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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27

Mrs. Mary Richards has resigned as
secretary to Superintendent Allison, but
the vacancy was pot filled.
The report OF the county auditor
showing the school tax levy for Ogden
City as 1903 mills which will bring to
the schools revenue Of SS1 ,S25.19 for all
purposes
Mr.. Asael Farr, recommended that
the board pave the sidewalks around
the Mound Fort and Five Points schools
He was instructed to ascertain the cost
of such an Improvement.
PRIEST. sHURTLIFF's BIRTHDAY.
Pioneer day. July "a, President L. w.
Shurtliff of the Weber stake celebrat-
ed his seventy-second birthday at his
home in this city. A number of his
children and grandchildren called ut
the home and spent the day with their
honored sire in good, sociahle time.
President Shurtlifi, although in the
seventies, enjoys comparatively good
health and is able TO perform the re-
sponsible duties that rest upon him
IN caring for the largest stake In the
Church with unusual ability. and look
ing after many other matters pertaining
TO the welfare of the people of Utah.
BRAKEMAN MARTIN HURT.
Willard Martin. Southern Pacific
brakeman running west out of Ogden,
had his collar bone broken yesterday
morning in an accident at Elko, Me-
vada, and was brought to his home IN
Ogden for medical treatment. Martin
in attempting to board the caboose as
it pulled out of the Elko yard, slipped,
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WEAK MEN.

so-called Weakness" in men ia
merely a symptom OF chronic inflain-
nation ia the prostate gland. brought
on by early dissipation or by the I'M
proper treatment of some contracted
disease. A complete and radical cure
the prostate gland to its normal
state, and this we accomplish
promptly and completely without
the use Of Internal remedies. Our
treatment is a local one entirely. II
Is original and scientific, and has
been proved absolutely effective BY
thousands OF tests. we are convinced
that by no other methods can fun
and permanent restoration OF strength
and vigor be accomplished.
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SIX COUPLES WED.
Cache Valley Condensed Milk Com
pnny Doubles Capital stock.
Special Correspondence.

Logan. Cache Co., July 26.-The
amended articles of incorporation were
filed today With County Clerk Larson
Of the Cache Valley Condense Milk
company. providing for the increase In
It's capital stock from $4,000 to 100000.
The additional stock has nearly all been
takeL up. as the old stockholders have
ile first privilege of taking the stock
prorata according to their holdings,
ana most Of them are doing so. The
company mas found It necessary to in
crease its capacity, it being impossi-
hle to MI al of its orders. The fac
toiy is using at the present time about
la,0OO pounds of milk per day, which
makes a pay roll OF over $4,000 per
month The company just before in
crossing Us ceptal stock paid a 10
per cent semi-annual dividend.
George NJ Bassott. the 4-year-o son
OF MIR. and Mrs. NJ. A. Bassett of Men,
don, died yesterday after very short
illness of sninal meningitis. The fun
era was held today at Mendon.
keath Bowman, the S-year-old son OF
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27
NOTICE.

A special meeting of local union 725
U. b. of C. and J. of A. will be held
on Wednesday evening. July 81, at
Federation hall. All members are re-
quested to be present.
Nj. H. DESMOND,
Recording Secretary.
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BRIGHAM CITY.
BoXELDER COUNTY TAX LEVY.
Disastrous Runaway--Teachers Ex-
animation Aug. $40.

Special Correspondence
Brigham City, Boxelder Co., July 26.--
Pioneer day was very quiet in Brigham
City, hundreds of wagonloads of citi-
zens spent the day in the canyons and
out along Bear river.
The Sunday schools of Boxelder coun-
ty will have their excursion to Wanda
mere Wednesday. Aug. 7.
A few days ago the stork left baby
boys at the homes of Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin l.. Reeder and Mr. and Mrs.
Roland Madison.
n. c. Christensen, the city water
master Is trying hard TO increase tho
water supply for the city by having
diches, creeks and springs above
Mantua thoroughly cleaned out and
recommended to the city council that
12-inch thing be laid at those places
The tabernacle service last Sunday
was in charge of President Lucius A.
Snow. The speakers were Elders Will
liam Wrighton of this city and C. l.,
Olsen of Hyrum; IL of the other wards
in the stake were visited by the home
missionaries on that day.
NJ /. A. conferences will be held at
Garland and Bear River city Sunday,
July rs.
DISASTROUS RUNAWAY.
Knudsen. while driving down Forest
street yesterday morning with num-
Der of young girls who We're going to
the Knudsen farm to pick berries, had
quite a serious runaway caused by q
breast strap breaking, letting down the
wagon tongue, causing the horses to
run. The girls We're thrown out ono
after the other along the street.
couple OF them receiving slight bruises
but none serious. Al the o. S. l.. depot
the boy was pulled out over the tongue
and the wheels passed over him. Hd
was picked up and carried into the wait
ing room and DR.. Pearce telephoned
for. Later he was taken to his home.
where he will be laid up for some
time. but the doctor says there are no
bones broken and does not believe any
internal injury was received.
Teachers examination viii be held in
the Central school building In Brigham
Cts Aug. s, and 10.
stake President Oleen n. Stohl has
taken his family for Il two weeks out
In up In Idaho.
BEXELDER TAX LEVY.
The tax levy for Boxelder county for
the year Is as follows; Five mills for
state. mills for state school. AZ slllls
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S5-A MONTH--Y5
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR MEN.

shores Special
be honest advice and
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for county and . mills for county
school. and SO for district school pur-
posese. The city levy for Brigham
city Is 5 mills.
BASEBALL GlvMES
July 81 Il ball game viii be played
between the business men Of Garland
and fremont and the merchants Of
Brigham City, while Aug. n is booked
on the bali park record ms Wellsville
day, and all the good people Of that
burg over the hill, headed by their brass
band and best BAH tossers. will come
TO Brigham City and play with the Will
lard team
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LOGAN DEPARTMENT.

by
Month
eoF Daily,
News. Street Phone SID Independent
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PROVO DEPART Me N L

excepteI % cents
pay
Residence, s2 Phone Ind s5-M
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WARD OUTING Ar sALTAIR.

Under the auspices OF the ward choir
Murray First word VIII have It's ans
nual excursion TO Satan Wednesday.
July 81 Arrangements have been
made for the comfort and enjoyment
Of an, Those Of the ward over 20 years
and missionaries wives viii be Civ
en- complimentary tickets, Those In
charge are making every effort 10 have
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MURRAY DEPARTMENT

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striking on his shoulder, causing tn
fracture.
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EYE DEPARTMENT..

Drs. Shores Eye Department is in
charge of a Specialist Of q years
training In the treatment Of all dis
eases of the Eye, Asugmatism. Far
and Short Sight--Cross Dyes. Granu.
lated Lids, and all other diseases ~
the eye slsllfully treated and cured at
very reasonable rates.
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WE TREAT AND CURE.

SAl NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nose and
throat troubles, eye and err diseases,
bronchial and lung troubles, asthma,
stomach, liver and Kidney Diseases
bladder troubles, female Complaints
chronic diseases OF women and chill.
dren. heart disease. nervous diseases.
chores tSt. Vitus' dance) ricketts,
spinal trouble, skin diseases. sciatica
and rheumatism. diseases of the bow
els, piles. 1stula and rectal troubles.
goitre Ter big neck). blood diseases,
tape worm. hay fever, hysteria. epil-
epsy, insomnia etc, and all durable
nervous. private and chronic dis
eases.
Prices and terms low and uniform
and can be arranged TO suit your
convenience.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27

Mrs. Mary Richards has resigned as
secretary to Superintendent Allison, but
the vacancy was not filed.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27

The tax levy for BoXelder county for
the year Is as follows; Five mills for
state. 3 mills for state school. AZ siills
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27

Final musical contest starts at S
o'colck sharp tonight at Wandamere.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-24

helps the watch to go. / looked at
her They can't kill me, can they?"
said I. with a laugh which sounded SO
brave that 1t straishtway made me
brave.
So It was settled
But that was the first step In a
fight / can't remember even now with
out a sinking heart. The farmers
of Jackson county, of which Pulaski
was the county seat, found in litiga-
ton their chief distraction from the
Supplying dullness of farm life IN
those days of pause. after the Indian
and nature had been conquered and
before the big worlds arteries of
thought and action had penetrated.
The farmers took eagerly to litigation
to save themselves from stagnation.
! Still, a new lawyer, especially if he
was young, had an agonizing time of
it convincing their slow, stiff, suspi-
cious natures that he could be trust
ed in such a crisis as going to
law"
To make matters worse, l fell in
love-
Once-it was years afterward,
though not many years ago-Burbank,
at the time governor, was with me,
and we were going over the main
points for his annual message. One
of my suggestionS-my orders to all
my agents, high and low, have always
been sugar-coated as suggestions
started a new train of thought in him,
and he took pen and paper to fix 1t
before 1t had chance to escape. AS
he wrote, my glance wandered along
the shelves of the bookcases. 1t
paused on the farthest and lowest
shelf. 1 rose and went there, and
found my old school-books. those ]
used when 1 was in public school No.
3, too, near 80 years ago,
In the shelf one book stood higher
than the cther-tall and thin and
ragged, its covers torn, it's pages
scrubbed, stained and dog-eared.
Looking through that old physical ge-
ography was like a first talk with a
long-lost friend. 1t had. indeed. been
my old friend. Behind it's broad
had aimed and discharged the blow
gun, I had reveled in blood-and-thun-
der tales that made the drowsy
Scnoolroom fade before the vast will
derness. the scene Of breathless strug-
giles between Indian and settler, or
open into the high seas where pirate,
er worse-than-pirate Britisher, struck
flag to American privateer or man
o'war.
On an impulse shot up from the
busiest depths of memory. 1 turned
the old geography sidewise and ex-
amined the edges of the cover Yes,
there was the cache l had made by
splitting the pasteboard with my jack
knife. / thrust in my inger-nail; out
came slip OF paper. / glanced at
Burbank-he was busy. I, somewhat
stealthily, you may imagine, opened
the paper and-well, my heart beat
more rapidly as saw in a schoolgirl
scrawl:
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This Serial Story Daily I'm Palladium

ana honesty. Those "fioaters" had TO
keep the ballot in full view from the
time they got 1t of the agent Of their
purchaser until they had deposited it
beyond the possibility Of substitution
he must see them deliver the
goods"
My father was defeated. He saw
that, in politics, the day of the public
servant of public interests was over.
and that the night of the private
servant of private interests had be-
gun. He resigned his leadership into
the dextrous hands of a politician.
Soon afterward he died, muttering:
Prosperity has ruined my country"
From that election day my inter-
est in politics grew, and but for my
been an active politician. perhaps be-
fore I was out OF college.
Pulaski. indeed all that section OF
my state. was strong Of my party
Therefore Deminick, its local boss,
was absolute. At the last county
election. four years before the time
of which / am writing, there had been
a spasmodic attempt to GUST him. He
had grown SO insolent, and had put
his prices for political and political
commercial "favors" to our leading
citizens SO high, that the best ele-
ment" in our party reluctantly broke
he had been forced to order fragrant
cheating on the tally sheets; his ally
and fellow conspirator, M'Coskrey,
the opposition boss, was caught and
was indicted by the grand jury. The
refOrmers made such a stir that Ben
Cass, the county prosecutor, though
Dominfck man, disobeyed his mas
ter and tried and convicted M'Cosk-
rery. OF course, following the Gus
tom in cases OF yielding to pressure
from public sentiment, he made the
trial-errors necessary to insure re-
versal in the higher court; and he
portunity to quash the indictment.
But the boss was relentless-Cass
had been disobedient, and had put
upon my friend M'Coskrey" the dis
grace Of making a sorry figure in
court. Ben can look to his swell
reform friends for denomination"
said he; he'll not get it from me-"
Thus it came to pass that Domin-
ick's lieutenant Buck Fessenden, ap-
peared In my Office one afternoon in
July, and, after a brief parley, asked
me how I'd like to be prosecuting at
torney of Jackson county. Four
thousand a year for four years, and
a reelection If l should give satisfac-
ton; and afterward, the bench or a
seat in congress! / could pay off
everything: l could marry,
It was my first distinct vision of
the plum tree. To how many thou
sands Of our brightest, most promis-
ing young Americans it is shown
each year In just such circumstances,
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eswA XayM Ma<<
Ry1t& 6$s> &e

I was no longer master Of a state;
I was a boy in school again. 1 could
see her laboring over this game OF
friendship, love, Indifference, hate"
1 could see Rodney" Griggs, who sat
between her and me, in the row of
desks between and parallel to my
row and hers-could see him swoop
and snatch the paper from her. look
at 1t. grin maliciously, and toss it over
to me. / was in grade A, was 16,
and was beginning to take myself Sc
riously. She was in grade D, was lit
tie more than half my age, but looked
older-and how sweet and pretty she
was, She had black hair, thick and
wavy, with little tresses escaping
from plaits and ribbons to float about
her forehead, ears and neck Her
skin was darker then. I think. than
1t 10 now, but it had the same
snoothness and glow-certainly IL
could not have had more
I think the dart must have struck
that day-wby else did l keep the
bit of paper? But it did not trouble
me until the first winter of my launch
ing forth as Harvey Sayler, Attorney
anu SOuASSlOI at Law SHS was
the daughter Of the Episcopal preach
er: and, as every one thought well
of the prospects of my mothers son,
our courtship was undisturbed. Then,
in the spring. when fortune was at its
coolest and love at its most feverish,
her father accepted a call to a church
IN Boston, eight miles away.
To so to see her was impossible:
how could the money be spared-s5o
at the least? Once-when they had been
gone about four months-my mother
insisted that l must. But l refused,
and | do not know whether il is to
my credit or not, for my refusal gave
her only pain, whereas the sacrifices
she would have had TO make, had
gone. would have given her only
pleasure. / had no fear that Betty
would change in our separation.
There are some people you hope are
stanch. and some people you think
will be stanch, if, and then there
are those, many women and a few
men, whom it is impossible to think
OF as false or even faltering / did
not fully appreciate that quality then.
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Tor my memory was not then dotted
with the graves of false friendships
and Uttered with the rubbish Of
broken promises; but / did appreciate
it enough to build securely upon it.
Build? No. that is not the word.
There may be those who are stimu-
lated to achievement by being in
love, though 1 doubt it. At any rate.
I was not one of them. My love for
her absorbed my thoughts, and par
alyzed my courage. OF the qualities
that have contributed to what success
I may have had, / put in the first
rank a disposition to see the gloom
lest side of the future. But 1t has
not helped to make my life happier,
invaluable though il has been in pre-
venting misadventure from catching
me mapping.
So another year passed. Then
came hard times-real hard times.
had some clients-enouEh to insure
mother and myself living, with tho
interest on mortgage and note kept
down. But my clients were poor, and
poor pay, and slow pay. Nobody was
doing well but the note-shayers. +
How mother fought to keep the front
brave and bright,-not her front, for
that was bright by nature, like the
sky beyond the clouds; but our front.
my front-the front Of our affairs.
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CHAPTER n,
AZ the Court of a Severe

At the Court of a Sovereign.
That evening after supper 1 went
to see Dominick.
In the lower end Of Pulaski there
was a large beer garden known as
Dominick's headquarters He re-
ceived half the profits in return for
making it his loafing-pIace, the seat
OF the source of all political honor,
preferment and privilege in the
Third, Sixth and Seventh congression-
al districts. 1 found him enthroned
at the end of a long table in the far
thest corner of the garden. On one
side of him sat James Spencer, judge
OF the circuit court-"Dominick' s
judge" on the other side Henry De
Forest, principal owner of the Pulas-
XII Gas and Street Railway company.
There were several minor celebrities
In politics, the law and business
down either side Of the table. then
Fessenden. talking with Cowley, our
lieutenant governor. AS soon as I
appeared Fessenden nodded to me-
rose, and said to the others generally:
Come on. boys. let's adjourn to the
next table. Mr.. Dominick wants to
talA 10 THIS young fellow.
1 knew something of politics. but
was not prepared to see that distin-
guished company rise, and, with not
shadow Of resentment on any man
face, with only a respectful, envious
glance at me, who was to deprive
them of sunshine for a few minutes.
remove themselves and their glasses
to another table. When l knew Dom
mick better, and other bosses in this
republic of ours, knew that the boss
is never above the weakness of the
monarch class for a rigid and serviIe
court etiquette My own lack of this
weakness has been a mistake which
might have been serious had my po-
itical power been based upon men.
It 10 . biunder to treat men without
sen-respsct as IL they were your
equals. They expect to cringe; IL they
are not compelled to do so, they are
likely to forget their place At the
court Of a boss are seen only those
who have lost self-respect and those
who never had it. The first are the
lower though they rank themselves.
and are ranked above the lust natu
rally low"
But-Dominfck was alone, his eter-
nal glass of sarsaparilla before him.
He used the left corner OF his mouth
both for his cigar and for speech.
To bid me draw near and seat myself.
he had to shift his cigar. When the
few words necessary were half
spoken. half-grunted, he rolled his
cigar back to the corner which ii
rarely left. He nodded condescend-
ingly. and, as / took the indicated
chair at his right, gave me hand
that was fat and firm, not unlike the
flabby yet tenacious sucker Of a moist
sea-creature.
He was a huge, tall man, enormous
" muscular. with a high head Ike a
block, straight in front, behind and on
either side: keen. shifty, pig eyes.
pompous cheeks. a raw, wide mouth:
slovenly dress, with a big diamond
a. a collar button. and another on
his puffy little finger. He was about
40 years old. had graduated from
blGeaomtth too Lazy to work Into
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prize-fghter, thence into saloon keep
er. It was as saloon-keeper that he
founded and built his power, made
himself the local middleman between
our two great political factors. those
who buy and break laws and those
who aid and abet the lawiessness by
selling themselves as voters or as of
fee holders.
Dominick had fixed his eyes upon
his sarsaparilla. He frowned saw
agely into its pale brown foam when
lie realized that l purposed to force
him 10 speak first His voice was
ominously surly as he shifted his
cigar to say: "Well, young fellow,
what can 1 do for your
Mr.. Fessenden told me you want
ed TO see me- said |.
He didn't say nothing of the sort"
growled Dominick. I've knowed
Buck II years, and he amt no
liar"
l flushed and glanced at the distin-
guished company silently waiting to
return to the royal presence Surely
if these eminent fellow citizens of
mine endured this insulting monarch
the dependent Said /: Perhaps
did not express myself quite accurate
ly. Fessenden told me you were
considering making me your candi-
date for county prosecutor. and sug
gested that | call and see you"
Dominicy gave a CLEAN and
grunt like hogs that had been fiat
tered with rough scratching of its
hide. But he answered: Il don't
give no nominations That's the
province of the party, young man"
But you are the party was my
reply. At the time l was not con-
scious that / had thus easily dropped
down among the hide-scratchers. /
assured myself that 1 was simply stat
ing the truth and ignored the fact
that telling the truth can be the most
degrading sycophancy, and the sub
tlest and for that reason the most
shameless, lying.
We'll, I guess I've got 1ittle some
thing to say about the party" he con-
cluded. "Us young fellows that are
active in politics like to see young
fellows pushed to the front. A good
many of us boys amt stuck on Ben
Cass-he's too stuck on himself. He's
getting out of touch with the com
mon people, and is boot-licking in
with the swells up town. So when /
heard you wanted the nomination for
prosecutor, I told Buck to trot you
round and let us look you over. Good
party MANI"
''Yes-and my father and GRANDPA
Their before me-"
mo reform germs in your sys-
temp
/ laughed was really amused
such relief was it to see a CLEAN of
pleasantly in that pernicious mass.
I'm not better than my party" said /,
land / don't desert it just because 1T
doesn't happen to do everything &C
cording to my notions"
That's right" said Dominick, fall
ing naturally into the role of political
schoolmaster. There amt no govern
ment without responsibility, and there
amt no responsibility without organ
fzation, and there amt no organiza-
ton without men willing to sink their
differences He paused
I looked my admiration-I was
grateful to him for this chance to
think him an intellect. Who likes
to admit that he bows before a mere
brute? The compulsory courtiers of
deputy may possibly and in part tell
the truth about him, after they are
safe; but was there ever a volun-
tary courtier whose opinion of his
monarch could be believed? The
more distinguished the courtier