ired and sick of railroads. They want s to move; let them move." Mr. Fulimer said that Fort Square ould be used as a pleasure garden or ublic park, but he was opposed to utting a depot on it. Henry Reiser said-"I am surprised hat the council had not taken steps to mprove it years ago. It is a nuisance. ears ago plans were gotten out to imTove it. There was a contract to plant ees and care for them, but this was ot faithfully carried out. Every time train passes my house it shakes the uilding; shakes it pretty good. I do ot think they will get it. If we do ot live to see it a park, I hope our hildren will." Miss Louie Poulton contributed a Whereas, by such action the city coun quest of Emin Bey. Stanley related the part he played in this expedition with considerable feeling. THE ARIZONA FLOODS. ber of other distinguished citizens of Salt Lake City, accompanied the party. In the afternoon a reception was given by Mrs. John W. Young at the Tem- He told how Leopold, King of Belpleton, in honor of the Stanley giuin, got interested in Africa, and party. Mr. Stanley, owing, it how that continent is now divided is alleged, to indisposition, was among the European nations, with one not present, but Mrs. Stanley and free State, the Congo, in the centre. her mother-Mrs. Tennant-received The lecture, in every way, was a the visitors. During the reception the success. Mr. Stanley and party left quartette club discoursed charming for San Francisco at 2 o'clock this music. Mr. Weihe gave some violin morning. selections which charmed Mrs. Stanley. She gave him letters of introduction to London musicians of note, to be used if he should ever visit that A letter just received by Mr. S. F. metropolis. Five hundred invitations Kimball, from Mesa City, Arizona, were sent out for the reception, a vast dated February 27th, states that on majority of which were accepted. Thursday morning, Feby. 25th, the At 8 o'clock March 9th, the famous Salt River was higher than it was ever known to be before. It inundated a audience of nearly 2000 people, at the portion of Phoenix, Tempe and Lehi. Theatre. It was supposed that Stanley Harvey Harper's and Swartz's places was only an indifferent talker, but his were badly flooded, but when it comlecture completely dispelled this idea. menced to snow in the mountains he He spoke with ease and correctness. river soon fell, and the settlers from His delivery was smooth and graceful, Lehi who had nearly all moved up on and at times charmingly animated. the Mesa returned to their homes. He was introduced in a graceful They found an immense amount of little speech by Judge Zane. Mr. Stan- daniage done. The railroad bridge was ilors who voted 'aye" on the propositionley on coming forward received a completely demolished. Thirty-five He opened his lec- houses were washed down the river at ave shown themselves in the light of hearty welcome. masters, rather than servants of the peo-ture by saying that at the close of the Phoenix; Smith's mill and ice factory le, having passed a resolution in direc war he accompanied Generals Hau- came near going; also three houses at opposition of the wishes of those interest-cock and Sherman as special cor- Lebi, Steele's and Louis and Ernest ed and most nearly concerned, and respondent to Kansas, where In-Crismon's. On Friday it cleared up Whereas, It is an understood fact that dian troubles existed. In 1868 he with every prospect of pleasant weather, the City Council is merely the custodian went to Abyssinia, as a war cor- and all moved back to their homes. of the property of the corporation, and respondent of the New York Herald On Saturday it commenced raining has no right to dispose of it contrary to He next witnessed the Cretan rebel-again and rained incessantly for fortythe wishes of the p ople; therefore be it lion, and after that the revolution in eight hours. Resolved 1-That we, citizens, taxpayThe consequence was ers and residents of the southwestern Spain. It was while here that he re- that the Lehi people began to swarm portion of the city in mass meeting as-ceived a telegram from James Gordon into Mesa city again, occupying Beneett to come at once to Paris. Mr. houses that could be had. Mrs. Mary Stanley in very simple language said: Jones was confined just about six hours Arriving there, I called at the Grand before the flood came, but they got her Hotel, knocked at a bedroom door, up on the mesa all right and she is and, after some delay, was admitdoing well. Also the wife of Bishop ted to the presence of James Gor-T. E. Jones was very low at the time, don Bennett, who then gave me a de- but they managed to get her into a tail such as no correspondent has ever safe place. I was first received before or since. told to go to Egypt and attend she opening of the Suez Canal, from there to ascend the Nile and interview Gen. Samuel Baker, then to proceed to Jerusalem and explore the subterranean retreats recently discovered; from Mr. Giaque moved that a committee there I was told to go to Constantinobe named to solicit subscriptions to se-ple, and from there to the Crimea, for cure funds for employing able counsel to fight the matter in the courts, thus assisting Mr. Pickard in his action. Messrs. Green Giaque and Anderson sembled, herein express our most em phatic disapproval of the action of the council in agreeing to sell the Old Fort block. 2-That we heartily endorse the action of the four members of the couucil who heeded our petition to prevent the illegal disposition of the property. 3-That we will in every legal way use our best effort in preventing the sale from being confirmed by applying to the courts to pro ect us in our rights. 4-That we will, by our influence and by our means, sustain the ac ion taken by Mr. Pickard in applying to the courts for our redress. were pamed. HENRY M. STANLEY. The event of the hour in Salt Lake City is the visit of H. M. Stanley and party. He arrived here on Sunday, March 8, accompanied by his wife, his mother-in-law, Lieut. Jephson, Major Pond, Miss Glass and Miss Horne. The party were the guests of Mrs. John W. Young, at the Templeton hotel, during their stay here. On Sunday they rested for part of the day, and then received some visitors and friends. On Monday, during the forenoon, a Special train, chartered by Mr. Young, Conveyed the Stanley party to Buffalo Park and Garfield Beach. President Wilford Woodruff and Mrs. Woodruff, President Gen. Q. Cannon and a num the purpose of writing up the old battle He described his first visit to Africa all Tempe and Phoenix had not been heard from by the writer since the previous flood. The last flood was three feet higher than the first. The school house and Tithing building are full of Pima Indians, who bad lived in civililized style in the Papago Ward, to the number of several hundred, and who lost everything. Five of the Indians were also drowned. At the time of writing the river had gone down and the families were all moving back to their homes. Both the Sisters Jones were doing well. The dams and corrals were all badly injured, but the extent of the damage could not at that time be estimated, as the water covered a part of them. It would, however, require a great amount of hard labor to put them in running order again. Henry C. Rogers and Brother Simpkins, who lived up close to the bench, or mesa, supposed they were on safe ground when the flood occurred, but to their surprise the water drove them from their homes at midnight. The resolutions relating to Senator Hearst's death, adopted by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, the Mining Exchange, and the Ore ProducIn 1874 Stanley visited Africa a sec-ers' Association, have been beautifully ond time, in the interest of the London engrossed, and forwarded by Mr. Telegraph and New York Herald. Simon to the U.S. Senate at Washing. ton. In 1884 he visited Africa again in and against it built the rude lean-to THE DESERET WEEKLY, cabins in which they found shelter PUBLISHED BY THE DESERET NEWS COMPANY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAKO | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Per Year, of Fifty-two Numbers, IN ADVANCE. OHARLES W. PENROSE, EDITOR. Saturday, $2.50 THE DRIFT OF THE CONUTRY. until more commodious and sightly THE Condition of the farmers in Ohio structures could be erected. Pioneer is deplorable. In that State the situaBlock is the initial centre of civilization is worse than even in Kansas. tion and development for this entire According to dispatches from Cleveinter-mountain region. No wonder if land a short time ago, and according even from that basis alone popular to the press of Ohio, farming is not by opinion should be overwhelmingly any means a desirable or profitable against its being disposed of to a occupation. The returns of the last private corporation and this prominent census, show that the population of March 21, 1891. landmark be thus obliterated by having the agricultural districts is less than it it transformed into a railroad depot, was ten years ago. The mortgage THE POSITION OF THE PEOPLE. with all its attendant noise, bustle indebtedness of the farming interests and confusion. They prefer to have is increasing at a yearly rate of $8,500,REALIZING the questionable charac- the property devoted to the original 000. In addition to this, farm values ter of the latest eccentricity perpe-purpose for which it was intended-a have depreciated $200,000,000 since trated upon the public by the City public park. It is only in this way 1880, or in other words, the price of Council the effort to dispose of Pioneer that it could be preserved as a notable land has fallen on an average, over the Block to a private corporation-the feature of this vast region. whole State, of $7 per acre. Farmers "Liberal" papers continue to make the The sentiment of the people is over- there, are dissatisfied. They are lookmost ridiculous representations in ref-whelmingly against the transaction be- ing to the Alliance for relief. Within erence to that transaction. Instead of cause they believe it to be contrary to the last six months that organization seeking to bolster such a conspicuous law, they being in line with the legal has doubled its membership. plece of public jobbery, they would adviser of the corporation, who very show much more prudence if they in-ably showed that the Council had no troduced a few brilliant flashes of right to sell to a private party property silence on the subject. They ought to which had been set apart for a public allow the matter to work its way purpose. But seeing the matter is in through the courts, into which it has the courts, we would be been carried, until final adjudication is ing to let the Hitherto, the farmers of Ohio have been a very conservative class. Probably a majority of them voted the Republican ticket. Ohio has always been classed as a doubtful State in politics. will-Its cities have often given Democrati question remain majorities, but Republicans always the false cry looked to the agricultural districts for the salvation of their party. It argues badly for the future that the break is now coming. The farmers realize their wretched financial condition. Demagogues will spring up, and tell them that such and such reforms are needed, and like a sick man who is ready to try any remedy offered, the farmers are likely to fall into political heresies that may prove the ruin of the nation. reached under the law. there but for Instead of doing this the newspapers of "Liberal" journals that popular alluded to keep on stating that sentiment favors the job. The Salt Lake the sale of the Old Fort Block is morning anti-"Mormon” organ gave a widely and almost universally en-Jist of alleged expressions of citizens on dorsed by popular sentiment. All the the subject. One of them was unique, evidence adduced before the Council being as follows: "Mr. Bacon will and otherwise shows the opposite of now be able to float his bonds in the this to be the fact. It has been demon-east." This statemant was exultingly strated, however, that the present city flaunted by the paper which published government does not care a straw for it as an indication of popular opinion public opinion. Neither does it mani- being in favor of the sale of Pioneer fest any anxiety to act in accord with Block. What does it imply? Simply Of course free and unlimited coinage he law, nor with any of the glittering this: That the people are desirous that of silver will be discussed. The ques "Liberal" promises made before the the council should sell their (the tion is one that has two sides. It is election. If there is any denial of people's) property at one half its in- one of those peculiarly economic issues, this position, let it be stated and the trinsic value in order to inflate the the merits of which can only be demproof will be furnished. credit of a private party. The other onstrated by actual experience. Some "Liberal" organ announced, however, of the best political intellects that the sale was necessary in order to of the country are arrayed both for and save the credit of the city, and to meet against it. The farmers in adopting certain demands that are "family this, for it is almost certain that they secrets." will, because unlimited coinage is one of the planks of the Alliance platform, should be careful not to go too far. Perhaps, to begin with, the coinage of American silver would do very well. If that proved beneficial, why extend it to the silver of the world? An exhibit of popular opinion and desire on the subject is exactly what the manipulators of the transaction have never wanted. If they had it would have been a matter of simplicity to have ascertained them by a testgiving the people an opportunity to vote yea or nay on the question. Boguз or even real statements of a few individuals, many of them given anonymously, have no bearing on the subject. We advise the clumsy bolsterers of the latest suspicious transaction of the city government to let the courts decide the question of its legality, independent of popular feeling, and not keep on reiterating the falsehood that There are numerous reasons for the it is endorsed by public opinion or senpeople being opposed to the sale of timent. This clalm is totally false, and Pioneer block to a private corporation. is evidently not dished up for home It is a historic spot of ground. It was effect, but to save "Liberal" methods there where the brave and hardy pio- from being execrated, as they ought neers first pitched their tents when they be, abroad. entered Salt Lake Valley in 1847. It was around that plat of Ground that they erected a wall to protect themselves from attacks by Indians Four people in Sodertelge, Sodermanland, have inherited one million kronor from a relative in America. But it is not on this issue that any great blunder can be made, either for or against it, because its evils or its benefits can be seen in time for reform. It is in those issues of an ultra socialist character that the unthinking masses in times of excitement can be led astray. The confiscation of railroads, for instance, is an issue that involves so radical a THREATENED. change that the owners of such proper- A LEADING AMERICAN INDUSTRY The immense fortunes accumulated by individuais in this country are causing the people to be disturbed. John D. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, is worth $150,000,000. W. W. Astor is worth $140,000,000. Jay Gould is worth $200,000,000. He is the richest man in the world at present, yet he had not a cent when beginning life, nor did he inherit a cent. RUSSIA is coming to the front as an industrial country. It has a population of 110,000,000, with an annual increase of 1,600,000. It imports about 600,000 bales of cotton yearly for its domestic manufactures. From the United States 400,000 bales are taken every year. Now comes the report that in future Russia will be an exporter, not an importer, of cotton; and that she will supply the whole people of Europe. world. It is equal to the entire producion of this country forty years ago. The area well adapted for cotton-growing is about all occupied. Certainly it is not likely to keep pace with the increase of consumption of cotton goods in the world, and there is thus no ground for fear by the producers of the United States that they will suffer from competition with cotton produced by irrigation in Russian Asia, India, China, or elsewhere. The population of the globe outside of Asia is about 700,000,000, or half the total of the world, and it is increasing at the rate of about 1% per cent per annum, or over 10,000,000 a year, while the consumption of cotton goods is augmenting in a much greater ratio. Hence, there is no cause for the slightest apprehension that Russia can ever produce enough cotton to interfere with the demand for the American fiber." But it must be remembered that in Russia has vast domains in Central The combined wealth of the Roth- Asia on which cotton can be cultischilds is $1,000,000,000, but no single vated by means of irrigation. If water Russia engineering, both civil and member or the family is worth more enough can be obtained, the project military, has been made a special than $40,000,000. The Duke of West- seems feasible enough. Without water study under government patronage. In minster is worth $80,000,000. He is the nothing can be raised in Central this department Russia is abreast of richest man in Europe, but his wealth Asia, because the absence of rain is any country in Europe, and probably has been the accumulation of genera- more marked even there, than in the in America. Russian engineers know tions. It is the same with the Roth-arid belts of the American continent. best what the resources of Central Asia schilds. Wealth accumulated in this China and India are both cotton pro-are. They know what the available way is so gradual that the people as a ducing countries. China, however, water supply for irrigation may be. It whole do not feel it. Besides it so imports a large quantity of manufac-is no criterian to take what has been identified with the interests of the tured goods from the United States, done in India or China in the way of people, in the way of trade and in- and from Great Britain. This shows cotton raising, because in these coun dustry, thal it is regarded as a benefit. that she cannot produce enough for tries the method in use 3000 years ago In our country we have so many the demands of her own country. It still prevails. If Russia goes into the persons, who have acquired vast for- also shows that cotton raising in that cotton raising, she will do so with tunes in a short life-time, that it is country has reached its utmost limit, all the improved appliances of modclear there must be something wrong, because of the abundance of cheapern times. She has an official, and that is what the labor obtainable, it could be produced perhaps a dozen of them, now in this enrages farmer and laborer much. cheaper there than in America, if country studying economic questions Cornelius Vanderbilt is worth other conditions were alike favorable. in general, and cotton raising in par$90,000,000, and W. K. Vanderbilt Egypt from time immemorial has been ticular. With that vast country enter$80,000,000, but most of this was inher-a cotton raising country, but irrigation ing the industrial field against ited. C. P. Huntington is worth $45,- had to be used. However, it takes all England and the United States, some 000,000, Russell Sage $40,000,000, Le- the available land fit for cultivation to startling developments may be expectland Stanford $35,000,000 and Mrs. raise the food supplies in that country.ed in the near future. Russia is already Hetty Green $30,000,000. THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER. The cotton belt of the United States the great transatlantic wheat producing There are fifty others who could be extends from North Carolina to Texas. country of the world. Her wheat named each worth from $5,000,000 to Here cotton appears to be an indigen- competes with that of the United $20,000,000. And the vast majority of ous growth. Climate, soil, moisture States in the English markets. Will this wealth was acquired in a lifetime. and so on, are peculiarly adapted to the her cotton drive that of this country There must be something radically growth of cotton. The means of trans- out of Europe? It looks as if the anwrong in our commercial economy porting the crop are now perfect. By swer will soon come in the shape of a when such unequal distribution of river and rail it can be moved cheaply practical affirmative. wealth exists. Six men could, by comto seaport towns everywhere on the bining, break a stock market, corner coast. The seed is now used for oil, and for feeding and for manure, the all the wheat and pork in the country, or dry up the currency of the nation, latter alone proving a profitable indusDURING the last two days Henry M. and all but suspend trade. try. A cotton-picking machine has Stanley, the celebrated African exThis is a fearful state of affairs. It is been invented recently which will do plorer, has been the chief centre of atone that free silver cannot remedy. It the work of sixty persons. It will traction in this city. In consequence is one that the confiscation of railroads take but one man to guide it, and two of the interest in his personality being or of oil companies cannot remedy. It mules to operate it; this in addition to as great perhaps as in his lecture, the is a question that requires the best the cotton gin already in use will facts embodied in which are all pubthought of the country, and to be cause a revolution in cotton raising. lished, the Theatre was packed from handled conservatively, judiciously, The American press is not apprehen- "pit to dome." and in harmony with American in- sive that Russia can ever become a forstitutions and with republican equality midable competitor of the United States in the markets of the world. and impartiality. The Chicago Tribune says:, The leprosy disease has now decreased to such an extent in Norway as to allow a portion of the hospital for lepers to be used for other purposes. "The consumption of cotton in the United States is rapidly increasing. Including that of Canada it is now abont 2,430,000 bales per year, or 22 per cent of the quantity consumed in all parts of the We have read quite a number of descriptions of Mr. Stanley, some of which were the reverse of complimentary, while others were fair, but none have been particularly detailed. Doubtless he was keenly scrutinized last night, as most people have a great curi osity for seeing notable characters. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL. THE Fifty-first Congress which closed its doors on the 4th inst. has passed one bill which gives universal satisfaction to the people of the United States. This is the bill for the establishment of circuit courts of appeal, to relieve the press of business which so burdens the United States Supreme Court. It is, probably, the most important enact ment counected with the history of the federal judiciary which ever emanated from Congress. This law provides for an intermediate court which will have final jurisdiction in a large number of cases. It was passed with out any reference to party politics. Democrats vied with Republicans and vice versa, to make the bill perfect. Federal courts, wherever they have jurisdiction, are preferred to the State courts. It may be that a centralizing idea is taking hold of the people, and that the outcome of it is to look to some imperial centre for relief in all cases of trouble. He is of medium height and some- near at hand, that which is in close what stocky build. H well-rounded proximity being all that is within his figure filled out to good advantage his mental grasp. The explorer's eyes are black dress suit, which included | lustrous and beautiful and appear to the conventional clawed-hammer redeem every other feature that might coat and open breasted vest, exhibiting otherwise be considered ordinary. a wealth of immaculate linen. The Mr. Stanley is a rapid speaker, and massive head, being supported by a his apparent indifference to style adds full neck, appears to grow out of and a charm to his delivery. There is no consequently properly belong to the visible straining for effect. His audifirmly knit body. Some large heads ence at once recognize this simplicity, have such a slender connecting attach- which elicits their sympathy, so far as ment as to convey the impression that that element is capable of arousing it. they have dropped on to wrong places His voice is pleasant and flexible, but and stayed there under protest. Not not such a one as stirs the tender so with Mr. Stanley's cranium. He is, emotions of the heart. This was exso to speak, physically harmonious. emplified in his magnanimous tribute The capit is carried erect, almost tip-to the heroic Livingston. There was ping backward rather than forward, something exquisitely touching in the and a picture of him would hardly manner of the latter's death. He exsuffice to illustrate personified humility, pired in the last attitude of devotion which he probably regards as some and worship toward God. Its relanoted old Romans did, as a human tion by the lecturer, however, did not weakness rather than a virtue. The awaken any stronger emotion than to entire physique conveys the idea of ir-produce a sentiment of pensive sadrepressible energy and restless activity, ness. In the description of scenes of fed by comparatively inexhaustible horror he is more successful, his porvitality. trayal of the dismal, black swampy The law is entitled: "A bill to esThe face of this phenomenal man is forest was so vivid that the listener tablish circuit courts of appeal and to a study. The forehead is slightly dis- could almost see the hideous, slimy, define and regulate in certain cases the appointing, being neither as high nor creeping creatures with which the re- jurisdiction of the courts of the United broad as might be anticipated and does gion was infested and feel a tinge of States, and for other purposes." Secnot convey an idea of excessively wide the repugnance and dread the memtion 1, of the bill provides for the apint llectuality. But it should be re-bers of the exploring party experienced.pointment of an additional circuit membered that such a work as he ac- Altogether the lecture was of surpass-Judge in each circuit, by the Presicomplished required a large degree of ing interest, the narrative being one of dent of the United States, this Judge physical stamina allied to at least fair- the most extraordinary of ancient or to be on the same footing as the existly superior mental endowments. A modern times. It was presented with ing circuit Judges. purely intellectual man could never animation and clearness, which held have accomplished what he did; hence the listener enthralled from beginning the intellectually capable Livingston to close. failed where Stanley succeeded. While the former was at least the peer, if not the superior of the latter intellectually, the physical vitality and push of Mr. Stanley are immensely ahead of those qualities in the eminent Scotch scientist and explorer. Section 2, provides for the establishment of a Circuit Court of Appeals in each Judicial Circuit, this court to consist of three Judges, two of whom will constitute a quorum. This court is empowered to prescribe its own form and style of seal, also its processes and procedure, as in the case of the U. S Supreme Court. It will have a marshall and clerk, with salaries of $2,500 and $3,000 per year respectively. Section 3, provides for what Judges are authorized to sit in this court of appeals. And it demands that a term shall be held annually in each of the nine judicial circuits of the United States. The young Zanzibari who, with a long, siender rod, indicated the locations on the map as the lecturer proceeded, attracted his share of interest. The pole used by this gentleman of color suggested at first that he was Mr. Stanley's nose smashes the brought forward to illustrate the manNapoleonic theory in that line. Ituer in which the natives catch fish in hardly reaches medium size, being a Stanley Pool. An explanation of his trifle short, and with a slight impres-use soon dissipated this idea, if it was sion of stub attached to it. The mouth entertained. This native of the Dark implies determination, mixed with an Continent is a slenderly built young inclination to be sour when the humor fellow with long and singularly elastic sits upon him. The lips are somewhat limbs, which seemed capable of twistSection 4, provides that all appeals thin rather than otherwise, and the ing tortuously. He was an auxiliary to corners have a downward tendency. the lecture, as he is a sample of the kind by writ of error or otherwise from disThe expression of this feature indicates of people who accompanied "Stone-trict courts shall only be subject to rebreaker" (Stanley) on his arduous and view in the Supreme Court of the a somewhat meagre amount of warm perilous journeys. He is decidedly United States or in the Circuit Court human sympathy, this being also black, and has the crisp hair peculiar of Appeals hereby established. evinced in his oratory. to his race. The upper part of his face is somewhat flat, and the eyes large and rolling. The under jaw projects obtrusively. When he touched a particular locality on the map with the point of his fish pole, he gave it a scratch as if he was trying to rub it off, and then subsided with an air of satisfaction, as if he felt himself to be an indispensable adjunct to an intellectual Like most brilliant men Mr. Stanley has splendid eyes. They are full, dark and penetrating, and a slight tendency to lower the lds increases their aspect of looking at some far away object an evidence of a broad mind. The small man generally has a peering look as if he were inspecting somethin entertainment. Section 5, defines what cases can be taken direct to the Supreme Court. It reads as follows: Sec. 5. That appeals or writs of error may be taken from the district courts or from the existing circuit courts direct to the supreme court in the following cases: In any case in which the jurisdiction of the court is in issue; in such cases the question of jurisdiction alone shall be certified to the supreme court from the court below for decision. From the final sentences and decrees in prize cases. In cases of conviction of a capital or otherwise infamous crime. In any case that involves the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States. In any case in which the constitutionality of any law of the United States or the validity or construction of any treaty made under its authority is drawn in question. In any case in which the constitution or law of a State is claimed to be in contravention of the Constitution of the United States. Nothing in this act shall affect the jurisdiction of the supreme court in cases ap-ject was pealed from the highest court of a State nor the construction of the statutes providing for review of such cases. Section 6 defines in what respect the court can exercise it appellate jurisdiction, and in how far its final decision extends. Section 7 regulates procedure for taking cases from the lower courts to the circuit Court of Appeals. Section 8 defines the pay of marshals, and section 9 their duties. SOMETHING RELATING TO UTAH This statement presents the acme of silence was not deepened and the bliss absurdity. The character of the indi- intensified by the imparting of detailed vidual into whom an attempt was precinct information, as already sug made to inject anti-"Mormon” virus, gested. together with all the circumstances Speaking seriously, such a fellow as combined, constitute a grotesque inci- the one who claims to have interviewed dent. The scribe ostensibly visited the celebrated explorer is incapable of the explorer to interview him, and understanding such a man as Stanley. forthwith informs the public that Had he had ordinary perception of the the object of his visit was also to eternal fitness of things he would have act as Mr. Stanley's preceptor in understood that the great traveler is local politics. A person with the one one of the last persons in the world on hundredth part of a grain of sense whom the anti-"Mormon" local politiwould have understood that the sub-cal trick could be successfully perone regarding which Mr. formed. He is too keen-sighted to be swallowing Tribune Stanley had not the remotest interest. deceived into The richest aspect of this incident smaut, and too broad minded to jump at lies in the announcement that Mr. a conclusion at the insinuating instiStanley "appeared pleased" at the in- gation of an unconscionable and slavformation imparted to him to the effect ish Bohemian acting under the whip that the "Mormons" had been placed of his masters. at a disadvantage in Salt Lake City Local anti-"Mormon" agitators and and County. It is unfortunate that conspirators place themselves in the the over anxious scribe did not go in- most absurd positions. Their rabidity to specific details and inform him and over-anxiety frequently cause about the status of particular precincts, them to assume the aspect of drivelling There are in all fifteen sections in such, for instance, as Bingham, where imbecility. the bill. It reads as if it were a very a great "Liberal" victory was gained perfect document, and will no doubt by personating defunct and absent prove a boon to the nation at large. people who formerly resided there. He Under its provisions, the President might also have told about the six has the appointment of nine persons "Liberal" candidates usurping the IT IS now a settled fact that there for circuit 'court judges. It is to be offices to which they were never will be a Woman's building at the hoped he will exercise his usual caution, elected, and about the "Liberal" "flam World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. Conand that he will select men of ability, flammery" at the school election gress has appropriated $200,000 integrity and impartiality. Doubtless in the Fourth Precinct of this city. It specially for this structure. And what numbers of ex-Congressmen, political is too bad that such a brilliant oppor- is better still, the building must be the hacks and party parasites, will be seek-tunity to post the African explorer re- product of woman's intellect, that is, ing these places. The President, by garding the details of the "dark" in architectural design, ani in all means, should ignore these poeple. epoch in local politics should have suructural commodiousness. Their minds are dwarfed and their been lost. Perhaps, however, it is Mrs. Salisbury, of this city one of judgment so distorted from long con- well that he was not enlightened. It the lady commissioners from Utah, has tact and manipulation in party politics, might have so absorbed his mind as to received a circular from Mrs. Potter and in issues raised by private inter- incapacitate him from continuing his Palmer, of Chicago, the president of ests that they would not, nor could lecture tour, and deterred him from the Woman's Commission, in which not, make good Judges. And it must adding to his lustrous record by under- particulars relating to the Fair are be remembered that this new court is taking new enterprises in the interest specified. This circular states that in a measure a court of final appeal. of science and humanity. Still, to "sketches are asked for, on or before have been more minute might have | March 23, 1891, for the Woman's the made "MR. STANLEY APPEARED PLEASED." great man still more Building of the World's Columbian "pleased." Exposition; none but those made by A REPRESENTATIVE of the leading Unfortunately for the public the women will be considered. Applicants Salt Lake anti-"Mormon” organ scribbler does not state in what way must be in the profession of architecclaims to have interviewed Mr. Stan- the pleasure of the explorer was ex- ture, or have had special training ley on Monday last, and presented the pressed, because he "made no com- therein, and each must state her exresult in the columns of that sheet. ments." Now, if he did not say he perience, in writing, to the chief of The article is permeated by an air of was "pleased," how did he make his construction. Those wishing to comcongratulation because the eminent ecstasy apparent? Did he indulge in pete will please apply for copy of plans explorer did not kick the reporter into pantomimic gesticulation, dance a and conditions to D. H. Burnham, the street. The scribbler has indicated hornpipe or assume an expression of room 1143, The Rookery, Chicago. that if he had been thus heroically beatitude? Perhaps the happiness The Board meets in April, and it will treated, the vigorous regime would injected into Mr. Stanley was expressed be necessary to have designs forwarded have been exactly in accord with his by simple, unadulterated silence, in time for inspection. It is thought deserts. To justify this opinion it is which, however, is occasionally an only necessary to introduce this ex-indication of unmitigated contempt. tract: "Mr. Stanley appeared pleased on being informed that the Mormon hierarchy had fallen by the wayside in Salt Lake City politics and mostly so in county affairs; though he made no comments." Or was the great man paralyzed by that there are in Utah, no professional lady ahirctects, but that makes no matter. One cannot tell what there is here until the question is ventilated⚫ We may have ladies who understand architecture or who may have made a special study of it for pleasure or for |