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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL
BOARD HOLDS MEETING

Provo. Jan. 15.-The board of on
GERS of the State Mental hospital met
Thursday evening and elected officers
as follows: President, Governor VIII
liam Spry; vice president. j. w.
Jewkes; state auditor DIR. D. H.
Calder was reappointed medical super
intendent. The Office of secretary was
abolished, and this work Will now be
done by Miss Tenie Miller, stenog-
rapher at the hospital.
At the next meeting of the officers,
DR.. Calder will recommend the ap-
polntmene Of the following to succeed
themselves: w. r. H. PaXman.
steward; Mrs. Mary A. McLaln, ma
tron: L. Homer, chief engineer; James
Boyden, farmer DR.. F. w. Gift will
be assistant medical superintendent.
The following claims were allowed:
Salaries, S2.2S753. improvements and
repairs, 81 1882: additions and other
improvements. S5.51792.
On November 80 1908, there were
166 male patients In the hospital and
1S4 women, making total Of $50. On
December 81 there were 167 mon and
1S2 women, making a total of 349.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
RESULT OF CHARITABLE ACT.
Indiana Man Suffers Through Extend.
Ing the Helping Hand.

Joseph II. Barr Of Bruceville, mem
Der of the Republican state committee
from the Second district, comes to In
dianapolis often Committeeman Barr
is sober and industrious and farmer.
While in indianapolis Mr. Barr was
telling his friends of the most embar-
RAISING experience he ever had. It
happened on account of his good ma
ture and a willingness to do kind act
for friend.
One night Mr. Barr ran across a
neighbor who had been out with tine
boys" The neighbor was feeling
most jubilant and Barr decided that he
ought to take him home.
The committeeman found he had a
job on his hands, and it was very
late when he arrived with his neighbor
at the latter's door.
Where IN the world have you
been?" demanded the neighbours wife
as he made his way upstairs.
We'll, you see, my dear" said the
neighbor. unsteadily, 'T have spent two
hours taking Joe Barr home"
1T was but few hours" said Barr.
until my family heard that l had to
be taken home. I've been ever since
trying to straighten that out with
my wife. You see what an innocent
man gets by doing a charitable act"
Indianapolis Star.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16

The convict lease system, the eye
sore of the republic, will no longer
exist in Georgia after March 81 o.
This year. At an extra session OF the
legislature, called by Governor Hoke
Smith to take action on the system.
and after prolonged fight between
the house and the senate a substitute
bill was passed and signed by the gov
ernor, which specifies that aftec
March 81 next the prison commission.
with the approval of the governor.
may use such remaining convicts for
the best interests of the state. The
commission and Governor Smith are
now agreed that no further leasing of
convicts shall occur after the present
contracts expire,
The new convict law permits coun-
ties TO use their own convicts on their
own roads or other public works, and
felony conyicts are to be apportioned
out to the counties for similar work.
But the prison commission will pur-
chase or lease farms on which these
men can be employed, and 1t is hopen
that soon this method will supersede
the county plan. Four inspectors, be-
sides the prison commission, Will per-
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
PREDICTING UPHEAVALS.

1t Is generally acknowledged that
science attains its highest stage when
it enables us to fcretell what is going
to happen. Judged by this standard,
meteorology is much further advanced
than geology, says the Literary Di-
gest. The weather may now be fore
told with some accuracy, yet almost no
effort is made to forecast the move
ments of the earth's crust. on which SO
many thousands of lives often depend.
We have an elaborate science of geol
ogy, but 1t confines itself almost en-
tirely to the records of the past There
are rare cases wnere 1t has entered
the predpctive stage, but these are so
infrequent as merely to stand out as
exceptions. Thus we are told by Prof,
T. A. Jaggar. Jr.. OF the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, that the
| recent Sicilian disaster was foretold by
an Americal volcanologist. Frank Al
word Perret. who has predicted disas-
ter on Mount Etna for two years past
Professor Jaggar writes In the Evening
Post (New York, January y:
Mr.. Perret. who was decorated by
the Crown of Italy for his splendid
service to science and to humanity on
Yesuvfus IN 1906. wrote in The Worlds
Work of November, 1907: BY the ra
tional methods of scientific research
we know that a great eruption of Mt
Etna Is impending, the only uncertain
ty at present being which side of the
mountain Will break open Great vol
canic eruptions are preceded by grea,
earthquakes, and the Messina disaster
of December 2S comes on an earth.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
ELECTRICAL POWER FROM PEAT.
lreIand's Bogs Likely to Provo Source
of Vast Wealth.

From peat to electrical power is the
story of new enterprise in Ireland.
The scheme is to erect a central sta
tion upon the Grand canal. about "a
miles from Dublin. to produce blast fur
mace gas from the peat which will drive
huge gas engines, these In turn pro-
pelling electric generators of sufficient
capacity to furnish electrical energy
over Kings county and Kildare. The
process to be exploited Is that Of
German inventor. whose large factory
near Munich has been operating sue
cessfully for about two years. Peat
containing as much as so per cent.
moisture can be used satisfactorily,
the moisture becoming an essential
ingredient Of the water gas and pre-
venting too rapid combustion. An
elaborate plant Is to be installed for
by-products, such as sulphate of am
monia, tars, and tar oils, etc. which
In themselves are Of appreciable
commercial value. In the German fac
tory the process Is Of dual nature.
Peat from which rs per cent. of the
moisture can be evaporated is con-
verted into peat coke, which is used
as fuel in the German navy and
many Industrial concerns, while the
raw material, which retains half its
moisture. Is for producing the gas
from which the by-products are ex-
tracted.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
A BALLOON AT MEssINA.

More earthquakes have rocked the
ruins OF Messina and Reggie and more
earth disturbances arc predicted.
There is tendency on the part of the
refugees, Notwithstanding these warn
ines Of the earth, to go back to the
scenes OF what was to them home. Mt.
Etna threatens the greater part of
eastern Sicily, but the survivors ig-
more all the signs of impending dan
ger and ask to be allowed to cling to
the wreckage.
Mcssina was a beautiful city prior
to its destruction. There were pal
aces on the water front and back OF
the city were hills carpeted in YER
dure. The memories OF the place are
impelling the Sicilian to go back.
There Is only one plan by which to
make life safe in the earthquake zone
OF that island or in Calabria and that
IS to procure an aeroplane or dirig'
ible balloon and sleep in the machine,
so that when the rumbllngs and the
roclings of Vulcan are heard and felt,
and houses are tumbling to the ground
the airship can carry its precious load
To some distant shore.
Had one of the Wrlghts been in
Messina the morning OF the destruc-
ton, he could have sailed above the
crumbling city and have witnessed one
of the most awe-inspiring sights ever
presented to the eyes of man. The
destruction of Messina, as viewed from
a point Of vantage such as dirigible
balloon might afford would have been
a scene beyond description,
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
HAMS AcouITTAL.

The acquittal of Thornton Hams by
a New York jury is a recognition of
the "unwritten law" which was some
what unexpected. A New York jury,
In the trial of Harry Thaw. disagreed
after D. NJ. Delmas, the famous Grim
inal lawyer, had made an eloquent and
exhaustive appeal IN justification of
"dementla Americana When tho
Thaw jury refused to acquit on the
plea of emotional insanity, the impress
zion prevailed in the west that the
East held to quite different code OF
honor from that accepted in the West
and that New Workers were strict In
terpreters OF the law and aimed to be
law-abiding under the most trying con-
dltions. The Hams verdict upsets
Z this high opinion and places New
York in accord with the rest OF the
country in fracturing the rules of JUS
tlce in the case of an outraged hus-
band.
1t would be better for all II the law
were observed and tortured husband
were made to realize that in killing
the traducer they neither cure the
wrong, restore the virtue nor heal the
wound which q wife's unfalthfulness
has made an issue. There is only one
justification for the crime and that is
the removing from earth OF a serpent
No one outside the close circle of
those concerned In the loss of Annis
would have Thornton Hams severely
punished. but 1t liz serious thing
when juries sanction murder, oven
when tho provocation is as great as In
tho case of Captain Hains. Some
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
NEXT TO GOODNESS.

1t has always been q debatable
point with us as to whether the Sal
vation Army shelters. wnere the flot-
sam and jctsam are swept In swirl,
are desirable places for clean man
whose cpidermis is sensitive to little
irritants, but with the reading of the
story in Fridays Standard, OF how the
wayfarer's clothes are treated to a
sulphur bath and the man himself is
immersed in tub Of suds and brought
forth rejuvenated and cleansed. the
secret OF success OF the "shelters" Is
disclosed and the beds In those houses
OF refuge are made to appear as In
wiling as the downy cots of the pam
pered rich.
The mingling of many men whose
antecedents are unknown and whose
opportunities to remain Immediately
clean are limited, must place the whole
motley crew under suspicion. and the
wisdom OF the Salvation Army officers
in acting upon that suspicion is com
mendable.
During the Civil war battle tnat
was always on, but OF which no nc
count is recorded was fought with an
army of invaders-a skulking enemy
with bushwhacling tactics. These out
of-sfeht foes established q rendezvous
in every camp and fought Federal and
Rebel soldiers without distinction. 1t
may be that the Salvation Army Of
ficers knew what army life meant
when they issued the orders to fumi-
gate the clothes of every stranger lest
there be a straggler In his garment
who, if once started on foraging ex-
peditlon. might play havoc with every
reclining. tired and weary occupant of
the lodgings.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
Hymn Singing Out Of Style.

"The other morning. remarked the
old-fashioned man, II had to put the
question to myself as to whether peo-
pie ever sang hymns any more in New
York outside of church. II came about
through my hearing woman singing
Lead, Kindly Light the words and
melody of which came floating down
to my room through an airshnft. When
| heard 1t 1 was reminded Of the fact
that in the five years I've lived here
never heard any one singing hymn
before in our apartment house, or
anywhere else, so far as that goes,
save in church or on the street corner
by the Salvation Army. And yot, al
though | never go to vaudeville per
formances. l am kept thoroughly in
formed. through the medium of that
same airshaft. as to what is the latest
thing in popularity. Old-fashioned
hymn-singing. like oldfashioned
homes. are out of date, guess"
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
CAPTURES RUNAWAY ENGINE.
How Piucky Engineer Overlook His
Locomotive on an English Railway

One of the finest stories In the his
tory Of the English railways centers
round runaway engine on the Stock.
ton & Darlington line
The engine was observed by the
driver of another aud more powerful
one, Seeing the fugitive speeding in
the direction of Darlington, he un-
coupled his own engine, crossed the
points and set out In pursuit on the
same line. 1t was a long chase. but
the pursuer. driven at top speed. grad,
ually overhauled the runaway.
At last 1t came near enough for the
driver TO crawl TO the front of his en-.
gine and drop a stout chain over the
tender hook OF the other, He returned
to his footplate, shut off steam. and
screwed down his brake.
This steadied the one In front and
30 retarded its pace that the driver
was able now to creep from his own
engine on to the runaway, put on tho
brake and bring 1t TO q standstlll. al.
most In the crowded Darlington sta
ton.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
soARD TO LOOK INTO
HENRY JOHNSON'S CASE
Indian Said to Be Innocent of Crime
for Which He Is i'm Pen.

Salt Lake, Jan. 16.-The case OF
Henry Johnson, the full-blooded In
dian, who Is serving a Seven-year term
In the Utah state prison on charge
which it is declared he is innocent of.
viii be brought before the board of
pardons at their meeting today John
son was sentenced from Vernal, after
pleading guilt to having criminally as
saulted young girl while under the
influence of liquor. Later 1t develop
ed that Johnson did not assault the
girl and was not intoxicated at the
time it was claimed he was. This bit
of evidence was brought out at the
trial OF civil war veteran named Ten
brock, who was charged with selling
Johnson the liquor. which. 1t was
claimed, had made him drunk. the tes-
timony coming voluntarily from the
girl herself,
Johnson pleaded guilty. 1t is claim
ed, through intimidation on the part
of the officers who arrested him. he
being told that If he pleaded guilty
he would be let off with a light SEN
tcDce. Knowing no better, Johnson
did as he was told, and instead of be-
ing given the light term promised was
sentenced to seven years in state pr!s-
on at hard labor, and is still confined
there.
1t is expected that the board Will
grant him a complete pardon at to-
days meeting. and that he Will be
Immediately released and allowed to
return to Fort Duchesne at once.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
HEAD OF HARVARD.

The new head OF Harvard University
must believe in heredity. Here is a
brief statement of his family's worth
as presented by a Denver writer:
The new president of Harvard is a
son of Augustus Lowell. the founder
OF Lowell institute in Boston. That
IS pretty good start In life, to begin
with. He is brother OF Percival
Lowell. one Of the worlds foremost as
tronomers. He is a relative, though
not descendant of James. Russell
Lowell, Americans greatest poet, and
he has another brother on the United
States circuit bench. Clearly, this Is a
family of 'intellectuals."
And 1t Is but one family of many
such in America. We have-thank
neaven-no aristocracy, no scheme for
passing on privileged graft to the third
or tenth generation. But the laws of
heredity work just the same in Amer
lea as In Europe and there are many
American families with a record
through the years that might be en-
We'd by the bluest blooded stock of the
Old World. Such family are the
New England Adams. When John
Adams was elected president he had
already a pretty good line Of public
spirited ancestors behind him. His
son, John Quincy Adams, perhaps the
greatest of the family. overtopped his
father in both genius and public SER
vices. His son Charles Francis Adams.
was minister to England in the days Of
the civil war, and did service to the re-
public that cannot be measured in
ordinary terms The Adams family are
still in public life In one way or an
other. The brilliant and peculiarly
fearless writer, Samuel Hopkins
Adams, is one of the old stock, though
whether in the direct line OF not we
do not know. Our own Colorado fam
ily Is branch OF the New England
house
That is one OF the instances Of an
American family lasting through many
generations.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
MODEL ONLY LOOKED THE PART.
Was Different When He Came Down
from the Pedestal.

The model had sat, with the neces.
sary rests. for three hours in one
position. the pose of a splendid sena-
tor of Washington, elegant, aristocrat-
ic. He had a fine head. He was
quite noted for that. He had been
model for Illustrations OF many heroic
figures.
But the model with the fine head
wore about the rustiest suit OF clothes
you ever saw His cuffs were frayed.
His collar stayed up with difficulty, It
was so old.
When the three hours were up he
gave sigh of relief. for posing is
hard work. There is no work harder.
The artist drew forth his wad and
paid him. The model thanked him
with grateful smile.
He is down and OUT said the art.
list when he had gone. He hadn't
a penny to get his lunch with"
And he looked at the picture he
had drawn of him as splendid sen.
ator of Washington with n complacent
smile OF satisfaction with the fine
dignity of 1t.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
OoqS Of LUXURY.

The appearance of little dogs as OBJ.
jects OF luxury goes back to the most
ancient times. Documents are not
wanting to show that Greek and Ro.
man women had pet dogs which they
idolized. Even men, particularly
among foreigners were not ashamed
to walk the streets OF Rome with net
dogs under their arms, Plutarch re.
lates that Julius Caesar seeing one
day In Rome some strangers thus load
ed with their dogs. asked them iron.
ically whether the women OF their
country did not bear children Tertia
the daughter OF Lucius AurelIus
Paulus. was so fond OF her dog that In
the moment of bidding farewell to her
rather. who was about 10 leave his
country and his family to wage war
against Perseus, king of Macedonia
she frankly admitted that the sadness
imprinted on her face was due TO the
death OF her pet dog Persa-
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
IpAHo's "DRY AVERAGE"

Herber o. Hale, chief clerk Of the
department of immigration OF Idaho
publishes MS official report of the agri
cultural development Of Idaho, and aft
or giving the total grain crop and
acreage approximately 5000,000) for
the state, discusses DRY Farming"
Idaho, Mr.. Hale points out, has mil
lions of acres susceptible of Dry Farm
ing, and this is a fast growing industry
especially in the southeastern counties
where the yield last season was from
15 to so bushels Of grain to the acre
He says.
Oneida county, alone, produced on
Dry Farm basis of $4,000 acres about
1,495,OOO bushels Of wheat, together
with a considerable acreage OF rye and
alfalfa. Bingham county. wholly with
In the arid belt, farmed without irri-
CATION $4,000 acres with very good re-
suits Bannock county has under cul-
tivation and is producing good crops
from $4,000 acres Of dry land. FIRE.
mont county is farming. probably 150.-
900 acres by the DRY" method. with
wonderful success, producing as high
as so bushels of wheat to the acre and
other grains In proportion. Even oats,
barley and alfalfa are successfully
grown without irrigation water.
Bear Lake county is producing
crops without irrigation from about
10000 acres, Canyon. 5000 acres; Ell
more, 1000 acres; Ada, 1000 acres;
Cassia 5000 acres: Washington, 49,
600 acres Lemhi, 5000 acres; Custer,
1000 acres. The total area OF land
farmed without irrigation, in the arid
portion OF the state Is approximately
275, acres.
In the five northern counties (exclu-
sive of Shoshone county, which is
wholly devoted to mining) located
within the humid belt, fully 100000
acres are being farmed without the
application of water by artificial
means. which added to the foregoing
total, would make grand total of l.
4T5,500 acres Of land producing crops
without irrigation. Add to this 1926
123 acres of irrigated land and the to-
tai cultivated area of the state is ap-
proximately 3.1O1 ,625 acres"
This Is supplemented by report of
George Day, special agent for the
Idaho Land board, who says:
"In southern Idaho yields of forty
bushels of wheat to the acre were COM
mon this year. Barley and oats did
even better. Near Downey, 100000
bushels of wheat had just been thresh-
ed and near American Falls the total
Weld was 100000 bushels. Last year
Idaho filed on $4,000 acres for state
ownership in the Rexburg district.
This is all under lease to wheat grow
ers. This district produced from
thirty-fve to forty-four bushels to the
acre"
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
SPOILED THEIR LITTLE GAME.
Tricketer's Slip That Put an End to
Negotiations.

Mayor Speer OF Denver was talking
the other day about pair of political
tricksters.
They gave themselves away" he
said, Don't tricksters always give
themselves away? 1t reminds me OF
the two men who wanted to sell their
corpses for dissection. These two
men. miserably clad, called on the
dean of medical college In New
York.
I'VE are both on the verge of starv-
alton, sir, the spokesman said. We
are well on In years, and 1t Is clear
that we haven't much longer to live.
Would you care to purchase our
bodies for your dissectingroom?
The dean hesitated
1t is an odd proposition he NUT,
tered
But 1t is occasionally done said
the spokesman in an enger voice.
Well, said the dean. we might
arrange it. What price do you ask?'
Over In Philadelphia said the
spokesman. they gave us $40"
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16

quake date terrestrial maximum of
gravitational stress0 actually plated
In advance by MT Perret on his dia-
grams for 1908. He Is man whose
whole time is unselhshly devoted to
these studies, but he has no observa-
tory and no adequate, means of sup
port. A few business men In Spring
field Mass. last year came valiantly
to mis- aid, and now their foresight is
worthy of all honor
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
rIuckIns Chickens by Machinery.

Chickens are now plucked In a
wholesale manner by the use OF pneu.
matte machinery. There Is a recep-
tacle In which the fowl Is placed after
being killed. and into this are turned
several cross-currents OF air from cleo
trical fans revolving at the rate Of g.
600 turns per minute. In few sec
onds the bird is stripped of its feath-
ers.. even to the tiniest particles of
down, and the machine Is ready for
another.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-16
SALT LAKE AND
STATE NEWS
SPREAD OF SMALLPOX.
Schools and Assemblies Of All Kinds
Suspended.

Panguitch. Garfield County, Jan. 12.
The quarantine physician has been
busy the last few days putting flags
at the gates of persons who have
smallpox. Seven houses nre thus dec
Grated. Among the number are ex-
Mayor Ira w. Hatch and Bishop ]. p.
Haywood. the latter gentleman being
reported quite sick today This dis
ease seems to be spreading rapindly,
owing TO lax quarantine regulations.
But the city dads see INTO have got
a move on themselves and all cases
In the future will be cared for All
meetings and schools are suspended
for the present.
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wild-eyed men with Imaginary gricv'
onces. which may be based on nothing
more renl than green-eyed jealousy or
over-susplcion, are apt TO see In the
acouittal OF these self-avengers. a
license for them to kill Once the
law is turned over to the aggrioved to
DO by them interpreted and enforced.
there will be no law for those who
arc most In need of restraint strong
enough to counteract their passions
of envy, hatred and jealousy.
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|AJlEF5tg,eaMgzA

First Presbyterian church-John
Edward Carver, pastor. Communion OF
the Lords Supper will be celebrated
at II. Evening preaching at 1880;
theme, "The Time of Youth as a
Prophecy Of Mature Life" thoughts
suggested by the centenary OF Edgar
Alien Poe. Sunday school at 1915.
Junior at S. Endeavor at 6:3O.
Morning music
Prelude-"Repordete"' 80. Gottscnalk
Offertory-'Prayer from de Frei-
chutz" ..e.......,..--s... weber
Miss BIddlc.
Evening Music
Prelude-"Cradle Song" "...--. .Farrar
Tenor Solo (a)-"Tho Lost Chord
(Snllivan). (b) Lead Kindly
Light" .............r-,s.s- dykes
Mr.. Saunders.
Postlude-"Berceuse" .... .Schytte
Miss Biddle.