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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

We wonder whether they will tax
up the costs of the execution against
Nicaragua.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

The eastern war is exciting Europe
at the present juncture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Hoax-"Old Soak went fishing yesterday
and couldn't even catch his breath.
Joax-"That's funny. 1t was baited. -
Philadelphia Record
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

There is no occasion for excitement
about Nicaragua. The United States once
had to discipline that tempestuous little
country by bombarding Greytown. 1t is
a rnilder and perhaps better deserved dis
cipline than Great Britain proposes to
inf1ict today, and there is not the least
danger that anybody's rights will be in
fringed- The Nicaraguans also need to
learn that they cannot rely upon the
United States to defend them in misbe-
havior. though we are sure to take
care that they are not unjustly oppressed
Philadelphia Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

An unpublished letter of Columbus. adj
dressed to two officers of the King Of
sion of the Academy of Moral and Politi-
cal Science in Paris.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Hoods Sarsaparilla, acting through
the blood, reaches every part of the
system, and in this way positively
cures catarrh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

BY courtesy a man IS often called
Honorable" whose actions do not
Justify the title.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

4. F. Grant has donated 100000 to
build a Church of England college in
Montreal, including dormitories and recre-
alton grounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Now let the city be lighted from the
general fund.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Miss Whine Davis new book, THE
Yelled Doctor" is in the hands of Harper
Bros. but it is still in manuscript and
no date has been set for its publication.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

The Young Lady (whirling around on
her piano stocD-"It was in Germany
-'Where was it that you forgot?"-Chi-
cago Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Some one wants to know will this year
bathing suit have big sleeves. Wait and
see. 1t won't be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Speaking of the ''new woman if she is
TO be any more lovely than the woman
we have known all these centuries, let
her come on. Can we have too much of
a good thing ?-Wheeling Intelligencer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

The advocates of the interference of the
United States in the Nicaragua predica-
ment have practically given up the task
of trying to find any sufficient justifca-
ton for such action. 1t is conceded that
international law furnishes no such war
rant. and that it justifies the attempt of
Great Britain to collect the indemnity it
claims. 1t is also conceded that the Mon
roe doctrine has no standing in interna-
power is under any obligations, except
those of courtesy, to take any notice of
1t. Under these circumstances the jim
goes are in something of a quandary.-
Springfield Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There is a movement in Bangor, Me,
to erect a building as a memorial of Vice
President Hannibal Hamlin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02
FUN BEFORE BUSINESS.

Go ahead and find out whether you are
News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02
HERALD Calendar for May.

Listen to my taels of woe."-china,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

NJ. Constans has proposed a startling re-
form in the French criminal law in the
chamber of deputies. 1t is that every
person arrested shall be examined with
in twenty-four hours to see if there is
probable cause for the arrest, and that
he shall be then attended by counsel. or
If too poor, shall have counsel assigned
him. 1t is strange that such a law should
be proposed now for the first time in
France since the revolution OF 1883.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

Now that sentimental people are getting
over their yearning to purchase aban-
doned New England farms for song,
and squander a fortune on them, prac-
tical man comes along in the person of
Prof Plumb, of Purdue. and shows how
business may be combined with sentiment
in these matters. Prof. Plumb bought a
farm of $50 acres. half wood land. in the
Berkshire hills for 500. and he expects
to get 1000 cords of wood out of it to start
with, or more than enough to pay out y
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

list,
Liverpool and London and Globe, England 100000
Hartford Insurance Co., Hartford. .......8645736
German American Insurance Co.. New York .624oooS
Pennsylvania Insurance Co. Philadelphia .4o98774
American Fire ms Co., Philadelphia 23956o6
North British and Mercantile, England -. 100000
Insurance Co., OF North America, Phila-
~ delph17 -.......-. 95626ooo
Niagara Insurance Co. New York .23223I8
Williamsburg City, New York I,495537
British American Assurance Co., Toronto -. 100000
Teutona Insurance Co.. New Orleans -......535Io7
The Washington times., 1895-01-27

Beneath the ancient and crumbing walls
of the quaint old Lennox mansion, in South
Washington, lives hermit, bowed with years
and ripe with worldly experience. The name
of this recluse is John Reilly, and his age,
three score and ten.
The discovery OF the hermit was made yes
terday by TIMES reporter, with the assist
ance of Policeman Coffin, of the Fourth pre-
cinct. Reillys habitation is in the basement
or cellar of the old Walter Lennox manor.
on the south side of Maryland avenue. be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
southwest within stones throw OF the
Washington entrance to Long Bridge.
The ancient structure. beneath which
Reilly has burrowed like a rat. was the home
of wealth and splendor before Washington
became city. Its age is estimated at about
lis years, and venerable neighbors say every
brick in the structure was brought from
England in sailing vessels when Alexandria
and Georgetown were important ports.
Originally the building was an arstocratio
farmhouse or manor. where many dis
tinguished Americans were entertained in
The Washington times., 1895-01-27

Cosmopolitan Washington includes among
its many novel and iteresiing features an up
to-date Chinatown.
Itis not motley, fIl-assorted colony Of
Celestials like that in Mott street, New YORK,
but an orderly aud well-regulated community.
Lewlessness and disorder are unknown
quantities, and the police therefore but SCI
dom have occasion to invade its quaint pre-
cincts for the purpose OF arresting some pig
tailed offender.
The brawls aud drunken revelries. so IA
mlliar to BloodAeld. or the discordaut alco-
holic war whoops which arouse the midnight
echoes as well as the blear-eyed denizens OF
Hell's Bottom, are as foreign TO Chinatown
as Greenland's icy mountains are TO India's
coral strands.
In company with stalwart Policeman New
kirk, OF the Sixth precinct, who is regarded
by the average Washington Chinaman rs his
especial protector and friend, en- artist and
reporter of The TINES made an interesting
and detailed tour of Chinatown, ID. c., last
night Away back from the noisome streets
were witnessed scenes and surroundings
which would cause one TO conjure a sudden
transformation from the broad, concreted
thoroughfares of the National Capital TO the
picturesque habitations in the congested dis
tricts of Pekin or Hong Kong.
The most important structure In Washing
tons Celestial colony was first visited. 1t is
q handsome. three-story brick building on
the south side OF Pennsylvania avenue north
west, between Third and Four-and-a-half
streets. and is numbered 3I4. Along the
lower ledge of the front balcony extends a
signboard. which announces in the brightest
Of golden letters:
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He stood AUTests

Manifold essays. treatises and poems have
been written, with more or less success. to de-
scribe the qualities which make UP Just
man, a religious man and a sympathetic man.
Moralists and philosophers have managed to
give pretty fair deiiR ticn OF these terms;
but fell short of the reality when they came
to linn good man. Where Plato and Sen
eca and Boethius failed yestryman OF Bat
tersea, named Turnor. has triumphanfly sue
ceeded as the following dialogue proves. An
officer, about whose conduct come questions
arose. was asked:
Ibid you not swear at the child who opened
the door 10 you1"
No was the reply. Il never swear at any
time
Not when you knock your head against
door," asked Mr. Turner
NO" answered the officer.
''Then, you must be a good man, said Mr..
Turnor.
The guardians, feeling that it would be
watste of time to improve upon this phjloso-
ply, shortly aiterward adjOurned.-London
Telegraph.
The Washington times., 1895-01-27

Selling the News.

The same evening after the council, Sidney
Herbert dined tete-a-tete with Mrs. Norton
and before the dinner was over she had
wormed out of him the decision of the cabi-
net. (Peel's cabinet had resolved to repeal
the corn laws.) After dinner she asked him
to remain while she went to see sick friend
for a short time and in half an hour she re-
turned. In the meanwhile shs had taken
cab and driven down to the Times office.
There she saw Barnes, the editor She gave
him chapter and verse and returned 10 poor
Sidney Herbert with $500 in her pocket. The
next day the announcement was made in the
Times that the cabinet had met and resolved
on the repeal OF the corn laws. This was on
the 5th day Of December, 1S45.-Sir William
Gregory an Autobiography of Lady Gregory.
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
Life and Laundry,
A 10th St. Episode.
Written for TEE TrKrs.l

Things come suddenly For long while
the little gray house, with hopeless, foriorn
expression, had huddied close to its prosper
Gus neighbors and yearningly, yswningIy
waited for tenant.
1t had sighed al Its OWE unbroken neutral
ity of tint, when glorious yellow flag fioated
from the doorway OF its red-brick brother on
the left and maryeled why chance never sent
such gorgeous decorations its way.
But, as remarked before. "things come
suddenlyr'
One morning not long ago it woke from
empty dreaming to active occupancy. Ten
ants filled 1t with life and laundry. A China
man glorying in the boastful title OF See
Wah (and ne will probably ''raise il, ;" too),
with all the bric-a-brac of a "Washse-washee''
establishment, moved In.
On the yerdant lawn In this one of our
sacredly "best localities" he posed adroitly
In way to catch the attention OF the
passer-by a two-legGed sign dressed in bril-
liant scarlet trousers with white lettering up
either leg.
Above the door large aggressive card of
the same hue now tints with an auroral blush
the cheeks OF one of our chief justices over
the way when he comes TO his window 10 look
out at the weather
1t was fun to note the astonishment and
ulSbuSL expressed III IHS manner Oh passing
property-holders as they beheid for the first
time this invasion OF trade into their fashion,
able vicinity; also the Oriental indifference
with which the pig-tailed proprietor futtered
IN and out, keeping house with the air of a
man who knew his rights ''allee samee.''
An Army officer, descending his steps for a
morning stroll, paused. with ''ean-such-
things-be?" aspect. and-perhaps il was a re-
Election from the white letters over the door
we could see war in mis- eye Every passer
halted, astounded.
Now the folks round here can see whar
TO git ther' clo'es DONE" called ono negro
wag TO another as they sat in doctors phae-
tons not far away.
Il cont see wah they didn't choose some
other place" langUidly complained an Anglo
American society girl of her dudish compan-
ion.
The troublesome tenant leans in the door
way to rest occasionally. and dreamily gazes
through the moving critics, past glares and
stares and ''airs," seeing visions Of next
weeks aristoeratic trade.
Hundreds OF dozens or collars and cuffs,
yet to be done up" huge bundles of linen
to be sprinkled-his lips pucker in anticipa-
on-"Melican" dollars. then China Who
can blame him? Isn't China 'home?'
The little gray house ls jubilant. All its
doors. now and again. admit the fresh crisp
air. All its shutters are flung wide to let in
sunlight. Inside ut last are life and, oh,
neighbors. dear, laundry
EThings come suddenly. GHEEL-
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
coRNs AND WARTS CURED
BY JOHN REILLY.


The front of the structure was desolate-
looking and sealed tightly, like the entrance
to morgue. A series of loud raps on the
dllapldated door finally attracted the atten-
ton of Hermit Reilly. and be came to the
aperture, aud after a deal of unlocking, un-
boiling and unbarring, the door swung
slowly open, accompanied by chorus OF fall
setto creaks, which sounded much like the
voices of disturbed spirits coming from the
1nky darkness OF the strange interior.
Reilly's head peered out and in a CHEEKY
tone he bid the callers enter the basement,
which was as dark and chilly as the reputed
"Black Hole of Calcutta"
go back in the rear, gentlemen. and you
will find fire and some light" he said.
After stumbling through the darkness and
musty atmosphere of the froht cellar and
series of intricate passages, entirely devoid
of light the reporter headed Tor small ri 1T
OF daylight which loomed up IN the distance
like an oasis in the desert. The light came
through rear door and admitted what little
illumination the hermit had in his gloomy
home during the daytime. the tgloominess OF
night being relieved by the dim rays of a
small smoke-coyered kerosene lamp.
After the visitors eyes had become ne
customed to the semi-darkness he took sur
vey OF the hermit's abode and filled his pipe
to relieve the damp odors of the confined
atmosphere OF the place.
DECORATED BY DECADES.
The apartment was sub-cellar or base
ment room, the walls being obscured by the ac-
cumulation of a century's cobwebs and dust.
In the center OF the room Reilly had con-
structed for himself out of rude boards what
he called bed, but what appeared to the re-
porter as catafalque in the rough.
Scattered about were cooking utensils, an
Ak. saw and buck, and other articles, includ-
ing pile OF rough oak logs, which Reilly
said were brought to him by an old coiored
man. On the west side OF the apartment was
a wide, oId-fashioned fireplace, with crack
ling log fire. 1t was fitted out with spit,
crane, and hangers for cooking purposes.
Before the fire was rough bench, upon
which he bade his guests be seated while he
related his remarkable history This in
cluded his war story, to which the old man
was welded. To him his experience during
the stirring war times was his wife and asso-
ciate in his lonely vigils in the old sub-celar
with only rats and mice to relieve the soli-
tude. He had pondered over every incident
and occurrence so often until they had be-
come so fresh in his memory as though the
booming OF cannon and the steady tramp of
The Washington times., 1895-01-27

victims was pretty well under the influence.
and watched his companion in a dazed sort
OF manner as he loaded the small hole in the
business end of the pipe.
This operation concluded. the older of the
men resumed his reclining position, and plac-
ing the stom OF the pipe. which looked for all
the world like silver-mounted flute. In his
mouth began putting away like locomotive
going up grade II was his third pipefui, and
finally the smoker fell from his grasp, his
eyes closed, and his chest and fell
duickIy-he had
REACHED THE FLowERY REALMS.
On an upper bunk was Chinese student,
who is also an opium smoker, but in a lesser
degree. He is on a par with what is known
in dramshop parlance as moderate drilker.
The student utilized mis- alcohol lamp to aid
him in reading recently-arrived Chinese
war bulletin. He read through pair of gold
trimmed eyeglasses, and the news eohtained
in the bulletin evidently did not suit him, for
his brow was clouded and his thin lips
twitched nervously. Perhaps he was reading
about the Port Arthur massacre.
Before the reporter Left the room he was
busy hitting the pipe and probably thinking
of bis real home in far-away China, over
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
He Was a Sound SIeener.

Some men are born unlucky. There was
guest at the Delavan House who slept all
through the fire and never walked till his
usual time in the morning. He was in the
north end, which was not destroyed, and,
having been accustomed to sleep near rail-
road. the noise did not disturb him. 1t might
be held by some thoughtless persons that
this man was particularly lucky, both in hav-
ing such a-healthy faculty of sleeping regard
less OF his surroundings, and in being in
part of the hotel which was not burned But
John Smith contends that he was unlucky.
There is no unusual experience, entertain
ment, or excitement in sleep. There is in
big fire, especially hotel fire. This man
missed an opportunity OF seeing one of the
best fires OF the year, though he was right in
the building. What is the good luck of his
escape compared with such ill luck as that?
Buffalo ExDrass
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
Even Tramps Are Not On no II.

''Lady," said Breezy Byles, I'VE were on
our way, like the migratory leetle birds, to a
paralleled generosity you regale US with this
pie" Then he finished the second piece and
burst into conyulsive sobs. ''But good heav-
ems, lady, this is grape pie with seeds in. and
/ have twice been threatened with appendic-
tits" and he wiped his eyes with his whis-
kers.
Poor man. said the old lady, giving him
a silver dollar. II never thought of that ~
Around the corner of the orchard he freseoed
the head OF the white dog following o; his
heels by smashing the pie over his head, and
sent him back looking as il he had cut his
throat with wire fence.
Sudden inspiration" said Breezy. SIS bet
ter than slow wisdom, and uimble dollar is
better than steady job in a phosphate fac
tory. Judge.
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
QUONG SANG LUNG s. CO.,
CHINESE IMPORTERS


Above and below this tasty announcement
are several swinging signs in black and gold
The inscriptions on which are a tumbled-up
looking combination OF Chinese hiero-
glyphics. The large show-windows In front
OF the store were filed with numerous articles
TO tempt the palare OF
CELESTIAL CoSNOIssEURs,
as we'll as queer-looking padded gowns, in
many pretty shades. from goose gray TO
robin red, which are as attractive to the
Chinese dude as the latter-day bargain
counter is TO the CAD about American house
vile
Entering the store and leaving the noisy
changing OF the cable car gongs TO the scurry-
ing pedestrians. the reporter found a scene
which was highly suggestive oTthat witnessed
in the crossroads grocery stores in the
South after nightfall. Seated about on boxes.
queer looking bales and 4 long bench. were
balf score OF Cinnamon. the majority OF
them tuggIng away at their tobacco pipes and
frescoing the close atmosphere with many
unique designs in blue aud gray smoke.
Some Of the loungers wore the familiar
padded sack with flowing sleeves, while others
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
Needed. a New Law.

We read that a bicyclist was romping mer-
rily along when he met a fire engine on the
warpath. Somebody, of course, had to get
on one side, but as bicyclist isn't TO be out
bicycled and the illiterate fire engine did not
get out of the way in time, it was run into
and there was pretty tough collision.
One OF the horses was badly hurt. couple
of firemen were thrown into the gutter, and
the very disobliging engine overturned, but
the hero of bicycling fame fortunately es-
capped unhurt, while his machine was slightly
scratched. One of these days a reckless
bicycIist will go careehing along railway
line, and If he should by cruel fate run into
an express train fun of excursionists the
carnage will be fearful,
A law should be passed compelling fire
engines and locomotives to keep out Of the
way of the "wheel. Truth.
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
At the Doctors Door.

Mrs. Foy-Arrah! worra! worraI Docthur,
will yer lux at the babby an tell me is she
hurted altogether or killed intoirely2 Ord a
pair av silk han'kerchifs to do for gintle-
man as is very particular, an me back not
turned to her one blissid minnit, when she
was out on the foire-escape afther me, an
trough the hole, an fill onto tn awnin' av
tn impidint Dutch grocery below (bad cess
t. him, obsthructin tn sidewark an foightin
me Patsy iviry tonne he's dhrop the worse
for liquor an into the arrums av an entoirs
stranger.
"Praise be t. TIL blissid saints, docthur, that
ye say she isn't hurted at all. at ALL An me
a-runnin' wild her iviry inch av th' way an
her a-shlapin' as aisy as if she was in Gods
TIL drop av whisky an paregoric OF gave her
for her tayth Judge
The Washington times., 1895-01-27


days long gone by. No less a parsonage
than Gen. Washington himself has partaken
OF its hospitality when the Lennox mansion
overlooked many broad acres OF waving
green, which stretched along the shores of
the glistening Potomac on the territory
which now comprises the Sustling and busy
river front. with its wharyes and fleets of
white wings and pulling steamers.
REDCoATs SPARED THE MANSION.
When the British soIdiery invaded Wash
iugton and burned the Capitol in 1914 they
spared this old structure, perhaps because OF
its arstocratic associations and in remem-
brance OF the booted and spurred gentry vino
gathered th re in the days of ''Auld Lang
Syne' and discussed the politics of the day
over many b1ttle Of rare vintage wine or
rosy-hued decanter OF old rye.
At any rate the manor was saved and here
it Is in the year 1885 occupied OILY by an
aged hermit. owned by the Richmond and
Danville Railroad corporation, and doomed
TO early destruction to make room for railway
improvements.
The historical edilce is four stories
and gabled attic high. 1t stands above like
grim phantom OF time, and its age-searred
fsce bears distressed look rs it views thu
march OF modern improvements stretching
away to the northwest
On its eastern side, high from the ground,
is reminder OF old-time prosperity
struggling vines of dead ivy clinging to the
wall like fate-whiie away up in the caves
the north winds sing weird requiems to those
who enjoyed the pleasures in its stately,
high-ceilinged rooms and halls. or its woes
in the hour OF illness and death.
After the burning of the Capitol in 1914
many of the mantels and other marble orna-
ments found in the ruins were purchased
from the government and used in the Lennox
mansion, and there they are to-day.
HERMIT REILLY Is DOCTOR.
As the TINES man approached the manor
last evening in the biting north wind, which
swept down over the river like a shrill voice
from the North Pc e, he observed on the front
wall, over the basement entrance, small.
wooden sign board.
1t was inscribed in weather-beaten letters:
The Washington times., 1895-01-27
couRr1Na OPIUM DREAMS.

men, well dressed and ragged, reeled from
building TO curb. Some were combative
and wanted to engage in street brawls
Others filed the erstwhile quiet night
air with oaths, coarse jests, and Raccha-
nalian song. while back toward the Chinese
quarters, the haunts of the opium smokers
the scene was as quiet as a graveyard.
AS Policeman Newkirk bid the reporter
good night. to interrupt noisy gathering OF
drunks he observed:
Opium smoking may be a deplorable
habit. but as compared with whisky drinking
it does not produce such scenes of disorder
and crime as we see nightly in this CITY,