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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

The Presidents message is docu-
ment Well worth reading. 1t gives
the views of the Chief Executive upon
many Of the questions to which public
attention has been called and suggests
necessary legislation. All citizens who
care about the affairs of the Republic
will read 1t thoughtfully !
The message very properly starts
D with u brief tinuncial review, the gist
of which is that the past seven years
and three months there have been a
net surplus of nearly one hundred
millions@of receipts over expenditures,
n reduction of the interest bearing debt
by ninety millions, IN spite OF the eX-
Extraordinary expense of the Panama
canal and Il saving of nearly nine mil
lions on the annual interest charge.
There have been no new taxes aud no
Increases of taxes. On the contrary
some taxes have been taken off. The
currency system, however, is imperfect
and reform is recommended
On the question OF corporations, the
message emphasizes the right or the
Federal government to control all
agencies of interstate commerce, but
il points out that this power must be
exercised with wisdom so that Justice
may be done to all parties. There
mus. be no defrauding of investors,
oppression of the farmers and business
men who ship freight, or callous dis
regard Of the rights and needs of the
employees. In addition to this, the in
terests OF the shareholders. of the
employees and of the shippers should
all be guarded as against one another.
To give any one of them undue and
improper consideration is to do in
justice TO the others. Rates must be
made as low as is compatible with
giving proper returns to all the en-
ployes of the railroad. from the high
est to. the lowest. and proper returns
TO the Shareholders but they must not.
for n ten e. be reduced III such fash
len TO neeessitate cut in the
wfl:see cf tnes employees or the abolition
Of tae tEaRer and legitimate profits OF
= heyl zzfreils la aI-s Q
he 8 m sage deal II length with
tie labor question. 1t recommends the
prohibition of child labor the diminu-
ton of woman labor and the shortening
"A OF thes hours Of all mechanical labor.
and recommends that Congress take
VI, in earnest the question of protec
ton of lahorers. as far as possible,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
SCIENCE MORE MODEST.
New York Evening Post.

Arguing against science at the pres
cnt day would be acting like the farm
cf.3who saw an elephant for the first
time and declared that he didn't believe
there was such a beast. But to protest
against the exaggerated claims OF the
scientists is not only legitimate, put
useful. Fer 1t Is certain that reaction
VIII otherwise carry us to the opposite
extreme of mysticism. spirituallsni, ana
plain cIarlatanry. Bumptious lighting
about electrons and cons will make an
opening for the discovery of 'psychoiu-
eres'' or soul-atoms. Evolution itself IS
growing more modest. as It should.
1T may be true that biology has piled
up5miilions of facts inits support. But
now and then 1t stands revealed that.
all the million facts hang one upon the
other. and that no one of them is al
together beyond question. Twenty
years ago the extreme Darwilians
could easily have told us why women
have long hair. Primitive marriage
was always marriage by capture. The
long-haired women could be easily
seized and dragged away in the for
est. The short haired women failed
to get husbands, and i'll the course of
z time died out. But nowadays we
should look twice at such al explant-
ton. 500.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

servers of the situation there since the
first National assembly was dispersed
and the shah's recent wriggings o0er
the question do not tend to increase
confidence In the speedy triumph OF
constitutional methods. His majesty
made bold, indeed, to declare an end OF
the business and attempted the restor-
alton of personal rule, but the protests
Sof the British and Russian ministers
caused a quick reversal. of his posi-
3tion. The present British government
has done it's utmost to encourage these
constitutional movements in the near
East, Premier Asquith even going SO
far IN his recent Guildhall speech as
70 make specific mention of the Persian
reform movement as worthy Of British
approval. The shah has now heard
about the bad impression he made
abroad by his shifty attitude and his
emphatic assertions of devotion to con-
.stitutionalism in Persia are clearly In
dicatire Of the British pressure.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
TO SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS

. & .#5
Dear Brethren: tits by no means
Improbable that some future textbook
for the use of generations yet unborn.
will contain II question something like
this. What historical American of the
4 nineteenth century has exerted the
most powerful influence upon the des-
TIMES OF his countrymen4 And 1t is
& by8l,o nleaas Impossible that the answer
to that interrogatory may be thus
written: JOSEPH SMITH, THE
MORMON PRoPHEr.'
Such was the opinion of Josiah Quin-
cy in 1914, the year OF the martyrdom.5
4 The intervening sixty-four years have
n tended to prove not only the greatness
OF Joseph Smith as a man. but also The
divinity of the work he was instrument
< tai III establishing. TO every member
OF the Church, Joseph Smith is not only
the most historical American OF the
nlnetcenth century" but a true prophet
of Gnd.
II Wednesday,. Dec. 90, 1905, will be the
one hundred and third anniversary of
his birth. and 1t is suggested that on
Sunday Dec, 10, appropriate services
be haldsin every Sunday school in the
church!s AS Il means to this end, the
General Sunday School Union Board
suggests the following program. 1t is
only suggestive. the purpose being to
have every officer Of the Sunday School
Union put forth his best thought and
effort to make the exercises SO i'm
presstye that the children will realize
the true greatness Of the Latter-day
prorhet: S
Omit regular class exercises.
song Joseph Smiths First
Prayer
3-Prayer.
4-Minntes Of previous session.
4 5S--Song ''One Hundred Years"
decentralization of the Sacrament.
7---Song. Joseph the Blest.'
7--Articles of Faith in concert by the
& entire school.
3-.Song, Joseph Smith"
10--Brief anecdotes concerning say
4 ingE Of. or extracts from the life and
writings Of the Prophet Joseph Smith;
OF extracts from the Doctrine and Cow
enants.9l see Life of Joseph Smith by
Geo. @. Cannon. These may be given
by classes in concert on By u represen-
tative from each department,
z 11---Remarks preferably by those
who knew the Prophet.
12-song, Sing, Sing the Wondrous
Story.
49, Benediction.
Sincerely your brethren,
JOSEPH II. SMITH.
GEORGE REYNOLDS.
DAVID o. MCKAY.
General superintendency.
GEO. D. PYPER,
Gen. Secretary.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

mysterious, humorous tale of adj
venture opens the rich and glowing
Christmas number of Harpers Mega
zine. The story Is by Howard Pyle.
and the seventeen paintings in color
which he has made for 1t are probably
the most successful work of the KIND
yet done by this famous artist. There
are great many other illustrations in
this genuinely holiday number, in color,
III duotone, and In black and white
eighty in ali. A new. very dramatic,
and absorbing serial story is begun,
whose scenes open in Paris and are
soon transferred to New York, revoly-
ing around a young woman of a Pc
culiar, fascinatio The articles in the
number include many interesting sub
iects. DR.. Punnett, of Cambridge uni-
versjty, writes of APPLIED 4Heredity"
showing the human value OF the new
experiments in animal breeding; Nor
man Duncan contributes Il picturesque
account of .one Days Adventures In
Damascus, full of oriental color and
mystery; Thomas A.sJanvier writes an
other group OF Legends of the City
of Mexico in which his fine style is
at its best; Charles H. Caffin, the art
critic, tells of the Leaders of the New
Salon., the most recent successful
French artists and their work; Ellis
worth Huntington, OF the department
of geography, Yale university, de-
scribes his travels In Chinese Turkes-
tan; and William w. Lord, Jr. gives an
are eight copiously illustrated short
stories, including decidedly humorous
tale by Margaret Cameron entitled,
The Thing That Couldn't Van Tas-
sci Sutphen's story "The Written
Word, is a love affair full of amusing
tangles which are finally unravelled to
the happiness of all involved Other
stories are by. Mary E. wilkins Free
man. Olivia Howard Dunbar Forrest
Crissey Philip Yerrili Mighels, and
8 Emma Bell Miles. Harner & Bro, New
York. s. '5s5i5 y.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Current Literature for December fea-
lures several articles appropriate to the
Christmas season. One Is a descrip-
ton of Jessie Wilcox Smiths Mother
and Child pictures illustrated by beau
tiful reproductions. The child-note. if
not the Christmas note, is emphasized
In an account of the victory of Judge
Ben D. Lindsey OF the juvenile court in
Denver. over both the old-party organ
izations. There Is also an article on
that rustic and Chrlstmasy melodrama,
THE Old Homestead" which has been
played in this country 1000 times, and
has earned s3,000,0G0. Other striking
features of the month are articles on
THE Tafts," with characterizations
and portraits of Mrs. Taft, soon to be
the first lady Of the land, and of Judge
Taft's brothers and children, An ar
ticle that will make a wide popular ap-
peal deals with recent efforts to abol-
ish the comic supplements of the Sum
day newspapers. Portraits OF all the
leading comic artists are given. Arthur
Stringer's arraisnment of the Canada
Takers" Is treated at length. Under
Religion and Ethics" are featured
THE Religion Of Helen Keller and
THE Remarkable Growth OF the EN-
manuel Movement and under Sci
4ence and Discovery" the following sub
}jects: THE physiological Price Of Al
coholic Stimulation" and "a Typewrit-
ier Driven by Compressed AIR" The
story of the month5is by Mary Heaton
Norse.-41-43 West 18th St., New York.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

Speaking of the new red light
district Mayer Bransford says: II
never talked to the parties who are
building the stockade, but / told a
third party who sold them some prop
erty that If the establishments were
properly erected and the business
properly carried ont there would be
no trouble The stockade was built,
the persons interested in the PROPOSE
ton have put their money into 1t. and
| am going to keep my word as far.
as lies within my power" And If
burglaries and hold-ups. assaults and
murders We're properly carried out"
probably there would be no trouble"
Thank God for the American gparty!'.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
Art for Arts Sake,

IT like to see man take an inter-
est in his work"
$50 do T. once knew a policeman
who was SO enthusiastic that it posi-
lively panied him to see anybody out
of Jail. Courier Journal.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
linking 1t In sections.

Forgive and forget" said the gen.
erous man That's my motto.'
II don't know about forgiving," an
swered Mr.. Dustin Stax. but it would
be hard to get through these inyestl-
cations without knowing how to for
get."-Washington Star.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
Disguised.

Two suffragettes the other evening
made their way into u private house
where a reception was being given in.
honor of Mr.. Asquith, and created an
unpleasant scene. They were disguised
as ladies--IIondon Punch
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

Pat" Grove is going on the lecture
platform under the auspices Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
of Chicago. This is the ne plus ultra
Of soft and silly sentimcntalsm or
the worthy and we'll meaning women
who are responsible for his forthcom-
ing appearance on the lecture platform
it may be said that they know not
what they do, and 50 should be for
given.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
JUST FOR FUN.
That Midnight Ride.

The iconoclasts are now trying to de-
molish Paul Revere's midnight ride,
They will not succeed. Longfellow i'm
mortalized Paul Revere, and he Will
stay among the immortals when all the
iconoclasts are forgotten. But suppose
he had lived nowadays! Imagine Il
deathless lyric beginning:
Listen, my children, and you shall
hear
The midnight honk of the "mobileer."
Albany Argus.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
DEsERET EVENING
the facts in the case, dismisses the
complaint. The report gays; u

4 the facts in the case, dismisses The
complaint, The report says: i.
The Louisville & Nashville ms SITS
4 that, owing to competition by river be-
tween Louisville and Nashville and 10
other competitive conditions at. NASH
| Vile, it is forced to charge a lower
rate between those points than 1t other
Wise reasonably might. The testimony
| In the record before us tends to sup
port this contention, and this situa ton
has y been fully developed in previous
investigations before this commission,
We find that these competitive condi-
lions exist, end this being 50, we must
hold that the rate to Nashville Is not
of necesslty$a standard BY which the
rate to Giallatin can ( be measured nola
is the |Lonisyille & Nashville necessarily
in violation OF the, fourth section In
charging q higher rate to Gallatin, the
point, than Is charged to
NASHVILLE, the more distant point
The Commission, however though adj
hitting the necessity OF taking conpeti-
tive conditions into consideration,
makes this Important ruling:
THE carrier may not, however, pro-
pefly apply ~ higher rate at Gallatl1t
than53it applies at Nashville, the more
IS unreasonable, one. and we think that
in complaints OF this Kind the reason
sihleness of the rate to the lnterinedi-'
ate point is Of necessity involved.
The report concludes us follows.
There is no claim in the record be-
fore us that this commodity is unduly
'burdened by the payment OF this trans
$portation charge. No competitive con-l
3dition is shown. The only ground on
which the complainant claimed an
5oyefcharge was because OF the higher
rate to the intermediate point. The
reasonableness of this rate is only in-,
icidentaliy drawn in question. We do
not feel that the commission should in
this case and ut this time attempt to
pass upon that question. Without,
therefore, expressing any opinion upon
the correctness of the classification OF
this commodity or the Inherent reasons
ableneSs of the rates Involved, either
the locals Or the through rate, the com
plant will be dismissed"
We quote from the Traffic Bulletin of
NOV. 2S, for the Information Of readers
sion. From the report 1t appears that
If the complainant had proved that the
commodity was unduly burdened by tho
payment of the transportation charge
made; or II he had proved the existence
of competitive conditions, or in some
other way shown that the rate was un-s
reasonable, the findings OF the Commits
sion might have been different. Rail
road rates, the Commission says in sub
stance, must be reasonable. and in all
complaints of this kind the .reasonable-S
ness Of the rate is OF necessity in
Solved.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

In the cloister of the cathedral at.
Toledo, hang chains with which
Christians We're once nanacled by the
Moors. Some day there may hang in
the cloister of Westminster Abbey the
chains with which the suffragettes
We're chained to their seats in the
Commons and Albert Hall, and their
names linked to enduring fame.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The City Council has raised the sal
AIRY of the city engineer twelve hundred,
dollars at = single jump. AS Puck said,
What, etc, etc.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The "red light" district seems to
be about the only bright and shining
light in the Pseudo-American admins
tration.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

No food and butter trust? Certainly
there is not. Neither is there any
Standard Oil or beef or other trust;
in fact there never was a trust of any.
kind,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

A man with a large and growing
family always feels that he would like
to have an overgrown fortune.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The New York World wants Con-
gress to investigate the Panama canal
deal. Has it so soon forgotten Its
Emperor William interview?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The Panther is at Colombo. Will it
call on any of its cousins, the tigers !?
Ceylon is a great PLACE for them.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The Saragoss3 Sea has completely
disappeared. 1t seems to have sunk
unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

If Mr.. Roosevelt ever fires one of
his messages at the king OF beasts
he will bring him down sure
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

Mr.. Carnegie says that he has more
than he deserves. Others think SO,
too. 81.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

Z Hayti is Very much afraid of inter
sention. Itgs arrays the culprit who
most fears the lash.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
Must Have Meant Him.

II wish / knew said Cholly saphead,
eff I have any show of winning Miss
RoXie Swellman.""s ,4.5 s5S5
"Well,'' remarked Miss Pepprey.
from a remark of hers l think you're
her CHOICE
Jaw! really? What did she say?''
"She said nobody was good enough
to be her husband."--St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

All the world being a stage, anybody
is entitled to make a spectacle of him
self if he chooses to.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

a good typewriter is always light
fingered, but honest.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The worlds population is compos-
ed mostly Of tiresome and tired peo-
plat Hs5 ~ w ~ $50 lt3fFit 5s
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

The divorce habit" is generally
tailor-made.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

May be Xanthippe was suffra-
gette.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
PERSIAN CONSTITUTIONS.
springfteld Repuhliea,

: Springfield Republican.
Constitutionallsm Is Persia has not
been taken very seriously by rpany OBJ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-06
EXPERT cANoEIsr BROWNS.
Giving Exhibition Of Handling Boat
When Craft Overturns.

Kenosha.-John Langermann was
drowned in the lake off Kenosha.
Langermann was giving an exhibition
of handling a canoe in the presence OF
more than hundred people when the
canoe capsized and he went down.
Members of the 101 Ranch company
were near the spot watering cattle.
When the canoe capsized four of the
troupe made an effort to rescue Lang
ermann, but when hundred feet from
shore were caught in an undertow and
found that it was impossible for them
to go any further. Three of the men
narrowly escaped drowning them
selves in their efforts to save the man.
Langermann, after the canoe cap
sized, had managed to get hold of the
sinking boat, but it would not sustain
his weight Langermann was 30
years of age and is survived by a
widow and five children. He was well
known in Kenosha and was an expert
canOeiSt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-06
NEWS notes.
FOR THE
BUSY MAN
Most Important Happen.
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
PERSONAL.

Henri Farman of France made two
successful trial flights with his aero
plane at the Brighton Beach race
track, New York
Gov. John s. Little of Arkansas is in
a sanitarium at St. Joseph, Mo-, suf-
fering from acute melancholia.
President Gompers of the American
Federation Of Labor denied Indignantly
that he had promised to deliver the
labor vote to any candidate.
Rex Beach, novelist, returned from
Alaska with an attack of iritis that
may render him blind.
Frederick Dorr, broker with offices
in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt
Lake City, Butte, Mont. and Spokane,
Wash, a member of the New York
stock exchange and the Chicago board
of tradH, suspended business because
OF lack Of patronage.
Shegetaro Korikubo, member OF
noble Japanese family, was married to
Miss Marie Louise Harrison, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. i. A. Harrison OF La
Crosse, Wis.
Archie Heron, who shot and killed
Rev. S. V. b. Prickett, a Methodist
minister, July Is at New Brunswick,
N j., was convicted Of murder and
sentenced TO be electrocuted.
The prince of Wales visited the
shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, where
he saw hundreds of crippled pilgrims
seeking relief.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-06

A little girl was playing with a girl
friend of her own age on the porch or
her home in West Philadelphia.
An elderly gentleman, her mothers
father, and an elderly lady, her IA
Tiers mother, were sitting on the
porch talking pleasantly with each
other. The little girl had often wished
her grandparents were Of the same
name, like other childrens grand
parents.
Presently the little guest remarked:
What a nice grandmother and grand
father you have"
"Oh, yes" she said, with sigh, but
they don't match"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-06
OLE MIS- MOON WITH THEM.
No Chance of the Visitors Being
Homesck in the City.

Nine. Fairfax was wont to stand on
the porch of her old Virginia home
and rejoice on moonlight nights in the
beauty, says the Youths Companion.
There's my moon" she would say,
as it rose from behind the eastern
hills. Look, Dahlia, see how beauti-
full it is" and her tiny colored maid,
who was ever at hand with shawl or
fan for her beloved mistress, would
answer, enthusiastically Your moon
certainly do look powful handsome
tonight"
When Nine. Fairfax journeyed to
the city to visit her son, Dahlia, look
ing out of the window with wondering
eyes on the first evening of her life
away from home, exclaimed, in a voice
of mingled establishment and relief:
well, | declar' to goodness, if ole
Mis- Moon amt done come along to
Washington wifi me an ole mis-! We
can't be homesick nohow, wifi ole Mis-
Moon shining on us"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-06
OBITUARY..

Mrs. Anna Miskus died in Chicago
at the age of 107 years.
Violetta Bowen of Warsaw, Ind,
died suddenly, her heart having been
pierced by a needle point.
DR.. Franklin T. Howe, one of the
Oldest newspaper men of Washington.
died from heart failure.
Thomas Tootle, aged SO, millionaire
merchant and banker of St. Joseph,
Mo, is dead.
James II. Budd, former governor of
California, died at Stockton, aged IS
years.