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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-03
the Smithsonian Institution. in charge OF
the museum.
Medal for Emperor.

the Smithsonian Institution, in charge OF
the museum.
Medal for Emperor.
4 handsome gold medal. struck of at
the mint In Philadelphia. in commemora-
ton OF the visit of the japanese COM
missioners TO this country, was given TO
Baron Shibusawa to be presented TO the
Emperor of Japan. when the baron IN
granted an audience to give an account
of the tour Of the commissioners. The
medal is about three inches I'm diameter
and weighs nearly q pound. On the OBJ
verse side there is figure OF President
Taft, i'm profile and i'm high relief: the
date OF the arrival of the commission in
Philadelphia and the Presidents name.
William Howard Taft. On the reverse
side is a legend in Japanese and English.
concentrating the visit OF the honorary
commission to this country.
similar medal in bronze was pre-
scented to each member OF the commission
and to the American representatives ac~
companying il.
In presenting the medals Secretary
Wilson said the director of the mint a.
Philadelphia was SO pleased with the
visit OF the commissioners that he had
decided to have medals struck on In
commemoration OF IL.
Entirely Personal.
Secretary Wilson made a point. how.
ever, OF the fact that the gift was en-
tireiy a personal one. as otherwise IL
would, according to international ccur-
tesy. have to be made through the reg
ularly accredited diplomatic Representa-
tives. He then proposed I'm japanese a
toast TO the Emeperor OF Japan. and when
he closed with "Banzai'' the commits
soners rose to their feet and responded
with great enthusiasm.
Baron Shbusawa then proposed toast
to- President Taft. and through Editor
Zumoto. as an interpreter. he expressed
his thanks for the medals that had been
presented to him and for the one which
he is to deliver to his ruler.
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Prevalence of Heart Disease.
Personal Mention.

Postmaster William Jeffers of Hacken-
sack. " J.. is spending part of his vaca-
ton in town and visiting the department
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FROM A WAR VETERAN

onnortunities 10 read and study are be-
coming greater every day ana IL IL oniS
the blind who can be led by the pima
Each day az we live ignorance ls pc
coming more a crime. To nate TO lie,
and bear false witness is no part OIL
n truc Cshist- lovers life. Yet so many
think thew must hate and persecute III
n holy way, all who do not think just
as they do. From this II iS put q step
to the rack the torch and faggot.
friend asked me to let him rean inc bs bocS
of Mormon. AS 1 knew he did not read
the Biblo told him. you VIII not un,
derstand II so well II you do not read
the Bible along with 1t. This no would
not do and did not take the BOOK OF
Mormon. AS he does not believe WORD
of the Scriptures and has not read
them. the soil wss poor. There are
lust two dangerous kinds OF people to
be considered In the matter. those VINO
profess not to believe n word or SCRIP
ture and those who, on the other hand.
profess to believe every word OF IL, ana
neither of them have ever read the
Bible From such and their leaders
arise all persecution and evil speaking.
Tho sound of the grinders Is low with
mo. for 7 have none left. but the Dear
One has not darkened the windows Tor
me, and music Is still my JOY, so much
so, that L sorrow over the weakness ana
want OF ability to visit the great city OF
mighty organ, and gather with you
each. and every one. so us to know you
personally. I followed the Dear Ola
Flag from April IL, 1861 to February.
1865. God and my glorious country are
| good to me.
There is no peace. my dear brother,
| The power which sits on the city on the
Feven hills, II able today. would make
US all pass under the yoke. SO would
| many others, IL they were able to rule
| The spirit of religious intolerance only
shoulders and is cruel as the grave.
| If we look for peace. we look for what
| will not come to the church militant.
The Good Book tells US so. but, glory
to God. it comes to His church tri-
umphant. II Gods people do not com
bine to elect men opposed to evil, they
are neglectlng their duty. Free think
ers do. Otherwise they would feel
dishonored before the Master
A dear one left me In 1916 to go
home She was Latter day Saint, and
l feel that she has never been very far
from me. but only for a few years
have I understood how and why MY
friend. Ebert Hubbard would say
was a very superstltious person. But
he has a kindly. loving heart for the
saints and everybody else Yours very
respectfully, w. 3. WILLIAMSON.
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Mary b. Horsfall. OF 5i3 East Sixth
south. former resident of the Long
Island town:
"A charming feature OF the service at
St Paul's is the singing by the celeDra-
ted ST. Paul's choir of about one nun
dred voices. all the singers being men
and boys The lover of music becomes
cnraptured when listening to this Ia.
nous choir 1t Is gathered from all
parts OF the country: any boy VINO mas
u good voice Is quite likely to be lnNit-
ed to London, and II his parents con-
sent he becomes a member OF this cnoir.
He is we'll cared for and given npcrdi
education in addition to his muSicai
training.
II have heard a great deal OF goou
choir singing in England, wherc thc
knowledge OF music Is much more gen
eral than IL is here, and where there Is
O much larger percentage OF singers
among the common people than IN
America. Vocal music is also mucn
more common among the people OF Ger
many and other continental countries
and 1 sometimes wonder why America
has fallen so far beind the Older coun-
tries in this respect.
"The singing at st. Pauls churcil
stands out in my memory as the bes'
/ have ever heard from a choir of male
voices; however. that of the Mormon
choir in Salt Lake City Tabernacle was
The best 7 have ever heard from
choir OF mixed voices This shows we
can have good singing in America II the
art be cultivated
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" To So-and-Sos. to buy sterling ex-
change was the answer
" Now. why don't you let our house
have some part I'm this business2 pro-
tested the friend. Give up a chance
And thus appealed to Mr.. Fahnestock
consented to buy the needed exchange
OF Jay Cooke & Company.
"A few days later came the sensa-
tional and disastrous failure of Jay
Cooke. which precipitated one OF the
worst panics the United States has ever
had. or course, this panic affected the
exchange bought by the FIRST National
for the government and of course, both
Mr. FatneStock and Mr.. George T.
Baker the banks cashier. who had ap-
proved of his assistants purchase OF
exchange from Jay Cooke & Company,
wsre greatly concerned. not only be
cause of the money involved but also
on account of the severe criticism, and
probable dismissal that would come to
them from Mr.. Thompson.
Finally one of the two young men
asked the other: How much money
can you raise2'
"A sum was named. can raise as
much was the reply. The aggregate
was 81 few thousand dollars.
Now said Mr.. Baker, let us go TO
Mr.. Thompson and offer to buy his
stock. paying all the cash down that
VIC can and asking him to carry tho
stock for us for six months, when VIC
will pay In full he to remain president
for the six months
The proposition was made" con-
tlnued Mr.. Bridgeman. with a conf
dence that was superb under the cir
cumstances. Mr.. Thompson was pretty
angry. but rather guess that he was
getting ready 10 retire from bank man
agement anyway. At all events. he ac-
cepted the proposition, even promising
to remain president for six months, and
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

The following letter to The News
from an old war veteran, dated Ames.
Okla. was received some time ago. The
writer claims. to be free thinker"
but he is certainly not an infidel:
To the Editor-After reading two ar
ticlcs In your paper. Catholics and
Politics." and, Two American Parties"
will say n few words.
In the middle and late SOS We as a
party, felt that somthing should be
done, not to discourage emigration,
but to put a stop to the danger of tenn
pora or political power being wrested
from bona fide American citizens by
the vast number of foreigners then en-
tcrlng the country. AS the greatest
number were adherents of the Roman
Catholic church. our efforts were con-
sidcred as anta.gonIstIc to that church.
We recognized them, as now, that FOR
all kinds of work for its own benefit in
court or hovel 1t was the most power
full organization on earth Hence We
proposed u years as the limit of resi-
dence in this country necessary TO the
right OF suffrage. When the party
merged into the new party. all oun ef-
forts In this direction were lost. That
such was the case is a great sorrow
to many good people even in this day
and date.
1t was said by one man lately that
the organization OF the Church of the
I4attcr-day Saints was equal to that of
the German army and second to none.
I never saw more than
two Mormons. This was about 20 years
ago. They were Elders and we visited
together for an hour or so. When
was entering my seth year 1 got, from a
friend in Canada, (Magrnth) William
Wood, a consignment of L. d. S. lItera-
ture, including a Book of Mormon
Doctrine and Covenants. Pearl OF
Great Price, and many others. 1 have
never seen him. but we were through
the Crimean war and sailed many seas
in our time, and are steady correspond
ents. He embraced the faith of the
I1atter-day Saints when but a boy, and
I am willing to stake my life on hi:
word, hence, while free thinker,
see no reason to doubt the truth con
tanned in the Book of Mormon and tho
others. Religion is largely matter o.
temperament. 1t is Improbable and un
gracious for one typo to sit in judg
ment on another. IT Is not Christ like
Peter, the insonstant one, and Thomas
the doubter, would today be hauled vi
before church authorities and turned
out. Yet out dear Lord accepted both
The dark ages have passed away. TIL,
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1t is simply absurd to have an
other investigation of hazing at West
Point. That It has existed has been
officially established and punishment
therefor provided The punishment
has been imposed where cadets have
been found guilty and a number have
been dismissed, and then reinstated
through political pulls. They have
learned that discipline and military
rules are mere cobwebs to be broken
through at pleasure and that to set
aside the orders of the commandant
and to make the whole staff ridiculous
Is as easy as grounding arms. The at
tempt to suppress hazlng at the ma
tional military academy has been a
roaring farce. all due to the poison OF
politics. Why re-enact 1t?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

This is tho story of an error of heart
that made bank cashier of yester-
day nationally famous banker of to-
day. The anecdote was told to me by
Charles D. Brldgeman, who was for
many years one OF the leading men in
the insurance business in the United
States. You know" he said, that the
First National Bank of New York City
was not only the first bank in that city
to take out a national charter. but 1t
was the first to do so in the United
States. 1t was organized by John
Thompson, whose name has passed into
history as the originator of the national
banking system After Mr.. Thompson
became somewhat incapacitated by age,
the presidency of this institution passed
to his son. At that time it was one
of the more important of the fiscal
agents of the United States. Don't you
remember that when John Sherman
was secretary of tho treasury. they
used TO call ,ne bank building Fort
sherman?
well, the treasury department at
Washington was accustomed, through
the First National, TO secure sterling
exchange upon London. with which to
pay instalmcnts of interest on gov
ernment bonds held In London. Some
times these purchases were as high
as S500.000. At the time I hace in
mind tho government had sent over
the needed funds with which to pur-
chase some four thousand of sterling
exchange, and Henry Fahnestock. the
assistant cashier. 1 think, was on his
way to the New York office of the firm
from whom sterling exchange was
usually purchased. whom he happened to
meet on Wall street friend of his
who was one of the higher clerks in
the. banking house of Jay Cooke & Co
Where are you going?' asked the
clerk
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20
NEw-FANGLED EGG-BEATER.
Manchester Press.

The farmers wife who persist in using
a tack hammer for an egg beater Is
distinctly behind the times. The au-
tomato egg beater has come to stay.
and 1t is a greater labor saver than
a riding corn plow. The new style
beater will remove the cutlclc OF a
well candled egg without bruising the
chickens head. You can lead this new
beater up TO a plate OF skim milk and
inside of four minutes 1t Will have the
cream frothing at the mouth and hang
ing over the ropes. The housewife
can operate this beater with one hand
and wind the wringer with the other
while reading Hicks weather forecast
for 1912. An automatic foot brake
controls the beater and prevents II
frescolng the kitchen walls with young
chicken. The beater works better wher
seated In the bottom of q tin washtub
1t has four speeds forward and three
reverse. and is furnished I'm 80, 40 and
60 horse power. with kerosene magnetic
| This beater can be converted into g
| fly killer by removing the tonncau.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20
CHOIR APPRECIATED.

An appreciation of the musical serv-
ice OF Sc. Pauls church choir in Lon
don, and incidentally an appreciated
compliment to the salt Lake Tabernacle
choir, IS contained In communication
from the British capital to the South
Side Observer, published at Rockville
Center Long Island. The communica-
ton Is penned by George Wallace, for
merIy editor OF the Observer. who IS
now travelling abroad. The following
clipping from the letter contained in
the paper OF Dec. TO- rs submitted by
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then. when the stock was all paid sor'
to retire.
II am Inclined to think that Mr.
Baker and Mr.. Fahnestock did some
scurrying around In that six months to
raise the money needed to take the
stock off Mr.. Thompson's hands, but
they did II. Then, following Mr.
Thompson's retirement. Mr.. Baker be,
came president of the First Nationsi
ana Mr.. F'ahnestock ono of the execu-
tive officers"
1T is only necessary for me to add 10
Mr.. Bridgeman's recital the statement
that today Mr.. George F. Baker as the
dominating influence in the country
first national bank, is one of America
great financial powers. and multi
millionaire In his own right.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

recently Issued by the bureau OF SOILS
shows that Vermont has produced
during the past 40 years an average
OF 35 bushels of corn per acre under
cultivation, whereas In Illinois. which
stands high on the list of farming
states. the yield per acre during the
same period was only 30 bushels
Further. Connecticut and Massachu-
setts are respectively at the head OF
all the states In production of corn
per acre.
An authority on soil states that
while land may and does decrease In
productiveness and is commonly
spoken OF as worn out" yet. AZ a
matter of fact such land contains all
the elements of plant growth and In
sufficient quantities TO produce maxi
mum yields. But they are not in readi-
" available form Whenever the
soluble plant food has been used up
by the careless farmer. he calls the
land worn out" because he does not
know how TO make 1t produce pront-
able crops. The humus has been BURN
ed out and in many Instances the best
part of the soil has been allowed 10
wash away. But where all the ele-
ments but humus are present the land
can be brought to n productive state III
81 very few seasons.
And so. from these plain facts and
conditions at to wheat. we may fairly
conclude that the only things neces-
sary to avert the wheat famine oil
the future are better training, intelli-
gence, and economy devoted 10 the
care and management of the soil.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20
A TRUE SIGN OF PROGRESS
Onnr. Dumb Animals.

Never has there dawned a Christmas
day. since that event when the manger
of Bethlehem was made glorious by the
birth OF the Chrlstchild, when the
whole animaa creation neceived so
much OF the worlds best thought and
attention. as II does on this glad annI-
versary in the year of our Lord nine
teen hundred and nine.
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MEMORIAL SERVICES.

For years II mas beer the custom IN
lhe wards throughout the Stakes Oh
Zion to commemorate the birthday oil
The Prophet Joseph, by special services,
on the Sunday nearest the date OF tha'
anniversary. In accordance with tnis
practice VIC suggest that Sunday. Dec.
,s. this year, be devoted to the memory
of tho great Prophet of this dispensa-
ion. and that appropriate services DC
,eld In the Sunday schools. ward houses
md other places where the religious
,crvIccs of the Church are held on
hat day
JOSEPH f. SMITH.
JOHN r. WINDER.
ANTHON Fl. LUND,
First Presidency
Salt Lake City. Dec. IL. 1909
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JUST FOR FUN

"And now. said the teacher ''we come
to Germany. that important country
governed by kaiser. Tommy Jones,
what Is a kaiser2"
'Plcase. ma'am. kaiser is stream
OF hot water sprinSin' up an disturoin
the Garth. h.'-Everybody's.
Crusty Artist-That picture gives you
a better impression. madam, II you look
at IL from a proper distance.
Mrs. Chinicon-K Kesirney-I hardly
think so. Distance can only-er-lcnd
the enchantment. you know.-New York
Sun.
How did Jobbins como to be such
logical and unanswerable debater!
@Ry force of habit His wife always
makes him put down the carpets, 80 ne
knows how to floor his opponent and
keep him nailed down. baltimore
American.
1.-The artists models in Paris have
struck for higher wages"
"I don't blame 'em." answered Mrs.
tNcC,udley. THE pictures prove that
the poor things aren't paid enough TO
buy clothes s"-Brooklyn Eagle.
Wareham Long-Whatd you say CT
Rockefeller wuz to give n million dol
lars?
Tuffold tt-Tanks.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Redd-Did his aeroplane cost him
much?
Green-Four weeks in the hospital
Yonkers Statesman.
The peasant was oyerjoyed when ne
| discovered that his goose was laying
| golden eggs. For 1t was winter
L oan paint them up and sell them
! for hens eggs" he exclaimed. visions
of untold wealth rising rosily before
| him.-Puck.
"J want little legal information"
| "Go ahead"
| "If an automobile runs over man,
whose fault Is it, the pedestrians or the
| driver's?"
.sOnc moment We're you In the auto
mobile OF in the street t2'-Washington
Herald.
This is a very exciting scene. Thai
orderly with dispatches has just
dropped from war balloon"
"What is that heecy stuff he's brush
ing off"
"Bits of cloud kansas City Jour
nal.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

Five men have been found guilty
of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment OF customs duties on sugar. A
most happy combination of sweetness
and light.
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VIII the people of this city rise up
and say THANK God for the American
party when the American" party
administration grants a franchise for
carrying freight over the street rail-
way tracks?
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J.P Morgsn has secured lot more
telephone companies, He Will have
rings on his fingers and Bells on his
toes wherever he goes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

After fond parent has trained his
young hopeful To be self-reliant, he
often finds that the first manifestation
of his sclf-reliance is impudence.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

Columbia university is to have
school of farming. That sounds FAR
less pretentious than an agricultural
college but no doubt it will do its
work Just as we'll.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

Clifford Pinchot Is said to have been
offered the presidency of the univers-
sitv of Michigan. Men and James B.
Angels defend lis.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

1t would be q Belgian hare-brained
business to contest the succession to
the late King Leopold.
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1t Is said that a plan is being formu-
lated for a confederation Oh the cen
trail American republics.
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Collector Loeb Is expecting some
automatic scales almost any day. Be-
fore the scales fell from his eyes he
could not see the merit of the auto
matte variety.
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Let Santa Claus say whether any one
save himself has ever been TO the
north pole.
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A man who talks well is apt to be-
come a flowing we'll of talk.
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY

BY j. E. Edwards

THIS daily series anecdotes and Incidents that throw
OF The
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Much sheet music sounds as though
1t had been written when the au.hor
was three sheets in the wind.
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This kind of weather gives every
one a somewhat icy stare.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20

Would 1t be proper to speak of the
Baroness Vaughn's two sons as Brus-
sells sprouts?
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Some people are so humane that
they would have the rider carry the
donkey.
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Without reflection all the reading IN
the world Will do one no good.
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saloons that are open on Sundays
presumably have a poetic license.
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zelaya talks like a patriot. but he
has acted like tyrant.