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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-10
4 ZIONITE In INDIA
He Describes the Famine in
Madras.
ENGLISH DOORS IN THEIR GLORY
Eabes Thrown Into the Gauges Alive to Be
Cared for By the Gods-Crema-
ton is Practiced.

CALCUTTA, India, February IS. 1892.
i 81 ecial correspondence of The HERALD. I
Following the wandering course out
lined in my last letter, our ship, the
Cathay, rounded the island of Ceylon, and
sailing up the Coromandel coast of India.
cast anchor in the roadstead of Madras.
The bar there is one of evil repute. and
steamers rarely go in, if reasonably avoid
able. Lighters take off ordinary cargoes.
and serf boats receive passengers, when
few in number. The sea-board is a dry.
sterile and sandy shore, exposed to cy-
clones and to the swell from the Bay of
Bengal; the Masoola boats, employed to
cross the heavy serf of the coast, are large
and light, constructed of thin boards sewed
together with strands of raw-hide and
calked with cocoanut fibre They are
about 20 feet long, deep and wide. much
the shape of the tabernacle roof. Thew
are manned by ten to fifteen natives, who
row within fifty feet of the shore then
turn the boat broadside to the next breaker
which carries il onto the sands in about
TWO feet OF water. Before another breaker
gets in, the passenger is
SEIZED BY THE LEGS AND ARMS,
bundled onto dry land in a dazed condition
and five Rupees" yelled in his ear II the
passengers are posted they receive one
fourth Of their demands and accept 1t with
nonchaient good nature, the latter sum
being apparently more than they expected
During The prevalence Of the northeast
monsoon, which begins the middle of
October, the storm flag is hoisted on the
flag STAFF 10 warn passengers from at
tempting to land at all.
My stay at Madras was a misadventure.
The town and country have fallen upon
evil times. A partial famine was and still
IS brooding over that whole district, and a
dull, apathetic, respondent feeling seemed
10 blight the very air.
In ride over the parched country saw
numbers Of grasshoppers. or locusts, as
they call them here, and supposed that that
shuttle Of the sun-burned grass might be
at the bottom Of the mischief. but no.
Scant rains for three years, they told me,
were drying up the southern provinces
and slowly starving the people. The car
rage driver, whose horse
STAGGERED FROM VERY WEAKNESS.
and yet without the liberal fare earned
that day, might have gnawed an empty
manger, related some incidents connected
with the long-endurlng drought and its at
Tenant evils that would not make pleas
ant reading. Here is one that came under
my own observation. Driving through the
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but these ere quickly reproduced, unless,
as most generally happens, all the reserve
fangs are removed, in which case the snake
is harmless for life. Their grace
full movements in the erect attitude
they assume, with the hood distended
as they follow the motions of the juggler's
hands, make them an object of wonder and
fear to all, while the superstitions of the
natives about them are endless. They eat,
1T seems, about every sixth or seventh day
1t is claimed there were nearly twelve hun
dred people killed in one district in one
year by poisonous snakes, principally CO.
bras, as they are by far the most numer-
Gus, sad proof of the fatal character of
this Indian serpent, as against the larger
boa and its variants which STAY by con-
striction. The largest venomous snake
known here is called the Sunkercher by
natives, and they are seen twelve to four
teen feet long. and are active and agrees
I've. There is another called the Hama
dryas, which is very fierce, and is always
ready not only to attack, but to pursue
G.. H SMELL
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TO-DAY IN HISTORY.

April 10 is the anniversary Of the death
of Alexander Turney Stewart the great
est dry goods Merchant of the United
States. On September . 1925 he began
business in New York city with a limit
ed capital, but an immense amount Of
business sagaeity, From this humble
beginning sprang business that be.
came simply gigantic, with sales OF $50
100000 annually The great feature of
his immense retail store was the cour-
teous manner with which all who an.
tered were treated. There was no dis
tinction given one customer over an
other.
During the famine in Ireland he sent
a shipload of provisions to the starving
people; after the Franco German war
he sent shipload Of flour to France.
To the Chicago fire sufferers he contri-
buted $4,000, and $4,000 to the sufferers
from floods in Silesia.
he was appointed secretary of the
treasury by President Grant, but was
ineligible for the reason that he was an
importer of goods.
His death occurred April 10, 1876. His
estate was Valued at s4OOoO.COO.
His example in the treatment of Gus.
toners is worthy of emulation and this
is characteristic of our house.
COHN BROS.
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GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
Handsome lot of sateen Windsor Ties
ats
Large line of latest designs in scarfs
and Four-in-hand and Windsors in plain
colors and handsome plaids at s5c.
Beautiful assortment of Silk and
Satin scarfs and Four-in-hand, very
choice &c. styles, Monday SOC.
Boys Outing Flannel shirtg, a bar
gain at 25c.
Mems Flannelette Shirts yesterday
Soc, Monday sec.
Avery large line of Mems Flannelette
Cheviot and Madras Cloth Shirts, worth
75c., Monday SOC.
We offer bargain in fast black
Sateen Shirt reduced from 81 to 75c.
Just received handsome lot of
Gents Night Shirts which we place on
sale at SOC.
New lot of elegant Night Shirts, silk
embroidered, usually sold at 81, our
price on Monday 75o.
Mothers Friend Boys Shirt Waists in
Flannelette, Cheviot and Percale, regu.
lar price sec. to 75c., Monday 4Oc.
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HIS WORK DONE.
ferdinand de Lesseps Calmly Awaiting
His End.

Occasional communications from Paris
give US glimpses of Viscomte Ferdinand
de Lesseps as a wornout old man, of whose
demise we may hear any time. He is in
his eighty-seventh year, and his feeble
senility contrasts strikingly and patheti-
cally with the wonderful energy and per-
sonal power which characterized him in his
years.
The man who made the Suez canal was
born in Paris in 1905. He was educated in
that city. At twenty he was an attache OF
the French general consulate at Lisbon.
lie held various consulate appointments,
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INFANTS LINGERIE.
COIN BROS.

lNtANIS LINGERIE.
On Monday we offer extraordinary bar
gains in Infants Wear. We quote just
few of them: Cambria Slips, finished
with fine embroidery, at soc. and Co.,.
Nainsook Dresses, with trimmed circu-
lar yokes and fine embroidery edge on
the bottom, at Sl25.
Nsinsook Dresses with handsomely
trimmed waists finished with deep hem
on bottom, ats1,25.
Very elaborate styles in Nainsook
Dresses atf1.4O s1.5U and SEQ.
Nicely trimmed Cambria Skirts at SOC.
and soc.
Nainsook Skirts with cluster of tucks
and fine embroidery finish at 81. 20.
Beautifully trimmed Skirts with six
inch embro derry ruf1e and cluster OF
tucks, at 81. 50.
Handsome wide, Plat Wallace trimmed
Skirts at 50 co; worth $780,
Good quality Flannel Skirts with silk
feather stitch finish at leo.
Very pretty Embroidery and Hem
stitched Flannel Skirts at SIPS, s1.lO
and S1,75.
Fine quality Flannel Barricoats at
Sec. and 75c,
Infants Zephyr Knit Skirts at 2Oc.,
just half price.
Infants Zephyr Knit Bands at Soc {:
worth Zoe.
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Not the worst Girl in the World.

Prof Chapman, of Bowdoin college. told
the following story at 81 alumni dinner
81 feel like the little daughter Of friend
of mine in Portland. She had just mas
tered the art of expressing herself in in
telligent sentences. One day she had done
something for which her mamma had to
reprove her. The lady gave her daughter
sound lecture and then told her TO go up
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stairs, alone, in her room, and ask God to
forgive her for her error
I'm a few minutes she was surprised to
see the baby come down stairs again, ap-
pear in the sitting room and stand back
with great deal of seriousness.
Well, did you go up and do what 1 told
youl asked the fond mother.
Yes replied the guilty one, and God
said, "Great Scott Elsie Murray, pve
known a great many worser girls than
you" ''-BOstOn Herald
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was virtually dictator, is at the head of the
rebellion, in the hope of regainlng power
He is a powerful man and reputed enor
mously wealthy. Palacio. who processes
to believe that the rebellion will be put
down easily, is the second of the presidents
W no have succeeded Blanco. 1t VIII be re-
membered that recently President Harri
son reimposed duties on Venezuelan coffee
and sugar, because of Venezuelas refusal
to enter into reciprocal commercial rela-
tions with the United States. Senior Bolet
Paraza represents the little republic at
Washington.
Use only Dew Drop Canned Goods.
Rogers & Co.
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NOTIONS.


so dozen Ladies' Black and White
Canvas Belts at lOc. apiece.
go dozen Ladies' Tan Colored Leather
Belts at 1Oc. apiece.
200 gross White and Cclored Pearl
Buttons at sc. and nc. per dozen.
100 gross German Horn, Metal and
Ivory Dress Buttons at &C. per dozen.
1000 yards Neck Ruching, assorted
colors and white, at5c. a yard.
100 boxes Neck Ruching assorted
colors and white, yards in a box, at zoe.
box.
500 yards assorted colors Grenedfne
Yelling in dotted satin stripe border and
scalloped edge. was Csc, now 15c.
200 yards Chiffon Edging, in all colors
and black, at Csc. yard.
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OUR TROUBLED NEIGHBOR.

DR.. Palacio, President OF Venezuela His
Record.
The little republic of Venezuela is the
scene of what appears to be a formidable
rebellion against the authority of President
Palacio, of whom we present a portrait.
General Crespo leads the military side of
the revolt, to support which naval opera
tions have been undertaken successfully.
The presumption is made that Antonio
Guzman Blanco, who for eighteen years
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SOME EXTRA SILKS.

24inch printed Japan silks, regular s1OO
Monday zoe.
24-inch heavy black gros grain silk,
regular 81. % Monday s7H.
24-inch heavy all silk black Rhadames
grade s1.65, Monday sl.25
aain. black Undine silk, entirely new.
grade $780, Monday $3.50
2a-inch black Tricot or Jersey silk,
grade SLIGO, Monday sl.2?.
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NEXT SUNDAY IS EASTER.

NEXT SUNDAY IS EASTER.
You will want to be well dressed You
will be, too. You can't AFFORD to be
otherwise.
A dress is just like a picture-If you
slight it up with harsh. unsympathe tic
shades it is ruined. If you don't know
just what will be BEST, We Do-and
have it to show you. Our advice IS yours
for the asking.
SILK is the cornerstone Of elegant
attire-and we put lots Of TINE, CARE
and MONEY into the collection of our
stock. 1t is with SILK-as with every
thing else we carry-UP TO THE TOP
NOTCH OF PERFECTION. It's not
a class of goods in which many very
extraordinary bargains are possible.
The best come from standard makers,
who sell close always and from whom
every cent less Is a concession. Still
we manage to 'indent" the price occa-
sionally. This is true of all our goods.
In buying from US you save one.th.rd
of what you spend.
As to prices we invite you to inspect
our stock before purchasing. 1t will
take but little time; you will certainly
gain { great deal of information and
will besides have the satisfaction of
feeling wherever you may buy that
you have done the best you could for
yourself Always ready to supply sam
pies.
AS an Easter offering wecall attention
to our Important Dress Goods Sale,
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HOUSE GOWNS AND WRAPPERS.

HOUSE GOWNS AND WRAPPERS.
Calico Wrappers at aOc.
sThe most practical styles in Gingham
Wrappers, sl.4o.
Flannelet:e House Gowns, splendid
styles at 50.
Best quality Bingham House Wrap
pers at 1915.
French flannel and all wool Cashmere
House Gowns and Tea Gowns, made up
in the best styles, at IS, Sc and $40, re-
duced from 81, 50 and SIC.
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HOUSE LINENS AND WHITE GOODS.
1000 yards White Checked Nainsook at
4c, per yard.
1000 yards splendid quality Nainsook
at sc. Per yard.
Long fold stripe check and handsome
large plaid fine sheer Lawns, regular
15c.; Monday 1Oc.
l8inch plain and twilled Crash Towel
ing at Sc; regularly sold at s1sc.
1s-inch check glass Toweling, our reg
ular 1Oc. quality, Monday at 6ylc.
A lot of alllinen Table Cloths, Brochs
border and plain cream fringed all
around, full two yards long, our regular
sl.15 quality; Monday only 75c.
Splendid quality soft finished yard
wide bleached Muslin, worth &C.; Mon.
day at $40. yard.
eO-inch handsome soft finished German
Damask Table Linen at60c.a yard; regu-
larly sold at soc.
72-inch plain satin double Damask
Table Linen, without border, extra fine
quality, price $500 yard.
62-in. Cream Damask Table Linen. ex.
ira heavy, at Soc. well worth 75c.
CO. in. pure German Turkey Red Tabla
Damask, neat geometrical and horal.de-
signs, very best quality, at &C.,, usually
sold at &c.
200 dozen All Linen Damask and
Huck Towels at only sc.
100 dozen All Linen Crepe Towels, size
1Sx36, at only 10c.
ECO dozen German Satin Damask and
De7onshire Huck Towels, fancy borders
with knOtted fringe at 25o.; regular
price Acc.
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PARTISAN DRESS GOODS NOVELTIES.
These high grade novelties and foreign
dress patterns to be sacrificed as an
Easter benefit The reductions stated
below are strictly exact.
Paris Dress Patterns, yesterday So. so,
Monday 1925
Paris Dress Patterns. yesterday S14oo,
Monday $3.50.
Paris Dress Patterns. yesterday SIC 50,
Monday sl2. co.
One lot Cheviot Spring suitings sold
yesterday al Coo. and Csc, Monday soc,
One lot of Tufted Dots and figured
English suiting, yesterday 9Oc., Monday
zoe.
Bedford Cords newest Spring Shades
yesterday Csc, Monday, Soc
Splendid quality all wool Bedford Cord
in best spring shades and black, yesterday
$780, Monday 75c.
S6-inch English Tweed suiting, yester-
day 35c., Monday Csc.
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BASKETS,

We are showing an immense variety
ofBaskets including all kinds of Lunch
Baskets, Flower Baskets. Market Bask-
els, Picnic Baskets, Scrap Baskets
Photo Baskets and Clothes Hampers.
Prices lower than ever known here be-
fore.
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HOSIERY.


children's fast black ribbed cotton
Hose atS15c.
Misses derby ribbed cotton hose in
all sizes, guaranteed fast black, the best
15c. stocking sold in this or any other
city.
We offer several lines Of Misses fast
black cotton Hose at 25c. for all sizes,
former prices 35c. to SOC,
A large assortment of Boys and
Misses heavy Cotton and Lisle Hose,
regular prices 75c., &c., 81. 90 and 81. 10;
our prices Monday for all sizes SOC.
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WASH FABRICS.

Fine quality handsomely Printed
Sateens, in mediums and dark, at s1.OO for
dress pattern.
Ten yards 36inch Printed Challie, in
very handsome designs, at $50. per pat
tern.
Very good quality Dress Style Cling
hams at 81 C. yard.
Best quality American Zephyr Cling.
hams, our regular 15c. goods, at 1Oc. a
yard,
Beautiful light ground French Print
ed Bedford Cord at SOC. a yard, good
value at 40c
One hundred pieces now Til printed
cotton fabric (our second Importation
styles prettier than ever. at 15c. yard.
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THE COBRA,

he continued, is most active in the night,
but is often seen moving in the daylight,
and the native Hindoos here tell some
curious fables about it. They are said to
drink good deal of water. and will go
into it readily and swim well; they rob hen
roosts, swallo" ing the eggs whole, and
are known to occasionally ascend trees in
search of food. Old ruins and outhouses
are favorite haunts for them, and they are
frequently aroused by men who by inadver-
tently disturbing aud touching them re-
ceive their death wound. Death occurs in
a few minutes, especially when the fangs
penetrate vein and the poison
is carried at once into the circu
lation. The number of deaths caused
yearly in India by these cobras
is absolutely appalling. They are the ia
vorite species of the snake charmers and
jugglers, and it is startling with what free.
dom they are seized and handled by these
men, even when in possession of their
fangs. They are rendered temporarily
harmless by cutting out. the poison fangs.
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THE AMERlCAN

Fire Insurance company, Of PhiladelphiA
will insure you against fire.
H. J. GRANT s. Co., AgensA
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WHITMAN'S LAST LINES.
The following is the last poem written By
-. t.c,..1 o.. Too+J, - Ttor,dop

The following is the last poem written By
the "Good Gray Poet" Of Camden:
Nay. do not dream, designer dark,
Thou hast portrayed or hit thy theme entire:
l. hoverer of late by this dark valley, by its
confines, having glimpeS OF 1t,
Here enter lists with three. claiming my righs
TO make symbol too
For I have seen many wounded soldiers die.
After dread sufferiug-have seen their lives
pass of with smiles;
And have watched the death hours Of the old:
and seen the infant die;
The rich with all his nurses and his doctors;
And then the poor, in meagreness and poverty;
And 1 myself for long, o. Death, have breathed
my every breath
Amid the nearness and the silent thought Of
thee.
And out of these and thee.
L make a scene song brief mot fear Of thee.
Nor glooms ravlnes, nor bleak, nor dark-fOre
/ do not fear thee,
Nor celebrate the struggle, OF contortion, or
hard-tied knott,
OF the broad blessed light and perfect air. with
meadows, ripping tides, and trees and
flowers and grass,
And the low hum of living breeze-and in the
midst Gods beautiful eternal right hand,
Thee hottest minister OF heaven-thee, envoy
usherer, guide at last Of all,
Rich, ford. loosener OF the stricture-knos
called life,
Sweet peaceful, welcome Death:
-LFr0Da HdTper'S Magazine for AprI.
THE LAST VOYAGE.
captainl my captain! our fearful trip is
done;
we sought is won;
The port is near, the BELLS hear, the people all
exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel
grim and daring;
But heart! heart hearth
| the bleeding drops of red.
Where on deck my captain lies.
Fallen cold and dead.
o captain my captain rise up and hear the
BELLS
Rise up-for you the flag is hung-for you the,
| bugle trills;
For YOU bouquets and ribbon'd vreaths-for
| you the shores a-crowdng;
For you they call the swaying mass, their
eager faces turning;
| Here captain dear father
| This arm beneath your head;
| It is some dream that on the deck,
| You've fallen cold and dead
My captain does not answer, his lips are pale
| and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage
close, and done;
| From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with
object won;
Exult o shores, and ring bellsl
But /. with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my captain lies,
| Fallen cold and dead.
THE AMERICAN
Fire Insurance company, Of PhiladelphiA
will insure you against fire.
] H. ]. GRANT & Co., Agents.
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CHENILLE CURTAINS.

CHENILLE CURTAINS,
All new designs and colors, with hand
some Dado and Frieze and heavy Che
nile fringe top and bottom.
5000 per pair; worth $3.50.
$500 per PAIR; worth $500.
SLOO per pair (self color with trellis
work insertion; worth SIS. 90.
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summit in the neighborhood called Tiger
Hill, from where a fine view was obtained
of
MOUNT EVEREST 90 900 FEET,
the Kinchin-junga, 2S,40O feet, and a num-
Der of lower peaks of lesser interest. On
the return trip l fell in with an Indian
gentleman of scientific attainments who
was in a position to tell your correspond
ent all he wanted to know about the SCRIP
ents of this country. AS IN Ceylon, the
Cobra proves 10 be the deadliest Its
poison, he said, might be kept for months
or years and not lose it's virulence, it
would kill when introduced into the
stomach, whereas other blood poisons do
not In the experiments he had frequently
made cobras bite themselves and each
other and they never seemed the worse for
it. l repeated the belief in America that
our rattle-snakes, when Infatuated, some
times intict their own death wound but
he looked incredulous. He thought the
poison did take effect on snakes less deadly
in character. The flesh of an animal dead
from snake poison does not seem to be
affected. Animals and men eat it with
IMMUNITY. The blood of an animal killed by
vENoMoUs SNAKE
is itself poisonous. The python is the only
snake in India that incubates or coils on its
eggs till they are Matched. The eggs OF
some snakes are left where the natural
heat will terminate them, while again
others produce their young alive and i'm
mediately on coming into the world they
show all the activity of their race He
claimed that the salt water sna kes are all
venomous, and the fresh water snakes all
harmless. l recalled similar belief told
me by natives in the Malay Archipelago.
The cobra family, he continued, all have
the hood and never attack without extend
ing it. They raise the first third of the
body from the ground, slide slowly along
on the other two-thirds, and with the hood
dilated, remain on the alert darting the head
forward to the attack when anything hos
tile approaches. You can readily perceive
the attitude would be very startling, and
few objects are moro calculated to inspire
awe than a large cobra. with his
hood erect, Kissing loudly and his ewes
glazing, as he prepares to.strike. Neverthe
less, they are said to be not aggressive,
and unless interfered with they crawI
along with the hood closed, looking not un
like the harmless snakes, but the moment
they are disturbed they assume the men
acing attitude described 1t is found al
all over Hindoostan and is equally dreaded
and fatal everywhere.
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SALE OF LADIES JACKETS FOR ONE
THIRD ORIGINAL VALUE.
Ladies' Spring Jackets, carried over
from last year, excellent styles,
At s.. so marked down from IS and SC.
At 81, marked down from So and $40.
AT Sc, marked down from sic and SIS.
In addition to the above, New Capes,
New Jackets and Box Coats will be on
sale at extra low prices.
Ladies Long Travelling Garments, en-
tirely new.
at $40 were S13.
At S11, were SIS.
At S18, were $3.50.
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MOUNT EVEREST $4,000 FEET,

summit in the neighborhood called Tiger
Hill, from where fine view was obtained