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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
The Hen and the Girl.

At Bordeaux, in France, rich lady
lost a diamond ring on the street. A
few days later a little girl who assist
ed the cook in boarding house was
sent to market for chicken. When
she brought it home she was told to
dress 1t, and in doing so she found the
lost ring in its crop.
The cook, the landlady. the man who
had sold the chicken all claimed the
ring, and the case was taken into
court. There it was decided that II
belonged to the girl. and the loser
gave her $40 for finding it. The hen
who wants to get herself praised. dead
or alive, will look around for lost dia
mon1s
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06

How many people in this placer"
asked curious traveller of an indo-
lent native as the train stopped at a
western water-tank. WAL" replied
the native. Il guess they's about 26
providin' old Hank Williams amt
dead yit; he was mighty sick this
mornin'. They's a new arrival ex.
pected, though. an that'll still make
1t the same when Hank dies: that is,
providin' the new arrival amt twins. 4"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Inundated with Postal Cards.

In New York city alone the post.
office handles no less than 100000 pic
ture postal cards every day, and 1t is
the same story elsewhere-in Chicago.
San Francisco. New Orleans. Buffalo
and in all the large cities. Moreover,
it is not in the United States alone
that these conditions exist In Europe,
too. all the postal services are actual
ly inundated with postcards 1t is of.
ficially stated that no less than 500.-
100000 passed through the British
postoffice during 1906.-Bohemian for
January.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Queen Takes Fencing Lessons.

Her majesty Queen Alexandra has
lately conceived great liking for
fencing, and is now taking lessons
from one of the best-known fencing
masters in the country, says Tit-Bits
The master In question was formerly
instructor to one of the regiments OF
household cavalry, and boasts of hav'
ing trained more first-class swordsmen
than any other man in Europe. He de-
scribes her majesty as being born
fencer," and as one who, had she
taken up the art earlier in life. would
have achieved great prominence In It.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Result Of American Initiative.

All the larger towns and cities In
the Philippines show the result OF
American initiative. The local native
mayors (presidentes) and councilmen
are glad to adopt the suggestions of
the constabulary officers, schoolteach
ers, army men and commercial men
with whom they come in contact
Street lighting. grading, pure water
sanitation, improved school buildings
and thousand and one features are
being carried out in every sizabls
community in the islands. To
day.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Thackeray's Poets.

Thackeray's favorite poets were
Goldsmith and the sweet lyric sing.
ers," Prior, whom he thought the
easiest, the richest the most charm.
ingIy humorous of English lyrical
poets, and Gay, the force of whose
simple melody and artless ringing
laughter he appreciated. He admired
Pope. too; but while admitting Mil.
tons greatness, thought him such a
bore that no one could read him" 1t
Ia not surprising therefore, that
Thackeray never essayed the big
bow-wow kind" of poetry.-Fortnigh
ly Review.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
ey.Product of Match Factory.

One match factory on the Pacific
coast, covers 240 acres and operates
over 30 miles of railroad, over which
is carried to it daily 100000 feet of
sugar pine and yellow pine logs for
will not do 1t must be straight.
grained and free from knots and care
fully treated in addition. The by-prod.
uct goes into larger things. This
factory turns out as by-product a
thousand doors and 500 window
sashes daily
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Paper from Peat.

Paper making from peat on a com
mercial scale has already begun in
Sweden, where company, capital.
lied at more than million dollars,
has made extensive purchases OF peat
bogs and prepared plans for the cree.
ton of mills for turning out wrap.
ping paper and pasteboard, says a
bulletin issued by the government.
A ton OF paper worth $50 can be
made from peat at total cost of
SIS, and in two hours time.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Utility Of the karite Tree.

In the search for new plants OF
utility, attention has been drawn tC
the karite tree of French West Africa
and the adjacent territory to the east
ward. This is not forest tree, bu
grows in open spaces and in gardens
Its fruit is edible The hard-shell seed
contain a fatty substance used by tho
natives as butter, and it is suggestet
that this substance should be valuable
for other purposes The gulh--no
like rubber-into which the sap co
agulates, is another article of possible
commercial value.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Insanity Cured by the Knife.

DR.. N. s. Owensby of Baltimore has
created something of stir In medical
circles by asserting that dementia
preecoz, or precocious insanity. had
been cured in recent cases by the use
of the knife to relieve the. thyroid
gland of an excess of certain chem.
icals in the blood or the secretions.
Out of five cases so treated, all but
one are said to have recovered, where
as the disease has generally been re-
garded as incurable. DR.. Spitzka OF
the Jefferson Medical college, how.
ever, says that the theory on which
Owensby operated has not been
proved.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Playing Before the King ExcIusivel

A command" to play before the
king is always appreciated by actors,
but the honor of taking a company to
Windsor or Sandringham is an expen.
s.ve one, says the Dundee Advertiser.
First-class railway tickets are pro.
vided by his majesty's secretary, but
everything else has to be paid by the
manager. These expenses include
special scenery to suit the improvised
stage, the carriage of properties and
dresses and the cab fares for the mem
bers of the company. who always ar
rive in London at an unearthly hour,
when GROWERS are few and far be-
tween. Sir John Hare's recent appear.
ance before the king cost him about
$4,000.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Ewes Of Deep-Sea Fish.

Few people know that when deep.
sea fish are taken from the water
their eyes pop from their heads" said
r.. b. Wynn of Mobile. This is due
to being relieved of the tremendous
water pressure and coming in contact
with air, On the gulf coast, where
thousands OF fish are caught daily, one
can see hundreds ald hundreds OF
deepwater fish with eyes hanging
from their sockets"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06

AS showing the enormous interest
taken in Limerick competitions. the
British postmaster-general states that
during August, September and October
of last year the total number of six
penny postal orders sold was 81, 900.
In the corresponding three months of
this year the number was STE, 900, or
IS times as many. This means an i'm
mense profit to the postofiice.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06

In India the printed book is regarded
as vulgar, ii not irreverent, and no de.
vout Hindoo would allow his sacred
writings to be contaminated by con.
tact with leather prepared from the
hide of some animals dead body. A
leather-bound copy of the Bible is for
him remarkable illustration of Chris.
tian irreverence.-The Churchman.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Expense No Object.

rs this the counter where you take
ads. for things lost and found?"
Yes, sir"
What will 1t cost to put in an ad
for lost dog?"
Depends on the length of it; may.
be go cents, and maybe one dollar or
more"
well, my name is Hewligus. My
wife has lost her poodle. She will
probably come here to advertise for
it. You can take her ad, but don't
publish it. Here's four dollars to
keep 1t out Of the paper"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
A Way Gu. Of a Difficulty.

An old highlander, being sent one
day for five yards of satin, forgot his
errand, but. not to be done, said to the
shopman: Can ye give me anither
name for the dell (deviD forby the
deil?" The shopman said Satan"
That be him." was the answer.
"Whang me off five yards of him,
white. Dundee Weekly News
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Campalon of Educ alton,

Maurice Damour, former French
consul In New Orleans, is In Chicago
to extend the campaign of education
the French government and leading
literary men have inaugurated in the
French literature. He is representa-
tive Of the government and the Cercle
de la Librairie, an organization Of
prominent French writer's and journal.
lists,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
France Had Women Warriors.

The equestrian statue of Domeisello
Phyllis de la CHARGE de la Teur du Pin
which the citizens of Grenoble in
France have erected, remembering
after 200 years what they owe to the
lady, has recalled the fact there have
been many warrior women of France
besides Joan of Arc. Phyllis equipped
a company of her vassals and rode
against the duke of Savoy.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Queen Runs Drug Store.

The queen Of Portugal has chem.
lists shop in Lisbon, registered in her
own name. The establishment is con-
Quoted solely In the interests of char.
ity and. consequently when the queen
attends to the wants of customers
personally--she often makes up pre-
scriptions herself-she is working in
a good cause, and need fear no criti-
cism
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Street Railway Accidents.

One of the startling facts developed
by the public service commission of
New York city is that over 200 per.
sons are killed or seriously injured
every month by the urban railways UNI
der the commissions jurisdiction. The
annual toll of deaths in accidents Is
between 500 and 600.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Census Of Berlin.

The area Of Berlin in 1906 was
PAN square miles, with a population
on June 80 OF that year Of 2,060,777.
There were 2.5 square miles of paved
streets, 946 numbered and named
streets, 10l public parks or places,
and 70 bridges, besides those of rail.
ways.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
More Criticism.

President G. Stanley Hall is quoted
as saying that songs OF the polly
wolly.doodle" order sung by college
glee clubs composed of stalwart bar
barians in evening dress often suggest
infantilsm Poor college
youths, they do have hard time try
ing to ft their vocaLons and their
avocations to the taste OF everyone.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
New Works Street Cars.

An investigation of 1000 Of New
York's 1900 street cars made recent.
ly showed that 105 were filthy. 4Ol
had fiat wheels. 1856 ratified notlceably,
249 were without headlamps, lO2 with
broken glass, l,OO6 with noise from
the gears.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Notices
PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP NOTICE.
Consult County Clerk or the Respective SIsa.
ers for further information.
10 the District Court. Probate Olvlslea 10 sas
for Cache County. State Of Utah.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate OF James N. christensen. deceased.
creditors will present claims with vouchers
to the undersigned at her residence In Hy-
rum. In the county of cache. State OF Utah.
on OF before the 18th day Of May. A. d. 1908.
MARY N. ROsENBAUM.
Administratrix.
J. u. STEWART. JR.. Attorney.
Dated December 25. 1907
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Demand Removal Of UqIy sions.

The city council of Springfield,
Mass, has referred to the law officer
of the city petition for the removal
of some billboards in Main street
which have been eyesores for many
years. The patience of citizens is at
an end, and hundreds of them have
signed request for the abatement
of the nuisance.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
His Thirtieth Year.

James C. Courts, who has received
a reappointment as clerk of the appro.
priations committee of the house of
representatives, Is now serving his
thirtieth year in the employ of the
house having first been appointed by
Representative Atkins of Tennessee
in 1877 e.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
N Powers. deceased.

Estate OF A ustin Powers. deceased.
Creditors will present claims with vouchers
to the undersigned at her residence in Smith
field. in the county Of cache and state OF
Utah. on or before the 3Ist day OF August. A.
u. 1902.
Date OF first publication April 20. A. ID. 1905.
CALICE ELEANOR POWERS. Administrative.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
How Is iulia on Splitting WoodY

Miss Julia Chapman won a set of
silver knives, forks and spoons In a
board'sa ing contest given by medi-
cine show in Steiwer hall Wednesday
evening, She went through her board
before any of her competitors had got
well started. (Ore) Journal
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Man 80, Woman 7a, EIope.

A man so years of age and a WON.
an of 70 eloped from home for old
people at Dornbirn. little town near
Bregenz, because they were refused
permission to marry. A week after
they returned to the establishment
stating that they had been married
and had spent all their money in hav.
ing a good time.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Worklnamen's Homes.

The city government of Milan has
voted to appropriate $i,l50,O00 for the
construction of further series of
houses especially built for working.
men and their families, and the mu.
nicipal loan Office 1.-THE city pawn de.
pr .ment will give 100000 out of
prof 5 toward the same purpose.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate Of George A. Biglow. deceased.
creditors will present claims with vouchers
to the undersigned at the Office of. Z.Stewart
Jr.. at Logan city. Utah. on or before the 18th
day OF May. A, ID. 1905.
ANNIE HUMPHREY.
Administrators,
j. u. STEWART .JR.. Attorney.
Dated December %. 1907.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-06
Count Iolstoy crltielses Dante.

Count Tolstoy. criticising Dante.
characterized the productions of the
Italian poet as cloudy and unintelli.
glble.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02

banks are authorized and established
by the municipalities. In cas- Of loss
by ~defalcations, against which there
can be no insurance, the municipality
makes a tax levy on all its citizens to
make up the shortage. The people
pay the loss. This is not a guaranty
plan as proposed by Mr.. Bryan, in n
respect, It nearer approaches the
postal savings banks system which the
republican party advocates and which
Mr.. Bryan's party favors-if the de-
posit guaranty plan can not be adopted
the only difference being that under
the German plan the municipality
guarantees the payment of the de-
posits. while under u proposed postal
savings banks system the federal gov
eminent stands responsible for such
payment. No objection can be urged
against the postal savings plan, while
the Bryan guaranty plan is as full Of
holes as a skinner.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
t

Perhaps the fact Is not worth mentioning,
but yet the absence of Senator Jeff Davis
from the limelight does seem queer.
Women who insist upon kissing presi-
Dental candidates take them at a serious
disadvantage. No candidate wishes to use
violence upon even that kind Of a woman.
Ex-Governor Miller of North Dakota. who
has just died. left the proud record OF hav-
ing refused a $4,000 bribe. Nc campaign
orator has felt impelled to steal any OF the
Miller correspondence. .s-f
Lord Northcliffe's outlay OF sszS. 900 up to
date on account of libel suits against his
London publications easily distances all his
competitors in the field OF Journalism. And
there are more coming.
President Diax OF Mexico says in an
open letter regarding his rumored retire
ment at the close OF his present term in
1910 that the reports are premature. He
intimates that he will again BE- a candi-
date.
1t appears that the money needed for the
Patrick A. Collins memorial in Boston. was
oversubscribed, and the surplus of above
A'0@ will be devoted to establishing a
library department in the city hospital.
where books for the use of patients will
be kept. These books. which will be cir
culated generally among the hospitals. will
be known as the collins memorial books"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
DEMOCRATIC FALSE PROPHETS.

II will carry Indiana. Illinois. Ohio
and New York. I will be elected and
have a good many votes 90 spare" said
William J.. Bryan at the close of his
New York campaign.
Chairman Mack claims for Bryan the
solid south. including Maryland and
Delaware, and adds Colorado. Con-
necticut, New York, Kansas, Nebraska,
New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon,
Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wiscon-
sin, Wyoming, Indiana, Idaho, Mon
tana, Ohio and South Dakota and
claims Illinois and California for the
doubtful column.
These predictions have a familiar
sound. The day before the voting in
1900, Chairman James X. Jones Of
the democratic national committee
claimed all the states named by Mr..
Mack and on the same day Mr.. Bryan
said:
am sure to win. The election of 1896
was bought. There is not enough money
in the country to bride the electorate to-
morrow to beat me.
When the votes were counted, TWEEN
ty-four hours later, 1t was found that
Bryan had been defeated by a majority
that was so per cent greater against
him than in 1896. All indications are
that his present boasts will be as far
astray as they we're in 1900.
Not the slightest reason exists for
anybody who opposed Bryan in 1900
to support him this year, but there are
many reasons why many who sup
ported him in 1900 should be against
him this year. He has recanted none
Of his old foTlies and vagaries Of 1895
and 1900, but has merely added some
new ones. His bank deposit guaranty
blind pool, which he made paramount
this year, is being dropped in the east
and the fad has lost it's vote-getting
power in the west. 1t is derided alike
by republicans and democrats whose
judgment is worthy of consideration.
Mr.. Bryan skipped it altogether in his
New York tour, just as he has skipped
government ownership Of railroads, i'm
perialism and other fallacies to which
he pledged his life work and his voice
in former campaigns.
The polls that have been made by
all OF the big papers in New York and
the east, republican and democratic
alike, indicate that Taft will sweep the
country. The men who make a living
by betting are offering odds of from 8
to 1 to z to 1 OF Taft. There is abso-
lutely nc sign that there is to be a
change from the overwhelming victory
for Roosevelt in 1904 to a victory for
Bryan in 1908.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
cONcERNING LABoR's FRIENDS.
How Bryan's Landed Policies Would
Work in Practice.
rbSoauo- Tribune

AANoob
During the last few weeks Mr.. Bryan
has been saying from fifteen to twenty
times a day that he is the only genuine
friend Of labor. He has been saying this
with great in the manufacturing
states Of New Jersey and New York with
their myriads of workers. He wishes to
make workingmen believe that Mr.. Taft Is
one enemy of labor and President Roose-
Welt is another, while he is labor's loyal,
disinterested friend.
There is one way OF finding out whether
a man is a true or a false friend of labor.
The true friend aims to fill Iabor's dinner
pail and to keep 1t full. How does Mr..
Bryan stand the test
There is one of the Bryan policies which
Mr.. Gompers does parade in his appeals
to union men to accept Mr.. Bryan and his
protestations. Mr.. Bryan has a plan for
dealing with the trusts. 1t is as simple
as that of the man who set fire to his
house to get rid Of the rats. He would
let in duty free all articles which COM
pete with goods made by trusts. He rea-
sons that the trusts would be overwhelmed
by this foreign competition.
II so they would have to close their
factories. So would the independent COM
DClllB BlOuuNNAss DhN - 80
closed the employees would be in the streets.
Cigars would be cheaper, but there would
be much less work for the men employed
in Mr.. Gompers' old trade Of cigar max
ing.
This is what Mr.. Bryan's trust and tariff
policy would do for a country which is re-
covering from an attack Of business de-
preston and needs the stimulus OF con-
fidence rather than the violent and de-
structive treatment Mr.. Bryan eontem-
plates
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan told the people that
prices were too low and should b -aised.
He proposed tina it should % don by
adulterating the currency, His advice was
not taken. Now he says that prices are
too high and must be lowered. But in
order to lower them he would halt in
dustry, lessen employment aud cut down
wages. Prices would be cut down, but
the buying capacity OF wage-earners would
be cut down even more.
All this Bryan plans 10 do for labor and
yet he asks labor for its voter
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
VII BRYAN CABINET

One of the stories current in the
east is that Mr.. Bryan has made his
peace with the Standard Oil trust and
some of the old-line democrats by
agreeing to name certain men as JUS
tices of the supreme court and by sub
hitting his slate of cabinet appoint
ments to the representatives of the
special interests. OF course, the report
lacks confirmation and may be set
down as a political canard, but judging
from Mr.. Bryan's political associates
in this campaign, 1t is not dificult to
make up a cabinet put of his list of
chums that would be perfectly salts
factory to the Standard interests, as,
for instance. these:
Secretary of ~State-Charles N. Haskell
OF Oklahoma, Illinois, New York and
Fairview.
Secretary of the Navy-"Fingy" Con-
ners, the boss of the Buffalo water front.
Secretary Of War-Jim Dahlman of
Omaha
Secretary Of the rreasury-T. Fortune
Ryan OF New York.
Secretary of the Department of Com
merce and Labor - Tom Taggart, the
Pluto" king of French Lick Springs.
Attorney General-Joseph Weldon Bal
ley Of Texas and rs Broadway.
Secretary Of the Interior-Roger sulli-
van, the gas king OF Illinois.
Postmaster General-John d. Archbold,
the famous letter writer
Secretary of Agrioulture-"Gum Shoe
Bill" Stone of Missouri. the baking pow
der expert.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
OWE OF BRrANs pREpIcrroNs

Mr.. Bryan has been in public life
for something more than twenty years
and has made quite a record as a
prophet. For instance, in one of his
speeches in 1895. he said:
II Mckinley n the republican party
are successful and put in power, for the
next four years, wages will be decreased,
hard times Will come upon us. and over
the land the price OF wheat will go down
and the price of gold will go up; mortgages
on our homes will be fereclosed by the
money lenders; shops and factories will
close. We will export no goods and we
will import from foreign lands all the
goods We use; thus Will ruin, want and
misery be with us.
That was twelve years ago, The
imports for that fiscal year were valued
at $~779,724,674. For the fiscal year
ending in June. 1908. they aggregated
&1,194,S41,s S4. The exports for 1896
we're valued at S~8S2.6O ,s3S, as COM
pared with s1.s60, 799,Os7 for 1908.
For the rest Of Mr.. Bryan's predic-
ton, the price of wheat has gone up
instead of down, mortgages have beer
paid on instead of being foreclosed,
bank deposits have nearly doubled,
wages have increased more than ever
before in the oountry's history and
the money circulation has almost
doubled. Mr.. Bryan's prophecies
should be printed in the amusement
column