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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03

vantage his liberality as publisher than
the manner in which he spends money for
illustrations in the books which he gives
away. If the reader of this letter happens
to have at hand copy of the agricultural
report for 1887 he will find in it ten colored
illustrations. Doubtless he will be sur
prised on learning that these ten pictures
cost the government S4,S0S. Four hundred
and eighty dollars apiece seems pretty ex-
pensive for pictures of new beets and re-
Gently discovered breeds of chinch bugs;
but it must be remembered that only
small part of this sum was expended for
engraving proper, most of the expense be-
ing incurred for the 100, 900 pages of each
illustration, prepared for insertion in the
report in the binding room.
The engravings in the agricultural re-
port of 1888 cost $4,000, more than one
third of this sum being paid for five pict-
ures in the report of the microscopic. The
farmer ought to appreciate what Uncle
Sam is doing for him in the way of pict-
ures, even if he doesn't Engravings for
the report of the bureau of animal indus
try cost 81 500; for the consular report on
cattle and dairy farming 1858 illustrations,
Sc. $50: chronological report, $500, and
even the one picture Of the bird in the little
book on ''The English Sparrow in North
America cost $50. A striking example
of the manner in which Uncle Sam goes in
for pictures whenever he finds something
to pictorialize is found in the engravings
! for Professor Marsh's report on souraDoda
| in the geological survey. There were 10
illustrations and they cost s., on, though
/ it is probable there is not more than one
-l,o,,eo-,1 +n,an-1 1nurr
! broad land who knows what souropoda is
or are or have been. ! confess that | don't.
| All told, the cost OF engraving is about
100000 year.
/ The biggest thing Uncle Sam does in the
publishing line is the agricultural report.
This he is never done with. He no sooner
gets the report for one year half printed
than the next years edition must be start
ed The result is that the great publish
ing house is constantly overrun with agrl-
cultural reports. From one years end to
another the presses are monotonously, per
sistently tapping down the broad sheets
which are bound up into the books the
farmers like so well. Four hun
dred thousand copies! Think what that
means 1t is seven hundred and fifty tons
of libraries for farmers. 1t is a-long freight
train-50 cars-full of black muslin bounc
books Pile all these volumes together il
a solid mass and they will equal the cubic
contents of a large four story brick dwell
ing house Place them side by side OF
book shelves and you will need shelving
eighteen and a half miles long to -hols
them all.
Think of the interest and pride in thei
work the farmers and the farmers boy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03

fifty volumes have already been issued,
and still the work goes on at a cost of
fortune every year. He is publishing
medical and surgical history OF the war,
which viii probably run to five or six vol
un,es, each volume costing about $4,000,
or 81 so a COPY Greater than any of these
in real value is work now being pub
lished-an indexed catalogue of the books,
periodicals, reports and manuscripts in the
library of the surgeon generals office.
This noble work, which is attracting at
tention from the medical fraternity of all
nations, will appear in about fifteen royal
octave volumes. costing the government
about S. a copy. Ten volumes are al
ready out.
Columns could be filled with descriptions
of other great educational works which have
come from Uncle Sans prolific presses.
Uncle Sam pays out great deal OF
money in the course of a year for engrav-
ings with which to embellish his various
publications. Nothing shows to better ad.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
HE Is THE GREATEST
Uncle Sam is the Champion
Book Publisher.
1T is A GREAT COLLECTION.
An Entertaining and Instructive Letter on
the Public Documents Turned out
by the Government.

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a = The greatest
publisher in the world is Uncle Sam. No
ether publishing house turns out so vast a
quantity, SO great a variety of books and
pamphlets as does he from his big publish
ing house in this city. He pays more
money to authors, too; for what is con-
gress but house full of writers for the
people, what are the executive officers and
their tens of thousands of assistants but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
A Contented Man.

A family by the name of Perkins, consist
ing of the father, his wife and urchildren,
passed through Atchison bound for Brown
county, Ills. The man had lost one eye and
the left arm, the woman was minus the left
arm. one of the children had but one leg,
another was blind and one sick. He had
e in cash. a plug of tobacco, a clay pipe, a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
American Credentials.

Anxious Mother-My dear, does that
young man who comes to see you belong
to good family?
Daughter-Yes, ma He comes of old
colonial stock, dating way back to the
Mayflower.
Mother-I am delighted to hear that.
But are you sure of it?
Daughter--Yes, indeed You ought to
hear him cough.-Good News
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03

There is rumoE, not very well authenti-
Gated, that ladies' gloves will have wide
stitching. 1t makes the hands look wider
aud Ia not likely to Obtain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03

yellow dog, and altogether was as happy
and contented as if he owned half the state.
-Atchison Kan Champion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
I EASDE,I

Has arranged for the visitors for Conference and Fail
to get full supplies for this cold SPELL of GOOD
CLOTH and PLUSH SACKS for
ladies' reduced prices for the coming week. having
bought heavy stock, and will make the reduction
Also, the same will apply for Dress Goods
and ShaNvlS. The stock Of Ladies' and
Children's Boots and Shoes of all we'll
known makes not be equaled, and our Depart
ment Of Mems and Boys Cloth
inc is unsurpassed for excellence and quality,
made expressly for ourselves.
Hats and Caps in the newest styles
and shapes this fall mportatons, embracing the most
varied and complete stock we have ever exhibited.
Our friends from the country can rely on the pro-
verbal low prices, for the farmer and family trade
have for twenty-five years been experienced and sue
cessful in supplying patrons from the largest to
the minutest necessity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
The Kemmler Execution,

Much unfavorable comment has been
made in the papers in regard to the
Kemmler execution. These comments
are no doubt largely due TO the sup
posed degrading innovation which such
executions may possibly engender in
the minds of ovcr-sensitive persons.
Such objection is scnseless. The sup
position on the part OF some persons
that the death of Kemmler was pro-
longed and highly painful is without
reason. His taking off was without
doubt instantaneous and absolutely
painless. The physical distortions
manifested were purely muscular, and
may be produced in the same way
upon any cadaver, as is we'll known to
all medical men. If the current had
been kept up for a few seconds longer
no such indications would have occur.
red, unless the current had been turned
off and then turned on again, which
would have been an unnecessary thine
to do. The current should have beer
passed through the body by way of the
two hands properly moistened and Sc
cured in the circuit. Everything about
that execution, when properly con
| sideraI shows tbot ~ vaS cerfain hu
name and in every way proper. 1t ha'
proved that the traditional and barba
rous gallows should be consigned tt
oblivion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
Tho Waste of Timber.
Providence Journal.

American people are so accustomed
to the idea that our country's resources
in timber are inexhaustible that warm
ings uttered by the newspapers from
time to time seem to have been with
out effect. One of the offices of the
present census, is, however, likely to be
to arouse the public mind from its ig-
norance, even if not to move it from its
Indifference. 1t cannot for instance.
be held trifling thing that the cen.
sus reports the standing timber lands
of lower Michigan to be only one
tenth what they were in 1880, nor
that the present aggregate in the
States of Michigan, Minnesota and
Wisconsin is little more than one
third OF that possessed by Michigan
alone ten years ago. The figures reveal
the enormous drafts which are being
made upon our timber supply. Wan
ton and reckless obstruction, is indeed
threatening the forests the country
over and it is easy to see that if the
present rate of consumption is main
tained the time when the three States
mentioned shall be denuded of their
timber lands can be easily calculated
even in months. In fact we are al
ready receiving practical evidence OF
the near approach of this period by
the forced closing of industries by
reason of the scarcity of timber in
sections which were once the center Of
Michigan's magnificent forests. These
J things ought certainly to set our peo.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
The Whole Truth.

The Pittsburg Dispatch tells how :
farmer of genuine and sturdy indie
pendence lately testified in q Western
Pennsylvania cour.. A certain ques
ton had been asked and us much. o
the answer given as suited the pur'
poses of the lawyer who was Cross
examining the witness.
"Stop there" cried the attorney
" Don't tell any more about that"
"But there is more to tell. l
haven't fully answered the question. "
The muzzle was held firmly in
place, but the witness was not sub
dued. Even when the Court had re-
buked him, he was still respectfully
insubordinate.
al have been brought here by
authority" he argued. Il have been
required to take solemn oath to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but truth. Now, you must
allow me to keep the oath you made
me swear. Neither Court nor counsel
has a right TO force me into perjury
because the counsel doesn't want
just quite the whole truth. | insist
on my right to give the remainder OF
my answer"
"And if you believe me-" said the
disgustcd lawyer, that haysced Court
sustained him, and / lost my case"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
Mistakes.

1t is mistake to labor when you
are not in Il fit condition to do so; TO
think that the more a person eats the
healthier and stronger he will become !;
to so to bed at midnight and rise at
daybreak, and imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained; to
imagine that, if a little work or exer-
else is good, violent or prolonged ex-
ercise is better; to conclude that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in; to eat as if you had
only minute to finish the meal in, or
to eat without an appetite, or to con-
tinue after it has been satisfied merely
to please the taste; to believe that
children can do as much work as grown
people, and that she more hours they
study the more they learn; to imagine
that whatever remedy causes one to
feel Immediately better Gas alcoholic
stimulants) is good for the system,
without regard to the after effects; to
take off proper clothing out of season
because you have become heated; to
sleep exposed to n direct draught; to
think any nostrum or patent medi-
cine is a specific for all diseases.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
STATE NEWS.

Some recent contracts for hops have
been made at Puyallup for 80 cents a
pound.
Walla Walla has had sixteen fires
since January l, the losses aggregating
$50, 1885, insurance $3S,65O.
Puyallup will have electric lights
soon. A company has been organized
with capital stock of $3.50 for that
purpose.
Alfred Wooster, Seattle carpenter,
while out hunting, accidentally dis
charged his gun and blew his left hand
into shreds.
Charles Carpenter, of Yakima, csti-
mates that he will have 1000 boxes of
hops to pick this year-if he can get
the pickers.
A new vein of coal six feet thick has
been found on the Newaukum river,
about fifteen miles from Chehalis,
which promises rich yield.
The crater OF Mount Baker is report
ed by the ranchers OF Baker river as
sending out volumes of smoke fire and
lava at intervals this summer.
The Roger brothers, who are making
bicycle tour from Plymouth Rock,
Mass, to Portland, Or, took dinner re-
Gently at the Hotel dc Green, in Endi
colt.
The Fairhayen mill broke the record
recently. A log thirty-two feet long
five feet in diameter, and containing
6,460 feet Of clear lumber, was sawed in
less than an hour.
A l0-year old son of John Grisdale
an elec ric railroad contractor, livin,
! four miles south of Seattle, died Sun
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
Bees Hinder a Train.

A swarm of bees created II block in n
curious manner on the Perkiomen rail
road the other day says dispatch from
PhGnixvilie, Pa. A freight train run
ming between PerKiomen junction and
Allentown stopped to take water at
Palm station, twenty miles north from
here. A swarm of bees from Il neigh
boring farm house had taken refuge in
some woods near by, and when the
train stopped az the station they came
buzzing out and nlighted with one
accord on the tender behind the engine.
The engineer and his assistant in the
engine and the brakemen standing
around the train were astOnishcd at
the visitation, and promptly sought
safety in the waiting room of the sta
ton. The fireman, William Heist,
was on the engine cab at the time,
tusily shifting coal from one side of
the tender to the other, and in an in
slant hundred bees set upon him.
Half mad with pain he jumped Off the
tender and rolled wildly in the grass
at the roadside.
The schedule time for starting the
train came and went, but the crew saw
10 way in which to start. They held
a consultation over the problem, and
finally bright idea struck the engi-
neer. Putting it into execution, he
crept softly and unconcernedly up to
the tender, after the manner of an ex-
perienccd bee farmer, and secured
possession of the adjustable hose with
which engineers are accustomed to
clean up their cabs. He got the drop
on the bees and turned on them n
steady stream OF cold water. The effect
was magical. The entire swarm took
to their wings and described straight
line, bee line, toward the woods. The
train then resumed its journey, fifteen
miles behind time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
In O City Cannery.

\ Chr0nicie reporter was conducted
through the Lusk canncry on Brannan
street recently 10y Mr. Sewall, the SUI
pcrintendent Here, a. in the other
packing houses, more fruit is bting put
up than in any previous year, some 80
women being employed III realing,
coring and canning. N,r; little talk
ing was being INDUCED in, the women
and even young child;cn down to 10
or II years old all being too busily en-
ployed to stop to talk. The children
easily make 20 cents day, Mr.. Scwall
says, ii they stick TO their work. The
fruit is pared and cOred and then
washed in large troughs of clean water.
Then each can is crowded full and
marked with the grade of fruit. The
can until this point has the large cir
cular opening i'll the top, through
which it is filled. The cans are placed
in racks holding several dozens, the
racks being mounted on cars which
bring them to the right height for con-
venient handling. They are then
wheeled to the syrup tank and filled
with syrup, about 800 to $50 pounds
OF sugar being used to Il ton of peaches.
The little caps, each with small hole
i'll the center, 10 cover the circular
openings; are next soldcrcd on with an
by which large number
are handled in minute. The truck
on which stands the rack is then
passed on to tank full OF boiling water,
in which the rack. cans ana all are inn
mersed. The hole in the cap is so
small that no water enters, and none
OF the syrup comes out.
Next, the rack full of cans is replaced
on the truck and passed on to the
second solderers, who deity deposit a
drop of solder on the hole in the cap
To make sure that no live germs OF de-
composition are left within, the cans
are again immersed in boiling water
and arc then ready for packing, in
which is included the placing of the
proper label and boxing. The syrupis
used only to make the fruit palatable
and no: for its preserving effect, heat
and hermetical sealing being depended
upon for that.
The cans are made by machinery in
the upper story of the building, and
come rolling down in steady stream,
during working hours, along railway
built for that purpose.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

The newspapers of both parties are
endeavoring to figure out the net re-
suits OF nine months of Republican
Congress, but the Fort Worth
Gazette comes nearest to the total with
the observation that "there is q
stringency in the money market,
much OF which is due to the attempts
OF the Republicans to pass the unholy
Mckinley bill; values are unsettled.
and the Republicans in Congress are
fighting between themselves over the
embarrassing situation caused bv
their stupidity"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

SEVEN Hours SLEEP AT LEAST
There is not one man or woman in
10000 who can afford to do without
seven or eight hours sleep. All those
stories written about great men and
women who slept only about three or
four hours night make very interest
ing reading, but tell you, my readers,
no man or woman ever yet kept
healthy in body and mind for num-
Der OF years with less than seven hours
sleep. Americans need more sleep
than they are getting. This lack
makes them so nervous and the insane
asylum so populous. If you can get
to bed early then rise early. If you
cannot get to bed till late, then rise
late. 1t may he as Christian for one
to rise at eight as it is for another to
get up at five. l counsel my readers
to get up when they are rested. But
let the rousing bell be rung at least
thirty minutes before your public ap-
pearance. Physicians say that sud-
den jump out of bed gives irregular
motion to the pulse. 1t takes hours
to get over too sudden rising. Give
us time after You call us, to roll over
gaze at the world full in the face, and
look before we leap.-T. De WM Tai
1RUUP
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

MICHIGAN has new law, the effect
OF which will be watched with interest
all over the country. The law is in.
tended to stop drunkenness, and the
penalty falls upon the drunkard in.
stead of the saloon-keeper. Accord.
ing to an exchange it inficts penalty
of $40 for the first drunk, 500 for the
second and 800 and six months in
Jail for the third. This is certainly q
step in the right direction. If man
will persist in debauching his man.
hood, let the penalty rest on his own
shoulders and see how it goes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

The ACCURACY OF these figures for
about Il malt century is astonishing
Our growth since then has fallen away
from the hopes of this wise calculator.
Perhaps it is owing to our own de-
generacy however, that his lack of sa-
gaciou5 forecast. And it must be re-
mcmbered that civil war was disturb
ing element which Mr.. Watson did
not take into calculation. 1t was not
till the census after the war that his
figures were perceptibly departed from.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
D. 8. B. HENRY,
q. s. DEPUTY SURVEYOR,

Residences Sixth Street, Swans Addi-
tion to Olympia. Wash.
OORVEYIS Of all kinds prnmptly at
- tended to. The re-estallishlng OF old
| Government lines a speciality. Townsites
surveyed and plated. Railroads located,
and levels run for drains. Lands exam-
ined and character reported.
OLYMPIA. April ls. 1890. II
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
4 REMARKABLE FORECAST.
Surprising Accurate Predictions Of
Population by New York Mer-
chant.
From the Bost IN Herald.

A curious calculation Was made by
Elkana Watson, Il merchant Of New
York, in the year 1915, as to the
probable population of this country.
Gen. +. A. Walker has thought it i'm
portant enough to copy into his article
on the United States in the encyclo-
pedia Britannica. Here are Mr..
Watson's figures made at that time,
with the real figures as disclosed in
the census afterward taken, with esti-
nation made further:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

JOHN Campbell, laboring man in
Seattle, while coming down the railroad
track from Mannings wharf, felt an
arm thrown around his throat, but
quickly threw the man off and knocked
a pistol from the hand of his assailant
into the bay. He started in and gave
the garroter a sound thrashing and let
him go.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

frederick Winters, who was badly
hurt nv falling into a we'll near Walla
Walla ard had both legs broken, has
been given up by his physicians, who
say he cannot recover.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

CoAnalssloAerS.

We The undersigned Banks and Bankers ,o,u
pay all Price dratcn In the Louisiana State
Lotteries wltich may be presented at our coun.
ters.
r. n. WALMsLEY, Pres. Leu,a MAJ. ah
FlEHHE LANAUX, Pres. State NATL m
A.. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Naf Bh
CANL KOHN, Pres. Union NstSl Bank.