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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
AS TO SIDEWALKS.

At it's next regular meeting, on Tuesday
evening, the council will, in all probability,
pass ordinances providing for the laying of
pavements on certain sidewalks. Various
materials are to be employed, those named
in the bills being stone tagging, asphalt
and brick. AS to the first named there
will probably be no objection. There will
certainly be none if the property-owners
are able to pay for the improvement. Flag
ging will cost a good deal more than the
other materials, but the first cost will not
be taken into account by the far sighted,
progressive taxpayer, for he knows what
tagging Is, knows how it will last, knows
that it will be on the sidewalk and in good
condition long after he has passed to his
final account and knows that the original
cost is practically the whole cost. He
knows that within year he will not be
called upon 80 go down into his pocket to
pay for repairs; that his sidewalk willnot
be broken, rough and uneven, full of holes
and an unsightly nuisance generally. If
from any cause slab becomes slightly dis
placed it is matter of few minutes and
no expense to fix it in position.
AS to the other materials proposed, If the
property owners are wise they will reject
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
WISE WORKINGMEN.

A general strike was apprehended on
May l, involving mechanics, miners and
laborers. The scheme was for this strike
to take place simultaneously in Europe and
America, and many of the labor organize
tions have been working up to it for year
past. The object for which this struggle
was to have been inaugurated was an eight
hour day.
The general strike did not take place. A
few thousands of men went out here and
there, but the great majority of the wage
workers continued at work. We cannot
but think that the men have shown greater
wisdom in this than the so called leaders
who would have turned all out and shut I'D
mines, mills and factories and suspended
building operations indefinitely. We think
the men have shown the greater wisdom,
for such a strike as was contemplated
would have been little short of
crime against workingmen, while
it would certainly have resulted in
much violation of the law. Comparatively
few laborers are prepared to stop work for
even a brief period. When they strike
they should have resources to fall back
upon until they gain their point, or until it
shall be demonstrated that they cannot
win. If all had gone out, as planned, who
would have supported the vast army of
idlers2 Within week thousands of men,
women and children would have been hun
CRY and driven to crime or into surrender
In small strike there are the fellow work
men who retain their places to look to for
assistance; but in such strike as was in
! tended, all would have been in the same
distressing plight, and after few weeks
suffering, all would been compelled
! to return to their PLACES on such terms as
their employers might dictate
We would not be understood as
intimating that it is wrong for the work
tingmen to ask anleight-hour day. On the
contrary we believe that such a request is
just, and furthermore believe that ere long
it will be granted generally wherever it is
possible. 1t may require strikes and vigor-
GUS ones to bring it about, and it is posi-
BILE there will be re adjustment of wages
before the demand is yielded to, but within
a short time, a very few years at most,
eight hours will be accepted and regarded
everywhere as a days work. But in bring
ing this about men should be guided by
wisdom and not by passion; they should
act for and not against their own best in
terest They should recognize the existing
condition of things, and not undertake, as
some of the hotheads and agitators want
to do, to bring about mighty Industrial
revolution, re adjustment of the labor aud
wages system at one stroke.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
DIVORCE.

The state of Delaware has done very
sensible thing in relation to the subject of
divorce. For many years that state has
been noted as gathering place for those
married people anxious to dissolve the
marital bonds which connected them in IN
willing partnership, but who, through the
stringency of the divorce laws in their own
states, could not legally break loose from
the contract entered into. 1t is notorious
that the divorce laws are very liberal in
Delaware, and they are so still, but the law
recently passed provides that:
When an inhabitant of this state Delaware)
shall go into any other jurisdiction to obtain
divorce for any cause occurring here, or for any
cause which would not authorize 4 divorce by
the law of this state, divorce so obtained shall
be of no force or effect in this state In all
other cases divorce decreed in any other state
or country, according to the law of the place.
by court having jurisdiction of the cause, and
of both parties shall be valid in this state.
And furthermore the law provides that:
No divorce from the bonds of matrimony
shall be decreed by the court when the cause
assigned therefor in the petition occurred out
of this state and the petitioner was a non-resi-
dent thereof at the time of its occurrence, IN
less for the same or like cause such divorce
would be allowed by the laws of the state or
country in which it is alleged to have occurred
By this arrangement Delaware is closed
to the divorce seekers; and while it leaves
the divorce laws of the state still liberal, it
practically limits them in application to
the residents of the state for whom they
were enacted, and thus removes the scan
Dial which for some time has blurred the
fame of that state il respect to the laws
touching divorce. 1t will also be observed
that the new law prevents citizens of Della
ware going into other states where divorce
laws are still more lax; breaking the mar
riage bonds and then returning to
live in the state of Delaware If
the cause for the divorce were suffi-
Gent to obtain the legal separation
in Delaware, then the action of the courts
in the distant state will hold good there; il
not, then while good in the state where the
divorce was granted. it would not hold
good in Delaware This may be a some
what complex arrangement, but it will
doubtless put stop to people either going
into that state to obtain divorces, and its
own citizens from going from thence tc
other states to secure them; and it is one
of the best methods, how-so-ever compli-
Gated it may seem, of disposing of that ques
ton which is something of national
scandal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03

them. To do so will not argue that the tax
payers are non-progressive snd opposed TO
paved sidewalks. 1t Will be simply an as
sertion of wisdom. We do not proclaim
against asphalt and say that it cannot be
well laid or that it will not make good
sidewalk; we do assert, however, that
wherever tried hereabouts it has proven
miserable failure, and in most instances it
is little short of nuisance. 1t was laid in
Ogden, and the people are ashamed of it,
while those who put it down confess that
it is not a success. The experience OF
Provo is not much better. The patches
which have been laid in this city are any
thing but encouraging. 1t is possible to
make an attractive, substantial walk OF as
phaltum, but until there has been practi-
cal demonstration of the fact, taxpayers
ought not to be required to pay for expert
men.s. If asphalt shall be employed, the
contractors ought to be held in bonds to
keep the walk in repair for at least five
years. in which event we don't believe
there would be many responsible bidders
for the work, so little confidence is there in
the material.
AS for brick let US hope there will be a
unanimous protest against their use every
time they are proposed. There never was
brick pavement which remained IN a
slightly and reputable condition for any
length of time. Brick walks have been
laid in Omaha, in Chicago, in Philadelphia,
in New York and in other cities and they
have been invariably condemned by the
public and by the property owners The
best of them become nuisance in short
time, andif they are kept in anything like
repair they are a source of constant ex-
pense, soon becoming more costly than
frst-class stone tagging.
Property owners will be wise If they in
sist upon good pavements, or none. Don't
be driven into the practice of false economy,
as the acceptance of the cheap makeshifts
which the council may attempt to foisi
upon you in the name of progress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
BEET SUGAR

The far mers of Utah, especially those in
Utah county, who are this season making
an extensive experiment in raising the
sugar beet, viii be interested in the re-
marks recently made by Mr.. E. B. GRANT
on the cultivation of the sugar beet in
Nebraska where extensive preparations
are being made to go into the sugar pro-
ducing industry. Mr.. GRANT is well up
In the beet-raising question and therefore
his opinions are worthy of respectful at
tention.
The beet is an enriehing and cleaning crop
1t requires no fallow; it is the best known fore
runner of other crops; it feeds multitudes of
stock and, instead OF impoverishing the soil
constantly improves it. In fact, there can be
no doubt that the beet crop will be found to be
rs profitable TO the farmer here as it has IN
questionably been to the European farmer.
The farmers of the west possess great many
advantages over those of Europe. They have a
virgin soil prodigiously productive, easily culti-
waited, of low cost, and agricultural machinery
with which one man may do the work of a dozen
Probably Notwithstanding the high prices of
labor, there is no other country in which an
acre OF land can be cultivated SO eheaply as in
the west.
But with all these flattering prospects
for the success of this industry in the great
west of the United States, our Utah, Ne
braska and Kansas farmers must be pre-
pared to meet difficulties in the establish
ment of this new industry. In Germany,
where the sugar beet is now one of the
most profitable crops of the farmer, sad
failures overlook them in the early years
of their exnerience and for MANY vears
every pound of beet sugar produced in
Germany was at a loss to the manufac-
turer Still the infant industry struggled
Oh until now beet sugar is one of the staple
productions of the empire.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
LITERATURE.
The Century.

The May Century begins new volume,
and in it are begun several new features OF
what the Century calls its sumner cam
paign." 1.-THE squirrel Inn," by Frank r.
Stockton, is one of the principal and most
popular Of these new features.
The long promised papers 1.-TWO in num-
ber) on the Court of the Gar Nicholas l."
are now begun, the frontispiece of the
magazine being portrait of the Emperor
Nicholas. These papers are by the late
George Mifflin Dallas, in his day one OF the
most distinguished statesmen of the coun-
try.
"Pioneer Mining Life IN California is a
description from personal experience OF ad-
ventures and mining methods in 1S49 on the
tributaries of the Sacramento river and of
the Trinity. 1t is day to-day description
of the conditions on mining life in 40 and
80. The writer is the Hon. e. G. Waite,
narrative is supplemented by illustrations
of typical character and by caricatures of
the time.
Mrs. Amelia Gere Mason's articles on the
"Salons of the Empire and Restoration"
are concluded with paper on some OF the
most prominent women of France.
Among the separate papers none is more
striking than that of F. Hopkinson Smith,
who made a special trip to Bulgaria to
gather impressions for the Century. Mr.
Smith entities his paper "a Bulgarian
Opera Bouffe,n and illustrates it not only
with photographs of prominent persons but
with sketches from his own pencil.
The first article in the number is paper
by c. f. Holder entitled Game Fishes of
the Florida Reef" strikingly illustrated
after sketches by the author.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03

give their cold philosophisings the lie and
drive them back in search of COB, whom
seeking they find; for the world has
proven the truth Of the apostles
statement-"H is not far from everyone
of US, for in Him we live and move and
have our being" JESUS CHRIST, to para
phrase freely the words of the Scotch bard,
is no impostor, and His revelation of bliss
full scenes of existence beyond death and
the grave is not one of the many imposi-
tions which time after time have been
palmed off on the credulous mankind. In
Him shall all the families of the earth yet
be blessed, by being connected together in
better world, where every tie that bound
heart to heart, in this state of existence,
shall be far beyond our present concep-
tions. still more endearing.
81 known that my Redeemer liveth," is
one of the sentences that cannot be erased
from the English language. 1t is one Of
the assurances that cannot be plucked out
of the heart of humanity. In the future,
as in the past, it will be the star that shall
make light the pathway of man towards
the grave, assuring him as he approaches
that goal where all must rest for a season,
that he shall find it door and not wall
an entrance as well as an exit, and that
angels stand ready to roll the stone away
and proclaim Messiah the resurrection and
! the life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
Harner's Magazine.

Harper's Magazine for May opens with
the first of series of attractive papers on
''The Warwickshire Avon" by A. 7. Quill
Ter Couch, superbly illustrated by Alfred
Parsons The Venerable F. w. t'arrar,
Archdeacon of Westminster, contributes
an impartial aud appreciative sketch of the
origin and work of 1.-THE Salvation Army"
"Roman London Is the subject of an eX
tremely interesting paper, written by Eu-
gene Lawrence and illustrated by H. ID.
Nichols, describing the Roman remains re-
Gently discovered beneath the London pave
ments. Colonel t. A. Dodge writes the
first of series of entertaining articles
about Some American Riders" his paper
being beautifully illustrated from paintings
by Frederic Remington. Apropos OF the re-
cent increased interest in the affairs of the
Spanish American republics, Bishop j. NJ.
Walden contributes an account OF 1.-The
Argentine People and their Religious and
Educational Institutions" Theodore Child,
continuing his series of South American
papers, gives very complete description
of the climate, people, and resources of
1.-THE Republic Of Uruguay" Moncure D.
Conway contributes an important article
on 1.-THE English Ancestry of Washington, :"
Other articles in this number Of the maya
zine include causerie, by Walter Besant
cover Johnson's Grave" short stories by
A B. Ward and Caroline Earl White, the
continuation of the serials by Charles Egg
bert Craddock and Thomas Hardy, and
poems by w. d. Howells and Robert Burns
Wilson, The editorial departments, I'M
der the control of George William Curtis,
William Dean Howells, and Charles Dudley
Warner, maintain their usual vigor and in
terest
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
Italy Has All the Best of 1t.

Here, this thing ought to be stoppedp'he
exclaimed, as he rushed into the city editors
room. ''We're getting all the worst of it,
and II for one am for peace"
"What ought to be stopped" asked the
city editor
''This Italian business. It's terrible the
turn affairs have taken. A mans life is
hardly safe on the street"
Another outrages' asked the city editor,
as in his excitement he dipped his pen into
the paste pot.
''Outragep' exclaimed the stranger. Its
war-war of retaliation. Every Italian il
the city is in it, I believe"
"Um. Serious matter!'' said the city ed
itor.
Serious! I should say so. But I'm
onto the plan, and the best thing we can
do is to give the public warning before it
goes any further. Then we must have
immediate peace or war. Pm for peace,
for they have the best of u.s."
The city editor stuck the mouthpiece Of
his pipe in the inkwell and put the PEN
holder in his mouth.
'Are you sure of your ground?" he asked
thoughtfully.
''No. That's just what Pm not sure of.
But know the plan all right"
"What is it?"
''They have a corner on the banana mar
ket and are throwing the skins on the side
walk. That's why Pm not sure Off
Inkwell, pipe and paste pot followed the
stranger as he made his hasty exit.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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to meet with him in his private rooms. where
at signal from him apolice officer stepped
into the middle of the room and from
handful of manuscript read in true oratori-
cal style the entire story of the case to the
extent that the police authorities have been
able to develop it. Nor did the great New
York chief of police stop here. He had the
story of the crime elaborated with in
cidental excursions into the clews which
he had in hand, and the names of parties
suspected but not yet arrested, together
with a statement of his plans, suspicious
and purposes.
Two explanations only can be given of
this more than strange proceeding. Either
Inspector BYRNEs did it for the purpose of
throwing the pencil-pushers off the track
OF his real proceedings that he might not
be hampered by the news gatherers'
impertinence, leading them along false
trail while his agents are working in an en-
tirely different direction, or else the in
spector has become indignant at the curios-
ity and persistence of the ubiquitous re-
porters who must considerably hamper his
movements and render it impossible for
him to accomplish anything with such a
gang at his own and his agents heels. If
the latter be the explanation of his unusual
conduct, it reminds one in some of it's fea-
lures of good story of DR.. BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN. The philosopher having to
make journey on horseback through some
parts of New England was much an
noyed by the proverbial impudent curiosity
of the down east Yankees. Finally
he hit upon the happy idea on arriving at
an inn Of calling the landlord his lady, their
children, if they had any, the cook, the
chambermaid. the guests and even the hos
tier, and when all were assembled in the
spacious reception room he would rise
with great dignity as if to address the Con-
tinental Congress and inform them that his
name was BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, that he
! lived in Philadelphia, followed the bust
ness Of a printer, that he was on his way to
visit a relative at such a place, that his
ditto, that he had so many brothers, SO
many uncles and aunts, that printing was a
wonderful art. but that he would tell them
nothing about it, that it paid well if strictly
attended to, etc, ETC., covering
in his statements every question that
he thought could possibly be asked
and then dismissed the astonished house
hold to care for his horse and provide
supper for himself while he enjoyed sweet,
sweet rest from the prying queries of the
oyer-curious New Englanders.
Does Inspector BYRNEs hope to cure the
perpetual inquisitiveness of the modern
reporter in like manner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
BYRNEs AND THE REPORTERS.

That was a strange spectacle, as well as
a new departure in the secret service of
New York, which Inspector BYRNEs treated
the representatives of the press to the other
day in his office. Ever since the horrible
murder in New York few days ago by
slack the Ripper" or what is more likely
by some ambitious imitator of the London
fiend, there has been great activity among
detective agencies; and it would appear
that the newspaper reporters have been as
active in shadowing the detectives as the
latter have been in watching the suspected
murderers. Suddenly it appears that In
spector BYRNEs concluded TO take the gen.
tlemen of the press into his confidence, and
sent for representatives from all the papers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03

REV. DR.. SWING has lately given the the
illogical world what is considered new
definition Of Orthodoxy" and "heresyn.
1.-THE formulated opinion of the multitude"
says the reverend gentleman, sis called
orthodoxy; the antagonistic thought of
some individual within the multitude is
called heFesy.n But more than hundred
years ago a more incisive definition was
given of the same terms by one of the
spiritual lords of the house of peers in the
British parliament who, in answer to the
question of a skeptical layman, "What is
orthodoxy!n replied: Orthodoxy, my
lord, is my doxy; heterodoxy is some other
mans doxy.n There is a great deal of
human nature in that answer, a frankness
that is refreshing and definition that even
the Rev. Dr. SWING will find it difficult to
surpass in the way of getting down to bed
vock eXactness s.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03

AS AN appendix to the GLORIOUS Tom
REED, which called out such applause at
the Republican clubs meeting in Cincinnati
recently, the Chicago Herald recites par
tial list of the things in which the Republi-
can party glories. 1t says: ''This crowd
also believes in and never fails to applaud
Glorious MATT QUAY, Glorious w. W. DUB
LEY, Glorious JOHN 1. DAVENPORT, Glorious
STEVE ELKINs, Glorious STEVE DORSEY,
Glorious BILL MCKINLEY, Glorious Star
Route BRADY, Glorious Pension Shark
LEMON, Glorious Corporal TANNER, Glori-
Gus Ballot-Box Forgery FORAKER, Glorious
Railroad Attorney THURsToN, Glorious
Spokesman CLARKsoN, and Glorious Little
Rock-and- Fort Smith Guano Burn This
Letter-BLAINE.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
COURAGEOUS MAYOR wAsHBURNE.

The first act of Chicago's new mayor,
HEMPsTEAD WAsHBURNE, was to order the
closing up of the gambling dens of that
city. The respectable citizens of Chicago,
without regard to party affiliations, will
applaud the action of the mayor and bid
the movement God speed. Moreover,
there is now national interest in the city
OF Chicago since it is there that the great
Columbian exposition is to be held in '93.
Therefore Mayor WAsHBURNE will not only
lind the law-loying people of Chicago com
ing to his support, but the good citizens of
the whole country will give him a grand
moral support in his efforts to
close up the dens which have
SO long disgraced Chicago. The
mayor is represented as saying: 1.-THE
order means business. 1 would not issue
X if did not believe it could be carried
out, and any officer who tries to thwart its
effect in any way will be promptly dis
charged" 1t is to be hoped the mayor
will stick to his purpose. Too frequently
such actions as this step taken by Mayor
WAsHBURNE are for stage effect abroad
only and like the resolutions made on the
OcS ia SdSh uSH year HOG loAS
persisted in. We hope it will not be so in
this case. The many hundreds of thousands
of Europeans who will visit this country
during the period that the great exposition
will be open, will form their ideas as
to municipal governments in America
by what they see in Chicago. 1t is there
fore proper that Chicago should clear out
her gambling hells and prepare to be de
cent, that Americans may not be ashamed
of the future metropolis of the United
States.
Meantime, it is pertinent to say that the
mayors of other cities would do well tt
follow the example of Mayor WAsHBURNE
Nothing is more deplorable in our whole
political life, than the influence that the
whisky and gambling element exert in oul
municipal governments. 1t is to be feared
too, that there will be little amendment il
the condition of affairs until we hav,
less party politics in our city elections, ant
a combination of the best citizens, irrespec
tive of party, anxious to give to our re
speceive cities clean, progressive and We
economical municipal governments, pledge,
above all things, to reduce to minimum
the evils which make mere sink holes 0
iniquity out of many of our cities.