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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

II Admiral Evans fleet returns by
way Of the Suez canal. 1t will be sigh
ing for other worlds to ciroumnavigate
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

Rev. DR.. Worcester thinks the psyco-
logical moment has arrived TO try the
experiment of Christian psychology.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

Thaw believes that his stay will be
short. To have such belief will make
it seem shorter anyhow.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

For some time the Portuguese will
be studying the Manuel of Arms
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12
Up 10 Him.

Hungry Visitor Ito servant) -
When do the folks dine?
Servant--Soou's you go away.--EX.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

Even at three and a half dollars a
plate the Dubois banquet will at best
be a Barmeride feast.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

when man takes whisky to cure
a cold, the cold is very apt to become
a habit.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

Has the man who took the $4,000 the
combination to the Kentucky senatorial
deadlock?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

The secretary OF war is a firm believ-
er in the saying. THE early bird gets
the worm"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

Even the naval program is now Of
fered at fifty per cent off.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

Senator Aldrich has explained his
currency bill Now do you understand
II?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

has had some recent experience in high
local prices on some Of the things that
under the proposed law would be nall
able.
The law contemplates the delivery OF
foodstufrs, dry goods. drugs, books. and
other merchandise. at special rates Of
postage--hvo cents for the first pound
and two cents for each additional
pound or fraction thereof For articles
weighing two ounces or less one cent;
over two and under four ounces. two
cents: over four and not exceeding
eight ounces. three cen 8. over eight and
not exceeding 70 ounces. four cents;
and over 10 ounces and under one
pound, i've cents.
only bona-fde merchants and deal
ers can send goods by the proposed par
GELS post. The bill has the endorsement
OF the President and OF the Postmaster-
General. It is opposed by comparative
ly few people But their argu-
ments sound very much like
those OF the teamsters who opposed the
introduction OF steam railroads, or of
the typesetters who were against the
use OF the linotype.
BY all means let this great country
have some approximation to modern
and civilized postal service.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

A dead mans shoes often prove a
cornucopia-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-12

who pressed the button. and who did
the rest?
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
Pledge Campaign Publicity

Judge Taft and Mr.. Bryan alike
believe in publicity of all campaign
expenses. These two are likely to
be nominated by the great parties.
If they are not nominated, it may
be presumed that their successful
rivals will believe with them that
the public has a right 10 sciutinizo
every item Of expense entailed by
the campaign.
Congress has failed to enact legis-
lation to require this publicity. 1t
has failed even seriously TO consider
such legislation. But that is no
reason why the cause should fail
The responsibility has failed to be
come mandatory and remains to be
made voIuntary-that is all. Where
fore the New York Evening Post
suggests this:
That the candidates for the nOmi-
nations do now assume voluntarily
the obligation to render the public
an honest and full accounting of all
moneys spent to further their cam
didacies in the parties and before
the people.
The sun and the World, of New
York. indorse the plan. To their
approval. The Times desires to add
it4 own.
Nothing less than such an assumP-
ton of responsibility viii accord
with the correspondence which has
recently passed between the Secre-
tarv of War and the editor of the
Commoner. Governor Johnson com
mits himself by declaring heartily
for the Evening Posts position. No
one can doubt Governor Hughes
viii agree.
When these have pledged them
selves, any OF the other candidates
who hold aIoof would thereby com
nit political suicide. The project
thus depends on four candidates
who are undeniably sincere, With
them it rests TO achieve without leg
islatioi the reform which Repub-
lican Congress has shirked- When
once the country understands the
opportunity which is open to them,
II viii look to these leaders conf
IDENTIFY.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
The Human in Flight.

Old Gasbags is plainly going TO
be retired from circulation, IN this
business of aerial navigation. The
art of flying has been acquired IN
IFS rudiments at least by humans.
It is crude as yet and of small
practical utility; but the point IS
that one more great problem has
Welded to the insistent attack OF
study and effort. 1t isn't going TO
he long before the balloon viii be
in the realm Of the clipper packet
shin. the stage coach, and the pony
eynress across the continent.
Our American Wrights somehow
seem to have accomplished more
than ANYBODY else toward navigat-
iny the air with a machine heavier
tho, the medium in which it moves
they are going to give Paris an ez-
bibition of what they can do AT
the same time, the Frenchman Della
grange has gone on to Rome to
olive q demonstration, and Is re-
Dorted to have covered eight miles
at a rate of slightly over thirty
miles an hour. The English aero
nlanist Farman is doing remark
able things with his machine IN
Belgium. and DIR. Bells project of
air navigation has developed the
most satisfactory evidence that it is
practical and scientific.
Having looked at the birds all
these aeons, it seems remarkable,
now that the problem of fight is
about to be solved, that man should
have learned so late how TO do the
trick. It's merely trick, OF course;
a llnacx of balance and confidence
and practice. The difficulty aboGt
learning it has related intimately t.
the discomfort of those expert
mental efforts of which the Darius
Green incident is typical, which
have ended in more effective dem
onstration of the uniform operation
of the law OF gravitation than Of
the possibility of suspending tn,
operation of that act.
But the trick is being learned
The birds at least proved that il
! was possible, and man is fairly by
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

1t took one day TO make the earth,
II took just forty days 10 drown Il;
II took one month 10 form a trust,
It took forty years to down r.
II took one hour 10 get loan.
II took one hundred years 10 pay Il:
IL took four years TO WTi-e a march.
It took nine minutes. then, to play it.
II took an age to build a town,
It took one hour or less 10 burn Il,
II took one year TO spend a sum-
II took four decades work 10 earn il.
l. took five years 10 build a ship.
II took five hours time 20 sink Il;
II took an age 10 age old wine,
II took eight seconds straight to drink
IL.
II took one day TO build a trap.
II took one moment more 10 set il:
Il took one hour to catch a skunk,
1t took one fortnight 20 regret II.
II took ten years TO make a home.
II took ten minutes just to deed IL:
II took week to write this ''pome. q"
II took one z. 2. mark to read it.
Bohemian Magazine.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
JUPITER'S SATELLITE.

The suspected discovery Of an eighth
satellite OF Jupiter at Greenwich OBJ
.sevatory IS now practically confirmed
The new moon was first noticed on a
plate taken by the thigty-inch reflector
on February Is. The object might have
been a new star or an asteroid, so plates
taken on previous dates have been care
fully examined, and it has been found
to have recorded its presence on eight
plates taken between January q and
February q. It's movement, as showed
by these eight photographs, proves that
il cannot be a star. and the slight path
it moved over in the Interval dispOses
of the possibility OF its being a new
asteroid.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

he Is assured of reelection to the
seat he now holds and for which
he has been renominated.
1t would be hard TO find a finer
Illustration of what purpose, ear
nestness, determination, and cour-
age can accomplish, than the career
of this young man. However little
sympathy may be entertained for
his views, the qualities which have
made him what he is viii not escape
admiration.
There ought to be inspiration for
every American who enjoys health
and his faculties, in the career of
this man. \ mind working in dark
ness, deprived of the most common
means of acquiring information con-
corning the things about it, which
vet succeeds in storing away the
fund of fact and developing the ca
pacity for accuracy and analysis
which this blind Senator has dis
PLAYED, is an increasing wonder TO
whomsoever viii contemplate it
Perhaps the loss of one faculty
tends to whet another, but the
proof of what a man thus handi-
capped may accomplish for himself
certainly should animate every OBJ
server with ambition to make the
best of his opportunities.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
SAILORS UNIFORM
OF ENGLISH ORIGIN

All are familiar with the American
man-o'-Uar sailors suit but has any
one ever stopped 10 consider how he
comes by IL and what the origin Of it
is? With the exception Of the III itself
and the stars In the corner Of the col
lar the whole suit is copied from the
English. One would have thought that
b. this time the American nation would
nave fallen upon some original Co.'S
tune for its navy In some way more
representative Of America.
In the early days o. the British navy
e was sJill the custom 10 tie the hair
IN queue after well Ereasing II, but
much annoyance was felt by the men
IN consequence of the oil getting on the
rough serge Of heir jumpers or bl0uses.
This caused the blue collar OF the same
material as the jumper TO be added, out
without much success, as the collar
looked quite as uuuuyi so at length
the idea of putting the blue driI one
over the serge was adopted, the drill
collar being separate app6ndage and
therefore easily washed and kept clean.
The lanyard was worn 70 represent the
ropes and rigging Of the ship and the
jackkniie indicate that (to be para
doXiCdD the DlucJackct's object in life
was desth-to his enemy.
In tho Sc days the dFCk was exposed.
but as -iT1e went on and more thought
was given 10 the welfare Of the men
this was found TO be injurious 90 ths
health. hence ILle SUBSTITUTE or the white
neck flannel. while being used 10 give
the effect Of the uncovered neck
The two rows Of white braid at the
top Of the cum represent England and
Ireland, the one row at the bottom
showing that Scotland had not become
annexed. The rows OF braid on the
collar represent wholly and solely the
victories of Nelson.
At the opening of Lord Nelson's grand
career and his first great victory at
ahoukir, the first row of braid was put
on the collar, and Jack was a proud
and happy man, and he became still
prouder and happier when AbOukir was
followed by Nelson's greater victory at
Copenhagen, and the second row was
added. But he became the proudest and
happiest man and, alas, also the most
sOTTOWful and gTief-strfckcn, when that
great hero and magnificent example OF
naval courage lost his life in his last
victory at Trafalgar, and so the third
row Of braid went on, but there was no
more to come after it. for the last
pipe" had sounded for the gallant sail
or. his last fight fough7. his last victory
won. To signify the mourning which
filed the hearts Of all English sailors
the black scarf was added. This was
the origin of the British tar's uniform
which is both historical and biOgraphf-
cal, and dear 10 the heart of an Eng
lish Qeople.-New York World.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
Blind Senator: An Inspiration.

II may well be wondered how
many of the people who crowded
the Senate gallery and floor yester-
day and listened with genuine in
terest, many of them with absorb
ing attention, to the speech of SEN
ator Gore of Oklahoma, realized
what wonderful exhibition he was
giving.
Senator Gore is the youngest
Democratic Senator He is only
thirty-seven years old. He is en-
tirely blind. Despite that tremen-
dous handicap, he has educated him
self, stored his mind with a fund
of accurate information which is
the increasing wonder of all who
know him, has made himself an ora
tor of the highest rank, and is es-
tablished in the affections and con-
fdence of his State so firmly that
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
Representative J. J. Esch, Of Wisconsin,
Who Spoke at Arlington
Cemetery.
Representative Joseph v Graf, of
Illinois, Who Spoke at
GlenwOod

went out TO the cemetery direct from
Arlington and others Joined their COM
rades in paying tribute 70 the dead on
the spot which was the only one in the
District where an engagement was
fought.
Patriotic speeches by weIl-known men
and chOruses by the school children of
brigntwood and Takoma Park We're the
features Of the exercises which were
held around a specially constructed
stand just inside the cemetery gates.
EUlOgies OF the soldiers who had fought
through tie war and had either died in
battle Ur from the effects of the cam
paigu W-re delivered with enthusiasm
by Hannis Taylor, Louis ?. Shoemaker,
William V. Cox, Barry Buckley, who
read Lincoln's famous Gettysburg ad-
dress, and Lewis c. White. who told OF
the battle OF Fort Stevens. Former
Senator John B. Henderson was TO have
been one of the principal speakers Of
the day, but was unable TO be present
because OF illness.
The exercises were in charge Of Capt.
Newton NJ. Brooks. past department
commander Of the Grand Army OF the
Republic. Captain Brooks made a Mt
ting opening address, reminding those in
attendance that the ceremonies on Dec
Grafton Day was the spontaneous pay
ment Of homage from a later genera
ton 10 the men who had faced the en-
envy in battle in defense of the iustitu-
lions under which the United States
has reached its present exalted place
among the nations Of the earth. He
also said that 1t would not be many
years before there would be no sur
vivOrs or the civil war, but that as long
as there was one alive the day would
be one upon which that soldier would
remember his comrades who had gone
before.
Louis p. Shoemaker, to whom the
greater part Of the credit for the exer-
cises at Battle Ground Cemetery is due,
delivered an address in which he stated
that until the BrigBtwood Citizens As
ISOLATION took up tie project OF holding
exercises at the cemetery. four years
ago. no formal program marked the
day at the historic battle-ground.
Following his description of Fort Ste
vens and the part it had played IN the
nations history, Mr.. Cox said that the
BrightwOOd Citizens Association is en-
deavoring 10 have Congress purchase
the old fort to be used for some national
purpose. He then read a poem by John
A Joyce entitled Fort Stevens in "a. 81
The Rev. Joseph MCGEE. pastor of the
Shrine of the Sacred Heart, delivered
the Invocation, and the' Rev. Claude NJ
HesSer, pastor of Emory Chapel, Bright
wood, offered the benediCCOn.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
CHEAP EATING.

Owing TO the abundance and cheap
ness of meat IN Australia, restaurant
keepers have for years been able to
give astonishinsly liberal meals for
i cents. But they are not satisfied
with the margin Of profit, and they
have decided in conference to raise the
price to II cents. One OF the reasons
assigned fo- this step is the abnormal
appeutes" Of their customers. Il is
the nOspitable custom in Australian
popular restaurants not TO charge for
a second helping of anything, and you
can have as many cups of tea as you
please after having paid for the first
one It Is the freedom with which this
ivilege-unkuOwn in Americas ex-
ercised that cuts down the profits.-EX-
change.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

way of devising his own wings
Whether they shall ever be useful
in any practical way is yet uneer-
tain; but then the good people of
Massachusetts, once demanded leg
islation for the suppression of the
steam railroad, on the ground that
those outlandish locomotives, puff
ing anu smoking and moving at the
unholy sped of ten miles an hour.
would scare the COWS into going
dry and the hens into refusal to
lay eggs, and would ruin the indus
try of raising horses!
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
MARRYING AT THIRTY-FIVE.

A German doctor lays it down as a
well est 7blished fact, based on close
observation, that women who do not
marry until thirty-fve or thereabout
invariably achieve matrimonial success.
Why women of this particular age
should make more successful marriages
than those who fall victims to loves
young dream y tairly obvious. When
a woman marries between thirty and
ship, choosing her mate accordingly,
or from need. in which she also chooses
with a certain amount OF care She
has no wild dreams Of unallOyed bliss.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
FRUIT FOR HORSES.

Grain is not the only food on which
the horse thrives. In Egypt the
Khedive's best mares are fed largely
on curra-ts. and these fruit-fed ami
mails are noted for their endurance and
speed. Figs, during the FIG harvest, form
the food If the horses of Smyrna; they
turn TO II from oats or hay. The green
tops of the West Indiesy and for long
weeks. in many parts Of Canada, wind
fall apples form the horses only food.
In Tasmania peaches and in Arabia
dates take the place of the usual hay
and oats, corn and bran.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
The FilibuSter.

A fiHbuster is an uncertain guam
tity. Before these lines are IN print
the sensational flHbuster against
the Northumberland currency bill
may be ended and Congress ad-
journed. Really, however, that is
unimportant. That conclusion is
merely a matter of hours in any
case. The currency bin is going to
pass, soon or late,
More than one of the obstructing
Senators declared their purpose to
attract the attention Of T.. country
TO this legislation in such fashion
as would make certain that its real
character should not be overlooked.
That was the most they could rea-
sonably expect to do.
However senseless may appear the
spectacle of Senators testing their
physical endurance in competition
with the processes Of the spheres;
however useless may be the attempt
of three men to talk to death legis-
lation on which sixty-three are de-
termined; it must be said that the
Senate filibuster is no less discred-
liable to sense and sanity than was
the performance of the House.
The House took a new bill, the
most important Legislative measure
of the session, a measure affecting
the life-bIood Of commerce, and
passed it with twenty minutes de-
bate on either side, when only a
handful of members had ever seen
it! Aside from the cOnferees, no
man in the House knew anything
about the measure. But under whip
and spur it was rushed to passage.
Nobody knew what the measure
was-the House, the Senate, the
country. The House had not legis-
lated; it had accepted on faith.
The measure thus passed went to
the Senate and forthwith tremen-
dous Indignation is expressed be-
cause a few gentlemen are so dis
obliging es to keep Congress here
some hours overtime trying to find
out something about the measure,
and incidentally to let the country
knOwI
It is ventured that the country is
entitled TO know, and it is sub
mitted that Senator's and Repre-
sentatives ought to know, just a
little bit about such a piece of
legislation.
But for the Senate flibuster the
country would not have learned
what this currency measure is. An
average judgment probably would
be that it is much better than no
legislation at all, but that it is a
mighty poor product of the efforts
which have been devoted to it. As
a result of the filibuster. the coun-
try viii learn what it is, and in
some wise to record a verdict about
it next November.
Beyond that, the flibuster may
serve TO call attention to the delin-
quencies of Senatorial processes of
legislation, just as the Williams fill
buster has attracted attention to
the weaknesses of House methods.
The fact is that but for one man
in the Senate-a man utterly out
of harmony and sympathy with the
purposes and plans of that body
the Aldrich-Nreeland bill, the most
important product of this Congress,
would have passed without a total
of two hours consideration in both
houses. If the flibuster impresses
on the country some conception of
the dangers of that kind of legis-
lation, it win have served a pur-
pose quite justifying the loss of
sleep and temper which were sus-
tained by a number of our con-
script fathers.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
LARGEST OF SUBMARINES

According to a report from Paris the
largest submarine yet built will shortly
be launched at Cherbourg. The vessel
viii be POS feet long. with 625 tons dis
placement and she VIII develop a mean
speed Of fifteen knots. she will prob
ably. adds this report, have a crew
equal in strength to that OF a destroyer.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

Secretary MetcaIf naturally wonders
WHAT'S the use being Secretary of a fine
big navy Ike this. II he can't even yell
out an order to ''go aloft and furI sail"
without having some understrapper ex-
plain that we don't use sails IN the
navy now. and SO can't fuTl en-
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

These statesmen have a CHEEKY way
Of roasting the newspapers for mae
cWacy and menGacity, but when they
undertake. 70 conducs q dlibUster. they
hnd that the newspapers are mighty
sood things to read into the Record.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

After losing lot OF sleep IN order to
note how long some men are able 10 talk
without stopping for breath, one can't
help wondering where the women canoe
to enjoy the reputation Tor conversa-
uonal experiences which has come TO be
a traditional possession of theirs.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
Manv Veterans Attend
Services at BughtWOOd

Scores of veterans attended the me-
mortal services at historic Battle
Ground Cemetery. in Brightwood. Many
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

big Jim" Patten. having made s. %
600 IN his corn corner has given $40. 100
Of it to a philanthropic purpose. 4 large
number Of gentlemen who contributed
TO the pile which he raked of will
doubtless feel that it would have been
more charitable 10 send them compIi-
mentary meal tickets.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

The manifest reason why Cy Young
keeps on pitching the sort Of ball he
does is that he keeps on living up 90
his name
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

Talk about staggering humanity, just
think what might have been the results
OF that hlibuster If Ia Toilette hadn't
been sick and Gore hadn't been a blind
mani
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

With Hawaii, the District Of Colum-
bla, and West Virginia for Bryan, may
be New York viii step aside and let the
real strOngholds OF Democracy run the
party.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

According TO James J. HiR. 10000 900
more people are coming TO the United
States. Maybe he expected TO find a
couple Of good servants in the number
and the wish was father 10 the thought.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

This flying business is getting so com
mon that ven all have to sell our autos
pretty soon and buy wings if were 10
be in the upper strata OF society.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

When the Senate gets at Worl, trying
10 ind out just what its rules mean.
and what il can and can't do under
them, it Invariably surprises itself.
The Washington times., 1908-05-31

Being unable TO keep itself civilized.
Russia is determined at least TO serve
tho helpful purpose of insisting that
Persia shall not behave in uncivilized
fashinn
The Washington times., 1908-05-31
TIMES VAGARIES

Senator Gore was ont for It.