LAUGHTER.
Laugh merrily while life is here,
For death cuts shert all laughter;
Laugh all thy life, and let the tear
Come if it will hereafter,
More laughter in the world would bring
The “torch of nature’’ nearer;
Good will will flourish "neath its wing
And man to man be dearer.
No time like now; the future lies
A darkened road before us,
80 let thy laughs outweigh thy sighs,
And merry be thy chorus.
We know that man #s prone to tears
Aud born an heir to sorrow,
But what's the use of doubts and fears
Of what may be the morrow ?
The evil of today, we read,
Suflicient is for keeping;
So laugh away, let naught impede,
And give a truce to weeping.
SACRAMENTO.
.
{ was an odd name for a giri—Sacra-
1nto,
¥
=o the girl herself thought as she
ped down beside a spring at the
of a cotton-wood tree and lazily
sped ber pail into the water.
to have been given toa
if it was a fit name to give any-
’ she said quite aloud. “But I'm
boy than girl, anyway.”
was added rather bitterly,
¢ looked at her brown, rough hands
her bare ankles, and thourht of the
“boy's work” she Lad to do.
And 1t was hard to believe that this
was the best kind of a life for a young
girl like Sacramento. Here she lived
for her father was down at the
wouth of the canon all day. The gar-
den work she was obliged to do, and
the care of the cattle fell upon her. It
was not often that she saw any person
but her father, although now and then,
in spite of herself, she came in contact
with the rude men of the mining camp
up above.
Yet Sacramento had her dream, one
that she ‘‘scarcely dared to own,” but
it came to her often as she went about
her work.
She knew that down at Santa Barbara
and in the towns along the coast, and
far, far away across wide stretches of
continent to the great east, there were
girls who lived very different from her
life, and she dreamed of such a life for
herself,
Oh,
»"
‘I®» ought
+ fact
if I could only go away from
she cried out, almost as one
out for “If I could only
to San Francisco and go to
school there for a single year! Al, if
I only had $500,
Suddenly there was a step—not of a
man, but a horse— bank behind
her, and then some one 8poke. She
Enew the voice without looking up.
It was Pete Larrabee, a fellow who
lived down on Hahnemann’s plantation,
two miles along trail. He some-
imes rode by. He had not heard her
last words at all ; yet strangely enough
his own were a repetition of them.
“Five hundred dollars, Sac,” said
“3500 in gold | D’ye want ter earn
it * Ther's yer chance,’’ and he threw
to her a bit of paper crumpled
into a ball
She picked it
ran h
here !
Cries
go down
help.
* hae
1 the
the
+
ne,
Tress
aown
ip, and, slowly unfold.
er eye over its contents :
$500 REWARD,
The above amount will be paid for
information leading to the arrest dead
or alive, of Walter Somers, who has
worked for some time past on "Maxwell's
ranch. Said Somers is about 13 years
old and 5} feet high, rather good look-
ing, with light, curly hair, blue eyes
and a light moustache. When last seen
we had on a black slouch hat, gray busi.
ness suit with blue flannel shirt, and
boots with red tops marked with the
maker’s name,
The name of the county sheriff was
signed at the bottom of the bill. Sac-
ramento, having glanced it through,
looked up.
““Ie’s been a stealin’ horses,” ex-
claimed Pete. “‘Got off last night with
four of Maxwell's best somewheres,
That reward won't do much good,
though. The Regulators’ll lasso him
and string him up long *fore the law’ll
%it started. They're havin’ a meetin’
now up at the Gulch. 1 tell ye they
are aad, They'll make quick work if
they ketch him. Yer father’s there,
Ye needn’t look for him home afore
night, much,”
“Then, after a word or two more,
the man rode on, and presently Sac-
ramento took up her pail, and with the
sheriff's bill still in her hand went
slowly up the bank and across the trail
toward the house, thinking very seri-
ously about the $500 all the while.
“It was some hours after this, and
the afternoon sun wus going down be-
hind the tops of the mountains, that
Sacramento, having finished her house-
work, was preparing to sit down on the
porch to do her sewing, when she was
met in the doorway by a yonhg nan she
had never seen before, And yet he
was no stranger, The girl knew him
instantly, although the slouch hat was
pulled down over the flaxen hair and
blue eyes, and the gray pants, torn and
muddy, had been drawn out of the boot-
legs so as to no longer allow the red
tops of the boots with the maker's
name to be seen. It was the horse
thief,
She did not, however, express any
surprise as she saw him. She was ac-
; med to the sight of rough, evil
n; and at the first glance she had
delt that this one could not be either
: > ih
ing it,
very wicked or very dangerous. Ie
was not much more than a lad, and
had au air of gentleness and good breed-
ing about him that six months of west-
ern life, and the miserable plight he
was in at that moment, had by no
means destroyed, He seemed to be
short for breath too, and was tremblirg
as if he had been running.
Instinctively he raised his hand to-
ward his hat, and then, bethinking
himself, dropped it again.
“Could you give me something to eat
and drink ?’ he asked, in a hesitating
voice, *‘Aunything will do. I am very
hungry. I—I have had nothing to eat
since last night.”
“Come 1n,” said Sacramento, grave-
ly. In her voice there was neither
kindness nor unkindness, she trying
to realize the situation she was in.
“Come in and sit down I"
Then she went into the closet near
by and began taking down milk and
bread and meat, as she slowly did so
turning over the matter in her mind.
Here was this man who had been steal-
ing horses and for whose capture $500
was offered, in her own kitchen. Five
hundred dollars! Exactly the sum she
had been wishing for—the sum that
would take her down to San Francisco
to school and help to make a lady of
herself. And this sum may be hers if
she could in some way secure this
stranger, or somehow keep him in the
house until help arrived, Help ? Why,
she hardly needed help. He was weak
and exhausted, and in the drawer of
the kitchen table there was a loaded
revolver which she well knew how to
use,
She came out presently and set the
things before him, bringing also a tea-
pot frem the stove and pouring for him
a cup of tea, Then she went and sat
down by the window and watched him
furtively as he ate.
In spite of his eaution, he
off his hat while he was eating. She
could better sce what he was like, It
was an almost boyish face, worn but
not wicked, with the curling hair lying
in damp clusters upon his pale brow.
In the hands, small and well shaped,
and in all his motions and manner, she
felt that she could read something of
his story. She had heard before this
bow young lads in the east, filled with
romantic notions about western life
and adventure, sometimes left their
luxurious homes and found their way
out to the ranches of the Pacific. DPer-
haps he was one of these,
As she looked at Rim, fancying all
this, and realizing the terrible strait he
» had taken
was before him, her heart yearned with
true womanly sympathy ; and her feel-
found expression she was
able to restrain herself.
**Oh,
could you
claimed,
she felt.
ing before
how could you do it? Iow
do it?” she suddenly ex-
her voice quite full of w
hat
“I didn’t
did not,’”’ he
Dennis,”
Sacramento breathed a great sigh of
relief. Horse stealing was held in that
section to be a crime worse than mur-
der ; and she was by no means free from
the popular estimate of its grave nature,
“Oh, Iam glad of that I'’ cried she,
“But-—"" she hesitated, and then went
on doubtfully, **But, then, how was
it? Why did you run away ?”’
*1t was Dennis’ doings, their laying
it to me. He did that to clear himself,
And after that you know as well as I
do that there would have been no use
in trying to prove myself innocent,
They always hang a horse thief first
and then consider his guilt afterwards,
1 had to run to save my life.”
“Do you know that there is a reward
offered for your capture 7?"
*1 know that the Regulators are af-
ter me,” answered the young fellow
sullenly. “They came pretty near
catching me, too, this noon. I just es.
caped them and came down the canon
by the mountain trail. I have had a
hard run for it, and what with no sleep
for 24 hours, I am about used up, I
felt as though I could not go another
step when I saw your house. You
you have been very good to me, I shall
never forget"
“But what are you going to do, now?”
interrupted Sacramento. **You are not
safe here.”
“I know it, Dut I threw them off
the track this noon, and I do not think
they are within five miles of me, Now,
I have had something to eat, I will
take to the woods again. I hope I may
get clear away, If I don’t”’-—his voice
trembled and tears came into his eyes,
“If I don’t I shall get a banging, I
suppose. Oh, what a fool I was not to
prefer home to this sort of thing | And
yet, I wouldn't care so much, either,
if it wasn't for my father and mother.”
And there the poor fellow fairly broke
down.
“Hark !” Sacramento exclaimed,
She had been crying, too ; she could
not help it,
They both listened. In a moment
they heard plainly the sound of horses
coming down the trail, The girl tum.
ed with instant self-possession,
“Go in there! Quick!
There is not a moment to lose !
take your hat I”
And handing his hat to him, she half
pushed him across the reom and into
do it.
said. “It wvras that
Quick !
Here,
her own little room that lod off from it.
Then she hurriedly cleared the table
again, barely finishing the task as the
horsemen halted at the door.
There were three of them. One was
her father. Sacramento knew the oth-
er two men by sight, They were rough,
but of the better sort of those who made
up the dwellers of Kelly Gulch. The
faces of all three were stern and forbid.
ding, and they evidently had been rid-
ing hard, They dismounted together.
“Bac,” began her father, as he enter-
ed the door, *‘hev ye seen anything of a
young chap, afoot or a horseback, com-
ing this way ?”
Sacramento had expected the ques-
tion, and was ready for it. And she
meant, if possible, to answer withouat a
lie.
“A young chap, about 18 years of
age and flve feet and a half high, rather
good looking and with red-top boots
on 7” replied she,
“Yes! yes! That's him ?* cried one
of the other men ? Has he been here?”
“I was only quoting from this hand-
bill,” said Sacramento, taking the paper
from the shelf where she had laid it.
“Then you hain’t seen him at all ?"
asked her father.
“I bave been right here all day, and
nobody has gone by except Pete Larra-
bee. It was he who gave me the bill,
Are you sure that he came this way,
the-—the-—horse thief 7"
“No; but we didn’t know but he
raight., The chances is that he is sloped
off to the mountains, meanin’ 0 go
through Stovepipe pass, They'l git
him, though, afore sundown.”
**Its sundown now.” observed Sacra
mento.
‘Then m now,” was
the “And we
should be too late for the hangin’, ef
we sh'd back. Leastways’'—this
was added to his companious—*‘‘you’d
better come in and have a bite afore
you go."
So presently the three men sat down
to the supper that the yonng girl quick-
ly prepared for them. And while they
were eating, she herself, at her father’s
bidding, went out to take the saddle off
Bueno, his horse, and give him feed,
As she approached the door once more,
a fow minutes after, she heard words
which caused her to stop and listen.
“I don’t like ter say anything against
thet kid yourn, neighbor,” one of
the men “was saying, ‘but it hes kinder
seemed ter me all ther whiles’ thoug
she sorter hed some’ at on her mind
like. Ye don't ’spose she knows any-
thing "bout thet young feller, arter all?"
Sacramento's father laughed at this
as though it was too absusd to be con-
sidered,
The ot
t "
got hi
respone,
ye
they’
sententious
go
o'
her, however, was not to be
Hue
Hi
‘ %
‘she may hev
we kn ww,
iid hin
'"
all persisted he,
n here somewhere
NINysis,
nough t«
returned
"
) see,’
id “premmysis,
dy thi she’s hid
room ¥’
or of the sa
feild
Wak
As he
WAS now
kitche
Ch,
who
to see into the
rise from his
said this, Sacramento,
near enough
saw her father
chair and step of the room
where she had concealed the fugitive,
Her heart almost beating as
she saw him push open the door and en-
ter the room, followed by hi
to the door
stopped
3 COMPAL ~
ion.
“We'll make a clus search of it while
we're about iL," she heard him say
within,
And then she stood there in terrible
suspense upon the porch, expecting
every instant to hear the shout that
would follow the discovery of the fugi-
tive,
But no such shout was heard ; and
instead of it, a moment later, the two
men came out again, her father still
laughing at his friend.
What could it mean ? Had the young
man been able to conceal himself in the
room and so evade theirsearch ? That
was not possible, Then she thought of
the window. Could he have escaped
from the room by that? The window
was so small she could scarcely believe
that he could have crept through it.
And yet be must have done so.
She went hurriedly to the back of the
house and then down beyond the horse
sheds, No one could be seen. Bhe
halted a moment under a live oak tree
just at the edge of the garden. The
evening was very calm and still, and
the twilight shadows were deepening
fast. Was it the rustling of the wind
in the boughs overhead that caught her
ear ? She listened,
“Hist! Iam here—in the tree.”
The words came In a distinct whisper
from directly above her.
She stood and thought a single mo-
ment before replying. Then she said,
“You must get away from here at
once,’”’ in an eager whisper, ‘One of
the men suspects something, and they
may at any moment make a search of
the place. Iam going into the house
a minute, Get down at once and go
through the garden and across the trail
to a spring that you will find there,
It’s at the foot of a big cottonwood
tree. Stay right there until I come.”
Then she went hurriedly to the houses,
The three men were still sitting at the
table, and Sacramento felt rather than
saw that one of them still regarded her
suspiciously as she came in. She did
not speak to them at all, but went di-
rectly through the kitchen to her own
room, and in a moment more came out,
went about her work in the kitchen,
and took up a pail apparently to go to
the spring for water.
Ten minutes later, standing in the
shadow of the cottonwood, young
Somers heard a step, and then Sacra-
mento, leading Bueno all saddled and
bridled, appeared, He started forward.
‘‘Hush I”’ she said ; “‘they may come
out at any moment. Listen to what I
say. Your life depends on it, You
must ride straight down the trail for a
quarter of a mile, Then, close by a big
cottonwood, just like this, you will
strike a path to the left. Bueno will
know it, once you get him in it. It
will bring you out half a mile on, at a
corduroy road that crosses the swamp.
The end of this corduroy has got out of
order and there are some logs lald.
Lead Bueno across and then pull the
logs away. If you do that, it will make
trouble for those who follow you. Be-
yond the swamp 18 a big plain. Strike
straight across it, having the moon
square on your right—the moon will be
up by that time—and three hours’ rid-
ing will bring you to the new railroad.
After that—God help you to get safe
away !"’
Sacramento paused and put out her
band. **Can you remember ?’ she de-
manded,
“I can; but I can rever forget——
“Never mind that, Here, take this,
1t is a little money. You will need it,
Now mount and ride—slowly a little
way, snd then for your life.”
The young man still had hold of ber
hand. The tears came
The next moment he was gone,
The pext morning Sacramento told
her father the story and coaxed him
into forgiving her. And the following
afternoon a man brought Bueno over
from the railroad town ; and then she
knew that the fugitive was sale,
Six weeks later a lawyer from Santa
Barbara appeared with a letter from
Walter Somers. He was with his
friends in New York, He begged Sac-
ramento to accept, as a gift of gratitude,
at least the amount of the reward that
had been offered,
And so it was that she went down to
San Francisco to school that winter,
after all,
cr —————————
Early Rafireaq Days.
"”
into his eyes,
Half & century ago, in the railway
\ advertisements of the period a very
common heading was “Travel Expe-
dited,” for comparison was made with
the old coaching systems of the coun-
try then in their glory, and the Jehus
made a gallant fight unul “expedition”
was too much forthem. Itis historical
that the railroad, with all its develop-
ment, has never realized the first prom-
1ses with which it startled our grand-
fathers, the first locomotive
superseded horse-power on t
ways of this country and Ex
was freely boasted that
surely be not less th
fer when
tram-
nd, it
the speed woul
100
he
ngl:
v
an mi
speed some of the fi
ie8 an
hour, at wnich
trials of engines were made on Englhisl
It
railway en
. 5
would startle some o
roads,
best
y $5
KiNCers
day, e
it did observers in the days before 1540
the flights of some of {
comceptions of the railway
Much of the oppesition to the new sys
tem grew out of this dread of being shot
through the airat 100milesan hour, a feel
ing that would not be entirely unknown
So-day. There is less tendency to ex-
cessive speed on the rail than there was
twenty years ago, experience having
demonstrated a safe and wise limit pre-
scribed by economy and safety,
The first car building in this country
was on English models, and borrowed
from the coaching period. The earliest
cars resembled three or four coaches
built on the same platform : the Euro-
pean compartment plan still adhered to
the foreign roads. In one or two in-
stances it has been reproduced on Amer
ican roads, notably the Fali River,
which on its short run to Boston intro-
duced a first.class compartment car of
the British typeabout twenty-five years
ago, the first introduction of the draw-
ing-room system in this country, where
the traveler for an extra sum secured
an exclusive seat in a higher class ve-
hicle,
If this, as is doubtless true, was the
first realization of the system of sort-
ing travel in this country, it was not
the first attempt in that direction, for
as early as 1837 there appears an adver-
tisement of the Wilmington line lead-
ing north from Baltimore, and seeking
to attract the best class of southern
travel, giving especial prominence to
“saloon and dressing-room accommoda-
tions and berths,” urged as “a great
convenience to family parties.” The
language is exactly what might be used
by present lines, though the accommo-
dations given, as old travelers remem-
ber, only slightly foreshadow the mod-
ern sleeping-car and drawing-room car,
Pupaiation in —
A AAR
Russia bas ninety-four millions of
people and the population is now in.
creasing at the rate of a million and a
half per year, The increase is large in
the southern districts, The average of
life in Russia is twenty-six years in
Europe and thirty-one in Asia, Sixty
per cent, of the children die under five
years of age. There is a birth in the
Russian empire every eight seconds and
a death occurs every eleven seconds,
In St. Petersburg there is a death every
fifteen minutes.
LO see the
engine,
conto
Ornnmental Trees,
The judicious and tasteful planting of
fruit and ornamental trees enhances the
value of real estate more than an equal
amount of money invested in any other
way. It is not necessary to have a large
extent of idle land in lawn or dooryard,
or expensive drives and fancy walks, in
tive appearance, A plain, neat yard,
with a few trees and shrubs well select
ed and judiciously planted about the
grounds, and properly kept, would often
change the appearance of many a
place from a neglected wilderness to
that of a thrifty, comfortable home, It
is not desirable to have an elaborate de-
sign to produce the best effects in small
places.
Plant a few shade trees near the
house, about ten feet from it, on the
south and west sides, to screen it from
the midday and afternoon sun, These
should be rapid growers, as silver maple,
or Carolina or balsam poplar. If these
trees are planted about ten or fifteen
feet from the house, they will give a
years, but they are not the most orna-
mental or desirable for permanent trees,
Rapid growth 1s their recommendation,
and they will be too close to the house
to remain many years; therefore, plant
some finer varieties about twenty-five
or thirty teet off. For this, there
way maple, horse chestnut,
chestnut, ash, Magi wininaia, red
colchicum maple,
leaf oak and
trees should s
feet apart, in order to have room to de-
Win
mossy cup oak. These
tances, or plant some cheaper, rapid
growing trees between them, in order to
shade the place quicker, and then cut
out alternate trees in a few years,
in front of the house, affording an un-
second-story
branches or
will be a view from the
windows under the lower
between them,
Evergreen trees produce an effect in
by any other means and every large |
lawn should have an evergreen bell or
hedge on one side at least.
situations, a screen of large evergreen
is of great value in protecting houses
and out-buildings from
of
ing influence a belt
standing on the mn rth and west side of
tall
buildings, will have in blustering, windy
weather, The varieties for this
Norway spruce,
white pine,
vitze. It is not
ould Ix
is some-
best
parpo! “@0 hemlock
Scotch
are
silver fir,
pine, American
always es
uce,
arbor
sential that they sh
planted in a row; it
.
3
straight
mea breferable § lant in a curved
mes ! reierabie 19 pliant in a curved or
or In a
give the effect of
iar line,
Succession oi
3
% + ois
Ciulnps, 80 as WW acon.
a hedge row,
do not
wa 1 vd
aig
As a general
evergreens appear
best advantage in straight rows; they
look better when grouped in clumps or
abot
manner. The varieties should
not be planted any nearer to the verge
of a carriage drive than fourteen fect.
When planted in clumps they are often
set fifteen feet apart, with three or five
trees of one variety together. At this
distance they will attain their perfection
in about fifteen years, and will then
commence to deteriorate as the branch-
es grow together. After the large shade
trees and evergreens are planted there
will be a number of smaller evergreens
and flowering shrubs needed for *‘filling
in" the blank spaces. They should be
planted in clumps of from three to ten
or twelve, with an occasional single
specimen in the smaller nooks.
The following are a few of the most
desirable evergreens: Siberian, Hovey’s
golden, Tom Thumb, and George Pea-
body arbor vites, The last 18 a new
golden ‘variety of singular beanty, the
hardiest and most distinct golden arbor
vite yet Introduced. Irish, Swedish
pyramidal junipers grow tall and slen-
der, occupying but little room, The
dwarf white pine is one of the prettiest
small evergreens, It forms a compact,
symmetrical bush, three or four feet
high, and about equal diameter, present-
ing a dense mass of silvery green foli-
age. Abies Orientalis, or eastern spruce,
from the shores of the Black Sea, is a
very handsome evergreen, of moderate
size and very dense, compact habit, It
is one of the neatest and most symme-
trical of the spruce family, and appro-
priate for almost any situation,
Weeping trees are at mesent a
fashionable feature in landscape garden.
ing. The following are a few of the
most desirable varieties: Weeping beech,
cut-loaf weeping birch, and common
weeping willow grow tall and form large
trees, The Camperdown weeping elm
and Kilmarnock weeping willow are
dwarf trees, and never grow any higher
than the point where grafled. Abies
inverfa, or weeping spruce, is the best
weeping evergreen, and it is a very
unique and effective tree in a lawn.
or ds and hardships provoke our
, and when our fortunes are at {a
the lo our wits and minds are com-
monly at
dotted
larger
best.
| The Canoes Semon Opening.
Charles E. Chase, the canoeist who
did several thousand miles up the Hud.
son and on the Northern Lakes, says:
*“The canoe season is just beginning.
Every well-regulated canoeist has his
boat out upon the water as soon as the
ice disappears, and upon the water it
remains until the ice again prevents
navigation. Canoelng has grown great-
ly in popularity, and is growing still,
In this country it firdt took practical
shape as a recognized sport about the
year 1870, when the New York Yacht
Club was organized, Mr. William L.
Allen, the well-known journalist, being
its principal promoter, There was no
other canoe club formed until 1879,
| The New York Canoe Club was com-
posed of adventurous follows who car-
ried large spreads of cotton over cranky
hulls, As their races were almost uni-
formly characterized by the upsetting
of all the participants, canoeing became
to the uncanoeibal mind another word
for drowning. After the first
a | two, or until 1878, the chief
the New York Club (
{at the annual dinner at a down-town
| restaurant, although several cruises on
| American and Canadian waters took
| place before 1870. About that year
interest in the sport was very percepti-
! bly revived; the Jersey City (
came into existence, and a dozen of its
members and of the New York Canoe
Club met As a result
| of that meeting the Amencan Canoe
Association was organized in 1880,
| This body has had annual reunions ever
One of the best clubs in Amer-
| ica was formed in Cincinnati in 1879.
Their motto is a good one: *Madidam
vestern mutarl.’ Judge Longworth is
{ the father of the club.
“Now there are canoe clubs every-
| where, and canoeists who in 1879 were
numbered by tens only are to be found
in hundreds. So, too, while five years
| ago there were but three builders of
canoes, now nearly every boat builder
in the United States is expert in
this branch.
“In the waters around this city the
| New York and the Knickerbocker are
{the two principal canoe clubs, each
{ having a large membership. There isa
| boys’ canoe club at Bayonne, N. J.,
|and up the Hudson there are several
clubs. There are also many canoeists
| who do not belong to clubs,
“The difference in canoes is more in
the matter of rig than to the shape of
® | the hull, center-boards and keels being
regarded as a part of the rig. Already
a good many canoeists are beginning to
lay their plans for cruises on the rivers
hereabouts, and on the Northern lakes.
A noticeable feature in canoeing nowa-
is amateur photographing. Lis
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lanoe Club
at Lake George.
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wealth, ib
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| I can help it, am always looking out to
| see how I can steal a length or two by
getting or anything of that
sort, and then I think I generally man-
age to get well away. Bul what peo-
ple say, and what I sometimes read in
some of the papers, about the starter
favoring Archer, and his being ‘off a
couple of lengths to the good,’ is not
true, all the Se} in fact, it’s rubbish.
Of course, I don’t mean to say that I
don’t do my best . get away when the
flag falls, but it isn’t the getting away
first as how you get away--how you
set your horse going, I mean—that
makes all the difference. You can’t
set a horse going at once if you have a
tight hold of his head. You often see
a Josey at the post on a five-furiong
race pulling his horse, as nervous as Le
can be, watching the starter. The flag
falls, and he lets go of the reins, but his
horse isn't ready to ship off at his best
pace, I've always got my horse ready
to go, but not by pulling at him; ani
then when we do start I'm at full speed
at once. If you watch you'll often see
that some jockey is off a couple of
lengths before me, but, if his horse
isn’t just ready, he doesn’t keep his
advantage.”
A Mormom Tempe.
the rails
The great building at Salt Lake
which the saints have been twenty-
eight yearsin constructing, is approach-
ing completion. The main walls are
done. It is built of granite, hauled
from the mountains back of Sall Lake
on great wagons or trucks with wheels
twelve feet high. The walls are ten
feet in thickness and eighty-five in
height. It has cost up to this time
$4,000,000, which has been collected
by the tithing tax. It will require six
years more to complete the work, Prob.
ably mo other church building in the
United States has been constructed in
a way to secure such durability as is
possible to this. Some of those who
predict the early ruin of the Mormon
heirarchy are wondering what use they
can make of this temple.
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