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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04
BARGAIN S!
COHH1 BROS
We continue to Offer Daily Extraordinary Bargains In
New and Seasonabe Goods.

Ladies' Black English Cashmere Hose,
usual price 75c., reduced to Soc.
SOC,
Misses Atwood, Extra Heavy, Ribbed
Hose, very best value for
25c.
Gents extra quality English Tan-colored
Merino Socks, usually sold for Soc, reduced
to 2jc.
Csc.
Gents Silk scarfs and Boys Windsor Ties
| for
25c.
Gents Unlaundried Shirts. We have lust
placed on sale another lot of this great bar
gain, which we will continue to sell at
SOC.
Ladies' Natural Mixed Wool Vests and
Pants reduced from 81 so to 81 25 each.
$1.25.
The last case of Ladies' White Meriuo
Vests and Pants we shall be able to offer
this season has been placed on sale, and as
long as it lasts will be offered for
SOC.
Ladies Scarlet Atwood Vests and Pants,
great bargain, at
75c. u
Ladies' Scarlet, Regular made Lam5ss
Wool Vests and Pants at half price, reduced
from So 90 to $1.50 each,
$3.50,
A Lot OF Odds and Ends in Corsets, EN-
bracing 81. so, $1.75 and $500 qualities, will
be cleared out at 81 90.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

These islands run like crescent, the
horns of which are pointed towards
Asia. There are $500 of them and the
topmost horn is formed by the Island
Yezo. Yezo is the Alaska of Japan.
It contains one-ffth of the whole ter
ritory, and it is peopled by savsges
who are hardly more advanced in civil
ization than the Esquimaux. These
are the Amos, who are supposed by
some to be the primitive Japanese.
There are only 1000 of them. They
live in huts, wear long hair and boards
and have an entirely different civiliza-
ton from the rest of the country.
They are small like the Japanese, but
broadered shouldered, and they are as
dirty as the Japanese are clean. The
ugliest sex of the Amos is the women,
who tattoo their upper lips and think
that trowsy hair is a sign of beauty,
With the modern Japan, Y ego and the
Amos has little to do. They are gov
erned by the Mikado, and he appoints
ruler for their island. They furnish
much of the lumber for Japan, and
their rocky island is said to be full of
minerals. AS political factor, how
ever, they are nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

The biggest mountain in Japan is
Fugiyama, an extinct volcano whose
summit is over L, COO feet above the sea.
Its snowy peak looks down upon me
as write this letter. and the story of
the volcano at Bandisan is still new.
There are now over twenty active and
hundreds of dormant VOLCANOES in Japan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

Japan has to-day as good postal
system as any country of Europe, and
the originator of its system was an
American. His name was Bryan. He
was in the postofice department at
Washington, and if am informed cor
rectly, lost his position there through
change in the administration. He con-
cluded to come to Japan. He offered
the government his services in the
organization of its postal system.
They accepted, and after much trouble
he succeeded. In 1885, the Japanese
postofice carried 100000 letters,
more than 100000 postal cards and
over Is. 900, 900 newspapers. Its revenue
during this time was nearly equal to its
expenses and there are now about
5 600 postoffces in the Empire of Japan.
At the bureau of engraving and print
ing l saw Japanese men dressed in
European clothes who were engraving
the postage stamps which are used
throughout the Empire, and in another
department of the same building, saw
a hundred Japanese girls in white
gowns who were bundling up Japanese
postal cards for distribution to the vari-
Gus Offices as fast as they were printed.
l saw school books being printed in
English for the use of the scholars of
the high schools, and there are those
who believe the English language will
be the Japanese language of the far
future.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04
$1.OO.
HOneycOmb Quilts.

1O-4 White Honeycomb Quilts, reduced
from 81 25 to $1.00.
$1.OO.
10 Extra Heavy White Quilts, splendid
value for 81 So now offered for $l.20.
$3.50,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

The Japanese call themselves the
Americans of Asia, and they are, to a
certain extent, right. They are like the
Americans IN their ready adoption of
new things, and IN their being ready to
risk the present for the future. They
are quick witted, and they want to be
up to the times. They lack, however,
l am prone to believe, the Americans
desire of accumulation, his industry
and perseverance, and above all his
wonderful creative faculty. You will
find q patent Office AT Toxic, but you
can count the noted Japanese inyen-
lions upon your fingers. Up to this
stage in their career. the Japanese have
been an initiative rather than creative
nation. What they have had in the
past has been adopted from other
nations. The civilization which pre-
coded the one now coming in was
largely Chinese. The chief religion of
the Japanese to-day is Buddhism. and
it came from India. Corea boasts of
being the author of many of the schools
of japanese art, and Japanese liters-
ture is largely based on Chinese char
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

The big cities of Japan are in the
Island of Hondo, which lies south of
the Yezo and which is several hun
dreds of miles long and at places two
hundred miles wide. Here are the
chief agricultural regions, the manu-
featuring districts and in short Japan.
Toxic itself has 100000 inhabitants,
and it lies in the centre of the empire.
Its distances are more magnificent
than those of Washington, and it's size
is about that OF Philadelphia. Three
hundred miles west of Toxic is Osaka
which has about as many inhabitants
as Chicago, and a very few miles off
from this is Kiota, which was formerly
the capital Of the Empire, and which
boasts of as many people as Washing
ton, Kansas City or Cleveland. Osaka
is now the New York City of Japan,
and Kiota with its temples may be
called the Mecca OF the Empire.
Nagoya and KanazaWa are cities each
having over 100000 population, and
there are dozen other cities in Japan
each of which contains from 10000 to
$4,000 people. There are countless vii
liages and many small cities and the
land of Japan has been a semi-ciYilized
country for centuries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

Japan is q land of mountains and
valleys, and it has as many different
climates as the United States. You
may find your Minnesota in Yezo, your
Florida about Nagasaki. and over all
you will find the green of old Ireland
Surrounded by the sea, the air is ever
full of moisture, and even in winter the
land is green. 1t is a land IF flowers
saw camelia hedges like trees near
Yokohama. There are acres and quar-
ter sections of water about Toxic Gov
cred with lotus flowers as big as a round
cent loaf of American bread and sur
rounded by green discs each of which is
as big as palm leaf fan. The wisteria
here grows wild, and Japan is the land
of the chTysanthemUm. This flower
forms the crest of the Mikado, and the
poetic nature of the Japanese people is
shown in their love for flowers. They
have their flower shows three times a
month, and when the trees blossom
the whole nationj gees wild. Flower
peddlers are everywhere, and Toxic is
a city Of gardens.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
STORIES OF ELEPnANTa

t0o GDeoo0 IN which the hugo A0too1o
Wsrs hsiA by the Aaessets.
The ancients. who are sparing in their
praises Of the dog. (by far the larger
part Of the world has always abhorred
him - the very type Of uncleanness).
could not speak too highly of the ele-
phant The elder Pliny. who was
diligent collector Of anecdotes rather
than an observer. surpasscs himself
when he treats Of this animal He
places him - unquestionably next to
man. Intelligence. obedience. memory.
ambition. affection. honesty. prudence
aud Justice are among the catalogue Of
virtues which - aseribes to tAsse crcs-
tarsa H even declares that tbsy ars
Ee.sious. .Ycrshiping the starA tAe sna
ord the noea. IN anDuas;s.a La WnssA
- = iollowsd hy Klssareh and Alias.
he sepsiss which - tslls q their -
ensl1y anA a4eitnas 1oe aeqpifia& -
50mv vsAmnq6 - nasvsaeQa 1Aat
they should 90 throukH soe0n1lanA4 g
. dance or = gladiatorial combat ID cred
ible. Busbecq tells Of one which he
himself saw in Turkey that danced and
played at ball. But our faith 10 taxed
when we read Of four elephants
walking on tight ropes. carrying
another In . litter. Yet the testimony
Of the ancients as to this particular &C
complishment is very strong. Possibly
the funambulism Of elephants il one OF
the lost arts Of antiquity. Writing
also is an accomplishment which We
fear the animal no longer acquires.
Mucianus. the friend Of VesPasian.
knew OF IN animal which could write .
Greek hexameter. not. however. ont oe
its own head; and we have pathetic
story Of one which. having been beaten
for being somswhat backward in its
reading-for the elephants own tho
human trait OF having ounces among
thsm-was found diligently coming it,
task by night. Il was. however. in .
stcrner character than that OF dancer
or scholar that antiquity best knew tho
elephant He was most formidable
implement Of war. The Carthaginians
were the first % to utilize him in Euro
pean warfare. and 1t is . remarkable
lact that they. and they only. have
been able to educate the African
species Of the race for human useA Il
may be doubted. indeed. whether the
military utility Of the animal compen-
sated for the enormous expense and
trouble which he must have caused. II
Hannibal had not lost all his elephants
but one almost before he began his cam
paign he would certainly have found e
impossible TO feed them. Their use. In
deed, In Western warfare has not been
frequent One oe the --latest occasions
Of their employment seems to have
bsen by the Emperor Claudius when he
invaded Britain in the third year OF his
reign. They are still found. but fos
show rather thaa use. In the military
establish0ents a The East But Il h
clear that they eosld not exist in ths
face Of the arms q precision.-kosdea
6Osesstor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24

..3ut the General don't says l. mo
never comes with ms. but moPes ous
here alone. and even tips up the lid Q!
his desk so we can't see what he's got!
Il know itr' says Rob; and he gavea
sni6 IS he yankcd OF the string. Then
he pulled up the cover and peeked IN.
Then he looked At us. and says ne:
..Bv the Great Horn Spoon!
We always knew when Rob said that
he was considerably surprised.
The rest OF MS crowded around peek
ed in, too, and what do you sPose the
General hads
Nice white bread and butter with
bit Of cold chicken or ham. . piece OF
apple-pie. q lump Of cheese and . chunk
Of fruit-cake?
He had-just one small piece OF rye
bread and raw turnip!
That was all! No butter even on the
bread!
Myrtle stepped back. and her face
was all red and her eyes kinder shiny
and misty. She grabbed the valentine
from Clara's hand and tore it into forty
'leven bits before you could say Jack
Robinson.
General George1l never have fhis
valentine!' she said.
'.Why don't that mean old maid
feed him betterf'' says Rob. angry
like.
II Is'pose she can't afford it." says
Myrtle. ''Shc's awful poor. But she's
good to the General-that is. he seems
to like her. Is'pose she gives him as
good ss she has herself"
'.But rye-bread and . turniP! says
Rob. groaning. 1T seems to me some
thing ought TO be done about it"
.'Course there ought" says Myrtle.
''This things got to be seen to We've
acted real mean to the General. teas
ing the very life out Of him! It's .
shame! Poor fellow! With NO father
or mother! How could we have car
ried ON 90! And he's smart enough ut
his books to make us all blush for our
selves. I'm going to speak to my papa
this very night aud coax him to do
something for the boy. But I'll tell
you what we'll do now: Wen give the
General Q valentine-only it won't be
the kind we were going to! Let's all
take something from our baskets and
I'LL hisr'
..An rightr' says We all
So Myrtle put in big piece OF cocoa
| nut-cake and . roast chickens drum
stick; Rob gave an apple turnover and
. popcorn ball; Clara gave some pick
les and gingerbread. and the others
bread and butter. and 30 ON. until tho
basket was % full that the cover
kbulgsd nR
Then Myrtle wrote on . slip q paper
and tied il on the handle. and these aEs
the words she wrote:
"A valentine from thoss who are
awfully sorry they've plagued you %.
but who promise to nsvsr do 80
again"
You can bet the General was pleased
when he found it! His big black eyes
inst shone! And since then he's joined
in our games with the best Of us Hes
turned out to be IN awfully jolly chap.
and we're dreadful proud Of him on
examination aud exhibition days
Mary =. BrssA. - Iosa1s Compassion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
PuMoeNT PARAGRAPHS.

Strawberries are el2 quart There
ought to b gold in quartz Of this kind
Tor the producer.-Bostos Bulletin
Pulling weeds ID not 20 unpleasant
work. particularly when they grow on
a pretty little widows bonnst-Psek.
There are no real estate agents in
Alaska. That's why nobody pretends
it hes the most delightful climate in
the world. 0Io6s.
The men who have walked bare
footed over the burning sand Of the
desert always know all about the times
.that tried mems solesL"
-..Nothing il more pernicious than
the habit Of contracting debts" re-
marked father to his spendthrift son.
Don't you think expanding them is .
little worscr' asked the latter-Rtts-
0ssrgA Chronicle.
Some people arc 90 sanguins in
this world that they think they can
plant handful Of seed in . snow-drift
and gather . carload Of strawberries
the day after the first thaw.-Boltinsors
Americas.
Ma. did that comedy You saw last
night make all the folks cryF "Why.
NO. my dear. never laughed % much
in all my life" "Well pa told Mr..
Jones everybody in the theater sat in
.iers!''
-Teacher-''Johnny. doyou remem-
ber the proverb gave you yesterday"
Nom" 'Speech Is silver
and what il it!'' Il dunno. mum" II
know" spoke up . little boy At the
foot Of the class. every WE'LL you
may recite it." speech 10 silver. but
money talka-M T. Sss."
-"How arc You and your wife COM
ing on?" asked An Austin gentleman
Of . colored man. ''She has run mo
Oh, boss" 'What's the mattere' Il
il to blame. boss. I gave her = splen.
did white silk dress. and den she got %
proud she had no use for me. She said
l was too dark to match dc dresa -
Tsras Si|1ings.
You have mentioned several times
during the evening". 0oserveo one OF
the audience to . lecturer. ''the word
periphrasiA Would you kindly inform
me Of its precise meaningE 'Cer-
tainly." said he. lit Il simply . cir
cumlocutory and pleonastic circle OF
oratorical sonorosity circumscribing IN
atom Of ideality lost in verbal pro-
tundity."
Anxious Father-''Iwish you would
tell me what to do with my boy. He
il willful. disobedient and surly.
dress him down. with .. horseYhip- 4
dozen times . week. and sometimes
lock him in the coal-house for half Z
day to discipline him. but it does Nd
good; he comes out as defiant ~ ever.
What does such boy need?" Rev
Mr.. Surplice (decidedly)-':Ae needs q
change Of fathers"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
VALUABLE ADVICE.
An Expeesoacsa Detective O6sss . Sa8-
eaoeloa - Housekeepeea

An kxpsssssesa Detective OGsss ss9-
gsosaoa - H0usekeeperA
There arc only ten persons in .
thousand who, when they hear strange
noises in their house, do not imnieai-
ately make . light to find out the cause"
said one of the detectives Of a private
agency. This il the most absolute
piece Of folly sane person can COM
nit and vet it only seems natural. But
let me tell you that when you hear any
noise that indicates the presence in
your house Of a person who has no
business there. first take the precaution
to put out the light Then. II you want
70 search do SO in the dark. OF course
Won know the house better than any
intruder, and the chances are that II
you ke,2 ;a;ee the intruder will expose
himself either by showing . light or
stumbling over something. Then you
have the advantage Of knowing his po
sition without his knowing yours.
There il many murdered man In
in his grave to-day who would have
been alive had this advice been fol-
lowed. What can b moro preposter-
ous than the idea Of = man in his right
mind (knowing that II burglar is in
his house and is discovered he will take
desperate mcsns) actually Offering him.
sen q ! target BY appearing with .
lisht in his hand. which does no more
rood than to betray his presence. - il
is oulv natural that he can not see tkres
feet beyond the rays Of the light Take
The record Of murders committed where
only burglary was Intended. and you
win 6nd that three-quarters of them
are due 70 the folly Of searching for ths
huar9lar With . l9ht"-N \ SwA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24

4 D~NAlo a. Y.I Lazy Weteoo - - 0o0a
Miss Mary Geayaiel. one oe IL Nfis-
sion.ries suseainsa II India By ~ seoe
hmewn = DisuiplsA wviess vsey iaess.
6ssanR laGnnes - hae fAnsily h ~ sity.
Il /. now over four ryous0 sannsaAo 49,
to Hiudostan, in company with the Rev.
Mr.. Wharton, formerly pastor OF the
Church OF Christ. and his wife. The
nlace at which Miss Graybiel Is now
located Is in the heart OF India. on tho
line Of the railroad which is to be built
from Bombay directly across to CAL
cutta. The children OF the Sunday.
schools OF the denomination in the
limited States contributed fund OF
eomc four thousand dollars with which
to erect a house for this mission. and in
her last letter she modestly tells how
the work was done.
It appears that she had to serve ~
architect. master. builder and general
boss mechanic. First, she bought four
yoke Of buffalos to do the teaming; then
\ few big trees-they are very scarce in
that part OF the country. She employed
\ hundred natives, or nearly that num-
ber. whom she taught to quarry stonA
which had to be hauled several miles.
and TO make brick. first trampling the
CLAW. fashioning it into bricks and then
burning them. using the spare portions
Of the trees for fuel The trunks OF the
trees were lal,oriously by hand sawed
into boards for the floors. roof. etc. A
stone foundation three feet thick was
laid three feet below ground and -
much above, this solid base wall being
deemed necessary to keep out the white
ants, which are u great pest Of the
country. Evidently . good job was
made Of the wall. for Miss Graybiel in
penuously relates that an Englishmsn
Visitor INQUIRED who had been the en-
pineer. and expressed much surprise
when she told that she had directed tho
work herself.
Il takes . Buffalo girl to hold her own
among the heather. or any whore else.
Incidentally Miss Graybiel states that
the son Of . German missionary living
some forty miles distant was killed BY
= tiger. She attended the funeral. max
ing the journey through the solid jun
Gle in . cart drawn BY . pair OF the
6uffalos, with the chance at being
sprung upon by that or some other
tsoer a any moment Such Is life in
the wilds Of Hindostan. n.-Bs9ato Csss.
iar
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
4 Surprising Statement.

We boldly assert that all American
china and glazed crockery ware is
enameled with a preparation consisting
largely OF the red oxide Of lead. or rs
it Is commonly known. litharge. This
salt Of lead is very soluble in the fata-
cids especially in butyric acid. All
fatty goods contain this acid and when
from the frequent alternate expansion
and contraction OF the enamel or glaz-
ing on the various dishes and plates
We use on the table. cracks have formed.
the butyric acid insinuates itself under
the enamel. takes up the lead. and with
the food on the plate il taken into the
stomach. where being cumulative
poison it insiduously poisons the
system. Do not let US deceive ourselves
BY thinking that the quantity OF lead 10
small, but remember that the quantity
Of lead set free by carbonic acid in the
water running through . lead pipe b
still less, and yet no less authority
than Professor Chandler has proven
that much lead-poisoning il due to
thiA-AnsesjeoS As0iys6
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
MORE FACT THAN FANCY.

NC esayod IT ho0o, . dreamer stiu.
UNKNOWN Of all-vith small desire
soem beyond his native hill,
AAs own heaEth-fire.
a common toiler. poor and plain.
no unsuspec;ing eye could scan
1ne Promise ripening u Tie brain
on shat lone man.
HIS lowly life was like . cloak.
Inat held concealed his conscious power,
1ll one bright day his genius broke
sroM bud TO flower.
1neo great men came and grasped his hand,
Ana praised his work and called him wise
An9 yot they could not understand
ms sudden rise.
1ney reasosed-questioned thro' the dark
Ihev mArvelled 1t his eminence:
1Aey called his gift - special mark
o. Providence"
He s0iled-and quit their courtly hall;
He strobe into tho midnight murk,
And sighed: The secret after al,
Il work. work, work"
-. ~ 1attheWs, II Indianapolis JoW~ol
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS
TWO VALENTINES.

MeV %
Bert and Nell and CarOltne
SIT . schoostng valcntineA
Laugh and whisper, nod ana wtnk-
Can me bebvl sake, sltvel
they Sorret Tn almost Ave.
Guess know whom ! love best
well a Bert and IN the rest.
1.,, s. ~ ~ ~m--.Sse
ssThis n from your little May;
Ihere-it says - plain - day,
Loves you more than tongue can te0