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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-04-02

Clovis LaGrave arrived from the
Bay yesterday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
CONFERENCE.

At 10 O'Clock this morning the sixty
sixth annual conference of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
viii convene in the tabernacle in this
city. 1t has always been an important
event in the history of Utah, the one
event that has brought her people to-
gether from the far south and the far
north. AS regularly as the seasons
come round comes conference. In the
past the action taken at conference has
largely shaped the policy and con-
trolled the destiny of the state 1t is
not probable that such action will have
the same marked influence upon our
destiny in the future.
This is the first general conference
held since Utah became state.
Among the visitors are many men
and women who have for forty years
and more made their annual pilgrim
age to this city and on each pilgrimage
they were buoyed with the hope that
some day they should see their well
beloved Deseret a state. That hope is
now realized. And many of these
same pilgrims may not come again. but
when they return to their homes it will
be with a feeling of satisfaction in the
knowledge that what they had hoped
and prayed for for so many years they
have seen realized. In the past it was
they who built up and developed the
state, and when in the course of ma
ture, and bowling to the laws of ma
lures God. they depart this life, they
will leave to their children a noble
heritage-a young but great and free
state whose destiny, be it for good or
for i'll, will be in their hands. Those
children and all the people of the
commonwealth should be thankful that
the past is past and they should act
in the living present.
To our conference visitors who come
to the capital for the first time since
Utah became state we say. Welcome,
thrice welcome.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
now pRor. RoENTGEy DID IT.

Notwithstanding the fact that sew
eral years ago Professor Hertz and his
assistant, Professor Lenard, ascer-
tanned and published the fact that the
so-called cathode rays would penetrate
thin films of aluminium, wood and
other substances and even produce
Photographic impressions through such
intervening substances, yet by prac-
tical consensus of scientific opinion.
Professor Roentgen is entitled to
the honors of great discovery in
the detection of the Y ray with its
greater power and other distinguishing
qualities. The world owes so much to
the Wurtzburg professor, that we
would not willingly detract in the
least degree from the glory of the dis
covery or dim the bright record of
this scientific pioneer. Yet the story
of the discovery, as told by the pro-
lessor himself, reads like those fire.
ouent stories of exploration wherein
the voyager, having. set out upon
charities seas of adventure, becomes
the astonished discoverer of unsus-
pected lands.
In this months McClure's Magazine
is given an interesting account of
visit to and interview with the modest
German professor. The account of the
manner Of the discovery is of unusual
interest and is as follows:
Now, professor, said 1, will you
tell me the history of the discovery"
There is no history" he said. Il
have been for long time interested
in the problem of the cathode rays
from vacuum tube as studied by
Hertz ana Lenard. l had followed
theirs and other researches with great
interest, and determined, as soon as l
had the time, to make some researches
of my own. This time l found at the
close of last October. l had been at
work for some days when 1 discovered
something new
What was the date?'
'''The Sth of November"
And what was the discovery
Il was working with Crookes tube
covered by shield of black cardboard
A piece of barium platino- cyanide pa
per lay on the bench there. had been
passing a current through the tube.
and noticed a peculiar black line
across the paper"
What of that?'
1.-The effect was one which could
only be produced, in ordinary parlance,
by the passage Of light. No light could
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
HoKE SMITH ON SILVER.

Secretary Hoke Smith and Senator
Crisp had joint discussion on silver
in Atlanta, Ga. Thursday. Secretary
Smith championed the gold cause.
while Senator Crisp championed
free silver. The discussion appears to
have been much the same as others
of like nature, the same old arguments
being adduced on either side.
Secretary Smith denied that the act
of 1873 demonetizing silver in the Uni
ted States had caused the fall in the
price of silver He said the fall was
the result of the law of supply and
demand, but he ignored the fact that
that act very materially and arbitrar-
lily reduced the demand for silver, so
that the law he invoked did not have
free play. He cannot be ignorant of
the fact that the price of silver in the
London market fiuctuated very little
from 1858 to 1873. In the former year
it was 81 SIG pence per ounce, and
59A pence in the latter. From 1873 to
1894 there was a steady decline in the
price of silver in London from 81 5-16
pCllCe per OuIlCe " 20 1910 pence.
These facts are not only not explained.
but ignored.
The secretary went on to declare
that the fear of free silver coinage had
shaken public confidence and caused
contraction of the credit currency,
which carried 97lasper cent of the bus
mess of the country.
Admitting that this fear had some
influence in shaking public confidence,
it totally fails to explain the want Of
confidence that has prevailed in bust
ness circles throughout the world for
the past four or five years. Secretary
Smiths claim is as absurd on this
point as that of the Republicans who
account for the same fact by saying
want Of confidence was begot because
of Democratic ascendency.
The secretary then launched into a
discussion of the currency question,
advocating Mr.. Cleveland's plan for
retiring the greenbacks. This was to
be expected, as he is in Georgia, no
doubt, as the agent and mouthpiece of
the administration. His speech was
much of a rehash of Secretary Car
isles Memphis speech, and nothing
more
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
TALES OF THE DAY.


Mr.. Black. the eminent and wealthy coal
dealer, called one of his oldest drivers
into the Office the other morning and ten
dered him quite large sum of money,
according to London Tit-Bits.
What is this for?" asked the aston
ished driver
Merely a token of appreciation for
services rendered" replied Mr.. Black
kindly.
But you've always paid me well for
my services, and that was appreciation
enough"
There is really more than that in it.
john" continued Mr.. Black. II really
owe you the money"
II don't understand"
Let me tell YOU and he dropped his
voice to whisper. You have been with
me for twenty years, working 300 days
every year, and averaging three loads
a day; that makes 1900 loads. You
weigh $50 pounds, John, and we have
never failed to weigh you with every
load; that maks 100000 pounds, or 1900
tons. This at an average of Fl per ton,
John, represents f1,2OO. The package you
hold in your hand contains f120. or 10
per cent. which we think is yours by
right. We are honest men, John, and
don't desire to defraud anybody of what
is justly his
John bowed in humble submission and
is now waiting for the next dividend.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
DOVER.

The legislative senate is hesitating
to grant to the wives of Utah the right
Of dover. There should not be mo-
ment's hesitation in according to the
wife that interest in the estate of her
husband which has been accorded for
ages. The Magma Charta provided
that the wife should have for dover
one-third of all the lands which the
husband held during his lifetime. The
right of dover is indeed almost part
of the English race conscience SO long
has it been recognized and legally pro-
vided for. If there are any reasons
why dover is not applicable to our To-
cal conditions they have not been ad-
vanced. The general arguments against
it are wholly unconvincing. 1t would
be a species of cruelty to say to the
wife, the partner and helpmeet of the
man, the one who assists in the accu-
mutation of property by managing the
household affairs while the husband
attends TO external matters, that she
shall have no voice in the disposition
of the common fund.
A prudent and thoughtful husband
will not dissipate his means regardless
of the welfare of his wife and children;
an improvident and heartless husband
should not be permitted to. In the one
case dover will be no hardship, in the
other il win be protection: certainly
the experience of the centuries ought
to be right and their voice should be
listened to-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
BoorING THE STATE TREASURY.

AS its days draw to a close the state
senate becomes more regardful of it's
dignity. thing of which it has not al
ways been so careful as might have
been. But of late senates. state and
national, have thrown dignity to the
winds.
The other day State Senator Glen
Miller voted against allowing interest
on state warrants. He explained his
vote chow strange so many Utah Re-
publicans feel compelled to explain
their votes) saying: II vote
no upon this bill because
object to looting the state treasury
for the benefit of the counties and of
voluntarily adding int crest to a non
interest bearing debt at a time when
the state is in the deepest financial
distress and wnen taxes are already
at the maxin.om constitutional limit"
That is a good explanation, one Of
which Mr., Miller may feel proud ana
point to with pride in his declining
years.
But Mr.. Chidester objected to the
word 'looting.' Looting does have
a bad sound when spelled with two
o's- And so thought Mr.. Booth. who
sid the only meaning OF footing"
was robbing. plundeIlng and destroy
ing. That is what 1t usually means,
and is a good dictionary definition. He
declared that to allow the word in the
minutes was TO characterize senators
voting for the bill as robbers and
brigands> Here the senator adhered
too closely to the literal meaning.
The senators were beginning to call
spades spades, and there was some
danger that pitchforks might be added
to the paraphernalia of spades. when
Senator Sutherland came to the rescue
of his fellow partisans. Now Senator
Sutherland, like one who had mastered
the art of concealing thought with
language, asked that the words taken
from be inserted instead of .'looting."
Talleyrand or Tom Reed couldn't have
improved on the senator's suggestion.
The facts in the ease remain exactly
the same, with this most important
distinction: If you loot, you necessar-
lily take from. while if you take from,
you don't necessarily loot. There
never was finer discrimination in the
use of tweedledee and twesdledum.
Senator Booth took the matter too
much to heart. We do not believe that
Senator Miller intended to convey the
idea that Senator Booth and the other
senators are robbers and brigands.
modified General Weylers, so to
speak. We take it that he intended
to convey the idea that money was to
be paid out of the treasury without
justification and for no valid reason,
though it might be legal; and that this
was particularly the case when the
state funds are so low.
1t is our firm and honest conviction
that Senator Glen Miller has on sew
eral occasions done all in his power to
Loo the state treasury. For example,
when he has voted to grant bounties
to various industries. And he has
voted to loot the treasury without half
the good excuse. that those who voted
for paying interest on state warrants
had. He and his Republican associates
have done this "at time when the
state is in the deepest financial dis
tress and when taxes are already at
the maximum constitutional limit, 10
use his own language.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
A FEW
SUNDAY
FEATURES:

Among other matter next Sundays
Herald will have
ION THE PLAINS IN THE SIXTIES"
BY Cy Warman.
IAN EASTER STORY
BY Ida Rosa McCabe.
EUROPEAN FRONTIERS"
BY Levin Carnac.
THE EASTER FACT"
BY Bishop Potter.
IAN EASTER POEM"
BY Harriet Prescott Spofford.
''ARBoR DAY CELEBRATIONS"
matter in which Utah is deeply
interested.
THE WHEEL AS A MUSCLE BUILD
OF great interest to all wheelmen.
"NANSEN'S CHANCES"
VIII the explorer reach the Pole?
''BLBCTRICITY,"
lis curative powers in various dis
eases.
fashions FESTIVAL
New and charming Easter confec-
tons.
HARRISON AND HIS PROSPECTIVE
BRIDE"
Wedding will take place on Monday.
'MUHAMAIAD'S LAWS"
Doctrine of the Mahdists whom Eng
land viii fight.
''HARRY HILLS DROP"
Hard times for New Yorks old
sport.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
THE SALT LAKE PUBLIC BUILDING

Our Washington correspondent was
of opinion, as published in our columns
last week. that the prospect for an APP
preparation for a public building
at this session If congress is remote.
Speaker Reed is still the car and as
such has decreed that no building APP
preparation shall be made at this ses-
sion of congress, being constrained to
this action by the political necessities
of his own and his party's presidential
campaign.
This, of course, is discouraging. We
had hoped and indeed had reason to
hope that among the various elements
of our local business revival, and con-
tributing largely thereto, would be the
expenditure of several hundred thou
sand dollars by the government in the
erection of a building for which 1T has
immediate and constant use. 1t is the
old, old story-that of the public con-
venience and necessity being relegated
to a position among the citizens on
foot" in the procession of practical pol
itics.
But there is a ray of hope. A more
searching inspection of the situation
in the light of recent developments i'll
dicates that all is not peace in the
house. The speakers dicJum is not to
go unquestioned. Congressman by the
score are far more anxious to secure
local appropriations than they are to
save a few millions on the appropri-
alton list for uncertain political eff
feet.
There are rumblings of an insurrec-
ton In the event that the rupture
comes, we belisve that Utah will not
be forgotten Our delegation appear
to be alive to our interests in respect
of the building, and if breach is made
in the Reed position we shall be dis
appointed if Allen, Brown and Cannon
are not among the first to scale the
wall
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
A WHEEL SONG.

oh the ships have sails for the swelling
gales,
The falcon flies in the wake of the wind
In the speed of the steed of the Bedouin
breed
The blood leaps high to the hoof-beats'
lead,
As the leagues are left behind.
But what care |
For the birds that fly,
Or all the vessels that sail the sea:
The blasts that blow,
Till the trees bend low,
Or the barbs of Arabyi
Nor wish l more for the wings he wore.
The fieet-foot one, of the fables old,
For the feathered robe of the messenger
god,
Or the winged sandals wherein he trod,
In the happy age of gold.
Let poets mourn
For the days outworn
But these glad mornings are still di-
vinel
Those flying feet
Were they half SO fleet
As the steed that springs from mine?
Then hol for the wheel. with it's strength
of steel.
Yet blessed buoyance of sky-born
thingsl
And the rush of the near and crystalline
clear
Sweet breath of the summer that sings
in the ear
Like harps of a thousand strings!
Oh wild and free
Is the joy to me
To breast the breezes and whirl along!
To skim the ground
Till the pulses bound,
And the heart bursts into songi
-Evaline Stein, in Woman's Sentinel.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
General Logan's Church subscrip-
ton.

General John A. Logan was a regular
church attendant in the later years of
his life. He had a most profound rever-
ence for the Bible, and was influenced
considerably by Biblical quotations,
though he seldom used them in his
speeches.
81 remember, though" said a vener-
able member of congress few days ago,
when a Bible quotation nearly threw
him into commissions. It happened in
this way. Logan and Thad Stevens were
walking up TO the capitol one morning
over a quarter of century ago. 1t was
in the days when Stevens could walk
for you may not be old enough to re-
member that during the last ten years
or so of his life, like Oliver P. Morton,
he had to be carried around on chair.
AS they had reached the west entrance
of the capitol they were met by an old
colored preacher, who was known to botA
of them for the reason that like many
other preachers of that day, as well as
this. he was always soliciting contribu-
tions for church building, buying an or
gan or sumething else in religious way
"a 'Good-morning, gentlemen said the
colored preacher and then, addressing
himself more particularly to General Lo-
gan, he said: Now, general, want that
contribution for our church We colored
people haven't got many friends, and we
have to call on those we HAVE Nely lie
quently.' ,,..,o az.
morning. answered Logan, but the TACT
is [ am broke
Never mind, put in the old commoner
Stevens; IN give you lift at the same
time handing the preacher a 50 note
The preacher was most profuse in thanks;
AS be was about to turn away General
Logan said to him: Mr.. Stevens is very
liberal this morning with his o money ne
won from me last night at poker.
1T matters not, said the preacher.
cod moves in a mysterious way His
wonders to perform. William Il. Cur
t;s i'm Chicago Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04

come from the tube because the shield
which covered it was impervious TO
any light known, even that of the cleo
trio arc
And what did you Think
Il did not think; l investigated.
assumed that the effect must have
come from the tube, since it's character
Indicated that u could come from no.
where else. | tested it. In a few
minutes there was no doubt about it.
Rays were coming from the tube which
had a luminescent effect upon the
paper. 1 tried it successfully at
greater and greater distances, even at
two metres. 1t seemed at first new
kind of invisible light. 1t was clearly
something new, something unre
corded
rs it light?"
No"
rs it electricity?''
Not in any known form"
What is it?''
Il don't know"
And the discoverer of the x rays
thus stated as calmly his ignorance of
their essence as has everybody else who
has written on the phenomena thus
Far.
Having discovered the existence of
new kind of rays, I of course began
to investigate what they would do. 1t
soon appeared from tests that the rays
had penetrat!ve power to a degree
hitherto unknown They penetrated
paper, wood and cloth with ease; and
the thickness of the substance made
no perceptible difference, within rea-
sonable limits
To Professor Roentgen is due the
credit for pursuing with enlightened
scientific purpose an investigation into
the properties of a new force of whose
power he had received a mere hint.
That he stumbled across the discovery
was inevitable; no human mind had
conceived the possibility of the exist
ence of the X ray.
The discovery has already been of
service in surgery. Fractures, new and
old, have been examined; inbedded bull
lets located; malformations revealed;
gall stones discovered tuberculosis,
hitherto unsupported shown to exist.
The new ray has also been used to
throw light, if the term may be used.
in cases at law, where damages were
sought for injuries received through
accident The possibilities of the APP
plication of the new discovery form
a theme for interesting speculation.
It appears to have been reserved for
our own great electrician Edison, to
still further perfect the discovery by
dispensing with the necessity of pho
Biography in the inspection of the hid
den object. Mr.. Edison has con-
structed an apparatus by means of
which the eye can look through the
external wrapping into the object
whitman invention which much
widens the probable field of usefulness
of the new discovery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04

tempted justification of their dispo-
sition to overtax Salt Lake City by
urging that this city receives over $780,
oOO year from conference visitors, and
that. ergo, our country cousins ought
TO set 1t back by receiving an otherwise
disproportionate share of the state rev.
enues. The Salt Lake merchants might
reply that this sum was not ali profit
TO them; that there is, after all, a GER
tain consideration given for the money;
they might urge that our conference
visitors get value received for every
dollar they spend here, and that for
every dollar spent here dollars worth
OF goods are carried away or con-
sumed. We may be pardoned perhaps
II We suggest that such arguments as
that viii strike our country visitors
who come to Salt Lake every year and
partake of the hospitality of the citi-
aens of this city as peculiarly migrate
ful We believe that the great mass of
the conference people are taken care of
free of charge, and now some of our
mistaken legislators from the country
are urging that Salt Lake ought to be
taxed because the conferences are held
here. We venture the guess that there
is more money expended in the free ac-
commodation of the visitors by the citi
zens of Salt Lake than there is made
by our merchants as profits on their
sales. We mention this in good part.
We welcome the visiting people. But
we have only contempt for that narrow
minded sectionalism which seems to
have as its chief tenet the proposition
that it is right to build up one part of
the state by tearing down another part.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04

The United States supreme court has
just decided that railway cannot
charge more for short haul than a
long haul, when the conditions are the
same. What the effect OF this decision
win be is not known. but there never
was a more fraudulent provision of
law than the long and short haul
clause of the interstate commerce law.
The short haulers were systema tically
bled for the benefit of the long haul
ers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04

We are entirely at loss to under
stand why the legislature should so
legislate as to permit any of the coun-
ties of the state, however small they
may be, to maintain perambulating
county seat.
Under the very unwise provisions of
the county government bill-unwise as
it appears to us-the county clerk may
hold his office in Salina, the recorder in
Joseph. the sheriff in Monroe, the at
torney in Richfield, and the surveyor in
Elsinore. Under such a condition of af-
fairs. the county court house would be
about the only evidence left to the
county seat that it is the official cen
ter of the county Such legislation may
suit the fancy of those members of the
legislature who do not live in the coun-
tv seats. but it will prove to be a seri-
Gus inconvenience to the mass of the
citizens
A county seat is usually selected be-
cause it is centrally and conveniently
situated. and it is to the greatest good
of the greatest number that the county
Offices should be concentrated there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04

We are glad our Republican fellow
townsmen are so strong and straight
for silver. but we fear they do not rep
resent the sentiment that will DOM
mate the party at St. Louis. That SEN
timent is well expressed by the New
York Mail and Express: 1.-The political
party that enters into any alliance
with the free silver lunacy this year
will be open to the suspicion of hav-
ing deliberately organized itself into a
colossal SUICIDE club"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
GENERAL CALIyTO FARCIA.

of the Cuban army. who has just land
ed in Cuba, was born 81 years ago. He
has been connected someway or other
in the fight for Cuban independence
for many years. From 1868 to 1873 he,
with his little band was very success
full On being captured in 1878, rather
than be prisoner, he attempted sui
eide by shooting himself. The bullet en-
tered his mouth, and came out through
his forehead. He recovered completely
from his wounds.