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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
woslEN,s INFLUENCE IN POLITICS.

At the recent election in Mas
sachusetts the Man Suffrage associa-
ton was very active and aggressive
against woman suffrage. 1t succeeded
in its object and defeated it.
But the suffrage war in the Bay
state is not over by any means. The
women propose to see that all the laws
relating to elections are strictly en-
forced. In pursuance of this determi-
nation the Massachusetts, Woman Suf-
frage association at its fortntghtly
meeting Tuesday, the 18th instant,
unanimously adopted the following
resolution:
Whereas, the Man Suffrage associa-
ton is reputed to have collected and
spent large sums of money to defeat
the political principle of municipal suf-
frage for women, at the public election
held in Massachusetts, November 5,
1895; and
Whereas, the treasurer OF said aSso-
citation has failed to comply with the
law (Acts of 1892, chap. 416), requiring
him to file a public statement of the
receipts and disbursements of said as
ISOLATION; and
notified by the public authorities of
said failure to file said statement, and
has declared, after consultation with
his associates, that he does not intend
to file such statement; and
Whereas, in a. community governed
exclusively by man suffrage, it is pc
culiarly fitting that the men who work
and vote to exclude women from par
ticipation in the government should
themselves obey the laws made by
men; therefore
Resolved, That the Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage association hereby ap-
points six women to take such steps as
may be necessary to procure d COM
pliance with said law by said Man Suf-
frage association.
The committee appointed to see that
the law in this respect is complied
with consists of Mrs. Mary A. Liver
more Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Ole
Bull, Mrs. Alice Parker Lesser, Miss
Cora Benneson and Mrs. Anna Christie
Fall It should be noted that the last
named ladies are members of the Mas
sachusetts bar.
We hope that the Man Suffrage as
ISOLATION will be made to comply with
the law by filing public statement of
its receipts and expenditures. The as
ISOLATION made very great pretenses. to
morality and good government when
opposing the extension of the fran
chise to women. 1t seems that in its
zeal for good government it has
neglected to comply with those wisest
laws made in furtherance of that OBJ
ject. It seems to be a clean case of
mote and beam.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
SENATOR TILLMAN's OBJECTION.

''The most talked of man today. Sena-
tor Tillman, dislikes anything approach
ing dudeism,'' said G. P. Logan of Beau
fort, S. c., at Willapds, according to a
Washington exchange when the senator
was governor he was approached on the
street one day by a fashionably dressed
youn gman, who asked Tillman to use his
influence in securing him some state ap-
pointment. The governor looked disdain-
fully and disapprovingly at the youth 5
patent feathers, creased trousers and big
malacca cane.
so you want position, do your re-
marked Tillman, coldly.
Take off your hat" he added.
The astonished young man complied
wonderingly.
7 thought So said Tillman, as he
looked at the dudes hair, dressed after
the style affected by college men. ar want
no man around me that parts his hair in
the middle. Good morning" and the gov
ernor walked away, leaving the very in
dignant fellow standing parenedded on the
street.
'Mr. Tillman is like the late a. T.
Stewart in that respect observed a by
stander. HE would employ no man who
Parted his hair down the centre.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
EDGAR ALLAN poE.
Some "Reminiscences of the Poet by
His OLD School Teacher in Rich
m0nd.

When Edgar Allan Poe was q young
lad in Richmond he had for a teacher
classic scholar, who was afterWard for
many years at the head of a well-known
private school in Baltimore. This was
Prof. Joseph H. Clarke, who died in this
city in 1885 at the advanced age of ninety
six years. He was a native of Montgom-
cry county, Nd, student at George
town and at Trinity college. in Dublin,
Ireland, and the director of a private
school in Richmond from 1916 until 1925.
His school in Baltimore was located at
the corner of Charles and Barnet streets,
and afterWard on Barnet street, near
Charles. Many prominent Baltimoreans
Were pupils there.
About ten years before his death Pro-
fessor Clarke gave some "reminiscences of
Poe in a newspaper interview, a clipping
from which is now in the possession of
his son, Mr.. Joseph p. Clarke, of 1902
West Fayette street. In this the old
teacher spoke as follows Of his distin-
guiShed pupil:
Edgar was a born poet. He entered
my school in Richmond about 1920 or 1921,
and became one of the most distinguished
of my scholars. Even as a boy he was a
poet in every sense of the word. One
summer he wrote me complimentary let
ter in verse, which [ afterward showed
to Rev. MIR. Damphoux of st. Mary'S col
lege in Baltimore who said to me that
credit to the best educated professor in
his college. Edgar wasn't more than four
teen when he wrote that letter. One day
after l had come to Baltimore from Rich
mOnd he came to visit me. / told him
about the letter, and Edgar arose and
said, with strange, yearning look in
his eyes: You couldn't do me greater
favor than to return me that letter.
would give worlds for it, l gave it TO
him.
GAS boy Edgar was open-hearted
cheerful and good, while as man he was
loving and affectionate to me. He would
never forget to come and visit me when
he came to Baltimore and when he be-
came editor of Grallams Magazine he sent
it to me regularly.
II don't think Edgar Poe was a beauti-
full boy, although he had sweet disposi-
ton. He had very pretty eyes and hair
and rather effeminate face. He was al
ways cheerful, brimful of mirth and a
great faVorite among his schoOlmates. He
was not remarkable for his application to
study, but he was naturally very smart
and always knew his lessons. I never had
occasion to say a harsh word to him
While he was at my school, much less to
make him do penance
1.-The last time saw him was when he
was laid to rest in 1S49. [ went to his
funeral a large number of persons were
present, and l remember that the minis
ter who officiated dwelt long on the great
mans virtues. Baltimore Sun,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

edness not led him to churlisslly re-
sent the United States suggestion to
arbitrate the whole question, it would
not have been difficult for England, the
United States and Venezuela to have
selected a strong commission, COM
posed of eminent men, whose conclu-
sions would not only have been unhesi-
tatingly accepted by England but by
the Venezuela and United States as
we'll Lord Salisbury, however,
must needs indulge in q bit of
real English Tory perverseness and
thus make it necessary for the
United States to appoint a COM
mission, Venezuela a commission
and England a commission. Salisbury
has now an opportunity of in part I'M
doing the mischief his wrong-headed-
ness led him to do, that is, since the
Times makes proposition to appoint
a, commission for England, let the Sal
isbury government in parliament move
the acceptance of the American COM
mission as a board of arbitra-
ton, and have eminent men -ap-
pointed to represent the English
case, notify Venezuela that England
not only accepts arbitration, but will
accept the American commission as ar
bitrators. England can trust that COM
mission to do the right thing, so can
Venezuela. Why should nations be 50
confoundedly afraid and jealous of
each other? Why not have little
trust and confidence in international
as we'll as individual affairs?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
A VALENTINE.

The birds are mating,
My heart is waiting.
q, hear my pleading, and loves answer
give,
o, say the word, dear,
Like song of bird cheer
The heart that only in your smile can
live.
Now, morn is breaking.
The day is waking,
I see the light beam in your tender
eyes,
Loves dream is banished,
Illusion vanished
Loves best reality before us lies.
The day is ending,
The night descending,
The sun has set, but evenings star
lamps shine,
The birds are nesting,
My heart is resting,
In life or death, sweetheart, forever
mine
Ida Vose Woodbury. In Boston Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

The London Times editorially sug-
gests that England too appoint a
commission. a strong and independent
one, to investigate the Venezuelan
boundary question for the enlighten-
ment of parliament and the public
The Times thinks England would have
no difficulty in finding eminent men
whose conclusions would be unhesitat-
ingly accepted. That is doubtless true.
but had Lord Salisbury's Wrong-head-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

'Mr Hartman. of Montana, Incident
ally yesterday gave the house his opin-
ion Of the Populist platform. He knew,
he said. that it had thirteen different
ways Of resotring prosperity to the
country. and he understood that it
was about to add three additional
planks. One was to encourage the pro-
pagation of honey bees by crossing
them with lightning bugs, so that the
bees could work at night; another was
TO cross centipedes with the genus hog
SO that every hog would have hun
bred hams, and the third was project
Of grating strawberries on milk weed,
in order to raise STRAWBERRIES and
cream" says the Washington Post 1t
seems impossible that such things can
be done. but still they can. All that
is necessary is for congress to pass
protective tariff to encourage them,
for protection undertakes to do things
in spite OF the laws Of nature.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

What is municipal government in
the United States coming to? If there
is any place in all the country where
one would expect a strict observance of
all the proprietfes of official in
tercourse that place is the COM
mon council of Boston, yet at
its meeting only last Thursday
night the councilman from ward IS an
swering statement that had been
made by another councilman at pre-
vious meeting, said; "The gentleman
knowingly and Willingly uttered lie
when he made that statement" When
such things occur in the common coun-
Gil of Boston what is to be expected of
the less cultured cities Of the coun-
try?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Explanations of the vote and pair
Of Senator's Brown and Cannon on the
Morrill, motion to take up the tariff
bill should be accompanied by an
X-ray photograph Of their brains. This
would supply q long felt want and
make the explanations susceptible Of
comnrehension.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

the new senator from Oregon, was
born in Yamhfll county, Oregon, March
10, 1854; received his primary education
in the public schools and in the pre-
paratory department in Willamette
university; studied at Christian col
lege, Monmouth, Oregon, for two
years; then studied law, was admitted
to the bar, but has not practiced; was
engaged in mercantile business for ten
years.
He was a member of the legislature
and speaker of the house in 1882; was
elected secretary of state in 1886, and
reelected in 1890. serving eight years.
On February %, 1895, he was elected
United States senator, as Republic
can.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Issuing bonds to maintain the gold
reserve, then drawing the gold from
the treasury TO pay for the bonds, is
a new and expensive Illustration of
the old saying. "A fool and his money
are soon narted -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

So silent are the friends of Tom Reed
that people are beginning TO wonder
if he really is a candidate. The Maine
statesman is keeping his mouth re
markably close.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

General Antonio Ezeta has given up
all hope Of installing himself again as
president of Salvador. How low a
mans political fortunes must have
sunk when he ceases to be a presi-
dental pretender in Central America!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Congress in its vanity viii probably
take credit to itself for having pre-
vented the her-Fitzsimmons fight,
There was never any danger Of it
coming off.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

The Broadax discusses the wool
question at length. Our Republican
friends might get few kinks from it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

SILVER s7ssS
LEAD-Brokers' price So; exchange
price, S215.
COPPER brokers' price, S1O.5o;
exchange price, $1O.509Slo.co-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

The crisis in France for which Bou-
LANCER and his black horse waited SO
long seems to have arrived. The gen
eral took himself off too soon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

No matter for whom southern Re-
publican delegates are now when they
reach st. Louis the great majority Of
them will be for sale.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Congress is bieameral body, but
each branch is a camera ohscura as at
present constituted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Senator Allison's bill to provide for
establishing and maintaining perma-
nent registration lists of all qualified
voters in the state of Utah is very
elaborate in its provisions for the
Identification of voters. The substitu-
ton of the BertiIlion system of identi-
fication would be an improvement. 1t
IS more accurate and scientific and
the identification absolute.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Makers sand blast, while successful
on himself. failed to throw dust in
anyoody's eyes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
HuMoR OF THE DAY.

Ardent Lover-1f you could see my
heart, Belinda, you would know how
fOEuy-
Up-to-Date Girl producing cauor1'-I
intend to see it, Eeram Sit still please. -
Chicago Tribune.
L mean.' said the ambitious young law
yer, "to be a United States senator or
''W'y, Bill" said the man who had
known the young lawyer when he wore
knickerbockerS-''W'y Bill, lots of fellers
has been both.'-Cincinnati Enquirer
Compulsory-'Did you enjoy the opera?''
oh, yes, indeed; we had to-our tick
cts cost a guinea apiece. Answers.
TIL bet her musical education cost a
lot of money"
''Yes?''
"Yes. You ought to hear her pronounce
Wagner. Detroit News.
A prima donna on the stage and cat
on the back fence are alike in one thing
they both sing operate airs-Florida
Times-Union.
Bimps-Why do you suppose that Miss
Squaller looks so sad when she. sings?
Limps-Out of sympathy for her hear
ers. L imagine.-Family Call.
WinkS-Peculiar coincidence connected
with that new tenor in our church choir.
Binks-Wnat's that?
Winks-He gets a tenner every time he
sing.-Somerville Journal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

If Dan could set to Beersheba the
light might be pulled off.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

The Pennsylvania candidate in the
presidential race VIII eat nothing but
Quay-ker oats while Deing conditioned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Montana, Idaho and Colorado have
truer friends Of silver in the senate
tran Utah has.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

There is no necessity for Senators
Brown and Cannon to offer any expla-
nation. 1t was a clear case of stage
fright.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Governor Morton gave a harmony
dinner the other day. No thought was
uttered but was we'll digested.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Tom Plat has a fine tenor voice. His
middle register is c.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
For Neryous Dehiiity
10y Jus A(CpAAtS
Ise Horsford,a Acid Phosnhate.

DR.. ]. K. Secord, San Jose. Cal, says:
i have used it with marked success
IN cases of nervous debility, producing
refreshing Sleep
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Morton's boom is stin being fed on
baby food.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

The light minded and frivolous speak
of the city attorney as the gay gam
boiler
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

AT Ell Paso the battle is neither to
the strong nor anybody else,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

If congress can do nothing else it
might take up its grip sack and walk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

At the Progress Republican club
banquet in honor of Lincoln's birthday,
Tom c. Plat burst forth in song. The
song he sang was the old gospel hymn:
I'm the beauty Of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
Which TRANSPORTED you and me;
As He died to save our body,
Let US die to make men free"
It is an old saying that when the
fox breaches, look out for your chick
ems" And also when he sings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Mayor Sutro Of San Francisco formal
ly threw open his new Cliff house and
grounds to the public last week. The
old Cliff house with a structure of elab-
crate design and great size, an electric
railway running to the grounds from the
city. the famous Sutro baths, said to be
the most extensive and costly in the
world. and the nucleus of what prom
Uses to be one of the most interesting
museums in the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

The Raiah de Chandernago has just
died in Paris. His real name was Eugene
Joseph Courjon and was a member of a
French family who had long. settled in
the Indies. The dignity of rajah was con-
ferred upon him by the French govern
ment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

In Lady Charlotte Bury's diary of
reDublished with additions in London,
there is a painful glimpse of the king
as bridegroom. 1t is related that Queen
what it was vas to have drunken husband
on ones wedding day, and one who
passed the greater part of his bridal
night under the CRATE, where he fell and
where I left him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Benjamin Harrison Mckee. alias Baby
Mckee, called at the White House the
other day and took a look at his former
nursery. He also met the little Cleveland
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

There great store Some
prices have adj
vancd but not
We
buying
watch the markets. when
profits;
Body
Dobsons Imperial vvetssewd yard.
this lot
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Compulsory-''Did you enjoy the opera?'
oh, yes, indeed; we had to-our tick
cts cost a guinea apiece. ''-AnsWers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

Il mean said the ambitious young law
yer, "to be a United States senator or
DOthing"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19

A prima donna on the stage and cat
on the back fence are alike in one thing
they both sing operate airs.-Florida
Times-Union.
Evening star., 1896-04-15
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY.
PardOns and COmmutations by tn
PFesfdent-One District Case.

rardons and Communications by the
Prestdent-One District Case.
The President has pardoned Samuel Ro-
rex, sentenced in Tennessee to two years
for breaking into a post office, because he
Is In the last stage of consumption; Tas-
kell A. Smith. sentenced in Wisconsin to
one years Imprisonment for embezzIiny
letters, and Jane Ward sentenced in In
dian territory to one years Imprisonment
Tor removing mortgaged property. In this
last case the President says: I'm my opih-
ion, there should have been an avoidance
Of sentencing this old woman to imprison-
Hent upon the facts as presented upon the
trial. At any rate, I am glad to grant a
pardon in case so barren as this of eyi-
dence Of criminal intent"
In the case of VIM. SizeInore, sentenced
In the Indian territory to one year in the
pepitentiary for smuggling liquor into the
territory. the President has commuted the
sentence to six months.
In the case of George A Ball, convicted
in the District Of Columbia Of embezzle-
ment, and sentenced April Ii, 1895, to two
years and six months Imprisonment
has commuted the sentence to one years
actual imnr1--...eIt The judge who SEN
.-.-c-u him and the district . att"rnA" 49, :. 40
prosecuted this convict recommended
clemency in his case. II am reliably in
formed" says the President, that his his
sion of the crime for which he is now i'm
prisoned demonstrate that he is not a
criminal by nature or disposition. His for
mer' good character and the distress Of his
wife and children and-the other favorable
representations made In his behalf satisfy
me that the ends of justice will be SUBJ
served by the Communication Of his sentence
" hich have determined on
Evening star., 1896-04-15
ARRANGING A PROGRAM.
House Committee on Rules Decidir
on Measures to Pass.

House Committee on Rules Deciding
On Measures to Pass.
The House committee on rules have been
trying to arrange a program for the rest
Of the session which will enable them to
wind up all the business for an adjourn
ment ON the 11th or the 18th Of May. They
conferred over the matter yesterday and
last evening and may get together again to-
day. It 10 agreed that the bankruptcy bill,
the bill for the codtfcation Of pension laws,
and all the contested election cases which
the elections committee have reported on
or can report In time, are to be disposed
of at this session. Besides these matters,
there are a number Of measures not Of gen.
eral public interest which have been book
ed for action.
The PROPORTIONS to admit New Mexico
and Arizona to statehood are not expected
to receive consideration. It IL understood
that for political reasons 1t was arranged
that favorable reports should be made, but
the agreement did not go beyond that and
no effort win be made to secure action at
Whether the Pacific railroad bill will be
taken up 10 still undecided. That IL about
the only matter left for the committee to
IL OF opinion that the matter should be
disposed OF now, but the objection is urged
that very few members OF the House know
anything about the question. and that they
should be given abundant time to study the
eport before being required to vote on It,
About the only obstacle in the way Of an
adjournment By the middle Of May b the
river and harbor bin. Ic the Senate COM
mittee will hurry that up q speedy adjourn
ment viii follow. There u something OF a
fight over the bill In the committee, but it
II not thought II Il made with any inten-
tlcn OF proIonging the session. and when
the bill II taken up in the Senate there
viii probably not BE- . long discusstou.