what will you find? I'll tell you what you'll find. You'll find it hell! That's what you'll find. Heaven is a place of progression. It is a place of work. If it isn't I don't want to be there. It is a place where they do things. Among others announced to lecture this season, are President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, Jerome K. Jerome, Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker, Opie Read, and Edmond Vance Cooke. Utah and the Portland Fair.-On October 15, the Lewis and Clark Exposition closed. President Goode has made public the statement that stockholders will receive a dividend of from 30 to 40 per cent of their stock, from which one must conclude that the fair was a pronounced financial success. It was a success, besides, from all other standpoints, for of the hundreds of thousands of strangers who came to see, many invested in various lines of endeavor, while nearly all the western states including Utah, felt the stimulus and the advantage of the Western travel. About two and one-half millions of people passed through the gates. Utah is among the states which were at the front, at the great exposition, as the awards granted for her mineral display, her products and industries, testify. In educational matters, Utah stands high on the list, as witness the following awards Gold medals for the state as a whole; school for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, on cabinet and contents and live exhibit; University of Utah, on entire display; Agricultural college, on manual training work in wood and iron; sewing and cooking, and as a whole; kindergarten training school as a whole, Salt Lake City; elementary education, Ogden; Elementary and commercial department, silver medals: Logan Latter-day Saints Church school and Presbyterian academies; Brigham Young College and Latter-day Saints university; Brigham Young University; Park City, Provo, and Normal training school; University of Utah. On unified course of study, bronze medals: Snow academy, Weber Stake academy, Cache county, Salt Lake county, Davis county, Utah county, Weber county, and Eureka. Honorable mention: Indian Industrial school, Ephraim; Rowland Hall, Box-elder county, Kate B. Anderson's notaphone. Prof. L. A. Ostein, in charge of Utah's educational exhibit, said to State Supt. Nelson: "I have the honor to inform you that the State of Utah has received eight gold medals (highest award), nine silver medals, eight bronze medals, and honorable mention in five other cases. We have fared well in competition with other states. The three state schools, Ogden and Salt Lake 'drew' gold medals." Hon. Spencer Clawson and associates are entitled to the thanks of the people, for the able and economical administration of the State's interests at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Died.-September: Wednesday, 6th, in Beaver, Mary A. B. Parkinson, a pioneer of Beaver, born in 1826, in Kent, England.-In Grantsville, Wednesday, 6th, Wilford Hudson, a veteran of the Mormon Battalion, born in Harrison county, Ind., Sept. 19, 1818.-Friday, 8th, in Pleasant Grove, Mrs. Celia H. Griggs, a veteran of Missouri and Nauvoo, born Oct. 29, 1819.-Tuesday, 12th, in Sanpete county, Mary T. Beal, a pioneer of southern Utah, born May 27, 1827, in Nottingham, England. In Lehi, Friday, 15th, Hans Hammer, one of the oldest residents of that place.--Saturday, 16th, in Teton, James Gardner, who crossed the plains by Handcart, in 1856.-In Juarez, Mexico, Sept. 21, Joseph C. Davis, a veteran of the Church and pioneer of Southern Utah.-Tuesday, 26th, in Bountiful, Patriarch Joseph Argyle, born in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, Sept. 18, 1818.-In West Jordan, 26th, Catherine Phillips Smith, a widow and plural wife of Patriarch Hyrum Smith, born Aug. 1, 1819.-Saturday, 30th, in Layton, Arizona, Wm. J. Packer, a High Priest in the St. Joseph Stake, and an active Church worker, born Salt Lake, Utah, October 26, 1848. Died.-October: in Salt Lake City, Sunday 1st, Henry Dinwoodey, one of the most prominent and influential business men of Salt Lake City, and a faithful Church worker, aged 80 years.-In Sandy, 7th, N. Parley Thompson, a recent California missionary, and faithful Church worker, age 25 years.-Sunday, 8th, John E. Cox, Secretary of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, aged 50 years.-Wednesday, 11th, Reddick N. Allred, one of the members of the Mormon Battalion, and a Utah pioneer, born in Tennessee, Feb. 21, 1822.-Thursday, 12th, Mrs. Aura A. Cummings, a veteran of Nauvoo, born Feb. 17, 1827, in Mansfield, Conn.-Wednesday, 11th, in Salt Lake City, Thomas Adams, a wellknown attorney, and husband of Emily Caldwell Adams of the Y. L. M. I. A. Board, age 45 years. Christ of the Andes.-Senora de Costa has appealed to the governments of Argentina and Chile, for aid to build a Monastery-Refuge, a humanitarian establishment similar to that of the Monks of St. Bernard, in the Alps, on the summit of the Andes, and adjoining the "Christ of the Andes." She says that, "there on that very lofty summit, numbers of travelers, surprised by the snowstorms of the Andes, perish every year during the winter for lack of timely and effective assistance." It is designed that this new refuge shall prevent the suffering and render the needed aid to the wanderer in distress. Senora de Costa, who is the president of the "Christian Mothers Association" of Buenos Ayres, was, with Bishop Benavente, the leading spirit who conceived the idea and carried to completion the extraordinary monument to eternal peace, "Christ of the Andes," erected on the summit of the Andes, and on the border line between Chile and Argentina. It is a colossal statue of Christ, by Mateo Alonso, a young native sculptor of the latter country, and commemorates a remarkable arbitration and peace treaty between the two nations-one that may indeed be pointed to as an example to the world. The statue which was set up March 13, 1904, is cast from bronze of old cannon left by the Spaniards at the time of Argentine independence: and on this international monument, standing on the mountain tops nearly 14,000 feet above sea level, is this remarkable inscription, "Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than Chileans and Argentines shall break the peace which, at the feet of Christ, the Redeemer, they have sworn to maintain." Senora de Costa in a recent article in the Independent, appeals to the United States for help to build the Refuge, and hopes that all nations shall contribute generously to its realization. Sweden and Norway.-These Scandinavian countries came to an agreement September 23, by act of their representatives in the Karlstad conference, and the peaceful separation of the two countries is assured. Concessions were made on both sides. Both countries agree to submit to the Hague Court, for a period of ten years, all matters of dispute except those which affect the independence, integrity and vital interests of either. The question of the fortification of the frontier, which seemed at times likely to break up the conference, was settled by the establishment of a neutral zone, fifteen kilometres wide, on both sides of the southern portion of the frontier of the two countries. Within this neutral zone neither nation shall station armed military forces, and no fortifications, war ports, or depots for the army or navy can be maintained in the zone. The Norwegian fortifications, now existing within the neutral zone, are to be demolished within the next eight months to the satisfaction of a commission composed of three foreign military officers. The fortifications at Fredrikstad, Gyldenloeve and Overbierget are to be allowed to remain, but in a demolished condition. The nomadic Laplanders are to be allowed to pasture reindeer in Norway until the year 1917. The Swedish Riksdag and the Norwegian Storthing took up the articles of agreement in early October, and these were later accepted by both. King Oscar will rescind the union, and declare Norway an independent state. By the middle of November the Norwegian government will consider whether Norway shall be a kingdom or a republic, and submit the proposition to the vote of the people, in the elections of 1905. Bjornson, the veteran novelist, urges the election of a king, but public sentiment seems to favor a republic. Canton-Hankau Railroad.-About seven years ago, an American syndicate obtained permission from the Chinese government to build a railway between Canton and Hankau, and incidentally to develop along the line, the mining and industrial interests of the country. It was reported some time ago that the attitude of the Chinese government was very hostile toward the continuing of the enterprize in foreign hands, and recently the government declared the lease cancelled, but in so doing offered an indemnity to the company which held it. After a consultation with President Roosevelt, the company's representatives accepted an indemnity of $6,750,000 for the surrender of their rights. It was the best thing to do, and the arrangement removes a question that might have become very seriously troublesome in connection with other complications between our country and China, occasioned by the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, and the boycott of American goods in the celestial empire. |