The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-19


portant historical papers in existence She
keeps 1T In fire proof vault and she will
quote from 1t very freely in her work
Salmon p. Chase kept diary throughout
his whole public career. He had it in his
bedroom and he jotted down his memoranda
IN 1t of the occurrences of the day every
night before he retired. 1t is probably as
valuable as the diary OF John Quincy
Adams.
SALMON p. CHAsE's FIRST LOVE.
1t is hardly probable that the story of
Salmon p. Chase's first love will be in
Guided in this biography, but the truth is
that the chief justice was married three
times before he was forty, and he did not
get the girl he first paid his attentions to-
This was Miss Cabell whom he met here
in Washington. He came here while his
uncle was Senator, to get place in the de-
partments; but his uncle told him that he
would give him a dollar to buy a spade to
dig with, but that he would not help him to
the living dungeon of government depart
ment. The result was that young Chase
had to go to teaching school, and he studied
law at the same time under William Writ
who was the father of one of his pupils 1t
was here that he met Miss Cabell, who was
visiting at the Wirts. He fell deeply in
love with her, wrote verses about her, and
the story is that he finally proposed She
of Virginia, and thought herself too good
for school teacher like young Salmon
Chase. What finally became of her | never
heard, but if she lived to see her rejected
lover become the most noted jurist in the
United States, it must have been source
OF bitter regret to her.
HOW SALMON P. CHA Sc SHAVED A HOG.
They tell a funny story out in the
country near Columbus, Ohio, about Sal
mon P. Chase's boyhood. He spent part
of it with his uncle, Bishop Chase, who be-
lieved in the young man earning his salt
for the board and schooling which he gave
him and who expected him to attend to all
the duties about his farm. One day in the
fall as the bishop was starting away to ride
the circuit of his congregation he told Sal
mon to quit school at noon that day and
come home and kill and dress pig Young
Chase had never seen first class hog
killing but he thought he could do it. He
knew that the first thing he must do was
to catch the pig, which he finally di6 after
great trouble, and killed it. The dying hog,
however, did not look anything like those
he had seen dressed in the butcher shop and
1t puzzled him as to how he was going to
get the hair off. He had heard, how
ever, that the farmers usually scalded
hogs to loosen the bristles. So he heated
an apple butter tub of water, poured it
1hpO q odilCl anu oOuSOQ luc DUEh6E III u.
Now, in order to get the bristles out of a
pig it is said that you must leave it in the
water only short time At any rate,
whether this is true or not, whether the
pig was left in too long or whether the
water was too hot, the result was that the
bristles were firmly set and would not
come out at all. Young Salmon dug away
with his fingers until they were raw. He
scraped with knife and pulled them one
by one, but all to no effect. 1t was getting
far into the night and he was in despair
when he thought of the bishops raizors,
and getting them he shaved the pig from
nose to tail. 1t was beautiful job and he
was congratulated upon his success. The
bishop did not try to shave until he went
to preach one day, and then his temper by
no means improved his sermon.
KATE CHAsE's RETIRED LIFE.
Mrs. Kate Chase has practically dropped
out of society since she came back from
France. She has her own friends who go
to see her, but she does not seem to take
much interest in society. She has tasted
tie best of it and found that it is like the
apples of Sodom, beautiful without but
ashes within. Shortly after she left Gov
ernor Sprague for good she was not in the
best of circumstances and [ saw once in an
old antiquarian store in New York, a beau
tiful water pitcher of solid silver, which
the antiquary said belonged to Kate Chase
Sprague and had been left there to be Sold |