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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11

Science has made wonderful strides
in the last decade; not least among
her many discoveries is the application
Of glasses for the correction Of defec-
tive vision. Glasses prescribed for the
case that mas been properly diagnosed
is a great benefit, but they should
never be worn until after a careful ex-
animation by a competent specialist,
and if improperly fitted are of incalcu-
liable harm to the eyes.
Headache, dizziness, and many seri-
Gus disorders are traceable in many
cases to eye-strain; patients suffering
from neuralgia have been hopelessly
drugged for years; some have finally
found relief, to their great surprise, on
consulting an authority on the eye and
having the proper glasses prescribed,
which removed the strain, and conse-
quently the reflex nervous trouble.
Dr. Shelmerdine makes speciality of
correcting defective vision, and the
Strengthening of cross eyes without dan
ger of operation.
He uses peculiar methods, some of
which are original with him and to
which he attributes his success.
What HON. II. j. GEARY, the CaIifor-
mia congressman, author of the Chi
nese exclusion act. says of the doctors
ability:
Il am wearing glasses for both far and
near vision fitted by DR.. Shelmerdine.
They are perfect. and I recommend him
TO all whose eyes need attention.
'THOS. ]. GEARY."
Congressman from California.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
A FENCE of OLD SCOTCH SWORDS.

[F'rom the Saturday Review.]
= That the swords of his gallant adher-
ents who fell on Drumossie Moor should
be found by a descendent of his heredita-
enham is certainly a very singular cir
cumstance In his pamphlet, Notes on
Swords from the Battlefield of Culloden
&C. j. Clark, Lord Archibald Campbell
some notes on the blades and or Andrea
Ferrara- Some years ago Lord Archibald
whose knowledge of dirks and claymores
is extensive, heard that there existed
such fence of Steel Years passed again
and then he found the fence in a back
yard at Richmond. It is described by the
longed to Dr. Jonnsons very unclub-
bable' Sir John Hawkins. The next infor-
nation came from Mr.. Edward Ross, the
famous rifle shot, who had seen the hedge
of blades in stu. They were said by DR.
Diamond to have been made into the
fence of flower garde by a Lord Twee-
dale
When Lord Archibald secured these he
roic relics, he found that six inches had
been broken from the point of each blade
been shortened. They were welded into
two horizotal iron bars. The paint
which. covered them has preserved the
metal so well that they are as, good as on
There are Eve kinds of swords-O a
broad, double-edged blade with heavy
center rib ga heavy small sword); ~ a
broad-backed sword with a single cutting
edge. These are often stamped with
feur de lys. and, we presume, came over
with Fitzjames' horse or from other
French sources, but some are of English
make. G) There are small swords, some
without groove. the rib rising in the cen
ter. Andrea Ferrara's name is on the
short groove of other small swords. a
thing very unusual. a. There are High
land broadswords proper, with one. two
or three grooves or Fittings. Andrea s
name is in the grooves. 90 There are
few Hanoverian swords; two bear
crovned C. r
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
THE NEW WOMAN.
Reaching the Conclusion That There
Is No Such Person

| GCharles Dudley Warner in Harper S
MagaZine.l
What she said was this: 81 am sick
womanv This somewhat violent ex-
preston is not quoted here to be de-
Tended, and it does not need contem-
porary explanation; it merely indicated
| the cumulative WEAKNESS of long-tried
patience. And it must not be taken
| to express too much. Though women
| are often tired of themselves and of
each other, and do not hesitate to say
| so, this is only a temporary WEAKNESS,
and does not at all express the feelings
| of a misognnist toward women general
ly. Indeed, this woman who is quoted
would probably turn with whitening re-
Duke upon any man who should say
that the modern world has had about
enough of woman and would like a
rest. And the man would meekly admit
that rest the world will not have and
rest it does not deserve, this side the
grave. No, it is progress and not rest
that we need, and that must go on,
even to the extent of women forming
themselves into a syndicate, woman's
trust, for carrying on business indie
pendent Of the other sex, and debating
terms of partnership. The speaker was
not tired of women but of hearing
about woman
Can not woman, she said, be taken
for granted? Why should she assert
herself, or permit herself to be treat ted
as a separate class? Why this clamor
every time she does anything, as if it
were extraordinary that human being
should have genius or exhibit capacity?
Why make such a caclzling, like hen
nn 1ou
does not ask consideration or immunity
from criticism for anything he does
because he is a man. Why should
woman? The whole attitude is undigni-
fled, and a confession of inferiority that
enrages me. If I were to take a
'tdouble-first," or write a novel, should
be humilitated if I were praised for it
like a freak. I am tired of reading
about woman in all the periodicals and
discovered species. Every journal must
have it's "Woman's Column" its
"Woman's Doings,' its "Chat About
Woman" its "Woman's World" its
Woman in Society,"" woman in the
Ocean," Woman in the Pulpit" "Wo-
man in Literature" woman riding
down the newspaper columns on a
bicycle. And it is announced that this
is the woman's age, that woman is
in the saddle, that woman has come to
stay. She seerps to want to draw the
line, as she did rather effectively at
Chicago in a Woman's building. and
to force an antagonism in every de-
partment of life. Even in her own
periodicals I do not see any column de-
voted to man. That might be refresh
ing reading. Woman! Why, she has
borne the whole race for 5000 years,
and She has got to bear it along in ali
the, ages; she is the great conservative
and really controlling force. I wish
tney would let her alone. I am sick of
all this petty talk about her.
The Study has not felt at liberty
to exclude this Incorporate language
from its impartial pages.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
TWO EXPERIMENTS In DRAWING.
TAmerican Machinist I

Professor Mahan, under whom Grant
and most of the other generals of the
late war studied engineering at West
Point, said: There is no person, what
ever his profession, but at times has
need of drawing as an auxiliary to rem
der his ideas perfectly ineligible to
others Stories which illustrate this
saying are told by Alexander Dumas
and by Nasmyth, the hammer man. If
these men were not so eminent we
might suspect that one tale suggested
tn other They show that what might
be competent expression to Norweg-
ian would not oe for a German.
Mr.. Nasmyth said he was travelling
in Norway, and one day in wild out
of-the-way place, reached an inn, very
hungry, but unable to make the host
ess understand his wants by anything
he could say. He was considerably
perpleXed till he happily thought of his
pencil. He drew a dish, steaming, a
plate beside it, with knife and fork, a
bottle and a wine glass. His hostess
looked at it and intimated that she
knew what it meant. He went out for
a stroll, and on his return. found the
picture realized. The bottle, the wine
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glass, the plate, the knife and fork and
the covered dish. When he sat down
his hostess lifted the cover, displaying
a fine hot fowl that sent forth a cloud
of steam. Lucky Nasmyth!
Not so lucky was Dumas, and yet, as
expressers of ideas, where is the COM
parison? The circumstances are SIM
liar, only Dumas was on the border
land of Switzerland, stopped Ey the
rain, horse sinking in mud upto his
knees; driver wet to the bone. Dumas
would not have entered the little Ger
man inn, so wretched, except for his
great philanthropy. If he hated any
thing it was sauerkraut, and when
they imposed this Infamous pleasant
try" upon him, repeatedly, he gave it
to the dog. The establishment of the
hostess was mountainous. eff you don't
like sauerkrauWwhat do you like ?"
Anything but that" 1t was all she
had. A luminous idea lights his soul.
Mushrooms! The country was famous
for them, but he could not remember
How do you call it in German? Some
-" "Some?" repeated the hostess
mechanically. "Eh? Yes some
At this moment my eyes fell on myal-
bum. Wait" said 1. 'Waitr Then
L took my pencil, and on a beautiful
white leaf drew, as carefully as L
could, the precious vegetable which
formed for the moment the object of
my desires. I flattered myself that it
approached as near to a resemblance
as it is permitted for the work of
man to reproduce the work of nature.
All this while the hostess followed me
with he reyes, displaying an Intelligent
curiosity that seemed to augur most
favorably to my prospects. ALI ia, ia,
ia Eyes, yes, yes),' said she, as I gave
the finishing touch to the drawing.
She had comprehended-the clever wo-
nan-so we'll comprehended that five
minutes after she entered the room
with an umbrella all open. There
said she. I threw a glance upon my
unfortunate drawing. The resem-
blance was perfect"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
RUssIA's DEBT TO FRANCE.
Substantial Evidence of Their Mu,
tuaI Confidence

One obstacle remained to the formation
OF Franco-Russian alliance, and that
was a financial one Hitherto Russia has
been in the habit of going to Berlin for
her money, and Russian stock was large
ly held by German banks. It was a cir
cumstance which. though apparently
trivial in itself, made the Russian gov
eminent more dependent on the German
hnancierS than it liked. So that when a
French syndicate, with NJ. Hospier,
Paris banker, at it's head, made advances
to NJ. Wischnegradski, the Russian
finance minister, their proposals fell on
very willing ears.
OF the financial details, of the prolonged
negotiations and the German opposition
It would be wearisome to speak. 1t will
be enough to say that in 1888 a Russian
lean of 500,000,0 900 francs, and again in
1891 q further loan of 100000 francs
were raised in France and subscribed for
many times over.
1t was one of the most brilliant finan-
cial operations of modern times, and If
any proof We're wanted of French conf
dence in Russia it would be found in the
fact that no less sum than four mil
lardS of francs OF Russian stock is cal
culated to be now held by the cautious
French investor, who rarely travels be-
You'd a home security This is one OF
those substantial facts which mean
great deal more than the ford and bonn
bastic declare tons in which international
amenities are frequently expressed
Macmillan's Magazine
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THE DAILY MENU.

So much of health depends upon hav-
| ing good food in proper variety, that
the question of the daily menu is an
| important one to every hOuSekeeper.
! Miss Frances Willard is said to have
recovered her strength and vigor from
! the English custom, adopted by her
during her recent visit, of taking hve
meals a day. 1t must be understood,
however, that of these five meals at
! at least two were but slight reflections,
sandWiched between more serious az
fairs. Five o'clock tea, when limited
to single refreshing cup and perhaps
&, sailed wafer or a bit of sponge cake,
takes off the edge of hunger, but does
not interfere with the enjoyment of
dinner two hours later. Supper before
bedtime, if consisting of a very light
repast, often induces sleep and gives
tired nerves the repose they need. We
Americans, women especially, are apt
to eat less than we should, and ply
sicians frequently suggest that food
taken at short intervals and in small
quantities will do much toward toning
and building up a physical system
which has run down.
But whether we follow Miss Wizards
example or not, we who are charged
with catering for our families know
that it is no trif1e to order three meals
! a day seven days a week three hun
dred and sixty-five days a year. Many
of US break down at this point, weary
ing of the nlonotony of our task, and
SO far as we are concerned we grow
so Indifferent to our own tables that
any meals taste better to us than those
which come from our kitchens.
81 always eat more when away from
home than when there" said a far
mer's wife, not long ago, addressing
city boarder by the time I have
cooked my interest in the thing is
gone"
This was very natural. But even
when a. woman does not cook with her
own hands or personally supervise
every part of the process of dinner
getting, she must, if She keeps house,
arrange the details, select the viands
and make up the daily bill of fare.
Her great danger is that she may
fall into a trodden rut, and, as too
many do, fancy it of no special impor-
lance whether or not her meals are
varied. Thus, a woman of little i'm
agination and small capacity will per-
nit Sundays roast to appear and re-
appear on the table in the form of
cold meat, growing scrappier and less
attractive at every fresh presentation.
After the second entrance upon the
scene of any dish, fish, flesh or fowl a
sllillful cook should proceed to met
auorphose it so that it shall bear lit
tie resemblance to its original form.
Transformations of dishes are often
so appetizing as to be preferred by
the epicure to the first estate of the
edible, but it goes without saying that
brains and pains are needed to pro-
duce satisfactory results. Intelligence
tells in housekeeping and catering as
much as in any other department of
work known to mankind or woman
kind.-Harpers'.
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Fl Feut From Salt Lake

My vision has been wonderfully improv-
ed by the glasses that DR.. Shelmerdine
prescribed, through them the world looks
clearer and more distince than formerly,
while for close work they are very rest
full to my eyes.
GEORGE REYNOLDS.
Secretary to the First Presidency Nor
mon Church.
Il can read for hours with glasses Mt
ted by DR.. Shelmerdine'S peculiar meth
DDS. They give my eyes complete rest
JNO. W. GREENMAN,
United States Commissioned
''Dr. Shelmerdine made thorough ex-
animation of my eyes, and the glasses
he prescribed have improved my vision
wonderfully. Reading in the evening is
pleasure where before it was a difn-
Guilty. ]. w. SIMPLER,
The Photographer -
Having. consulted high authority for
my defective sight and experienced a
benefit at their hands, I am pleased to
say that DR.. Shelmerdine is the first to
prescribe glasses that give my eyes per-
feet ease.
L. s. CANTWELL, NJ. d.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
Crane. of Kannsh

Charles Crane, of Kanosh, the great
defeated, in his own district, chairman
OF the Republican committee by and
with the consent and advice of Colonel
Isaac Trumbo, who is on to his nosi-
ton, yesterday sent the two following
kilograms, per Deseret Telegraph, the
other fourteen going under the colonePs
frank, via Western Union:
November 10, 1894
To j. E. Booth, Provo City, Utah:
Be on hand prepared to act as chair
man of ratification meeting Monday
night. CHARLES CRANE.
November 10, 1894
To Abbott Haywood, Ogden City, Utah
Be on hand prepared to act as chair
man of ratification meeting Monday
night CHARLES CRANE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN AsTONIsHED
[From the Washington Post.l

There is story told of Mrs. Harriet
Lane Johnson, which receives an added
has purchased a residence in this city,
and hopes to make it her permanent home.
When she was little girl she indicated
character which in after years rendered
her so deservedly popular and on one oc-
casion Mr.: Buchanan, who was her uncle
saw his niece with flushed face and hat
awfy industriously pushing huge wheel
barrow piled up with firewood a load
much too heavy for her strength to cope
with. What in the world are you doing
there%' he asked. ~ am taking old
black Aunt Tabitha a load of wood, be-
cause it is SO cold and she has no one to
look after her but me- was the answer
Of the yos@g rhilaAthropist.
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NEARLY TOUCHED THE SCORE.
CIearings For the Past Few Month.
Give Great Increases.

With the close of business yesterday
the total clearings of Salt Lakes as
sociated banks for 1894 to date had
reached s4S, 500, 600, or about half a mil
lion dollars less than the total for the
year 1898. There were but few cities
above Salt Lake in the list of increases
for the past week, although there was
slight falling off as compared with
the week previous The weeks total
was s.. III. 991, as compared with 999, 412
for the same week last year. Satur-
days clearings aggregated the sum of
s1SS. 716 as compared with s229,645 for the
same day in 1898. This is the first time
this year the days clearings have been
less than those of the same day last
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
FLIES IN THE HOUSE.

Recent experiments in London prove
beyond any possibility of doubt that flies
are most Successful infection carriers Of
the cholera bacilli, and there IS no real
reason to think that they do not carry
other disease germs, too. Keep them out
of the house altogether, if possible;
Screens at the doors and windows DO not
coef much and they add q hundred times
their cost to the pleasure and comfort of
?, house to say nothing of its cleanliness
and healthfulnesS.
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after the bride and bridegroom. Wait
til they are settled and send it to them.
Somebody has estimated that man
who lives to be so years old has spent
lar.
BY some persons it is claimed that DE
Lacquer is the longest word in the Eng
lish language, because there are three
miles between it's first and last letter.
Generally when a man and woman
have been made one, the honeymoon is
the time spent III endeavoring to dis
cover which is that one.-Demoresrs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11

Sheriff Belnap, of Ogden, made a good
capture last evening. 1t seems that On
Friday night two men broke into a butch
er shop at Kaysville and stole a, gun.
They then went to Syracuse and stole
two horses and a saddle belonging to
D. K. Egbert, but afterwards traded the
horses off as they went further north.
Sheriff Belnap was notified of the theft,
and by some very clever detective work.
he overhauled them this afternoon. A
gun play was necessary in order to effect
their arrest, the elder of the two thieves,
William Roberts,, being armed with a
is 20 years of age, and his companion in
crime, James Whitecar, is only 16 years
of age
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JEFFERsoN,s BIOGRAPHY.

..nTan1, men may write autobi-
oeranbies." said Joseph Jefferson yes
terday, .fbut I doubt if any nave hdu
to write them backward, as dlu. I.
was a. regularity of my memory whlch
T discovered while engaged upon my
hook which. I think, is as aggravat1ng
as extraordinary. 1t is usually the
case that a man begins at the earliest
period of his boyhood which he can re-
collect when he desires to write an &C
count of his life, and one incident sug-
gests another until it brings him UP
to the present. But my memory seemed
different from most others. L had to
reason backward, commencing with one
incident which would bring into mind
the event that had just preceded it,
and so on until got to the point In
nv childhood when I could only re-
member that 1 had forgotten. 1t
seemed that the incidents Of my life
had been stacked up in piles as they
occurred like so many photographs, the
last one hiding all that had gone be-
fore, so that as soon as one was re-
moved it revealed another which
had never thought of before. FIRE.
quently in my sleep I would remember
something as dream, and not desir-
ing to disturb myself even to write my
autobiography, l was accustomed to
think, "Well, that's a good point, but
I'll let it go till the morning" Then
would arise, as we so often do after
dreaming with q. vague remembrance of
having thought of something in my
sleep, but unable to recall perhaps
whether it was something about being
on top of house or riding on river
or what After having several eX-
periences of this kind, [ allowed no
more of my midnight inspirations to
go unheeded for sleep. I always slept
with lamp, matches, pencil and paper
handy, and when an idea would come
to me would put on my dressing gown
and write it down Many a night have
got up just after midnight and writ
ten till the sun rose, all on. account Of
this peculiar memory of mine. Per-
haDs I would remember while half
asleep some little incident Of my school
days. would write it out and no
sooner finish 1t than another incident
would reveal itself With each mem
DRY photograph I took off the stock
new one showed itself. So I would
write and write until, forgetful of
everything, the sun would come to
rouse me from my nocturnal revery I
do not think that I ever sat down with
the intention of writing that I have
been able to accomplish anything. You
can imagine that writing ones life
backward would require a good deal of
sorting of pages to get the events in
regular order. 1t was somewhat of
puzzle'
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WaIsh-Sheppard.

Miss Mile M. Walsh and Mr. W. IT.
NJ. Sheppard were married at the Salt
Lake temple on Wednesday last After
the ceremony a reception and supper was
given by the parents of the young couple.
The supper was elegant and dainty and
abundant. The wedding presents were
costly and appropriate. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sheppard are at home to their friends al
458 West Fourth North street, this city.
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A swede,s Letter.

The following was received by a
Heading boot and shoe firm last Friday.
AS will be observed, the writer had
been reading the advertisements in The
Herald The miSsive was:
Lander. Wyoming, Nov. 6.
Mr.. Slaoeman Bros
Daar BTuter
wuld laak to ask you a few
question about a. par lase boots,
would laak to get pare lase godd dubbed
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sele butes that would keap owut water
would you let me no hvat you could
max me a par for am vorken for the
U co and the the trak. Pleas let me
no and [ shall let you no when to max
them.
remen yoors trooly,
Mister Poleson via the siding Chey-
enQe
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Will Advertise Them.

Unless delinquents in the matter OF
paving and sidewalks tax settle their
Indebtedness with the city by II o'clock
tomorrow their property will be adj
vertised for sale. There is about $4,000
yet outstanding on Brigham and First
South streets, State and First South
streets and Second South and Main
st,,ants
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Battery AS Ball.

Tickets for the grand ball to be given
I by Battery A, First battalion of artillery,
will be on sale Monday. The following
honorary members were yesterday added
| to the battery list: E. E. Rich, John &.
Robinson, II. T. Duke, S. w. Morrison
| and c. d. Stanton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
WHEN WOMEN CRY.

[From the Kansas City Journal
When women cry the starry skies
Look down with sympathetic eyes.
And mountain height and vastly deep
Pull out their handkerchief and weep
While wretched man doth hang his heae
And wish sincerely he was dead,
Vixen women cry.
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Late Arrests.

E. Cook, James Carroll and William
Brown were arrested at a late hour last
night by. Officers Larson and Steacns
as participants in a small fracas which
took place in a Second South street sa-
loon