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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

mountains Of scrap ribbons disappear
vanish into the tenements round about,
and she has measured off miles and
miles of blocks Of ribbons TO supply
the weddings and the funerals and the
christenings and festal days of that
dense neighborhood- Occasionally she
goes down to the wholesale houses and
buys fresh ribbons for her counter. She
knows just what to buy, because she
sells the ribbons herself, and her en-
ployers knows that she knows this, and
from time to time they have raised her
wages a dollar or so week
She is a single woman, small and
gray-haired and spinster-looking, and
she has looked at the world through
spectacles since she was girl. She
has looked so long now that she has
observed certain things out of joint,
and has set about remedying some of
them with her savings from ribbon
selling. Selling ribbons brings her in
touch with young people, particularly
with the little cash and stock girls IN
her own store who come to buy yard
or so for a nickel or dime, and look
longingly at the tempting display of
scarlet and orange and lemon-colored
sash ribbons that are far beyond their
reach. Gorgeous dyes are most sought
after in that neighborhood. Many of
the people hail from the east. and re-
splendent colors please them.
The small, specialized, ribbon seller
noticed that many of the ribbon buyers
did not look prosperous, or plentifully
fed, or we'll clothed. Some looked pale
and dispirited. though scarcely old
enough to know the reason She
bought small frame house on Long
Island with her bank savings, small
house in a little hamlet having an odd
Indian name, and, last summer, when
1t was stiflingly hot in the oven-like
tenements, she sent little tired out cash
girls there to recruit. She sent u in
turn. She paid their way down, and
each stayed the length of her vacation
The frame house is close to the sea.
Anyone who has walked through Hes
ter, ForSythe, or Rivington street on a
summer morning will know what the
house being close to the sea- meant to
those Is and 16-year-old girls They
were insists" for the fresh air fund
The little specialized woman does not
want anybody to know about it or to
speak of it to her. She does not dream
now that a newspaper writer bought
yard of brown neck ribbon just so as
to look at her, or that another sales
woman told on her. Besides being
small, she is somewhat bent, and has
wrinkles on her brow because of much
concern about ribbons. In outward APP
pearance her life is as colorless and
as the everyday gray
gown she wears in the store. with its
rubbed edges and faded luster. There
is also a widow woman, whom she en-
ploys to cook and care for the cash
girls while they stay at the place with
the queer Indian name, who knows
of the real nature of the
ribbon seller.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
THREE SHORT MINUTES.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 24.-The ac-
tual process by which a citizen is con-
verted into president of the United
States and chief executive of the pub
lie affairs of 100000 of people is an
extraordinarily simple one. The ad-
ministering and acceptance of the brief
oath of Office, a work of three minutes.
and complete revolution is effected
in the governmental leaders of the
most progressive and prosperous nation
on this planet.
It is a revolution unaccompanied by
disorder, bloodshed or riot; not even
anxiety attends il. Yet some European
political economists declare that our
form of government is still in the ex-
perimental stage; they assert that it
lacks the qualities of endurance; that
it is unstable. But what European
nation could pass through the com
plete change that this country will IN
dergo on Thursday next and without
creating a ripple of detrimental excite
ment? People viii go to bed Wednes-
day night with no idea Of worrying
about the great event of the morrow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

changes of the universe to which we
can reason our way back: and in the
earliest changes which we can Undue
lively establish; it is seen in the ge-
oloSic and climatic evolution of the
earth, and of every single organism on
its surface; it is seen in the evolution
OF humanity, whether contemplated in
the civilized individual or in the ag-
gregation of races: il is seen in the
evolution of society. in respect alike of
its political, its religious and its econ
omical organization, and it is seen in
the evolution Of all those endless and
ABSTRACT products of human activity
which constitute the environment of
our daily life From the remoteSt past
which science can fathom. up to the
novelties of yesterday, that in which
progress essentially consists is the
transformation of the HOMOGENEOUS
into the Heterogeneous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

4 new head will be at the nations
hem: there VIII be changes through
the whole labyrinth of governmental
departments, but the intricate machin-
cry of Washington viii rot experience
the smallest jar Thus VIII the republic
demonstrate its inherent stability and
endurance.
So simple is the process of making a
president in these United States that il
is possible to outline most minutely
just what Major Mckinley will do on
March /. Precedent governs the days
doings down 10 the tiniest detail as far
as the incoming president is concerned.
or course in the externals of the cele-
bration of the inauguration, by which
the multitude enjoys itself there are
slight changes. Each succeeding inau-
guration has shown an effort on the
part of the various managing commit
tees TO make it a little bit grander
than the preceding one and bring for
ward the element of display more
prominently. IL this only viii Major
MeKinley's inauguration differ from
Mr. Cleveland's.
A LARGE FAMILY PARTY.
According to the present programme.
Major Mckinley and his party viii ar
rive here on Tuesday evening IN the
famous car No. 50 of the Panhandle
system The presidential party viii
consist of the major. his wife and aged
mother: Grace and Jarles Mckinley,
his niece and nephew; Mrs. McKinley's
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
EXCELSIOR.


IN. shades of night were not vet drawn
neH IN a mill where wood is sawn. -
lot OF boys were told TO haul
AWaJ the stun that carvers call
Excelsior.
Soon meath these curls made into nac,zs
Iney stasSer forth with loaded backs
across the way there stands a shop
"here INTO bins they softly drop
Excelsior.
Next day some skilled mechanics come
sharp needles ply; swift shuttles hum.
huSe sacks are made with corners
square,
And scheming hands deposit there
Excelsior
Soon after this great big store
HANS out the sign: For sale. Soma
more
OF those hair mattresses. the kind
You want" But here again we find
Excelsior.
In politics as well as trade
reforms are often likewise made.
Not OF the hair and wool they laud
But of that cheap and shoddy fraud.
Excelsior
And Destiny will sometime puff
A prophet with such fulsOme stuff
That in the place of heart and brains
The inquest shows in the remains
Excelsior.
New York sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

sister, Mrs. Barber, and her children;
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Mckinley, Colonel
and Mrs. John NJ Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. S. Endsley of Johnstown, Pa. and
Major J. Smith, Z. S. A, and Mrs.
Smith, forming quite the largest fam
lily party that ever attended an incom-
ing president.
All of these will be entertained at
the Ebbitt house, where a suit of 10
rooms has been prepared for the party.
These rooms are on the third floor and
front west, south and east, several of
them looking out upon Fourteenth
street A private corridor leads to
them, insuring privacy to the distfn-
guished party. -Four of these rooms
formed the suite which Mr.. Mckinley
occupied during his congressional terms
and a sentimental attachment to them
had something to do with their tese-
lection.
Wednesday. March 3, Will be given
up to conferences with the various men
in charge of the Inauguration. c. j..
Bell, chairman of the inaugural COM
mittee, and his fellow workers have
completed all the preliminary work,
and the celebration is expected TO move
with the even celebrity of a machine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

pleasures of her holy cell. In the
mortincation of disappointments her
soothing voice shall whisper serenity,
anu peace In social converse with
the mighty dead of ancient DAYS w.,
VIII never smart under the galiine
sense OF dependence upon the livin9
OF the present age, And in your strue.
Sies with the world. should a crisis
ever occur, when even friendship NAV
uesnl II prudent to desert you. when
priest and Levite shall come ara -.
on you and pass by on the Other s, -
seek refuge in unfailing friends. and
pc assured you viii find it in tba
friendships of Saelius and Scipio in
the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes
ana Burke; as wen as in the precept
anu example OF him whose law is love
and who taught us to ramembe,. i,s
1uries only to forgive them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
s. BACHELORS BALLAD.

love to sigh as I have sighed
Times numbered by the score,
And realize how grand il is
To be a bachelor.
love to sew on buttons. or
Put neckbands on my shirts.
And run the needle thro' my thumb
Gee whiz, But how it hurts,
love to put a patch upon
My trousers. and to know
That life is full of trials for
The man who tries to sew
love to crawl far underneath
The bureau. and to swear
Because my collar buttons gone
And vanished in thin air.
love to darn my socks and things
The accent on the things
/ love to note the ruined clothes
My washerwoman brings.
love to come home at an hour
do not care to state
And realize no one will ask,
Why I've been out so late.
1 love TO eat my lonely meals
At some cheap restaurant.
where L can get all else on earth
Except just what 1 want.
love to laugh as l have laughed
So often heretofore,
And realize how grand it is
To be bachelor.
L'ENvOI.
I love-ah me, but she is fair.
The maid that I adore.
She's promised very soon I'll cease
To be bachelor.
Baltimore News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
LEAKAGEs IN HOUSEKEEPING
The Old Story of Little Drops OF
Water and Little Grains of Sand.


The old adage that "a woman can
| throw out of the window with tea
spoon more than a man can bring in
| on a shovel" contains more truth than
poetry A large income can be wasted
with surprising celebrity by the con-
tinuance of little leaks that seem toe
| insignificant to be noticed individually
Many a woman is ignorantly a par
ticipant in rearing and protecting these
little foxes that spoil the household
vine. A very partial list of some OF
| these little wastes are:
Wearing rubbers over new shoes
thereby making the leather dry and
hard and easily cracked.
Pieces of lace and ribbon thrown
away.
Making the sewing woman wait in
the house idle or doing fancy work
because you have neglected to get ma
| terials before her arrival
Buying articles because they are
| cheap and will come in some time.
| Allowing whalebones to rub through
the waist, thereby running an elegant
gown
Wearing the same clothing each
week as it comes from the wash.
Leaving a silk umbrella in a case,
thereby causing it to split in the folds.
Turning skirts wrong side out when
hanging them up.
Failing to sew glove buttons on be-
/ fore wearing, or mending them before
cleaning.
Sweeping the house in the usual
morning dress with head uncovered.
Pieces of bread and cake allowed to
dry and mold, then thrown away.
Failing TO dry box of soap for sew
eral days before using it.
Dried fruits left uncovered and con-
sequently allowed to become wormy
Dish towels used for holders.
Sheets used for ironing tables.
Napkins used for dish towels.
Towels used for wash rags.
The face of the flatiron used to crack
nuts on.
Cold potatoes allowed to sour.
Sour milk thrown away.
The kerosene can left open to evapor-
ate.
Cold fish thrown away.
Cheese permitted to mold.
Lemons left to dry.
Fat put in earthen dishes.
The mustard cruise remaining open
to drv.
Canned goods left exposed in cans.
Bread pan left with dough sticking
to It.
Left over vegetables thrown away.
Rice and sugar wasted in the hand
ling.
TOO mucn Starcn Hldue ana thrown
out.
Pals and washtubs left to dry to
fall to pieces
The cogs of the Dover egg beaten al
lowed to get wet.
Silver SPOONS and forks used in the
kitchen.
Tin dishes improperly dried when
washed.
Mops and brooms not hung up.
Tea and coffee pots neglected
Corks left out of vinegar and mo-
lasses jugs.
Spices exposed to the air.
[ Preserves opened, forgotten and left
to sour.
Soap left in dishpans to dissolve and
waste.
Orange peel thrown away, (save
them for kindling.)
Bits OF meat thrown away
Carpet brooms used to scrub with.
Throwing awav tea leaves; (save
them for sweeping dark carpets; coarse
table salt should be used for light car
pets.)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
LITTLE HEROINE OF THE CITY.
She Sells Ribbons in Store and Has
Established a Fresh Air Home
for Children.

New York Evening Post: There is a
woman who sells ribbons in a down.
town shop She went to work there 40
years ago, when the store that now
covers nearly a block was only a little.
narrow, passage-like place with one
window. All these years she has known
nothing but ribbons-pink ribbons, blue
ribbons, yellow ribbons, every colored
ribbons. She has seen mountains and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
COURAGE.

High hopes that burned like tars sublime
co down / the heavens of freedom,
And true hearts perish in the time
We bitterliest need EN-.
But never sit we down and say
There's nothing left but sorrow;
We walk the wilderness today,
The promised land tomorrow
Our birds of song are silent now,
There are no flowers blooming,
Yet life is in the frozen bough.
And freedoms spring is comingi
And freedoms tide come up alWay,
Though we may strand in sorrow.
And our good bark. aground today.
Shall float again tomorrow.
GERALD Ma SSEY
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
From Simple to Complex.

Herbert Spencer: The advance from
the simple to the complex, through a
process of successive differentiations
ii. e.. the appearances of differences
in the parts of a seemingly like sub
stance, is seen alike in the earliest
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
Reading.

John Quincy Adams: In no time in
your life will the love of letters ever
Cypress you as a burden or fail you as
a resource. In the vain and foolish
exultation of the heart, which the
brighter prospects of life will some
times excite, the pensive FORTRESS of
science shall call you to the sober
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

II don't gwite yet verstehen goot dat
kind of talk hear
Mt desc United States apoudt, it seems
TO me right gweer
Ven l fall nit der schtreet car off, und
dot conductor grumble,
Und say: Desc newly landed ducks, dey
never take a tumble;
But did
''Von time chased a man away vot tried
mine dog to Schtole;
I ran righdt gwick und den | veil rigid
IN a pig mud hole;
Dot man he shtopped and looked aroundt.
und laughed at me n minute;
Und den he said: Say, Dutchy, looks to
me like you aindt in it,
But l vas!
''I met weller on der shtreet Won night
Won l vos oudt;
He SAYS: You want to dake up all der
walk, old sauerkraut?'
dold him l would bull his nose of oudt
he did not mind
He said: I will not do a ting to you
mein DeutcheT f-eund,
But he did"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

~ THE MAKING OF A president. & !
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PRECISELY WHAT 4
WORKOUT
CHANGING NATIONS ADMINISTRATION THAN
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

Agnosticisn, Not Atheism.
The Rev. ]. Morals Jones: We are
standing before the same mysteries
that baffled Job. The same agonies tear
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
EVERYDAY ENGLISH.

publicans elected George A. Lincol
mayor for second term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
For a Second Term.

Cedar Rapids. Ia. March 1.-The Re-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-10
A Friend In Need.

A young man was tried for murder,
having killed member of a rival faction
in a faction fight The judge, reluctant
TO sentence him 10 death on account OF his
youth, turned to him and said, "Is there
any one in court who could speak as TO
your characterf" The youth looked round
the court and then said sadly, There il
no man here, my lord, that ! know" At
that my grandfather chanccd 10 walk into
the grand jury gallery He saw at once
how matters stood. He called out, "You
are queer boy that don't know a friend
when you see him"
The boy was quick witted. lie on.
swered, "Oh. then, it is myself that is
proud TO see your honor here this dayW
well, said the judge, "Sir We're, since
you know that boy, will you tell US what
you know of him." - will, my lord, -
said my grandfather, land what / can tell
you is this: That from the very first day
that ever ] say him TO his minute never
knew anything of him that was not good. "
The old tenant ended his tale by striking
his hands together and exclaiming, And
he never 10 have clapped his eye upon the
boy till this minutey' The boy escaped
being hanged. - Recollections of Aubrey
de We're
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-10
Restoring Frozen Animals.

II the animal is slowly frozen and as
slowly thawed out, life may be restored.
II the freezing takes place at degrees c.,
the temperature then remaining at 2 de-
grecs c., there cannot be an aggravation
of the condition. The temperature must
be gradually raised; otherwise fatal re-
suit will follow The old plan, SO preva-
lent i'm cold regions, of thawing out a
frozen member of the body by rubbing
with snow before coming into warm
room is based on scientific principles.
Death follows at once if all the water con-
tanned in the body be crystallized. Com
plete congelation of the water of the body
tissues signifies complete drying, separa-
tion OF all tho soluble and loosely chemical
ly united gases, as well as capitalization of
the salts, AS a result of this the structure
of the protoplasm as well as its chemical
and physical characters is necessarily de-
stroyed. Death follows as the result of this
separation of the living substance, and not
as aconscquence Of great reduction of tenn
peraturc Animals whose tissues arc rich
in water may be frozen TO stony hardness,
but, as shown by microscopic and micro
scopic examinations, "A sluggish, movable
fluid may be seen coursing among the Ice
needles. Too long time must not follow
freezing before the efforts to restore life
commence. New York Ledger
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-10
The supply of Eggs.

Not many American eggs arc exported
and not many eggs are imported; none
except In seasons when eggs here run ve-y
high. The imported eggs come from Swe-
den, Germany and Austria. They come In
boxes containing hundreds Of dozens each,
packed In chopped straw. A few eggs i'm
this country nrc still packed In straw In
barrels, but the now we'll nigh commonly
used American egg package Is box con
tanning 80 cor 3B dozens The eggs are
packed in the now familiar str,wboard
racks, which are called Oilers The eggs
ure stood ON end, each in "A pigeonhole 10y
itself, siX dozen eggs Ia layer There are
sheets Of straw board between the layers.
aud eggs arr packed some five nnd some
six layers TO the box. Eggs are most costly
IN winter. but cold storage has done much
10 equalize the price Of eggs the year
tound. New York sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-10
Aa He Tells II.

A restaurant keeper in the Jellico anG
Coal Creek country of Kentucky has the
following business card:
twenty-five cents an Eat-25 cents a
sleep. The Edwards House, p. NJ. Ed
wards, Proprietor, Coal Greek, Tenn, Di-
rectly opposite r. II. depot. Not the lar
gest hotel in tho berg. Not newly furnished
throughout. No free bus 10 trains. Not
the best grub the market affords. But sim
ply clean beds and something good to eat.
Toothpicks and ice water thrown in. Try
us! Pay up! And If not satisfied keep
mum. Our city is composed mostly OF
hogs, diggers, merchants and lawyers
named in the order of their importance
Good crosstie walks on all the principa,
thoroughfares. "-Exchange.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-10
HIS FIRSr DEFEAT

Waterbury, Conn. Dec 10 Harry
PETER the reputea mid1 leweight champion
OF the Pacific coast met his hrst defeat
last night, when he was knocked out in
tie 18th round Dy George Byers Of Bos-
ton, az the boxing exhibition Qiyen by tao
Waterbury Athletic Club at the audi
torium.
Both men are woll-kno-n colored
boxers whose clevernoss,was sufficient to
attract nearly 1000 spectators Thev were
matched Tor % rounds. ard for l3 rounds
they gave the clevrest eek hi bition ever sp2n
In this oitv. Ibey then shaved up. but ~
this did not suit the spectators they rot
together again IA the 18th ami in the 18th
byers knocked mis- op onent out with a.
left-hander on the jaw
Inc curtain raiser was li-rOund 90
between Paul ksllsy of Troy, y T.. anu
Chulay Burns ~ New York. NJ llS
iounds. Burns. hoseypr. WAS ~ pounds
cvtrvitht. Tbe uecisiou was given 70
Il Hey In the eighth round. % Burns
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-10
STAN DING OF THE POLO CLUBS.
Apollo Male Ouartette.

One OF the most enjoyable concerts TO be
given In this city during the present sea-
son will be that by the Apollo Male Quar-.
tet in the Boston Star Course Mt Infantry
hall this evening. The quartet Is musi-
cal organization of marked excellence and
is regarded as In the front rank. because
Of the finished and artistic quality of is
work. The quartet is composed Of Walter
Il. Paine, first tenor: Sidney Howe,
second tenor; Fred H. Kendall, baritonte
ana George A. Buntop, bssso. In addition
the noted piano virtuoso. John Francis
Glider will have a prominent place on the
program, as will also the phenomenal
chi Id cornetist Helen Aprollonio, who is
but IL years OF age.