Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-21

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!, each end. These upper wheels are
| eight feet In diameter. rope drlVt;
| from the lower wheels passes AROUND
| the grooves IN the upper Wheeis. Iic
| large wheels are four 1eet IN uialie .
| ter. These wheels are, also slililiat "
bicycle wheels, and between the spokes
is placed circular piece OF canvas WIN WIN
a; hole In the center as In a para eca
These s.palachutes'' by means o1 tiie
sprocket wheels shown IN the iilust i,
tion. are made to reVolNc with tne
large wheels, but in doing SO assume
a horizontal plane as they begin 70
travel downwards, and change liKe the
renthering of ali oar as they reach the
bottom and commence TO tfaVel up.
The large wheels are driven by endless ea
rope drive from the Jack shaft at the
bottom, which in turn has a s 81
chain drive from the engine
The 1tlier with all its equipment anu
engine weighs lis pounds.
Thanks The people of the United
giving in States are able, even
Canada year ahead, TO determine
the day upon which they
will be officially cXhorted to close thelr
places of business rest from their III.
bors. repair TO their usual places OIL
worhip. specially remember the poor,
IL
than q matter of form so far as liking
the date is concerned. So far as pre-
gcedent counts it will be the last Thurs
day in November as has already beef.
designated for the present year. Bul
in Canada it has been q movable feast,
fixed by the proclamation of the gov
ernor-gcneral and ranging all the way
from carly October to late Novenlbe'.
This year it was fixed for Oct. ~, but
the election taking place on that DATE
il was postponed until last Monday
That had some advantages. as, takins
place on King Edwards birthday, the
rule OF that monarch has been so wise
ana kindly that all his subjects may
we'll give thanks that he is on the
throne, The celebration of his natal
day is, however, usually deferred ull-
til Victoria day. Our Canadian neigh
5bors have previously made their
Thanksgiving day Thursday, though not
Tie same Thursday as ours, and the
change this year to. Monday is a trl-
umph, not for clergy or parliament,
press or people, as whole, but 70"
the commercial travellers. For years
they have been agitqting to this end
and they cannot be blamed for desiring
n sufficiently long cessation of their
labors to make it worth while to re-
turn to their families. Yet ii strikes
the average man rather humorously
that it should be left to that element
i'll our social aggregation TO determine
what day should be set apart for the
special functions Of Thanksgiving and
prayer, We could hardly have better
proof that the social side of the in
stitution has come to outweigh in pop
nIar estimation its religious features,
though that was not the original inten-
ton Perhaps no better service could
it. however. than that OF
bringing together in closer bonds than
usual families and friends.
At the Top Except for courtcsy's or
And Below friendships sake, it IS not
or Society. Northcliffe the individual
who concerns us. but
Northcliffe the type, the living indca-
tor of the fundamental truth whose
has made great every An
glo-S Saxon people. The success of Lord
Northcliffe is a triumph OF individual 4
ism, an eXemplitlcation of the wisdom