous, and then look solemn over it.
, 1904-02-18
Curt Won Knobloch Dead,

The Rock Springs Miner is au.
thority for the statement that Curt
Won knobloch, at one time a resi-.
dent of this place, is dead. having
died from brain trouble, in Salt
Lake City, ON the 10th inst. He
was we'll and favorahiy known in
this community, having been en-
gagged IN the ranch business here
some twenty years ngo. Owing
to the fact that his name was
Curt" which finally became
twisted into Count it was
thought that he was of noble birth
bnt this is probably not trn..
Those OF his friends here will re-
greet to hear hat his last DAYS
were clouded with brain trouble
, 1904-02-18

The death Of Hon, e. W. Bennett,
III Rawliu-, last Monday morning, re-
moves one of the old timers Of this
state. From his earliest residence
here he has been an important figure,
both in politics and the industrial
walks OF life. He was one Of the most
genial, kind hearted men it WAS ever
MY good fortune to know. He was a
, 1904-02-18
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1904

Those who are afraid that little
Japan will get whipped in the com
ing contest with Russia should re
member that 1.-THE race is not always
10 the swift, nor the battle to the
strong" Japan is liable to win
hands down.
, 1904-02-18

man of unusual intelligence and
probity of character, but his later
days were saddened and clouded by
financial reverses, that cratnped and
hampered his otherwise generous and
honest soul. No IL yer knew him
that did not honor and respect him
He struggled heroically against re-
verses that CALLED him to the quick,
yet ever retained his genial, kindly
disposition to the end. May his rest
be peaceful and his future unclouded
in that land where his comrades oil
early days will soon follow him.
, 1904-02-18

1T is gratifying to see the concern
manifested among orr citizens re
garding the obscene picture business,
as brought out by the prompt arrest
and timing of the two parties last
Tuesday. In the opinion of some the
fine was very light, still its prompt
enforcement and the tenor of the PEG.
pie, as shown at the trial, will be suf-
ficient warning that nothing of that
kind viii. be tolerated in Saratoga, no
matter how prevalent it may he i'll
other towns. 1t is astounding tn
know that there can be any one so
depraved as to desire such stuff as if
published and circulated among the
depraved classes. The average citi.
zen, W of this ulcer that is eat
ing its way into the morals of the
youth of the country, passes blindly
on, until something of this nature
happens, and then he is liable to 40
to the ether extreme, Eternal Wig
lance is the price of liberty in all
things, but it is especially SO when il
comes to the moral welfare of the
young.
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disposea 81 anG vLe care and wisdom
with which every dollar is being adj
ministersd. A painstaking Englishman
figured out in 1901, when Mr.. Carnegie
first began his philanthrcpic campaign,
what MIR. Carnegie must do if he sue
ceeded in disposing of the bulk of his for
tune by the time he is so years old. Mr..
Carnegie was then 81 years of age and
allowing, he said, a fortune of G25,0C0,-
600 to remain undistributed at Mr.. Car
negie's death, "a modest" sum he CALLS
it. he would still have from e 50,O00,OO0
to G55.OO0,O00 to dispose of during the
13 years probably remaining to him.
That is to say, unless death Is to over
take him at 80 with more than the G25,-
100000 still undistributed he will have to
rid himself of a4,OOO,00O year, every
year until 1914. Now 94,OOO,OOO year
is a tidy sum of money, the vastness OF
which 1T is hard to conceive. If Mr.. Car
negie were to give away five pound
note minute to everybody who cared to
apply for it, he would at the end of
year-even supposing that he denied
himself all sleep and worked night ard
day, week days and Sundays, handing
ont his i've pounds notes minute--find
that he Lad disposed of only about g.
100000 pounds and he would still have
f1,5O00O0 left over to play with; from
which itfclloas that taking interest into
consideration IN the 10 years of life that
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still presumably remain to Mr.. Carnegie
he must melt his gold or distribute his
money at a rate CT eight notes minute
day in and Gay out, making 10 Geduc-
lions either for sleeping time CT Sundays
Even at that rate he will still have his
&25 900 600 left for his heirs"
But Mr.. Carnegie does rot distribute
his wealth in that way. He has very posi-
tive views in regard to his benevolences
and like the stubborn Scotchman that
he is, he never swerved from the one rule
of helping those who help themselves,
and never helping directly an individual.
1t would take big volume 20 tell Of all
the channels which have felt the thrill
Of the golden stream of his wealth AS
the American public already knows Mr..
Carnesie's favorite form of gifts is in Ii
braries to cities, and the amount which
he gives is based upon the amount which
the city pledges itself to raise yearly
for the maintenance of the library. So
far there are nearly 200 of these Car
negie libraries in this country. extending
from Maine to California and from the
Gulf to Canada. The little lard of Scot
land is dotted with over a score of these
monuments to education, ard ENGLAND
and Ireland have rot been forgotten.
His native town of Dumfermline has rot
only been given library, but tech
nical school and public baths In this
country the s10,0OO.O0O gift to the nation
to establish the National university for
advanced research is his largest single
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WHY TORTOISE WON.
Old Brother Terrapin Gives True
Version of Race of Which All
Children Know

Did you ever hear the true story of
the race between the Hare and the Tor
toise? Old Brother Terrapin told it to
me one day as l lay on my back in the
grass. by the pond.
Never heard the real truth Of that
victory OF mine, did yer?" he squeaked
as he crawled up to me.
No, never said 1; how was it?'
Well he laughed, you see, they al
ways suppose that l won that race by
keeping on Flooding along at my usual
gait, while old man Rabbit frisked
along and fooled and wasted his time
showing off before the spectators.
But it was nothing CT that SORT. Let
me tell you at the start that all the plod-
ding in the world without little
drought and common sense will never
win anything.
You see, had little bone to pick
with that 'yaller dog at Bill Sykes.
cause one day when | was asleep he
turned NE over on my back, and |
didn't get my footing fer two Gays and
was nearly starved, tosay nothing of the
work brought on the old lady and the
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Cured loss OF business IS at sand
several thousand oai
dollars and the end is not yet
1t is all because of the law passed
by the last congress forbidding the sale
of alcoholic liquor about the capitol.
When the house of representatives put
that amendment on the immigration
bill it was done for buncombe and no.
body was more surprised and shocked
when the senate forgot to strike it out
than the men who first proposed it.
OF course they were sorry to lose
the occasional opportunity for a dram
at lunch, but there was one result of
their legislation which no one of them
seems to have thought of at ALL That
was the circumstance that the entire
profits of the restaurant were derived
from the sale of liquor. just as is the
case in any first-class restaurant in
any town. Without the liquor privi-
lege the restaurant cannot help falling
behind. The most wizardlike fnan-
cial genius on earth could not make
both ends meet.
So the question has come up to I'm
Gle Joe Cannon for decision. Shall the
restaurant man be held to his con-
tract and obliged to continue the res
taurant at a great financial loss to
himself? Shall the house take hold of
the business and run the eating es-
Enlistment direct, paying all bills and
taking all risks or shall the restaurant
be abolished altogether?
To abolish the restaurant is out of
the question. Even temperance rep
resentatives must have something to
eat i'll the middle of the day, to say
nothing of the hundreds of visitors
who crowd the capitol. To run the
business is rather undignified for a
great legislative body. 1t is out of the
question to make the unfortunate res
taurant man suffer for the acts of
the other party to the contract. 1t is
a problem that Speaker Cannon has
got to solve in very short time and
similar problem will come up at the
other end of the capitol for solution
before the close of the session.
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new relationship between wealth and
the masses, and it has caused other rich
men to pause and ponder anew the re-
sponsibilities of their possessions. AS
an accumulation of wealth Mr. Carnegie's
history is closed. AS an administrator
of wealth MIR. Carnegie has, is might be
said, only begun career andh achieve
ments in this new sphere of activity
promises to be even more remarkable
than those Of his active business life,
and he is bringing to bear upon this new
task to which he has called himself the
same hard common sense, the same bust
ness abilities, the same integrity of pur-
pose, as characterized him as the builder
of fortune.
Mr. Carnegie in his Gospel of
Wealth" clearly states his position. Aft
er calling attention to the three modes
in which surplus wealth can be disposed
of, namely: By Inheritance to the fam
lily of the decedent; by bequest to public
and philanthropic purposes. and by adj
ministration during the lifetime Of the
possessor, he argues to show why the
last named method is the wisest and
best. And true to his convictions. Mr..
Carnegie is Systematically and thor
oughly carrying out his plans ard giving
practical working demonstration of
the best and highest mission of the rich
man.
The tremendous task to which Mr.. Car
negie has set himself is made apparent
when one considers the fortune to be
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cavalry of'icer. For Hepburn was q
member of Phil Sheridan's staff and
he was one of the best fighters in the
federal army. He has great record
to look back upon both in the field and
in the halls of legislation, and 1t is not
to be wondered at that he becomes
sometimes intolerant of restraint and
breaks out of the reservation when the
humdrum of Washington politics
doesn't go exactly to suit him.
Hepburn wants to destroy the civil
service commission. He seeks to smite
it hip and thigh. He believes it is a
thoroughly vicious institution and that
it has absorbed the powers of patron.
age to such an extent that is past all
endurance. He would like to amend
the civil service laws so that each de-
partment might select it's own clerks
after passing suitable examination,
and so that the head of a department
could summarily dismiss clerk if he
pleased without preferring formal
charges. In a word, he would go back
to the old spoils system with a few
improvements.
There are a good many members Of
congress who agree with him, hut he
is about the only one who is willing
to make fight.
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BOY KEPT HIS WORD.
Good Enhits Formed in Ycuth Made
Charles Gray II Prosperous
City Business Leader.

Charlie! Charlie!" clear and sweet
as note struck from a silver bell
the voice rippled over the common.
That's mother!" cried one of the
boys, and he instantly threw down
his bat and picked up his jacket and
cap.
Don't go yeti" Have it QUIT"
Finish the camel" Try it again.
cried the players in noisy chorus.
Il must go, right off, this minute. l
told her that I'd come whenever she
called
But wouldn't be sucn baby as
to run the minute she. called said one.
Il don't call it babyish to keep ones
word TO his mother. call that man
ly, and the boy who doesn't keep his
word to her will never keep it to any
one else-you see if he does" and he
hurried away to his cottage home.
Thirty years have passed since those
boys played on the common Charlie
Gray is prosperous business man in
great city, and his mercantile
friends say of him that his word
is a bond" We asked how he ac-
CURED such reputation. His reply
was: 81 never broke my word when
boy, no matter how great the tempta-
ticn, and the habits formed then have
chung to me through life Baptist
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