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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
LAST YEARS GRIMES,

The Chicago Tribune has for years
been IN the habit Of gathering and pub
fishing statistics on crimes committed
In this country. According to that au-
thorlty there were 81 lynchn5s during
1904 the smallest number since 1889
(the greatest was 225 In 1890 S.4S2
homlcides or i9i less than IN l9O3 a de"
cline from s6,562.l65 In the amount Of
money stolen by cmbezzlement fors-
cry, defalcatlons and bank wrechngs In
1908 TO t4,7t2,507 IN 1904 There were 10
train robberles, which was 8 below the
average FOR 10 years On the other
hand, the Increase OF homIcides by
hlghwaymeu and burglars was very
noticeable 464 Ia 1904 as compared
with 400 In 1903, 1888 in 1909 and 1893 In
1901
The decline IN the number OF lynch
lngs Is regarded as significant Eighty
two Of these crimes during the year
occurred IN the South and five IN the
North SO Of the victims were negroes,
four we're whites and two were negro
women. only one lynchng took place
IN North Carolina, and but two IN
Louisiana and Tennessee respectively
1t Is evident that the decline In lynch
ings X due to the agitation against IT,
IN which Southern governors have tax
en- prominent part. And this Is most
encouraging. For It proves that the
terrible disease OF the body polite, OF
which lynchngs Is but one symptom, Is
not incurable. II proves that II can be
arrested In it's course, II those entrust-
ed with power will use this consclen-
tlousy.
Some writer's on the question stu
maintain that lynchings are due TO the
widespread contempt OF the courts ana
the unpuuished subyersIon OF the law
II would be nearer the truth to say that
such apparent contempts for courts ana
lynchings are symptoms OF the
same disease They have common
origin. instead Of sustaining the rela-
ton OF cause and effect. For In many
instances suspected criminals have
been taken out OF the hands Of courts
and killed without legal trial In such
cases It is impossible to plead "unpun-
lshed subyerslon OF the law Thirst
for blood-an unnatural craving for
horrible scenes--ls the only explanation
possible And this craving can be cur
ed only by the strict maintenance OF the
law against the mob,
The action taken In some parts OF the
South ls most commendable. Attempts
have been made to lndIct lynohers MI
lula officers have been relieved of their
commands for falling to do their duty
when ordered to defend prisoners. In
Mississippi one fearless judge has pass
ed long sentences on white men con-
ylcted OF whtecapping, and Gov
Vardaman has done his duty In his
state. In one instance he prevented a
lynchng by snatchng a negro almost
from the hands Of mob and lodging
him safely in prison, Let the good work
go on. Statistics prove that II is not
without desirable results.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
ISL AN CONVERTED

A rumor Is abroad TO the effect that
the empress dowager OF China has,
through the efforts Of Minister Congei
and his wife, been converted to chris
tlan Science. There Is really nothing
improbable In that. The philosophy Of
that Science" is very nearly allied 70
oriental IDEAS and II should appeal TO
the oriental mind Rumor has II that
the marked preference Of the empress
for the goclety Of Mrs Conger excited
jealousy among the ladies' or the other
legations, but the intimacy continued,
and the secret ia now said TO have been
revealed. The minister's wife has made
an imperial convert to the doctrines OF
Mrs, Eddy
Tel An has for many years been the
actual ruler OF china and up TO the
conclusion OF the Boxer war was stub
bornly reaetionary against all reforms
IN that empire After that she proceed
ed to relax much Of her rgor The
Manchus were ordered 10 intermarry
with the Chinese, and were instructed
to travel and seek education In the
western nations, like the Chinese have
done FOR years. She also decreed that
the process Of producing small feet In
women should be no longer practised'
Then she invited the wives Of the for
elgn ministers TO take tea with her, ana
unbent to a degree that was gratifying
to tho legation ladies',
II IL useless 10 speculate upon the
possible effects Of this alleged CONVEX
sion. 1t ls possible that IL will result
In closer relations between this country,
where Christian Science originated, and
China. II Isl An is a true Scientist"
she win perhaps confer with Mrs, Eddy
on questions OF Importance, and that
should mean new policy for China.
II the story is true, we hope the
Prcsbyterans, Baptists Methodlsts and
others who maintain missionaries In
China will not feel too much chagrined
about the success OF a rival sect At
the time OF the Boxer trouble, when the
foreign legations were In peril at the
capital, the Christian Scientists, as
will be remembered, organized for COM
blned demonstration against the wild
hordes. This demonstration" was em-
lnently successful as soon as the for
elgn troops got TO work, and the en-
press may have been led to believe that
similar demonstrations would be USE
full in future emergency. She has not
perhaps, seen similar possible adyan-
tages in the Westminster confession, or
other creeds, But, perhaps the entire
story is without foundation In fact.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

being IN the same way as man, ana
that consequently she could never be
intrusted with the duties and cares
which deyolve on him by reason Of his
superior sex.
This logic is. in all Us harshness, un-
answerable. But there are cases IN
which theory and practice necessarily
must dlyerge, and this Is one Of them.
Mercy has claims, as wen as justice,
and where the ends of Justice can be
met with mercy II has a potent
claim. The logic OF mercy Is no less
unanswerate than that Of judgment
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
RELIABLE Dwosap ,rAr rsrlcs.
Philadelphia Ledger.

Many church organizations regard d.
vorce as the most serious menace to So
ciety. From the attention which they
give to the subject Il Is apparent that
they consider II Of more Importance than
any other source Of general Ills, Yet II
Ia a fact that no trustworthy informa-
ton as TO the extent OF the evil seems
10 be available. Published figures are
contradictory. Writers In favor OF re-
form present statistics which appalL
but which are followed by others show
Ing that the reformers exaggerate. IL Is
full time, therefore, that somebody
should collect accurate statistics. a res
oution introduced In the United States
senate imposes this duty on the census
bureau and includes the record OF mar
riages also. This measure would at
least have the merit OF securing some
figures which could be accepted as hay
Ing authority.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

when Mark Twain moved away
from California he was able TO pack
all his worldly goods IN a cigar box
Now he has two or three fine houses In
New York aud the bronchitis" says
the Los Angeles Times Does the house
In the bronchitis look anything like
those IN the Bronx?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
A NOVEL INSOMNIA REMEDY,
From the Humanitarian.

ibAh AHN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In a recent book Mr. stackpool o.
Dell puts forward a novel remedy for
sleeplessness. He says Take a card
about the size OF sheet of foolscap
and obtain bottle Of luminous paint,
Write with the paint upon the card
the words Sleep-Sleep-Sleep large
ana clear, Place this card in the day
time where the light Will get at It, and
at nighttime In such a position on the
wall or on the screen that you viii
have TO lift up your eyed In order to
look at It while you are lying IN your
easiest position on the bed-that Is to
say, the position IN which you general
ly go to sleep, As you see the illumln-
ated words, repeat them to yourself IN
"a monotonous manner AS the eyelids
become tired. let them close You VIII
not. IN most cases, repeat the words
very often before sleep brings on for
getfulness.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Some OF the big railroad men say that
employees OF the railroads would be the
first TO feel the effect Of government
fixing Of freight rates, That might be,
but ala these same railroad men ever
stop TO think that the power to fix
rates probably also includes the power
TO tx wages? For the first time in
the course Of ,heir existence the rail-
roads are about TO realize the fact that
they are not entirely private concerns,
but are quasi public corporations.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
WHAT rnE COUNTRY NEEDS.
San TrancIsco Chronicle.

odn y IuUClsco NiIonlClc'
The question now interesting Con-
gress In quiet way ~ whether the
country needs battleships more than It
does public buildings and river and
harbor improvements. If the treasury
were In a plethoric condition II might
be otherwise, but as things stand there
would not be much for land improve
ments n the sea should be too gener-
ously dealt with, and consequently
there Ia liable 20 be a cut-down Of ma
val estimates which may be retaliated
upon by taking n whack at the river
and harbor bill.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
WHERE SCIENCE Is BALKED,
New York Mall

when we know what life is. / think
we shall then know what cancer Is
This Ia as far as the bequest OF 100000
by Mrs. Caroline Brewer Croft OF Mas
sachusetts. for the scientific study Of
tho nature OF cancer has carried the
investigators toward a positive knowl-
edge of the subject But no man has
yet approached the threshold OF the
knowledge OF what life Is. Herbert
Spencer, after a life-tlme or profound
est study, died convinced that there Is
mo passage" between the field OF
scientific knowledge and the realm Of
mystery wherein lies the secret Of life;
and those two words he wrote In
ominous italics,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
prsEnrr news PHONES.

Persons desiring 10 communicate .py
telephone with any department ~ thS
peseret News win save themselves ana
this establishment q great deal OF annoy,
ence II they win take time 70 nouee 'peS'
numbers,
For tho chief Editors office lAs'
For Citv Editor ana Reporters, $500.
For Business Manager 9S9-S'
For Business Office. 3Sl-2
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
STUDENTS WHO nEHAvE,
Norfolk Landmark.

They don't have any OF this sopho-
more and freshmen foollshness at the
University OF Virginia, The students
there are not disposed to make mon
keys Of themselves, They have plenty
Of fun, but they theat each other as
gentlemen,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
A VIGOROUS REJoINDER.


Rev. S y. Wshard is one Of those
exceedingly plous predestnarlans VINO
seem to think that they were toreor-
aalned TO make war upon the Nor
mons" AS he stands among the
very elect" OF course It does not mat
ter what he does or what he says In
his attacks upon the alleged reprob-
ates, because his future is fixed and
he Is certain OF eternal glory, accord
ing TO the decree before the world was
made. as set forth IN the Confession
of Faith that contains the fundament-
ais OF his religion
A few days ago he was taken to task
Tor having falsided the utterances OF
Bishop o. Il. whitney, in Il letter TO an
eastern newspaper Now he stands
guilty OF further wllful untruths, In on
article he furnished to the New YORK
independent It Is headed 1.-THE Nor
mon Menace" and contains the usual
kind OF Misrepresentation that flow
from his mouth and pen, Mutilated
quotations from the writings Of Nor
mons very many years ago, are so put
before the public as TO entirely perveit
the real doctrines OF 'Mormonism,'
ind these are supplemented by spitefu
and vicious remarks Of his own clear
" exhibiting the rancor and bitterness
Of warped and yenomous nature,
Two assertions he makes win be suf-
Rclent as samples OF his perverslons,
and we win not follow him through his
perpentine trail, as the Independent
nyes us the trouble, lie says the au-
thoritles Of the Church declare and
teach concerning the President Of the
Church" that "he has the same author
lty that God has, and by virtue Of that
authority Is In reality a part Of Cod
out he does not give his authority for
The statement He assais Senator
smoot as partcops criminis' by CON
seuting to the conduct Of criminals
and aSows "he ~ in the United states
Senate by virtue Of his support OF these
men In their crimes"
ms eftlcle was intended as reply
10 some very fair and temperate re-
marks In The INDEPENDENT of Decen-
~. 90 tooi ,,,,,h ,,or, ,.ro.o, ir
our 90 i'V' why" WY quo'e' ~
these columns Here Is the answer OF
that paper to Mr. Wishurd, In It's issue
NJ Ian ~ 1903.
We are glad TO print Mr. Nishprd's
article In reply TO pu editorial Of ours;
but it hardly touches the subject we
were discussing Tie question was not,
IL the Mormon Church bad nor Is
the Mormon Church meddling with
politios2 nor, Ia Polygamy still proc-
tced h UNh} hut Has Mr.. SmuOt
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17
RUssIA's COMING MAN.
Chlcarn Trlhllne.

II Russians, when they are rellshlng
TO the full the zest of their new freedom,
produce any customary great man. then
let the other nations OF the earth, and
especially those neighborlng Russia,
watch out Russia Will reach the warm
water and may leave more than one
wreck In her wake.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

A Utica. n, Y, girl of eighteen sum-
mers X suing a man of olghty-nye vim
ters for damages for breach OF prom
Use. Her action Is prompted by love
OF money.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

This railway freight rate question Is
freighted with great consequences for
both railroads and President,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Gessler Rousseau Is a very good name
for an Anarchist, much better than
William Tell Voltaire would have been
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

This bounty business has raised such
an awful stencil that there must have
been an immense number Of skunk
skins paid for
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Kingdom Gould Is back at Columbia
university, His encounter with the
sophomores shows that his aim Is high,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

"The law can make the theaters safe,
but what can # do with the woman
who smells smoker" asks an exchange.
Smoke the woman out,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

The New York subway and elevated
trains are among the greatest pack
ing" institutions IN the country.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Representative Joseph recalls what
Tacitus says Of the Germans. that they
have red hair and fierce blue eyes,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

French deputies are getting rather
saucy when they flourish saucepan in
the face OF the premier
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

The Missouri senatorial situation Is
fast developing into what may be called
a pretty mess.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

If Diogenes Is stlll hunting for an
honest man he might try ST, Louis and
Jefferson City
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Sheriff Emery has gathered in
bountlful harvest
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

AS the days Of Congress grow fewer
the need Of an extra session grows more
imperative.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Among Senator Burton's trials is a
new trial.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

Scandals In public Offices should be
exposed and not suppressed.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

I'm the fun maturity OF her unequaled
power"
"a voice OF Incompatible beauty and
splendor"
AND COMPLETE CONCERT co.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-17

PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.
Sundays excepted
Corner " South Temple and East Temple
Streets SALT Lake CITY Utah.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-16
The Oldest Church.

VIM. E. Curtis in the Chicago
Record-Herald, says:
Speaking of churches, f. M. Rog-
.ers calls my attention to a mistake
in one of my letters from New Or
leans, in which said that the little
chapel of Sainte Marie, built by
Bienville in 1719, was the oldest
church edifice in North America ex-
cept a little chapel in Santa Fe. Mr..
Rogers reminds me that the church
at Smithfeld, Va, in Isle of Wight
county, was built nearly a hundred
years earlier, which is true. In
front OF the altar is a marble tablet
marking the resting place of the
Rev. Mr.. Whitcraft, who dedicated
this edifce to God in 1851 and died
1885, leaving one sorrowful wife and
two mournful children" The Smith
land church fell into decay during
the civil war, and was restored, roof,
windows, floors and seats, with mon
ey solicited by the wife of Senator
Manone, Of Virginia. Senators Don
Cameron, Quay, Stanford, Hale and
others subscribed all that was neces-
sary. Once month the people of
that Parish assemble for worship at
the old church.
Rock Creek church in Washington
is also older than the chapel in New
Orleans, for it was built in 1719, of
bricks brought from England for
ballast in ships that came over for
tobacco. There may be other
churches quite as old.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-16
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
Statistics Show That Three
Out of Eight People Be
long to Churches.

VIM. E. Curtis says in Chicago
Herald:
Statistics compiled by Rev. DR..
H. K. Carroll and Rev. DR., D. L.
Leonard, upset the popular impress
sion that the people of the United
States are not as religious as they
used to be, and show that the mem
bership of the Christian churches is
increasing more rapidly than the
population of the United States,
notwithstanding the enormous inn
migration which amounts to three
quarters of million a year.
According to the calculation OF
the census bureau, the annual in
crease in population is 1877 per cent.
while the increase in church mem
bership for the year 1904 was a
trihe:more rapid, being 1872 per
cent. The net gain of all Christian
denominations was $50, 1878 commun-
icants, slight falling-off from the
gain in 1903. There was an increase
of 2,3l0 churches and 1874 clergy
men during the year.
WThe increase in communicates
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-16
TO KEEP IN HEALTHY TRIM
Physical Exercise Is Gaining in Pop
ularity Among Every Class
of People.

Physical exercise is the fad of
the hour, there is no denying that.
Despite the attractive healtbful-
ness of natural outdoor ex-
ercise, like riding, skating and
walking, women are now join
ing classes in gymnasiums,
getting up fetching costumes
for their fad and pursuing
it with all the ardor of which they
are capable. The results are
good, of course, but the cost is
something with which to reckon,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
AS sex we do not get sufIi-
cient exercise to keep us in good
trim. We are busy enough, for
that matter, but our employments
tie us to a chair. Homework is
said to be the most healthful of all
work, because of its diversity and
the necessary exercise that goes
with it, but the average woman
overdoes the thing; she tires her
self out many times because of
lack of method in her work, and,
after all, the homework does more
harm than good.
A doctor never succeeds in con-
vincing patients that Incidence is
a foe to health. "If you won't
walk upstairs" he says, in desper-
alton, walk down for your Iiver's
sake" and some few follow his
advice. Elevators are habit
like street ears. When you can
be transferred from your front
door to your place of business you
never attempt TO walk even a
block, but you DO not give a
thought to the distance that
takes you to car when your home
is not on the car line. In tall build
ings elevators are joy and com.
fort, but they ought not to be con
sidered for one or two flights of
stairs, except by those whose bust
ness requires a constant travelling
between stories.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-16
IRAIsE NcuRAToR loAToRs
Growing the Reptiles for the Trade
Proves Paying Industry
in Arkansas.

Matching alligators is the latest
use to which incubators have been
put. Beginning with chickens,
ducks, geese and turkeys, the use
of incubators was extended to os-
triches and babies, and now a
manager of an alligator farm in
Arkansas has adopted the use of
incubators there, says the anna
teur naturalist, in the New York
Tribune.
An alligator is in its propagat-
ing habits between a fish and a
hen. 1t swims in the water like a
fish and lays eggs, but instead of
laying them in the water it goes
out and makes a nest on the land
like hen.
In this nest it lays rs or 30 eggs,
and then trusts to the warm
weather to hatch them out. The
period of incubation of alligator
eggs is not accurately known, but
it is approximately five weeks, or
a fortnight longer than chicken
eggs, or a week longer than duck
eggs.
Most Of the alligators Matched
at the alligator farms are sold in
their infancy for 81 apiece to Wis
itors from the north. AS many al
ligators are raised to maturity as
the inclOsed swamps and streams
of the alligator farm will permit.
They are valuable for their hides,
which are used for bags, belts,
purses and like purposes.
The supply of alligators is much
less than the demand, as the hide
hunters have killed off all they
could find, and there is as yet no
close season in the game for their
protection. Like the terrapin,
they are becoming extinct in their
wild state.
At the alligator farms no more
old alligators are kept than are
needed for breeding purposes.
Most of them are sold when a
month or six weeks old, and the
others are killed at an early age,
when their hides are more pliable
and easily worked.
Alligator farming so far has
proved a profitable industry.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-16
The Southwest.
A Grand Country for HOmeseeks.
ers and Investors,
Excursion Rates Twice a MOntE.

Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas
offer the greatest inducements for
persons desiring to own their homes.
Cheap land, producing almost any
thing that can be grown anywhere,
mild climate, good schhols, good
water, healthful surroundings, and
a growing country are some Of the
advantages.
UnexcelIed for raising fruits and
vegetables for early markets. Land
that can be bought for SIS to $40 per
acre can be made to yield 800 10,
5000 per acre in orchard and truck
farm.
First and third Tuesdays IF each
month we sell homeseeker's tickets,
from Memphis and Cairo at one fare
plus 81 for the round trip.
April 4th and 18th special low
round trip rates-less than one way
fare-S15 and less from Memphis
and Cairo to points in Texas. Low
rates in proportion from points East
of Memphis and Cairo.
Literature descriptive of above
country and information about rates
L. O. Schaefer, II. P. A.
Cotton Belt, Cincinnati, o.
John c. Riley, immigration Agt.,
Henderson, KY.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-16
Browning an octoroon.

Daniel Murray, long an assist
ant in the library of congress, is
preparing a historical review of
the exploits of negroes and per-
sons of mixed blood in literature
and other fields. Mr.. Murray said
in a recent interview; "To the
great mass of readers it will be
news that Robert Browning was
an octoroon. The same may be
said of Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander Poushkin, Russia's
greatest poet was QuadTOoD."