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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
Turtle as Food.

In st. Bartholomew's or Turtle bay. as
the whalers call it. where for five months
we lay taking and curing abalones, our
food was chiefly turtle This little har-
Dor swarmed with them. After IL few
hours hunt one of our whaleboats would
return with five or six of these unwieldv
creatures in the bottom, some so large
and heavy as to require hosting over. the
side. Often the green fat under the
callipee, or under shell, lay three inches
in thickness. 1 served up turtle fried,
turtle stewed, quarters of turtle roasted
and stuffed like loins of veal, turtle plain
boiled and turtles flippers boiled to a
jelly and picked. A turtle is a variouslv
favored being. Almost every portion
has a distinct and Individual taste. After
all, old Jake, our black boatsteerer.
showed us the most delicate part of the
turtle. and one previously thrown away.
This was the tripe, cleansed of thin
inner skin. When the cabin table had
once Toasted on stewed turtle tripe
they called for it continuously. After
many trials and much advice and sug-
gestion, | learned to cook accent
ably the abalone. The eatable part of
this shell fish when fresh is as large as a
small tea saucer. There are two varie-
ties, the white and black. The white is
the best. Cut up in pieces and stewed,
as l attempted at first, the abalone
turned out stewed bits of guttapercha;
fried, it was fried guttapercha. Then
a man from another vessel came on
board, who taught me to inclose a single
abalone in small canvas bag and then
pound it to jelly with wooden mallet
This process got the honey out of the
abalone. The remains of four or five
abalones thus pounded to pulp, and
then allowed to simmer for couple of
hours, would make big tureen of the
most delicious soup man ever tasted,
every drop of which, on cooling, hard
ened to the consistency of calves foot
jelly. When my cabin boarders had
once become infected with abalone SOUP
they wanted me to keep bringing it
along. The Americans do not know or
use all the food in the sea which is good
Prentice Milford.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
WHEN TIE RATS WENT UP.
How "SIustache" Agreed to Pay His Win
ter's Board.

How "SIustache" Agreed to Pay His WIN
ter's Board.
There are number of the older resi-
dents Of st. Paul who remember 'tMus-
tache," an original river character, who
was also a familiar figure in all the river
towns between ST. Paul and ST. Louis.
No one, however, knew him by any
other name than Mustache. He was a
raftsman by profession and a fighter by
instinct. Though weighing but $50
pounds, for number of years, between
1868 and 1878, he was called the best
man on the upper Mississippi. His last
trip for the season left him stranded in
Muscatine, Ia, late one fall. 1t was pos
sible for him to work his way up to the
pineries on some steamboat, but Mus
tache decided to play the gentleman for
one winter at least, and accordingly
sought out German hotel proprietor
and stated his case:
II want to board with you this win
ter, he said, s'but [ cannot pay you by
the week.
"Vell, how will you bay me?" inquired
the BOnlface.
''I'll tell yer what I'll do, an my word
is ginerally good wild de boys; I'll board
wild you all winter, take 50 with of extras
per week, an pay you when the RATS
come up from down the river in the
spring"
'Vell, dot ish all right so var ash gan
see,' replied the German.
On this basis Mustache put in num-
Der of months with the German, enlivened
few times by a fight between the RATS
man and some local bully Objectionable
20 the house. Thus Mustache made him
self solid with the boarding boss. Spring
sprung. One day the German took out
from behind the bar greasy blotter and
called Mustache up to the bar to help
audit the account.
''Let me zee,'' he said; 'syou hat been
here Won. doc. tree. your monts und a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

halluf; dot makes owit elghdeen, nine
deem weeks, aind it? Now den, de poard
makes owit feefty seven tollars und doc
tollars per week for exdras; dot makes
owit in all ninedy-five tollar. Now, ven
you bay me?''
'sOh, I'll pay just as said I would, :"
said Mustache. ''You remember how
that was"
81 think do
eyes, I said I'd pay when the RATS
come up from down the river"
"Yaw; der RATS ish going by now,
effery tay."
s'Those RATS are going down stream
I'm waiting, same as you are, fer the
RATS to come up the river. See?'
There must have been compromise
on this bill: at any rate, the German
used to tel the story quite gleefully up
to the day of his death in 1885. St Paul
Pioneer Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
How Ella Wheeler Wilcox Presses

Among the ladies who seem to have
the gift of dressing is Ella Wheeler Will
cox, the poet. She knows herself, and
has adopted to herself a style that is a
part of herself, and it is all white for
home or evening dress. When you have
left her presence all you remember is a
sheen of satin and film of lace, a statu-
esque figure not too large or too small,
sweet, genial face, two loving eyes and
crown of FURNISHED hair This is just as
it should be. In the street she wears
soft gray and fawn colors, and every
thing is just simply setting which is
never obtrusive, yet is remembered be-
cause of its perfection and It's quiet fit
uess.-New York Letter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
THE DIAMOND CHARACTER.

The beauty of character is to reflect God {;
and just so far as we color this reflection
of God with anything of self, so far do we
fail of that Qualification of inward thought
and outward life which makes US like him.
The diamond is the perfect type of charac-
ter. Every other precious stone reflects
the light colored by its own texture. Only
the diamond reflects light in its essential
purity. This is the secret of It's superior
ity among gems. Other gems may be beau
tiful, but the diamond is transcendently
beautiful Young Christians, be diamond
characters Catch the divine light, and
give it forth again uncolored by selfishness
OF any sort. Be SO simple and so sincere
that all the beauty and all the truth com
ing to you out of the God life and the
Christ life shall shine through you into the
lives of others, and help to make them also
transmitters of light. 1t is self-consaious-
ness that spoils the beauty of character
The secret of true living is to lose the in
termediate sense of self, and think only of
that wider relationship of God and neigh
Dor. keep thou thy soul translucent,
that thou mayest never see it's shadow
ZiOn'S Her1Id
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
Hero Worship.

A Partisan gentleman, somewhat blase
with the delights and fatigues Of the gay
capital, took train for Geneva, where he
went to look at apartments in the Rue de
Paris, says an exchange. The landlaGy
enumerated in lavish terms the advan-
tages of her establishment, saying among
other things:
This room was once occupied by Jean
Jacques Rousseau"
You don't say sou
sit is perfectly true. The place is left
just IS it stood in the Eighteenth cen
tury."
"What a joker
''This is the table on which the great
man wrote the Village Soothsayer'"
"Oh, on"
"That is the cupboard in which he
kept his linen"
Really
"There is the armchair in which he
used to sit, the clock which told him the
time. Lastly, monsieur, yonder is his
bed"
ooh, but do hope they have changed
the sheets"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
THE AGE OF MARTYRS NOT OVER.

Father Damien's self-sacrifice and heroic
death among the lepers of the Sandwich
Islands are fresh in memory. Another
priest was ready to take his place as soon
as he fell, and yesterday there arrived in
New York, woman, whose name in relig-
ion is Sister Rose Gertrude, on Ter way to
join the leper settlement in Molokai. This
woman is not leper, but she has deliber-
ately chosen to make her home with the
lepers, for their bodily and spiritual good,
well knowing that she can never leave them
and return to her home and friends Such
grand devotion to humanity as this gives
one brighter views of Christian charity
than are gathered from the usual course Of
news hiladelphid Euening Telegraph
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
CHURCH AND CREED.
----'- n 1-.-T y ~
The Various Religious Services
to be Held To-day.
DO THE DEAD STILL REMEMBER US
The Diamond Character Inability to Pray
The Brahmins and Christ-The
Lepers at Molokai.
Religious services will be held at the
various churches to-day as follows:

Religious services will be held at the
various churches to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LArrER.pAY
SAINTS.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus NJ
Cannon, president; Joseph Z. Taylor and
Charles w. Penrose, counselOrS. Meeting this
afternoon at o'clock.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at 80 q. m. Sunday school at 9:45 Morning
service with sermon at II u. IN. Bible class at
=: 80 p. m. Evening prayer and sermon at z: 80
pm Ash Wednesday services at II am and
80 pm.
Third South street, near Main ] .Brainard Thrall
pastor. Services with preaching at II a. m and
at 30 p. m. Sunday school at 1915 pm. Society
OF Christian Endeavor at $50 pm. Seats free
and everybody welcomed.
ST. PAUL's CHAPE1~Morning prayer and
sermon at II am. Sunday school at 1880 o. M
Evening prayer and sermon at 7:20 p. N. Bishop
Leonard will preach in the evening.
SPIRITUALISTS MEETING-This Sunday even
ing in the Temple of Honor lodge room over
Deseret National bank, Main street, at O'Clock.
Enbuirers invited. Admission free
The German Methodists have seven
churches in New York, eleven in Chicago,
in Buffalo, four in St. Louis, four in Bro ok
Ign, three in Philadelphia.-Th Beacon.
One of the missionaries of the China In
land Mission, a Scotch gentleman worth
81 100000, is living in China on twenty five
cents week, using all his fortune in the
work.
A mission school is to be established by
Rev. E. w. Kelly, of Mandalay, on the very
spot where DR.. Adoniram Judson, the first
missionary from America, suffered the
cruel imprisonment at Oungpenia.
The Moravians number 1927, and yet
we are told that they have sent out, during
the century, $4,000 missionaries, and $780,
600 yearly. They have nine mission ships
-Ihe Illustrated Christian Weekly.
Twelve hundred converts have been bap-
tized in the Baptist mission in Russia in
the past two years. The mission is princi-
pally among The German colonists in South
Russia. There is also a successful mission
in Roumania and Bulgaria.
The public opinion that strengthens the
right and keeps down the wrong must be
watchful as well as fearless and honest 1t
must strike quickly as well as hard. 1t
must aim at prevention as well as cure Of
evil-doing. -Christian AdUocdte Nashville.
A Hindoo gentleman has called CON
gress of Brahmin priests and learned men
for the purpose of Incorporating the1Bible
among the sacred books of India, and offici-
ally recognizing Christ as the last spiritual
avata or incarnation of Brahmin, the su-
preme deity.
There is only one Methodist theological
seminary among the 250, 900, 900 of India 1t
was founded in 1872 by the gift of SIC, 900
from Rev. d. w. Thomas, of the North
India conference. 1t has so far turned out
165 native missionaries and forty-four
Christian teachers-Wester Christian Id
uocate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
He Wanted an Even Wager.

Loud Voiced Party will bet any man
in the party $40 that 1 can put two bill
lard balls in my mouth at one time.
Solemn Visaged Party Degrading him
critically)-No; can't go you. But if
you will make wager where the chances
are about even, will bet you $40 that
you can't put the billiard table in your
mouth. New York World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

lngly smoother my is;::.-- . .-s-=- - --c-.
and added, archly:
"How dreadfully frightened yo1
looked, dear, at the reporters being after
me! | am afraid you are, after all, what
you are SO fond of calling yourself-sa
country pumpkin
"But the happiest one alive" l an
swered, snatching her to my heart
Celia Logan in Belford's Magazine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
Followed the Parsons advice.

The parsor was greatly astonished at
the growth Of kissing among the younger
members of his flock, especially after he
had preached Il strong sermon to them
on the matter. This is what he advised:
every young man and young woman
should set their faces against kissing. >
Boston Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

wreck II. was an orphan, with no rela-
tives i,cJ i.:y aunt. who has not strength
enough Of character to control or guide
SO o.:st;as :; and headstrong a girl as I
am. 'i;r-.he-man''-she paused, grew
white s.auddered at the recollection;
then ~ an effort mastered her emotion
and went on-'was cashier in a bank
where | had on deposit considerable
sum Of money. We met frequently, and
was fascinated by him. He professed
to love ne. and we became engaged. My
aunt did what she could to prevent my
marrying him: but as she could urge
nothing against his character she was
forced to fall back upon the tir,c hon
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

We have a speedy and positive curefor
catarrh, diphtheria, canker mouth and
headache in SHILOHS CATARRH REM
EDY. A nasal injector free with each
bottle Use it if you desire health and sweet
breath. Price 80 cents. Sold by "A. G..
Smith &. Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
SALIyA.

SALIVA, Utah, Feb 4, 1890.
Gents: Salvador Magnus cured me of
La grippe completely in four days. can
recommend it.
Fl II GOrTFREDSON
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
Not a Success as a Reporter.

A young reporter has secured his dis
charge because when three articles were
required of him he turned in ga, An and
The. Washington Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

Diphtheria and all kinds OF sore throat
yields readily to the Microbe Killer Use
it freely, it can be relied on D. l.. Davis,
20 w. First South street, agent for Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
ST. BALL a. CO.. "a MAIN STREET

We will on and after Monday, January
q, be prepared to serve the public with
New England homemade bread. We make
a speciality OF every thing in our line. Have
cocks, pastry cooks, and ornamental con-
fectloners. Bring your own cakes, and we
will ornament them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
PILES! Piles.

DIR. Williams Indian Pile Ointment will
cure Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles
when all other Ointments have failed. 1t
absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at
once, acts as poultice. gives instant relief
DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment is pre-
pared only for piles and Itching of the pri
vate parts, and nothing else Every box
is warranted. Sold by druggists. or sent
by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents and 81
per box.
WILLIAMS M'F'G. Co., Props.
Cleveland, o.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
Afraid of His Cheek,

Horse Owner-Say, keep your face
away from that horses hoof. He may
kick you.
Book Agent-Oh, rats! He won't hurt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
JACK FROST Is HERE.

We offer fifty dozen toboggan caps at %,
80 and 90 cents, worth double the money.
SIMON Bros
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

Spring styles of Christy hats just re-
ceived. BAsT- MARSHALL MER Co,
142 Main street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

}. I. Trowbridge the well known
writer of books for boys, is over 70 years
o? age, and lives at 4 r!ington, Mass. He
aas made q fortune with his pen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

Prescriptions a speciality at Crismon,
Scarf & Co.'s, the druggists. Try them =
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

Horse Owner-I know that; but 1 don't
want the animal crippled.-Lawrence
American.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
| read the following among the per-

| read the following among the per-
sonals:
Miss Emily Ives, the eccentric thrice
nlillionairess, gave the slip to the great
world of society, and was quietly mar
ried on the 23d inst, in -, to coun-
try gentleman of no fortune to speak of.
Dame Rumor says that on both sides it
was regular old fashioned love match.
The friends of the fair bride-and they
are legion-are rejoicing that at least
one American girl has preferred to be-
stow her immense fortune upon one of
her own countrvmen instead of some
titled pauper."
'Is-is-it true?" gasped.
'sYes, it is true she answered.
'But why did you tell me that you
were penniless?"
Il never said that, Geoffrey-never. l
told you that had been robbed of thirty
thousand dollars. You inferred that it
was all had"
why did you not undeceive me?"
Because, after my first bitter expert
ence, I determined that the man who
next besought me should not know had
dollar l saw the error into which you
had fallen. and was careful not to disa-
buse your mind of it. How else could I
be sure that you loved me for myself,
and not for my money!"
Then, with 9 bright smile. Emily low
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16

Prescriptions a speciality at Crismon,
Scarf Co.'s, the druggists. Try them. \
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
THE INABILITY TO PRAY

One of the curious facts about the ordi-
nary Catholic, whether cultivated or not,
is his inability to pray. He may be able to
read the prayer book through, to follow the
mass with sincere devotion, to take an in
telectual pleasure in reading "Tne Imita-
ton of Christi but the idea of making
prayer the expression of his feelings and
his convictions, the means of union with
God, seems foreign to nine persons out of
ten. This is not characteristic of the igno-
rant alone, or of the uneducated 1t is Just
as marked in the scientist and the liutera
teur. The doctrine of the communion of
saints is well understood by Catholics as
far as the catechism teaches it, but the ap-
plication of the doctrine is not thought of
too frequently. To pray for the sick and
the dead is a common Catholic practice but
to pray for the tempted brethren through
out the world, for those without the light
of faith, for those leading lives Of sin, for
the poor and the outcasts, are customs that
do not seem to find favor with the present
generation. The cause, of course lies in
the training of the young. If they are
taught simply to say prayers by rote, they
Will never say anything else. Even in our
academies and colleges the teaching how to
pray IN Its best sense is very rare. If it
were Oftener done we can conceive that the
new generation would show much deeper
regard for holy things and for holy living.
Catholic ReUielU
DO THE DEAD STILL REMEMBER Us?
To the question whether the dead con-
tlnue to be "conversant with earthly occur
FENCES and scenes" and hence see and
know those whom they have left behind.
no answer can be given, either affirmatively
or negatively, on the basis of mere reason |:
and, so far as we know, no answer is. either
directly or suggestively, given in the Bible
We are hence IN state of ignorance on
this point, and must so remain as long as
we continue in the present world. We re-
member our departed friends as we knew
them when living, and think of them
as we hope they are in the spirit world :;
and assuming their continued existence
with the retention of the intellectual facul-
ties which they had when on earth, we C III
reasonably infer that they remember Us
as they knew US to be when dwelling with
US in this world of trial. We may thus, in
the absence of present intercourse with
them, use our past knowledge in qmasi
communion with them; and it sc ems highly
probable that they may do the same thing
IN like communion with u.s. Though
ABSENT they are not absolutely lost to US,
and we may reasonably conclude that we
are not absolutely lost to them What has
occurred is separation, and, for the time
being, suspension of all conscious present
intercourse between the living and the
dead. This lost intercourse may be, and
presumably will be, renewed hereafter be-
tween those, knowing and known to each
other, who shall hereafter be jewellers in
the same world. Those who precede us in
death will not return to u.s. We must 90
TO them This was King David's idea. We
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
An Extemporized Hat Rack.
Finlan-It's wan that Mary Ann bought

at McTine's.
Murphy-An' a good wan it is, Jerry.
TIL man that shtuffed it knowed his
business.-Judge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-27
TEXAS SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.

The new Methodist church at Junction
City, Kemba! county, is completed, and
when the furniture is IN place will be
dedicated.
Crosby County News: The Emma
town company will give literally in town
lots to the first religious denomination
that builds q church house in Emma.
TIE Baptis. church at Seymour is
nearing completion. It l. magnificent
structure add Is an ornament to the city &.
In q special write-rp the Quanah
Tribune has the following: Methodist
church, South, Rev. J. II. Henson, pas
tor, organized November II, 1886, by
Rev. J r. Hosmer, with seven MEM
bers, now has eighty-fve, having
doubled its number during the past year.
Is now building new parsonage, costing
about $500, and will be the best building
Of its kind in the Vernon district. The
church now has d subscription of about
$500, 20 be supplemented with $1,000
from the church building fund, and will
erect a church building TO cost not less
than $4,000 early next season. The Cum
berland Presbyterian church, J. d.
Brgley. pastor. Has an organization
and are making arrangements to build
in the near future.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-27
TEXAS NEWS AND NOTES.

BRooKsToN, Dec. %. - Christmas
passed off rather quietly. the weather
being very uisagreeable, cloudy and
cold. Our merchants die splendid
Christmas business in spite of the rain.
Every business house in town was
crowded with customers. Quite num-
Der of our people took advantage OF the
ow rates and are visiting their old
homes.
FoKNEY, Dec. pc. - Although our
Christmas was a wet one. the Christmas
trees at she Methodist and Baptist
churches were quite we'll attended, and
the children mad merry and pleasant
time. our citizens enjoved the Christ
mas with their families, as almost all the
stores were closed greater part Of the
day. No drunks nor fights.
DENIsoN, Dec. 26.-Nyrtie Lodgs
No. %, Of this city went 10 " hitesboro
this evening and will assist il instituting
u lodge there Tonight.