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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
SUGAR DRINKS.

This 30 title OF a new sort Of lag"
which has made its appearance in the staid
city of Philadelphia. The stevedores I'M
loading sugar vessels ct the wharves there
are the parties responsible for the devel-
opment of this novelty. 1t appears that
the gases arising from sugar which has
been stored in the hold of a vessel without
ventilation will produce state of intoxica-
cation equal to Mexican pulque, arrac
punch, or the ordinary fire water of COM
merce. II it has the disadvantage of last
ing but short time-this condition of ex-
hilaratlon-it is susceptible of frequent re-
petitions the same day. Neither is 1t
followed by what the Germans
call "katzeniammer," nor "that dis
rressful feeling in the stomach"
which is said TO succeed night out In
the case Of the stevedores, as it was no.
ticed they were behaving strangely, they
were ordered on deck, whittier they stag
gered, apparently in state of beastly
drunkenness, but, as the account says,
after few minutes IN the open air, they
recovered aud continued their work. One
of them, whose name, being JOHN DUFFY,
does not refute the idea that he knew what
he was talking about, said the sensation
was exactly similar" to the effect pro
duced by whisky. At first he felt some
what stimulated, and he passed through
several stages until he got hilarious, dizzy,
and finally unconscious, presenting an ap-
pearance unfit for publication.
These sugar fumes appear to beat the
speak casies'' of Philadelphia, for viola
ton Of the license laws; for we take it the
condition Of man aud how he came so is
what is intended to be reached. In this
view, the man who gets it up his nose is
just as responsible as if he sucked it
through straw or downed it at gulp
The other day we saw a floating para
graph about a man who, forbidden to
smoke cigars, hired a servant to blow to-
bacco smoke in his face, furnishing the
best quality of cigars for the purpose. But
this system OF inhRling destructive cheer
fulness must, we submit, give way to the
saccharine process. BYRON says s'man,
being reasonable must get drunk; the
best of life is but intoxication,n If this is
SO, the sugar-fume method, where one can
brace up in twenty minutes by going into
the fresh air, is one that may, perhaps, be
recommended TO country merchants and
families
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
FOR THE BALDHEADED.

We have noticed that as one advances in
years he experiences remarkable respect
and admiration for bald heads. Other per-
sons not in the journalistic profession may
have observed the same thing. It is singu-
lar, too, as one grows older, how he loses
esteem for hair restoratives, and with what
avidity he reads that all such preparations
are composed in large part of lead, zinc and
other poisonous material calculated to
sooner or later benumb the brain as well
as scarify the scalpl Nor is the story of
the newly-discovered virtues OF cotton
seed oil as a producer of natures growth
on the head, likely to excite interest, unless
to that youngish party who has found a
thin spot and tried everything
Avaunt with ali artiiciality in the mat
ter Of heads! No brushing soma dozen or
sixteen struggling hairs from one side up
to the summit, and plastering the ends to
keep down instruction. No frozy wig,
with its dead ana lack-lustre efforts to
creep to the top of the pole, betraying it's
alias round the lower edges. No tidy silk
skull-cap, with its pretense OF protection
against the colds. Rather the out-and out,
honest, venerable, shining bare pate, ex-
tending down to the line of vegetation, just
about where the hat strikes. This is the
kind OF head the hair of which man parts
with towel, looking, except in color. like
the surface of an eggplant or new lig-
num-vite ten pin ball. This is the kind we
see in the front seats at the ballet, at
tracted thither by a curious affinity be-
tween the aged of both sexes
We see by an eastern exchange that a
tonsorial artist in Philadelphia is making q
speciality OF the treatment of gentlemen
who have outgrown the hair that used to
thatch their upper stories. In an inner
room of the professors parlors there hangs
q legend: Bald Head Furnishing 25
cents extra" The newspapers describe
the process, but we haven't room for it.
Briefly, it consists of an alcohol bath, fol-
lowed by gentle rubbing with chamois
skin with an application of glycerine ad-
ded, and over that thin transparent
varnish. The customer comes out to dry
with scalp sleek and shining, as good for
the purposes of a looking glass as the tin
psn in the advertisements, where the cook
dresses her dark flowing hair for some
festival day" We should think that this
sort of bald head would make a good
toboggan slide for our valley flies.
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The HERALD does not take much stock in
the story which comes over the wires from
Chicago to the effect that JAY GOULD has
relinquished the control of the Union Pa
citc to the VANDERBnTs. There are many
things which argue against the story being
true, and we cannot think of anything
which suggests that confidence should be
placed in what the Chicago newsgatherer
says. II may be true enough that the
NANDERBILTs want to extend their railway
system to the Rocky mountains and on to
the Pacific, but being somewhat clear
headed, thrifty people, or at least having
That reputation, does it seem likely that
they would hunger for railway which
owes about twice what it would cost to
construct new line! All the same, if
MIR. GOULD does not intend to remain in
control of the Union Pacific, THE HERALD
hopes that the VANDERBILTs will get pos
session, for the latter know how to manage
railways. 1t wouldn't be bad thing if
there were railway system under one
management extending from New York to
San Francisco.
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they usurp functions not belonging to them.
Here in Salt Lake the council has under
taken 10 impose an exorbitant and
oppressive tax. 1t has done this under
the pretense that the money is need for the
necessary expenses of the government and
TO pay for improvements which it is
assumed are required by the community and
will prove for the best general good. 1t is
possible that all this money could be ex-
pended to the advantage of the municipal
lty, and that in the long run the corpora
ton would be benefited by the investment.
That is question of judgment, aud in this
instance the seven men making up ma
lorlty OF the acting members of the council
are putting their judgment against that of
the entire community. Hundreds after
hundreds Of the property owners are
streaming into the council chamber night
after night and entering their earnest and
solemn protest against what they openly
denounce as an outrageous exaction, the
rich protesting quite as vigorously as the
poor, the intelligent as earnestly as
the ignorant. In truth, the protestants
may ee said to practically include
every man and every woman who owns
property, for if all do not go to the city hall
and file their objections it is not because
they think the tax is righteous but because
they have no faith in appeals for relief.
Under these circums tances, what is the
outy OF the councils a Every person who
understands the theoryof the government
viii give ready and correct answer. 1t is
plain enough that it is the will OF all that
the extortionate tax should not be collected,
hence the duty of the council, as the agent
or servant of the people, is to modify the
assessment to such an extent as
will be reasonable and will receive
the approval of the public. To insist upon
| the outrageous valuations put upon prop
erty by an assessor who makes more money
by placing higher value on taxable pos
sessions, win be to defy the popular will as
expressed; it will be little less than rob-
berry because the law permits it.
1t may be that certain improvements
should be made, but if the people unani-
mously declare that the work should not be
done this year, that they are unable to pay
| the bills without distress, the council must
be held blameless for falling to make the
improvements.
The HERALD holds that the council will
DO great wrong if 1t persists in what it
has undertaken and proceeds, in defiance to
the popular protest, to collect this out
rageous tax. We hold that as the agent of
the people, in the light of the demonstra-
ton now being made, the council should
promptly come to the relief of the threat
| ened taxpayers by reducing valuations gen
orally, besides making individual reduc-
tions where 1t is shown that the assessor
took leave of his judgment, as he did in so
many instances, in estimating the worth of
property
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POSTOFFICE BOSsING.

Postmaster General WANAMAKER has
got another kink in his head. He has sent
a circular to the postmaster at every
county seat in the United States, request
ing him, al his own expense for horse and
buggy hire, and altogether out OF an I'M
selfish desire to promote the postal service,
to visit all the postofices in his county and
report their condition, needs, etc, Cen
eral WANAMAKER may not be wrong in lis
estimate Of the patriotism of Republican
postmasters in shire towns, but he appears
10 have rather small idea of their engage
ments. If he thinks postmasters have
nothing to do without knocking about the
country inserting their noses and working
their mouths into other postmasters, bust
ness, perhaps it would be well for him to
make tour himself and learn something.
The laws provide inspectors to visit post
offices and instruct those who run them IN
their duties where delinquent; but they
never meant that the manager of the big
gest postoffice in county should exercise
a supervision over the smaller ones, and be
deputy boss of the department.
This man WANAMAKER is crank. He is
visionary and impractical He is continu-
ally prating about big projects, but is let
ting the service become MOSS grown bv not
providing sufficient help for the transaction
of the ordinary business et he department.
What the postoffices need, as a general rule,
is more clerks, more carriers, more furn-
iture.
SToNEwALL JACKSON, or some other Con
federate general, is said to have wire d
JEFF DAVIS: "Send me fewer orders and
more troops" That sentiment expresses
what the average P. M. would say to
WANAMAKER.
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THE LA PLATA DISTRICT.

THE HERALD presents this morning an
other exhaustive account of what has been
found, what done, what is doing and what
Is to be seen at La Plata. the new mining
district in the north country. The writer
of the article went to the camp with in
structions to "dor it thoroughly, and we
believe he has succeeded. In this ccnnec-
ton we may say that while he is not an
expert" in the popular sense Of the term,
his long career among the mines as
prospector and journalist has familiar
lied him with the subject and gwen
him a knowledge of the business,
which comparatively few can boast. He
has set down things just as he found them,
and we can assure our readers that nothing
suggestive of prejudice appears in what he
tells. 1t was the ''plain, unvarnished
truth" that THE HERALD wanted, because
only that-w6uld be valuable to the public.
We may here state that too much that
has been written and published about La
Plata has been of the boom order, the con-
sequence being that upon learning the
actual facts more or less disgust has been
aroused. The truth will do most for the
camp in the long run, even if
it shall stay a senseless rush to
the district of the ignorant "tenderfeetn
who couldn't tell the difference between
limestone, porphyry and quartzite, and
who wouldn't know rich ore if they were
to encounter it in the road.
The HERALD regrets that the prospect at
La Plata is not really as brilliant and prom
Using as it has been painted by the enthusi-
asts. AT the same time we ind nothing in
the report of our representative which will
discourage any intelligent miner or CAPT
talist. On the other hand, we read much
that is encouraging. While it may be that
defined vein has not yet been discovered,
the abundant Groupings" found tell with
certainty that lodges exist. Galena does
Lot rain down from the skies. 1t comes
from below, and we are confident that in
the case Of the La Plata discoveries they
will lead to the finding of satisfactory
bodies of silver lead ore.
Meantime the public will do well to read
carefully what The HERALD's special rep
resentative says elsewhere in this issue.
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however, it counts for nothing. True,
MT. PowDERLY still stands at the head Of
the knights of Labor, but that organiza-
ton IS not the Influential thing that it once
was, and the grand master workman cuts
a mighty small figure either as an individual
or as the chief man among the Knights. 1t
no longer matters much what he does or
says, for ever since he demonstrated that
he was demagogue, working in the inrer-
est OF MIR. PowDERLY, the public has
neither respected nor feared him. His
nomination is merely Republican bid for
the votes Of the few workingmen who may
still cling to the once powerful leader.
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no natural external improvements for
that purpose. In point of looks, what
prettier feature than woman's small, pink
ears nesting close to her head, and entirely
unadorned. And what she can't hear with
those d,wiculGrs had better not be uttered,
they being constructed never to hear what
q lady shouldn't" To be sure there is
another kind of female aural works like the
one HOOP tells of:
On her head it is true two flaps there grew
That served for place for gold rings TO so
through;
Ears that might serve her now and then
AS cxtempore racks for an idle pen.
But as rule the human ear, as we have
said, is not an Unlocking lineament, and we
don't believe the processes of nature are
going to seriously interfere with it.
Putting aside, then, our future jaws and
ears, we should like to hear from the evo-
lutionists something on the topic of poster
ity's mouth and voice. Are you ready for
the question?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

The PRESIDENT, it is now said. is not
going to visit his secretary of state at Bar
Harbor. Ii is probably feared that pres
idential call, merely to inquire after Mr..
BLAINE's health, might lead to some talk
about politics, and this would be unoecom-
ing. Meantime, the BLAINE boom is pro-
crossing like a house afire, and the Presi-
dent is electioneering in Vermont. Having
appointed one secretary Of war, aud being
about to appoint another from that state, it
is thought Mr.. HARRISON will be able 10
carry its delegation next year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
THE CITY TAXES.

In theory, If not In practice, the city
council is simply the agent of the com
The councilmen are chosen by the
city to represent the latter N their cor
porate capacity, to manage the affairs of
the municipality for the benefit and best
good of all, to carry out the wishes of the
people-in short, to obey the people. If
sometimes city councils assume the powers
of masters instead of acting as servants
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
AUCTION! AUCTIONS!

On Wednesday, September g. at IL a. m,
at No. la N. State street, through Eagle
gate, house of nine rooms, piano, parlor
set, easy rockers, carpets, extension, centre
and kitchen tables, bedroom sets, lounges,
cupboard. cook stove. lot of kitchen uten-
sils, hanging lamps, dishes, ETC., etc
Il. A. ANDREWS, Auctioneer.
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Mr.. GLADsoNE, the great English leader.
writing a letter denouncing gambling,
right on the heels of the Daccarat scandal
at Tranby Croft, gives an evidence of in
dependence, If not3 boldness, rarely seen
where royalty is involved. But "the grand
old man." who has repeatedly refused
favors from the crown, is a man of his own
way of thinking and he is not often back
ward in expressing his opinion on any sub
iaoL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

A RECENT invention is cradle which
rocks by clockwork mechanism, and at the
same time plays baby tunes. This is a
fraud on innocent infancy. There can be
no legitimate substitute for the mother
voice and her foot on the rocker, and if this
new tangled baby trap is ever put to work
we shall expect prodigious amount of
kicking and squalling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

GRAND MASTER WORKMAN PowpERLy
has accepted the Republican nomination as
delegate to the proposed constitutional
convention to be held in Pennsylvania.
There was time when this action would
have heen significant, and subjected the
gentleman to more or less criticism. Now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

BEFORE THIS week is over the interesting
phenomenon will occur Of the passage of
VOLTS comet through the constellation of
the Pleiades, an event which is said never
to have been witnessed before. Its im-
portance, in an astronomical point of view,
is the possibility of determining the density
of cometary matter by the light of a fixed
star passing through it. The dates of the
passage are the Sd, 4th and 9Th of Septem-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
REDUCE THE taxes and serve the people.

In PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's complimentary
talks to the people of Verm ont he has not
alluded to the fact that more persons born
in that state live outside of it than In it.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, himself Vermonter
by birth, used to say it was a good state to
come away from.
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HARPER's MAGAZINE.

Readers of Hdrper's Magazine for Septem-
Der are confronted from the beginning with
an embarrassment of riches. The mum Der
is opened by series of superb illustrations
Of Shakespeare's much Ado About Moth
ing''-most Of them full page-from draw
ings by Edwin A. Abbey. These pictures,
with Andrew Lang's entertaining and
scholarly comment on the play, comprise
the fifth instalment of the illustrations Of
Shakespeare's Comedies which have been
appearing at intervals in the magazine
Following this paper is a com prehensive
and popular article on the New York
Chamber of Commerce. The third chap
ter of w. D. Howel's remarkable story,
IAN Imperative Duty" presents some
highly dramatic scenes, and leaves the
reader impatient for the succeeding in
stalment. A genuine treat to lovers
of literature is offered In the Let
tiers of Charles chickens to Wilkie
Collins which are now for the first time
given to the public through the editorship
of Laurence Hutton. Montgomery Schuy-
Ter continues his "Glimpses of Western
Artitecture," and gives his Impressions of
the domestic architecture of Chicago
mer story, "a Wheat-field Idyl." Mr. de
Blowitz contributes peculiarly striking ar
ticle on Germany, France, and General
European Politics." which will doubtless
create a sensation wherever 1t is read. The
editorial departments, under the control of
George William Curtis, William Dean
Howells, and Charles Dudley Warner. pre-
sent for discussion and thought the usual
rich variety of timely topics relating tc
society, music, manners and literature
Harper 81 Brothers, New York.
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IT HAS been found that the slanting of
letters In writing causes curvature of the
spine, due to the position at the desk. We
suppose the curvature is in the spine of
the editor or other person who reads the
manuscript. Again we say, write plainly
and on one side only of the paper
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
Ayers
Cherry PectOral

c. o. Lepper. Druggist, Fort Wayne, Ind,
writes: My little sister, four years of age.
was so ill from bronchitis that we had almost
given up hope of her recovery. Our family
physician, skilful man and of large expert
ence. pronounced it useless to give her any
more medicine, saying he had done all twas
possible to do. and we must prepare for the
worst. As last resort, we determined to
try Ayers Cherry Pectoral. and / can truly
say. with most happy results. After taking
a few doses she seemed 10 breathe easier,
and, within a week. was out of danger. We
continued giving the Pectoral until satisfied
she was entirely well. This indisputable
evidence of the great merit of Ayers Cherry
PectOral has given me mbOUded conf
dence in the preparation, and | recommend
it to my customers, knowing it cannot disap-
point them"
ayers Cherry Pectoral cured me of bad
cough and my partner Of bronchitis. I know
of numerous cases i'll which this preparation
has proved very beneficial in families Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

Now 1T is certain that the Democrats
will carry Ohio. The dethroned and repu-
dated Gear, Tom REED, is going to stump
the Buckeye state for MCKINLEY, which
means handsome majority for CAMPBELL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

a FRENCHMAN has invented an appar-
AUS called the cryogene, in which, by the
expansion of carbonic acid, he cools air to
100 degrees below zero in a few minutes.
As the weather prognosticators all predict
extremely hot weather for September. per-
haps it would be we'll to import few gross
for Salt Lake
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

JULIAN HAWTHORNE, whose brilliant
story Is now being published in THE Sun
DAY HERALD, introduces in to-day's install
ment the somewhat realistic and unroman-
tic situation of woman asking question
OF her husband while he is putting on a
shirt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

HIS was eminent
ly a week of sui
cides in Salt Lake;
Of suicides and di-
vorce suits. May
be there is some
relation between
the two. We know
Tolstoi invokes
a g al n st matri-
mony; but Tolstoi
is crazy. Take
away from man
this one solace in
life, the one hope
in this world. and
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The spirit of imitation is contagious.

There probably never lived the man who,
at one time or another in his career, did not
consider, If not contemplate, suicide as an
escape from the ills he knew of to those he
knew not of. Whether as a sutton for the
hand of some sweet amoritta he sighed for
death (for the course of true love never yet
ran smooth, or whether he stopped weary
ana heartsick from care and disappoint-
ment in the ascent to the goal of his ambi-
zion, sometime and somewhere he felt that
LIE was not worth the living.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

GENERAL JUBAL EARLY still wears a
confederate gray suit. Though long af-
fiicted in health he yet fingers. AS he has
not died early, why dilatea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

Is suicide contagious. 1t certainly is.
Not, to be sure, in the strict medical sense
which defines the word as 1.-THE act or pro-
cess of transmitting disease from one per-
son to another, by direct or indirect con-
TACT" but rather in the meaning Of Fisher
Ames:
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And when in that mood he sees round
about him men take their own lives with
out wiucing, the lives that God las
breathed into them and should alone blow
out, he forgets his obligations TO mankind,
TO himself and to his Maker, and joins the
caravan of suicides; for