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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
EsoRD BYRoN's scoToH BoYHooD
A Poor Lad in Scotland Uutil His
Tenth Year.
BY FRANK POPE HUMPHREy

BY FRANK POPE HUMPHREY.
Lord Byron was the descendant of a
king, and that king was a poet and a.
Scotchman, and Byron was always
prouder of his Scotch blood than of his
English forefathers. He was born in
London, but was fond of calling him
self in his poems, "a young High
lander"
His mother, an Erden, was a Scotch
woman of the royal Stuart line, de-
scended straight from daughter of
James 1. and James I wrote that ia
nous old ballad found in all collections
of ballads. "The King Quhair.''
Lord Byron's father was a spend
thift and married the Scotch heiress
with a view to the payment of his
debts and in ten years her money and
her estate were gone; her castle and
her ancestral lands were sold before
her child's birth
There is a ballad about this bad mar
rage in an old Scotch song collection:
40 where are we gean, bonny Miss Erden.
0 where are We gean so bonny and Draw?
Ye're married, yere married wi Johnny
Byron
To sduander the lands O. eight awa'.'
His mothers castle is now a gray.
ivy-clad ruin, the property of Lord
Aberdeen.
HOW HE CAME BY HIS TEMPER.
Byron came naturally enough by his
spendthrift disposition He came as
naturally by his ungovernable temper.
as we shall see. He entered life handi-
capped.
He was brought up solely by his
mother. A hundred years ago he was
living with her in lodgings in Aber-
deem. little lame fellow five years old.
His father had died when he was only
three.
Byron had even in those childish
days silent RACES" Reproved for tear
ing his frock, he seized it with both
hands and tore it from top to bottom.
But his mother when in a fit of pas
sion would do the same with her caps
and gowns.
She was short and fat and rolled in
her gait. and when angry with her
boy, and trying to catch him, the little
scamp would dance around her Just
beyond her reach. laughing and MINI
licking her movements. AT such times
in her rage she forgot her motherhood,
and tainted him with being "a lame
brat
Yet there is sufficient proof that she
really loved him, and his published let
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
For Our Z outh.

capman or two, but no sign of the
game we sought.
Directly fronting us, on the east side
of the creek there lay, not more than
nine yards away. the fallen trunk of
laurel tree, from which rose several
broken and partly decayed branches,
the whole being in deep shade, as the
sun had not yet risen high enough to
fully light that part of the island.
While we were patiently waiting,
Alden nudged me and whispered: "See
what beautifully variegated moss COW
ers one of those limb stubs We must
gather some of it before we go back
to camp
l was about to make some common
place reply. when. thirty or forty yards
south of US, I noticed a slight unduIa-
ton of the water, and presently there
appeared above its surface, first the
head and then the back of a full-grown
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

monster followed Immediately by a
like emerging of a calf. a comical look
ing little creature not half as long as
its mother.
After inhaling air for a half minute
or so, the pair sank again and, as we
plainly saw by the ripples, began to
feed on bottom-growing plants, along
the east shore and directly toward the
head of the lagoon.
The next time. they rose for air they
were twenty yards near us than be-
fore, and / whispered to Alden: "Wait
till they get into the shadow between
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
Deserving Praise.

We desire to say to our citizens. that
for years we have been selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Buck
Tins Arnica Salve and Electric Bit
ters, and have never handled remedies
that sell as we'll. or that have given
such universal satisfaction We do
not hesitate to guarantee them every
time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory re-
suits do not follow their use. 1hese
remedies have won their great popu-
larity purely on their merits. At A
= Smith & Co.'S Drug Store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
FOR PLEASANT DAYS

pleasant associations are in order, and you
need an outfit in harmony with such sur
roundings- You can look pleasant and
feel pleasauter when you're equipped for
it in one OF our stylish Winter Suits that
suggest collision with prosperity You
won't be damaged by running against
our stock. Everybody in Salt Lake il
anxious to meet with such an accident az
that. It's hit you can score for very
little money at the great reductions in
prices we're Offering this week Sons
things are too good to last. That's the
case with our stock and prices, and this
TACT makes it risky to wait.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

likely to feel for a girl so much older
She was not generally considered 50
handsome as an elder sister Jane, but,
says my old woman again, "She was a
bonnie lasie for a that" She was the
little Byrons daily companion, and he
Mary" with that glad sense of pos
session with which a child claims his
own. And [ am told that she was
known in the valley ever after as
tByrOnS Mary.
The scenery of the "fIighland" song
too, is clearly that Of this valley. which
fact further establishes her claim to
the @Sweet Mary of the poem. Fur
thermore, it is not a love poem.
Mary Robertson married an exise
officer stationed at Crathie, now the
queens parish. She was early widowed,
and lived to a great age. The little
churchyard where she lies is in the
heart of a silent moor. not far from
Ballaterich.
BECOMES LORD AT TEF.
In May, 1898, Byron became This
lordship" at the death of his great
uncle, the fifth Lord Byron.
1t is said that the day after his ac-
cession to that title, he ran up to his
mother and asked did she '1see any
difference in him since he had been
Iiduc d lOl u, do nc pClOClNSu uOHS HILL
self"
1 would not repeat the familiar story
of how when his name was called at
school with the "Dominus'' prefixed
for the first time he was overcome with
emotion and unable to respond lad
sum-" and burst into tears. were it not
that this incident has been so often
cited as a proof of Lord Byron's inor-
dinate vanity! So little is human ma
ture understood? Is he the one human
being, pray, who has burst into tears
under the overwhelming sense of good
fortune?
1t was a great change, indeed, for. the
boy of tens from the narrow income
and lodgings of Aberdeen, and COM
parative obscurity, to rank and New
stead abbey.
Mrs. Byron and her little son at once
left Aberdeen for England, and the
sale of all their household furnishings,
exclusive of linen and plate, brought
munificent sum of ETA It's. Id
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Our Prices ON Lumber

are the very lowest New stock in and
estimates at spot cash rates on all
kind OF material Burnt stock at half
price. Call before buying.
MORRISON. MERRILL & co.
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collar bone. to join with many others
IN that great highway to the nerves,
the spinal cord, and thus reach the
brain
1t is not alone the intricate and little
know mechanism of touch that is inter
esting; the different and remarkable
manifestations in the various surfaces
OF the body. and in the same surfaces
IN differeIt individuals, are equally so.
The curious tests and experiments
with the sense of touch have been made.
mainly by the use of a very simple in
strument devised by Drs. Weber and
valentine This is pair of compasses,
capable of fine gradual adjustment.
tipped with small pieces of cork.
II the points of the touch-testing in
strument be applied to the centre of
the back, at very short distances apart.
the two sets of being but one point.
And this will usually be true in that
region until the points are separated
quite two inches A long series of ex-
perimentS, made on many persons, at
all ages and under various conditions.
warranted Valentine in compiling The
following table of distances at which
the two points may be separately dis
tlnguished on various parts of the
body.
Tip of tongue. .............. .04 inch.
Tips of fingers, average. $50. .o6 inch
Under surface of middle joint
or finger OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .13 inch
Middle surface of tongue...... q inch.
Back OF fingers ,---...---.--. 80 inch.
Center of cheek 3S inch.
Back of hand. ... IS inch.
Great toe .6S inch.
lnstep ....................... 1.04 inch.
Over breast bone ......-.......1.32 inch.
Fleshy part of thigh .........1.7S inch.
Middle of back ......,........2.02 inch.
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Worth Double the Money.

Send at once to John Sebastian. G.
T. A. c. R. L & P. r. r.. Chicago. III,
and receive. postage paid. the slickest
deck of cards you ever handled. Only
ten cents per pack. in stamps or coin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

Attend the grand concert at ]. H
Leyson Company's on each Tuesday
and Friday from Z to $50 p. m.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

with somewhat less sensibility to pain.
as a kindly provision of nature. since
she is called on to suffer so much.
Be that as it may, we can, as we lay
our papers down, now understand how
1t is that they make so much less i'm
preston dropped into our laps than
they did held in our hands.
The merit of Hoods SarsapariIIa is not
accidental but is the result Of careful
study and experiment by educated phar-
macists. 81
Ladies are especially invited to at
tend our musical soiree-given under
the leadership of Prof Willard Weihe
on each Tuesday and Friday evening.
from to $50 O'clock J. II. LeySon
Company, leading jewellers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

While these measurements do not
give an absolutely correct idea of the
acuteness of touch, they afford an ac-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
One Price.

j. p. GARDNER.
Ia Main street.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11

during the months of December, jan
uary, February, March, April, May,
June, July, August, but may be killed
during the other months of the year.
"Fourth-By the inadvertence
above suggested, the killing of wild
duck, wild geese, brant and snipe is,
by the literal term of law, prohibited
from after the frs day of September
until after the t&enty-f1fth day of
April following, and their killing is
permitted dur ing the remaining
months of the year. This is so obvi-
ously at variance with the intention
Of the legislature that deem it safe
to assume that courts, if called
on to construe the said language, will
not hold it prohibitive of killing
ducks, geese, brant and snipe during
the months of September, October,
November, December, January, Feb
ruary, March and April up to the
twenty-fifth day thereof.
Whether the law in effect prohib-
it's the killing of aquatic birds during
the other months of the year is a
question of some doubt. Parties who
indulge in that sport during the
period last named assume whatever
liability the courts may declare to
be prescribed therefor by law"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11

THE ReUieoo let off some of it's Gus
tomary spleensupon the council last
night because it, although the high
est bidder, could not succeed in bam-
boozling the contract for city printing
from the members. A year ago the
printing was given to the highest bid
der by a Democratic council, and the
city has paid dearly for it. This year
business principles ruled the action of
the council and the contract was CIV
en- to the lowest bidder. Aid. Peter
son, who was the only member of the
present council who cast his vote for
the highest bidder a year ago, was
true TO his partisan instincts again
this year and was the only one who
favored awarding the contract to the
highest bidder.
In it's spite against a council which
it cannot control, the Revieoo proceeds
to give that body column roast for
settling the Minnesota street trouble.
Under the cloak of pretended regard
for the property owners it gives vent
to it's spite by disappearing both
the council and Mr.. Fletcher, and
does not hesitate at the broadcast mis-
statements. 1t says, with it's usual
untruthfulness, that the new street
will be but 80 feet wide at one place
and so feet at another. Had it cared
for the truth it could easily have as
certained that the Street through MIR.
Fletcher's land is to be 60 feet wide
at all points. 1t cannot be asserted
that the straight street has been
travelled for forty years without i'm
peaching the finding Of the District
court. Those who assert that the
street has been travelled that length
of time should have been on hand at
the trial of the case, instead of dis
tributing their wisdom at this late
date.
The council did what it believed to
be right, acting u pom the informa-
tion that the majority of the property
owners wished to have the case set
tied as proposed. The meeting with
Mr.. Fletcher was one held for the pur-
pose Of consultation and was in no
sense formal meeting of the council.
The formal action, whatever it is,
will be taken at the next meeting.
Mr.. Fletcher has not been quietly at
work getting the necessary
promises, as the ReDie,0 states. The
council can be relied upon to do JUS
tice to all parties. In discussing it's
action the truth should be adhered
to, in order that the public may not
be misled.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
Will Report at the Proper Time.

Fergus Falls Journal: There have been So
many unfavGrable criticisms on the Minnesota
exhibit at the worlds fair that it would not be
amiss for Editor Lamphere, who has news
paper and is one of the commissioners, to tell
the public for what the $150,000 has been ex-
pended.
The editor of the Fergus Falls Jour-
nal is respectfully informed that the
$l50,000 has not been expended. The
law requires report be make by the
board of managers to the governor. and
this will be done at the proper time
and will show fully how the money
has been expended. In our opinion
it would appear unseemly for one COM
missioner to rush into print every
time an unfavorable criticism was
raised against Minnesota's showing
at the fair and attempt an explana-
tion. "The many unfayorable criti-
clsms" mentioned by our brother Of
the Journal have been offset by many
times their number with friendly
criticisms and praise. Let the case
be fully made up before final judge
ment is rendered. Moorhead Meas.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
CROPS ARE FAIR.

The commercial editor of the Min
neapolis Journal, who travelled through
southwestern Minnesota and eastern
South Dakota, writes as follows to
his paper Of Saturday evening of the
crops of Blue Earth county:
After leaving Minneapolis one runs
through dry belt for so miles, but
the drought has not apparently been
very damaging to the crops. Corn, GER
tainly, has not been affected, and bar
ley and oats are reported fair, with
wheat fair crop. Between Mime
apolis and Mankato there is not a
watercourSe running into the Mime
sofa river, which is crossed by the
Omaha road, that contains any water.
Every stream is absolutely dry, yet
crops are fair. When MankatO is
reached the crop talk is confident.
Everybody is feeling good in Blue
Earth county. All crops range from
fair to excellent. Flax is very fine
with a small increase in acreage; bar
ley shows large increase and the
crop is good; corn is fine, potatoes are
good, hay is good, oats are fair and
wheat is promising we'll. The harvest
is general in Blue Earth county and
the more southern counties of Mime
sofa it will be completed this week.
Nearly all of the wheat in the vicinity
of Worthington and Luverne is cut.
In Blue Earth county wheat cutting
began last Sunday. and so far the re-
ports are generally favorable. The
chinch bugs have been working con-
siderably in that section, but it is be-
lieved very little damage has been
done, taking the country as whole.
A favorable turn in the weather a
few days ago killed them and all dan
ger from that source was out Of the
way this week. On some of the sandy
soil up the Minnesota river bottom
from Mankato some damage has been
done, but generally speaking there
has been no serious damage.
The official wheat acreage OF Blue
Earth county was given last year as
Sc, 100, and for 1891, at 3O,O01. The
county auditor of Blue Earth county
says this is much too low, and that
absolutely no dependence can be put
in the average reports as returned by
the assessors and from which reports
the average compilations are made. l
found this to be the opinion in every
county where l have stopped.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
NOT CLOSED.

While we have heard nothing dl-
rectly from the MapletOn bank, we
learn Indirectly that it is open and
doing business. 1t seems that the re-
port on Saturday that it had suspend
ed, though coming from what was
considered reliable source, was not
so. There was never any question
about the solvency of the bank, as it
is one of the strongest of the smaller
banks of the state, and is well man
aged. THE depositors are not of that
over timid class of people who start
at a whisper. The smaller banks
of this county have made an excellent
record considering the dangers which
have beset financial institutions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
THE MESSAGE.

The message which PresidentCleve-
land sent to congress yesterday is
without doubt the strongest of his
state papers. 1t is clearly written
and to the point. 1t deals with the
financial question in manner which
will allow no misunderstanding and
asks congress to deal with it in fear
less manner. There is one particular
point in his message that will meet
with hearty response from the
friends of honest money everywhere.
He says:
The people of the United States are
entitled to sound and stable cur
rency and to money recognized as
such on every exchange and every
market of the world. Their govern
ment has no right to injure them by
financial experiments opposed to the
policy and practice of other civilized
states, nor is it justified in permit
ting an aggregated and unreasonable
reliance on our national strength and
ability to jeOpardiZe the soundneSS of
the peoples money.
This is true. The free silver advo-
Gates have already caused enough
trouble by forcing upon the country
acts, in the shape of compromises, for
taking care of the silver product, and
the time has now come to take de-
cided stand for an honest currency.
His only reference to the tariff is
that it can wait until after the finan-
cial question has been disposed of, but
declares it has lost nothing of it's i'm
mediateand permanent .importance.in-
dicating that he does not believe the
uncertainty regarding the tariff legis-
lation has anything to do with the
present situation. Time will show
whether he is right in this respect or
not. However, the people generally
will approve of his recommendation
that it's consideration be postponed
until after the financial question is
out of the way, as it is of the utmost
Importance that our financial system
be upon sound basis.
The whole responsibility of the
matter now rests upon congress. If it
follows the wise advice which the
President has given, the financial
difficulty will be'Quickly removed, and
confidence which has been shaken by
a continued purchase of silver will be
restored.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
Electric Bitters,

This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song
of praise.-A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all
that is claimed. Electric Bitters will
cure all diseases of the Liver and Kid
neys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt
Rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood.-Will drive Malaria
from the system and prevent as well
as cure all Malarial fevers. For
cure of Headache, Consumption and
Indigestion try Electric Bitters-
Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or
money refunded.-Price Scots and
S1.O0 per bottle at Lamm & More
harris Drug Store.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
The Keystone Watch
Case Co. of PHILADELPHIA.

the largest watch case manufacture
ing concern in the world, is now
putting upon the Jas. Boss Filled
and other cases made by it, a bow
(ring) which cannot be twisted or
pulled off the watch.
1t is sure protection against the
pickpocket and the many accidents
that befall watches fitted with the
old-style bow, which is simply held
in by friction and can be twisted off
wi.h the fingers. It is called the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
THAT NEW GAME LAW.

Regarding the new game law about
which there has been so much discus.
sion, Attorney General Childs has
written a letter Hon. w. P. Andrews
of the fish and game commission in
which he holds that it was evidently
not the intention of the legislature to
proscribe!the killing of wild ducks and
geese from Sept. l to April %, but
just the reverse, and that the mistake
was an oversight. He holds that the
statue was enacted for the preserva-
ton of the birds named, and that the
giving of dates therein was legisla-
tive inadvertence, as it would afford
no protection to the game as intend
ed. On this assumption he believes
that no court would declare it a GRIM
inal offense to kill birds between Sept.
l and April 25. AS to whether the
sportsman would do wrong to shoot
birds during the summer interval, he
refers the matter to the tender mer-
cies of the court to determine which
should hold. the real intention or the
inadvertence. Continuing the Attor-
neY General says:
"As | construe the provisions of the
said section 5,the killing of such game
birds is governed by the following
regulations:
Woodcock aud bertram or
upland plover shall not be killed dur
ing the following months: November,
December, January, February, March,
April, May, and Junes but may be
killed during the other months of the
year.
"Second-Prairie chickens, or white
breasted Cor sharp-tailed grouse, shall
not be killed during the following
months: November, December, JAN
uary, February, March, April, May,
June, July, and August, but may be
killed during the remaining months
of the year.
"Third-Quail, partridge, ruffled
grouse, or pheasant shall rot be killed
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

Advertised letter list for the week ending
Aug. 1898.
Banschback, George JONES' Mrs Libbie A
Baiersdoof, Mr. John Kuhle, Mr. Albert
Berlson, Mr. Dan Mixner. Mary
Butler. Geo p. Moore, Mr. j
Chamberlain, Mr. Geo B Rausch, Mr. Jacob
Coffin Mrs Chas Rougers, Miss Lulu
Einstein, M j Smith, B I'll
Fletcher, Mr. Joe Soudet, Mari
Jones ID Stoments, Mrs A r
David f Tutch, Joseph
In calling for the above letters please say "ad-
vertised' and give date of list. Letters remain
ing unclaimed at the expiration OF Is days from
this date will be sent to the Dead Letter once.
w. w. P. MCCONNELL 2. M.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11

THE Emperor William, of Germany
is of the opinion that England could
not cope with the United States in
war. That is nothing new to Amer
leans The Emperor aught to strike
something original.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-11

Mr.. DONNELLY says that beforethe
banner of liberty is crushed to tatters,
let it be drowned in the blood of the
people. Ig. will take good care that
none of his blood is used in the act