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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The destruction Of life and property
by the cyclone that has swept over st.
Louis and parts of Missouri and Illi-
nois, is something appalling. Death
seems to be everywhere and in hun
dreds Of homes there is mourning. The
ruin wrought by war is scarcely COM
parable to it. The tornado left a trail
of ruin that is beyond description.
Houses were RACED in an instant, while
all around were strewn the dead bodies
Of the victims of the winds. The de-
struction of life and property is great
er than that in the great Louisville
cyclone, and the scenes of sorrow re-
call the Johnstown disaster.
The storms this spring in various
parts of the country have been of un-
precedented severity. Every days dis
patches have brought news of the
deadly work of some tornado or whirl-
wind somewhere. But this one at ST
Louis is greater than all the Others
And in the midst of all this upheaval
how many acts of heroism there werei
The act of that negro who, a mere
rousta bout, when the boat Libbie Con-
ger was ground to pieces on the Illi-
nois shore, seized the captains five
year-old boy, plunged overheard, bear
ing the boy with him, and swan
through the boiling waters to the
shore, was as heroic as any deed ever
was, be it recorded or unrecorded.
Such deeds make us think higher of
human nature, make US feel that in
man there is something that raises him
above mortality into Immortality.
In no other country do we read of
such storms as in this. They pass at
times over the land with force and
power that nothing can withstand; be-
fore them all goes down; they show US
how weak and frail a thing is man
and all his works; that nature is SUI
preme, though terrifying and unre-
lenting And man may ask why nature
is so, but the only answer he gets is
his own wonderment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
FUNDING A BONANZA.

In Utah we are pretty we'll accus-
toned to tales of finds of mines OF
marvellous richness. In fact the tales
are always with us e the rich finds are
not. But a tale comes from the far
north that outdoes anything we have
ever heard of since the days when we
believed every statement in that
charming story of Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves.
This new story runs something like
this. A miner named Martin Nelly
was returning to Rossland. British Co
lumbia, after an unsuccessful prospect
ing trip in the Salmon river mining
district. On the 9th of April he had
reached a point on the Columbia some
half dozen miles from Trail Landing,
B. c. He halted about noon to eat
his dinner AS he sat eating his
grub" he noticed a large boulder,
about haM buried in the sand in dry
part of the river bed, only short dis
lance from where he sat. Having fin
ished his dinner, he walked over to the
boulder and examined it. He thought
he detected signs of precious metals.
He began to pound away at the great
gray mass with his pick. Soon a
piece Of the rock came away, showing
distinctly traces of copper and gold. In
the excitement of the moment he
shouted, 'I am rich" He continued
his work on the rock taking samples
from all sides, sta.ked off claim and
hurried to Rossland, and had his claim
recorded. The next day he had his
specimens assayed by different experts.
who found that the ore went from S43
to S5S ton. When he told of his
great fortune there was a wild rush to
the place. Nelly took a surveyor with
him, who, after making measurements.
declared that the boulder would weigh
approximately twenty thousand tons
and that it will prove to be worth
million dollars.
This may not be a true story but
it is an exceedingly interesting one, one
well calculated to fire the imagination
and sustain the hope that all men have
of being rich some day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
HOW MAN BECAME BLACK.

Modern science is not satisfied with
the biblical tradition that man became
black when Cain killed Abel 1t de-
mands something capable of demon
stration. Science wants to know the
why's and the wherefores. to prove
things and not merely to accept them
on authority.
According to the London Graphic the
latest inquirer into the subject is a
Mr.. A. H. Keane. His theory differs
from the old one of the exposure, for
generations and generations, of men to
the sun until he grew more and more
tanned and finally became the typical
black man. No; this new theory is
that man in primitive state had too
much vegetable food, which yielding
more carbon than can be assimilated. .
is largely responsible. Once become a
thorough vegetarian our 'colored
brethren grew, rhrough processes of
heredity, ever darker and darker, and
the black work has probably, by this
time, gone so far that even a changed
diet, persisted in through countless
generations, would not now avail to
change the Ethiopians skin"
This is not a bad theory, and the
black cannibals of the Congo may have
taken up with a meat diet in the hope
of regaining the fair complexion of
their primitive state. The desire is
laudable but the method adopted for
accomplishing it is most reprehensible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

honor of the event the board of educa-
ton voted public holiday.
Colonel Stevens, who built the
house, is a Mexican war veteran and
went to Wisconsin in 1S49 Struck with
the beauty of the country where Min
neapolis is now situated. he took up a
claim on the site of the original city
At that time it was part of the Fort
Smelling reservation; he made j
squat" but was only allowed to hold
it on condition that he would provide
q free ferry across the Mississippi for
the use of the troops.
He began the erection of the house
that has just been moved in 1S49 but it
was not finished until late in the sum-
mer of 1850. From the Chicago Record
we learn that the first child born in
Minneapolis saw the light of day for
the first time in this house; Hennepin
county was organized there and the
first officers were elected there In it
the first school district in the county
was organized and the first teacher
was an inmate of the house when she
cpStiSu SCiOOl ONl DeceulD6F =, 1907.
Many treaties were made with the In
dams under its roof, and Little Crow
and other famous chiefs of the Sioux
were often within its walls Governor
Isaac 1. Stevens made it his starting
point in his famous overland journey
to the Pacific coast in 1853 and it was
in its parlor that Charles Hoag sug-
gested to the county commissioners
that they call the infant city Mime
apolis.
Minneapolis does well to preserve this
old house, while there could be no more
beautiful idea than to have it moved by
the school children. How many MEM
cries the sight of that old house must
bring to Colonel Stevens, who still
lives, Minneapolis first settler, one of
the Oldest and most honored.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

1t now seems probable that DR.. Gill
man will not leave Johns Hopkins to
become SUPERINTENDENT of the New
York public schools. 1t was the ac-
ton of the board of trustees of the
university that determined the.nratter.
The board held a meeting and passed
resolution declaring That it is the
unanimous sense of this beard that the
withdrawal of DR.. Gilman from the
university would be an unreasonable
calamity TO it, and a great blow to the
cause of education in this country.
Having organized the university and
brought it to its present high standard
OF usefulness by twenty years of labor.
Dr. Gilman cannot be permitted to re-
hnquish its presidency" When asked
what action he would rake in view Of
TINS resolution, he replied: There is
no action to be taken. The action of
the board is conclusive" The embar-
raised financial cond ton OF the univer-
sfty, consequent upon the B. & Q. go
ing into the hands of a receiver, is be-
Heved to have had much to do with DR..
Gilman's decision to remain with the
institution. It is decision for which
he is to be highly commended though
it will deprive New York of his inval-
liable services.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
TALES or TIE DAY.
Head versus the Foot.

Mr.. James Moriarty, in the days of his
bachelorhood, loudly maintained that a
man should be the head of the family.
Then, when he was 46 years old, he united
his fortunes with those of a pleasing
widow few years his senior.
1t soon became evident TO their friends
that Mrs. Moriarty governed her spouse
with firm and steady hand, and that the
days of his freedom were over. When
he had been married about month he
failed to appear one evening at a special
meeting of a club of which he had long
been an active member, and the next
day he was taxed with this absence by his
friend Mr.. Harlihy.
Sure, and why weren't you at the club
last avenin', James?' inquired Mr.. Her
lihy.
We'll, man, you see it's just loike this, I"
began Mr.. Moriarty, shamefully: me
wolfe She"
AN what has your wolfe to do wild it
at all?" interrupted MIR. Herlihy, in APP
parent amazement. isn't 1t yersilf
that's always said the man should be the
head of the family, and not the woife?"
.'Yis, Moichael, manys the tonne Olive
said that same asserted Mr.. Moriarty
miserably. land Oill not take back me
wurrds. But niver having enj'yed the ad-
vantages av matrimony, Oh forgot wan
thing; the man may be the head, but if
it's his wolfe is the neck Moichael, that
turns the head, or kapes it still, Dim
thinking these days it'd be jist as well to
be the fut!'-Youth's Companion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
| REPUBLICAN GOLD PLATFORM


We have never doubted that the st.
Louis convention would adopt. a
straight out gold platform The over
whelming sentiment of the party de-
mands it, while the silence of Major
Mckinley on the financial question
when it is being demanded of him on
all sides that he speak out. has
brought the question of a declaration
in favor of gold in the party platform
to the very front. His silence has
aroused the business interests of the
east, at least, to an unprecedented
pitch of excitement. 1t is said that
General Grosvenor rs now satisfied and
admits that a gold platform will be
adopted by the Republican national
convention.
Can any Republican in the silver
producing states believe for a single
moment that his party viii entertain
any proposition looking to declaration
in favor of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver? He certainly cannot 1t
is very doubtful indeed if there is any
declaration in favor of THAT greatest of
all will-o'-the-wisps an international
agreement on the subject of free coin
age.
If the Republicans of the silver pro-
ducing states are truly anxious for
free silver and honestly hold it to be
the paramount issue, then they should
join forces with the Democrats who
will, at Chicago, adopt free silver
platform and nominate free silver
man. The Mecca of the gold men is St
Louis; the Mecca OF the silver men is
Chicago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
TOO MANY CLUBS.
The Worn-out Woman Decides to
Resign From n Few of Them.


The Worn-out Woman Decides to
Resign From n Few of Them.
She sighed deeply as she picked up her
engagement book and began idly turning
over the leaves
I'm utterly worn out she said, 'and
tomorrow afternoon our cinch club meets,
too
Better resign" he returned.
ION, L couldn't do that if 1 want to be
in the swim" she protested. Besides, L
enjoy the cinch club more than 1 do the
whist club, and If / felt that L could re-
sign from anything 1 would leave that
or-or the Shakespeare club, l do get
awfuIly tired of Shakespeare some
times"
Il should think you would he an
swered
1.-The physical culture wearies me at
times, too, she added. II think it calls
for a little too much exertion from one
who has so much else to do, but it's all
the rage now. Then there's the cooking
club and the literary club and the politi-
cal science club and the bicycle club and
the dress reform club and the dancing
club and the two charity associations
and the gymnasium class and the DEBATING
club and the sewing society. I'm begin
ming to think there are too many"
''On the contrary" he replied thought,
fully. Il think you need one more, and
would suggest a hickory club
She didn't speak to him for half a day,
but it is matter of record that she re-
signed from several clubs.-Chicago Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
MOVING MINNEAPOLIS FIRST HOUSE

There was a most interesting sight
in the city of Minneapolis yesterday.
1t was the removal of the first house
ever built in the city to Minnehaha.
park. 1t was built by Colonel John H.
Stevens, the first settler 1t stood until
yesterday at the corner of Sixteenth
avenue and Fourth street, but this was
not its original location, that having
been on the river bank in the center
of the tract of land where the Union
depot is now located. Twice before it
has been moved.
The interesting part of the present
moving is the fact that the motive
force was furnished by seven thousand
public school children. They were
chosen from the thirty thousand school
children because of their size arfd viii
lingness to assist in hauling the old
house to the park. They were divided
into relays of one thousand each. In.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The Tlllmar badge has made it's ap-
pearance. 1t is absolutely unique as
was to have been expected. 1t is a
silver pitchfork. with three prongs.
and upon each prong is impaled gold
bug. On the handle of the pitchfork
is "Tillman," and the goldbugs i'm
paled on the prongs are labeled 'Sher-
man." Carlisle" and Cleveland"
The badges are being turned out by an
Atlanta concern at the rate of hum
dreds day and are being worn extern
sively in the south. There are said to
be hundreds of them in Atlanta.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
NoTABLEs OF TIE DAY.
CHARLES HENRY GRosvENoR.

Representative from Ohio, was born
at Pomfret, Conn, September 20, 1888.
He moved to Ohio with his parents in
1898, where he was educated: studied
law, and was admitted 10 the bar in
1857. He rendered gallant service in
the late war and rose to the rank of
brigadier-general.
He has long been a member of con-
gress, and has held many positions of
trust in his own state.
Mr.. Grosvenor is now prominently
before the people as one of the man
ayers of Governor McKinley's cam
paign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

men have been gaining ground At
least this is what I see in my own
county, and I take it that these condi-
tons prevail throughout the state You
know on an election night the returns
from the first few precincts that come
in generally furnish pretty good in
dication of the final result 1t looks as
if the silver sentiment is a popular
wave spreading over the country"
The silver sentiment is popular wave,
and an irresistible one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Times are about as depressed in this
country as possible. The gold standard
men say that free silver would make
them much worse. They fail to ex-
plain why they are so bad with the
gold standard. When they shall have
done this. their warnings against free
silver will receive more heed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
THE FAC END.
When the blue dawn is threat'nin' ter

When the blue dawn is threat'nin' ter
climb Ger the hill,
An the talkin' gifts heavy and slow,
The comp'ny would best be disbanded;
an still
They can't make their minds up ter go.
An each fur the rest O the party delays,
Tell their minds seems most ready ter
roam,
When some sensible person Jes' gifts up an
says
Say, fellers. les quit an go home!"
When statesmen hez fingered till tempers
grow smart,
An everything under the sun
Hez been up fur debate, an we've kinder
lost heart
Over business tibet orter be done,
1t rely seems time fur some broad-mind-
ed chap
Ter Iif' his voice up ter the dome,
An remark, fore the outfit sinks inter
a nap,
Say. feliers. les quit an go homeT"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Perhaps Chairman Harrity is anx-
ious to exclude possible boilers from
the Chicago convention so as to make
sure that Tiilman and his pitchfork
win not be admitted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The administration is doing all in
its power to have the Indiana Demo-
cratic state convention declare against
free silver. Governor Matthews has al
lied himself with the free silver men.
while Senators Voorhees, and Turpie
are also with them. This will make il
almost impossible for the administra-
ton forces to have their wishes in the
matter carried out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
DECORATION DAY EXCURSIONS.
Vim Union Pacific.

To Ogden and return only $50.
Trains leave at 7 and s a. M, and
and p m
To Logan and return only s2.75.
Train leaves at a. m.
To Mercur and return only $3.50.
Train leaves at TAO a. m.
All tickets good returning until Sum
day, May 81.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

In Pittsburg the other day a gay
young buck of eighty summers eloped
with his sweetheart and got married.
He was compelled to do this to avoid
his tyrannical sisters restraint.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

That Unitarian pastor of Seattle who
predicted such a terrible smash-up of
things in this country must have had
some notion of the Michigan and Mis-
souri, cyclones.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Mrs. Breckinridge's costume that she
wore at the coronation ceremonies of
the car was so elaborate that it had
70 be described in French, English
terms being wholly inadequate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

It was Lillian Russell who broke
Abbey, Schoeffel and Graw. This is
a splendid ad. for Lillian, but it is not
calculated to make her popular with
managers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The Chicago Record says that the
single gold standard Democracy of
Cook county viii bolt, but the other
fellows have the privilege of using the
Democracy's official letter-heads in
their correspondence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Sir Edwin Arnold's description of the
fetes ct Moscow and the coronation
ceremonies was very good, but no bet
ter than the work in the same line
of many an absolutely unknown re-
porter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, says
the free silver idea is gaining in his
state. Some time ago" he says, Il
gave a prediction to the effect that the
gold men would have two-thirds of the
state convention. Since then the silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Mr. Banks-I see that it has been dis
covered that paper money carries the
germs of disease.
Mrs Banks-Ah? Then that is the
reason so many bank cashiers go to
for their health.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

If Spain cannot prevent filfbustering
expeditions from the United States
landing in Cuba. how could she expect
to prevent mil: tary expeditions from
landing in case of war with this coun-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The Denver Post says that Judge
Belford's remark limiting at secession
was, on the whole, unfortunate. I'm
fortunate? 1t was right down foolery
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The question is asked, Is Cecil
Rhodes insane? Whether he is or not
there is no doubt Dom Paul knocked
his schemes silly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

There is some resemblance between
Flora McFlimsey and Mckinley. The
one had nothing to wear; the other
has nothir to say.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Quay has fallen from so to 100 per cent
in Republican estimation since his visit
to Mckinley. He has lost half the re-
spect which he enjoyed among the anti
Mckinley men and the Mckinley mer
have lost all the fear with which they
regarded him.-Chicago Chronicle.
1t is hard to imagine how the coming
woman can be any improvement on the
woman we have known and admired up to
date, but it seems quite certain that she
will be more highly educated. The num-
Der of women receiving college educa-
ton is steadily and rapidly increasing.
The condition of their colleges is uni
formly one of growth and prosperity
New York World.
How cheerfully Governor Mckinley
marches up TO a grave responsibility and
a hard fight. He is to be nominated at st.
Louis but the work of the convention
there will be only the beginning OF the bat
tie. If the Democratic convention IN July
takes hold of manifest destiny, we shall
have nothing to offer Governor Mckinley
but coincidence. T. S.-Manifest destiny
is siIver.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
There is altogether too much snuffiness
and arrogance on the part of public serv
ants toward their employees. We get it
from various boards and commissioners
in various ways, but in whatever way we
get it the impudence and offensiveness
OIL 1t are 1ntOlerdDle. Inere is no ground
for it, no excuse for it, and every servant
of the public who INDUCES in it or who
repeats in substance the infamous utter
ances of Vanderbilt-who was not really
the servant of the public to the same
extent those are-ought to be brought
up with a round turn.-Detroit Free Press
The latest scientific discovery reported
is that lenses of unlimited size can be
made of oxygen gas, so that our neigh
bors in space can be brought within very
short range. Perhaps the inhabitants of
the earth are already under observation
by our esteemed contemporaries on Mars,
and possibly the next invention will tell
US what they think of the Show.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
There has been a well defined suspicion
in this country for couple of months
that General Maceo's position west of the
trocha was not as precarious as General
Weyler's bulletin represented it to be, but
it is little surprising to learn that while
Weyler has changed his opinion upon the
duration of the war from two months to
two years, Maceo has changed his esti-
mate from two years to two months
There is cause for the fear that Maceo's
present predictions, like Weyler's recent
interviews, are more sanguine than his
conflicts are nguinary.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
HuMoR FROM PUCK.

She does not wear a coronet
TO crown the glory of her face;
No peerage is she in, and yet
| am slave unto Her Grace.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

That the pill the supreme court COM
PEELED Comptroller Bowler to swallow
was heavily sugar-coated did not make
it palatable to him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The Prohfbitionists never showed
themselves greater cranks than at
Pittsburg. They should have used
some water TO cool off
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Oxford will confer the degree of
doctor of laws upon Ambassador Bay
ard. That viii make the jingoes abb
solutely wild.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Undoubtedly Reed can have second
place at St. Louis if he will take it.
To refuse it will be for him to commit
political suicide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Richard Harding Davis description
of Moscow during coronation week will
scarcely live in history as a literary
gem
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

Rev. DR.. Talmage says life is
drama. Perhaps he would have been
nearer the truth had he said life is
farce
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29

The New York Recorder says Pro-
fessor Langley is the lion Of the hour.
We should say he is bird.