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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Salt Lake City's progressive citizens
have always taken special pride and
interest in the public schools of the
community. There has never been a
time since the establishment of the
public school system in the city when
the PATRONS have not been ready TO
rally to the support of the schools in
the way of voting an Increase in taxes,
an issue of bonds or any other demand
made upon them that seemed to he
reasonable.
The public schools of the city have
been g heavy burden for the taxpay-
crs. So many buildings had to be
erected and equipped in so short Il
sine: the demand was for such an ex-
pnnsive type of building and the cost
&c installing complete and modern
system of education that the load has
teeu n heavy one. Even yet this bur
Ten is leenlv felt i'm the matter Of
paying interest on the bonds and pay
Jag OF the bonds themselves, but with
each passing year this part Of che bur-
en- becomes lighter.
Another part OF the burden that does
rot seem to grow lighter, however, is
caused by the demand each year for
q lditional school buildings AMI en-
: irgcment and Improvement OF tho old
"nes. The growth of population in tlie
city is so rapid that those at the head
IL .he system of education are put TO
il each year to provide for the in
creased number of children. Il IS a
feet of wide interest that there is no
other city in the United States with
go large a school population in proper
TN to the whole population as has
silt Lake Iifv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Large School Population.

The number Of children of school age
tl salt Lake city in June. 1907. was
1913. A year previous tho number
was 1S,495. showing an increase of SIS
Tor The year. 1t is fair Ia assume that
he school population of the city at
this time is 10000.
IL is interesting to note IN this con-
necJion that the ratio of school chill
dren in the city to the total population
has never fallen below one TO four. APP
plying this ratio now would give the
city a total population of $4,000. There
is no such ratio in any other city ia
he country. Ia eastern cities it runs
as low as one school child to eight or
inc of the total population.
Il must not be assumed that all the
children of school age are in school.
Practically 90 per cent of the children
of school age are not. This means that
one out of every five is out of SCHOOL.
On Oct. there were enrolled in he
public schools of the city 1883 chill
dren. Perhaps two or three hundred
have been since added to that number.
It is worthy of note that of the total
number enrolled sixty are colOFe
children. a small but increasing num-
Der are Italians, Greeks and japanese,
three are HaWaiians and three are
Chinese. A number of the japanese are
graduates from the high schools of
Japan. who are compelled because OF
the language to start in the first grade
here, making it somewhat troublesome
4. IN -be teachers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Boys and Girls Run Even.

OF the total school population of Ia
373, as shown by the census of last
June, ISIS were boys and 1856 We're
girls. OF the boys SAC could read and
write; 1859 could not read and write.
of these same boys 1881 were in the
district schools: S13 were in private
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Here Is Where the Money Goes.
Presiding over these 1888 children
in the twenty-seven school buildings
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

! pupils. Next in importance is the gym
nasium building at the High school.
This building is a model of its kind.
1t cost 500, 900, and the equipment cost
| $4,000 more. The third building is the
| Poplar Grove school This has eight
rooms, and is modern and complete.
| This cost s37627. while the Onequa
building cost $e1. 1850. The addition
| to the Sumner building consists of u
six-room annex. IT cost $4,000 1t is
big Improvement to the Sumner
| building. and a great convenience to
| that portion of the city, as it relieves
| the Hamilton, the Sumner and the
! Grant, all of which were overcroWded
Other buildings are planned for next
year. The school population is grow
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
A Monster Flower.

Can you imagine a blossom as
large as a carriage wheel? On the
island of Mindanao, one of the Phil
ippine group, was found by some ex-
plorers such flower. Far up on
the mountain of Parag, 1000 feet
above the sea level, some explorers
were wandering when they came
across great buds larger than a
cabbage head. Greatly astonished,
they searched farther and presently
discovered full grown blossom,
five petaled and three feet in diam
eter. 1t was carried in low lying,
luxuriant vines. The natives call
it bolo. 1t was found impossible to
preserve it fresh, so they photo
graphed it and kept several petals
to press and by improvised scales
found that a single flower weighed
twenty-five pounds. 1t was after
ward found to be a species of raf-
fiesta, first found in Sumatra and
named after Sir Stamford Raflles.
The new flower was called Raftlesia
shadenburgia, in honor of its dis
coverer, DIR. Shadenburg.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
WHAT IS A MUMMY /?
A Chapter OF Information about Some
Egyptian cu3tome.

Egyptian cr.tore.
When a member Of an Egyptian
family died all the relatives put on
mourning and-abstained from baths,
wine and delicaeies OF all kinds from
forty TO sixty days, according to the
rank of the person deceased. Death
in one respect put an end to all dis
tinctions that had prevailed in life,
and king and slave were subject to
the same law.
The record of the life of the de-
ceased had to be examined by
tribunal of forty-two judges before
he could be given burial with his
ancestors. If the deeds of his life
proved tkat he was worthy of burial
his body waskcarried across the sa-
cred Like, of which each province
had one, and was there permitted to
rest. If the judges found him I'M
worthy, even though he belonged to
the highest rank, he could not be
buried with his ancestors. The body
was returned to his relatives and
was buried on the side of the lake
opposite to the burial place of the
just.
The belief of the Egyptians in
future state of existence gave rise
to the practice of embalming the
dead. They wished to carefully pre-
serve the body, so that the soul upon
its return to its former abode at the
end of all things might find it ready
for its reception. Bodies were en-
balmed in three different ways. The
most expensive and magnificent
method was used upon the bodies
of kings and other persons of dis
tinguished rank, the cost amount
ing to talent of silver, or 500.
A number of persons were en-
ployed in the process of embalming,
and they were treated with great re-
spect. They filed the cavities of
the body with myrrh, cinnamon,
spices and many kinds Of sweet
smelling drugs.
After certain time had elapsed
the body was swathed in lawn fl
lets, which were glued together with
kind of thin gum, and then crust
ed over with costly perfumes. By
this mode of embalming the shape
of the body, the lineaments of the
face, the eyebrows and eyelashes
were preserved in their natural per-
lection. Bodies thus embalmed are
what we now call Egyptian num-
mics.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
cINDER in THE EYE.
What You Must and Must Not De
When This Happens.

By cinder we mean any minute
particle of whatever nature which
lodges in the eye, where it causes
much pain and distress.
In most cases when a foreign
body gets into the eye it creates a
little discomfort for a time, but is
soon washed away by the tears with
out doing any harm. Sometimes,
especially when the particle has
sharp corners to it, as is often the
case with the fine cinders from a
locomotive which burns soft coal,
the conjunctiva is cut and the body
becomes firmly lodged in it, and all
natures simple efforts to remove>it
are Intellectual. Man then tries to
come to natures assistance and
often makes bad very much worse.
The sufferer winks the eye, rubs
it with his finger, perhaps inserts
an eyestone and does whatever else
he can think of TO drive the particle
deeper into the conjunctiya and ex-
cite inflammation. This in:iamma-
ton causes swelling of the conjunc-
tiva Immediately surrounding the
offending particle, with the result
that the foreign body becomes firm
ly imbedded and can be removed
only by the little needle or knife of
the oculist, or else it loosens itself
by exciting an liberation of the
cornea, and this liberation, when
healed, leaves behind it a minute
white scar. Lucky is the man il
this scar is at one side and not d.
rectly in front of the pupil.
One who gets cinder in the eye
must first of all exercise self con
troll. lie must not rub the eye. tie
may take glass of clean water,
throw in a pinch of salt, then put
the head down so that the eye is in
the water and wink several times
rapidly. II this does no good the
particle can sometimes be dislodged
by taking hold of the lashes and
drawing the upper lid down over
the lower and letting it slide back
into place.
If the speck can be seen ON look
ing into the mirror it may often be
removed by the tip of cone made
by folding the handkerchief several
times. Sometimes a friend can see
the speck by looking into the eye
with a magnifying glass and can re-
move it by gently touching it with
the handkerchief cone.
This is all any one should at
tempt, and if these gentle efforts
fail to dislodge the cinder no time
should be lost in seeking the help of
a physician, who may take it away
before inflammation or liberation
comes to complicate the accident
Youths Companion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17

Bear hunting, with the assistance OF
guides supplied with a well trained
pack of hounds, may be satisfactory if
merely the killing of them is desired,
Int it certainly is no sport and de-
serves not even to be ranked with trap
ping bears, IS in the latter case the
hunter must possess at least some
knowledge of the quarrys habitat and
habits. Unlike a fox, a bear, when
9nce found by the hounds, stands no
chance whatever of escaping, and
there would be Just as much sport in
shooting the animals in park or pen
as to kill n run 70 bay bear And,
while this truth applies to mountain
lions also, there is not even the ex
cuse of the animals destructiveness,
which is applicable as FAR as the lat
Ter is cOncerned.-Field ard Stream.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
ORIGIN OF TRADES UNIONS.
tourneymen Bakers Struck In New
York as EARLY as 1741.

tourneymsn Bakers Struck In New
York as Early as t741.
The exact date of the origin of
trades unions in America is I'M
known. 1t is believed, says the re-
port of the Massachusetts, bureau Of
statistics of labor, that there were
no labor unions in the colonies, al
though a strike of journeymen
bakers is said to have occurred in
New York in 1741. Whatever of
associated effort there was among
workmen at this early period was
of a temporary nature, having a
single purpose in view, and when
this was accomplished whatever
compact existed was then dissolved.
1t was then the custom to call a
general meeting" whenever mat
ter of trade importance presented
itself. Such calls were generally
signed by one or two plen of recog-
nized influence in the trade, and the
meetings we're, as a rule, held in
private homes. They were organized
by the election Of officers, a state
ment was made of the purpose in
calling the trade together, and after
discussion resolutions were adopt
ed embodying the views of those
present on the question presented.
When the meeting had decided what
the attitude of the trade was to be
all those present, if willing to do so,
signed an agreement to stand by
one another during the difficulty.
Many if not all of the strikes in
colonial times were undertaken
with no more of an organization
than this.
The first real understanding, SO
far as comPositors were concerned,
is said to have been in 1776, when
the journeymen printers made de-
mand for an increase of wages,
which was refused by their employ
ers, with the result that a strike was
called. This proved successful, and
the association ended. Again, in
1856, an effort was made to reduce
wages to 1888 1-3 week, and the
trade was again called together and
statement issued declaring that
the signers would not work for less
than Sc a week.
The great period of growth for
labor unions was in the latter part
of the sixties of the last century,
owing to the organization of great
corporations and to the opening up
of the whole country to the work
of freemen. Local unions were
everywhere formed, vigorous labor
journals appeared, labor parties
we're organized, in some places rep
resentatives of labor were elected
to Office, and many of the largest
and strongest national unions now
existing were established.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
The Wrona Bird.

A professional rat catcher in a
town of northern Pennsylvania be-
ing recently called to another place
intrusted a number of ferrets to the
care of neighbor.
Upon his return he found, to his
disgust, that owing to the careless
ness of the neighbor several ferrets
had escaped from custody. The rat
catcher thereupon proceeded to
bring a claim against the caretaker.
The magistrate before whom the
suit for damages was brought dis
missed the case.
'No doubt" said he to the care
taker, "you were wrong to leave the
doors of the cages open; but, on the
other hand" added he, turning to
the rat catcher, you were wrong
too. Why didn't you clip the wings
of the ferrets ?"-Harper's Maya
zine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
Lord Plunket's Bad Cook.

In chapter on verbal infeicities
the author of Collections and Rec
objections" relates an anecdote con
corning Archbishop Trench, a man
of singularly vague and dreamy hab-
Its, who resigned the see of Dublin
on account of advancing years and
settled in London.
He went some time after to pay
q visit to his successor, Lord Plum
ket. Finding himself back again in
his old palace, sitting at his old din
ner table and gazing across it at his
old wife, he lapsed in memory to
the days when he was master of the
house and gently remarked to Mrs.
Trench:
81 am afraid, my love, that we
must put this cook down among our
failures"
What the feelings OF Lord and
Lady Plunket were on hearing this
samment history does not relate.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
WEIRD GHOST STORIES.
A Persistent Dream That Brought g
Murderer to Justice.

In certain town in the province
of Minsk, west Russia, peasant
suddenly disappeared. He was last
seen alive leaving the church and
going home to his sister, with whom
he lived.
One day in dream his sister saw
her brother. He looked pale, his
eyes were closed and his Ays were
broken. He told her that he had
been murdered by her husband and
his brothers. He mentioned the ex-
act date and place of the deed and
added that his body was put into a
sack and thrown into the river. He
wanted her to find his body and to
have it buried in the family grave.
This dream was repeated several
times, and at last the sister sought
the advice of her aged father-in-
law. He told her that it would be
difficult te'fnd the body, and if the
culprits were brought to justice her
children would be left orphans. So
after consideration the sister gave
the matter up.
But her brothers spirit would not
rest and appeared in dream in the
above manner to a friend of his.
Soon the news spread to the local
authorities, who took the matter up.
The river was searched, and the
body was found in the exact spot in
dicated.
This discovery had such an eff
feet on the murderers that they at
once confessed. They gave all the
details of the crime-how after
service they took him to a mill
where they all dined, and on leav-
ing for home they attacked their
victim. Finding that the sack was
too small, they cut off his legs, tied
stone to his neck and threw him
in the river. The above is certified
to be perfectly accurate by the local
authorities.
a Russian paper relates the fol-
lowing as having occurred in an Off
GERS family at the time of the out
break of cholera. The eldest son
was in an office in a town nearly 200
miles from his home.
One morning the family was vis-
tied by an undertaken, who said he
had received orders from a person,
whom he described, to make coffin
for their eldest son. The father re-
piled that the son was far away and
that all the family were alive and
well.
Directly afterward a message
came that the eldest son had died of
cholera at the same time that his
exact similitude had been seen by
the undertaken.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
Fake Antiques.

People are buying English an
ti9ues from taste or as investments,
and as they do not part with them
the supply is becoming shorter and
shorter. A result is that the coun-
try is full of limitations. The "an-
tiQues" to be found in country shops
are freque ltly bogus. We are flood
ed with COPIES of antique furniture
and engrayings. There are shop
auctions in London of whole stocks
Of bogus engravings, silver boxes,
Battersea enamels, miniatures and
the like.-London Spectator.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
Craven on Her Memory.

She had been a widow year or
so, and she was dickering for a
tombstone for the departed.
"0f course" said the tombstone
man, "you want the date of his
death on the shaft-the day of the
month and the year"
"Well," sighed the widow, 81 sup
pose other people may like to read
them, but l don't need such remind
ers. They are indelibly engraved
on my heart and memory"
"What was the date?" asked the
tombstone man.
The widow hesitated; then she
turned riotous scarlet; then she
said: Gracious goodnessl l can't
remember whether it was Jan. 26
or ~. Ill go home and find out"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
PEDIGREE

Foaled April %. 1899 Bred by NJ
Lassaussaie, commune of st Lapg;s,
department OF Orne, got by Hecmard
81, 10T he by Afrantus 36,70l, he h.
Cheri l0,95S Q5,39l), lie by Vas -Tu-
Peux 4,l95 (3,02D, he by Monarch
(2,S69), he by Athos belonging to NJ
Caget, he by Mona,ch belonging to
NJ. Cnget. Dam-Pouie Q5.729) by
Chalnmean, h longing to NJ. Dn-
pont. Second Dam-Ls Petite 6, $50
toy Selin f7i9) he by Porrhos, belong
ing to NJ Fromentin Third Dam
Mignonre, belonging 10 NJ Bel
homm' by Duke De Cbartres l62 e72D
he by Coco III (7lD, he by Vieox Chas
lin II13). he by Coco (Tl2). he by Mig
non (7I5), he by Jean-L = Blanc (739)
In witness whereof we have here
unto affixed the seal of the Associa-
ton. Dated nj Chicago H., this the
9th day OF December. 1902
C.. 0 kElSER, President
Raladin will be eight years old
on the 10Th day of April, 1907, Hei-
u jet black in color, III hands high
and weighs 1850 He is heavy boned,
very compact, strongly built and "a
fine actor. He has proven sure foal
getter. A. o. Landfried, of Ripley,
W, Va. has a filly colt hen,fourteen
months old that weighed l,040 pounds
Enoch Mcintyre, of Apgerona, W.
Va, has a hor colt that weighed
at nineteen months old over 1000
Will make the season at
Point Pleasant and at different
points in Mason and Jackson
counties.
G. M. WARTENBURG, Keeper,
Point Pleasant, w. Va.
Ripley P. H. Co.,
Ripley, w. Va
feb Is.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17


Why is a poodle, 50 called? Some
one says: Probably the natural an
swer would recall the old lady who
said that no credit could be given
to Adam for naming the pig, since
anybody would have known what to
call it. Poodle seems SO Obvious a
name for this dog. And, in fact, this
IS not far from the truth about the
origin of the word. 1t is quite recent
in English, not being found before
1864, apparently 1t is the German
'pudel,' which comes from the Low
German, pudeln.' to waddle, and the
dog must have been so css.lel, ms Skeat
says, either because he wadlies after
his master or because lie looks fat and
clumsy on account OF his thick hail."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.

Planning Mill and Box Factory. To-
Gated in the thriving hustlipg city OF
Charleston, w. Va, well equipped
with up-to-d date machinery: mill has
10000 feet surf ce on first floor. al d
1000 feet on seco d floor. Shed room
sufficient to hold 100000 feet lumber,
also good yard room; standard rail
road track running inside mill.
Abundant steam power; nj! macl inery
in tirst-class " orking order and can be
seen running. part cash. balance
easy payments good reasons for sell
ing. Call on or address,
j. U. GRAHAM.
307 Summers ST., Charleston, W. Va.
apr II
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
MIssoURPS HIDDEN LAKE.
Remarkable Body of Water In the
Heart of the Ozarks.

iiSdIA VI VIC O<AINS'
In Oregon county, Mo-, and Full
ton county, Ark, are grouped
Grand gulf, Mammoth spring and
Spring river. Grand gulf is the
browning wonder Of the group. The
shallow streams, about one-fourth
of a mile distant from each other,
flowing in the same direction over
an elevated plateau, suddenly drop
into canyons 500 feet deep. These
two canyons form a junction half a
mile below, where they strike a
mountain lying directly across their
path. This mountain has been tun-
neled by the action of the water,
and the natural bridge thus formed
is no less a curiosity and almost
equal in size to the famous Natural
bridge of Virginia.
After passing through this noun
tain the united stream strikes an
other mountain and tunnels It for
several hundred feet and then
spreads out into an immense under
ground lake, the area of which has
never been ascertained. Many par
ties have entered the tunnel and
picnics have been held by torchlight
on the margin of the lake, but still
it remains mystery. No light can
exist long over the bosom of the
lake, and nothing can be heard save
the faraway rumble of the waters
as they rush on.
This underground lake is a reser-
voir which supplies Mammoth
spring, the largest spring in the
world, with its 10000 cubic feet of
water a minute. The most surpris-
ing feature in connection with this
extraordinary natural curiosity is
the fact that when these great can
yons are filed with water even to
the arch of the natural bridge, hun
dreds OF feet deep, the volume of
water in Mammoth spring is not in
creased. Mammoth spring covers
eighteen acres of ground 200 feet
deep with crystal water. = South
west.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17
War Against Consumption.


Ali nations are endeevoring to
check the rsvsges of consumption,
the white plague" that claims 20
many victims eaoh year Fuley's
Honey and Tar cures coughs and
colds perfectly and you are in no
danger of consumption, Do not
risk your health by taking some
unknown preparation when Foley's
Honey and Tar is safe and certain
in results. The genuine is ir a
yellow package. For sale b. nil
Druggists
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17

DR.. NaAsSn IS fond OF sailors. He
says hat there is brotherhood of the
sea which stamps sailors and singles
them out from all other callings. He
has found more thoughtful earnestness
among sailors and better spirit than
among members of any other PROBES
Sion. Sailors. he believes, bear all
their hardships and sufferings with
calmness and fortitude.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-17

Nearly all old fashioned Cough
Syrups sre constipstine, especially
those that contain opistes They
don't act inst right Kannsdy's
Lex9tive Cough Syrup coptsjna nc
opiaies L drives tie cold ont Of
the system by gertly moving the
bowels, Coniaius Honey snd T.,
aud tastes nea1ly as COED aa maple
svrnp Children Iiks it. Sold BY
all Druggists.