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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

mittee and those connected with the
management generally were out in full
force last night. For the first time
relieved of the duties of handling the
thing, they abandoned themselves to
the pleasures of the occasion. A few
hours before they had been company
Of staid, self-contained and careful
men of business; now that the work
was done, they were as full of the
reckless spirit of Fourth of July hi
larity as the small boy with his first
horn and toy cannon. When they were
not being congratulated by others, they
congratulated themselves, and good
cheer prevailed on every hand.
At last the crowd got tired. Over
taxed nature asserted herself and the
streets became once more passable for
pedestrians. By midnight the last note
of the fish horn had died away, the
worn-out small boy had reluctantly
dragged himself home and things gem
orally assumed their normal condi-
ton.
Then the city went to sleep.
The pyrotechnic display provided by
the committee, and which was made 10
illuminate the heavens from a position
on the grounds of the city and county
building, were not as extensive as it
was desired to make it, but owing to
the great spread of bunting about the
city and the consequent great danger
of fire, the committee decided to en-
ploy only aerial pieces as would soar
high and be spent before there was
any danger of contact with any of the
inf1amable material. They we're, there
fore, confined to a much smaller va
riety of illuminations than as though
they could have used set pieces, etc,
and the display was, under the cir
cumstances, all that it could have
been made, and what there was of it
was very beautiful. The display gave
evident satisfaction to the visitors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

| CHICAGO, July 4.-The leading ques-
ton of the day is will the gold stand
ard men bolt the convention if a silver
platform is adopted?"
Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower said
this morning: Il am frank to say if an
out-and'-out silver platform is adopted,
the gold standard men, as. representing
true Democracy, should Leave the con-
vention l believe, with the defeat or
the success of the silver ticket, the
leaders of the movement and the move
ment itself will be consigned by the
people to oblivion before year has
passed.
will the gold adherents nominate a
candidate in order TO hold their forces
together?"
Frankly, don't think so. My own
belief is, we will not be in the conven-
ton when the roll is called for nomi-
nations"
Suppose Teller is nominated; would
that make the proposed bolt any more
pronounced?
Il don't believe the Democra tic con-
vention will go so far as to name a
Republican,
Mr.. Hill said: I'VE have several days
yet, and things may change materially
50 l can't say what our action will be.
No, 1 don't think we will have a can
didate Indeed, if a silver platform is
adopted, l don't see how we could
make a pretense of placing a candi-
date upon it.
John r. Fellows said: 1--WE ought to
leave the convention if a silver policy
prevails"
The proposed gold meeting called for
II O'Clock turned out to be an informal
conference. The real work of con-
sultation was done in the private
rooms Of Hill, Whitney and Harrlty.
Hill had Whitney in his room in the
morning, with Governor Flower and
several Illinois and Indiana men.
STROBE into the Illinois Headquarters
and said:
1--WE are now conducting our cam
paign of education. 1t will last till the
convention meets. How it will end
nobody knows, but we will move quick
ly after the convention gets in session.
Will we bolt? Well, can't discuss
that now
Ex-Governor Pattison will be placed
in nomination by Pennsylvania, and
William E. Russell may receive the
endorsement of the Massachusetts del
egation. 1t has been suggested that
William c. Whitney should receive the
votes of the gold Democrats. It is
doubtful if he would care to be voted
for in a convention which adopted a
silver platform There is also some
talk of placing William r. Morrison
in nomination for the purpose of hold
ing the anti-silver men in, line.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
OLD STORY AND NEW DRESS.

Here is new version of an old
story. It is from the New York Jour-
nal: "Mr. Alden, the editor of Har-
per's Magazine, used to go to the Au-
thor's club oftener than he has of late
His desertion of the club is said to be
due to a conversation which did not
end to his liking. He was telling sew
eral interested listeners-most of them
contributors to his magazine-of the
very great difficulty he had in procur-
ing suitable short stories. He ended,
however, with the confident assertion:
But we get them. We get them A
frank friend present, probably not
contributor asked innocently: What
do you do with them, Alden?'''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
witness the slaughter of youth nam

witness the slaughter of a youth nam
ed Dudley Risley of Lanark, III. Dud-
ley pitched game of ball against the
Rockfords in Cedar Rapids, in which he
held the alleged heavy hitters of the
local team down TO five hits and fewer
runs. Inasmuch as Dudley has
walk that tells of the freshly ploWed
fields, and hands which large gobs OF
freckles tell of haymaking and weed
uprooting, this trick of his caused the
ire of the Rockford hitters to arise, and
they vowed by the shadow of Nick
Young that they would make him eat
his own curves. But no. Likewise, nit.
The best laid plans of mice and ball
players. like eggs, may be all right
when they are laid, but they are apt
to change in the course Of time. Dud-
ley put on his overalls and went to
work as if he had fourteen cows to
milk before starting after his best girl
in a buggy. He skinned the cream
off the Rockford can of deceit for nine
long innings, not leaving enough to
take the bitter taste out of the mouth
of the most loyal fan. His long prac-
tice shying stones at the heifers in the
cornfield gave him excellent control,
and the result of his efforts was that
the Reds secured only two full grown
hits to fatten their batting averages.
When he got to the hotel, Dudley sat
down and indited the following letter
home:
Rokfurd. H.. May 90, '96.
Dear Ma and Pa-Hooray fer me! L
licked the Rokfurds today. Buk
sunofagun, and [ did. I am the stuff.
am better a gol bling sight than Rusie.
They culdnt tuch me with a IL foot
poal. My drop bal wuz out of site.
A duck in the gran stan named kellog
said it wuz a drop too much fer the
Rokfurds. They say he is Crazy on
bass bal. He roasts all good players
Xix me what kums along. How is my
little brindle caff? Say, but 1 wuz out
of site today. L pich like a sunofagun.
The Rokfurds are pretty rotten. Hug
Nikkel WIZ Crazy tonite after l win.
He roasts them like hel bekuz they
kant hit me. He links 1 am no good.
Buk Ebright sed he would git me
new pare NV overalls tonite. He is a
nawful good man. He kant play bal
so good as me tho. Nobody kin. Say,
how is Mary Jones? Also our new
pigs? Say, send me pair of soks.
The pare I have got on got wet three
weeks ago and stuck to my feet. But
1 kin pich bass bal. Thare is only wun
man on the Rokfurd team l as askeert
OF. He is Bill Kreeg. He can bat
like a sunofagun. Almost as good as
me. Tell little Harry I kin git him a
COB on the Seeder Rabbits TEEN. He
kin take Ebright's plase 1 think I will
be drafted by the Skikagos purity sumo
I kin pich bass bal. Everybody is Lux
kin at me tonite. I am great stuff
Wei, goodby Your boy, DUDLEY.
P. S.-Dop't fergit them soks.
DUD
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
A BICYCLE CRAZE.
This Time it Strikes the HynlnboOks
of a Kansas Church.

We'll, gentlemen" said young man
who had been listening and whose gen.
eraI make up proclaimed him quite adj
vanced and fresh, 81 wonder what you
would have thought if you had been
out in Kansas with me last week
was caught in town not far from En-
porfa over Sunday and had nothing to
do but follow the crowd, most of whom
rode bicycles. They landed me in
church. I landed with them l saw
the preacher go into the pulpit. and L
knew from the hang of his trousers
and their crumpled appearance at the
bottom that he was wheelman. and
the man whom 1 asked about it said
my conjecture was right. The sermon
was nothing out of the ordinary, but
the last song the congregation worked
off caught me, and then I understood
the expression I had heard-'wheeI
crazy. The first verse of the old hymn
was lined out by the young preacher
as follows:
Am 1 rider for the cross.
A scorcher for a lamb?
''The next lines of the second verse
almost made me fall off the bench:
Must 1 be carried to the skies
On f1owery beds of ease?
Not while I've got d wheel. old man.
III make the course with ease.
The congregation fairly whooped it
I'D on that verse and after the preacher
had announced that that was collection
day for swelling the road fund be-
tween Emporia and the church and
the hat was passed, I plunked in a.
gold two and { half piece I thought
they deserved that much from my
house. I wrote my wife right away
to sell the horse and buggy and put
nT0CP66G a U-h Err4
telegraphed back that she couldn't get
bid On the horse. and 1 am going on
to trade off all I have for wheel.
When it comes to this that the bicycle
business must have it's own hymns in
church 1 give in."-Chicago Chronicle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
THE CROP OF MELONS.
WHAT THEIR LOVERS MAY EXPECT
THIS SEASON.
New York Alone Receives Twenty
Million WatermeIOns From the
south-Prospects in Georgia and
FIori4i-TrOubIe With Railway
Shippers.

New York has received it's first car
load of 1000 watermelons, and they
were sold wholesale for $50 per 100
The first melons of a season, which
opens about June 1 and closes about
September, come from Florida. The
acreage planted in that state this year
is little more than 5000 acres. which
is about twice as many as were
planted last year. On account of the
drought which continued for ten weeks,
however. the yield per acre will be
about so per cent less than that of
last year, so that in spite of the doub-
ling of the acreage there will be no
increase in the Florida crop this sea-
son, and possibly there may be a con-
siderable decrease.
Georgia planted about $4,000 acres
last year, but the prices realized were
so unsatisfactory to the growers that
this year they planted only about TO-
600 acres, or less than one-half of last
years acreage, so that there will sure
ly be large deficiency in the supply
from that state.
1t has been estimated by experts that
when the crops are full there are an
nually received in New York about
2O,O0O00 melons. but what the guam
tity will be this year is difficult to
predict until later in the season.
The melon growers of Florida, Geor-
gia and other southern states have
been for several years asking the rail-
road transportation companies to re-
duce their freight rates, but the COM
panies have declined on the ground
that melons being perishable the COM
panies would be liable to large losses
If the shipments should spoil on the
way and the consignees refuse to re-
ceive them on their arrival here. Many
growers say that. if the companies
would consent to a freight reduction of
20 per cent they would willingly pre-
pay the freight in full, which would
amply guarantee the companies
against all possible loss. If some ami
cable adjustment is not soon made,
many of the largest growers have ex-
pressed their determination to abandon
the raising of melons 1t now costs the
Florida and Georgia growers from S120
to $3.50 per carload to place their
melons in this market, and there have
been instances in which the cost was
much higher. 1t is certainly a cause
for regret that some agreement can
not be reached between the growers
and the carriers by which this popu-
lar and, healthy fruit could be brought
here at rates of transportation suf-
low to enable it to be sold at
prices cheap enough to place it easily
within the reach Of all classes of con-
sumers.-New York Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
GENESIS xxx AND IN DUBLIN.

A resident of Dublin informed me
that at the time of the great exhibi-
ton in that city ne entertained a num-
Der of visitors. among whom was an
old Presbyterian minister, who liked
to prowl about the city by himself. On
returning home one evening his host
found him reading the Bible. and the
minister exclaimed: 81 can't make it
out at all. 1 have read Genesis Xxx
twice over and am none the wiser
He then explained that large proper
ton Of the shops in Dublin had Gene
sis Xxx inscribed over them. Owing
to his shortsightedness he had mis-
taken Guinness triple X for Genesis
xxx.-Notes and Queries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
AS OTHERS SEE BuRNs.

No effort will be spared to make a
success of the Burns exhibition to be
held in Glasgow this summer A sum
of upward of S12,500 has already been
subscribed to the guarantee fund The
committee, of which Lord Rosebery
and Lord Provost Bell are respectively
president and president, desires,
however, that the guarantee fund
should amount to $25, GOO, and they now
appeal for further subscriptions, and
also for loans of. pictures, manuscripts.
relics, books and other articles likely
to enhance the interest and value of
the exhibition. What, one wonders,
would the bard think of it alp" queries
the Westminster Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
THE PRESIDENT.
Here is What Joe Howard Says At
ter a Talk With Him.

On q recent visit to Washington I
saw the president, Allison, Reed and
Quay No friend of Grover Cleveland
need disturb himself one little bit as to
his mental, physical or financial con-
dition. 1t was my good fortune to
have an interesting talk with him on
a number of mutually interesting top
les, and it affords me great pleasure,
as an American citizen of fourteen
generations back, to photograph him,
the president of the United States, as
he impressed me-claar-headed, kindly
disposed, warm-hearted, virile-handed.
have never seen him in a better ply
steal condition, and he hadn't been
fishing either.
He sat alone in the great room for
merly occupied. by Lincoln as a cabinet
chamber the historic chandelier, whose
lights have seen Lincoln, in his own
proper person, turn out time and time
again, hanging as it did in days Of
yore. Behind a table, the history Of
which has been told many a. time, sat
the president, with piles of documents,
memoranda, parchments, letters and
books about him. His manner is pc
culiarly gracious and winning. Con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

WINGED that the party with whom he
talks is worthy Of confidence. has no
schemes to further, no point to make,
he is the beau ideal Of courtesy and
sef-respect, leading up to a recogni-
tion of such qualities as his visitor may
possess. Believing as 1 do that he
will be nominated in Chicago. and de-
feated by the Republican candidate.
whoever ne may be. 1 studied him with
much unfeigned interest, and left his
presence with sincere respect and per-
sonal regard.-Howard in Chicago
Times Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
NATIONAL sALUTEs
Were Fired BY the First Battery
and at the Post.

Were Fired BY the First Battery
and at the Post.
Just as the sun rose over the eastern
hills yesterday one section of the First
battery, of the national guard, fired
thirteen guns on Capitol Hill, as a ma
tional salute. After passing in review
before the governor and staff, the bat
terry left the column and proceeded 10
the same place, where salute OF 40
guns was fired at noon. The medical
staff came up expecting to be needed,
hut although the horses were green and
unused to work of that kind, the men
were not, and the medical staff didn't
have to use a piece Of court plaster
even.
Last evening at sunset, the battery
fred a second thirteen guns as part
ing salute TO the nations birthday
At the fort, the usual salutes were
Cred
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

During the past week the Utahnian
has received something like $50 city
and subscriptions are pour
ing in upon it from nearly every state
in the Union. The newspapers from
New York and Boston to New Orleans
and Oregon are giving it many edi-
torial articles, and in some cases copy
ing whole columns from it. Judging
by the reception it has already met
with it bids fair speedily to become a
paper of national circulation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
OBJECTED.

JudgAHave you anything to say
before sentence is pronounced against
you?
Convicted Burglar-The only thing
I'm grumbling about is bein' identified
by a man as kept is head under the
bedclothes the whole time-that's
wrong.-Pick-s de-Ups
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

The largest mastodon in this country
is now being mounted at Wards nat
ural science Adjustment at Rochester
for Rutgers college. The height of the
skeleton is thirteen feet, and its total
length, including the tusks, twenty
four feet.-Critic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
FOR BALL PLAYERS ONLY.

Here is an Account of How Dudley
RisIey Won the Game.
Out in Illinois the base ball writers
delve down into minor details of ball
players life. A writer on the Rockford
named Risley:
"a joyous crowd. of fans went out to
Riverside park yesterday expecting to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Nearly one-third 5000 out of 5o,0ON of
the men who wanted to enter the Brit
ish army last year were rejected on ac-
count of defective eyesight, bad teeth or
fat feet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
THERE IS BUT
ONE QUERY
Will the Gold Democrats Bolt at
Chicago?
OPINIONS OF THE LEADERS
FLOWER is RATHER ANXIOUS FOR
A WHIRL.

Hill Says There Are Several Days
Yet, and No Man Knows What
May Happen During the Time
Monopolizedd BY the Proposed
Champaign of Education"-Some
Few Guesses.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
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Continued from Page So
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Surgeon-General Penrose and his
staff. consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel
c. F. Wilcox, Major F. A Meacham,
Captain w. F. Beer and Lieutenant ].
A Critchlow, accompanied the parade
prepared to be OF service in an ener-
gency. Their carriage was designated
by two red cross flags.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-06
THE FIRST IITIIOGKAPlllC STONE.

, he lived with Herr :, hindcl who owned land on
which the stone necessary for Sencfclders expert
moGis was found. He showed deep interest IN the
work and bcfricndcd the struggling inventor An
interesting relic Of the inventors sojourn AT Soin-
hofcn il now I'm New York and will possibly be one
of the notable features Of the centennial exhibition
II is a landscape representing scene near Son-
hof.n The picture was made by Scnofcl1"r on
slab ~ Soluhofen stone. and presented by him
to HIS host SCHMIDT when he returned to Munich
from hi~ ho-pitabc home. The slab was mounted
as a table ton and remained in the Schmidt fam
10, until q few years ago. when II was bought by
julius Lang president Of the Fuchs & Lang
Manufacturing Company. who had to sign an
agreement when H. received the valuable relic
that D. would not dispose of i ior money
or their heirs Those who have seen me
picture say that IL shows that Scnefeld"r was an
artist a. well a mechanic. and that he was con
v'rsant with some OF the processes In the arr whch
which surrounds the landscape had attracted the
most attention on the part OF practical followers OF
IN, art and that the work had been much admired.
The perfect specimens of tho art which VIII be
exhibited At tn" ltcnnial celebration Will form
strange contrast with the primitive work Of the in
vcnior but they viii only emphasize the
value OF the discovery and TO increase the respect
FOR IA. man who fought diligently and persistently
against obstacles which would have disheartened
man OF less courage
Scnefcldcr. says Prane. has bequcathed to art and
commerce an heirloom - n"simablc value Asia"
from the artistic WORK go which the discovery has
given rise. II Is difficult 10 lind any branch OF bust
ness i'm which II does not play a prominent part
and from the tiny label ana the torger-proof bank
check to the monster circus poster the work OF the
commercial Autographed meets the eye at every
turn. Great mechanical plants have been estab-
lished all the world from which work Is de-
livered which reaches every strata OF society The
works OF the masters Of past generations are placed
~ reach Of the by means of the art.
and the painter may through IT, see his work repro
duccd I'm the spirit IS conceived 10y him. Even now.
when preparations under way for the celebra-
iion Of the photographic centennial. some artists
been heard to say that the photographic repro
ductions Of pictures and the "chcapenng Of art
and making IL a slave to commerce may have "A ten
dcncy 10 check artistic production. But while that
and similar questions may give ris" to argument
among artists there seems to be but one opinion as
to the man whose discovery made the reproductions
Il possibility and that Is that his memory should be
honorcd and that his Fame should be gorifed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-06

much time TO discover means by VINO" w
might b.. done away with Etching on copper was
one Of hts first experiments. But copper was 700
dear and all his work had 10 be written pa'h""'"
Finally ne devised a compound or wax, soap I'm"
Iampblack which he formed into sticks ana VIII"
solution form ed from them he wrote on the pa'hS
Of rollshcl floor tiles which were duhrile" "'i'
Munich where he then lived at the village oil SOM
bofor ,Thcsc sticks of rctouching INK SaSS
Louis Prang in his biography. FORMED the "'S'
and mast important step toward the final Invention
o lthography. -. a, .
1-g5 according to some Writers. III i''' ''''
tn,l.nt occurred which. according TO most authorl
,.s an the subject the first step toward the IN
vcntlou S.ncfeldcr was at that time prdc'sI's
.,ritinc backward with his ink on TN" poishcd u's
IL. .t.,ks Of the incident In th"s" WORDS
81 had lust succeeded in my little laboratory III
no,ishinr = stone plate. which Intended 10 cover
win etching ground in order 10 continue my eNer-
ciscs in writing backward, when nay mother en-
tered the room and desired me 10 write her o''I
,,r the wa hwoma who was waiting Tor the hh'ii
houpcn,d not TO have even the smallest SIP OF
noner AT hand rs my lttlc stoch Of paper had been
entirely exhausted by taking proof Impressions