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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07
WHEAT AS A FooD FOR STOCK.

One of the very unusual things in
these remarkable times is the higher
market price for corn than for wheat
The low price of wheat and the high
price of corn have compelled farmers
to study questions relating to the dis
posal of these cropc and to the feeding
of farm animals more carefully than
they have ever done before
The Department of Agriculture has
published circular of useful and
timely information on wheat as food
for stock, which should be in the hands
of every grain grower in the land. 1t
can be obtained on application to the
secretary of agriculture, Washington,
D. G. In conclusion the circular says:
when wheat and corn are the same
price per bushel, it is preferable to
feed wheat and sell corn. First, be-
causee wheat weighs seven per cent.
per bushel heavier than corn; second,
because wheat is, weight for weight,
an equally good grain for fattening
animals and better for growing ami
mails; and third, because there is much
less value in fertilizing elements re-
moved from the farm in corn than in
wheat.
There are certain points to be borne
| in mind when one is commencing to
feed wheat. Our domesticated animals
are all very fond of it, but are not ac-
customed to eating 1t. Precautions
should consequently be observed to
prevent accidents and disease from its
use. 1t is mater of common observa-
ton that when fulfilled horses are
changed from old to new oats, they
are liable to attacks of indigestion,
collie and founder. If such results fol-
low the change from old to new oats,
how much more likely are they to fol-
| oats to wheat? For this reason, wheat
should at first be fed in small quaint
| ties. It should when possible, be
/ mixed with some other grain. and care
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07

room and detain him till I came.
next had him stripped, and under the
left breast / instantly detected a little
blue ID branded on his skin. He was
a deserter. That was how they used
to mark them in the Crimean days,
and later although it is not now per-
Enitted. OF course, the reason of his
evasion was at once clear.
,.Conan Doyle the doctor continued,
ewas one of the best students ever had.
He was exceedingly interested always
In anything connected with diagnosis,
and was never tired of trying to dis
cover all those little details one looks
for. recollect he was much amused
once when a patient walked in and sat
down. Good morning, Pat 1 said. for
1t was impossible not to see that he
was an Irishman. Good morning. your
honor replied the patient. did you
like your walk over the links today as
YOU came in from the south side of the
town? / asked. Yes said Pat. Did
your honor see meg' Well. Conan
DOYLE could not see how knew that, as
sgredly simple as It was. On showery
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07
ERRORS ABOUT EVOLUTION.
IFrom the Westminster Review


The popular belief concerning evo-
luton is that a person named Darwin
wrote a book with the object of prov
ing that men were the descendants of
monkeys. Mr.. John B. Martin, OF Mar
tins bank. London, relates an anecdote
concerning a customer of the bank,
who insisted upon removing his ac-
count because he had observed that
one of the partners in the bank had
attended DarWin's funeral. Most as
suredly this person must have supposed
that Darwin had injured the human
race by the shocking discovery that
men and monkeys were such near rela-
tivesi
Today everybody talks about evolu-
ton as if it were something which had
been suddenly and recently discovered.
Like electricity, the bacilH of consump-
ton and typhoid fever woman's rights.
or the tariff question, it appears to
have attracted the attention of the
whole world, from Mr.. Gladstone to
Professor Garner, the latter gentle
man having. according to a newspaper
report, kindly condescended to explain
that he did not agree with Darwin that
mans predecessors were monkeys.
| Everybody believes that he knows all
about evolution, and many people dis
cuss it in much the same way as they
! uO IIlS IuGIllS VI DOOhS WHICH L1Sy nave
not read or the fighting capacity of
Corbett and Jackson. Everybody is
aware, in a sort of unconscious way,
that the whole theory was invented
| by the late Mr.. Darwin, and systema-
tized by Mr.. Spencer, the prevalent
impression being that we descended
from men with tails, who were the
final offspring-a sort of edition de
luxe-of the gorilla or the chimpan-
zee.
Practically every part of this PRO
gramme is a delusion. Mr.. Darwin
no more invented evolution than MIR.
Edison invented electricity. We are
no more descended from men With
tails than we are descended from the
Man cat, which has no tail, and our
relationship to the gorilla is not nearer
than a fiftieth cousinship, and is far
more remote than that existing between
the cat and the tiger. Scientists are
not making daily efforts to discover
the missing link because such links
as are missing are not of paramount
| Importance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07

vel by their art Where would Gull
liver and Don Quixote and Dante and
Goethe be if our sole object was to
draw life exactly as 1t exists. No;
the object of fiction is to interest, and
the best fiction is that which interests
most. If you can interest by drawing
life as it is, do SO. But there is no rea-
son why you should object to your
neighbor using other means.
Il think the age of fiction is coming
the age when religious and social and
political changes viii all be affected by
means of the novelist. Look, within
recent years, how much has been done
by such books as Looking Backward
or Robert Elsmore' Everybody is ed
ucated now, but comparatively few are
very educated. To get an idea to
penetrate to the masses of the people
you must put fiction round it, like
sugar round a pill No statesman and
and no ecclesiastic will have the infiu-
ence on public opinion which the novel
list of the future will have. If he has
istrong convictions, he will have wonder
full facilities for impressing them on
others. If he can't get his sugar right,
people will refuse his pill"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07

She-I don't see you with Miss Co
trox any more. Have you and she had
a misunderstanding? He-No; an I'M
Outstanding. She rejected me.-Brook-
lyn Life.
Bacon-What's that thread tied
about your little finger for? Egbert-
Oh, that's just to remind my wife to
ask me if 1 forgot something she told
me to Observation-Disclosures
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07
YES,

You understand correctly. The Rio
Grande Western and Colorado Midland
only charge $3.50 s-om all points in
Utah 70 the famous Glenwood Springs
and return. Tickets good thirty days.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04

the product of the poppy juice. The
liquor is nothing, in fact, but the nat
nral sap of the cocoanut tree. The is
.:nllers bore holes in the tree, and the
~ almost Immediately begins to run.
ii.a process kills the tree, but they dc
rot care for that. The liquor i,
,tronger than opium, and have seen
The POOR native drunk on it and LYING
about like dead men for three or foul
days.
They do not smoke the opium, but
eat it, and in enormous quantities.
They eat SO much of it and have such
abnormal cravings for it to the exclu-
lion Of almost every other desire, tina:
they do not buy the amount of genersl
merchandise they ordinarily would. 4
a result, business is bad in the island
Trade. outside of opium. has fallen CO
q great deal, and the people seem Il
have lost the energy and desire ia o.,
vance that they once had IL j. 8,
quiet there now that l thin, | ,iai.,
return to Chilli, where ! was bs<ot.
y hen e native population j. yel9
out alto rcthcr, as now seems - DC
fate the islands will be al cxcAlt"
field for emigration. ] ara not sure Ia
at present the French government
would encourage immigration"
Mr.. Hoffner says there are now very
few Americans on the islands.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
English Interest in Fireworks.

The people of London are very much
interested in the whistling fireworks
which have long ceased to be regarded
over here as a pyrotechnic marvel.
The popular notion among the Britons
is that gas generated by the combus-
ton of the fiery composition actually
blows whistle, but this supposition
is erroneous. So far as can be deter
mined by the pyrotechnists themselves.
the screaming noise is due to the vio-
lent combustion of the picrate of pot
ash with which the little tubes of the
fireworks are stuffed. Experiments
have been made with other materials
but picrate of potash is the only com
bustible substance discoverable that
will give anything more than faint
imitation OF whistle.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
KILLED HIMSELF FOR a LIVING.
A Partisan Swindler Who Took a Novel
Means of Raising the Wind.

A Partisan Swindler Who Took Novel
Means of Raising the Wind.
Gillet, professional mendicant of
Paris, has the peculiar merit of being
the organizer of trick for raising
funds which was unknown and I'M
dreamed of in the philosophy of the
ablest representatives Of the old Cour
DIES Miracles, says a writer in the
London Telegraph. He pretended to
hang himself from tree seven times
during the summer, and on each occa-
sion he was cut down from his gibbet
by Good SamaritanS, who invariably
sent round the hat for him on the spot
In some instances the reScuers may
have been Gillet's confederates, but ac-
cording to what can be gathered he
usually preferred to work alone. Hav-
ing selected fine day for his opera
tons, Gillet dressed himself carefully
and went to the woods of Boulogne or
Vincennes. He next made choice of a
tree near where young children were
playing, and having put moose round
his neck strung himself up. Then he
grOaned and attracted the children,
who ran in alarm to their mothers Or
nurses, until in moment there was a
crowd around him. Men summoned to
the spot, and sometimes the women
who were called, extricated the artful
mendicant from his apparently peril
GUS position. He was extended on the
grass, his hands were rubbed. cordials
were pressed to his lips and smell
ing bottles put under his nose
When he revived the first question put
to him was naturally: Why did he
do it? Pointing to-a pocket of his coat
he would say: Here is a letter which
will explain all!'' The document be-
ing opened contained a communication
to the effect that Gillet wanted to
hang himself of his own free will. His
desire to die was caused by restitution,
and he had not eaten for two days. 4
collection being made for the sufferer
he instantly regaincd the use of his
limbs, and before leaving his generous
sympathizers treated them to brief
photographed sketch, which set
forth that he was a respectable young
man from the country who had been
stranded in Paris and could find no
work to do. 1t is recorded that Gillet
performed this trick with great sue
cess between July and September, not
only in the woods about Paris, but
also in the park at Versailles and in
the forest of st. German. In the last
mentioned place he had the good for
tune to be cut down just as a generous
Paris banker was passing by, who gave
III,
ally took care to tie his Moose in a man
ner calculated to produce the effect
which he intended without imperiling
his life. In the winter, when the
woods are comparatively deserted, Gil
let adopted the old trick of pretending
to faint or to have an epileptic fit at
the corner of the street. His fraud
has at last been detected and charita-
BILE people have been warned against
his knavery, which has not only de-
celved ordinary men and women but
also astute members of the police force.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
TALE OF AN UNSIGNED CHECK.
The Amount Was $4,000 and 1t Was
Cashed by q New York Bank.

The Amount was S34,DOO ana 1t was
Cashed by a New York Bank.
The story of check passing through
a number of channels without anyone
discovering that it was not signed was
related to Boston Globe reporter a
few days ago. 1t appears that GER
tain Bostonian, while in New York,
found it necessary to pay the Union
Trust company. of that city, thirty-four
thousand dollars, which he did by Civ
ing it check on one of the Boston
banks The check was accepted and
was deposited in that companys bank
for collection. The folio owing day 1T
was presented at the Boston bank.
when it was discovered that there was
no name signed to it to show by whom
the check had been issued, as it was
written on one of the blank forms of
checks of that institution. 1t looked
as if there was nothing to be done but
return the check to New York, when
the cashier thought he recognized the
handwriting, and going to the tele-
phone called up the party who he be-
lieved had issued the check.
''Were you in New York last week?'
asked the cashier. YES" said the
man at the other end of the telephone.
"Well," continued the cashier, did
you give the Union Trust company
check for thirty-four thousand dol
lars?'
"Yes," was the reply; whats the
matter? Have you not charged it up
to my account?'
Il would have done so,' said the
cashier, ''but there is no name signed
to it.
"Great Scott!' was the answer; ''can
there?"
The check was held, and in few
minutes a man came in all out of
breath and affixed his signature.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
RICH AMERICAN BONDHOLDERs
Inc Names of These Favorites of Fortune
Kept Secret by the Treasurv

Ihe Names of These Favcrites of Fortune
Kept Secret by the Treasury.
Inc millionaire is commonly repre-
sented as engaged in clipping coupons
from bonds. This is an erregious
error, says the Washington Star. Rich
men, as rule, do not hold coupon
bonds. The reason is quite obvious.
Such bonds are not safe property. They
are always payable to bearer, like treas
ury notes. If lost the government will
not replace them. Accordingly, for
the sake of security, people are con-
stantly exchanging them for regis
tered bonds. Thus the sum total of
coupon bonds outstanding, which is
now about S7O,000,O0O, is all the time
diminishing. They are mostly in the
hands of small holders. With the req
istered bonds it is quite different.
They are rich mems property par ex-
cellence. Atpresent about $500, 00o. 900
worth OF them are held by private in
dlvlduals. Of this great sum SS7. 600. :
ooo' or not far from one-half.
are owned by 1000 persons
whose holdings average $4,000 The
names OF these fortunate individuals
are kept secret by the treasury.
some OF the fortunes possessed in this
shape are enormous Some of the
greatest belong to the Vanderbilts.
ga william IL. Vanderbilt had $40, OOO,-
o'' IN registered bonds at one time.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
EUROPE'S NEXT BIG WAR.
Russia and France to BE Arrayed Against
Germany, Austria and Italy.

Russia and France to BE Arrayed Against
Germany, Austria and Italy.
This war of giants will have Russia
and France on the one side, Germany,
Austria and Italy on the other. To
make this evident, says Blackwood's
Magazine, we have only to look at the
actual position of the troops during
peace in each Of these countries. AS
an indicatiO of where the danger lies,
and the direction which the contest
will ultimately take, the disposition of
the Russian army is by far the most
important factor. Russia, owing to
the immense extent of her empire and
the comparatively small number of Her
railways in proportion to those of any
other European state, is quite unable
to concentrate powerful armies for Of
fenSive purposes on any point Of her
dominions with any approach to the
rapidity with which this can be done
in France, Germany, Italy, Or even
Austria. She is consequently obliged
to mass upon her frontier during peace
those forces which she intends at once
to throw into action during war. The
sure SIGN. therefore, of where she in
tends to strike her blow when the in
evita bic contest ensues is to be looked
for in the present actual distribution
of her army. This is by no means to
the same extent the case with the
other great powers. France and Ger
many, especially, have a perfect sys-
TEN of railways laid out with dis
tinct strategic purpose. Every prep
aration for a speedy concentration of
their whole forces by these means on
any point of their frontiers ever likely
to be threatened, either for offensive
or defensive reasons, has been SO thor
oughly made that their troops can be
left during peace in a far more dis
persed state and much further back
than is possible with Russia.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
Piercing ArmOr Plates.

Armor plating has not been discussed
SO much recently as it was two wears
ago, when it was decided that the Har-
veyized and nickel plating were the
most invulnerable yet discovered. But
no sooner is such a question settled.
than the experiments are resumed to
find guns to send projectiles capable of
penetrating the heaviest and best. ;,
The Russians have now declared the
problem is solved by piercing the Har-
vey and Tressider surface-hardened
armor by means of a shell having
wrought-iron cap, and this, it is said,
has been done without the shell break.
ing up.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
DEPOPULATED EY OPIUM.

Al the Present Rate 7 hat VIII Soon BE
the Condition of These French Islands.
W. Hoffner, for two years manager
OF the Societe Commercials. which
owns large stores on the Marquesas and
dominique islands, lately arrived here,
says the San Francisco Chronicle
Every two or three months Mr.. Hoff-
ner was in the habit of cruising in q
boat around these islands. making nu-
merous landings. This has made him
exceedingly fam liar with the islands
and their inhabi tants He says that
the natives arc dying off very rapidly
by reason of the use of opium anu that
in short time there will be none left
The past year has made fearful inroads
on them.
The deaths have been so frequent -
said Mr.. Hofner, ''that lately the
French government has been dol. =
all it could to suppress the opill
habit, but with meagre success. !,
hlnders 1T in Some ways, bat in t,
main it is carried OF as before. '41;-
French governm ent troducel cnini
into the islands abe { TWENTY
ago, and now val: effort is /.
made to stamp out the evil. 1t !.
however, too late to remedy tn
wrong.
1.-The natives are dying off like flies
In ten years, if the resent rate Q.
mortality keeps up, there will not h.
one of them left. The last few yea
nave been especially severe and ma, e
terrible inroads on the population.
Where the natives caAlnot get opium
10 satisfy their craving s, the. no j.
tute brandy obtained from Tile 90
cocoanut tree, which is evel worse than
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
CATNlP MADE HER CRAZY.
The Civilized Feline Never Forgets the
Smell of Her Fayorite Herb.


Smell! of Her Fayorite Herb.
A young married man with a young
baby at home recently bought pack
age of catnip, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial. He put it in his overcoat
pocket and stopped in at a well-known
resort to get something stronger than
catnip tea for himself In short
time he noticed that the big pet cat of
the esta blishment was manifesting re-
markably anxious symptoms.
All at once he thought of the catnip.
Here was eat brought up in a city,
and which had never before shifted the
fragrant herb which is SO much a
medicine for felines in distress. So he
opened the package, gave few leaves
to the cat, and the crowd was soon en-
joying an unusual performance. The
cat was in raptures, and rolled about
in such a crazy fashion that the bar
keeper was suspicious. He declared
that them fellows has given the cat
poison" Thereupon he gave the cat a
dish OF milk as an antidote, and
couldn't get it through his dull head
that an herb called catnip was a spe-
ellie medicine for cats of all chimes.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04

samory, the great Mohamme
chief OF interior Africa. is about the
last semi-savage OF the dark country
to yield to civilization and the force OF
arms. The French have gradually
driven him into closer quarters, and
now the British are conducting raids
against his warriors. Samory is the
greatest bandit king in the world.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04
The Preachers Voica

Why a preacher should SING differ
entity from G her people is mystery.
but they all do. Every one who has
heard preacE rs sing knows that there
is a queer ang about the clerical
voice when L ed in singing that is rare
~ heard satc among preachers and
very Old mon oers who have attended
church SO lon that they have caurht
the preachers tone. The differences ;s
not SO much in style as in the varia-
tons that preacher never fails to in
troduce, and once heard can never be
mistaken.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-04

The ancients took great pains to
ornament their favorite volumes. Pro-
pertius speaks of tablets with gold
borders Ovid mentions manuscripts
with red titles, and other authors men,
ton presentation of copies of which
the cover was OVERLAND with precious
stones.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-06-29

Richmond. Va. June is, 1894.
z, orrTHEKN RAILWAY COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
arst meeting Of the stockholders OF the
Southern Railway Company, corpora
ton organized under the laws OF the
State OF Virginia by the purchasers OF
the property and franchises OF the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company
on the 18TH day OF June, 1894. by NJ. +.
peasants. T. 5. Atkins. and Charles
Price. Special Masters appointed under
a decree OF foreclosure entered by the
Circuit Court Of the United States for
the Eastern District OF Virginia on the
18th day Of April 1894, IN a certain
suit in equity therein pending, wherein
the Central Trust Company OF New York
and others were complainants and the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany and others were defendants, VIII
be held at the Office OF the company.
at the corner Of Tenth and Bank streets,
in the city of Richmond on the 18th DAY
OF JULY, 1894, at o o'clock in the even
ing, at which time and place all prior
Of the Board OF Directors
VIII be submitted for approval and rati-
and general business will be
transacted.
BY order OF the Board OF Directors.
jel9tjy5 W. A. G. EVEN. Secretary.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-06-29
FREDERICKSBURG ACCONNODA.
TON.
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Second-class tickets nor a.
cepted for passage On hs
sos A. NJ, THE CHICAGO EXPRESS
tor Lynchburg Roanoke
blueheid. pocahontas, ke.
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Pullman bunet Sleeper k0a.
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Bristol. Knoxville. Cnattanoo.
ga, and intermediate p9.tfs
Pullman Sleeper Radforl
Chattanooga.
$40 P. NJ, For Suffolk. Norfolk. and l-.
termcdiate stations, aui' 9
at Norfolk 40 $50 % ~
ll:50 Z. NJ, For Roanoke. Kadt'rl, ILL.,
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