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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27
Paints Wild Beasts Ewes.

One Of the oldest ways a young
woman artist of this city has OF add
ing to her income is the painting of
the glass eyes that are fitted into the
heads of wild animals sent to a taxi
dermist to be stuffed and mounted.
She is not called upon to paint these
special eyes for the ordinary run OF
our native beasts. She only gets one
of these orders when some sports
man has killed a panther, a grizzly.
or tiger-animals noted for the saw
age glare of their eyes. Then she
takes all the pains she Is capable OF
to get the glare" just as savage as
she can. Before she begins work she
learns In just what attitude the beast
is to be mounted, for it would never
do to represent the animal with his
eyes ablaze with the light Of battle
II he was to be postured as lying halt
asleep. The work does not pay WELL
Sometimes the artist gets only a dol.
lar pair for the eyes. while now and
again she gets as much as 81 a pair
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27
An Emerald vase.

In the ancient Cathedral Of Genoa
a vase OF great value has been pre-
served for 600 years. 1t is cut from
a single emerald. It's principal diane
ter is 12h inches and its height 5A
inches. 1t Is kept under several locks
the keys of which are In different
hands, and 1t Is rarely exhibited In
public, and then only by an order OF
the Senate. When shown to the public
1t Is suspended around the neck of a
priest by cord and no one else is
allowed to touch it. A decree passe ]
in 1475 forbids any one going too
near the precious relic
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27
The Wanderer.

.o-er, No sacred tie can bind
vaaa l.er passion Of his restless
m'. strong he will not cast II
10 love 50 s''0D7
..,.ss ~. and anothsr love to try. -
,u sou, the reverence or power 'o
p ,rsn like the sea, By mystic
'a forever, Ior inquiries the
cause.
, randsrer. The utmost enoS o.
Garth 49,,
D are not worth
,.tsisips. He seeks with weary
..a, hut not a resting place.
ne distance ever 0eofons' and his
lust
rr sights and scenes though 'a'H'eo
" with disgust,
Consumes him STILL He pods ca fer
be must!
III.
49, ,-,oe is bitter, for he is imbued
run all the rancor OF his solitude,
r.'.s ali the pity, all the tend rness
~ r longings that he never dare con-
fess.
10 rae and circumstance a O0n1e'
slave,
4. still must bear-~hateveF else ne
crave
The dust Of barren roadsides to the
grave!
whitman Bennett, in the New YORK
Times.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27
The Best Guide to READING,

OF all the gifts an older brother
or sister can confer upon a younger
child, none can compare with the taste
for good reading 1t Is an easy matter
for the elder to bring the right book
to the little reader at the right time.
and no lasting benefit can be given
with SO little effort. See that you are
able to act as wise guide when the
little brothers or sisters hand is put
SO confidingly in yours.-St Nicholas
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

placed, 20 bear the names OF Ameri-
cans deemed the greatest il their re-
spective fields.
Un.er the rules adopted only per
sons born on what is now United
States territory and who shall have
been dead ten or more Years are eligi
bic 10 be chosen. Fife Il classes OF
citizens We're IecOmme nded for con
sheraton, 70 Wit: Authors ana edi-
| tors, business men. educators invent
| ors. missionaries and explorers, phil
anthropists and reformers preachers
and theologians, scientists. en1ileels
and architects, lawyers and JUDGES,
| musicians, painters and SculNOrS, ply
sicians and surgeons. rulers and
| statesmen soldiers and Sailors, dis
| tinguished men and women outside
the above classes. Fifty names were
! TO be subscribed on the tablets al the
| beg ming, and five additional names
| every fifth year thereafter. until the
! year 20oO, when the l50 Inscriptions
| viii be completed. Should there be
failure to select the entire fifty names
at the beginning the vacancies shall
be filled in a following year.
The rules prescribed that the Coun-
Gil should invite nominations from
the public. Every nomination Sec
oadel by a member of the University
Senate should be submitted 10 an
electorate OF one hundred eminent
citizens selected by the Council. each
candidates.
In October, 1900, the University
Senate received the ballots OF the
judges. Of the one hundred judges
selected ninety-seven voted. The num-
Der OF names which had been submit
ted 10 them was 252. or these each
judge returned vote for fifty. The
rule required that no cand date re-
ceiving less than fftyone votes
should be accepted. The returns
showed that but Twenty-Five candi-
dates received the required number
and were chosen. These were as fol-
lows: George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln. Daniel Webster. Benjamin
Franklin. Ulysses s. Grant, John
Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfel-
low, Robert Fulton, Washington
Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel F.
B. Morse, David G. Farragut, Henry
Clay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George
Peabody, Robert E. Lee, Peter Cooper,
Eli Whitney, John J. Audubon, Horace
Mann, Henry Ward Beecher, James
Kent, Joseph Story, John Adams, WI.
liam E. Claiming Gilbert Stuart AMI
Asa Gray.
1t was decided to select the remain
ing twenty-one names of the first fifty
In 1902, under the same rule but as
the official book was not ready until
late in 1901. the Senate reconsidered
Its action and decided to do no mora
than it was required to do by the deed
OF gift. namely: To fill the vacant
panels in 1905. At that time, there
fore, twenty-six panels will be fined.
All names which received as many
as ten votes on the first trial can be
voted for. The same judges will act,
save that unavoidable vacancies will
be made by the Senate Provision
will be made for an additional hall
having thirty panels, to contain the
names of foreign-born Americans.
Six names for these will be chosen In
1905. Also for Hall of Fame for
with sixty panels, for which
twelve names will be chosen in 1905,
.wo to be foreign born.-The World
Almanac.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27
ELEVEN LITTLE
BLACK PIGS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
pu q SI0nlQDA

l by ". a. SSVP0SASs
There we're but six passengers on
ne Pacific Mall steamer on that
iio from Panama up TO SaA Fran
ascn 50 we were all at the cap
nin,a table There was a good cook.
and one night we had roast Panama
mg The purser alone refused 1t.
None of 1t for me. thank you said
he md be told the following story:
Thirteen years ago l was at Ma
utlan, out OF cash and out Ct a jo0.
lazatlan Is not 9 pleasure resort. l
fought Heas and greasers there for
elght or nine days, and then, to get
away. signed on fishing vessel. 1t
vas q tight, heavy-canvased little
schooner, called the Lark, and the
skipper was Mobile man, named
T1mmons. !.
Il had been 80 anxious 20 &c, away
from Mazatlan that did not ask many
questions, and 1t was not until we
we're at sea, bound up the coast, that
learned what they were going to fish
for. Thsy had q dredge CT peculiar
construction, instead OF hooks and
lines. and the 'nsh' they hoped to
catch lived inside OF shells.
In short, the Lark was a pear.
fisher and, not to pick words, a pearl.
poacher. She was making tor Costa
Mcan waters, whore the gove rnment
then claimed and tried to enforce a
monopoly Of pearl-tishlng. In the way
Of coast patrol there was a wheszy,
siImilean-hour little harbor steamer
with IN old brass howitzer at the
bows This was the navy Skipper
Timmons held It in disdain.
Unlawful enterprises are not 10
my liking, but after we we're at sea
there was not much that could say.
mad to 90 along and do my part.
There Is little inlet down Ia those
waters. called Montuosa. The word
lissf means mountainous. The island
y Of no more than fifty acres extent,
Out rises at the center In a rocky
peak two hundred fee. in height. All
round Aontuosa there is good pearl
asnins, and Skipper Timmons used to
ae IN the lee Of the islet and keep a
man ashore on the peak to watch for
me gunboat.' II 1t was sighted, the |
,ooRouts instructions were to soho |
aovn 70 the Srk, and by signs to in.
varshiD' wsohesding for.
Ihe skipper then got out the boat
~ aowy t3~ed the Lark round to
p other side tust fast enough to keep
: / ont OF sight behind the clins. IL
y saaeoat; changed its course. tho
laeoeuver was reversed. Timmons
= actually played this game sue.
aastully.
- had had little experience pearl
.alas the skipper put me ashore as
oeout Il was not a bad berth. The
= va hot up there. but a fresh
49, oisw nearly all the time. III
.Heo up . sun upbrella the second
y ana st under that, having moth.
: % 90 but scan the distant head.
=. -. o. Central America.
W. were not really expecting to be
"e..sd; but little before noon of
talrd day | saw a steamers smoke
~ ~ nfteen miles up the coast and
= my glass soon made sure that
sas indeed the enemy bearing
Va on Montuosa.
: soaoed. and the skipper got out
. ooa1 to play the game of dodge.
: tnis time the Costa Ricans were
orsnt for him. They bore down
ae islet to come round on the
'sswise Side Of it, but let down an
va ooat to rUw round on the ocean
IN considerable excitement IL
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27
THE HAL! OF FAME.
How the Names Are Chosen That Are
to be Perpetuated Therein.

20 DC PeTPetU1ted IneTeTH.
March S, 1900, the Council Of New
York University accepted gift OF
100000, afterward increased to $780,
600, from a donor whose name was
withheld, for the erection and compile
ton on University Heights. New York
City, of building to be callel The
Hall of Fame for Great Americans"
A structure was accordingly built in
the form of a semi-circle, SOC leet
long, Is feet wide, and 10 feet high,
connecting the University Hall OF
Philosophy with the Hall of Lam
iuages. Within fha colonnade $50
tanels. each by feet, are to De
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

Although eels abound in Scot,
waters and are caught in great guam
titles, they are not considered fit food
there.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

Sealing wax does not contain pal
ticle Of wax, but is composed OF tur'
pentine, shellac and cinnahar.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

The wife is labo-er in Abyss.nia
Wood is sold there by the woman.
load"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

OF every hundred persons who die
in Ireland, fifteen are victims of tu
berculous diseases.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

Housemaids in livery are the latest
innovation in smart London houses
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

Tie pine is a native of America.
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stuff and roasted some of the meat.
l had no salt that day, but during
the afternoon evaporated some salt.
water in the hollow OF a rock, and
thus obtained a saline substance with
which to flavor my pig meat. That
day, too. l renovated the shack, and
made bed OF dry seaweed.
THAT was the beginning Of my liv.
ing on roast pig. The first one lasted
me four days, and would have suf-
feed much longer but by that time, In
that warm climate. what was left had
spoiled.
While running down my second
pig came upon the skeleton Of
large animal in the brushwood, which
l imagine was that of the mother
of the pigs.
Il saw the smoke Of steamers at
sea, out at a great distance. Neither
fishing-vessels nor other craft came
near Montuosa, perhaps on account
of the pearl monopoly.
There were now nine pigs left;
but they had grown afraid of me, and
were very wild. 1t was so difficult to
run one down that l resorted to a
stratagem. When chased they always
fled along certain paths which they
had beaten in the brushwood. At
point where one of these paths ran
along the foot of crag, among high
rocks, | built a kind of pen OF stones
and driftwood The entrance to ;s
was narrow, between two great bould-
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-01-27

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-04
SUNDAY FOR THE NEWS.

What a pharisee the Deseret News
Isl In order TO attack some local pleas
ure resorts and at the same time make
an affectation of superior holiness, it
quotes from the Doctrine and Cove
nants of the Mormon church and re-
cites the pretended prophecies and
revelation from God to the effect that
Sunday shall be kept sacred
as day on which no labor
or any other unnecessary thing
shall be done, and it "points out" thar
the Mormons settled in ''these valleys
with the full understanding that this
land would not be a Zion to them un-
less they would keep the command
ment' not to desecrate the Lord g day
The Deseret News spouts about city
ordinances which 1T charges are being
violated or are about to be violated by
places Of amusement in Salt Lake City.
but it has nothing to say about the vio-
lation OF the law Of it's own Doctrine
and Covenants by the fragrant running
OF places of amusement outside Of the
jurisdiction Of the City. Does the revo-
lation only apply where the city or
dinances are in force7 is God s reve-
lation circumscribed and His com
mandment to the world governed by
mere municipal requirement. The
Mormon church has been receiving for
years large return from its invest
mont in enterprises which are operated
for the pleasure Of the people on Sun
day. The News has not even squawked
during that time about the church sale
Of liquor TO minors on the Lords day.
A Ill tho a,-i1o 80 ba Snnla,, hov
been shown to exist in exaggerated
form at Mormon church conducted es-
Establishments and under Mormon church
ownership, and the News could find no
fault with these because they were not
under city ordinancel And even now
the News applies the general doctrine
of the pretended revelation from God
only to those institutions which are run
by Gentiles.
Sunday observance with the News is
Like it's polygamy-merely matter Of
geography. Ono reason which was cited
for Joseph F. Smith s failure to in
sert the manifesto inhibiting further
plural marriage in the Doctrine and Co
venants, was that so long as it could
be kept out of that book it would ap"
ply only to Utah, but if
printed In the general book and
circulated in Mexico and Canada
some OF the faithful, not possess
ing fine power of discrimination,
might think it related to them, and
some Of the charming young women of
the church might believe they were for
hidden by tho voice of tho Almighty
to marry men who already had each
multiplicity Of wives Therefore, while
there was pretense of making the
manifesto applicable in Utah-and only
& pretense-every man inclined to po-
lygamy could have free sway if he
could only get his prospective plural
wife into Canada or Mexico, "beEnnd
the jurisdiction of God"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-04
TIE CORRUPT DEFAMERS.

The Smoot press bureau may howl
itself black In the face, but it cannot
escape from the charge that it is knock
ing Utah by defaming Salt Lake City.
All that the corrupt press bureau and
its lecturers print and epeale to the dis
paragement OF Salt Lake City is n
direct and positive injury to the bust.
ness interests Of this community. The
venal, peripatetic, wandering falsifers
of that crowd may protest with their
hands TO heaven that they are merely
defending the prophets from unjust
peace and prosperity OF Salt Lake arc
well aware that every malicious as
sault on American party rule here is
an evil and costly advertisement.
1t does not please the knockers of
the Smoot crowd TO discover that their
own argument is turned upon them
selves. They rage and rage again like
the heather, and all in vain. Their
malice, their falsohood, their injustice
are all brought home TO themselves
now,
When the American party and The
Tribune proclaimed n resistance TO the
organized crime of this community, the
Smootite press and lecture bureau in
sisted that 1t was hurtful to the State
to tell of evil conditions hero even
though the purpose might be 10 cor
rect those evil conditions and improve
the State thereby. Now with no such
excuse whatever, but just from sheer
vengcful cussedness, some of these same
papers and paid liars send out to the
country n storm of abuse Of Salt Lake
City, well knowing that abroad Salt
Lake City is esteemed to be Utah and
that anything said to the disadvantage
of this City, particularly by people resi-
dent here, has a tendency TO keep away
the men and money needed for COM
munity progress.
Happily the knocking ls not as eff
fective in results as it is vicious
in its intent. The discredited
epologists for the organized crime
Of the Mormon hierarchy find
that their word is of little value
in the esteem Of progressive and
thoughtful men, and therefore they do
not achieve as much of evil result az
they desire. But their purpose is never
theless reprehensible, and they should
be condemned for their knocking. Turn
their own argument against themselves.
1t is only few weeks since they were
demanding Of the business interests of
Salt Lake City a boycott of The Trib-
une for telling the truth about the
lawbreaking by Mormon officials. What
should be done with these Smoot pa
pers and takers now who tell lies about
the American party administration in
Salt Lake City7
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-04
THE OGDEN CASES.

In the rush of the mighty events OF
tho world it is not well to lose sight
Of an unassuming, earnest, and devoted
citizen like J. ID. Skeen Of Ogden.
That man, with no other apparent mo-
tive than desire to discharge n public
duty, and in tho exercise Of his rights
as a taxpayer, undertook almost single
handed to stay certain illegalities
bors OF the City Council in Ogden and
to bring to sense OF their responsible
ity prominent public offenders who not
only violated the law, but defed the
public opinion, the statutes, and the
courts.
Certain members of the City Council
in Ogden appropriated to themselves
salaries or emoluments not permitted
by law Mr. Skeen protested and was
scorned. Mr.. Skeen, in n public letter,
asked the offending Councilmen to alb
stain from taking the extra money
which by law they were forbidden to
receive. Mr.. Skeen and his warnings
were deGed. Then Mr.. Skeen, in pur-
suance Of his promise TO the Council
men and in pursuance Of his promise
to the public, brought proceedings in
the District Court, and after long and
bitter controversy the president Of the
Ogden City Council was removed from
Office; but to show the utter disregard
Of the Ogden Council for the law, that
body elected as a successor to the re-
moved president another member Of the
Council against whom were pending
similar proceedings. 1t is difficult for
high-minded people to comprehend such
utter debasement Of community to a
defiant lawbreaking element; and the
story, as told in the Ogden papers,
reads like one Of the exposures Of COM
munity rings in the East.
But the Supreme Court Of Utah has
interpreted the law, and the appeal Is
decided against the offending Council
men. j. d. Skeen has won q great vic
tory for the public and is entitled to
general gratitude.
just what effort, if any, win be made
to further avoid tho statute and the
decision of the courts remains to be
seen. From the defiant attitude Of the
past it is scarcely to be expected that
the misappropriators will submit to tho
decision of the court Of last resort in
this State; but in the interest Of Justice
and the fair repute of the city and the
general credit of tho men involved
(who in other respects seem TO bo men
of repute and Of religious inclinations)
it is to be hoped that they Will submit
to the law and apologize to the public
whom they have wronged
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-04
RUSSELL SAGE'S WILL.

A good deal Of fun, more or less ma
llclous, was poked at Russell Sage dur
ing his lifetime, and after his death
his manner of disposing of his property
WAS visited with good deal of oensure
because he had not apparently devoted
any of his estate to charitable or pub
llc uses. A very large portion Of the
censure visited, upon Mr.. Sage during
his lifetime was mere unjust vindiotive-
ness, envy, and malice; and all Of the
carping criticism because he had not
left money to charity or public pur-
poses seoms likely to have been quite
misdirected. A prominent New Yorker
and friend OF Mr.. Sage is reported to
have made the remark that "the
will is credit to the old man." mean
ing primarily that as he had left the
whole Of his estate to Mrs. Sage, it
was certain to be devoted almost en-
tirely to charitable and benevolent DUR.
poses. Mr.. Sage left enough to his i'm
mediate relatives to provide against
any contest of the will, as he supposed,
though there are reports that there
are to be contests. Mrs. Sage has
the bulk of the estate, which will
amount almost to S100,ooO,OOO. Mr..
Sage has on loan in New York s3o,-
100000. Any bank In that city will be
glad to take these loans and handle
them In handsome manner for the es-
tate, or for any purpose to which Mrs
Sage wishes to devote the income from
the money. The remainder Of his es-
tate Is undoubtedly in good con.
vertable assets at par. Above almost
any other large estate in this country
1T will be realizable upon dollor for dol
lar, because Mr.. Sage was q man who
was not only able TO pursue success
fully his specially Of making money,
but was able to handle that money in
way to elicit the admiration Of all
fnanciers and to make his accumula,
tlons secure money getters for himself,
Mrs. Sage, on the other hand, has
never known anything about making
money; but she has always known a
great deal about judicious and charita-
BILE expenditures. She is, and for many
years has been, one Of the largest Civ
ers TO all good works In New York
City. Russell Sage knew his wife q
talent in this respect, and knew that
as far as spending money is concerned
she knew far better how to do it than
he did. He could grasp, but he could
! not let 60. Mrs. Sage could not grasp,
but she let's go judiciously, honorably.
and intelligently. 1t can safely be
taken for granted that the whole of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-04
is 1T JOSEPH?

A friend asks The Tribune 10 reprint
Thursdays quotation from the edi-
torisl in the Deseret News. 1t is as
follows as ID appeared in the organ of
tho Mormon church:
a gentleman the other day expressed his
regrets at the conditions of strife and fac
wiso so attractive and full OF opportunities,
Ho had, he said, never seen anything liko 10
anywhere elso. He Ind como TO mako his
homo here, he added. but he thought he would
have TO move away TO some other place,
where faotionsl feeling is less turbulent.
Our correspondent asks The Tribune
if the gentleman TO whom reference Is
seph i, Smith. lie appears to be the
one citizen of Utah who is seriously
tired of the agitation-the only man
who Is driven out by the factional feel
ing, the only man Of all Utah who does
not prefer this great commonwealth
with its splendid air and its glorious
opportunities rather than the morbid
pleasures of over-ripe Paris.
The suggestion is a good one. Prob
ably that was tho way adopted by the
News of accounting for the absence Of
the prophet, seer, aud revelator, and
was calculated to make argument in his
favor before his community in case he
shall choose never to return. At the
samo time we may all be aware that if
he stays away he will have removed
much Of the cause of that factional
feeling in his own commuuity-for he
is a veritable dynamite bomb among
the Saints.