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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
OUR POSTAL SERVICE.

| The statement is made that the financial
management OF the postoffice department
under the present postmaster general, has
resulted in a reduction of the deficit to
100000 this year, as against 81, 6O0, 600
last year. 1t is further claimed that the
whole excess of Expenditures over receipts
will be entirely wiped out in twelve
month longer.
Postmasters- general are in the habit of
| running the mail service with view more
to bringing down the cost than increasing
the efficiency. They are mistaken if they
look at the success of the administration of
the department from this standpoint. The
people like economy and razeeing of I'M
necessary and cumbersome methods,
but they hate parsimony in so i'm
portant branch as that which deals with
postal affairs. They do not expect the post.
office department to be self sustaining,
any more than they expect the navy depart
ment or the department of justice to be
self-sustaining. What they want is to
know that every facility or device obtaina-
bic with brains and money is employed in
the most rapid transportation, the quickest
Of their mail matter
In no other department of the govern
ment is there so much stinginess, so much
picayunishness, as in the one over which Mr..
WANAMAKER at present presides. There is
scarcely postoffice in the United States
excepting Des Moines Iowa, which is al
lotted sufficient clerical or carrier force, or
is properly furnished for the transaction of
its business. allow not to do it' has been
for years the standing motto of this Cir
cumlocution office at Washington, which is
Invariably months behind in its affairs.
The railway mail service needs improve
ment and extension. From every city of
considerable size clerks acquainted with
the distribution should at given points
board the ingoing trains and dis
tribute the mail for leading bankers,
merchants, manufacturers and business
men generally, so that their correspondence
would be ready for the carriers on their
arrival. The number of sub-stations and
places where to procure stamps should be
increased in cities, and the free delivery
system widened in territory and bettered
in the number of deliveries and collections.
Postage should be reduced to one cent
where now it is two, and that abomination.
the unsealed circular, abolished. More
pains should be taken to keep the public
advised OF the arrivals and departures of
the mails, domestic and foreign. The
dead letter effice should be re-
formed, together with the methods
by which II becomes so great
morgue. In short, the system should be
made entirely and literally subservient to
the public wants. The postmaster general
must not cut down the estimates of the
heads of the divisions, in order to scrimp
the service. The salary and allowance
division should have at its head man of
broad, liberal and progressive views. And
the House committee on postofices and
post roads should every session endeavor
to see how the department can be aided, in
stead OF how much it can be embarrassed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
POWER OF REITERATION.

A Philadelphia paper quotes paragraph
to the effect that half year ago Vermont
published report in which its abandoned
farms We're listed, located and described,
and since that time SO many of them have
been purchased by newcomers that the list
is now very much shorter than it was last
spring. And upon this it sensibly re-
marks:
If farms that do not pay for working can find
purchasers by intelligent, systematic publicity.
how much more eadily might all the fertile
farms find ready purchasers if their advantages
should be set forth in the advertising columns.
There is no social need of any Sort that
publicity cannot fill, when it is ample.
Reiteration, as a business force. is un-
questionable in its effects. AS some phil
osopher has remarked, in substance, it is
not he who first says a thing, but he who
says 1t so often and SO loud as to compel
mankind to hear it,who receives the credit,
These are words that advertisers and those
who do not advertise, should ponder and
digest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

WE DON'T know who put it into the
heads OF the police to ''pull" that platoon of
fellows found in saloon on Friday even
ing, but the idea was good one and might
with profit be acted upon right along. 1t
Will hardly be denied that little activity
OF THIS KIND On the part of the police would
soon strike terror to the hearts of two or
three hundred men who have no visible
means OF support and yet who exist. 1t is
pretty generally believed that from the
class known as saloon bummers come the
thieves and footpads and burglars now in
testing the city. Whether or not this be-
lief Is well founded it would do no harm to
run in" few score of the bummers Just
10 see what effect it would have on the
criminal industry which is in such thirty
Ing condition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

NOT few thoughtful men and women
distress themselves about the increase of
the world, and how in after years there
Will be room for the people. They should
know that the Empire of Japan has less
area than California, and it is altogether
likely that California, with proper cultiva-
ton could support as many inhabitants as
Japan. The Sunny Kingdom has 3S.-
ooO, 200 of people, and subsists 1850 persons
from each square mile Of its aree; while
the United States, from its area, supports
less than two persons from each square
mile. Strangely, also, not one tenth of the
area of japan is cultivated, SO that the 3s,-
100000 people live from an area of less than
2o,oO0 square miles. The Japanese illus
trate what economy, frugality and system
attic cultivation combined can do in the
way of support.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

ernment better administration so long as
they shall continue to cucumber the posi-
ions that are worthy of more efficient
men. They owe it to their own interests
TO see to it that at the next election the
''rascals are turned outn and that men
shall be elected who will at least make an
effort to keep down lawlessness and no,
excuse it by saying such things must be
looked for IN "boom town.
Let the citizens of Salt Lake demand OF
the government such an administration as
shall at least free US from the thieves and
thugs that are now fast terrorizng the
town by robbing and beating citizens on
our public streets. If they can't give US a
high toned, moral government, if that is
beyond their power or inclination, let us
demand of them such a suppression of the
lawless element as will enable business
men to return to their homes after dark
without being robbed and beaten or the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
QUERY BOX.

Chicago-Yes, marriage under an assumed
name is legal.
HtstoTian-The confederates lost about eos, 900
soldiers by battle and disease.
SH6sTi6er-The Modoc Indians surrendered
in June, 1878.
L. II. Chicago: England claims to have the
largest and strongest navy in the world.
fr0nc-The standing army in this country Is
about q, 900 in number
Constant R.-Fine cornmeal, hot water and
soap remove oil and SCOT from the hands
y. h.-Lightning rods do protect buildings on
which they are erected
Z. Il. VA person born in Canada would be
eligible to the Presidency of the United States
only If Canada were annexed and our constitn-
ton amended to permit it.
Z. o. L. -Katzeniammer is the distress fol-
lowing spree.
Pto'0-The Australia wheat crop is har-
vested in January.
OG 4Adtd-Nearly four times as many women
marry between the ages of twenty and twenty
nVe as between fifteen and twenty
.. E-The postal department is opposed to
fractional currency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
THE M0RTARA CASE.

Those whose memories go back for some
forty years will not forget the immense ex-
cltement which was kindled all over Europe
by the notorious case of 'The Jewish bow
MoRTARA." In June, 1857, the Roman
Catholic church claimed the Jewish lad as
her own, on the ground that some time be-
lore the claim was advanced, servant
girl, without the consent or knowledge of
MS parents, had the sick child secretly
baptized. Instead of dying, as was ex
pected, the boy grew well, whereupon 1.-THE
Church" put forth the astonishing pre-
tence that Pho EDGARDo, by reason of his
baptism, belonged to her, and not to his
parents after the flesh He had been
named Pro after Pope P1Us TX, who SYM
pathlzed with this cruel child snatching.
and never lost his interest in his Jewish
godson. The claim seemed to Justify the
charge OF the Anglican controversialists
that the converts to Rome are virtually
baptl zed into the Pope rather than into
Universal church, which was the
old Catholic theory of baptism. II
was decided that the young con
vert' should become a priest.
and that he should be sent out of his faith
erland, Italy. So Pro EDGARDo was sent
to Austria, 10 France and to Spain. and
only few weeks ago Cn September)
after an absence OF so many years, he ap-
peared again on the soil of Italy, in the
habit OF an Augustinian monk, which or
der he entered. He was advertised to
preach in the Church of San Carlo at Mo-
dena. The announcement recalled old
memories, and the church was crowded
with all sorts and conditions of hearers.
great number of Jews were present. and
among others, the Jewish mother of the
monk. He bears the most unmistakable
signs OF his Jewish origin. Pho EDGARpo
has acquired reputation for asceticism;
he lives entirely on milk, fruit and veget
ables His stay in Italy was intended TO
be short, as he was sent out upon two
preaching missions, the first in the Tyrol,
and the second in Spain. 1t was the ex
press wish of the Queen Regent of Spain
that the Jewish Augustinian should preach
the conservation sermon at the opening of
q church which she had just built The
Jewish admirers of Cardinal MANNING
OF England, who waited upon him last year,
and were rewarded by his astute and lat
tering speech about Jews and Judaism,
must have forgotten the ''Mortara case.n
The cardinal told DIR. ADLER, Sir JULIAN
GoLDsMID, the then Jewish Lord Mayor
lsAACs, and the other Jewish notables, that
there were "only three indestructible ele-
nents in history-the people and faith of
Israel, the Roman Catholic church sprung
from it, and the world which prosecuted
both" But in 1857 it was what the Roman
cardinal calls 'the world" which protested
against the persecution of the Jewish
father and mother, not by the Gar, but by
the Roman church. Politicians have short
memories.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

MISS BOOTH, daughter Of General BooTH,
o the Salvation Army, called on the MAYOR
OIL Eastbourne, England, to demonstrate
with him On the Salvation Army persecu-
tons. When she found argument unavail-
Ing she resorted to prayer. This looked
Ike strong suit, but she had not reckoned
on the mayors own character. He readily
assented to Miss BooTH's request that she
might be allowed to pray. But he had no
intention of letting her pray alone. He
also Tell upon his knees and prayed with a
1erVency equaling Miss BooTH's own that
a new heart might be vouchsafed to the
'laW-breakers." The "knee drilln thus
ended in drawn battle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

one Tho knows of single word ID text
to see where and how many times it is used
in the Book. Then there are common saries
without number, from CLARKE's up and
aoWn in chronological order, together with
lnnumerable other works of reference and
instruction
The Helping Hand'' company employ
"a select, brilliant and able corps of writ
ers, who are vigorous thinkers and keen
observers of men and events" the manager
says. Brilliant newspaper men, some
lawyers, several clergymen, number of
divinity students and others belong to the
stan, as claimed. But to be fair with the
cloth, THE HRRALD must say it is with
comparatively few that these syndicate
sermons would prove of much USE Almost
all preachers find that to be effective the
composition and rhetoric of their efforts
must correspond with their style of decla-
nation and delivery. Besides, many of
them make only few notes which they
study well, and then depend upon the in
splration Of the surroundings for the rest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

WE HAVE it on excellent authority that
the police went to the proprietor of a GER
tain saloon yesterday and warned him to
keep his doors closed to-day, as the Demo
Gratis had employed the United States dep
uty marshals to arrest the keepers Of Sun
day saloons. This incident may throw
some light on the source of the industri-
ousiy-circulated rumor that the Democratic
party was at the bottom of the movement
to have the federal officials usurp the func-
tons of the local administration. But
what a contemplate gang the city hall
crowd is getting to be!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
DIRECTORS
THoUsANDs OF sUgFERINa woxrx

Delicate women who complain of tired
feeling, pains in the back and lions, desire
to sleep, dizziness, painful or suppressed
menstruation, will find in Oregon kidney
Tea a faithful friend. 1t can be relied upon
in every instance to give immediate relief
from kidney and urinary troubles. Thou
sands Of women are suffering every dav
from some disorder Of the kidneys or liver.
who might be permanently cured by using
Oregon Kidney Tea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

TITS reported that when the Church of.
England Bishop of Peterborough was or
dalned, or consecrated recently, he raped
his pastoral staff, or crosier, on the door of
the church for the purpose of exercising
all the evil spirits from the interior. Oh
how magnificent is learned fool to the
common-sense working man! Will not
somebody rap the church hard enough to
exercise this spirit of medieval nonsensea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

The FOLLOWING inscription copied from
tombstone in Bow Brickhill churchyard,
in Buckinghamshire, England, speaks for
itself: SIN memory of WILLIAM HAMMOND,
who died May 6, 1888, aged 1874 years; also
of MARY HAMMOND, his wife, who di ed Sep
TENDER 81, 1885, aged 1919 years"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

IN DAKOTA they have winter watermelons
grown from seeds imported by a colony Of
Mennonltes. II is perfectly round and no
bigger than an ordinary cantaloup. But it
is said to be jucier and sweeter than the
Georgia melons. 1t can be packed away in
hay and preserved through the winter, like
an apple. There is no reason to think it
would not thrive in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

AMONG THE few that mourn the death of
BoULANGER, the editor of the Christian
Herald, a millenarian, will be the fore
most. That sapient biblical interpreter
counted upon BoULANeER as the 666 of the
Book of Revelation, and showed his name
exactly tailed with the figures as the lead
ing general Of the atterday coming col
tict. But then he did the same with
NAPOLEON Ill, and then with ARABI PACHA.
The third time should have been the charm
and have been a hit, 1t has failed. 1t is
said
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

The PUBLISHERS of the New York Jeuish
Gazette have been sued for $500 damag
for calling JOHN BROOKS a Christian.
whereas he is Russian Hebrew. The
plaintiff charges that the libel has caused
him to ''lose the respect confidence and es
TEEN. and last but not least, the patronage
of his brother Hebrews" He also alleges
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

Mr.. GIFFEN, the eminent English stats
tician, shows that the civilized nations
alone have lost not less than 5000, 600 of
men in the wars of the last fifty years
And we may we'll ask who can estimate the
pains, sufferings, sorrow and loss of the
wounded, dying and bereaved survlvin g
relatives.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

IT Is said that the Prince of Wales has
been visiting the slums of London. Clad in
shabby clothes, with false wig aud beard,
and accompanied by one friend and po-
lice inspector, he was present at thieves
supper and also visited some of the worst
localities in the East end. Good boy that
he's getting after his exposure at gamb-
ling. Will this cover that?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

SENATOR QUAY has now brought a civil
suit for libel against the Pittsburg paper
which published something connecting him
with the BARDsIEY thefts. The Senator
asks 100000 damages. 1t might have saved
QUAY lawyers fees and court expenses if
some friend had sent him the verdict in the
IG. DoNNELLY libel case. IG., it will be re-
membered, sued for 100000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

ABoUT EVERYTHING the Republican party
OF the Buckeye state wants SHERMAN will
do except vote against the admission of
BRICE. he draws line on DISTINGUISHING
Ohio, but it would be all right if it were
Mississippi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

| A SINGLE survivor of the children who
attended ROBERT RAIKEs' primeval Sunday
school yet remains. He is ninety years of
age, and resides in Gloucester, England,
| the city of RAIKEs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

with population of nearly 90 OOO,00O the
$500; now, with population of $4,000, 900,
1t Is only 729. In the last eight years no
fewer than eight convict prisons, with
accommodation for 5000 prisoners, have
been devoted to other public purposes.
How does Salt Lake city appear with such
showing?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

The REPORT of Sir EDWARD DU CANE.
director of English convict prisons, which
has been recently issued, is very encour-
aging document for England. The number
of persons sentenced to penal servitude in
1890 was 729, which is the lowest figure yet
reached. Year by year the decrease of
crime has been unbroken, in spite of the
increase Of population. Thirty years ago,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

The REPUBLICANS of Kansas think of
humiliating PETER by electing man by
the legislature at cost OF $1,000 year. to
looh after the interests of The state, in con-
junction with Senator PLUMB.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

he was brought into scandal, infamy and
disgrace with and among his neighbors."
The defendants lawyer said to reporter
that the fact that the plaintiffs wife, who
was Miss RACHEL DICKHEIsER, had mar
ried man named JOHN Brooks, led the
JelUisk Gazette into its blunder
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

IF THE police do their duty to-day nobody
will excuse the United States marshal ii he
raids the Sunday saloons and gambling
dens. 1t is the negligence Of the police
which inclines the'people to look with any
sort of federation upon the marshal's inter-
ference in local affairs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

FARMERS IN Allegheny county, Pa, are
this year paying taxes on 10000 dogs. One
township has 800, but the average s about
POO. One would think that with this mum
Der the people could get along for awhile.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

MTscEeENATIoN WAS formerly practiced
IN part Of the territory of which it is pro-
posed to erect the state of Oklahoma.
This. Of course, viii not keep it out of the
Union, as big majority OF the people are
negroes aud Republicans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

TEE New YORK Presby terians are in
favor OF making salvation free. They want
preterition left out Of the new confession
OF faith. Don't you know what preterition
is! 1t is the act of passing over, or non
election, or the denial of grace to some.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

As recreation, DAVID A. WELLS, the
ttatistician, has figured out that the gov
eminent has now stored away silver
enough to make col1mu foot in diameter.
six and half miles high. If not so ex-
pensive, it might do e re of Chicago's
sky-scrapers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

THERE IS sometimes disposition on the
part OF courts to act in very arbitrary
manner concerning the freedom of jurors.
We are glad to see that Judge at Ida
Grove Iowa, granted young man leave of
absence long enough to be married
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

MISS JOKES, of Wilkesbarre, having let
drop the remark that she was better
Christian than Mrs. LEONARD, a few days
ago, the latter let fly with her pious fist,
Finally the JONES lady, turning up space
for trumps, hit the other in the head, pro
ducing mortal wound. They both appear
TO have been members of the church mill
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

The PAINT, oil and varnish men of the
country want new cabinet officer, to be
called the secretary of trade and com
merce. MIR. BLAINE seems to be occupying
that position at present, though his labors
are not confined to this country, as NO
pent-up Utica or Syracuse contracts his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

ALL THE big cabbage heads are not mem
bers of the third party alliance. A load of
produce lately taken to Dallas, Oregon,
consisted OF only six heads of cabbage, they
filling the wagon bed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
What hits is history

The most of people must be persuaded
now that the Christian Herald method
OF Using the books DANIEL and Revelation
is tomfoolery. What an old fiddle fanatics
make of the Biblel
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of
fate,
Naught but its page describes the future state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

WITHIN A period of five years over $780,
600 worth of property left in cabs in Lon
don has been deposited by the drivers in
Scotland-yard. There is some honesty in
the good world after all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
THE CASE OF JUDGE FRIER, WHO SUE
FERED THIRTY YEARS

SLEM, Or, April 10,
hereby certify that have been troubled
with disease Of the stomach and kidneys
for the last thirty years, and that after
using four boxes of the Oregon Kidney
Tea 1 have found great benefit and relief
from it. A. H. FRIER.
Late County Judge of Polk Coudty'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

The OTHER day Mrs. HALMER recovered
fa2, 900 from her father, in Boston, which
he had given her as wedding present. but
afterwards withdrew to put in the piano
business. There's nothing more mean
than "Indian givers.'' The old man prob
ably thought a notice of the bridal gift
would look well in the newspapers as a
Eend-off, nobody knowing about the string
b. il
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

That WAS a suggestive remark, to say
the least, which one of the fellows ar
rested for vagrancy on Friday evening
made to companion who wondered what
they were taken in for: whist, be quiet,
you fool they want to get our names on
the registration list" There may be more
than Migrants joke in this.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

OK SUNDAY, November l, the Protestants
of Alsace and Lorraine celebrated with
great ceremony the four hundredth ami
versary of the birth of their great re-
former, MARTIN LUTHER.