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The same officer reported that he had arranged for right of way for the Parley's Canyon conduit, as follows: With Bird & Lowe, for $100; with E. M. Benson, for $10; with E. B. Wicks, for $5. Confirmed.

FROM THE COMMITTEE ON STREETS.

and impartial manner in which he has
uniformly performed his public duties
the office the regret and good wishes of
and that he carries with him on leaving
all who had occasion to transact official

business with him."

PAVING ORDINANCE PASSED.
The ordinance "levying the tax and
for the assessment of property on both
sides of State Street, from the south
line of South Temple Street to the
north line of Fourth South Street, for
the purpose of paving said street," was
taken up and passed.

The estimated cost of the improve-
ment is $87,150, and the tax levied
against the abutting property is $16.50
per front foot, and the assessor is in-
structed to levy the assessment. One-
tenth of the total amount levied against
each lot becomes delinquent within
fifty days from the approval of the or-
dinance, and one-tenth each year there
after until paid up.

The ordinance levying the tax and for the assessment of property on both sides of State Street, from South Temple to Fourth South, for the purpose of curbing and guttering said street, was then taken up and passed. The estimated cost of the improvement is $11, The committee on streets, to whom 176, or $2.12 per front foot on the abutwas referred the complaint of W. Kid-ting property. The tax is to be paid in dle and others residing west of the the same way as for paving. Jordan River, in regard to their having no police or fire protection, reported that the matter -complained of could not be remedied at present. The committee recommended that the petition of J. W. Haddock, asking that Fifth North Street be graded, and also that the petition of E. E. Darling asking that First Street, at the corner of Sec. ond, be graded, be granted. Adopted.

SIDEWALK DISTRICTS.

The committee on streets offered a resolution authorizing the recorder to publish notice of intention to construct sidewalks in the following districts:

District 5-Both sides of Third South, between West Temple and Third West.

District 6 Both sides of Third South between First and Second East. The material to be asphalt. Adopted.

The same committee offered a similar resolution providing for sidewalks on both sides of Third South, between East and West Temple. Also both sides of Third South, between East Temple and First East, the material to be flagging. Adopted.

IN MEMORY OF REJECTED COUNSEL.

Councilman James then offered the following resolution, which was adopt

ed:

BALLOT STUFFING.

Mr. Hall-I move that the election of the City Attorney be proceeded with.

Mr. Pickard-I nominate Mr. W. C.

Hall.

Mr. Noble seconded the nomination
and the result of the ballot showed
eighteen votes for Mr. Hall. This of
course proved that some one had been
guilty of ballot stuffing, and on motion
of Mr. Parsons the recorder was in-
structed to cast the ballot of the Coun-
cil for Mr. Hall. This was done and the
gentieman declared elected.

HALL CONFESSES HIS USURPATION OF
OFFICE.

the

committee on the joint city and county
Mr. Parsons then moved that the
building be reappointed under
contract recently made with the
county.

Mr. Pembroke-I object to any such
proceeding, and move that an entirely
new committee be appointed.

hands we will have quicker and better work.

to me I should certainly appoint the Mayor Scott-If the matter was left old committee, unless they positively declined acceptance.

Mr. Hall-Well, I for one positively decline.

Other members of the Council appealed to Mr. Hall to withdraw his resignation, but he again refused, and in such emphatic language as to make himself plainly understood.

Messrs. Anderson, Lynn and Spafford were then elected, only Mr. Pembroke voting no.

MORE DELAY AND EXPENSE.

Mr. Parsons-The County Court has for several days been considering the advisability of sending a committee to Denver, and perhaps further east, to look up public buildings, and I move that the Council appoint some one to represent the city and accompany the committee.

Mr. Pembroke-I must object to this proposition also. If it is carried out it will only delay matters and confirm what the public believe with reference to a scheme being on foot by certain parties to prevent the erection of our much needed building. Again, it will be an expenditure of money that the city cannot well afford.

The motion carried, Pembroke voting no. The building committee were excused from voting.

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THE DAIRY BUSINESS.
Editor Deseret News:

Let us see wherein our farmers are not doing that which they could do. The dairy business is one of the best paying industries in the world, as you will see by the following quotation:

dairy industry an immense one, and esti"The American Analyst makes the mates that two billion dollars are invested in it, and that fifteen million cows are required to supply the people of the United States with milk and its products, and that to feed these cows sixty million acres and dairy machinery is valued at two of land are cultivated. The agricultural one million horses are employed in the hundred and fifty thousand persons and hundred million dollars, while seven business. The average cow yields four hundred and fifty gallons of milk in a year, which gives a total product of six billion, seven hundred and fifty million gallons. At twelve cents a gallon-which is a fair price-the milk is worth eight hundred and ten million dollars a year." Just look at these figures, and the

Mr. Hall-I am not a candidate for reappointment on that committee. For one I decline the nomination. One reason for doing so is that my right to a seat in this Council is in litigation, and the legality of the business I have transacted, and would be called upon hereafter to transact, has been Whereas, Our city attorney, owing to preme Court is about to meet and may, questioned, and as the Territorial Suiliness, and by the advice of his physician, next week, decide in unseating me, in finds that it will not be safe or prudent that event, of course, another man for him to continue his labors as city would take my place and the informaattorney, he, therefore, has tendered his resignation, and tion in regard to the joint public build Whereas, The ing obtained by me would be lost. esteemed fellow citizen, Hon. S. A. Mer- For this and other reasons I decline to ritt, from the office of city attorney, pre-act on the committee in the future. sents a suitable opportuuity for express- Mr. James-I think this declination ing the esteem in which we hold him as to act by Mr. Hall is entirely unneces-great amount of money invested-more a faithful and courteous officer, therefore be it Resolved, That the City Council accept the resignation with regret; therefore be it

retirement of our

sary. I am in favor of his reappoint

ment.

Mr. Pembroke-With all due respect to the gentlemen who comprise this "Resolved, That the thanks of the City committee, I must and do enter a most Council and citizens of Salt Lake City are solemn protest against their reappointdue to Hon. S. A. Merritt for the ablement. If this matter is put into new

than three times as much as all the banking business of the United States. And here in Utah a better place for that product, the people are eating eastern butter and cheese.

firms imported two hundred and ninety I made inquiry and found that five

days. We have Lady Baker the third.
She calved at two years' old and gave
five and a half gallons of milk daily.

Many say they are too big eaters.
That may be so, but it does not hold
good in man. When I was feeding
men I always noticed that the little
ones could eat faster and stay longer
at the table and cause more to disap-
pear than the big fellows.

Hon. L. U. Colbath, Chairman of Build

ing Committee, City School Board: Dear Sir: Referring to your favor of the 18th instant, in which you accept a certain proposition made by the ecclesiastical board of the First Ward to the school trustees of district No. 1, in reference to to decline the offer you make to ratify the sale of certain grounds, etc, we beg said proposition, for obvious reasons, which have been explained to yourself and others of your colleagues personally. At a recent meeting of the board we concluded to sell the whole lot (184 square rods) and house for $14.000, which we thought was a reasonable price for said properties.

Referred to the committee on sites, for investigation.

ASSISTANT TEACHERS.
The committee on school work rec

thousand pounds of cheese. One firm imported ten thousand dollars worth of butter a month from the East. At that rate you will see that we annually send out over a million of dollars for the farmers and dairy men of the east to consume, while the farmers here are, in many instances, living on gravy, and if they want a little cheese they take a sack of wheat, go to the village store and exchange it for the product Let any man choose his own liking of eastern labor. With one million for of cattle; then he will take pride in butter and cheese, eight hundred them and come to the front in competithousand for hog, hundreds of thou- tion. But let us weed out the scrubs. sands for horses, millions for In Illinois those farmers who cannot boots, shoes, brooms, and thou- afford the full-bloods of any kind, breed sands of other things that their common cows to the Holstein should be produced here, and which Bull. The male is sent to the butcher would give employment to our idle or steered and sold to cattle men. people, is it any wonder that we have The half-breed cow will sell there for hard times at the doors? Is it not a from fifty to one hundred dollars, many ommended that the employment of wonder that we have any money at making great milkers. We saw a cow all? If it were not for our mines we in the east with a Jersey mother and two assistant teachers for the Seventh would have to do without many things Holstein father, that gave a large school be approved, that the rearrangement of the Second and Fourth schools now possess. The farmers quantity of milk and butter. In color should start dairy companies, take the and shape she was Holstein. I would by Superintendent Millspaugh be apshares themselves, get competent peo- advise those having Jerseys, or half proved: that the purchase of certain ple to handle them, put their cows in breeds, to cross with the Holstein. reference books for the high school be their stables, put hay and grain into The cross makes a larger animal, so approved. them, take the milk to the dairy, get when they come male, they will be their money and make the profits worth something for beef. themselves. If they want butter or cheese, let them purchase it from these institutions and have something wholesome to eat. In a few years they would have something that would pay better than raising squashes. When they get to doing this they will have money, and also learn what kind of cattle they want.

that we

H. J. FAUST.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Board of Education met in regular session April 2nd, President Scott presiding. The following members were present: Pike, Young, Newman, Pyper, Colbath, Armstrong and

Mitchener.

RETURNS OF THE SCHOOL

ELECTION.

Total vote..........

BOND

536

10

The committee on teachers recommended that Miss Blanche Hull be em. ployed as assistant teacher in the Seventh school at a salary of $45 per month, and that Miss Sercombe be employed as assistant teacher in the Ninth school at a salary of $60 per month. Adopted.

ADMISSION OF PUPILS.

The committee on school work filed the following rule regarding the admission of pupils:

Pupils may be admitted into class B grade one, only during the first tw weeks of each term. Pupils applying for admission into class B of the first grade & any other time shall not be admitted. Adopted.

DUKE SUCCEEDS JOHNSON.
The election of a successor to Mr.

Against the bonds............................ 83 Johnson, resigned, was then proceed ed with. Mr. Snow nominated Harry 629 T. Duke. Mr. Newman nominated William Fuller. There being no further nominations, the ballot was taken and resulted as follows: Duke, 5; Fuller, 2. Mr. Duke was declared

Referred to the committee on fi

nance.

What are now recognized as dairy cattle are Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey, Guernsey, with once in a while Devon and Shorthorn. The first three have been, for many years, contesting every The returns of the school bond elecinch of ground. The last year's record leaves the Holstein master of the situation were then read as certified to by tion, the cow Pauline Paul, in the Secretary Sells. The official vote is: State of New York, having made, in For the bonds....... one year, one thousand, one hundred and fifty-three pounds of butter, making one pound of butter out of sixteen pounds of milk. This leads all others, two hundred and thirty-three pounds for the same time. There are so many reasons for these standing at the head that we can only give but few. The first is, Holland, their original home, is the richest country on earth of its size. It is so mostly from the Holstein cow product. They are now making great changes in this country. They cost more in Holland now than they did fifteen years ago, for the reason that they are being sought after by every country on the globe. They are larger than any others, hence have more capacity. They live longer. When the calf is born it makes more veal, or a larger steer. Many calves weigh five hundred pounds at six months' old. I saw some steers at Buffalo, that, at three years old, weighed sixteen hundred pounds. They milk the year round and sell for more money than any cattle at any age. Their butter record is enormous. Hundreds have made twenty pounds of butter in seven days. Great numbers have made thirty pounds in seven days. Lady Baker made thirty-four Balance on hand April 1.............$ 9,275 35 pounds six ounces in seven days. She only held the medal one year, when another cow knocked her out by yielding thirty-six pounds, and still another, thirty-seven. Now comes another with thirty-nine pounds in seven

PROSPECTIVE SCHOOL SITE.

elected.
A proposition was received from A.
H. Parsons in which he offered to sell
to the Board all of lot 3, block 34, plat
A, with a court fifty feet wide running
north from Fifth South Street to the
middle of the block, for $15,000. Com-
mittee on sites.

MR. JOHNSON'S RESIGNATION.

as trustee, tendered at the last meeting
The resignation of Hiram Johnson,
of the Board, was accepted.

RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.
Treasurer Walden submitted the fol
lowing report of the receipts and dis-
bursements of the Board for the month
of March;

Cash on hand March 1...........
Received from First District...
Received from Third District..
Received from Sixteenth District..

Total receipts........
Disbursements....

.....

..$20,153 84
303 83
9 62
97 86

.$20,564 65
11,289 30

THE OFFER DECLINED.

The subjoined communication from
Joseph Warburton, as representative of
the Ecclesiastical Board of the First
Ward, was received:

BILLS APPROVED.

.$18: 19

3.50

1350

Sierra Nevada Lumber Company...
The following bills were approved:
The Herald Co........
Juvenile Instructor..................................
E. B. Springer............................. 88 06
Margetts Bros...........................................................
B. F. Allen, rent..........................................................
Isaac Hunter, rent.................................................

Utah Stove and Hardware Co............
J. B. Moreton....
Elizabeth Yerdley..

C. H. Parsons.......
Emma Whitney, rent.....
Total......

Adjourned for one week.

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Consul Broberg of Copenhagen will sue the Aarhus Stiftstidning for dam ages on account of an article published in the paper concerning Broberg's private life.

The funeral of architect Theophilus Hansen, of whose death ia Vienns mention has been made, was one of the most solemn ever held in that city Many prominent people, both e officials and private persons were present.

FULFILMENT OF TREATY OBLIGATIONS authorities of Louisiana and New Or- though the wisest statesmanship on the
leans must be awaited. As the punish- part of the rulers and a dignified and
THE question of the ability of the ment or otherwise of the actors prudent deportment on the part of the
Republic of the United States to carry in the tragedy that caused the trouble people of America will be required to
out its treaty obligations with foreign was a matter for purely local treat-avoid giving an occasion, at some
powers is one of inestimable im-
ment, how could the Secretary answer future time, for a concerted attack upon
portance. The magnitude of the sub- otherwise than he did? But the of this country.
ject has been made clear by the un- fended government could have no re- The great barrier in the way of a
fortunate tragedy at New Orleans. lations with a local division of the Re-remedy for the unpleasant position in
In a general treaty between foreign public, and it was exasperated at the which the Federal government is liable
governments, protection of the citizens manner in which the subject was to be placed in connection with the
of each of the contracting nations with- treated by Governor Nichols. The ex- question of its ability to fulfil inter-
in the domain of the other is neces- pressions of the latter regarding the national treaty obligations is that the
sarily one of the most common con- tragedy probably led Italy to believe cure would necessarily be of a central-
ditions of the compact. Hence a that it had little prospect of justice be- izing character, which involves a new
remedy for the present dilemma does ing accorded to its subjects in Louis-danger-the concentration of an excess
not and cannot lie in the future omisiana. This possibly led that country
sion of such a stipulation. Neither to exhibit less patience than it other
can the situation be im-wise would. But even that source of
proved by a modification of irritation affords no justification to
such a needful clause. The glorious Italy for acting with the precipitation
institutions of this Republic admit of no it has shown in this unfortunate af-
distinction between the people of any fair.
nation so far as relates to the protection This is no time for either nation to
afforded by its laws, and no intimation fling defiance in the face of the
that any such a difference exists should other. This country is brought face to
appear in any of its international trans- face with this question, How shall the
actions.
general government be placed in a
In considering a nice question like position to fulfil its treaty obligations,
the one in point, it is worse than folly independently,under certain conditions,
to indulge in bluster, boastfulness and of the several States of the Union, con-
alleged irony. True statesmanship sidered singly? The subject becomes
suggests the necessity for an adjust-all the more important because of the
ment of the subject on the basis of complications that are liable to ensue if
right. The situation can be best illus- the question remains unsolved. In
trated by a process of reversal. Sup- these days of alleged judicial cor-
pose that citizens of the United States ruption and consequent popular
should be slain in some other nation lynchings, which are becoming so
with whom the Republic had treaty | frequent as to take on the ap-

relations, in the same manner as were pearance of an institution, the scenes of
the Sicilians in New Orleans, and a New Orleans are liable to be repeated
similar answer be given to demands and to involve the citizens of other
for redress as that tendered by this coun- countries with whom the Republic 18
try to Italy, what would be the result? united by treaty. With the repetition
Doubtless this nation would rise in its of such a scene as that presented a
wrath, and the popular demand would short time ago in the Crescent City,
be that the Secretary of State should there is likely to come a complication
do something desperate, in retaliation. with some other power, similar to that
The fact that it might be a country existing between us and Italy. It is
whose institutions could not admit of a against the genius of statesmanship to
different reply would hardly suffice to allow a condition to exist that has a
satisfy this nation. Our answer would tendency to create international bitter-
in all likelihood be that the offend-ness, even if it does not lead to open
ing government ought not to enter hostilities. An additional reason for
into international obligations it has not a prudential course is the
the ability to fulfil. Yet it was proper that some of the monarchies
enough that our Republic should enter the old world look upon the
into treaties involving a mutual American Republic as a menace to
obligation of protection to citizens of
the contracting countries, under the
idea that the obligation of the several
States to sustain the Federal govern-
ment in maintaining its dignity and
fulfilling its international contracts
would be strictly honored.

fact

of

their own existence. They understand that the tendency of all peoples is toward popularization of government. It cannot be denied that our free system of rule has been the grand object lesson which has caused the spirit of human liberty to be diffused throughIt is evident that Secretary Blaine out the nations. Self-preservation could not give any stronger assurance causes the old effete political and regarding the demands of the social structures to desire the demoliItalian government than he did. The tion of this Republic. From the way action of the State and municipal | in which things are drifting it looks as

of power in the chief rulers of the country. It will be claimed that any diminution of the power of the several States to regulate their own affairs is an invasion of American institutions. A broad discussion of the subject may, however, evolve some solution of the question that will fully cover all reasonable objections.

THE PENNSYLVANIA RIOTS. vania coke regions have at last reached THE labor troubles in the Pennsyla bloody climax. At 2 o'clock, on the early morning of the 2nd inst., seven men were instantly killed and several others wounded. The works at Mt. Pleasant have been in operation for several days, manned with Italian labor from Ward's Island, New York.

The men who went out on strike last winter are also Italians, Poles and years ago to take the place of AmeriHuns. They were brought there a few can, English, Scotch and Irish miners. The English language in those days was spoken everywhere in the mining regions. Now, not a word is to be heard, except an occasional swear, which sounds like English. The situation, in truth, is peculiar.

The cry of the capitalists a few years ago was that Huns, Italians and roles

were better laborers, more tractable, more obedient than others. It was said the English speaking races knew too much, and were too arrogant in general strike was inaugurated, and a demanding protection for labor. A force of coal and iron police organized. The places of the strikers were filled by laborers brought direct from Europe, through Castle Garden. Not an English speaking person would be employed. Pinkerton, of Chicago, had charge of the police arrangements.

was

In time these foreigners became more into labor unions. or less Americanized, and organized Last December they made some demands which were ignored, and the labor leaders declared There a strike. an immense supply of coal and other mining products on hand. The strike was just what the capitalists wanted, and it is thought that they were really the originators of the movement.

Last week, when work was resumed, the Italians engaged a few years ago were locked out, and others imported

my back would have been broken by the wagon tongue.

from New York put to work, and, as then came up the river, locating at St. before, under Pinkerton protection. Louis. He remained in the States five When the striking Italians made a years before being able to pro"As I said,” continued the doctor, raid early yesterday morning under cure the necessary outfit to bring "I am not superstitious, but the incicover of darkness, the Pinkertons, his family to Utah. He ar-dent I have just related, taken in conarmed with Winchester rifles, shot rived in Salt Lake City in the fall of nection with other incidents of a simi seven of them dead. The number 1853. The same season he moved to lar nature occurring in my life, make wounded is estimated at from forty to Lehi, where he had since made his me believe in spite of myself that there fifty. home. In the spring of 1856 Brother is a 'divinity that shapes our ends, Taylor was called to go on a mission to rough-hew them how we will.'" England, which he faithfully filled, laboring both in England and Wales, and returned in 1848. After his return he was appointed one of the Presidents of the Forty-fourth Quorum of Seventies, and held that position until re commended to join the Sixty-eighth Quorum, organized in Lehi.

The dispatches are contradictory as to the cause of the killing. It is stated that the strikers made an organized attack on the works. On the other hand it is said that the firing commenced without provocation on the part of the guards. Several of the latter were placed under arrest.

The astonishing feature in this affair, is the fact that the dispatches and press comments make little of the killing because the killed happened to have Italian and Polish names. It is also alleged that they were not American citizens.

In answer to a question as to what similar warning our premonition of danger he had ever received, Dr. Moliere said: "Well, one time I was riding on the Michigan Central railroad. It was a bitter cold night, and when I entered the car my feet seemed frozen. I walked He was the first, or one of the first, forward and took a seat next to the to agitate the question of a Sunday stove in the forward part of the car, School in Lehi, was appointed Super- putting my feet on the fender. In a intendent of the school, and was a short time a gentleman changed his faithful worker therein from its incep- seat and came and sat beside me. The tion until his death-a period of twenty- train was running at a high rate of Every schoolboy knows that the four years. His love for children and his speed, and the draught soon made the coke, coal, and iron workers of Penn- great influence over them speci-heater in the car red hot. Suddenly sylvania are not Americans, nor even ally adapted him for this work. He there came to me a premonition of English speaking peoples. It is also possessed wonderful ability for instruct- danger, and, turning to my companion, known under what circumstances they ing, entertaining and amusing both I said: 'If we should meet with an ac were brought there. It is understood old and young; and as long as his cident, a collision for instance, you and that the men who now supplant them health would permit he was always I would be in a bad place. We would are also Italians. One day last week foremost in everything for the ad- certainly be hurled on a red hot stove.' 1,700 of these people landed in New vancement and good of the people. At the same instant, and before my York City. The immigration from seat mate could reply, the impulse to Italy heads that from all European grasp the end of the seat came up countries. It is equal to that from the me so strong I could not resist British Islands and Scandinavia all and hardly had my fingers closed upa combined. Contractors from all parts the rail of the seat when there came of the United States employ Italians, crash and the car we were in wa pay their fares, and guarantee them thrown violently from the track. I work. clung to the seat, and my companiet. when thrown forward, narrowly missed the stove. My position in the seat was such that had I been pitched headlong as he was I could not have missed the heater. A broken caused the accident, but what caused me to grasp the seat as I did I would

Brother and Sister Taylor had twelve children, sixty-eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, of whom two sons seven daughters, fifty-one grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren are still living.

Brother Taylor died surrounded by his wife and children, who did all in their power to help and comfort him during his sickness. Kind friends were also ready and anxious to help.

In view of all this, what is there to justify the brutal murder of innocent though ignorant human beings. If the trouble lies with Italian or any The funeral services were held in other immigration, why not settle it by the meeting house on Sunday morning awfull methods. Let a special session March 29th. Consoling remarks were of Congress be called, and let the issue made by the following brethren: Wm. be settled by civilized means. Mob Goates, Sen., Wm. Yates, Wm. South-like to know." laws, rioting, lynching and such law-wick, Oley Ellingson, Bishop T. R. lessness cannot be justified under any Cutler, John Woodhouse and Councircumstances, and their advocacy selor Wm. Clark. evince a desire to return to barbarism and to the rule of might against right.

DEATH OF JAMES W. TAYLOR.

Elder James Whitehead Taylor departed this life at fifteen minutes to 12 on Friday, March 27th, after an illness of ten days. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah Taylor and was born March 18th, 1819, at Dryclough near Royton, Lancashire, England. He married Ann Rogers in October, 1839. In 1840 he first heard the Gospel preached by Apostle P. P. Pratt, and was baptized in the month of June, 1841. Shortly after embracing the Gospel he was ordained a Priest and commenced preaching. This was followed by bitter persecution. While engaged in secret prayer, these words were whispered very plainly in his ear: "Tis gone forth, a firm decree,

That as thy day thy strength shall be. From the time of his reception of the Gospel till the day of his death he never faltered, but was always found faithful to the truth. In 1843 he was ordained an Elder and was afterwaads made president of the Oldham Branch. With his family the deceased leit his native land for America in the fall of 1848 and landed in New Orleans. There he remained a short time, and

A MYSTERIOUS WHISPER.

nor do I believe in

IN 1888 Kansas passed a municipal woman suffrage law. The following spring 496 women registered in Atch son, but less than 300 voted. The next year 481 registered and 375 voted. The This year 244 have registered, but it is third year 291 registered and 200 voted. expected that not more than 100 will

vote.

"I want to tell a story," said Dr. Moliere, a well-known physician of San Francisco. "I'm not a superstitious man, For the School Board in that dreams, but for the third or fourth and the greatest opposition to them city, there are two women candidates, time in my life I was saved by a pre- comes from the women teachers in the monition. I got aboard car No. 81 on the Sutter street line at the ferry yes- record for woman suffrage in "sockpublic schools. This makes a poor terday to ride up to my office. As less" Jerry's domain. Women themusual, I walked to the forward end of selves make the greatest barrier to the the car, took a seat in the corner with my back to the driver, and, pulling a cause of equal suffrage. paper from my pocket, was soon deeply engrossed in the news. Suddenly something said to me, 'Go to the other end of the car.' Acting on impulse, I changed my seat, and so rapid were my movements that the other passengers in the car noticed them. Remember, I was sitting in the first place with my back to the driver. I was paying no attention to anything but my news paper, and the premonition, if I may so call it, could not have come from any outside influence, such as seeing approaching danger, but, sir, I had not been in my new seat more than five States the government helps to build seconds when the tongue of a heavily-railroads, and then lets Jay Gould and loaded wagon crashed through the side other speculators reap the benefit, of the car just where I had been first while Mr. Vanderbilt exclaims: "the seated, and had I not changed my seat public be d-d.”

But

1т may seem strange that the united debt of the new Australian Commonwealth is nearly as large as the na tional debt of the United States. such is the fact, though the population of the whole federation there, is only about 3,500,000. It must be remembered, however, that the debt was chiefly incurred by the building of railroads. most of which are owned by the State. They are managed by State Commissioners, and are operated for the public benefit. In the United

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A SONG OF CHANGES.
sang in the sun the whole day long,
sang in the sun a merry song,
would not believe in griet or wrong;
sang in the sun the whole day long.
sat in the dark and moaned all night.
had lost my faith in truth and right,
nd I had no hope of coming light;
sat in the dark and moaned all night.
nd yet at dawn in my heart I heard
nce more the voice of a singing bird,
But memory hushed it with a word,
o my lips ne'er echoed what I heard.

And now I am neither a nor gay;
I have learned at last that night and day,
Sunshine and sh dows, pass away;
So now I am neither sad nor gay.
n April, Lippincott's.

E. C. WHITE,

THE SALMON RIVER INDIAN
MISSION.

VOL. XLII.

apprehension for himself. Before he had emerged from his own Ward (the Seventeenth) he was hailed by a friend who desired to know something of his situation. The information was given: Ten pounds of flour in his home and for himself-hope. With a bright smile the friend replied: "Go in peace! want." The journey was pursued through the northern settlements, thoroughly canvassing everywhere for the three hundred pounds of flour and three bushels of wheat required, which were at last obtained at'Willard. There were five missionaries who started from Salt Lake at this time, whose names were Thomas Day, Thomas Corless, John Priest, James Walker and Joseph Harker. Others from surrounding settlements joined them t Brigham City.

tending to respond to this call? If it dear ones, which absorbed all fear or were I, I would refuse to go." "Go? Why, yes, if it takes my head off!" was the earnest reply. Go? Yes; but how? The same authority that bade him go, while recognizing the good that he might do to those wretched children of God, the poor Indians, had not forgotten the need of the poor missionary. Each man was required to take with I shall see that your family does not him three bushels of wheat, three hundred pounds of flour, and all kinds of seeds that could be cultivated in a northern clime. This was no small matter. In the previous year, that terrible scourge, the grasshoppers, had destroyed the crops all over the country. People lived on roots and such few things as had grown late in the season. Children cried for bread, gaunt men went to their labor on small rations, suffering women with the self-sacrifice characteristic of mothers were known to suckle their babes with blood inFor sixty miles after leaving Salt stead of milk. Brother Day's family Lake City the country was settled by had about ten pounds of flour in the white people. Beyond that stretch a It was in the year 1855 that Presi-house. Where should the missionary wild, uninhabited country, covered allotment be obtained and how should with sagebrush. Rivers, creeks, a lake, nt Brigham Young first sent a com- the dear wife and child exist while the rough mountaius, dotted with cedars ny of about twenty missionaries to husband was absent indefinitely? Ah! and pines, lent a fascination to the e Salmon River country, which lies how often have those questions heen journey. On arriving at Snake River, ell to the north of Idaho. Their ission was to try and civilize the asked in anguish by the "Mormon"mis- it required three days for the company sionary and his lonely, destitute family! to ferry across. nuock and Shoshone Indians. As But in time they as, and is, usual with our people, tender mercies are over all His works." Lemhi, which had been erected in the But the Lord is good to all, and His arrived at their destination, Fort e call was obeyed in the face of stacles. A four hundred miles march and satisfieth the desire of every liv- fort, built of upright logs, with log He openeth His hand previous year.. It was a small square rough sagebrush, with small pro- ing thing." The Latter-day Saints cabins inside and a well in the centre. ions, dismal, desolate prospects, and th the tedious locomotion of cattle have always had an intense desire to On the north, rising abruptly just be18, to say the least, not very agree-serve God truly, practically, and well. hind the little fort, was the majestic, le. But thus they went, with Elder They believe that this can best be done pine laden Bitter Root mountain, and omas S. Smith of Farmington and fearlessly, trusting in His promises clear, beautiful stream called the Salby discharging their duty faithfully just to the south and west flowed the pointed president. with an undoubting faith. And have mon River. To the south extended a they trusted in vin? Ask the hundreds who have practically tested the promises of the Father with honest, faithful hearts. In this regard Brother Day's case was no exception.

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lovely valley, of oblong shape, dotted with the farms of the missionaries, and the cottonwoods and undergrowth incident to a well-watered, naturally

fertile country.

Some of the missionaries returned to eir homes in Utah in the autumn of e same year and went back to the ssion in the following spring, accomnied by fresh recruits, numbering in I forty men, Among those called e second year was Elder Thomas Money was not then so scarce as The Bannocks and Shoshones who y, now a veteran residing in Cir- flour, groceries and all the necessaries inhabited this region were very friendville, Piute County, Utah. From and comforts of civilized life. Gold ly to the missionaries and quite a m the writer has received the follow- hunters en route to California were number were baptized. Visits were g sketch, given from memory, as his glad to pay almost any price for needed frequently received from them as well emoranda and journals were de- articles. Brother Day purchased groce- as from the Nez Perces, who inhabited oyed in the general conflagration at ries and dry-goods and hoped to find the country to the north-west. These e Muddy in 1868. This man, while opportunities for exchanging them for tribes were intelligent, industrious and pecting to be sent on a mission to the needed flour and wheat. The of fine physique. They lived by fishngland, his native land, was surprised 15th of April, the day of departure, ing and hunting and were experts in the April conference of 1856 to hear had arrived, the sad farewell these pursuits. One Indian of fine name called in connection with the of wife had been taken, and he proportions, intelligent, honest and rthern Indian mission. Going home was starting with his com-kind-hearted, was known as Long

m conference he was accosted with: panion, Joseph Harker, filled with Tom. Elder Day was one day lying Well, well, Brother Day, are you in- a yearning hope for the welfare of the in the shade of the cottonwoods on the

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