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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
LlMANToUR'S PLAN FOR PEACE
IN MEXICO.
New York World.

II Senior Limantour, Mexican Minis.
ter of Finance, is correctly reported
in the interview obtained in Paris, a
basis should be afforded by his pro.
posals for n peaceful adjustment OF
the difficulties in the southen republic.
1t may be doubted, indeed, whether he
intends to return to the Mexican can
ltal before such adjustment is well
underway. In Paris he might easily
confer with important leaders of the
revolt. Senior Limatour's declaration
that the Federal trops are no match
for the cowboy insurgents" may not
be relished by President Diaz but it
is confirmed by succession of petty
Maderist histories. There may be no
need to adopt the Limantour sugges-
ton of forming bands OF Government
guerillas for a long and wasteful con.
flict II the reforms he outlines are
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
THE GREAT COMEDY HIT "sEvEN
DAYS"

There is never dull fraction of a
second in the entirety of Seven Days"
said the New York journal of Com.
merce in its review of the comedy
that on its opening night more than a
year ago actually shook the Aston
Theatre with laughter and has kept
Broadway in wild hilarity ever since.
In telling of the play the same news
paper said;
1t did one heart good to see the au.
dience at the Aston last night. 1t
laughed at Seven Days and never
stopped till it was in the sidewalk.
This farce by Mary Roberts Rinehart
and Avery Hopwood is one of the
most amusing plays in years, 1t Is
another of those exceptional success.
ses for which the Aston has become
famous" So great has been the sue.
cess of this play that it is now in its
second year in New York, having run
uninterruptedly through the summer,
the first comedy ever to achieve this
record. or all the players who have
appeared in it on Broadway Messrs.
Wagenhals & Kemper have formed a
special east which will be seen at
the Thatcher Opera House, March II.
Every member of this cast was es,
pecialIy chosen for the very best por.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS.

The mistress of the mathematical
class was matchmaking for her math.
ematical charges, while her mathe.
NAUTICAL pupils were inwardly mathe.
matiZing mathematics.
Nov, suppose" said the mistress
Il have n pound of plums-"
At which point 1t occurred to her
how much better she could illustrate
nc" eNample to her youthful charges
If she really had a pound of plums
So
Mary he said to a girl of s,
heres sixpense. Go out and get me
a pound of plums. And as | am going
to give them in the end to the girl
who gets the sum right first, be sure
before you buy them you pinch one
or two, just to see If they are whole.
some"
A few minutes and Mary returned
With flushed face and triumphant eyes
she approached the teachers desk as
che worthy of commentator, an
pumped down bag of plums and
sixpense.
There, mum!' she said, Il pinched
one or two, as you told me, and when
the man wasn't cooking pinched the
blessed lot. "-Tit-Bits.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
YELLING GIVES NOTICE.

Hon. Milton Ii. yelling, representa-
tice from Box Elder county, and by
the way President of Bear River stake,
during the debate on Senate Bill No.
AZ by Kuchler, providing that in cit.
les of the second class where there
is an even number OF councilmen, one
half the number shall be sufficient to
confirm an appointment made by the
mayor, made the announcement that
he knew the bill would pass, but
that he would oppose 1t most strenu
ously, and that if ever the political
tide turned in the state, the Republi
cans need expect no favor from the
party OF Bryan and Jefferson, wher
it came to passing out the spoils Of
battle"
1t will be noted that Mr.. yelling
did not oppose the measure on the
grounds OF justice and right. 1t wa!
purely an appeal Tor spoils, with th'
threat that il the Republicans did no
desist, and permit the Democrats L
enjoy some Of the spoils when they
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
PROF. SEES THEORY OF
COMETS is CONFIRMED

Vallejo, Cal, March 3--In conclud-
ing series of lectures on astron.
omy, Prof. T. J, j., See, u. s. N, as
tronomer in charge of the Mare Island
observatory, announced last night
that the new theory of comets result.
ing from his long researches in cosmic
evolution had been confirmed by the
Investigations of Prof. A. o. Lensch,
ner of the University of California.
and of Prof. Ellis Stromgren of the
Royal observatory at Copenhagen,
Denmark.
AT the time the tail of Halley's
comet came so near the earth in last
May said Prof. See. II was able to
conclude that the comets as class
are surviving fragments of our old
nebula, but some additional points re.
lating to few comets remained to be
cleared up. This has now been effect.
ed by Leuschner and Stromgren, who
md, as ! assumed last year, that all
the comet orbits are elliptical, not
one being really hyperbolic or PARADE
lie, as generally believer since tho
days of Kepler. What was so myster-
ious to Kepler and Newton was the
high eccentricity and great length OF
the major axes of the orbits of the
comets, and thus the present solution
OF this difficulty thus definitely set.
ties one of the great problems of the
century.
THE comets are now proved to be
survivals of the ancient nebula which
formed our solar system, the frag-
ments coming to MS chiefly from the
outer spherical shell of this nebula,
the inner portion having been eaten
out and rendered vacant through the
capture and absorption of nebulosity
by the planets. In fact, the planets
have been built up out of the matter
of comets which have been destroyed.
Even our earth was made up OF mat.
ter once existing in our nebula in the
form of comets. When, therefore, we
see a comet in the future it will have
no terror for anyone, for we may say,
for the most part, 1t is mere dust,
like the meteoric dust falling on the
earth, and therefore harmless"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
DEMOCRATS VIOLATE PLATFORM

The Provo Democratic platform
among other things declared for leg
islation looking to the regulations OF
transportation charges by common
carriers and to prevent discrimination
and abuse hereunder" On Saturday
last Senate Bill No. sc by Senator
Badger providing for the appointment
OF a Public Utilities Commission dc.
signed to do all these things for
which the Democratic party declarej
was killed by the state senate and
Senators James w. Funk of Cache
county, and Senator Olsen of Sanpete
county, both Democrats, flew in the
face of their party declarations and
voted to kill the bill. 1t is true the
bill was killed by Republican votes,
at least enough Republican votes be-
luk inc W pre-
vent rs passage, but be it remember
ed that the Republicans were left to
their own discretion as far as party
declarations were concerned. The Re
publican state convention made no
such declaration in its platform, evi-
IDENTIFY preferring to leave the matter
to the discretion of the individual
members of the legislature them
selves. Under the circumstances there
is considerable speculation as to the
attitude of the Democrats in the face
of the platform pledges.
Senator Badger plead long and
earnestly fou the bill, calling attention
to the fact that the governor had re-
commended it in his message, and
ventured the suggestion that there
is nothing our chief executive has said
that will remain longer in the mem
DRY of, or be recalled with greater
pride, by the people OF this state,
than his statesmanlike and patriotic
words"
1t is argued that this declaration OF
the Governors accounts for the antag.
onistic attitude of Senator Olsen, but
everybody in this county are familiar
with the antagonistic spirit of Senator
Funk towards the chief executive.
During the entire campaign he and
his political cohorts did all in their
power to antagoniZe and malign
Utah's governor, who by the way
lives in the hearts of the people OF
Cache County as one of the best,
truest, and most worthy friends 1t
has ever been their pleasure to know.
BE all this as it may there is some
tangling up and crossing OF wires be.
tween platform pledges and delivery
of votes of which the Democratic par
ty is the sole beneficiary.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
Work Of Last Session
Of Congress Reviewed
Continued from Page u

tors might listen to the speech. The
galleries WIRE filled and hundreds
packed the corridors, waiting in the
hope of entrance. Members of the
house left that body and crowded in
to the senate chamber. Mr.. Lorimer
made an effective speech; nothing
great; nothing brilliant, but appar-
emily candid and, certainly, convinc-
ing to those who listened with1ut pre-
Judice and with purpose to do justice.
There were touches of real pathos
when the senator, with force that be-
came eloquent. described scenes of
his struggles IN life and related Incl.
dents that bourd men of the opposing
party to him and won their support.
At the tender age of ten years he
was forced to seek a livelihood and to
aid in caring for the family. In sell
ing newspapers, old and larger boys
imposed upon him. On one o;aasion
when he had been robbed OF his pa
pers just after having bought them;
when he was utterly cast down and
bankrupt, a larger newsboy recovered
Lorimer's stock iif~ trade aud with
that incident, began friendship be-
tweenSthe two that has never faltered.
never wavered during all the inte,ven.
In b.a hn haa
cored Lorimer is now the Democratic
leader of Chicago-one Michael Ken
ma, popularity known as "Hinkey Dink,'
nick name given him when a news
boy.
Started with a shoe-strirg and
came out with a lanyard" is ore of
the descriptive phrases belonging 10
the great American game of poker. 1t
tersely describes the player Who,
starting In with small stake, cleans
40 everything IA sight. The phrase
may partly apply to some modern writ.
ers who, deserving bunch OF float
ing sea-weed, magnify it's propositions,
through the imaginative process. into
large island. On this order is a
story, now going the rounds t. the
effect that Supreme Court Justice Har
Ian, during TIE civil war, with a whole
regiment TO back him-and file d.
piece to boot-trained all his guns on
Associate Justice Lurton, then a pri'
vate in the Confederate army The
writer had the shoe-string as basis
Of fact; Justices Harlan and Lurton
fought on opposing sides in that war
That much can be accepted, but the
lanyard" must be eliminated.
Huntsville, Tenn, was properly Sc
lccted as the site of this wonderful
event in was because of its obscurity
ahd comparatice unimportance the
fewer troops engaged, the less llkeli
hood of the fictitn being exposed. The
Huntsville affair was a cavalry fight
and If Col Harlan and his regiment
got there, it was after the battle
Moreover there was no reason why
Gen Morgan should leave in haste
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
FUNk-W ELLlNG.

Before the adjournment of the pre-
sent legislature we desire to call the
attention of the people to a matter
which we think they are Interested,
and in which the two gentlemen
above mentioned are involved. We
mean James W. Funk, senator from
Cache county, ana Milton II. yelling,
representative from Box Elder coun-
ty. The former is heralded as the gen
principles to the front" the latter the
Democratic "spellbinder" of the
House of Representatives. The form
er has introduced a bill providing for
a primary election" for L. S. sena.
tors, and this is the matter which we
desire to discuss.
The history OF the election OF U. s.
senators in the State of Utah is well
known to everybody Even the school
children are acquainted with the dis
patch with which the Republican par
ty elects u. 5. Senators. The people,
too, know how well Republican legis-
latures elect the peoples choice. Four
years ago Senator Reed Smoot was
elected by unanimous Republican
vote. No man or woman in Utah dare
utter the word that Reed Smoot was
not the peone's choice, because to do
so would be .uttering falsehood The
present legislature elected Senator
George Sutherland by unanimous
Republican vote. No man or woman
in Utah dare utter the word that
George Sutherland was not the PEG.
pies choice, because to do so would
be uttering falsehood. The Republi.
can party then has ascertained the
desires of the people without double
election, and its attendant enormous
expenditure of the peoples money az
the Funk bin proposes, and in Utah
under Republican rule there is ne
need of such extravaganza.
Under Democratic rule it is differ
ent, and it is supposed therein lies
the Justification for the Funk bill. 1
will be remembered that years age
Democratic legislature balloted, anC
bolloted and balloted for the entir,
sixty days and adjourned without ell
Getting a U. S. senator. Since tina
time they have not had the chance I,
elect senator, and in probability /
) will be long time before the pee
3 pie grant another opportunity. Judgin
t from the way in which the Democra
D tic members cast their votes they ar
apparently as far away from the pee
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
A Strange Situation.

"Humor is funny thing" said
Binks.
st ought 10 be- said the phIloso.
pher
"oh, | don't mean that way" said
Binks. Il mean that 1t is a strange
thing. Now, ] can't speak French,
but can always understand a French
Joke and I can speak English, but
I'm blest II | can see an English
Joke"
Most people are" said the philos.
opher,
Are what?" suid Binks.
"Blest II they can see an English
Joke" said tho philosopher. 1T is
sign OF an unusually keen vlsIon."-
Harper's Weekly
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07

pie as ever, and certainly need some
machinery of some kind to put them
next.
During the present session while
the Republicans voted for George
Sutherland. the peoples choice, Funk,
yelling ct. al. voted for o. w. Pow
ers. their choice. The Republicans vot-
IVA for native son OF Utah, while
| Funk, yelling, ct. al voted for a ma
tive of Michigan, who was sent out
here by Democratic president to fill
a position hundreds of Utahs sons
could have filled Judge Powers testl-
fled to conditions in Utah in the
Smoot investigation at Washington,
ID. G.. Funk and yelling are both Nor.
mons, one a bishops counsellor, and
the other a President of Stake. II
! is amusing to read what Judge Powers
said of them at the investigation
above referred to. In speaking as "a
the stand taken by prominent church
men he said "They (the Mormons)
have objected to me, personally and
privately, many OF them and yet one
of their conferences would come along
and not one of them would
dare to say that HIS SOUL WAS HIS
OWN, or stand up in defense of that
man, or in defense of the political
liberties of the people"
Again, speaking of the first elec
ton after statehood he said: This
election was held. Roberts was defeat
ed by S97 votes. John r. Game, the
candidate for governor, was defeated
by 1900 votes Had we succeeded in
that election | am confident this in.
vestigation would never have been in
progress, for it would have been rev.
olution; but as 1t was IT WAS RE
BELLION, and THOSE WHO TOOK
PART WE'RE REBELS"
Nice epithets to hurl at churchmen
and then have these same churchmel
stand on the floor of the legislature
and plead his cause, is it not? Is
there a man or woman in Utah that
dare utter the word that Judge Pow.
ers was not the peoples choice? We
need not say please answer" as the
answer is too evident. But these gen.
tlemen need some barometer by which
they can be guided, and while under
the light of circumstances it is EVIL
dent that under Republican rule the
will of the people prevails without
primary elections, ii is also evident
that under Democratic rule some cot
neCtion between the people and the
| legislature must be devised in order
that the win of the people can prevail
| 1t is safe to say, however, that all
| legislation tending to assist the De
mocratic party in getting next to the
peoples desires will be promptly tab
| led, as present indications are agains;
| any immediate necessity for it.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07

as to endanger his captured wagon
train. Furthermore no single private
though he were destined to be ,ome
Supreme Court Justice, was assign
ed the duty of protecting wagon.
train alone. The actual truth probably
is that of the two distinguished JUS
tees did not have a chance TO shoot
at each other during the war; though
both made records as brave soldiers.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07

trayal Of his or her role in play
that combines droll persons, scream
ingly funny situations, the brightest
wit ever spoken on the stage, AMI
makes on continuous laugh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-29

From the Metropolitan Magazine.
1t is said there are scarcely fifty men
in the financial district who have a speak
ing acquaintance with J. P. Morgan.
Whether the number is correct or not, 1t
is certain that his acquaintance is rela-
lively small, and that his real friendships
are reserved for a very few people, chiefly
the men whom he has known all his life
and with whom he LIS very likely not as
ISOLATED at all in a business way. His
dislike of having meaningless fuss made
over him by strangers Is shown by his
never appearing at public meetings, and
by his perennial irritation at the never
say-die reporters and camera men, who
unfailingly close in upon him when he is
sailing or returning from across the
water. In London he insists upon not
being noticed when he comes in or leaves
his Office, and has stopped the custom Of
showering him with deferential bows
which was long chung to by his employees.
When he drives up to his house Or his
Office in New York he Is out of his cab
or automobile and into the building in
two strides. swift and purposeful. Any
one who hoped to intercept him would
carry away nothing from the attempt
but the mental impression of the f1nan-
cier's air of extraordinary vigor and the
recollection Of the intent and piercing
expression Of his eyes, fixed straight be-
fore him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-29
Mr.. Thackeray.
From the New York Sun.

The fashion ordains that when You
come with your compliments to congratu-
late a literary man on the hundredth an
niversary of his birthday you must be sure
to tell him that he is Anticipated, that his
art is mostly poor stuff. Ask the modest
young gentlemen Of today; much have
they Travelled in the realms OF brass, and
love to squat and posture and spout be-
fore their little masters" Russian, Scan
dinavian, German, French. Thackeray, OF
course, was not-well, not of the neurotfc-
erotic- arterio-sclerotic school Of writer's.
gentleman with the style of a gentle
man, urbane and negligent; eyes that
saw through the padding and the bombast
to the naked soul; the great, lonely SEN
tinentalist, who lay down and grovelled
before the ancient pieties or Illusions"
honor and courage and virtue; the crea-
tor of a company Of men and women,
more alive, more engaging and more
amusing than most of the supposedly liv-
ing automata that now eat and drink and
wear clothes.
breaches too much, does he? Well, who
the devil has a better right? Queer stone
to cast at a man in a world now COM
posed almost entirely of preachers and
prea chees. Mr.. Thackeray shall preach
as much as he likes. Half the time he is
making copy while the printers devil
is pitching chuckstones on the landing;
perhaps he learned the art Of DEPRESSION
from Mr. Fielding and the old school,
to our thinking, there cannot be too much
of his chorus; 1T is Mr.. Thackeray talk
ing. and he can't open his mouth without
discharging more wit and sense than
would make the fortune of a generation
Of the tedious, prating moderns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-29

the various travel descriptions in the
work. 1t also embraces an account OF an
exciting voyage on the Atlantic on the
steamer Dubbledam when the ship was so
battered by wind and wave that she was
compelled to turn back to an English port
after several days OF almost helpless
foundering at sea. This volume is closed
with a brief account Of q trip in 1906 to
st. Louis convention Of the American
Bankers Association at the time OF the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
There Is intimate personal touch
about these sketches which gives them
peculiar value. They are unconventional
in their directness and inclusion of many
facts which writer's of travel literature
usually omit. Mr.. Smith gives his reader
many practical suggestions for comfort
able travelling. He describes scenes and
incidents noted by him in his 5ourneyings
with a quiet humor that will cause many
laugh. Three handsome illustrations
serve as frontispieces to the respective
volumes, which are admirable examples
of the bookmaking art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-29
The Simple Life in Education.
from the Chicago Record Herald.

From the chicago Record Herald.
The business men and employers who
complain that the graduates of the gram
mar and high schools are strangely is-
norant and ill-prepared for their work
are justified by reports submitted and
addresses delivered at the meeting OF the
National Educational Association. Back
to simplicity was the burden of an an
peal by the president of the University OF
Colorado. The idea of enriching the cur
riculum was a good one; 1t was necessary
to pay some attention to the hand and
the heart. as we'll as to the mind But
tne great Idea has been subjected to end
must be the watchword now; the courses
must remain vital and practical. but they
can and should be simplifed
substantially the same conclusion il
Too many studies and too little knowl-
edge do these institutions give. Too long.
we are told, have the colleges been peT.
mitted to dominate the high schools. FOR.
getting mat Few OF the graduates Of the
tendance has increased almost fourfold
in twenty years. and the growth viii con-
tinue undated II the colleges recognize
the true, Democratic. vocational
school. The average layman NAV
find the demand for drastic sim,
plihcation OF courses rather inconsfs-
tent with the demand for broad vocational
instruction. elasticity and fexibility and
ethical and civic instruction In the high
schools. But the educators doubtless
know that the problem of dropping stud
les, substituting others, co-ordnating and
connecting them with practical life is not
as simple as 1t appears in a report. Per-
haps several types Of high school in
stead OF one may be found necessary
1t cannot be doubted. however. that in
the impending educational readjustment
the college will make more concession to
the peopleized high school than the high
school will make to the academic ideal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-29

in the face of quality so singularly
simple, turns back of itself to the in
imitable "Habitant" and "Voyageur" as
the inspired source of this fresh and
gentle stream Of tropical adventure.
WINDING PATHS. BY Gertrude Page
New York: d. Appleton & Co.
A swift and interesting story about
two somewhat glorified working wom-
en-glorified, because one is an actress.
the other confidential secretary to a
great man. Both romantic annals and
daily press have taken on the habit of
smothering whatever Of labor and
hardship may accrue to these par
ticular occupations in clouds of glamour
or mistS Of indirect aspersfon This
author, however, more conscientious
than most, and more artistic, lets us
see the two in action earning their
living, with a not wholly unbelievable
share of playtime to loosen the rigors
Of vocation. Half a dozen men, more