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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

to the council as to a bord OF directors.
opinion that this arrangement has
proved very satisfactory. The city,
business manager has saved money to
the taxpayers, and given them an eco.
nomical and efficient service. BY way
of Illustration it Is said that he was
able to place contracts for granollthic
paving at Il cents aesquare yard in
stead of the 81 the council was paying
prior to his appointment. These results,
are analogous to those accomplished
by the commission plan of government
in other cities, The objection to con-
verting a municipal administration into
purely business proposition comes
from those who consider that loca
government is a political as well as
a business affair But the Virginia
town seems to have overcome this diff
ficulty by employing an officer to con-
duct the purely business part Of local
administration, while the political func-
tions are retained in the city officials
regularly chosen by the people.
This plan of city government Is worth
while considering. Our cities need non-
partisan administrations and homes.
business ability. a mere change OF
name, from II council to n commission
is not sufficient. There must be a com
pletc change of system. American
cities must be redeemed from the
grasp of those who regard public Of
fees in the light OF "spoils.''
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STUDYING "ELLAs.r

a few weeks ago the authorities OF
the Brigham Young University ar
ranged to conduct expermentally q
class in the study Of Oison Z. Whit
ney's great epic omitted Elias" BY
way of Introducing the subject Prof.
Nelson, who was chosen 10 teach the
class. was invited by the stake presl-
in the State tabernacle
lie pointed out among other things,
that the study of the poem would yield
rich returns, not alone from the side
of literary establishment, but also
from the side of the deeper truths OF
philosophy and theology, that like
every classic involving deep thought,
it's great truths are won only by the
severest mental exertion, that In conse-
quance, it must be classed not among
books to be tasted" nor among books
To be Swallowed whole" but pre-
emlnently among books to be very
carefully studied. Thirteen students
entered on the opening of the class,
some of whom lasted only for two or
three Rotations. The eight members
now composing the class are deeply in
terested
As was to be expected, the attitude
of the class toward the poem is frank
" critical Every word. phrase and
thought is scrutinized. with view to
feeling or realizing its truth. Free dis
cusslon pro and con follows the reading
Of every couplet AS yet the class
is only half way through the opening
canto "As in Dream" and the mem
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intelligences Creation Sever, d prear
ing says Mrs. Eddy, and must ovan
continue to appear from the patura =.
its inexhaustible source. Mortal sar,e &,
inverts this appearing. and calls idasss
material" Allthis Is rather vague. hn,
a clearer meaning energies In the fol-
lowing passage: ITO mortal nina ~,
universe Is liquid, solid, aerlforn,
Spiritually Interpreted rocks AMI
mountains stand for solid and grand {
ideas. Animals and mortals metaphor1
#ically present graduation OF mora,
thought, rising in the scale OF intellI.
gence, taking form in masculine, fem.
mime, or neuter gender The fowls
which fly above the earth In the onen
armament Of heaven, correspond "a
aspirations soaring beyond and abovs
corporeaity to the understanding Of
the incorporeal and divine prnciple
,,Loye.'-csunrrent Literature (Novem.
bel).
Uncle SAINTS I'm tho United States
Catholic the Catholic comnn1nity
Community. is now divided into four.
teen provinces or arch.
dlocesos, with rs suffrasan secs ~
dioceses. III these there are ii Cardinal
Is Archblshops. 1866 priests, Ia.
51S churches, d,443 schools With l1Ss.
4. Suo PUPILS, -po colleges anu gut in
stitutions sheltering 1,310,30O children
Each diocese Is independent in Itself.
like the States of our Union Each
Bishop is rs supreme in his own die.
cese as Is the Governor of a State
The priests are of two ltinds~-S .i0S
diocesan or secular clerics and 4,l05
members of the regular Orders. The
diocesan priests, ordained as subjects
OF the several dioceses, are bound in
obedience to the Bishop of that diocese
and cannot leave it without his per
mission, nor would they be received
elsewhere without an eXeat, the form.
al document which states that they ara
In good standing and had received TIA
Bishops sanction for withdrawal
These priests take the VOWS of obed.
fence and celibncy only. The regular,
priests, or those belonging to the Or
ders such as the Jesuits, Franciscans
Doininicans, Redenptorists. Bencdic.
tines and the like, and living In COM
munity, take an additional vow of nov
ertS,"-Thomas r.. Mechan in tho
North American Review.
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WAGES AND COST OF LIVING.

a recent bulletin issued by the Bu-
leau of Labor contains an instructive
article showing the average wages, the
average hours of labor per week and
the number Of employees in the leading
wage-earning occupations in the coun-
try, for the years 1906 and 1907; and al
SO the cost of living during the two
years. The figures given prove con-
clusiYely that wages did not keep pace
with the increase in the cost OF food
The article shows that the average
wages per hour were 81 per cent high
or In 1907 than i'll 1906. but that the
g; ssstsyGrags Esr cent hours OF
labor per Week was Oh lower, and the
cost of living. AZ per cent higher. In
other words, the advance in the retail
prices was greater. than the advance In
wages, and the purchasing power of
the wages was. consequently, reduced
There are no statistics of this kind
for the present year, but the reports
from the savings-ba banks throw some
light on the situation. The figures Is
sued by the Controller of the Currency,
cover the fiscal year which ended June
80, and show a growth in the number
Of banks and depositors, but shrink
age in the total of deposits. Thus
compared with 1907 there has been a
gain OF IS in the number of reporting
banks and 11T.037 in the number of de-
positors But deposits show a decrease
of s29525,O00. and the average deposit
has fallen from S429.6l in 1907 to s42O.47
in 1908. In 1906 the average deposit was
SiSS.79 People saved more during 1906
with average lower wages than during
the subsequent years.
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/ on. Joining the list Of papers which de-
i spise. condemn and VIII forever escfeW
the use of the comic supplement. II
there was laugh a week IN these mon
strosities one might entertain an eH-
cuse for their continued existence. AS
a matter of fact sufficient condemna-
ton of them Is found in watching the
| countenance of the average citizen tax
ing his Sunday ease and struggling
with strained expression to ferret out n
smile from the eight pages of nothing,
literally sneared with dirty colors-
There are those still living who can
remember a time when two or three
newspapers had sunday supplement
cartoonists who had bright ideas now
ard then. But the oceans of weekly
dribble now put forth for the comic
sections is diluted to the extreme
homeopathic attenuation prescribed by
certain school of physicians.
The Kansas City Star believes that
the discontinuancc of tho Sunday
COMIC shows the trend of modern
journalism. This is from that paper:
"The Boston IIerald's recent aban-
Gdonmcnt OF the comic supplement-
shows the trend of modern journalism
ether t.Wspapers have come TO regard
,ais feature of the Sunday newspaper
as q mistake, although they do not yet
see their way clear to cut loose,
From the outset the star has looked
upon the so-called .con'c' as a Journals
istic excrescence. 1t has felt that the
money devoted to these tawdry exhibit
tons of bad taste and poor printing
could be expended in other ways of
much more benefit to the readers. Thus
when other newspapers began to run
riotpusly to color supplements the
Star gave its subscribers n complete
morning edition without extra charge.
1T has consistently devoted itself to
furnishing newspaper with all the
news; well written, intelligenty edited.
and with every detail as nearly perfect
as possible. This 1t has conceived to
be Its duty rather than to supply large
quantities of wood pulp smeared with
red green and yellow ink The ample
support 1t has received, 1t is glad to
believe, is evidence that its readers
quite agree with this vicw.'
a good newspaper should not, as the
Boston Herald observes. need a clown
to draw patronage.
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a RATIONAL CITY. COUNCIL.

{ There is considerable talk about some
Improved system of city government
For that reason :.nr experiment nom
being made by the city of Staunton,
Va, a city of $4,000 Inhabitants. is of
considerable interest. That city re-
tains It's organization as required by
law but the city council has appoint
ed a business manager who attends to
the business affairs OF the city. He
buys all supplies and arranges for all
contracts, and he suggests such legisla-
ton as he thinks. is needed for the pro
s motion of the business interests of the
city. Every three months he reports
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. n + 3. Z
though of course tho werewolf Is
but childish superstition, yet there is
| no doubt that sorcery, as mystic and
| az mysterious as in the days of Pha-
! raoh, is still practised. The somewhat
| rare rope trict'1nf the Indian jugglei'
| Is an example. a rope is apparently
| thrown up in the air, so high that the
| end is lost to sight, a boy apparently
| climbs up 1t, he too. disappearing from
View The iugger then tells II tale of
some monster who is cutting up the
child, and, one after another, limb
after limb, Falls apparently to the
ground, until at length there Is n heap
Of dismenbered remains. a. gentle-
man, not believing the evidence of his
own eyes, then took snapshot with
his camera, and when developed there
was not the slightest trace Of either the
rope or the remains Of the boy, The
magician had in fact hypnotized the
entire audience into believing that they
saw that which did not exist The
basket trick" which is much more
frequently performed must also UNI
uuestionahly be produced by the same
agency OF hypnotism, which some of
these eastern magicians appear to posi-
sess IN an extraordinary degree. But
although there is no such thing as II
werewolf or an illusory vampire, yet
there are other beings ever lowering
about, far more restrictive and baneful
for they would drag down and wreck
the immortal soul. But II we place
ourselves under the care of our Hen
vonly Father. who SO loved us that He
gave His Son to die for us, that with
His stripes we may he healed, we need
not fear the assaults of our spiritual
enemies. For greater Is He that is for
us than those that be against us.---A
Banker.
Plotting The road of poor mans
The Curve life is precisely like high
OF the Doorway which begins at the
foot of Il hill, asccndsr
pauses for Il brief space on q pleasant
plateau at the top. then relentlessly
descends on the other side. Rowntlee,
in his study of poverty In the English
town of York, describes this curve of
the poor mans life, which Is at its
lowest point, the foot of the hill, when
tho man Is young father with u brood
of little children to support. His own
unassisted labor, unless his wife too
works, must I'LL all these little mouths.
q time when the man needs strength
on which to toll, and the children need
nourishment on which to gather
strength for the future. the income Is
smallest. The curve begins to ascend,
tho family begins to climb the hill OF
plospeil.s, Miieh .io na ~
reaches Worklhs hse. Wlien ~ ne
tl'.ulei. ais on ui,ou ~ tebo,t noint
~ ~ .h is, any iueu Fiji ~ tha
time OF greatest prosperity in the home
When tha Oldest child marries. A Dor.
lion of fro income IN Withdrawn. After
that the curve begins its downward
slant and with each subsequent mar
riage the descent is more and more APP
Childs Dorr in the No
vember issue of Hamptons Broadway
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An official statement issued from the
White House says that the President is
not concerned in the least as to the
ownership of the outlook. This will be
great disappointment to those who
thought they had discovered a mares
nest in the fact that Banker stillman.
Identified with the Standard Oil COM
pany. has an interest in it
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Mr.. E. II. Hartman has delivered an
address on "The Outlook for the Rail-
roads" We thought the Outlook was
for the President.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

John Hays Hammond has been mem
toned for cabinet position. AS
head of department of mining he
could not be beaten.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

Melba has Joined the suffragettes. If
music hath charms to soothe the saw
age ear she should make favorable
impression on the commons.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

The man who is ION to his job is
more apt to get position than the
man who is seeking one.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

or course the Balkan situation may
be really serious and threatening,
but 1t has become Europe's cry of
Wolf! wolff
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

The police are doing very good work
in trying to keep the lid down on the
shoplifters.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

rs there any excuse for the green
hat?' asks a correspondent. oh, yes.
1t is about the poorest excuse for
hat going,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

rs Tannyson passing?" asks the
Boston Transcript. Come into the
garden, Maud, and see.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

1t is authoritativeiy stated that MT.
Roosevelt's trip to Africa will not be
a Strengthening expedition. This will be
good news for the animals.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

Butter at forty cents a pound should
make the COW jump over the moon
for very joy.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

The times are so prosperous that
they made twc-bits look like thirty
cents.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

Is it the same with Standard OH as
with pitcl,-that you cannot touch it
without being denled?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

One of the great demands for interior
waterways comes from the Prohibit
tionists.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

Secretary Root says that he does not
want to go to the Senate. Go to! go to.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

There is a time for everything, but
not always a clock to tell it by.
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Emperor William cannot speak in a
whisper but all Europe hears.
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TARIFF AND FURNITURE.

In general, 1t Is a fact that Ameri-
can made furniture is the best in the
world. and is probably as cheap as any.
1t Is not one OF those articles that are
said to be sold moro cheaply in the for
eign than in the home market But
there are occasional exceptions to this
general fact.
When, therefore, the National Assoc
citation of Furniture Manufacturers at
It's semi-annual meeting on Thursday
In Grand Rapids adopted resolutions
bearing on the tariff, the statements
should be given a careful hearing.
The resolutions declare in favor of
the Immediate reduction of such of the
tariff rates as have enabled a few bene-
ticiaries to combine and thus destroy
competition.
They also favor the creation. for flu
ture regulation, of permanent nom
partisan commission, and enactment of
legislation that will establish rncipro-
cal trade agreements based on maxi
mum and minimum schedules.
The school furniture trust has been
known to crush out competition and to
advance prices to school districts,
If there Is any connection between the
tariff and the occasional raid on the
taxpayers during the furnishing of
schoolhouses and other public build
ings. then this connection should be
carefully inquired into and an adequate
remedy promptly advanced.
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Socialists are not more sociable than
other people.
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This day will Boulder or U be beat
en- to q frazzle?''
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Most ru1nor is "all rot"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-31
GRANITEvILLE.

A grand concert in aid Of the Presby-
terrain manse fund will be held in Miles's
hall, Graniteyile, on New Years eve,
December 81. All cordially invited to
attend. The program which will be given
by Rev. Mr., Mrs. and the Misses Mae
arthur follows: Part instrumental
duet, selected; reading, Bairnies Cuddle
Doom; violin and piano tvalsel; solo,
Gaelic; sonata by Beethoven. Scottish
march; reading, selected; vocal solo,
Mary of Argyle; instrumental, Second
Maznrka, GODDARD; violin and piano,
Scotch quadrille; instrumental duet, Qui
Vive; violin and piano, Angels Sere-
made; The Bootblack Song; reading, Sc
lected. Part 2--Selection from Tschai-
kowslSy, reels and strathspeys; quartet,
Bonnie Doom; reading, selected; duet.
Break Break! Tennyson, Blue Bells of
Scotland; instrumental, op. Al, Heller;
vocal solo, Loeb Lomond; song, Suas Leis
a Ghaidhlay; violin solo, Danse Rastique.
Blue Bells of Scotland; Irish quadriile;
selections from Indian, Burmese and Ca
elic; Guild New Year to One and A.;
Aud Land Syne, Doors open I p. m.
begins 1880 p. m. Admission 25c,
children Zoe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-31
EAST CALAIS

NJ. d. Hawkins's little son Is quite III.
Sadie Celley visited in Walden last
week.
willard Austin was in MarshHeld Sat
urday.
Mrs L. P. Burnham was in Plainfeld
Thursday.
Glenn Thomas of Woodbury. was in
town Tuesday.
Harry Pike of East Woodbury. was in
town Tuesday.
Mrs. d. B. Dwinell was in South Wood.
bury last week.
Arthur Sweat was in Woodbury. the
first of the week.
r, G. Goodall was in Woodbury. Con-
ter Monday and Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. d. B. Dwinell are visit
ing in Waitsfield TINS week.
d. L. Scott was in Plainfeld drawing
feed for d. p. Dwinell Thursday.
Mrs. w. G. Eastman has been quite i'll,
but Is little better at this writing.
Mrs. Laura Fetch and son Grover Of
Plainfeld are visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Ira Goodrich and daughter Alice
of East Woodbury. were in town We'd
nesday.
Mr.. Margaret Clark attended the fair
and oyster supper at South Woodbury.
last week
Laura Leonard was presented with a
prize for her constant attendance at
Sunday school.
Little Willard Bugbee still remains
very i'll; council Of doctors was held
for him last week.
Mrs. w. f. Bliss has returned home
from Montpelier, where she has been
staying few days
NJ. ID. Hawkins has sold his valuable
PAGER, Lady" to Fred Martin of Marsh
field for good price
The Good Templars win celebrate their
thirtieth anniversary with an oyster
supper on Friday evening, Jan. !.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. Ii Scott and SON
Frank spent Christmas with his step.
brother, f. NJ. Shaw, in Walden
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-31
SERIOUS PROVIDENCE FIRE.
The Arcade Burns; Loss Is About
$4,000.

Providence, r. l., Dec STA spark
from an electric wire in the cellar Of
the Arcade on Westminster street, one
OF the oldest buildings in the city
started a fire yesterday which before
It was extinguished, did damage OF
about $4,000. The janitor, his wife
and two year-old baby, who were
asleep on the second story Of the build
ing when the fire broke out, were
aroused by the barking Of a dog and
were carried down the fire ladders to
safety by the fremen.
The wires were in the basement Of
the A. w. Fairchild company. The fire
spread rapidly to the Bon Ton MILF
merry company, then to a candy store,
q photograph studio and thence to the
store OF Belcher & Loomis, hardware
dealers in the next building. The es-
timated losses, which are fully GOV.
cred by insurance, follow:
A. W. Fairchild company, $1,000;
Bon Ton company, $1,000; Belcher &
Loomis, storerooms and automobile
supply department $4,000; Anderson's
Candy Kitchen, $4,000, and w. II.
Mills, photographer, $1,000.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-31
RANDOLPH

Mrs. Ellen Young has returned from
a two months stay In Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. L. Alice Fisher went 10 Barre
Wednesday morning for brief visit
with friends.
Mrs. Il. w. Carlisle and her son,
Louis, have returned from a stay Of
several days In Richford.
Helen Blanchard went to Hanover
Wednesday TO be a guest for few
days in the family OF DR.. Frost.
Miss Hazel Fairbanks went 10 Der
by Line 10 attend New Years ball at
that place and before her return will
visit Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Dubois returned
from Montpelier Wednesday, having
passed the time since Christmas with
friends in that city.
Mrs. William Mann is seriously III
ct her home on Pleasant street from
what 1t is feared will result in appen-
dicitis. George Mann of Queechy has
been called here.
IL is rumored that the White Cross
milk company will not take milk af-
ter the first Of January for a time, but
viii take cream instead.
Leon Sault, who has been with his
mother, Mrs. Louis Sault, through the
Christmas holidays went TO Detroit,
up his work Of civil engineering.
Mrs. Emma Campbell came from
Barre Wednesday where she has pass
ed the last year with her daughter,
Mrs. Effie Campbell Wheaton, to re-
main for time with her son and
family In town.
Supervisor Lewis has formed fine
GLASS Of young men who on Sunday will
organize a Baraca class and hold their
meetings In the dining room of the
Methodist church. On Tuesday even
ing they met and put down carpet
and furnished themselves with an oys-
ter stew.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-31
SLAYER SC0RNS USE OF
"BRAINSTORM" DEFENSE
Win Leave cose to "Horse Sense of
Any Jury.n

Win Leave cose to "Horse Sense of
Any Jury"
Denver, Col, Dec. 31.-C. Burdette
Bell, who shot Charles Cuvier Dury Of
Cincinnati TO death Monday afternoon
because he hsi entioed his wife from
him, win permit Of no modern pleas
in defense Of the killing when he is
placed on trial According to state
ment attributed to him, Bell will leave
his case to~@the horse sense Of any
jury" and "brainstorIns, emotional in
sanity or anything else Of that kind"
viii be strictly avoided. He says:
Il will trust my case TO the hands
of any twelve men that you can pick
up in the streets. believe any man
fit to be called man would do ex.
actly as / did under the circumstances.
Another man stole my wife. ] killed
him. Now, what is there wrong in
that
Mrs. Bell, in her cell last night,
pleaded with Chiei Armstrong TO be
permitted to see her husband, also
closely confined in jail. II think now
everything is cloar," she is said to
have told the chief. Bert was right
and Cuvier and / all wrong. ] went
to see Bert and tell him So" Her re-
quest was refused.