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TRUTH !
LETTER FROM JUDGE BOT
' KIN.
Campbcllton, N. B.
i November 8, 1907.
Dear Friend Hughes:
The last Salt Lake paper to reach
me was thcr copy of Truth published
1 ten days before election and I am
very anxious to see the copy issued
after that event, for I assume that
there will appear as great a contrast
between the predictions of the one
i and the results announced by tlie
latter, as is usually seen in the "Be
fore and After" pictures. I base the
1 assumption on a news dispatch which
says that "The American Anti-Mor
mon party carried Salt Lake by the
largest plurality in the history of
the city." Well, in this hour of your
great grief and sorrow I might per
haps be able to console you with a
Canadian pumpkin-pie story. It
seems that Sir Edwin Arnold and
Lady Arnold were once guests of the
! National club at Toronto. Like all
other Europeans they were strangers
to the great North American insti
tution called pie. In due' course that
part of the menu was reached where
1 pumpkin-pic was to be served. "Me
Lady" looked at it in disgust and
pushed the plate away from under
her face; but "Me Lord" nervously
ventured to transfer a small bit of
his piece to his mouth and with fear
and trembling closed his tongue and
palate upon it when to his great sur
prise he found tjic taste and flavor
very good. Then turning to Lady
Arnold he pleaded "Try it dear, try
it. It is not really so nawsty as it
looks."
I find this a delightful region, and
one of the busiest little cities to be
found anywhere is this town of Camp
bcllton, which sits upon the Southern
shore of Rcstigouchc Harbor. The
people arc of splendid types of Anglo-Saxons,
Irish, Scotch and French.
Industry, enterprise, and thrift prc
( vail on all sides, and there is a stur
dy culture amongst them that pre
sages a bright future for their child
ren. The chief industries arc lum
fbering and fishing. Their exports to
the United States arc large. Since I
i, took charge of the consulate on Sep
tember 1, I have certified almost
three hundred invoices for American
points, consisting of shingles, laths,
lumber, cured or salted fish, canned
1 lobsters and grind-stones. Of the
latter, there is a large and very valu
able ledge and quarry in this dist
rict. Soon, the shipments will ma
terially decrease for the wintery sea
son, except as to fish. As soon as
ice shall close the harbor permanent
ly for the season, the smelt fishing
will begin and as that is an all winter
4i occupation, and as most of the catch
goes direct to the United States, I
' shall have plenty to do during the
1 ' long winter which even now shows
, signs of closing down upon us.
' But, I can not at this time write
1 you at great length. I wis 'O be
.' remembered to one and all of my
Utah friends and to assure them of
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my interest in the good name, and
prosperity of the State and its splen
did people and everything that per
tains to their welfare individually
and collectively. To one and all I
send warm fraternal greetings.
Believe me as ever,
Your friend,
THEODOSIUS BOTKIN.
LEE GREENE RICHARDS.
Many people go abroad to visit the
art galleries and engage the services
of an artist whose "name is prominent
before the public eye, without lcaliz
ing or being aware of the talent at
home.
During the past summer, it was my
pleasure to meet Mr. William Mor
ris, the art connoisseur, at the studio
of Lee Greene Richards. He was
collecting choice paintings and pas
tels for his annual art exhibit in the
larger cities. Several of Mr. Rich
ards' paintings are already in his col
lection and the artist is at present en
gaged in painting, two pictures or
dered by Mr. Morris, the subjects be
ing "Moonlight" and summer twi-.
light. Both are remarkably beauti
ful in calm, quiet tones of coloring
and simplicity of style. True art is
nature and nature is simplicity in
conception, style and execution and
Mr. Richards has the faculty of mak
ing his pictures awaken a responsive
chord in the heart of the onlooker.
He studied his art in Paris and re
ceived honorable mention from the
Socictc Dcs Ar'istcs Francais in 1904.
He as born in Salt Lake City, July
27, 1878, and is the son of L. W,
Richards, a gentleman whose digni
. fied figure alone is a study in art and
his face like a benediction. Entering
the world under this favorable sign
of the zodiac, the nurses touched
the child lightly with their spray and
he began his art career at an early
age by making sketches of the ibarn
and later on by painting with a brush
made out of his own hair instead of
resorting to the cat like Ben Johnson.
It is true that
"The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day."
and after continual sacrifice for his
natural talent, Mr. Richards has
mastered Jic art of painting.
His best work lies in portraiture
in the definite transcription of fig
ure and form, His portraits of wo
men arc remarkable for their life-like
expression at the same time breathing
of the dreamy ideality of the artist.
One portrait "'Aunt Mary," which
was at the Utah Art Exhibit last fall
awakens a longing for a real Aunt
Mary with the pleasant peaceful
countenance.
"The Old Homestead" is a painting
in oil of the home of the artist's
grandmother, where he and his lit-tle-Vplaoiatcs
USC(1 cnJy bread
and jam to their heart's content.
The flower bordered path leading to
the vine-covered cottage brcathesi of
the fragrance of flowers dear to
childhood days. It is a picture that
every lover of home and art would
appreciate.
At present Mr. Richards is arduous
ly painting in his studio where his
frends call and talk on art, literature
and the vicissitudes of life.
Mr. Richards leaves in December
for Paris, where he expects to re
main for a very considerable time.
DOLORES WATTS.
SPORTING GOSSIP.
The members of tliie University of
Utah football team are all swelled up,
literally and figuratively, over their
defeat of the famed eleven from the
Colorado State School of Mine; at
Golden, the score being 16 to 10. The
Utah boys knew that they had a hard
game before, them and were in gooa
condition for the contest, going into
the affray with the determination to
do or die and none arc dead as yet.
It was a great victory, and this foot
ball enthusiasts arc proud of the de
fenders of the football honors of the
U. of U.
The recent battle for championship
honors between the Chicago and De
troit teams netted the ball players
quite a tidy little sum. The receipts
for the four games was $54,933, of
which the Chicago club received 32,
960 and the Detroit boys 21,973. Be
sides the sum, President Murphy of
the Chicago club presented his play
ers with a check for $13,000, while
President Yawkcy of the Detroit
club handed the "gang" $15,000 ex
tra money. Each man on the Chica
go team got $2,08909 out of the scr
ies, while the Detroit boys each car
ried off $1,954.96.
The members of the City Bowling
league arc starting off this season in
a whirlwind fashion. "Pingpong"
Picrpont the Candy Kid leads the
procession, with an average of 206,
Avhilc the old. reliable A. W. Smith
is in second place, bowling at i. 191
gait. There arc thirteen men in the
180 column, eight are bowling be
tween 165 and 169, while three arc
below the 160 mark. While the in
terest in the game is not as great a's
last season, there is as usual "some
thing doing" at the Crown alleys, es
pecially when the league teams meet.
The past season was a banner one
in baseball, as regards attendance.
The figures show that 6,136,557 peo
ple paid the admission fee to witness
conusts between the different trams
in the two Major leagues, the Nation
al and American. The American
league was evidently the favorite, the
attendance being 3,398,764, while the
National figures show a grand total
in attendance of 2,737,793.
Charles B. Hanford has opened the
season of '007-8 with prospects even
more brilliant than he xu-tomarily
enjoj Big business has greeted his
spectaci lar productio . of "Antony
and Cleopatra" from the very start.
Young Johnson, the kid pitchs." dis- .V
covered in Idaho by the managt-r 01 j
the Washington club, was the most M
effective slabman in the American J M
league this season, so far as stopping v M
the runners was concerned. The boy J M
allowed only 33 runs in 14 games, J M
or 2.36 tallies per trip, and only 95 ' M
hits less than seven to the game M
were made off his delivery. 1
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John P. Soiisa, the march king, is a 4.1
keen sportsman as well the the ; M
world's leading bandmaster. This M
year at Pinchurst, N. C, at the lour- j! H
uament for the championship of the j H
South, he won the championship cup, M
scoring 143 out of possible 150. As H
a duck shooter and fisherman, Sousa M
has it on Grovcr Cleveland a city H
block. H
The fighting game in San Francis- H
co is to take on new life, the board of H
supervisors having decided to allow H
twenty-round bouts to go on .igain. 1 H
The authorities declare they will H
grant licenses to only those promot- H
, crs who have in the past pulled off ' H
bouts that were strictly on the ,'evcl. j H
H
Owing to the inability of several j
veteran players of the picked liar- H
vard graduate lacrosse team that was H
to have toured England, playing the H
university and city teams of that lH
country, to make the trip, it has been H
necessary to postpone the invasion H
for a season. H
H
Mike Slircck and Al Kaufman arc H
to meet at Tonopah, Nevada, on No- H
vember 28, in the big arena built for H
the Gans-Hcrman fight. Otto Flolc ! H
has been selected as referee. It's H
now up to Schrcck to put Kaufman H
to sleep, or go back to the section ! H
gang. j I
The ten greatest fighters this conn- H
try has ever known, according to jH
George Silcr, the veteran referee, arc H
James J. Jeffries, Peter Jackson, Jim H
Corbctt, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack H
Dcmscy, Joe Gans, Joe Wolcotr. H
George Dixon, Young Mitchell and .H
George Lavignc. H
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It is highly probable that Ivcr H
Lawson and W. E. Samuclson will H
ride in the six-day race at Madison H
Square Garden as the Utah team. H
Lawson believes that with Samuclson H
as a partner, he can win the race H
hands down. H
H
It is announced that Joe Gans is H
willing to take another chance with I
Battling Nelson in the roped arena, H
but the dusky lad declares that Ncl- I
son must come to His terms that Is H
Gans is to have the long end of the H
purse, win or lose. H
1
Edward Peyson Weston, the aged I
pedestrian, is walking from Portland, gl
Maine, to Chicago, over the same l
route he covered forty years ago. At II
last reports he was ahead of the re I
cord he made on his former tramp. I
