ASSESSMENTS FOR 1891 AND 1892. I have already commenced assessing for the ensuing year. As yet I am not able to state the exact amount the assessment will reach, but have reason to believe that it will not fall much short of $55,000. How much of this amount will be paid in cash and how much charged to accounts on ledger I have no means of knowing. I respectfully request an examination of my books and accounts by the finance committee of your honorable body. CHRISTOPHER DIEAL, Assessor and Collector of Water Rates. SALT LAKE CITY, June 30, 1891. . WAKEMAN'S WANDERINGS. [Copyright, 1891, by Edgar L. Wakeman. ELLISLAND, Scotland, June 2.-Pilgrim the petition of L. M. Earl and others asking that F street be graded and cleaned be granted: that the petition of the City Street Railroad company for permission to extend its line of poles along Second East to Fifth South being among the countless shrines created granted; that the petition of Mulroony, by the living presence of Robert Burns in Morrison and O'Meara, asking permission southwestern Scotland, and looking down to lay their own walk on State street be along the flaming shaft of light that links granted; that the petition of property owners to lay cement walks instead of his genius and his world girding human asphalt in Second South street be not love and magnanimity to the fadeless imgranted as the contract was already let; mortality of his memory and name, I have that the petition of Emily Potts and others to have Apricot street opened be always felt that the one among them all not granted; that the petition of Andrew Grandor and others asking that the fences at the intersection of Sixth West and STREET SUPERVISOR'S REPORT. The report of Supervisor Paul was Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth North received and filed. It is as follows: streets be removed be not granted; that Gentlemen-Herewith I beg leave to the petition of the Mountain Ice comreport to your honorable body a state-pany for a bridge at the corner of Ninth ment of expenditures on street improve- South and Third West streets be no ment account for the quarter ending June granted. 30, 1891: $ 127 40 91 00 569 89 751 25 ...$1,569 54 Total........... Leaving the net expenses for the quarter $15,169.37. ANOTHER PAVING PROPOSITION. The Utah Asphalt and Varnish company, by John Beck and Aurelius Miner, submitted a proposition to pave First South street, from East Temple to State street, with their asphalt, the price to be determined upon the basis of contracts to be let for similar work on July 20, the work to be done under the conditions and specifications of the council. The petitioners submitted an analysis of their material, as follows: Bitumen 1, maitha, asphaltum, 15.23; sand, 84.65; water, 12. Committee or streets. DOG TAX REPORT. Joseph Silver reported that he had collected dog taxes to the amount of $264 during the month of June. Adopted. The recommendation as to the Whittemore sidewalk was stricken out, and the recommendation as to the proposition of the Stradamant company was referred to the city atorney. The report thus amended was adopted. RESOLUTION ON SIDEWALK PAVING, The Board of Public Works represented that under the resolution adopted by the council on June 17, giving the board authority to accept any sidewalk pavement which in their judgment met the requirements, there was an implied right on the part of land-owners to construct that portion of a sidewalk abutting on their land, provided it met with the requirements of the ordinance. The board, under these circumstances, could exercise no arbitrary discretion in the matter, and if the individuals were not limited as to time in which they might lay the walks, the board would be embarrassed in advertising for bids and letting the contracts, nor could they assure the contractor as to the extent of the work embraced in the contract to be let. Councilman Parsons introduced the following resolution on that subject, which was adopted: Resolved. That any sidewalk which may be or has been laid within any district of the city prior to the letting of the contracts within any district shall be subject to the approval of the board of public works, and no sidewalks be allowed to be laid in any of the districts by private parties after the contracts have The committee on streets reported as been let for the construction of sidewalks follows: in such districts, without the consent of the city attorney. STREET REPORT. TO DEFEND THE POLICE OFFICERS. The following motion made in writ ing by Councilman Anderson was carried: That the city attorney be requested to defend the officers of the police force in the suit now pending in the Third District Court, commenced by the Salt Lake City Street Railway Company. APPROPRIATIONS. The following appropriations were made: That the profile of grade on which the Salt Lake City Railway company has constructed its track on Fourth East street be approved; that the petition of B. F. Whittemore, asking that the plank walk in front of his hotel be accepted, be granted; also the petition of J. E. Butler, asking that the grade in front of his residence on Second South, be changed; that R. Kletting be allowed to use a portion of the street in front of the bath house on Commercial street while erecting a new building; that the petition of J. R. Walker, for the abatement of the special sidewalk tax on the Walker corner, Third South and Main, be granted; that the Stradamant Asphalt company be allowed Eagle Foundry......... to lay one block of street pavement on State Street, from First to Second South, subject to the conditions proposed by W. H. Remington; that the petition of F. M. Ulmer and L. D. Young, for permission to remove a portion of the sidewalk and put in sidewalk lights, be granted; that the petition of Schriner Brothers and others asking that First and Wall street be graded, be granted; that Mount & Griffin.... Joseph Silver... Total...... $ 700 00 508 30 132 00 $1,412 30 DUBLIN, July 6.-Ten thousand Nationalists marched in procession from Castle Martyr to Killeagh and unveiled a memorial cross on the grave of Timothy Daly, the fenian martyr. which most breathes to the beholder the spirit of ineffable pathos and tenderness, was this, the bard's farm home of Ellisland. In the period between May, 1786, at the age of twenty-seven years, and the end of the year 1791, when he came from this Ellisland farm to the three rooms in the "Wee Vennel," in Dumfries, a period of but four and one-half years, more personal hope and disappointment, joy and suffering, anguish from impulsive wrong doing and heaven of the purest domestic bliss, temptation and victory, agonized despair and triumph, were crowded into the poet's experiences, than fall to the lot of most great men in their entire lives. In this brief time, first he was disowned and deserted by Jean Armour, through the bitter and ever unreasoning opposition of her father. He was then betrothed to "Highland Mary" Campbell, the heroine of his immortal ode, "To Mary in Heaven," whe shortly died of malignant fever at Green ock. About 100 of his most characteristic poems were already written, and the now priceless first edition of the same had been issued from the rural press of Kilmarnock, in the county of Dumbarton. Twin chil dren had been born to him out of wedlock by Jean Armour, of whom Robert, in after years a man of rare character and worth, survived the poet fifty-eight years, his decease occurring at Dumfries in 1857, and his body being interred in the Burns mausoleum in that city. Burns' local fame having attracted the attention of the literary coterie at Edinburgh, he was invited to that city, where he was "affiliated" at the famous lodge of Freemasons (which still meets in the veritable room then used) and subsequently "inaugurated" as its poet laureate, the latter event being the subject of a celebrated painting, while he was made the literary lion of the day, as new and enlarged editions of his poems appeared. He then made a tour of the border counties of England and Scotland, and, untarnished by fame, returned to Mauchline, the old home spot in Ayr, drawn there by his true love for his Jean, who repented here renunciation, and with whom the former intimacy was renewed. The tour of the north was then made. Burns returned to greater Edinburgh literary triumphs. He was introduced to Mrs. Maclehose, the "Clarinda" of his famous correspondence, and again returning to his beloved Jean, took her secretly to Tarbolton Mill, where twins, both of which died, were again born to them. Being now independent of scandalous opposition, Burns publicly and proudly "acknowledged" Jean Armour as his wife, then as sacred and binding a marriage in Scotland as any other, and in this instance necessary only because debarred formal marriage by the wife's parents, who thus were solely responsible for the cloud "satisfied" the church, which in those days upon the poet's marital record. Burns also was not so very difficult of "satisfaction." He was also in a position to "satisfy" Jean's parents, for on settlement with Creech, his Edinburgh publisher, the then astounding sum of $2,500 was found to be at his disposal. Then came the brief, bright days. Mag nanimously generous always, much of this sum, the first and last good fortune Burns ever knew, went to Jean's parents, and to assist his brother, Gilbert Burns, in averting disaster in the latter's farm life efforts. His lucky meeting with the ingenious and kindly Patrick Miller, of Dalswinton hall, had occurred. It had been settled that the poet, who hated the city with a royal hatred, should return to the plow. The nobility of the day never quite forgave this plebeian longing and love, the source of his grandest inspirations. This beautiful farm of Ellisland, five miles above Dumfries, was taken at a rental of fifty pounds per year. Burns, unaided, began his farm la bors the first Monday after Whitsunday, 1788. He toiled manfully until the autumn of that year, meantime singing many a lusty song to his absent wife, and built the lovely cottage which stands here embow ered in roses to this day. And then was celebrated the simple but glorious home coming, when, with rustic rites, and his bonny Jean upon his arm, "preceded by a peasant girl carrying the family Bible and a bowl of salt," he marched proudly into his little home heaven beside the winding Nith. All evidences agree that in the brief period of a trifle over two years, between Whitsunday, 1788, and Martinmas, 1791, Burns and his good Jean experienced an Eden of labor and love, despite their final enforced departure. It was also the period of Burns' best and greatest poetic fe cundity. But more children came to them. These must be supported. The crops failed, and inevitable ruin was approaching. It was then that, to save his wife and chil dren from actual want, he was forced to accept the government position of exciseman, at the beggarly pittance of £50 per year! The five remaining years of his life -after the poet, his Jean and their three children, Robert, Francis Wallace and William Nicol, removed to the humble lodgings, their first home in Dumfries-checkered, sad, pathetic beyond compre hension, are known to all. Leaving the quaint old city of Dumfries, you cross the "new brig" to the west, and are at once in the pretty braeside hamlet of Maxwelltown, famous wherever heart songs are sung for that one inexpressibly tender ballad, equal to any that Burns himself gave the world, matchless "Annie Laurie." Then the highway-the ancient coach road between Dumfries and Glasgow -winds over brae and hill, through dale and dingle, over beck and burn, through shadowy avenues and patches of sunshine, past deserted clachans and now silent olden inns of call, with the songs of streams and birds ever in your ears, all the distance to Ellisland. Once past the outlying habitations of Maxwelltown you will see down there to the right the picturesque ruins of Lincluden abbey, but a few mo ments' walk from the highway. Beneath the shadows of its majestic walls lies Mar garet, daughter of Robert III, king of Scot and. or linn If you will wander but a little distance around the ancient abbey walls, and, entering the Nith, broadens into a deep pool Hence linn-Cluden, "the Cluden pool," and the name of the grand old monastic pile, Lincluden Abbey, which towers at its edge above. You finally come to a bit of almost champaign country. Comfortable stead ings with snug stone cottages lie on either side of the highway. To the right is an ancient gate, opening to a long lang, hedge bordered, between well kept fields, where the young grain is already rich and green. The wagonway is thick with the falling blossoms of the hawthorn. The hedge banks are a mass of gladsome daisies. A tiny burn, having its source in springs above, wimples at one side, half hidden in the grass and daisies. And at the end of this lane, just over a ridge of warm and yellowy loam, are seen the low roofs of a cottage and its humble outbuildings, here and there half hidden in the foliage of surrounding trees. This is Ellisland, for four years the farm home and home heaven of Robert Burns, the only spot on all this earth where comfort and happiness were his. sunny window. On one Burns wrote with a diamond and afterward partially erased, "Home he had not-home is the resort;" on the other he inscribed his favorite maxim, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." These inscriptions, the house and outbuildings and a few sturdy trees the poet planted are the only visible relics of the bard's life at Ellisland, for the spot is one of the few in Britain, more grace to it, that is not a show place where the insistent reminder of the endlessness of fees merges reverence and emotion into ridicule and contempt. The almost exclusive haunt of Burns at Ellisland was within call of his bonnie From the highway Ellisland is disapJean just below the high bank or scaur, pointing. The ridge of the steading fields upon the edge of which the cottage stands. forms a monotonous horizon line. But Between this and the Nith for a long dis Burns knew where to build his Nithside tance to the north and south runs a lovely nest. From any point in the vicinity of river road. Out of the cottage inclosure a the onstead or farm buildings there is a shaded path and wagon way descends to glorious view of the valley of the Nith. join the river road. Half way down this The house faces to the east and north a almost sylvan way is a copious spring. The gentle bend in the Nith, which murmurs bank of the scaur side in the shade is a here over the shining shallows not a hun- mass of ferns and violets, and in the sun dred yards distant. With the outbuildings shine a wondrous constellation of "wee and their connecting rubble walls a sunny, crimson tippet flowers," the daisies of nearly inclosed quadrangle is formed. The Scotland, for which Burns felt something side next the distant highway to the west akin to adoration. Then came the silvery has to the right, as you enter the inclosure, shallows of the Nith. Beyond its stream, a stable and cowhouse, and a byre or feed-leading to the meadow lands above, is a ing and straw yard behind. To the left is haugh, a golden mass of waving broom. a mill shed, a modern structure, a tiny Along this dreamful way, and up and dowu barn, and behind the latter (which, with the river road, Burns sauntered and the stable and cowhouse, stand precisely dreamed. It was the scene of his most as Burns built them) is the inclosed stack- ecstatic achievement, "Tam o' Shanter," yard where bonnie Jean found her hus which the celebrated Alexander Smith band in that great agony of dejection which thought, as it was written in a day, the gave the world the matchless hymn to best single day's work done in Scotland Mary in heaven. since Bruce fought at Bannockburn. Ellisland originally comprised 170 acres of land. The lease to the poet was for four terms of nineteen years. It was executed in March, 1788, and would have ex pired by limitation in 1854. Burns was to The house itself, into the construction of which the poet put months of his own la bor, working alongside the rustic stonemasons of the time, remains to this day exactly as he built it. A small kitchen has been added on the side next the river. pay £50 per year for the first three years. which now, as then, is the front of the and £70 thereafter, and the owner allowed house. The portion built by Burns is of the poet £300 toward the erection of the rubble, about 55 feet long and nearly 20 in cottage and outbuildings. I find the pres width. It is one story in height, with an ent owner to be one Dr. J. M. Taylor, of ample attic. There is a large room about Spittlefield, Dunkeld. The steading bas 18 feet square at each end. The entrance been reduced from 170 acres to 100 acres, from the Nithside was into a hallway, and it is now leased for the usual nineteen from which these two large rooms were years' term, fifteen of which have expired, reached. Out of this one could also pass to a family of hard working and intelligent to the attic above, and to a small kitchen Scotch farmers named Grierson, at a rental which, with a little bedroom, stands be of £150 per year. The old guidwife, Dame tween the two larger rooms. Of the lat Grierson, seems to live in a sort of halo of ter, the one at the left or north end, which reverential grief for him who made her communicates with the little bedroom, farmstead hallowed ground. "Puir body! was used by Burns for the ceremonious en-puir body!" she is constantly moaning be tertainment of distinguised guests. side you; "puir body, he was dwanged (harassed) to bis dede-ill (mortal sickness)!" EDGAR L. WAKEMAN. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES. The other, at the south end, was the real heart of the home-the "spence" or living room of the poet, his wife and bairns. The family provisions were kept here. In one end stood the bed. The meals were eaten here. And here the companions that Burns loved came into the ingle-nook The following important resolution glow. Beside the fireplace is a broad, low window. Against the side wall stood anratic primaries held in this city for was adopted Tuesday eve, at the Demooaken table, and here the poet in this sunny the election of delegates to the county corner could feast his eyes upon the flowers convention to be held on the 6th inst. and vines of his own little garden, let them dwell fondly upon his cattle and pet sheep in the billowy field beyond, or conjure glorious fancies from the noble sweeps of Nithsdale's broad southern expanse, crowded at its eastern edge with noble forests and the huge gables of Dalswinton hall. By this little window Burns either composed or put into completed manuscript form the greatest amount of the greatest work of his life. How we prize the least reminder of these royal fellows when they are gone! There are those who would pay $1,000 each for two of the tiny panes in that one Whereas the executive committee of the county Democratic committee have adopted the following resolution, viz.: Whereas it is the opinion of the executive Committee of the Democratic party of Salt public schools are subserved by removing Lake county, that the best interests of our the school system far above and away from the influence of politica strife. Resolved. That we, the executive committee of the Democratic party of Salt Lake county, recommend to the Democrats of Salt Lake county that they unite with all good citizens in the formation of a citi zens' ticket in which the best men shall E. S. Kearsley, T. C. Lewis, W. J. Holloran, L. E. Casady, Thomas Brimley, W. H. Hodges, R. S. Kimball, T. W. Green, J. H. Poulton, Henry Richardson, C. W. West, William Burke, W. Van Cott, W. H. Casady, Lewis Shaw, Thomas Adams, W. S. Thorne R. K. Thomas, A. J. Burt, J. M. Stout, J. M. Cannon, J. R. Letcher, J. R. Middlemiss, J. W. Taylor, Thomas Omeara, A. Sullivan, The Moses Ludlow, W. H. Waterman, C. H. Wilcox, The Third precinct primary was held in the Sixteenth ward school house and was largely attended. W. A. Hodges was elected chairman and R. P. Morris secretary. The delegates were elected as follows: W. A. Hodges, S. T. Lake, R. P. Morris, E. E. Rich, Thomas Matthews, Wm. Bradford, J H. Rumel, Jr., Z. Jacobs, Geo. F. Felt, E. E. Hyde, H. Pembroke, Joseph Pugsley, S. M. Katz, Wm. D. Niel, Jr., T. E. Bishop, J. L. Nebeker, Andrew Kimball, Samuel Brown, William Pearson, John B. Reed, Alternates-George W. Timpson, W. J. Corbett, Richard A. Margetts, Thomas Hancock. E. A. Folland, H. J. Heywoed, A. S. Geddes, Frank Hyde, Joseph Bull, Jr., E. A. Smith, E. W. Miner, Charles Howe, John Kelly, Joseph Barlow, T. J. Everill, Wm. Varley, Joseph S. Grow, O. H. Hardy, Theo. N. Grow, T. D. Margetts, F. S. Fernstrom, H. P. Hanson, FOURTH PRECINCT. In the Fourth precinct the primary to elect delegates to attend the county convention was held in the Twentieth Ward school house, and was attended by a large and enthusiastic audience of Democrats. Hon. F. S. Richards was elected chairman and H. G. Whitney secretary. The delegates elected were: J. L. Rawlins, J. E. Caine, P. L. Williams, Geo. Curley, John T. Caine, P. T. Nystrom, E. W. Wilson, E Howe, F. S. Richards, E. H. Peirce, Cyrus L. Hawley, John Burt, Joseph P. Bache. G. M. Ottinger, W. J. Tuddenham, D. L. Murdock, Frank Jennings, S. A. Kenner, W. H. Bywater, D. C. Dunbar, W. H. Roy, H. T. Ball, N. W. Clayton, J. B. Toronto, J. M. Kennedy, R. H. Cabell, R. W. Young, Alfales Young, J. G. Sutherland, J. H. Hurd. Alternates-R. S. Wells, F. E. Barker, E. A. Hartenstein, George D. Pyper, Daniel Calder, Oliver Hodgson, Thomas Goodman, Oscar Moyle, H. G. Whitney, James Maxwell, Alex. Hogan, G. E. Blair. FIFTH PRECINCT. At the Fifth precinct H. C. Lett presided and C. E. Angell acted as secretary. The delegates elected were: F. A. Mitchell, J. C. Royle, Henry Seigel, Simon Bamberger, Francis Armstrong, P. W. Madsen, Jas. Lowe, Geo. R. Cushing, M. E. McEnany, Joshua Midgeley, J. E. Bamberger, Thos. Marshall, T. V. Williams, D. L. Levey, U. A. Woolley, J. T. Kingsbury, R. G. Taysum, J. Montgomery, Jr., J. A. Williams, D. J. Mackintosh, W. R. Gibbs, Bert Woolley, SUGAR HOUSE PRECINCT. The delegates to the county convention elected at Sugar House were W. C. A. Smoot, Jr., C. Alston, D. H. Kimball and H. J. Jensen. Alternates -D. R. Allen, C. W. Hill. PEARY'S ARCTIC JOURNEY. [New York Sun.] Lieutenant Peary and his party wil sail from this city today for North Greenland. They are likely to reach Whale Sound rather earlier than most of the expeditions to those waters. No obstacles have ever been encountered to prevent a well-equipped vessel from reaching Whale Sound, and with a fair fortune the party will probably arrive at the site of their winter quarters about the 15th to the 20th of July. The Greely party reached Littleton Island, further north, on August 2, only Johns. twenty-six days from St. Baffin, who was the first explorer in in this region, arrived at Smith Sound earlier in the season than any of his successors except the rescuers of the Greely expedition. As an American is about to introduce a new idea in North Greenland exploration, it was perhaps particularly appropriate that Whale Sound, was to be his base of operations. It was discovered by Baffin on July 4, during his memorable voyage of 1616. Passing through this sound, whose name was suggested to Baffin by the many whales he saw there, Lieutenant Peary will probably erect the house in which he will spend the coming winter at the deep indentation on the northern shore, near the entrance to Inglefield Gulf. This shore, as shown on Hayes' chart, is bordered by mountains, and if Peary is able to realize his hope, he will climb one of these giant hills, carrying his ledges and loads on the backs of his party, and step from near its top to the surface of the great ice plateau which is to be his highway to the far north. It was in this way that he reached the inner ice in South Greenland, thus avoiding the chasms and ragged ice that have used up several explorers and destroyed their sledges before the attained the ice plain. Almost within sight of Whale Sound are the waters where the "Proteus" was crushed in the pack, and where Kane and Hayes battled inch by inch with the ice to gain some vantage ground for an advance to new discoveries. Peary will at least be spared this dangerous and trying phase of Arctic effort. The level ice plain, not the treacherous ice-packed sea, is to be his highway. It matters not how deep the snow, for he is an experienced snow traveler, and snowshoes are of the first importance in his enterprise. "I regard this deep, soft snow, which stopped Nordenskjold," he writes, "not as a bete noir, but as the perfection of roads." In the little cabin which will shelter his party next winter, about 120 days of darkness or twilight will be spent. Their friends at home may A precinct committee of nine was ap- think of them then with considerable pointed as follows: Eleventh ward-Q. A. confidence as passing the long winter Woolley, Simon Bamberger, A. McMas-night under fairly comfortale ter. Twelfth ward-T. A. Williams, C. E Angell, J. E. Bamberger. Thirteenth ward W. R. Gibbs, J. A. Williams, M. E. McEnany. con past ditions. Everything which Arctic experience suggests as contributing to comfort and safety, has been included in the equipment. The tions to north Greenland. Whether dies in nature's dispensatory, and are party will have plenty of fresh meat, or not his enterprise is completely worth more than all the drugs and for game abounds along that coast, successful, it is believed he will medicines of the shops. Dr. Holmes and the hunters will lay in a supply in return with additions to know- has truly said that if nine-tenths of all the fall. Only a little way further ledge that will be welcomed by medicines, patent, proprietary and north Hayes's sportmen in October men of science and will repay his en- otherwise, in the world were poured shot seventy-four reindeer, twenty-one thusiastic and untiring labors. His into the ocean, it would be all the foxes, twelve hares and a seal, besides countrymen appreciate the high quali- better for mankind and all the a large number of geese and other ties that Lieutenant Peary brings to worse for the fishes; and the best phyaquatic birds. Lieut. Peary has a his great undertaking. They will sician can do little without good nurs most encouraging prospect for an abun- follow his enterprise with sympathetic ing, and thus aid nature in throwing dant commissariat and the chances are interests, and will hope that this able off disease. that the long Artic night will not be a and modest young man may win the cheerless and unhappy period. With laurels as an Artic explorer which, plenty of food, clothing and books, and there is no doubt, his efforts will merit, abundant opportunities for ex- whether fortune smiles on him or not. ercise in a particular brac- After the sleighing campaign is ing atmosphere, it will be over, L entenant Peary and his party surprising if these young and vigorous will probably return to the south I read about Eskimo eating habits— people do not hail the rising sun next Greenland settlements in their boats. how, once upon a time, for instance, spring in abundant health and spirits, It is a long and unpleasant journey, an Arctic explorer offered some Eskiand eager to enter upon the arduous but has been successfully accomplish-mo girls some sweetmeats, which were work before them. That was the ex-ed by all who have undertaken it, rejected, while tallow candles were perience of the Hayes party, who from Kane to Garlington. Now I eagerly accepted and eaten passed the winter at Port Foulke unwas to see an Esksmo eat. With many der somewhat similar conditions. smiles Peter entered the cabin and sat down at the table. uu The party will not be wholly cut off from their kind. Their winter house will be midway on that part of the coast which is inhabited by the Arctic highlanders. We shall be glad to hear again of the simple harmless people, who have shown many a kindness to explorers. It is not likely that Kane's party would have perished during the two winters in Smith sound if they had not now and then obtained bear meat, seal and walrus from the good-natured natives seventy miles south of their ice-im prisoned brig. There are reasons to believe that Lieutenant Peary will have opportunity to collect more accurate and exhaustive information about these Smith sound Eskimos than our HOW TO KEEP HEALTH. [New York Journal,] Eat and drink what you desire, as ESQUIMO DIET. I should have apologized to him on account of the scantiness of our fare, for we had no candles, and there wasn't a bit of taliow on deck even, that the butter plate was heaping full, let alone in the cabin, but I noticed the sight of which made me wish for some of my friends, so that we could make a pool on the number of bites he would take in swallowing the roll. Then Peter sat down and, without ceremony, helped himself to a lot of baked beans, a piece of dry bread and a large piece of very lean salt beef, all of which he bit into and swallowed as a hungry longshoreman might have done. Then he took more beans and more bread and more lean beef, and a great deal of sugar to each cup. He was a long time getting to it, but he finally began on the butter. He had poured his last cup of coffee and was looking about for something to eat with it, when his eye fell on a plate of cake. Taking a small piece he put a small lump or sugar on it and slowly gine that some insidious disease is secretly attacking your constitution. Many people are like the inexperienced traveler, who anxiously inquired about the symptoms of sea sickness, and how he should know when he had it. One generally knows when he is sick, and frequently many supposedly alarming symptoms prove, upon investigation, to be either perfectly natural occurrences or of very slight importance. long as it agrees with you. Your stom-with them several cups of coffee, with ach knows pretty well what it can The main purpose of Lieut. Peary's digest. Plain, simple food is desirenterprise has already been well disable, as a general thing, but the luxurcussed. While it is useless to specu-ies of the table, in moderation, will do late upon the chances of his being able no harm. to reach and map the extreme north Alcoholic beverages are not fit for coast of Greenland, using the inland habitual use. They are true medicines, a highway, it may be said and should only be used like any other that the idea he originated medicines-under the advice of a phy-ate the combination with the coffee. commended itself to many men sician. As a regular beverage they can whose opinions are entitled to do no good, but will almost certainly respect. The enthusiastic explorer himself does not underrate the ardu present arctic literature contains. ice as do harm. Take all the sleep you can get, but ous nature of his task. Even if Green remember that the necessary amount land extends only a little way beyond varies greatly for different persons. Lockwood's furthest point, Peary has Some must sleep at least nine hours, before him a round trip journey of while others thrive under six. Only about 1,200 miles. Just as Nansen don't rob yourself of what you really traveled, now over a hard crust, and need. The "midnight oil" is a terri then through deep, soft snow, Peary bly expensive illuminant to burn either at times is likely to find sledge haul for purposes of labor or study. ing very hard work. General Greely Always treat a common cold with believes that the inland ice is not conterminous with the north coast of Greenland; and if this theory is correct, Peary will hardly be able to reach the north coast by the route he proposes, for he and his comrades could not travel far overland packing their provisions on their backs. At any rate, if defeated in his main purpose, he will perhaps be able to follow the edge east to the coast, and completely determine the northern extension of the great ice cap of Green and. If you are sick enough to need any medicine at all, beyond the simple remedies familiar to all, you are sick enough to need the attendance of a physician. By all means take as much exercise as you can, and be in the open air as much as possible. Outdoor life is the natural condition of mankind, and the more one can have of it, the better. To the readers of a geographical magazine it may seem strange, but the fact is, until I saw the man at the table I had really expected to find the Eskimos of South Greenland showing the habits and tastes of those living a thousand miles up the coast. I had not quite expected to find them living in snow houses, but I had a misty idea that an Eskimo was a little black indian, whose chief delight among the things brought from a civilized country was a tallow candle. The staple food is seal meat and blubber. Next to that is the little fish taken in the fiord and dried for winter use, known to them as the augmatiat and to the learned as salmo Villosus. A favorite way of eating the dried augmatiat is to take it by the tail, poke it into the oily blubber for a while and then chew it down. Awful, isn't it? It is almost as bad as eating sardines. There is a deal in a name. Blubber is disgusting; oil, if for use on a salad, is delicious and indispensable. I have eaten seal oil and found While Peary's proposed attempt, it, very unexpectedly, good. I had like Arctic enterprises, is experimental supposed it would have a flavor of fish and problematical, it is certain that his Fresh air, sunlight, good and suf- oil. There is no such flavor about it. scheme eliminates the gravest sources ficient food, pure water, outdoor exer- It is equal to to the best extract of of danger and causes of defeat that cise, temperance in all things, and a cotton seed-that quality sold as olive have confronted all previous expedi-cheerful disposition, are the chief rem-oil in all American groceries. NO. 4. COURAGE. TRUTH AND LIBERTY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1891. WOUNDED! I know it, my brother, Play thou the hero's part. Make no sad plaint or moaning, Fight! yea, fight with God-weapons, Brother, the road thou'rt treading Flinch not, though comrades be falling, Pledged to follow thy captain, Rejoice, if he think thee worthy To front the fiercest foe; A. H. BEGBIE, . afternoon an important truth connect VOL. XLIII. make for doing this, that or the other thing which they should not do. We blame our ancestors, or our organization, for many of our faults, and say that certain things have been inherited, and often justify ourselves for saying and committing things which are quite improper, because, forsooth, as claimed by us we have inherited them, and it is therefore natural for us to do certain things. I have heard people, after uttering ples wherever we go. In this city the most painful expressions, after of ours, the Latter-day Saints should having lacerated the feelings of their be distinguished from those not of us, dearest friends, their associates, their as soon as they are seen. They should companions, and perhaps their own be known by the character of their family, and wounded them almost to lives; by their conduct. by their de- death, try and excuse themselves for meanor, and not by their profession this. They say: "Well, it is better to alone. A Latter-day Saint should be tell what I have to say than to conceal very guarded in his or her speech. If it. I am not a hypocrite, etc.," and you should hear a man using ridicu- pride themselves at not being hypolous language, especially anything crites, as they please to term it; and bordering on profanity, all would be still go on lacerating the feelings of justified in setting him down as a man those with whom they are brought into who is not a member of the Church of contact. Now, this is not right. neither Christ. If you should see a man going is it justifiable in any sense. It is far into a saloon for the purpose of imbib- better for me as an individual to suping strong drink, you would be justi- press such feelings, and not give any fied in setting that man down as a offense whatever. I have no right, man not having made a profession of neither have you any right, religion, that is of the religion of to give utterance to feelings Jesus Christ. If you should see a that would in any way inman quarrelling, contending and giv-jure or wound the feelings of our ing way to anger; yielding to passion, neighbors, our friends, our associates, and abusive, it would be very proper or our families. If we have bad temto suppose that he was not keeping the pers, it is our business and duty to concommandments of God. A man that trol those tempers, to hold them in is really a disciple of Jesus Christ is a subjection. If we are hasty and pasmeek man, is a humble man, is sionate we are not justified in that. a patient man, is a temperate man, is We should hold our tempers and pasa charitable man. He is a man who sions in check, and not allow these will do as we have been told by Brother evils to control us. Of course, there are Grant this afternoon-will make sacri- times when all of us, perhaps, may be fices for his brethren and friends, overcome and give way, and may say The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ whether they belong to the Church or and do things which are very impropas taught in our day by His servants is not. He will make sacrifices for all er; but where this does occur we should a practical, every-day religion. This mankind, for their salvation, in the repent of it, make acknowledgement, constitutes its chief beauty and chief same spirit that the Lord has made and ask forgiveness of those we may strength. It is so practicable in our His great sacrifice in our behalf. He have offended, for we have no right to every day affairs of life that when prop- will be a man not easily provoked, but do any such thing. erly carried out by us it has been ob- will deal justly and not take advantage jected to. The Elders of this Church of the ignorance of his fellowmen to try to impress the important fact upon profit thereby. He will deal fairly and the people that our religion is not a uprightly with all men whom he has times as I speak of; to strengthen us in holiday or Sunday religion-a religion dealings with; will do by men as he to be assumed on the Sabbath day; but would that they should do by bim, if our weak places, in our defects of character, to help us to conquer our impera religion that enters into all the af- the circumstances were reversed. fections. If a man has a bad temper, he fairs of our lives; that which accom- will be the same with the other sex should pray to God to give him power panies us in our fields, in our gar lens, I speak about men; but the same printo subdue that temper, and fill him in our work shops, in our offices, in our ciples, the same rules, apply to the with the spirit of charity; for charity households, in our schools, in every vocation and calling, and in every direction. We have been taught this REMARKS By President George Q. Cannon, delivered in the Tubernacle, Salt Lake City, on Sunday Afternoon, July 5th, 1991. [REPORTED BY JAMES D. STIRLING.] other sex, our sisters. It Now, I often think about it in reflecting upon the excuses which many Now the Lord has placed in His Church certain gifts, and these gifts are intended to help bear us up in such sufereth long, is kind, and not easily provoked. If he is an impatient man, he should pray for the gift of patience, |