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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
An Official Statement.

A statement published by the ST. Peters
burg Official Messenger on the condition Of
the imperial finances and It's relation to the
famine was telegraphed here as an author
itative declaration aiming to minimize the
dangers of the situation. The statement
begins by announcing that the stocks CT
grain after the prohibition of export will
be sufficient for the population until the
next harvest, AS the people in the agri-
cultural districts depend on the sale of
grain they will find the position embarrass-
ing, and the government has, therefore,
assigned to them 10000, 900 rubles from the
cash reserves in the treasury. 1t is said
tnat the treasury reserves amount to 220, =
000,0 900 rubles, which sum is sufficient to
meet the redemption OF the debt for the
current year and all the expenditures in
cluded in the budget, and still leave a cas- b
balance equal TO the needs of 1892 falI-
ing off in the revenue is admitted, but the
Official Messenger declares that this will not
substantially influence the equlli-
brium of the budget. 1t is denied
there is any likelihood that the treasury
will be required TO purchase gold abroad
unless such course is necessitated by a
flowing back of Russian securities to Rus
STA. The gold reserve amounts to total
OF Sc, 500, 900 rubles in the treasury and
120, 000, 900 rubles in the Imperial bank, be-
sides 70, 900, 600 secured by the recently is
sued provisional credit note. These totals
do not include the receipts from the last
loan.
The sum of the Official Messenqer's state
ment is that Russia has plenty of grain
and abundance of money for toe time be-
ing. This is reassuring to the Russians
who are under the scare of famine. This
class includes Count Lyof Tolstoi. the
great Russian social reformer, who has
published an energetic demand that the
government declare, without delay,
whether the stock of grain is sufficient to
last through next summer. Count Tolstoi
advocates the purchase of corn in Amer
lea in time to protect the country from
famine and the terrible social disturbance
that is certain to attend such condition of
affairs Tolstoi contends, from his own
personal calculation, that the stock of
grain will not be sufficient, and that the
government reply guaranteeing enough to
feed the people until the next harvest, if
falsiiied will lead to a revolution in which
Tolstol says he Will aid.
Count Tolstoi's daughters, Latiore and
Marie, have opened free refectory for the
famine stricken near his chateau. All
those persons who are in dire necessity
here get good meal, but they are forbid
den to take food away with chem, the count
forseeing that if they were allowed to
carry food away they might barter it for
drink.
A fresh instance of the hos tility enter
tanned in ST. Petersburg for the German
element has been given. An order was
issued to-day forbidding that persons be
authorized to practice as lawyers in the
Baltic provinces unless they be of Russian
extraction. Many Germans are thus de-
barred.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
WITHOUT A WASHDAY
Time, Money and Worry saved by Putting
Washing Out

Time, Money and Worry saved by Putting
Washing Out
No one knows till 1t is tried, the delight
OF house keeping without washday. The
wheels seem to run by magic No getting
Bridget up early to get the wash started, or,
worse, getting yourself up for the same
purpose. No hurried breakfast, picked-up
dinner, slop and damp and steam. No dry
ing of the clothes in the house on rainy
days. or catching of serious colds and tooth
ache on cold ones. No hanging on of the
ironing, with the consequent consumption
of coal, amounting to very large percent
age of the cost of putting out wash.
tits hard to believe that you can put out
o wash at as little or less expense az in hir-
ing washerwoman, but when you consider
her pay, her meals, the soap and starch
wasted, because they are yours-the steady,
hot fire, you will see the economy of this
plan, even if you do not give comfort, peace
of mind and whole day gained their due
place in the credit column. 1t is better
10 keep one servant and put out the wash.
than two and do it at home. 1t is better to
put ii out than TO hire help for your one
servant to do it. 1t is better than trying
TO have that one servant do the washing
and ironing as well as all the other house
hold work. And 1t thousand times better
than doing it yourself, for, combined with
other duties, few things are so physically
and nervously wearing as the washing and
ironing on which the woman who attempts
nothing else may grow fat Try this recipe
for saving time, money and household
worry, and you will not want to go back to
old methods HolsekeepGrS' Weekly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29

To purify water hang small bag of char
coal in it.
For toothache try oil of sassafras. and
apply 1t frequently, if necessary.
Vinegar bottles may be cleaned with
crushed eggshells in little water.
To brighten carpets wipe them with warm
water in which has been poured "a few drops
of ammonia.
If the color has been taken out of silks
by fruit stains ammonia will usually restore
the color.
A good liniment for Inflammation. rheu-
matism. swellings, ETC., is olive oil well
saturated with camphor.
A good cement is melted alum. but il
must never be used when water and heat
are to come in contact with it.
To clear stove of clinkers, put a handful
Of salt into it during hot ire When cold,
remove the clinkers with cold chisel.
The proper way TO put salt fish to soak is
with the flesh side upward. In this way
the salt settles at the bottom of the pan
An easy method Of removing mildew is to
place the article in a warm oven for few
moments and then brush 1t.
a tight shoe may sometimes be made easy
by laying cloth wet in hot water across
where it pinches, changing several times.
The leather will shape itself to the foot
A disinfectant which combines cheapness
with general worth is found in permaugan-
ate OF potash. One ounce will make buck
etful of disinfectant. 1t is a crystal, and
can be kept In this state until ready for use
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
The Liberal Unionist Programme.

This indicates the trend of the Conserya-
tive thought It is reflected in the remarks
of MIR. Chamberlain in a speech at Birmiug-
ham last week The programme, according
to the New York Sun correspondent. as
enunciated by the chief rushlight of that
heterogeneous mixture of ''outs,n contains
three special and prominent planks which
were not originally embraced in the Tory
plan, namely, cheap land transfer, district
and parish councils and old age pensions:
while, at the same time, it omits free educa-
ton ard all mention of Ireland, two no
table features which were included in the
Conservative caucus scheme. Its altogether
probable that MIR. Chamberlain knew Lord
Sallsbury's mind on these points before de-
clarlng the new Unionist policy, and that
we have now, therefore, q tolerably com
piete statement of which the Tory maneu-
vres are up to date. The fact OF the matter
Is the Conservatives are grown desperate
over the desertiOn Of them by the rural
voters IN favor of the general Improvement
In their condition, long ago decided upon
and elaborated b. the Liberals and they are
prepared, at this stage OF the game, to sac
rltice many of their leng cherished couvic-
lions against legislation for the welfare of
the people rather than see themselves oh
4lIeldU as country party, which seems
TO be their destiny. Therefore the farmer
IS likely TO get the transfer of land in Eng
land placed on easy terms by one party or
the other; the scheme of parish councils, in
addltlon TO the ministerial project Of dis
trlct councils, must be swallowed by the
Conservatives, Notwithstanding that this
tends to annihilate the power Of the local
squires and parsons. In word, the Tory
party has never passed through more
bitter period of purgation of old IDEAS than
1t Is now undergoing, the unwelcome pro
cess being forced uponit by the enlightened
course of the Liberal party
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
WOMAN'S MANY WORRIES

The Crying Sin of the Ambitions and Busy
Aousekeeper.
A mistaken idea is that any one can keep
house. AS well say that any one can run a
business, practice a trade or direct vessel.
All these employments have to be diligently
studied before they can be mastered. The
same routine should be pursued in fitting
girls for homes of their own. Many moth
ers are beginning to see this, having learned
bitter lessons from their own experience.
The daughters, too, with that practical
good sense which characterizes a large
proportion OF the much malgned American
girls, are taking matters into their own
hands, attending cooking classes and max
ing practical tests of their efficiency at
home.
Keeping house for g mother to whom to
turn for advice whose trained servants
good naturally strive to make things easy
for what they consider the young lady's
whlm, is very different affair from the
same business pursued with undivided re-
sponsibility and with unaccustomed assis-
lance.
One of the first things to learn is the
power of oiling the domestic machinery, to
save both 1t and herself unnecessary wear
and tear. Still, while many woman may
so direct her household affairs that they
run smoothly, it may be at the price of such
a strain upon herself that the success will
cost her dear.
One of the crying sins, if it deserves to be
called by SO harsh name, of the ambitious,
busting housewife is worry. She lies
awake at night thinking of what has gone
wrong during the day and planning how
she shall remedy Il on the morrow, dwells
upon the thought that the pickles may be
fermenting or the preserves spelling, be-
means herself over the rapid lowering of
the contents of the flour barrel, and groans
mentally at the thought of the housekeep-
ing bills. She wakes unrefreshed and more
prone than ever to fall victim to the dozen
worries that are awaiting her descent to the
culinary department, in the shape of late
breakfast, a sour-faced cook, an untidy eel
lar or an unswept dining room.
1t is often misfortune of temperament
or nerves and not fault of temper Never
theless, the fact that it grows rapidly by
exercise renders it incumbent upon every
woman to do all she can to minimize the
fretful disposition that makes such ankle
ties a burden not to the bearers alone but to
all about them,-N Y Recorder
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
USEFUL INFORMATION.

Things Valuable and Convenient to Know
That one cup of butter. solid, weighs
half pound.
That two cups of graduated sugar or two
and half cups Of powdered sugar weigh q
pound.
That three cups of oornmeal weigh a
pound,
That four cups of -four weigh a pound.
That one rounded tablespoonful of flour
weighs half an ounce.
That one tablespoonful of butter weighs
one ounce.
That salt fish are quickest and best fresh
ened by soaking in sour milk.
That fish can be scaled much easier by
dipping into boiling water about G minute
That q teaspoonful of turpentine boiled
with pure white clothes will aid the white
ming process.
That milk which is turned or changed
may be sweetened and made fit for use bv
stirring in a little soda.
That bit of charcoal put in the saucepan
with your cabbage destroys much of the
disagreeable odor.
That salt curdles milk; hence, in prepar-
ing milk porridge, gravles, etc, the salt
should not be added until the dish is almost
finished.
That egg shells are nice to clean bottles
or cruets, also little bits of raw potato and
soapsuds. Shake well, then rinse several
times.
That boiled starch is much improved bv
the addition of a little sperm or little gum
arabic dissolved; some like few drops of
kerosene.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
Rumors About NJ. de Glers, Visit.

Inc Russian prime minister, M. de
Glers, was in Paris. Nobody knows exact
ly what he was there for, but some of the
more enterprising Partisan correspondents
made grand coup in getting the menu of
the dinner given to the Cars minister by
PRESIDENT Carnot at the Elysee nj. de
Glers also dined with M. Ribot, the minis
ter OF foreign affairs. A select company
mad been invited to be present Nothing is
known yet as to what passed between the
Two ministers. M. de Giers returned from
Paris by way of Berlin, where he met
chancellor Won Caprivi. During his stay
IN Parls he spent some time with the
Rothschilds, presumably discussing with
them the matter of loans, and the French
loan In particular,
La Pair says that it understands that
Franco Russian alliance exists, YER
bally, and that M. de Giers, the Russian
minister of foreign affairs, and President
Cafnot had only to arrange two points in
this alliance, which were, up to the time of
M. de Giers' arrival, still unsettled. This
understanding, the PdtG declares, was ar
ranged during the recent visits of the Rus
sian grand dukes to President Carnot. In
addition the paper says that there are only
two points of the alliance which yet re-
NAMED to be defined, and that these were
settled at a conference held by President
Carnot, M. de Giers, M. de Freycinet
president of the French council and min
lister of war, and M. Ribot, minister of
foreign affairs.
The wide diversity of comments on the
visit of M. de Giers to Paris shows how
little is known of its object. The French
in their hope and pride, were convinced
that the Car had sent his chief minister to
Paris TO conclude treaty offensive and de-
fenslye. Any other result would be deep
disappointment to them. But they are
puzzled about the subsequent visit to Ber-
lin, and the journals are inclined to take up
the theory of courtesy ss the sole motive of
the astute minister
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
DEFlNINTIuNS OF HOME,
Some Sentiments About That Place Which is
Loved by Ali.

Some Sentiments About That Place Which is
Loved by Ali.
The London Tit-Bits offered a prize for
the best definition of home. Here are some
of the best of 5000 answers sent in:
The golden setting in which the brightest
jewel is mother"
A world of strife shut out, world of Low e
shut in.
An srbor which shades when the sunshine
of prosperity becomes too dazzling; har-
Dor where the human bark finds shelter in
the time of adversely.
Home Is the blossom of which heaven is
the fruit.
Home Is persons estate obtained with
out injustice, kept without disquietude: a
place where time is spent without repent
ance, and which is ruled by justice, mercy,
and love-
A grand old mirror, through which both
sides of US are seen.
That source OF comfort which youth does
not fully appreciate, which the young men
and maidens lovingly desire, which the mid
die aged generally possess, which the old
rightly value.
A hive in which, like the industrious bee,
youth gamers the sweets and memories of
life for age to mediate aud feed upon.
The best place for married man after
business hours.
Home is the contest kindliest, sweetest
place in all the world, the scene of our
purest earthly joys and deepest sorrows.
The only spot on earth where the faults
and talings of fallen humanity are hidden
under the mantle of charity.
An abode in which the inmate, the ''su-
perior being called man." can pay back at
night with 80 per cent. interest every an
noyance that has met him in business dur
ing the day.
The place where the great are sometimes
small and the small often great.
The fathers kingdom, the children's par
adise, the mothers world.
The Jewel casket containing the most
precious of all jewels-domestic happiness
Where you are treated best and you
grumble most
Home is a central telegraph Office of hu-
man love, into which run innumerable wires
of affection, many of which, though extend
ing thousands of miles, are never discon-
nected from the one great terminus.
The centre of our affections, around which
our hearts best wishes Irvine.
a little hollow scooped out of the windy
hill OF the world where we can be shielded
from its cares and annoyances.
popular but paradoxical institution, in
which woman works in the absence of man
and man rests in the presence of woman.
A working model of heaven. with real
angels in the form of mothers and wives.
The place where all husbands should be
an night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
Hurryiug on an Election.

Alarmed by their defeat in South Motion.
the Tories are hurrying forward the Eas It
Dorset election with unprecedented hpstetin
the hope that the Liberal candidate will not
have time Us canvass the constituency and
convert the waverers. 1t will be the short
est county contest ever known, the date
fixed for the poll being only three weeks
from the day of the late Tory members
death; but the Liberals have not been dis
couraged thereby. A victory will be harder
TO win than in South Moulton because
there are fewer Liberal abstaiuers to bring
back. In 1885, when the Liberals won. 8. $50
Votes were pollad, and the majority was 697.
In 1856 Tory was elected by majority of
boo, and 9i9 electors recorded their votes
The coming conference of the represep-
tatlVes OF the rural voters with the Ma
tional Liberal club is becoming meeting of
the first Importance in the political contest
IN view OF the new course OF the Tories
Each county will send proportiopate
number OF farmers and agricultural la
borers as delegates. Mr., Gladstone has
been supervising the arrangements. and
has personally revised the programme
which was drafted by the executive of the
National Liberal Federation. The farm
voters appear to have very quickly at.
tanned keen PERCEPTION of their value as
preponderating factor in the next gen
eral election, and will not be satisfied with
anything less than state aid in the creation
of class OF small land owning farmers.
which will enable laborere also to become
owners OF ground in small way
The United Kingdom alliance and the
Liquor Veto association have been i'm
mensely reinforced by number of
weather. supporters, and are making ar
engagements for double set of subscrip
tions to create a great election fund to fur
Their their special purposes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29

AS had been anticipated, the Car issued
a ukase forbidding the expectation of
wheat from Russia.
The effect of this decree is uncertain, Its
first result was to increase the price of
wheat in all the centres of trade in Europe,
and 1t is not believed that it will in any way
relieve the famine in the provinces of the
empire. The reports which come from the
stricken region are most distressing. Tales
OF starvation, of the desertion of children
and wholesale suicide are more frequent
every day. Relief is afforded by the gov
eminent, but is reported to be wholly in
adequate to the situation.
1t Is almost impossible to get definite in
formation concerning the Russian loan, but
the impression deepens that it has been a.
total failure. In Germany it Is stated by
the hreuz Zettung that the government, in
stead OF declining to indicate what the
bankers ought to do, definitely intimated
that the guarantees offered by Russia did
not suffice to justify official approval of
German credit being ventured in the loans
1t Is understood that diplomatic ap-
proaches through Count Won SchouyaIoff.
the Russian ambassador at Berlin, on the
attitude OF the government received an
equally decisive rebuff.
NC IStoCO WulCu ING fFSDCl SVQQlCate
made OF the last Russian loan has enor-
mously increased the financial difficulties
of Russia. NJ. Vishnegradsky has been
forced to relieve the syndicate of eight out
of the twenty million pounds sterling of
Tered Inc public official denial that tie
Rothschilds have taken over five million
pounds is partly true. Bonds amounting
to eight millions have been placed in the
Rothschilds' keeping with DO responsibility
attached to their future issue through the
firm, and the French syndicate is relieved
of burden of six million pounds terling
which the Russian treasury hoped to re-
ceive. Thus Russia, instead OF having
realized sixteen millions on the loans, OBJ
tains only nine millions. The refusal of the
German government to permit bankers to
bolster up the Russian credit ends for long
time to come the chances of Russia borrow
ing money abroad and strengthens the
chances of peace"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
CLOSING UP THE HOUSE.
How to Protect Furniture, Carpets and Bric-
6-Brac.

How to Protect Furniture, Carpets and Brio
6Brac.
1t is somewhat serious undertaking to
leave well furnished house shat up for
several months; hence the items to remem-
Der, and the advisable things 10 do, max e
rather an interminable list
First Of all ascertain which rooms Gf
any are inclined to be damp, and move
their contents into the dryer app artments
strip the beds, roll and tie the mattresses
with cord, leaving them on their respective
bedsteeds. Blankets, woolels materials
pillows, cushions, etc, must be sprinkled
with moth powder and sewn up in old linen
or thick new brown paper. Turning up
the carpets at the edges is very good. but
taking them up altogether is better still.
In that case have them beaten at once and
they will be ready 10 put down.
turs, II not In use, are best left in charge
OF furrler, though they can be sewn up in
old linen. Stand all the furniture as far
from the walls as possible; when the piano
has been sewn up in old sheets it might be
covered with anti damp paper, though that
is really unnecessary. Rub all polished
woodwork with sweet oil before covering
(as everything should be- with busting
sheets. Muslin curtains and other drape-
rles that take starch must De washed. rough
urled ana well blued to keep them from
turning yellow. Light or delicate tinted
blinds should be taken down Brass things
will keep best wrapped in newspapers. Do
not grease them or they will be touched
with verdigris. On the other hand bright
steer nretrons, ETC., must be rubbed with
lard or sweet oil and tied up in old rags and
paper.
The same applies to all kitchen utensils.
ETC., that are apt to become rusty. Tin
lined packing cases are impervious to damp
and would prove invaluable for packing.
Where articles are left in cupbords, etc,
line the shelf or drawer with large sheets
of paper, with which to cover the oontents
Atore closing the cupboard, etc. Wooden
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29

M. brisson has prepared a. bill to enable
poor people to have recourse to the law for
8 mere trife in the way of expense, by
levying merely nominal fee upon prose
cutor where small sums are in dispute.
The total legal charges in these cases
would be only l per cent. of the money
sued Tor, and nothing need be paid before
entering the action, the government taking
the chances of recovering the fees from un-
successful plaintiffs. Naturally, the law
yers strongly oppose this bill, which means
good deal of work for them and a con-
siderable reduction of their emoluments in
proportion to the total of work done.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29

curtains and draperies must be well shaken
and sewn in cloths. If valuable dresses are
left in the wardrobe, have long sacks made
to hang them in.
The question of fire counting damp is a
matter of opinion. Many believe it is a
good thing to light one occasionally, and
especially for the winter-to leave the
blinds or shutters open, where it is feast
bic, for sunlight is wholesome to things as
well as human beings. OF course, in such
cases the furniture should be arranged so
as not to be too near the window, where
delicate things apt to warp are concerned.
Shut all windows and registers of chin