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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
pRoTEcTIoN AND PLUTocRAcY.

That the protective system has had the
effect to promote plutocracy must be
evident to all persons who have given
attention to the progress of the United
States. during the prevalence of Repub-
lean rule. The "unexampled prosper
ity'' which President Harrison boosted
of in his last message, was the ''unex-
ampled'' increase of wealth by the pro
tected capitalists, but not of the labor
ing or agricultural classes, who have
increased the other way. On this
subject we find the following pertinent
paragraph in the Baltimore Sun:
Until the civil war brought upon us
the series of high tariffs that began
with Morrilrs and ended with McI<in-
leys. the wealth of the United States
was pretty evenly divided, not only as
between north and south, east and west,
but also as between the two great in
terests- agriculture and manufactures.
The Democratic party had been in sub
stantially continuous ascendancy. in the
government from the Inauguration of
Washington to that OF Lincoln It's lead
ership and legislation were all that
time untainted with the corrupt influ-
ences of the great vested interests that
are nowadays based on the protective
system and which, as Senator Voorhees,
justly said in his speech opening the
debate in the Senate, have succeeded
in placing 1t under the dureSS of a
small minority" of that body"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

Senator Perkins, Of California, was a
sailor before the mast at the age of
sixteen, and a few years later he was
a porter in the general store Of which
he afterwards became proprietor. He
accomplished this rise in life by rare
sself-deniaL Receiving a salary of 500
per month, he saved $50 a month by
doing his own cooking, making his own
clothing and living in way that fas-
tdious tramp would have scorned.
Judging from his speech in the Senate
on Thursday, he has not yet been able
to East of his primitive ideas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

The state Of New Hampshire pays 81
sushei 10 farmers for grasshoppers
that they destroy. The hoppers hatch
out in the first part of June, and the
farmers have found that this is the
tin.e for destroying them by plowing
under a machine, which consists OF
two SHALLOW pans of tin or galvanized
iron eight feet long and two feet wide
and having a back eighteen inches high,
is used to catch the half grown hoppers
which are active enough to hop away
from the plow- The pans are filed with
Kerosene and water and are run ever
the grass at rapid rate. The grass
hoppels jump up in their terror and
fall back into the kerosene.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

The warden Of Bellvue hospital says,
concerning the large increase il late
years of cases of insanity: From my
observation Of insanity cases here I
have come to believe that the Increase
of insanity is largely due to the use OF
impure liquor. The ordinary whisky
sold now contains so much poison that
st is liable to make any person who
drinks it crazy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

An exchange quotes this as u oonso-
lation during hard times: What's the
matter with you? You lc3k ebony
enough to give one the blues. Are YOU
in trouble?" Not Yet, but I expect to
he. have a note coming due next
week. Next week! Why are you
worrying over that? Cheer up. You
may be dead by next week"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

Three fortune tellers@ were recently
arraigned in New York court. and
convicted. Having no money, The girls
offered to tell the judges fortune if he
would remit the fine, but the justice de-
cIined. He didn't want TO show his
hand and he did a cash business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
.sSome are born great some achiev

greatness. and others have greatness
thrust upon then, says Shakespeare.
So far as the people Of the stage are CON
cerned, ali who have become great in
modern times have. their portraits in
Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of
stage Celebrities" Ii is beautiful in
execution, interesting in every way. a
Grand combination of art beauty and
talent Read the announcements else
where and save your coupons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

DR. Lyman Beecher, some time after
he had retired from his long and la
borious ministry. was asked by a friend
how he was getting along, and the aged
doctor replied: "WeIl, sir, ever since
I quit trying to save the world I have
been getting along first-rate1
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
To PnrrntS-

Commencing with this issue of The
Herald, an opportunity will be offered
every father and mother to put in the
hands of their children the most COM
plete condensed descriptive history Of
persons and events ever published Ii
win be sold on the coupon plan only.
Read the big descriptive ad in this is
sue. o
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

Grecian women had feet much larger
than those of the average man of the
present day. says the London News.
Now look out for Chicago claiming the
title TO the Athens of America"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

The dividing line between the ludic-
rous and the serious is indefinable, but
an exchange believes the Industrial
army has crossed the line.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
& Point for You.

In view of what Hoods Sarsaparilla
has done for others, is it not reason
able to suppose that it will be of bene-
fit 10 you? For scrofula, salt rheu1n.
and all other diseases of the blood, for
dyspepsia, Indigestion, sick headache.
loss of appetite, that tired feeling. ca
tarrh, malaria, rheumatism, Hoods
Sarsaparilla is an unequaled remedy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

1t is said to be a greasy fact that
three-fourths of the hotels and nearly
n the restaurants and boarding houses
in every city in America use oleomar-
garine in lieu of butter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

1t now begins to look as though Gov
ernor Mates wheels" were of the
bas-hesring pattern! The same, how
ever, can scarcely be said Of Tillman's,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

The man who turns up his nose at
his work quarrels with MS bread and
butter" This might be read with ad-
vantage by a few thousand strikers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

Wanted--A perfect fitting shirt.
Answer-Call for Wilson Bros, cele-
brated make
Brown. Terry & woodruff Co.
142 Main street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
An
Unexcelled
Advertising
Medium is IS
The
Sunday
Herald.

When Mills gets in his reply to Hill
in the Senate he will be apt to think
he is being ground by the Mills Of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

1t viii pay every borrower to see US
before making loans. Save money and
brokers' commissions. NIiller-Hawley
Mortgage company, SO West Second
South.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21

Il ought to take some spring medicine;
1 must take something, feel so mis-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
Money.

HOODS pills cue See -headaehe. 1a
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
The Bagpipe and Its Music.

Though now associated with Scotland,
the bagpipe is an instrument of great an
tiquity and was known long ago to some
Indian races, also to the Italians and Bre-
tons. 1t appears to have reached its most
popular development from the musical
and utilitarian view in the case of the
highland bagpipe. The groundwork of
the instrument is, as the name implies, a
bag of skins sewed together, and of course
perfectly alright. This condition is aided
by the use of treacle, which is poured into
the bag and allowed to soak well into it.
Into the bag are fitted five wooden
stocks, generally of crocus or ebony.
These stocks in their turn hold the three
drones, the chanter, and the mouthpiece,
the chanter being perforated by the note
holes, while the mouthpiece is used for fill
ing the bag. Each of the drone pipes and
the chanter are fitted with reeds made of
Spanish cane, contrary to the general i'm
preston, which imagines the chanter to
be kind of flute and the drones hollow
sticks.
Bagpipe music has fixed scale, and
the treble or G clef is the only one used.
The great difficulty of playing, however,
is to obtain the doubling of the notes at
once quickly and clearly. This profusion
of doubled or grace notes, as they are
called, makes the manuscript of bagpipe
music look something like document
filched from the British museum.-Cham.
bers' Journal
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
BENJAMIN FrankIin,s Wife.

The Pennsylvania Magazine gives very
unfattering description of Benjamin
Franklin's wife. 1t is taken from the di
airy of Daniel Fisher, who was Franklin's
secretary for a short time. "She sat or
the floor at a neighbours. She assumed
the airs of extraordinary freedom and
great humility, lamented heavily the mis-
fortunes of those who are unhappily infect
ed with a too tender or benevolent dispo
sition, said she believed all the world
claimed privilege of troubling her pap
py-so she usually calls Mr.. Franklin
with their calamities and distress, giving
us general history of many such wretch.
es and their impertinent applications. y
He mentions 'the turbulence and jealousy
and pride of her disposition" and the VIC
lence of her invectives. Pointing to Frank.
Inns son one day, she exclaimed, "TherC
goes the greatest villain upon earthp'
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
High Mountains Of the East Coast.

There is prevailing impression, even
among would be graduates, that Mount
Washington is the highest mountain in
America east of the Mississippi river.
When, where or how this idea obtained
would be difficult to say, but it is fact
nevertheless that the item most frequently
met with in the " Column of Information
is something like this: "The highest
mountain on the Atlantic coast or in the
Appalachian range is Mount Washington,
New Hampshire, height 6,2S5 feet" Take
down the atlas while we investigate this
high mountain question. In North Caro-
lima alone we find ID peaks higher than
the Yankee Titan; Mount Mitchell, 6,717
feet; Balsam Cone, 6,671; Clingman's
Dome, $500; Sandy Knob, 6,512; Hairy
Bear, 6,567; Cat Tail peak, $685.; Gibbe's
peak, $3.50; Mount Alexander, GAIT;
Sugar Loaf, 6,401; Potato Top, 6,393;
Black Knob, 6,637; Mount Henry, 6,373;
Bowler's Pyramid, $3.50, and Roam noun
tain, 6,31s.
From the above it will be seen that
Mount Mitchell is the monarch of the east
ern range, and that he is 432 feet higher
than the foundation of the Mount Wash
ington observatory. These measurements
are by Guyot, Mitchell and Holmes of the
United States survey, and are doubtless
correct.-St. Louis Republic.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
Aerial RaDid Transit.

The day of aerial navigation is at hand.
Persons now living will see travel in the
air as common as it is now on land and
water. The writer of this prepared the
first comprehensive articleon electric light
ing published in any Pittsburg newspa-
per and well remember the confident as
sertions at the time that electricity could
not be used for light except in very crude
way, that it would never do for dwellings
That was only few years ago, but it is
already ancient history.
He published the first article on the ca
BILE railways which appeared in this city
a summary of description and cost as Civ
en- by an agent trying to introduce the sys-
tenn at Cincinnati. These things, which
would have been wonders in his boyhood,
are commonplace now. Aerial navigation
will be commonplace before many years
have passed. TIC the numerous short arti-
cles on this subject which have appeared
this one is added to show the progress
made toward the new means of passenger
and freight traffic.
To begin with, reference to Professor
Langley's recent paper on the internal
work of the wind He found that in
wind of 20 miles an hour there were fluc-
tuations ranging from 10 to 35 miles at in
tervals of only 90 seconds. From this he
argued condition of the wind involving
upward and backward currents, and these,
he believed, explained why birds can rise
and circle about without moving wing.
From this he proceeds to show how an
inclined plane, heavier than the air, may
rise and be sustained in motion in the
teeth of the wind by utilization of this
internal work Such a plane, capable OF
changing its inclination, will gain energy
by falling and expend it by rising. All
that it would need of power would be
such as is necessary to carry it over the
region of calm. For the rest it could de.
pend on the internal work of the wind and
on rising and falling Pittsburg Times.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
More or Less Name.

In the early days in California a young
German, John G. Almondinger, wishing tc
Americanize himself as much as possible
applied to the legislature and had his name
changed to John G. Almond. A few days
later man named John Smith applied tc
the same legislature, and after reciting q
long catalogue of the ills to which he was
subject, owing to his unfortunately common
name, he said in conclusion, "And where
rs have noticed that you have curtailed
the name of j. G. Almondinger to ]. G.
Almond and have not disposed of the in.
GER which seems to be lying around loose,
/ respectfully request that the same may
be added to my name" The result of this
appeal is not stated.-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
Queer Things In a Well.

While workmen were once engaged In
sinking a well on the farm of David Dun
ming, in Washington township, Ringgold
county, Ia, they had some queer expert
enoe. At depth of IA feet they found
walnuts, or butternuts, and at depth of
26 feet a fine pair of deer's horns and a
large log of wood. The horns were very
soft when first taken out, but soon hard
ened on exposure to the air. The peculiar
part of the whole affair is the fact that
there is not single butternut tree known
to be growing in that portion of the state
st. Louis Republic.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
Impartial Dealing with the Press.

The last time Bart Scott was in Wash
ington he told a good story about men,
Der of the Wisconsin legislature. The old
man was elected to the state senate from
one of the lumber counties and was proud
of the honor. When the legislature met in
Madison, Senator Blank was daily in his
seat before the time for calling the senate
to order and spread the Madison Journal
before him to read the news of the day.
One morning after the chaplain's prayer,
while the clerk of the senate was reading
the journal of the proceedings of the pre-
vious day, gentleman arose and said,
"Mr. President, move to dispense with
thereading of the journal" Senator Blank
quietly folded his Madison journal, arose
and said: "Mr. President, move also to
dispense with the reading Of The Times,
The Inter Ocean and all other papers.
There should be no distinction against The
journal. Philadelphia Times.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
ONLY FRIENDS.
Engaged to him9 I've known him all my life.
Through many trouble we've stood by eac

Engaged to him9 I've known him all my life.
Through many trouble we've stood by each
other.
But marriage is q different thing. His wifeP
I'd think as soon of marrying my brother
| OF course there never were two better friends
Though still mere friends-than he and l.
But lovingl
Why, when you bring that in, all comfort ends
In WEAKNESS of proving and disproving.
Indeed wish that he would marry. So
told him only yesterday, for clearly
A man should have his home. But he, you
know,
Is hard to please and loves his freedom dearly.
They say he often visits Agnes LeeP
All, yes-they're neighbors-she's a lovely
woman,
Though not in her first youth. No more is he.
But she's a saint, and he's-well-very hu-
man.
I'm sure wish they'd marry. Then, you see,
I'd have not one, but two dear friends.
wonder
Why the old gossip brings this tale to me
And if it's true or just her stupid blunder2
And people talk of Agnes for his wife,
And not one word from him to me about it'll
know I've told him nearly all my life
He says he tells me everything-I doubt it.
wish she'd go away. Dear, won't you sing1
What look tired and pale2 All, now you're
jestingl
What did she say to Meg-the horrid thing
OF Shakespeare's lady and too much protest
ing2
What do want2 Wouldn't marry him
Were he the last man. Yet, consistence hui
mani
The taste goes out of life, the light grows dim,
To think that he might choose another
woman.
.
Alone at last, thank heavenl Why, that's his
ringl
At homer No-yes-I'n see what this por-
tends,
Though when I'm tired look ike-anythingi
That matters nothing-we are only friends.
Katherine e. Conway in Donahoe's Maya
zine.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
The GOOD and Bad Lands OF Alasn..

The Good and Bad Lands OF AIash1.
The chad lands" of Alaska--the ice
capped mountain region where the big
glaciers are found, and where the country
will probably never afford the means of
sustaining any but meager population
lie to the north of the Sitka region, form
ing the eastern and northern shores of
the gulf of Alaska. This is the region of
high, inaccessible and eternally snowclad
mountain ranges. Here Mount st. Elias
marks the highest point on the North
American continent, while Fairweather,
Crillon, La Perouse and half dozen 9th
ers not yet named are fit mates to their
grand neighbor. Flowing to the south
ward down the slopes of this Alpine region
numerous glaciers follow the valleys and
pierce through all obstacles till they reach
the inland waterways made so familiar by
tourists descriptions. The sight of these
ice streams, the crashing of their faces as
they break and fall into the water, the
floating bergs apparently about to hem in
and destroy the steamer, all tend to leave
in the minds of people who see only this
part of Alaska an impression of desolate
grandeur not easily effaced.
But the glacier region of Alaska is com
paratively small. 1t is, in fact, rare in
Cident, and not type of the general to-
Biography of the country.
Leaving the region just described and
steering westward, the traveller leaves all
trace of this forbidding landscape behind,
and his first glimpse of land, some miles
west from Sitka, is of low green hills soft
ly rounded and clothed from base to sum-
NIT in verdure Patches of timber darken
the valleys and mark the course of innu-
merable streams, while every islet-almost
every rock-has its clustering growth of
trees. From Kodiak island westward the
timber on the Aleutian islands is confined
to the smaller species of trees. Willow
and larch thickets still cling to the lower
valleys, but all the rest of the country is
covered during the summer with an ex-
ceedingly rich and diverse growth of grass.
During the winter months the grasses
gradually die until nothing is seen except
the thick mantle of moss, which grows ev-
erywhere in Alaska. - San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-27
ABiatic Taste.

The Asiatic does not know anything par
ticular about gold and silver. He has no
tools except pinchers and hammer, and
he has not the power of producing intense
heat, yet he will do things with the metals
which his European brother cannot do with
all his appliances and skill. No doubt, if
he is an hereditary workman, something
has passed into his fingers which cannot be
acquired by new competitor, and he has
the advantage of remembering patterns
originally designed by the men of genius,
who are apt, at intervals perhaps of centu.
ries, to crop up in the artist families. But
is that the whole of the matterS
We doubt it greatly and believe that
there is an Asiatic taste" or instinct fol
the beautiful which is as true in its way as
the instinct of an Athenian sculptor or q
Florentine wielder Of the brush. 1t takes
q different direction-we see that most per.
fectly when we compare the Alhambra with
Gothic cathedral-and it seems liable to
strange, long pauses, like the one said to
have been recently observable in japanese
art; but it is real, it is original, and we can
see no reason, save want of demand, why it
should ever die out.
If that is true-and it must be true more
or less-and Europe can ever use the Ash
attic fingers without taking the skill out oil
them in the collision between the tastes OF
the two races, the jeweler of Birmingham
may justifiably begin to tremble. Machin.
cry will not help him much, and the ''su.
perior energy" of the British workman will
not help him at all. Energy is not the
quality wanted TO produce q necklet or a
ring. What is wanted is gift which the
Asiatic workmen in thousands did once
possess and may display again, and the
power of SO utilizing that gift that it shall
manifest itself even when the designs are
not stereotyped in the mind, but have been
freshly taken in.-London Spectator.