“Judge not, lest ye be judged," and I think we should honori t in this instance. I am in favor of the li

cense.

Councilman Hall moved to defer

action for one week.

Councilman Cohn-When the Walker Opera House was opened and for two or three years thereafter a saloon and liquor house was couJucted in the basement of that building, but it subsequently closed for lack of patronage. This one may also be compelled to close for the same reason. I do not think we should deny the application. Councilman James seconded Hall's motion to lay the matter over for one week.

Councilman Pembroke was in favor of the original motion to grant the license and adopt the recommendations.

Councilman Hall read a clause from the charter showing that action could not be legally taken without one week's postponement, and thus the matter was tempor arily settled.

T. E. Peacock also made application for a liquor license. Laid over for a week.

joint meeting of the County Commit-
tee with us, at which the Mayor and
the County and City Attorneys were
also present, it was voted to reommend
to the County Court and City Council
and that a settlement be made Mr C.
E. Apponyi for all services to date, by
paying him the sum of $5,743 as per
his proposition.

Adopted and one-half the amount
placed on the appropriation list
The Committee on Sewerage, to
whom was referred the petition of
Post Quartermaster Woodberry,
asking that Fort Douglas be con-
nected with the sewer system, re-
commended that the same be not
The
granted.
committee also
reported adversely upon the petition
of C. O. Whittemore for permission
to make sewer connections.
Adopted.

The City Engineer with the
committee on streets recommended
that the two street railway com-
panies be required either to occupy
one road bed on Tenth East Street,
between Fourth and Fifth South
Streets, or that the Salt Lake City
Railway Company be required to

move their track four feet nearer the curb line next to the corner of Committee on claims reported the Salt Lake Brewing Company's that the claim of B. G. Fox for works. Some discussion arose over direct damages, sustained by peti-this, but two members moved to de. tioner as described in a former peti- fer action for a week, and under the tion, be allowed to the amount of previous ruling it had to go over. $446.75. Report adopted and amount appropriated.

The following bills were read:

CEMETERY ORDINANCE.
Councilman Cohn then offered a
bill relating to the narrowing of a
It is as follows:

Tullidge & Co.... .................................................. ....$168 00 certain street in the city cemetery.

2 15

Sells & Co.....
George A. Lowe & Co........
George M. Scott & 'O............. 554 00
Lumber & Planing Mill Co............ 185 12
Smith & Williams.

Committee on cemetery.

THE WARM SPRINGS.

84.00

An ordinance altering the width of a
certain street in the city cemetery
of Salt Lake City:
Section 1. Be it ordained by the City
Council of Salt Lake City: That the
street running north and south on the
east side of Plats E, F, H and B in the
city cemetery of Salt Lake City, being
three rods wide, be and is hereby al-
tered and changed, by platting one
rod in width of the centre of said
street, and leaving two streets, one on
each side thereof, each one rod in

width.

Section 2. That said two streets of the width of one rod each are hereby

The committee on public grounds, to whom was referred the petition of Edward Byrne and Henry Barnes, asking for a lease on the Warm Springs, recommended that the springs be leased to the petitiouers, they agreeing to place at least $5000 worth of improvements upon the property within the first year, and to pay a monthly rental of $100 for the first three years, $150 a month for the ensuing two years, and $250 a month for the last five years. Councilman Lynn-I am in favor of leasing the Warm Springs for the term of five years and would like to have an instrument of writing drawn up to that effect, with a sav-of the bill before us I move that ing clause in it that the city can action be deferred for one week, regain possession of the property on After some of our recent hasty payment on a certain amount of actions and the boast of some of the money to the party or parties leas- members that they would not be in ing the same, and that the matter favor of passing any ordinance on be deferred for one week with in- the night it was introduced, struction to procure printed copies think we should be a little more of the lease at the next meeting. careful. Carried.

Section 3. This ordinance to be in force from and after its passage.

Councilman Hall-In the matter

THE PROCLAMATION. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.--The following proclamation has just been issued by the President:

Whereas, satisfactory proof has been presented to me that provision has been made for adequate grounds and buildings for the use of the that a sum not less than ten million World's Columbian Exposition, and dollars, to be used and expended for the purposes of said exposition, has been provided in accordance with the conditions and requirements of section ten of the act entitled, An act to provide for the celebrating of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactories and the products of the soil, mine and sea,in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, approved April the twentyfifth, eighteen hundred and ninety.

by

dedicated to the public use, and the Harrison, President of the United
Now, as referee, I, Benjamin
one rod in width between said streets States, by virtue of the authority
shall become a part of the city ceme-vested in me by said act, do hereby
tery, and the public easement thereon declare and proclaim that such in-
is hereby abolished.
exhibition will be
ternational
opened on the first day of May, in
the year eighteen hundred and nine-
ty-three, in the city of Chicago, in
the State of Illinois, and will not be
October of the same year; and in
closed before the last Thursday in
the name of the government and of
the people of the United States I do
hereby invite all nations of the
ration of the event that is so promi-
earth to take part in the commemo-
nent in human history and
of lasting interest to the world,

I

The ordinance was passed, however, on motion of Councilman

Cohn, on a vote of eight "ayes" and by appointing representatives therethree "noes."

RESOLUTIONS.

In pursuance of your instructions
Councilman Pembroke then in-
of November 11 have since that date troduced the following resolution:
been negotiating with Mr. C. E. Ap-
ponyi in the effort to make a settle- Resolved, That a special committee
ment with him, for work performed of five members of this Council be
on the City and County Building. In appointed to consider the feasibility of
our negotiations we have the aid of joint construction and use of an un-
the Mayor and City Attorney, and at aderground conduit for the cables of

to, and sending such exhibits to the
World's Columbian Exposition as
will most fitly and fully illustrate
their resources and their industries
and their progress in civilization.

THE SIGNATURE.
The parchment in the usual dip-
lomatic form was carried to the
President shortly after midday by
S. A. Brown, the chief clerk of the

IN NEW MEXICO.

Your correspondent left his home and business (that of a plaster of Paris manufacturer) at Nephi, on May 3, 1888, and traveled by way of Sevier Valley and Lee's Ferry, to the Gila, Arizona.

Upon arriving at the latter place I purchased a wheelwright and blacksmith shop and did well for ten months. At the end of that time I sold my shop, and in March 1889, came on here and began building, afterward returned to the Gila. The last named place is a splendid valley. The summer I was there I knew several who raised two crops of Irish potatoes in one season. Bishop Taylor, of Pima, threshed 60 bushels of barley per acre in June, planted the same land with corn and gathered 40 bushels per acre.

Arizona and New Mexico are strange lands. Little of the land itself can be cultivated on account of the scarcity of water. The rains on these large level valleys produce an immense growth of grass. In many places a swath fifty miles long can be mown close beside the road. I left the Gila in June, 1889, and via California returned to Utah, sold out and came to Mexico arriving here in October of the same year.

I located on four city lots and secured twenty-four acres of farming land, and can obtain more if desired. I have planted 500 fruit trees, put up fences, made a reservoir and raised two crops of tomatoes the same year, also put up a windmill for raising water, etc.

I have raised some corn and much cane, the latter yielding ten gallons of molasses to the ton. brought a cane mill and turning lathe and corn sheller from Utah. I have fitted up a pair of 26 in. burs, and am at present making by horse power good Graham flour and eorn meal. I am also erecting a large windmill to run my machinery, as water and wood are too scarce to use for ordinary purposes. Little wheat has been raised here yet, but I have some wheat up nicely now.

We have a fine climate here; no winter and no excessive heat in

summer.

JOHN ROWLEY.

proxy in the person of some one of kingdom. The form is not well
his many disciples, of whom two developed, and the males are little,
score or more have been appointed if any, superior to the females. The
by him.
heads are all well supplied with
long hair, so densely tangled and
matted that the true color could not
be discerned. Their food can be
nothing except fish from the
streams which abound in the cave,
for long before their place of abode
is reached every vestige disappears
of animals which haunt caves
seek refuge therein.

Who is the. Messiah, this black savior of his race? Few white men have seen him, as he is chary of associating with the dominaut race. He keeps himself in severe seclusion and it is rarely that a white man can get to see him or talk with him. He is a coal-black negro, almost a giant in size and a native African, having been born in Liberia. He is now about 45 years old and has been in this country a little more than half of his life. He came to this city from Pomeroy, a negro settlement about twelve miles above the city on the Kaw river. There he was first heard of about a year ago. He came to that village from Mandan, Dak. His name is Reuben Carter.

Last Friday Carter and a few of his followers were arrested, charged with a disturbance of the peace but, fearful perhaps of Carter's alleged voudoo power, no one appeared to prosecute him, and he was released, after being photographed for the police gallery. Carter is a ready and fluent talker, uses good language, and has all the impassioned and ferved eloquence of his race. His influence over a gathering of negroes is something marvelous, and can be accounted for on no other hypothesis than of hypnotism.

CAVE DWELLERS.

The caves of Crawford county, Indiana, have long excited the wonder of pleasure-seekers who enjoy subterranean curiosities of nature and the further these caves have been explored the greater marvels have been disclosed. But the last discovery is the climax. Some boys went into a cave a week ago Sunday with the intention of spending the day, but they lost their path and were three days finding their way out. When they returred to the outer world they reported having found new and vast extensions of the cave, parts of which, they insist, are inhabited by a race of di minutive men, almost Lilliputians

in stature.

or

The singular bein s have some form of language, for when the youthful explorers were observed a baby-like chatter arose, which, awakening the echos of the cave, was almost deafening. Efforts will be made to capture some of these remarkable people.-- Detroit News.

ANCIENT BABYLON.

Though containing two million inhabitanrs, Babylon was not closely built up like London or Paris, but the houses of the city were much scattered, and parts of the town had a semi-suburian aspect. Great areas of pasture land also were included within the walls, so that the city could well-nigh support its inhabitants by the product of its own rich acres. When Cyrus, King of Persia, laid siege to the city, in the sixth century before Christ, Babylon was provisioned for twenty years, and could undoubtedly have held out for an indefinite period had it not been for the carelessness or treachery that gave the foe an entrance.

The most extraordinary architectural work of Babylon before its fail was the "Hanging Gardens," which King Nebuchadnezzer erected for his wife, Amytis. Southern Syria is a region of most infernal heat in summer, inasmuch as it is a level plain and the climate semi-tropical. And thus it was that Nebuchadnezzer undertook the task of building for his royal bride a sort of terraced garden far above the level of the earth. It was an artificial mountain 400 feet in height, and reared with terraces resting upon columns, the whole bound together by a wall twenty-two feet thick. On the The young explorers were laughed uppermost terrace were reservoirs at, but their earnestness begot con- for irrigation, supplied with river THE NEGROE EXCITEMENT. fidence in a few, and they returned water by an engine worked by to search out the eave dwellers. slaves. The terraces, thus raised KANSAS CITY, Dec. 22.-The After an absence of nearly four upon columns, were overlaid with negroes of this city, and in fact days they came back again yester-earth a depth suffithe entire country, have become day, and on hearing their second cient to support the largest imbued with the same craze that has driven the Indians on the warpatb. Their Messiah, in the shape of a black man, has come every night. He is holding meetings in the negro quarters of the city, which are crowded with the young and old of both sexes. These meetings are the scenes of the wildest religious orgies and fanaticism. There is not only one dance held each night, but a dozen of them. Only last Wednesday no less than fifteen negroes applied to the chief of police for a license to hold one of these religious meetings to be followed by a dance. Of course the black Messiah cannot be present in person at all these dances, but he is by

report hundreds of people flocked to
the spot to learn the facts and pre-
pare for thorough exploration. Ex-
citement is at fever heat.

to

trees, and artificial streams, with fish in them, flowed along the terraces, descending from one to another in miniature cataracts.

The cave dwellers appear, accord- When Cyrus sat down before the ing to descriptions by the boys, to city to besiege it the Babylonians be the lowest type of humanity, laughed at him. They had averaging less than three in height provisions enough to last them and about forty pounds in weight. twenty years, and they knew that They run upon all fours when they all the strength of the Persian army tire of the erect position. They ex- could never get through their imhibited extreme fear of the in-pregnable walls. Unhappily the truders, and clambered with great Babylonians had a weakness for agility over large heaps of stones in going on periodical sprees. On the their frantic fight. Not a vestige night of the capture King Belshazof clothing covered them, and the zar was personally conducting a boys say they noticed no signs of most gigantic jamboree, in which hirsuteness or other physical marks the whole metropolis was joining of the lower orders of the animal with enthusiasm. The guards were

we began to drop into silence. The THE MAIDEN AND THE MISTLETOE

Everybody knows the quaint old custom attached to this same

ber

careless, and Cyrus took the oppor- He lived in a little one-storied log finer character than that. It is the tunity to drain off the Euphrates cabin in the middle of a vacant gracious characteristic of all druginto the distant artificial lake. Then lot. gists. So, out of my heart, I wish he marched his soldiers into the "We left him to get home by him- you all prosperity and every happicity along the bed of the stream, self. We enjoyed the result in the ness."-Pharmaceutical Era. and, finding the river gates open, light of anticipation, but by and by proceeded to the very door of the palace, where au orgy was progress-possible consequences were preying ing. Belshazzar came forward, upon us. Suppose that it frightens sword in hand, and was slain. him into madness, overturns his reason and sends him schreeching through the streets. We shall spend sleepless nights the rest of our days. "Everybody was afraid. By and by it was forced to the lips of one of us that we had better go at once and see what had happened. Loaded down with crime we ap proached that hut and peeped through the win low. The longlegged critter was sitting on his bed with a hunk of ginger-bread in his hand, and between the bites he played a tune on a jewsharp. There he sat perfectly happy, declared and all around him on the bed were off at any time by returning toys and jim cracks and striped the purchase money, and cancel- candy. The darned cuss, had gone ing the marriage contract. There and sold that skeleton for $5. the lord of misrule, met

By way of parenthesis, a few curious little facts about Babylon are worth mentioning. There was one large tribe among the people which gave to its women authority, the men looking to them for control. as wives ordinarily look to their husbands. The rate of interest charged for money, as shown by tables dug up, was three, four, and five per cent. Frequent memoranda have been discovered in clay, as to full prices and cut prices. A simple system of divorce was provided. If either party did not like one's mate, the match could be

were no physicians in Babylon, but the sick were brought or came to the market place where their fellow citizens were obliged by law to inspect them and to give advice, in case they had ever suffered similar troubles.

Cyrus did not destroy Babylon after he captured the city. But the town ceasing to be the abode of dominion, shrunk, and about 300 B. C., a large part of its inhabitants migrated and much of its enclosed territory was plowed up. What remains of the city is found today in the shape of enormous mounds which archeologists are fond of digging into.-Ex.

A KIND-HEARTED DRUGGIST.

Mark Twain was present at the banquet of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association at its recent meeting in Washington, and in return for his dinner related the following story:

branch of mistletoe-how any fair
one seized beneath It might then
and there be rewarded for
hardihood by a kiss. And 80
Christmas passed with our Anglo-
Saxon ancestors, with one con-
tinuous round of games and
carols and feasting and good cheer.
That Christmas is now
a thing of
the past, but, though most of the

old observances are now

a

matters of tradition, the spirit of the only day survives. The Scots were the boisterous observance of the season, first to throw a damper upon the the abbot of unreason being abolished in Scotland by act of parliament in 1555. Pretty soon his colleague, similar fate in England. The Puritanic denunciation of the revelry which attended his sway-and, in fact, of most of the other observ "We were getting board and ances of the festival-ended his clothing for the first year, clothing the mayor and sheriff of London reign. During Queen Mary's reign and board for the second year, and were forbidden to entertain the lord both of them for the third year. of misrule, and shortly after plays But the druggist forgave us on and masks were prohibited. The the spot, but he said he would like Christmas holiday was included us to let him have our skeletons when we were done with them.

[Laughter.] The druggist's $50
skeleton was gone. We went in
tears to the druggist and explained
the matter. We couldn't have
raised that $50 in 250 years.

"There couldn't be anything
fairer than that. We spouted our
skeletons and went away comfort-
able. But from that time the drug
gist's prosperity ceased. That was
one of the most unfortunate specula-

tions he ever went into. After
some years one of the boys went
and got drowned. That was one
skeleton gone, and I tell you the
druggist felt pretty badly about it.

"A few years after another of the boys went up in a baloon. He was to get $5 an hour for it. When he "About a thousand years ago, ap-gets back they will be owing him proximately, I was apprenticed as a $1,000,000. The druggist's property printer's devil to learn the trade, in was decreasing right along. After common with three other boys about a few more years the third boy tried my own age. There came to the an experiment to see if a dynamite village a long-legged indivi lual of charge would go. It went all right. about 19 from one of the interior counties; fish-eyed, no expression and without the suggestion of a smile-couldn't have smiled for a salary.

"We took him for a fool and thought we would try to scare him to death. We went to the village druggist and borrowed a skeleton. The skeleton didn't belong to the druggist, but he had imported it for the village doctor, because the doctor thought he would send away for it, having some delicacy about using [Laughter.]

"The price of the skeleton at that time was $50. I don't know how high they go now, but probably higher, on account of the tariff. [Laughter]. We borrowed the skelton about 9 o'clock last night, and

we

"They found some of him, perhaps a vest pocketful. Still it was enough to show that some more of that estate had gone. The druggist was getting along in years, and he commenced to correspond with me. I have beeu the best correspondent he has. He is the sweetest natured man I ever saw-always mild and polite and never wants to hurry me at all.

"I get a letter from him every now and then and he never refers to my form as a skeleton; says: 'Well, how is it getting along-is it in good repair? I got a night-rate message from him recently-and he was get. ting old and the property was depreciating in value, and if I could let him have a part of it now he would give time on the balat.co.

got this man-Nicodemus [Laughter.] Dodge was his name-we got him down town out of the way, and then we put the skeleton in his bed.

"Think of the graceful way in which he does everything-the generosity of it all. You cannot find a

in the list of holidays abolished in 1647, and parish officers who enin the churches or the decoration of couraged the celebration of the day the church buildings were subjected to punishment. Later on there was a reaction, and the lord of misrule attempted to regain his throne. His

efforts amounted to but little, however, and he became a thing of the past.

CHRISTMAS HYMN.

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold.
"Peace on the earth, good-will to men,
From heaven's all gracious King,"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
But with the woes of sin and strife

The world has suffered long,
Beneath the angel strains have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man at war with man hears not
The love song that they bring;
Oh! Hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.

And ye, beneath life's crushing load
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way

With painful steps and slow,
Look, now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing.
Oh, rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing.
For, lo, the days are h stening on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever circling years
Comes round the age of gold;
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the angels sing.

BREATHE SOFT AND LOW.

Breathe soft and low, O whispering wind,
Above the tangled grasses deep,
Where those who loved me long ago
Forgot the world and fell asleep.
No towering shaft, or sculptured urn,
Or mausoleum's empty pride,
Tells to the curious passer-by
Their virtues or the time they died.
I count the old familiar names,
O'ergrown with moss or lichen gray,
Where tangled briar and creeping vine
Across the crumbling tablets stray.
The summer sky is softly blue;

The birds stil: sing the sweet old strain;
But something from the summer time
Is gone that will not come again.
So many voices have been hushed,
So many songs have ceased for aye,
So many hands I used to touch
Are folded over hearts of clay.
The noisy world recedes from me;

I cease to hear its praise or blame;

The mossy marble echoes back

No hollow sound of empty fame.

I only know that calm and still
They sleep beyond life's woe and wail,
Beyond the fleet of sailing clouds,
Beyond the shadow of the vale;

VOL. XLII.

of five was appointed to draft reso lutions expressive of the sentiments of the meeting regarding the object for which the gathering was called. By invitation of Mr. Malery, those who composed it withdrew to the pastor's study.

GEORGE F. WANLESS

stated that the city authorities had
failed to fulfil the promises of the
"Liberal" party-that it would give
the one which had preceded it. A
a better and purer government than
from Denver, Sundays were
few months ago, when he came
would not have supposed that there
quiet and orderly that a stranger

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were any saloons in the city. Since then a great change had come. Saloons were multiplied all over the city. They were running on Sundays as on other days in defiance of law, and ladies and chil

was called to the rostrum. He opened by stating that a prominent real estate dealer had objected to the meeting for the reason that the movement would drive money away from the town. So far from this being a fact, the speaker had interviewed leading saloon keepers and found without exception that if the law were rigidly and impartially enforced, all were in favor of Sunday closing and the prohibition of the sale of liquor to boys. Lawlessness among saloon keepers leads to more stringent legislation. Radical prohibitionists are opposed to law and order leagues, for the reason that a sentiment for total prohibition is aroused. With regard to gambling and prostitution, the question is more difficult. It was the business of the meeting to formulate some reasonable course of procedure for the mayor and city council. dren could not walk the streets One man prominently identified with the calling of this meeting had with obscene and profane language. without their ears being shocked informed the speaker that it was not expected to actually shut up all the The result of non enforcement of gambling houses. If we admit that the laws was the flocking here -this is impossible, and it undoubt- of criminals from other quarters, seeking a field where they edly is, then we must not ask the city council to do the impossible, but Hence this city is flooded with loose could commit crime with impunity. urge them to strict regulation, par- and dangerous characters. We deticularly with regard to allowing mand an enforcement of the laws. minors to play, and in this connec- It is a slander upon the respectable tion the speaker advocated the arrest and fining of the minor as well citizens that brothels and saloons are so numerous. Their existence as the gambling house keeper. Likewise as to houses of prostituis opposed to the moral sense of the If we admit, which is true, people. tion. It is folly to say that the that the vice cannot be eradicated, these evils or at least hold them in city government is helpless to cure then we must push the city authorities to strict regulation. In this con- check. Apply the laws that have nection Mr. Stephens used some the city ordinances. If this shall be been passed by the legislature and very plain language condemnatory done the reformation demanded 29th with people in sympathy of the persecution of fallen wowith the reformatory movement. men by dragging them before police will be accomplished. Let the Judge Bowman was voted in as courts and imposing heavy fines, Mayor and Marshal go ahead with chairman. In a brief opening ad- merely to enrich the treasury of the the work of reformation. If not, a dress be asserted that the city was city, and which only sunk them few petty officers will not stand in foul with dens of wickedness, while to lower depths of degradation to the way of the enforcement of the footpads were so numerous that no earn the money. One reason why laws made for the preservation and citizen could walk the streets with they were dragged before the courts protection of society. safety. In the face of this situation and punished for infractions of the the city authorities were doing noth- laws while gamblers and whisky ing toward a purification of the sellers were allowed to pursue a moral atmosphere by an enforce lawless course with impunity was ment of the laws. They should be because they had no votes. Gamgiven to understand that they must blers and rumsellers take some action for the cure of the hence their immunity from proseexisting state of affairs. cution.

I only feel that, tird and worn,

I halt upon the highway bare,
And gaze with yearning eyes beyond,
To fields that shine supremely fair.

LIBERAL MISRULE IN SALT
LAKE CITY.

In response to a call for a meeting of citizens to take some definite steps to have the laws enforced in relation to gambling dens, drinking saloons, and houses of ill fame, the First Methodist Church was packed Dec.

Isaac Huse, Jr., was elected secretary.

had votes,

The speaker closed by urging the people to take a strong stand for what was just and reasonable.

Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, by invitation sang, quite effectively, "Somebody's Boy," and in response to an encore rendered "Sweep the Webs Away."

F. E. GREGG

said this meeting means something. It shows the existence of a healthy public sentiment. Has any one a compliment to pay the City Council?