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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-10

"An ounce of prevention &c. is well to berenen1-
bered just now, when cold nights and warm days
is liable to make one careless. One of the best
preventatives then will be the proper SLEEPING
GARMENTS We've just received second lot
and children. not too heavy, and won't shrink in
washing. Prices:
Ladies and Genemens, 75c and csc.
Chdrens 4Sc and 69c.
ChIdrens Sleeping Suits, 4Sc.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-10

numbered he gave him[elf up. After Civ
Ing two or three fictitious names he ac-
knowledged that his pame was Joxenh
Mcmillan, giving Bellaire as his home
He was arraigned before the Mayor, but
waived an examination and will be taken
to st. Clairsville Monday. He gained en-
trance to the store by forcing the front
door open with the aid of a mattock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

ton when either party GUSTS the other
from power has become a SCANDAL of
national magnitude. That is all very
true and the people are becoming more
convinced of its truth each year. What
is the remedy The Commercial Adj
vertiser says: The only apparent So
luton of the question lies in the extern
sion of the merit system to all the
minor offices of the government Civil
service reform has been discredited by
the folly and extravaganza of some of
the theorists who have sought TO make
the examinations of candidates
vehicle for their own crazy notions. But
there is no reason why the process of
determining each candidates fitness
should not be as vigorously practical
as the examination of applicants for
positions in ordinary business pursuits.
Where this is done the prejudice
against the merit system outside the
ranks of professional politicians will
speedily disappear
1t is a folly if not a crime that the
president of the United States should
be compelled TO surrender so much of
his time to considering the claims of
office-seekers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
POLITICS AND COLLEGE PRO
FESSORS.

The board of regents of the Kansas
state agricultural college has dismissed
the president of the institution. who
had been with it some IS years, and
some dozen professors and instructors.
The dismissal was because the pro-
fessors and instructors were mot in
harmony with the fundamental prin-
ciples of the administration That is
a first requisite to all true learning in
Kansas. The San Francisco Examiner,
commenting on the dismissal of these
professors and instructors, says
II is obvious that an instructor who
teaches chemistry, mineralogy, zoology
or physiology Republican way is out of
place in a Populist institution. Are the
freeborn youth of Kansas to have their
growing minds corrupted by the same
teachings on the capitalization of field
SPAR the cause of the glacial epoch,
and the shape of the vermiform appen-
dix that prevail in the plutocratic insti-
tutions Of the east? Are the unfettered
daughters of the prairies to learn to
sew with the same stitch that is prac-
ticed by the trembling minions of the
money power? Above all, are the bud
ding Populists of the sun-kissed plains
to be forever manacled by the rules of
a despotic mathematics under which
the natural aspiration of two and two
to be something other than four is re-
lentlessly crushed2
That kind of comment viii appeal to
the human mind, but scarcely to the
Populist mind. To explain the work
ings of the Populist mind as seen in
the highest perfection in Kansas will
require an entirely new system of psy-
chology. But is there any difference,
save that of degree, in the dismissal of
these professors and instructors from
the Kansas state agricultural college
because they did not believe in Popu-
lism and the dismissal of a distin-
guished professor from Cornell univer-
sity because of his belief in free sill
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Four hundred and eighty divorces
were granted in the courts of Jackson
county last year. and quite as many
will be allowed this year, says the Kan
sas City Star. In fact, the officers of
the court say that the number issued
has been about the same for the last
IL years. The majority of the court
officials give youthful and hasty mar
riages as the provoking cause for most
of the divorces, but the real reason
why so many separations are sought
and sanctioned is the facility with
which this sort of business is dis
patched. In other words, husbands and
wives procure divorces because they
can.
There is no doubt that easy divorce
laws induce many people to avail them
selves of them who have no serious
cause for separation. There is nothing
that has worse effect upon society
than loose and easy divorce law. Mar
riage ties and family obligation soon
come to be regarded as anything but
sacred and to be treated with a light
ness that should not mark any serious
and important transaction. Loose di-
vorces, loose morals
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
A TARIFF WAR.

That this country may yet involve
itself in a tariff war with several Eu-
ropean countries is not at all improb-
able. Already the Dingley bill has
called out protests from foreign am
bassadors in Washington, though it is
not likely that they will be given any
great heed seeing that the protests of
the American people are not. Those
who insist on high duties. no matter
what the consequences may be, retort,
when it is urged that they may induce
retaliatory legislation by other nations,
that this country contains within itself
all the elements of self-suppor-t and
that nature has made us Independent
of any other country so far as sup
plying our wants is concerned. Grant
ing that this is true, what is to be done
with those things that are produced in
this country in excess of the demands
of the American people? If those
countries upon which we depend to
take our surplus eve are not independ-S
ent of foreign countries when we at
tempt to trade with them) adopted the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

profibitive tariff policy of the Dinghy
bill and apply it to American goods
and products, the American people
would find 1T a most inconvenient
thing. Those nations that are DESTROYS
OF trading with the United States will
seek to satisfy their wants elsewhere.
And trade once alienated by individu-
al firms or by nations is not easily re-
gained Could there be a more sense
less thing than for this country TO
ADOPT policy that will drive trade
from it and to make enemies of those
who are now friends? Such is the
tendency of the tariff policy the coun-
try is about TO enter upon.
There are those in this country who
seem to delight in alternating all
friendly feeling of foreigners for it,
who seem to think that it shows more
patriotism to make enemies than to
cultivate friends To some extent they
are possessed of the idea that the
United States are bigger than all the
rest of the world combined. And I'M
fortunately they are gaining influence.
A tariff war with other countries
would be almost as bad as a physical
war, and the same care should be ex
ercised to avoid it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
THE WAYsIDE SONG.

AS I walked out one April day
To list the springtime rumors,
1 found upon the dusty way
A soinster clad in boomers.
Peaked was her chin and gray her hair;
Her face was full of dulled despair,
And in voice no longer young,
Shrilly this ancient song he sung:
when the pigs begin to fly.
Oh, won't the pork be high;
For they're the most unlikely birds that
ever sailed the sky.
When the pigs begin to fly,
Well laugh until we die,
And the women, they will have their
rights.
When the pigs begin to fiy"'
Said 1: Dear madam, why this which?
They've other things by dozens.
Said she: THAT always was the itch:
l am Miss Phoebe Couzins.
Through all my life I've tried to be
AS many a man as you might see;
But all my toll no change can bring,
So now this ancient song l sing:
And as l went a-winding down.
A-thinking this and tother.
OF rights" above the triple crown
OF women, wife and mother,
l wished ell maids whose Denchant Is
To hustle around to caucuseS.
Might pass and list that convent strong
AS she bitterly sung that ancient song
s--1 .sWhea the pigs begin to fly.
Oh, won't the pork be hight
For they're the most unlikely birds that
ever sailed the sky.
When the pigs begin to fly.
Well laugh until we die.
And the women. they will have their
When the pigs begin to fly"
New York Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
FREE COINAGE OF NATIVE
SILVER.

General Hart of San Francisco was
in Washington not long ago and talked
on the silver question to a Post re-
porter. He said: THAT the free coin
age of silver to the extent of the native
product would be a blessing to this
country 1 am convinced beyond a
doubt
THE country is short of money and
can't be prosperous until the volume is
Increased. The danger of a flood of
silver could easily be guarded against
by a prohibytory tariff on outside i'm
portafions. There is one thing in this
connection that most people lost sight
of: By closing down the silver mines
we are losing an enormous amount of
gold annually. With free coinage of
the home metal our mines would
yield at least 500, 1000, 900 of silver per
annum, and at the same time not less
than s30000,0O0 of gold, for the big sill
yer producers also carry a large per
cent-on an average of about one-third
of gold ore.
The price of silver is too low to
admit of operating the mines, and
hence the gold is absolutely lost With
the discrimination against silver it is
a mystery why the price remains as
high as it is. I don't see what keeps it
from falling to % cents an ounce With
tariff ON foreign ore and free coinage
here. the price would beyond doubt rise
TO the level of S1.29, and that figure
x-,,I1 - -
The proposition to give free coinage
to American silver and to prohibit the
importation of all other silver cannot
be classed as ideahst; it must be
classed as absurd. There is no virtue
in American silver that there is not in
silver produced in all parts of the
world. If silver is a proper monetary
metal entitled TO the same privileges
as gold, and all silver advocates claim
that it u.s. then the more of it a coun-
try has the better and the greater viii
be the good resulting dherefrom. Gem
eral Haut's plan would call for a dis
elimination against silver at the very
outset, and the moment discrimina-
ton against a money metal is made,
that very moment a declaration is
made that it is an inferior metal. The
quickest way in the world to raise sill
yer to parity With gold at the ratio OF
Is to l is for the United States to de-
clare for the free, unlimited and indie
pendent coinage of silver. No half
way measures. no tariff medicine, will
effect parity between gold and sill
YER
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
SEEING PRIVATE PROPERTY
FOR PUBLIC USE.

No one is any longer surprised these
days at any proposition that is intro
duced in either state or national legis-
lature. Legislators are seized with the
idea that not only are they all wise
but that they are all powerful They
seem to have all sorts of ideas save
those showing good common sense No
proposition is so absurd, so diametric-
ally opposed to the fundamental prin-
ciples on which this government rests
that if a bill is introduced in a legis-
lature or congress to enact it into
law that it creates any surprise, though
it may call forth smile. And the
people instead of rising up in their
might and Indignation are sitting
quietly by without uttering a single
protest. Lethargy has taken the place
of the spirit of 1776.
Tuesday Senator Chandler introduced
a bill in the United States senate au-
thorizing the government of the United
States to seize the armor plate works
of the Bethlehem and Carnegie COM
panies 1t is a bill that the car of
Russia or the sultan of Turkey should,
and probably would, be ashamed to
father. 1t very graciously provides
that the United States be under obi
cation to make a just compensation
therefor in accordance with the fifth
amendment to the constitution" 1t
makes no difference that these COM
panies may not want to dispose of their
plants, the secretary of the navy is to
take them anyhow. He is not author
lied to negotiate for their lease or pur-
chase; he is TO take them just like a
pirate or brigand; and if their owners
do not have their ears cut off and their
tongues slit they may think themselves
lucky.
The only pretense of justification that
there can be for such a bill is that it
is an exercise of the right of eminent
domain That is a right which is sup
posed to be exercised by the govern
ment only under the direst necessity.
There is no such necessity in the pres
ent case. If the government wants
armor plate plants let it buy or es
tablish them. This Chandler bill is no
more OF less IMAM d Simple proposition
to confiscate the property of these two
companies. If the property of these
companies can be taken in the manner
proposed by Chandler the property of
any one in the country can be taken in
the same manner. It was formerly the
theory that governments were insti-
tuted to protect people in their personal
and property rights, but that theory is
fast giving way to the practice of
plundering them. If the government
wants the Bethlehem and Carnegie ar
NOR plate plants let it proceed to ac-
quire it in accordance with American
rather than Algerine methods.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
AN OLD NEVADA TRAGEDY.
The Fight Between Bodlen and Chi
NAV at the Bodie Saloon.

'I saw a great deal of killing in one
form or another. and a heap of savage
fights in Nevada's mountains said Cap
tain William Mason. once of the Com
the Silver state to a New York Sun re-
porter ''but for surprise and horror the
fight between Bodlen and Chimay in the
Bodie saloon lay over anything else py
long odds. It was about midnight that
the men fell to shooting-what it was
about | forget now-but the saloon was
running full blast. and there was a scat
tering to get out OF the way or the snots.
But the shooting was all on one side. for
the cylinder of Chimays pistol wouldn't
revolve and Bodlen sent shots into him
until Chimay fell with holes enough in
him to have let out three lives. He was
carried into a back room and laid out
on the floor to wait for the coroner, and
then everybody went back into the front
part of the saloon, and the games and
the drinking went on as lively as be-
fore.
.'Bodlen as the winner. was naturally
popular and a good deal looked up to
that night. and had a good many invita-
lions to drink, and he set EN- up himself
off and on. He was standing at the bar
with a group around him, the hero of the
night OF sudden the door OF the back
room where Chimay had been laid away
opened, and the first man that looked
gave a yell like an Indian and nearly fell
backward, and the rest of us felt like do
ing the same thing when we saw that
IT was Chimay standing there, pistol in
hand. looking round. He saw the man
he wanted and by this time everybody
between him and Bodlen had got out of
the way He raised his pistol and Bodlen
pulled his. and the shots rang out again.
but this time Chimay's pistol cylinder re-
volved. and at his second shot Bodlen
dropped his pistol. staggered and went
down on his face, shot through the
heart Chimay watched him fall and
then his pistol dropped from his hand,
and he fell backward into the room, a
corpse for good this time.
For clear nerve and resolution what
Chimay had done beat anything l ever
knew of Left to himself. he had re-
vs-ed. picked up his pistol. taken it
apart, fixed the cylinder so that it would
work. and then came out and shot his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Westminster Gazette: Sir Walter
Scott had his share of curious expert
ences in the same connection shortly after
being called to the bar His first appear
ance as counsel in a criminal court was
at Jedburgh assizes in 1898. when he sue
cessfuliy defended a veteran poacner-
You're a lucky scoundrel. scott whis-
pered TO his client when the verdict was
given. I'm just o. your mind returned
the latter "and I'll send you a maukin
g. e., a hare) the morn, man" Lock
hart, who narrates the incident. on'its to
add whether the '.maukin" duly reached
Scott. but no doubt it did.
On another occasion Scott was less sue
cessful in his defense of a housebreaker,
but the culprit, grateful for his counsel 5
exertions, gave him, in lieu of the ortho-
dox Fee which he was unable to pay
this piece of advice. to the value of
which he the housebreaker, could pro-
feSsionally attest: First, never to have
large watchdog out of doors, but to keep
a little yelping terrier within; and, sec
ondly, to put no trust in nice clever, jim
crack locks but to pin his faith to
huge old heavy one with a rusty key.
Scott long remembered his incident and
80 years later at a judges dinner at
Jedburgh. he recalled it in this i'm
promptu rhyme:
''Yelping terrier, rusty key,
Was Walter Scott's best Jeddart fee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Spalding. the president of the de-
funct Globe Savings bank. seems to
have been a first-class rascal. He
should be made to spend the remainder
OF his allotted three score and ten
years in iail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

A Perry, o. T., telegram says that
Philip Silas Rucker of that county
weighs 595 pounds and is the picture of
good health. It is further stated that
r. Il, a railroad contractor and Demo-
c.at. and has no small influence with
his party. A man of his size couldn't
have small influence with his party if
he had any.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Senator Bill Chandler in introducing
a resolution authorizing the secretary
of the navy to take possession of the
arnor plants in the Bethlehem and
Carnegie companies shows he enter
tains very queer notions of the right of
eminent domain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Senator Roger 9. Mills says ct is a
fact not to be disguised that
the senate of the United States
has been for some years losing
its hold on the confidence and support
of the American people" True, and
some of Senator Mills speeches have
helped to DESTROY this confidence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The Herald acknowledges the receipt
of 2. conv of Senator Rawlins' resolu-
ton calling en- the secretary Of the
interior to transmit TO the senate cop
les of all instructions given by him or
his predecessor to the commissioners
appointed to negotiate with the Uintah
Indians for the cession of their lands
to the United States.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

'T want it understood" says Senator
Wellington of Maryland, that every
appointment in my state, from cabinet
member to charwoman, must come
through me" It will be a terrible
strain upon his system.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The international monetary confer
ence commissioners cannot fail to have
a good time in London during the
queens diamond jubilee. no matter
what the result of their mission.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

And now * is said that Riviera was
stricken with heart disease in battle
and tainted and was captured. He
isn't the first man to be stricken with
heart failure in battle and to have been
captured in consequence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Russia wants the Carnegie company
TO make a bid on armor plate for the
Russian government. Will Russia be
able to get American armor plate
cheaper than the United States?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The Kansas legislature wants to tax
inordinate wealth. From the mad an
tics Of the Kansas legislatures for some
years past no one ever imagined there
was any inordinate wealth in that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

1t is the opinion of the New York
Commercial Advertiser that the daily
scenes about the White House since
the installation of the Mckinley ad-
ministration are highly discreditable to
American citizenship; that the over
whelming and. importunate flood of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

ut is just possible that where Demo-
Gratis have been elected in Republican
districts they happened to be the best
men," says the Philadelphia Ledger.
Just possible? Actually so.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

If Mr.. Moreton Frewan will oppose
an international agreement on silver,
as reported, what a genuine friend of
silver he viii prove himself to be after
all his talk
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Tid-Bits: lawyer am afraid I can't
do much for you. They seem to have
conclusive evidence that you committed
the burglary.
Client-Cant you object to the evil
dence as immaterial and irrelevant?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Many people. with the notion that
nature ought to take care of herself,
allow a cough to plague them for
weeks and months. Whereas, II ma
ture were assisted with dose or two
of Ayers Cherry Pectoral the cure
might be effected in a very few days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The charter Of Greater New York is
a much larger document than the Great
Charter, but it isn't so great by long
At-nN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Detroit Free Press: ''They say it is
bad luck to walk under a ladder
Yes; there might be a woman round
who would ask you to get up on it and
hang a picture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Rev. DR. Moody says the prayers of
the nation should go up for those in
authority. A great many think the
prayers of the nation should go up to
them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

1t is the disappointed office-seeker
far from home who realizes that
Washington is a city of magnificent
distances.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The college graduate who never tires
of telling about what we used to do
at college," rarely does anything after
leaving college.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The people of Chicago are seeing air
ships One would naturally expect
1.-THE Cliff Dwellers'' to see them if
anyone did.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

London dispatches say that the war
spirit rules in the Transvaal. But the
Beers wisely allow the policy of peace
to prevail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Cincinnati Enquirer: "Confound you,
what are you grinning at?' asked the
man who was getting himself held up. .
"Oh. WE'LL" chuckled the footpad, L
never was a man to take things SER
iously.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

The Oregon seems to be troubled
with sinking spells as well as the
Texas. g Ms&>
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
WIT AND HUMoR.

Chicago Tribune: Nav, I know why
Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell"
We'll Tommy
cause she couldn't pronounce his
NAME
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

A man seldom if ever profits by his
experience Almost invariably it is the
other fellow who profits by it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

Columbia Spectator: Herr Oil-Haf you
heard dot dog of mine ate tape measure
undt died?
Herr Kut-I suppose he died by inches.
NIGHT var?
Herr Oil-Abernit; he vent oudt in red
alley und die py der yard.