Iraped pictures and statuary to absurd engths, but it is to be hoped that some good will arise from the efforts hat are being made to guard the public against the rush of the tide of immorality, which is greatly acpelerated by the prostitution of art to the depraved tastes of the licentious.

While they are about it, will not the reformers in this line carry their warFare a little further, and arouse public sentiment, if not legislative action, against the vile caricatures of public men which appear in so many otherAvise respectable papers as portraits of living or recently deceased celebrities? Most of them are not only dreadful botches, offensive to the eye and horrifying to the cultured mind, but actual libels upon the persons whom they are supposed to represent.

tax prevailing then as too high; others cleared. England will spring to the
complained that they were served with front and her allies will soon show
assessment notices while the sprinklers themselves, while the supporters of
had never appeared on the streets on Russia will take their places and the
which their premises fronted; still gigantic struggle predicted and dreaded
another class, composed of people re- for years will cause the very earth to
siding in the outlying localities, in- tremble with its force.
sisted that sprinkling was of no prac
tical use to them and they did not de-
sire it.

In answer to these objections, the
council propose, this season, to increase
the area of the sprinkling district and
raise the tax to a higher figure. This
kind of relief shows that when the
children of the city fathers ask them
for bread they give them a stone; when
hey ask for a fish they give them a
snake. Sign and send in the protest
against the raising and unjust applica-
tion of the sprinkling tax.

STARTLING NEWS.

It is barely possible that a peace will yet be patched up and the impending dangers be again postponed. But it looks as if the greatest conflict of the century was about to commence, and all the horrors of awful war were soon to be poured out upon the nations of Europe.

If the United States can remain neutral during the mighty struggle, it will be marvelous. The Italian im. broglio is not yet settled. Italy would not have been so bold and imperative without powerful backing, and Uncle Sam will have to make some sagacious planning if he contrives to do nothing more than make money out of the quarrels of the Old World.

If the letter press descriptions and biographical sketches of noted men and women that apTHE latest news from Europe is of a pear in the papers of this country- startling character. War appears to It is a momentous time. A few are no more reliable than the wood-be imminent. This ought to be no hours at most will probably end the cut likenesses that accompany them, surprise to the reading public. The suspense. And whether peace shall they are utterly worthless to the public indications of an approaching con- be breathed again upon the troubled and scandalous to the individuals so flict have been made very plain political waters, or the shriek of the grossly misrepresented. through the press for some time. war eagles shall resound througho There has been a feeling of uneasiness the earth, may be decided before an among all the European nations. other day shall dawn upon the expect Preparations for a gigantic struggle ant world. have been in progress for months. It was hoped that the very magnitude of the standing armies, and the vast volume of the munitions of war, would A NEW religious sect has been formed have the effect of preventing the col-in Pike county, Pennsylvania. Its lision for which they were made ready. founder is a man named Zachariah But it looks now as though those prepa Myers, a farmer, who claims to have

The nude in art may have some reasons for its support, when beauty and not brutality is the motive for its production; but these rude burlesques of the human countenance that offend good taste, deceive the public and libel the subject, are beyond apology and fit only for the fire.

AGAINST THE SPRINKLING TAX.

THE City Council have made an order declaring a large portion of the city one sprinkling district, and making the assessment ten cents per frontage foot, whether the property be situated on Tenth East street, Fifth West street, or on Main street. The injustice of the uniform assessment, when compared with the benefits derived in dif ferent parts of the city, is apparent at a glance. A protest is being generally signed by the taxpayers in the outlying sections. It should be presented to the City Council tomorrow evening. We would suggest that those who have not already signed the protest do so not later than Tuesday morning. We believe the paper can be found at the stores and some other convenient places. If a majority of the frontage taxpayers protest, then the scheme will be killed, otherwise those liable to be affected by the injustice will have to pay the tax or contest its collection in the courts. Protestation is the cheaper method.

Last season there were numbers of property owners who objected to the

rations have not been in vain and that

very soon the continent of Europe will
be shaken with the roar of battle and
its soil be soaked in blood. The immi-
nence of the catastrophe, therefore, is
pregnant with alarm, notwithstanding
the world-wide expectancy.

THE "ANTICIPATORS."

received a divine manifestation while

he was plowing in his field. He says a voice spoke to him from a cloud as follows:

"Before the century closes the world will end and man shall be no more. Go tell thy people to prepare. Tell them not to wait an hour. There must be everlasting prayer. The world is wicked; it is reeking in its own corruption. There must be an end to all soon."

The attitude of Turkey towards Russia proclaims support from Great Britain and a disposition to resort to arms. That Russia is ready and Myers told his neighbors, who were eager for the fray is not to be doubted greatly impressed, and he organized The traditions of that power point them into a congregation and comto the extension of Muscovite dominion menced to preach and publish his toward the South and the East. Eng- religious views. Circulars are being land is interested in preventing this sent to ministers and people of various accomplishment of Russian ambition. denominations warning them of the With the absorption or destruction of approaching catastrophe. Those who Turkey, the path of the Great Bear to- receive his message and join his society ward the Orient would be cleared, and are called "Anticipators." They have English rule and possessions in India no particular ceremonial, but devote would be in mortal danger. The Brit-two hours each day to prayer for sal ish Lion will stand unflinchingly in vation when the destruction of the the way of this movement.

world shall come. The first sign of the end, so Myers says, will be the falling from heaven of a great ball of fire. Then will follow the general conflagration and the dissolution of the ele

How many of the Great Powers are
secretly behind this quarrel between
Russia and Turkey is at present a mat-
ter of doubt. But with the firing of
the first guns the mystery will be ments.

It is said that many pelple are join. ing the "Anticipators" and that they claim theirs will be the universal religion, which all people will join who wish to save their souls. Prayer and good works are the chief tenets of their faith.

JOSE P. MACHECA, the alleged head industrious and in many respects proof the Mafia, and one of the men gressive. The women perform most of lynched in New Orleans, was, it is the labor of the country. said, at the time of his death the recog- The highest mountains on the nized consul of Bolivia. His name so American continent are in the western stands on the records of the State De- part of Bolivia. The Sorata peak is partment. He was a wealthy mer- 24,800 feet high, and the Illimani peak chant, and head of the firm of Mecheca in the same chain is 21,300 feet. The Brothers. altitude of the snow line in the high Bolivia has no diplomatic representa-lands varies from 16,000 to 18,000 feet. tive in the United States. Its most Volcanoes are frequent in the Andes prominent agent is Consul-General and coast ranges, and five of them are Obarrio of New York. He has not, constantly smoking. however, taken any interest in the The elevated plains or basins of the fate of his brother-consul. It was ex- plateau enclose a continental water pected that Bolivia would make some system, from which there is no outlet movement in the matter, but so far to the ocean, the rivers emptynothing has been said. ing into lakes or into vast There will be false Christs This little incident brings into notice dried up salt fields. There is and false prophets and men one of the most interesting, and one basin, that of Lake Titicaca, 13,000

It is probable that Myers saw the cloud and heard the voice. There will be many such warnings given and premonitions uttered. They may come from a heavenly source. But the revelation of the fact that the grand consummation is approaching, that the end of the reign of evil is nigh and that the great change predicted by all the holy prophets will soon take place, gives no divine authority to build up a new sect or to organize for any special purpose.

will assume authority to which they are not entitled because they are warned as to coming events; for these are among the signs of the latter days and tokens of the coming of the Son of Man.

Prayer and good works are commendable everywhere, but deceptions will be so great that they will deceive "if possible the very elect.”

perhaps, remarkable of the South feet above sea level, which is the most
American republics. It derives its elevated table land in the world except
name from Simon Bolivar, the that of Thibet. The latter, however, is
famous liberator of the Latin-Ameri- only fit for sheep and goat pastures,
cas. Formerly it was known as Upper but the Bolivia table land supports
Peru, but in honor of the statesman owns and populous cities, and affords
and soldier it was changed to Bolivia. food for immense herds of cattle, llamas,
It proclaimed its independence of
guanacos and sheep, and is covered
Spain in 1825, and established a repub- with harvests of cereals at an eleva-
lic somewhat modeled after that of the tion which has nothing to equal it in
United States. The executive power the world. A stranger, on first reach-
is vested in the President, who is electing these high plains, finds difficulty
ed quadriennally by universal suffrage. in breathing, and suffers from dysen-
Two Vice-Presidents are elected with tery, but these troubles soon disappear.
him. He is assisted by a Council of
Ministers representing Foreign Affairs,
Colonization, Finance, War, Justice
and the Interior. Congress has two
chambers, the Senate and House of

THE FATHER OF MODERN BANKING
THE "Father" of modern banking
was one Francis Child, who became
Lord Mayor of London in 1698. Child
was an apprentice to a goldsmith and
pawnbroker named Wheeler. He
married the granddaughter of his em-
ployer, and finally succeeded to the
head of the business. About 1690 Representatives, also elected by uni- silver mines alone have produced,

1721.

Francis Child established a system of money-dealing what proved to be the basis of modern banking. He died in His second son, Francis Child, succeeded him as head of the firm. In 1729 he introduced a form of promissory note, probably the first form of printed bank note known.

The head of the firm in 1782 was Robert Child, the last of the family His only daughter eloped with the.

versal suffrage. It is stated, however,
that the Constitution is not adhered to
in the form of elections. There is a
good deal of irregularity, and the party
in power always sees defects in the
Constitution of Bolivia.

This basin is 500 to 600 miles in length and from 60 to 150 in width. On its southern edge is situated the city of Potosi, the highest in the world. This town has a remarkable history. Its

from 1545 up to 1890, the enormous sum of $1,700,000,000. In 1611 it had a population of 170,000, but in 1865 it had only 25,000. The location of the mines is 15,000 feet high, and there are 5,000 mines in the mounIn the matter of education the tain. About $2,000,000 annually is country boasts of four universities, still turned out by the Potosi mint. though it is said that not more than The agricultural and mineral resix per cent of the children attend sources of this country are incalculelementary schools. There is one good able, but little is being done to develfeature about it, and that is, in re-ope them. There are a few railroads The ledgers of Child's Bank show ac- ligious toleration it is the most liberal very imperfectly operated. The last counts with King William and Mary of all the South American countries. war with Chili cut off all sea comhis Queen, with Barbara Villiers the The Roman Catholic religion is that munication. Bolivia had one sea coast Duchess of Cleveland, and with Mme. mostly observed by the masses, but province, but Chili took it. Eleanor Gwynne. This latter lady, the prerogatives of the church are well known as Nell, could not write. Her defined. Jesuits are not permitted mark appears frequently. The doctor's receipt for attendance during her last illness is still in existence. The money, £109, equal to $500, was paid by Child's

tenth Earl of Westmoreland.

Bank.

SCRANTON, Pa., May 2.-The barns burned this morning. Over thirty cars of the Scranton Electric Street railway were damaged. The total loss will be over $100,000. Insurance not known.

to live in the country. They were all
expelled years ago.

The country abounds in cocoa, indiarubber, coffee, and other products. Its capacity for cereals is immense. Its total of imports for 1889 was Bolivia has an area of about 700,000 about $7,000,000, and its experts nearly square miles, and its population is $10,000,000. Bolivia's trade with the nearly 2,000,000. There are 250,000 of United States until last year was pracabsolutely wild aboriginals in the tically nothing, when it took $11,000 are Quichua Indians, descendants of country. About 500,000 of the people worth of our products. the Incas. The Aymara Indians number about 200 000, and the remainder

result of the Blaine reciprocity scheme Great things are predicted as the when carried into effect with that country.

THAT THOMAS CANARD.

OUR readers will remember the sensational Thomas case, which went the rounds of the American press only a short time ago. Thomas and his family were said to have escaped from Utah, where his life was threatened if he would not join the "Mormon" Church. This persecution was alleged to have taken place at Scofield, which is about 115 miles from Salt Lake City. The papers stated that Thomas jumped into the Detroit river, under the impression that the "Mormons" "still pursued" him, and his widow and children were helped to Wales by contributions from sympathizing travelers.

We exposed the story by the afflidavits of both "Mormon" and non

"Mormon” residents of Scofield, who avowed that no such pressure was ever brought upon Thomas, and by the statement from New York that the whole Thomas family, the "suicide" included, had sailed for the old country.

Now, we are in receipt of a communication from Scofield containing the substance of a letter from Wales with further particulars, which are as follows:

"Thomas Thomas and wife and baby arrived safe on Saturday evening, March 28th, 1891. When he got out of the cars to look after their baggage he was left behind, and on his arrival at New York he found that three of the children had been taken on to the ship by another party going to Wales, arriving at Liverpool on the 16th inst., and were taken care of all the way to the town of Aberdare, Glamorganshire, South Wales, which caused a great deal of talk among the people in the country who wondered what was the cause of the family leaving Scofield so suddenly.

caused all kinds of rumors."

lish any absurd untruth about the the House of Lords, so as to answer
"Mormons," will make any attempt to inquiries on this matter, that it was
give their readers the facts in relation not the intention of the Government to
to the Thomas canard.
introduce a bill "giving men power to
imprison their wives." We should
think not. Whatever authority might
have been derived from the old com-
mon law, an attempt to establish it by
statute, in this extreme form, would
arouse the indignation and also the
ridicule of the whole civilize i world.

RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN.

A RECENT decision by the English Court of Appeals has caused much surprise in legal circles. It is received with delight by the fair sex, but John Bull, who has for centuries considered it man's right to dominate and do about as he pleased with his wife, is in a state of alarmed indignation. The London lawyers, too, are aroused and look upon the ruling as a startling innovation. In this country it is viewed as both sound and sensible.

It is time that the barbarism and slavery embodied in the common law relating to the status of married women were abolished, both in practice and in theory. And a few more such rulings as that of the Court of Appeals, supple. mented by some statutory provisions establishing the rights and liberties of woman, would be an improvement upon the English system and not be out of place in some parts of these free United States.

THE OLDEST REPUBLIC.

NESTLED

among the Pyrenean between France

The court holds that a husband has not the right either to imprison his wife or compel her to cohabit with him against her will. This would seem to be a very plain proposition to an American, and one that would need very little argument in its support. But the old common law of England made the wife so subordinate to the husband that she had very small personal mountains, rights, and her identity was almost Spain, is the oldest republic now in lost in that unity which was the com- existence. If the average reader we mon law theory of wedlock. So emi- asked about it, it would turn out, the nent an authority as Lord Mansfield he was; probably, unaware of such & held, judicially, that "A husband has place. The name of it is Andorra, power and dominion over his wife and and it dates its establishment from the Its area is may keep her by force within the days of Charlemagne. bounds of duty, and may beat her, but about 300 square miles. Its population not in a violent manner." is estimated at about 12,000.

No wonder that under such views of

Away back in those early days when male marital authority, brutal men Charlemagne was the Napoleon of have beaten their wives in the Old Europe, he marched against the Moors World and have escaped legal penal- of Spain. In this expedition the Arties for their violence. But this new dorra people helped him considerably. ruling will inaugurate a new order of In return he declared the little prothings for suffering wives. The Law vince a free State, and it has so reTimes regards it as "a charter of per-mained ever since, a period of 1,100 sonal liberty of married women." It years.

"Mr. Thomas found his wife in the hospital at New York and was delayed until the 18th inst. There he received a telegram on the arrival of the children after a very rough passage. Mr. Thomas and his wife and baby had is certainly in line with movements The republic is governed by a sover a splendid voyage. He said that he had to sell his watch and revolver for food on for the redemption and elevation of eign council of 24 members, chosen by his way to New York after the family, as his wife had all the money on her person modern times in relation to the sex. woman and with the sentiment of the people, and the council elects one of its members to be chief executive all the way. On their arrival in Wales, hundreds of people had gathered around But the question as to its strict for life. In the choice of the judiciary the depot. The occasion was one that legality is open to discussion. That it France has something to say, and also is right no one ought to dispute; that the Bishops of Urgel. The people of Scofield are justly in- it is law many will be found to censed over the stories that have been deny. The London Law Journal says: set afloat about their attempting to "Perhaps never in the history of judicicoerce people in religious matters. al decisions has authority been so They are liberal minded and pro- boldly overruled and disregarded." gressive citizens, and is is certain there And the Solicitor's Journal avows that, was not the slightest foundation for the "for the first time in English history tale of "Mormon" persecution, which wife is at liberty, immediately after was doubtless invented by the same going through the ceremony of marDetroit reporter who made up the riage in church, to desert her husband and without excuse condemn him to a So, far we have seen no correction of life of celibacy." the falsehoods circulated by the press of the country concerning this matter, and we do not expect that our temporaries east, who promptly pub

fiction about the suicide of Thomas.

a

The little republic comes before the world in a peculiar way at the present time. M. Blanc, who runs the Monte Carlo gambling hells, and who pays $600,000 a year to the local prince for the privilege, has been refused a renewal of his license. This man Blanc now proposes to buy the republic of Andorra and there establish his gam bling concerns. It is said that he is being aided by the French in his new project.

The ruling is regarded as so revolu. If he succeeds, the unfortunate peotionary as to require legislation to re-ple of Andorra will soon find their con- store the rights of husbands, and the primitive simplicity a thing of the past. Lord Chancellor had to announce in Their little republic will become the

ne of the most licentious orgies and theatre of crimes of all kinds. It o be hoped that the Andorrese will virtuous and steadfast enough to hstand the golden bait thrown out their temptation.

ure.

cles.

It has been

revamped. answered from barbarism, and how easy it would many times when coming from other be to plunge from the former into the sources. It relates largely to dead latter condition. issues. It was concocted in the inter- Anarchism is the extreme end of the est of local politicians who are them- universal movement now progressing selves dead ducks, and whose disfran-everywhere toward the popularization chisement project is a lost cause. It was of all government. And if ever there THE EARTH STILL GROWING. further put forth to draw public should be, in the development of this attention to a bogus theologian and modern social growth, a time when a FOTHING in creation remains in statu peripatetic wind-bag, who succeeds general overleaping of the line beyond . Change is a universal law of only by sensations and thrives upon which there shall be no recognized The earth continually rotat-oral inventions that suit the popular rules for the regulation of the society, and traveling evolves gases and taste; we do not want to aid him in a condition would ensue that would es on new matter and thus grows as anyway. His reputation is small out-present a spectacle of woe such as has moves. The following interesting side of a peculiar society in Boston, probably never been witnessed on the cle on the growth of this planet is and his tricks of platform jugglery are earth. Even as things exist, it is en from Goldthwaite's Geographical known and contemned in literary cir- common for men to overleap the gazine for May: barriers which constitute the safeOn clear nights when the limpid at- If we were to notice all the nonsense guards of humanity, in their lust for sphere permits us to observe to the and falsehood which lecturers and gain and power. What the condition t advantage the innumerable splendors he sky, we have often seen a luminous preachers pour forth about the "Mor- would be were the bulwarks of order ck suddenly appear in the depths of mons," for the purpose of raising and consequent safety swept away by ce, and, rapidly tracing a path of light money for themselves or their projects, the rush of popularization toward the appear as suddenly as it flashed into w. Perhaps we have had the good we would have no space for other sub-point of destruction be successful, no tune to witness a shower of meteors,jects and the DESERET NEWS one could even imagine. a these apparitions have been well culated would have to be greatly enlarged. We Notwithstanding the pacific assurcuriosity our stimulate the ima ination. It is do not think that such blatherskites as ances regarding the demonstrations of l known that falling stars, as they are the Boston bunch of grossness and the working classes of the world today, ed, are not the only foreign substances ich intrude themselves into our atmos- mendacity can do our cause any real some of the nations-notably France ere. In addition to the meteoric stones harm, and we do not propose to play and Germany-have taken powerful ich reach the surface of the globe, into their hands by treating seriously precautions to crush out any attempted their misrepresentations so as to give outbreak in its incipiency. The former them an opening to make a little more country has provided for any emergencapital. Silence is the best manner of cy that might arise in Paris-a Europexhibiting for them our supreme con-ean hotbed of anarchism—7000 policetempt.

to

arouse

ge quantities of cosmic dust become corporated with our planet. The track ich the earth follows through the

THE MARCH OF THE MASSES.

ed so that the soldiery might be ready for active duty at a moment's notice.

ven is to some extent filled with this wder of worlds, which is constantly ing down upon the surface of the th. Wrat is the effect of these metemen and 40,000 troops. This precaution e stones and this cosmic dust in inasing the mass of the earth? Of course places a popular uprising out of the earth, constantly bombarded by estial projectiles, is slightly augmentquestion, as a revolt would no sooner all the while in volume and weight. raise its head than it would be crushed › astronomer has estimated at 146,000,- IT is probable that labor day-the 1st under such a force. In the German ,000 the number of projectiles, of May-will pass and little, which annually reach the over peacefully. cities the police have been instructed face of the earth. Supposing that Such were the indications, according to act conservatively towards the peoh meteoric stone has a volume of a to advices from various parts of the ple, and the militia to keep within their ic millimetre, or about a third of an h in all its dimensions, and a density world, this morning. The red-eyed barracks. The latter measure is adopten times as great as that of water, our anarchists have been for some time be would thus be annually increased floating their blood-and-thunder threats a volume of 146 cubic metres and a ght of over 2,500,000 pounds. In one and literature, promising a gory and dred centuries the augmentation of the destructive time. They are not suffiof the earth would thus be equal to 0,000 cubic metres, and the increase in ciently strong, as yet, however, to inweight would amount to over 255,- duce a sufficient number of firebrands 000,000 pounds. If this cosmic dust to join them in the execution of the e spread uniformly over the entire face of the planet, it would constitute diabolism in which they express themthirty-five thousand years a bed of selves as thirsting to engage. The only ut a third of an inch in thickness. these figures probably fall far short place where there appears to exist any apprehension of an anarchical outbreak is at Naples, where the dynamite fiends have threatened to shiver public buildings to pieces.

he reality.

LET THEM ALONE.

The most pronounced type of the an

VE have been requested by friends
the East to reply to some gross mis-archical craze is the very worst species
resentations of Utah and the "Mor-
n" people, which appeared in a
nthly magazine last January. A
application reached us this morn
We have taken no notice of the
rrilous stuff for several reasons,
ong which are these:

It is not at all remarkable that these two countries should resort to such potential precautionary tactics. There is a special reason behind these measures. A war between these two nations appears to be imminent. Should either permit, by laxity, an internecine disruption to gain headway, it would doubtless be deemed the opportunity, of the other to hurl its invading battalions into the distracted country.

An attempt has been made to inaugurate a universal strike in the civilized world on Labor Day, but it of satanic insanity. It is singular that has not succeeded because the various it should have an existence so wide national and international forces have and so deep in what is claimed to be failed to fuse. If such a movement by far the most enlightened age in the were to succeed it would be the most history of the world. It is savagery of striking object lesson with regard to the the most appalling and degraded char-power of the masses that could be acter, and the fact that the nations are thought of. The paralysis of commerce is the production of that notorious honeycombed with this sinister phase manufacture and other business that ler in superficial fiction known as of modern society shows how thin is would ensue would cause the world to Joseph Cook. It is old material the line which divides civilization stand aghast. But, although there seems