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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-01

hung Imply by their Sides Some poor
fellows had lost an eye, a hand,
foot, but whether manned or not all
were veterans of the war broken in
health and prematurely aged. And
every man engaged in the country's
service from those who answered TO
the first call of volunteers to those who
enlisted when the beginning of the end
approached, deserve rhe substantial
thanks of grateful nation. In other
words. ! believe that / but echo the
sentiments of many loyal hearts when
l say that l am in favor of a most
liberal pension policy, even to the ex-
tent of a service pension. Il is a debt
the country owes its faithful defend
ers. which it is able and should be
willing 10 pay Better that many I'M
worthy men. even some who are ac-
tdal impostors, should receiv.. a month";
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-01

After a selection by the band, Chap
lain Allensworth of the Tweaty-fourth
delivered the Grafton of the day, as fol-
lows:
There is no anniversary that makes
a stronger appeal TO our finest sensi-
bilities or ci1erishes deeper sentiments
of patriotism than Decoration day. 1t
is day of retrospection, of dispassion-
ate review. or loving Renaissance.
However in the dim, receding past
now marked by more than 80 milestones
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-01

1.-The neighing troop. the flashing blade
The bugles stirring blast:
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and strife are past
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-01
TEARS AND LOVE
FOR THE BLUE
Memorial Day Observed in Salt
Lake City Yesterday by
Large Crowds.
SPLENDID STREET PARADE
PROGRAMME AT MT. oLIvET
CEMETERY ELABORATE.

Eloquent Address by Chaplain Al
1ensworth, of the Twenty-fourth
Infantry-Songs Which Touch
the Soldiers Heart Are Sung and
the Music of the Union Thrills
the Hearts of All Who Attend
Flowers Are Strewn on the
Graves of the Sleeping Dead-De-
tails of the Days Ceremonies.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
DAINTY TRIPLES.

For travellers come leather bound
TASKS resting in silver cups, with deco
rative silver tops.
Housewives on the alert for resplen-
dent effect patronize cut glass lamps in
either the princess or banquet sizes.
Hair combs and pins are now made
and sold in sets. Some are of amber,
some Of tortoise shell and some of Jet,
to suit the color of the hair.
The blue delft fad has encouragement
for an extension Of time in the beauti-
full plaques, jars, trays and writing sets
made to retail at popular prices.
Miniature toys exquisitely wrought
in precious metal and Stimulating in
minutest detail large objects of every,
day life, such as chair, coach or piano
forte. find eager patrons among collect
ors Of curios and are also in demand for
brio "a brac cabinets in luxurious homes.
Jewellers Circular.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
STAGE GllNTS.

Thomas Il. Shea expects to appear in
New York shortly with new play.
"My Lord and Some Ladies' is soon
to be put into rehearsal by Louis James
j. X. Emmett intends to play all the
continuous performance theaters this
season.
Mckee Rankin is going to give his
new play, "Judge Not" hearing in
New York.
Rose Eytinge is now featured as
member of 1.-The Great Diamond Rob-
berry, cast.
John Fowler's new play, "The Pro-
moter, will be produced in Brooklyn
by M. B. Curtis
Charles Frohman has made an offer
OF $l0, 600 for an American play suita-
BILE for Maud Adams.
The Bostonians have decided to shelve
SIN Mexico" " The opera has not met
with the results expected.
1t is said that 1.-THE Great North
west" will resume its tour shortly with
a new outfit and new company.
Mrs Potter and Kyrle Bellew expect
to make an American tour next season.
Application has been made for time at
the principal theaters.
A. G. Wheeler and E. NJ. Alfriend's
new melodrama has been delivered to
W. A. Brady, who promises it pro-
duction before the season is over.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

The first glove factory in England
was opened in London in 1866.
The original standard yard was the
exact length of the arm of King Henry
of England.
A substitute for silk, SO perfect as to
deceive the most expert eye, is made
from wood pulp
Messrs. Tenants chimney at Glas-
gov is the tallest chimney in the world
and stands 460 feet high.
Edith, the wife of Thomas Bonham
of Wiltshire, England, in 1855, gave
birth to seven children at one time.
The authorities of the Johns Hopkins
hospital of Baltimore have built cold
storage room in which dead bodies will
be kept for the use of medical colleges
in winter.
There are few uncracked walls in Es-
sen, Germany. The testing Of the big
guns manufactured by Krupp has shak-
Ell the foundations of most of the
houses and keeps GLACIERS busy. .
The Duke of Westminster mansion
in Cheshire is Eaton ball. A visitor
was once taken to corridor which runs
the whole breadth of the building.
'How far is it to the other end?" he
inquired, and the reply was 472 feet.
Country roads in China are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely un-
defined. While the farmer has right
to plow up any road passing through
his land drivers of vehicles have an
equal right-and they exercise ito
traverse any part of the country at
large
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23

he can't get rid of the idea too soon. I'll
give him human company before | get
through with him. Let's back off
again.
They backed. They had retreated 30
feet when the hog uttered a shrek of
anger or anguish or something and
caught the top board of the pen with his
fore feet and hang there. AS he hung he
shrieked again and again, and while
Mrs. Bowser ran for the house Mr..
Rowser picked up club and dashed for
ward. He had bestowed two whaoks on
the snout pointing into the air when
something fell on him and walked all
over him and rooted him over and over
on the grass. 1t was the hog-the whole
hog-the Merino hog which languished
for human society. When he got through
with Mr.. Bowser, he took turn around
the yard to get the geographical Ioca-
tion Of the front gate. When he had got
1t, he took running jump and carried
1t off its hinges, and as Mrs. Bowser
looked out of the window he was whisk-
ing up the road in a cloud of dust after
a young man on bicycle. She went
down to Mr.. Bowser, who was sitting
mp, with his back against the pen, and
looking at a knothole in the henhouse
door.
"Well?" she queried.
He didn't reply.
$50 your Merino hog is gomez
He never winked.
what you ought to have done was
70 have hired some one at $50 a month
to give that hog his society, being you
couldn't spare the time"
He CARED straight into the knothole
and wouldn't even scratch when bug
bit him. Mrs. Bowser is not revenge
full wife, and so she gave him gentle
pat on the head and left him.
M. QUAD
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23

He had just reached the house to tell
Mrs Bowser that all Merino hogs We're
thorough cosmopolitans, when he heard
a scrt of shrek and fall from the pen,
and, running back, he arrived Just in
time to see the hog making another
jump to get out. The bristles on his
back stood up, his single eye cleaned
like a bicycle lantern at midnight and
he chanked his teeth in anger.
"Durn your hide. but what's the
matter with you?" growled Mr.. Bowser
as he looked the animal over.
The hog quieted down at sound of his
voice, and after walking around the
pen two or three times uttered grunt
OF satisfaction and lay down again.
by George, but that's funnyr' said
Mr.. Bowser.
"What is it?" asked Mrs. Bowser,
who had just arrived
"Why, he was as calm as frog pond
while 1 stood here, but the minute
turned and left the pen he went into a
sort of fit and tried to get out. "
"I've heard that was the way with
Merino hogs" sagely observed Mrs.
Bowser. They want the company Of o
human being or they won't thrive"
Let's try him again,
They backed away few feet, and the
hog sprang up, with squeal. and leaped
for the top of the pen and fell back with
crash. When they hurried forward, he
presented the same picture as before,
with the addition of an extra kirk in
his tail.
"What in thunder d 'ye s'pose ails the
oritterf' exclaimed Mr.. Bowser as the
hog backed off and kept that cleaning
eye on him.
"It's just as / said' replied Mrs.
Bowser. "He wants company-the COM
pany Of human being. You were lone.
ly for hog. You will have to stand
right here and give him the benefit OF
your society,""
"I'll be hanged if do. The idea of
a hog cutting mp in this fashion. He'll
either quit this tomfoolery or I'll brain
him with the AK.
You'd better stay out here for two
or three days and nights anyway, - sug
gested Mrs. Bowser.
"Oh, ! had. Well, l don't stop one
minute. II this blamed critter think.
he's come here to run Farmer Bowser,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
B0WSER HIRES A HOG
THE CREATURE SEEMS VERY LONELY
FOR HUMAN SOCIETY.

1t Also Develops Talent as a Running High
of Another Experiment on the Amateur
Farmers Part.
What did that man want of your"
asked Mrs. Bowser as Mr.. Bowser re-
turned to his seat on the doorstep after
quarter of an hours interview with a
man at the gate.
We've were talking about hogs, :"
stammered Mr.. Bowser in reply.
Hogs! You are not thinking of buy
ing hogsl We have only summer rent
ed this farm, you know, and have moth
ing to do with the live stock Besides,
we had hog when we first came here.
and you know what time we had with
him.
But he was only scrub hos"
He was scrub enough, but why
should we have any sort of hog?"
Look here, Mrs. Bowser,' said Mr..
Bowser as he got more courage, II am
lonesome, positively lonesome for a
hog, We've got an empty pen out there
and plenty to feed hog, and I--want
a hog. Hogs go with the farm. You
don't feel as if you were out ON farm
unless you can hear the grunt of a hog
now and then. That's the reason I've
hired hog"
Hired hog, Mr.. Bowserl''
Yes, hired or rented or leased one,
just az you want to put it. didn't
want to buy, but did want something
in that pen, and so l gave that farmer
. shillings week for the loan of hog.
He'll have the animal over here in the
morning, and shall take more comfort
fussing around with him than in all the
rest OF the farming put together.
Bur-you-you"-
II know / had trouble with the other
hog, but this is different breed. The
other critter and. didn't understand
each other, but this hog will be all
right. He'll come here prepared to con-
duct himself in proper manner and be
as one of the family, and ! shan't want
to brain him with the crowbar or hang
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
[HART, MONTANA. JANUARY %, 1897.
A QUEER GAME OF POKER.
The Sporty Doctor Describes 'sRaise'
That Did Not Go.

The Sporty Doctor Describes n .'Raise"
That Did Not Go.
The sporty doctor told the story, and
the sporty doctor can tell stories, if any
body should happen to write to you. He
was sitting in his private office waiting
for his trap, and the conversation shift
ed around to poker games, chiefly be-
cause the bookcase in the office was
decorated with box of chips and sew
eral packs of cards.
"The queerest game of poker / ever
saw" said the sporty doctor, "was one
! played in when / was a medical stu
dent. One night four of us were in the
dissecting room. We had finished ex-
perimenting with the cadavers we had
on hand and were waiting for dinner.
One of the boys suggested that we play
poker. We played it.
''It wasn't long before some of the
boys ran out of money. The game was
a stiff one. and the unlucky ones began
putting up personal property. They let
their watches and knives 60 and finally
got down to their dissecting instruments
and specimens. One of the boys in par
tioular was In hard luck. He got good
hands, but had them stopped with a
regularity that made him sick at heart
In half an hour he had about everything
he possessed in the game and was look
ing around for other collateral.
pretty soon he got big full-it
was three aces and pair of queens, il
I remember correctly. I was betting
against him. and had four little trays
bet 81, and he saw me with scalpel
and went me two better with beauti-
fully picked specimen Of forearm.
raised him right back, and then he was
in quandary. He skinned his cards
over, went through all his pockets.
asked imploringly if I would take all I
0 U. which wouldn't, and then sat
and thought for a minute.
Suddenly he remembered something,
for he told me to wait minute and ran
out Of the room. He came back with a
skeleton which it had taken him six
months to articulate and threw it on
the table. I raise you 200 cold bones, ,
he said calmly"
The sporty doctor stopped. Then the
man who never studied anatomy said,
"Well?''
"Well?" the sporty doctor queried
back at him.
"What happened?''
"Oh, the skeleton was shy three ribs,
to say nothing of lot Of teeth, and the
bet didn't go at it's face value. Buff
falo Express
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
WHOLE NO., 321.
TURF TOPICS.

Mandolin, 2:16, has been gelded.
Flush, by Socrates. recently defeated
Alvin, 2:11, in Russia.
Bob Riley. s:10, is the latest addi-
don to the extreme list.
The Village farm horses are through
racing until next spring.
Onset holds the Jackson (Tenn. } track
record trotting, at 2:22L.
The old mare Mill Girl, :221, was
sold for $50 week before last.
Artful Maud, 2:l634, is another good
one to the credit of Ashland Wilkes.
John Payne may train for Frank
Jones of Portsmouth, N. H.. next year.
Word comes from st. Louis that ].
]. Burke has become complete bicycle
crank.
Katherine, 2:17, and April Fool,
2:151a, have been bought by e. Schles-
niger, Vienna
The 2-year-old flly Minnie B, by
Soxwood, son of Nutwood, has trotted
mile in :24H.
Sandy Boy, 4, 2:12, by Sphinx, has
almost as great flight Of speed as the
free for all PAGERS.
W. W. Hubbinger has purchased the
handsome Onward mare Pearl Onward,
s:10H, for 81, 500.
The pacing stallion Wallingford,
1:271a, recently went race at Hartford
without bit in his mouth.
The late Colonel r. p Todhunter left
large estate, including about 1000
acres of the choicest blue grass land in
Kentucky.
W. P. Dickinson of Chicago picked
up Beauty, the dam of this seasons
great year-old pacing filly Eleanor,
2:l1, at auction last spring for $21O.
Instead of being on a ringing tour in
the east, as has been reported, William
Tell, 2;1S, is being driven on the road
by his owner, Arthur Longley of Chi
oago.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
They Taught Him Things.

Show did Richards come to be SO
well informed on the financial ques-
tion?'' ~
'.He tried to educate few ignorant
laboring men. ''-Detroit News.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23

him by the neck He's Merino hog,
this last one.
II never heard of Merino hogr" e1
claimed Mrs. Bowser.
Every likely. There arc plenty Of
things you never heard of, Mrs. Bowser,
but If you keep on living they will
come to you. There are Merino, South
down, Suffolk, Leghorn, Holstein and
lots of other kinds of hogs, but select
ed this Merino on account of his sweet
and lovely disposition. You'll be glad
/ got him when you see him. That's
all now. was lonely for hog, have
got one and shall take a heap more
comfort than before. {"
Mrs Bowser had no more to say. She
realized that if Mr.. Bowser took no.
tion to buy rhinoceros to occupy the
empty henhouse or walrus to take pos
session Of the smokehouse nothing she
could say would prevent it, The hog
arrived after breakfast next morning,
and when he had been placed in the
pen and the farmer had departed she
went down to the pen to view him. He
was long, lean, lank hog, with three
kinks in his tail and ears which por-
trayed a hungry and grasping character.
He was as hollow as il he had been
bored out with an augur, and he had
lost an eye and received dozen scars
on his snout while battling with cold
and cruel world.
well, isn't he q lulu?' exclaimed
Mr.. Bowser after giving her two or
three minutes to take in all the points.
E He would be--for dime museum, +"
she quietly replied.
.You-you don't fancy him?' -
She's worse than the other one. Mr..
Bowser, II you had hunted the whole
of North"-
"That's you--that's your way" he
interrupted as he danced around. 81 60
and hire a hog to make things cheerful
and homelike ON the farm, and you lie
awake all night to think Of something
mean to say. G'way from here
Cant give you my opinion Of q
hog?'
"No, ma am. Don't come near this
pen. Don't come within ten rods of it.
You abused that other hog in the most
shameful manner, and that's why he
acted as he did. but I'll protect this one
from your malignancy.
Mrs. Bowser entered the house, and
Mr.. Bowser leaned over the pen and
looked lovingly down on his latest &C.
QUESTION. The hog squinted back at him
with one eye and seemed to feel at
home. BY und by he lay down with a
sigh and "woof," and Mr.. Bowser
tiptoed away, with broader smile on
his face than had been there for week.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
She Sat on Me.
RONDEAu.

RONUEAU.
She sat on me, and, in sarcastic vein,
She crushed me with terrible disdain.
Her naughty coldness almost made me freeze
had not meant my lady to displease,
But she was much offended, that was plain.
tried TO speak-sbe babe me to refrain;
She said her wrath never could appease
And added explanations would be in vain
She sat ON ME. = u ~ '''F
But, after all, she only meant to tease,
And soon we both were chatting at our ease
Around her waist my arm then made chain
And quietly she let ii there remain,
And when ! placed her gently on my knees
She sat ON me.
New York Sunday World.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
His Blood Was Up.

II don't see how you had the courage
to engage single handed with the train
robbers and finally drive them of, - said
one of the trembling passengers after
the affair was over.
~ was mad clear through, !" replied
the conductor, still quivering with
wrath. II thought they were taking a
straw vote. Chicago Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
A Supreme Test.

Herbert is truly fond of me-" she
said.
Men are very deceitful, replied the
girl who reads nothing but novels
i am sure of his affection.
"What makes you so?''
~ broke his bicycle, and he did not
get angry. Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
Wouldn't Even Hesitate.

Mat Berry, while on his way to New
Orleans the other day, asked the very
pompous Pullman car porter of the
Limited" if his train would stop at a
certain small station in Kentucky.
"Stop?" calculated the darky in
amazement "Stop? No, sab; dis yer
train doesn't even hesitate at Spring
Station. New Orleans Times Dem
Ocrat
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
Her Meaning.

Angry Father-What do you mean
by being engaged to half dozen men
at once?
She-Notbing. Detroit Free Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
On the Bridal Tour.

She-Papa thought he was smart, put
ting a receipted gas bill among the
presents, didn't he?
He-Yes, especially when you al
ways turned the gas almost out when I
called, Harlem Life.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-23
The Usual Thing.

Drummer-How many members are
there in your fire company?
Squam Corners Merchant-About 800.
"Why, that is about all the men
there are in the village"
eyes, and in the company there are
8 firemen and about 291 bosses. -
Truth.
The Press., 1897-04-22
A HunfRrsA Fancy.

The last buffalo killed in Jewell county was on May 23, 1872. A man rode up to the ranch of Columbus Palm CT and reported that he had seen a buffalo in draw mile or two away. Palmer took his dogs and started and thus describes what subsequently, hap pened:
 "The dogs ran on ahead of me, but pretty soon they came tearing back, with a big buffalo bull in full pursuit. Galloping Jehosaphatl But that bull did look big as he charged down on me, with his tail in the air and his shaggy head shaking in fury. I tried to move off to one side, but that was no use, for the dogs kept coming toward me which ever way turned. It is said to be i'm possible to kill buffalo which is com- ing head on. but I saw something had to be done mighty quick, so I dropped to my knee and plugged him square in the forehead. He fell dead in his tracks, and I am now convinced that any man who says a buffalo cannot be shot through the skull is liar. "-Kansas City Journal ...
The Press., 1897-04-22
Safe Course.

An excellent reply was that once made by a Yankee pilot to the owner of Mississippi river steamboat.
 The boat was at New Orleans, and the Yankee applied for the vacant post of pilot, saying that he thought he could give satisfaction provided they were ''lookin for a man about his size and build"
 "Your size and build will do well enough" said the owner, surveying the lank form and rugged face of the appli- cant with some amusement, "but do you know about the river, where the snags are and so on?''
 "Well, Pm pretty well acquainted with the river," drawled the Yankee, with his eyes fixed on stick he was whittling, "but when you come to talkin about the snags I don't know exactly where they are, must say"
 Don't know where the snags are?'' said the boat owner in a tone of dis gust. "Then how do you expect to get a position as pilot on this river?''
 "Well, sir," said the Yankee, raising a pair of keen eyes from his whittling and meeting his questioner's stern gaze with whimsical smile, "I may not know just where the snags are, but you can depend upon me for knowin where they ain't, and that's where calculate to do my sailin. "-Youth' Companion.
The Press., 1897-04-22
Minnesota's vss.=css.

In Minnesota and the two Dakotas there are areas of more than 200 square miles with population of only eight to the square mile. Speaking of Minnesota, the Minneapolis Tribune says: "Minne sota alone is larger than all New Eng land, and a much larger proportion of the land is tillable. Of the 53, 45O, 900 acres in this state, only 5000. 900 are now cultivated. If peopled as densely as Ohio, Minnesota alone would have population of 7,5OO. .OOO There are said to be million lakes in Minnesota, and these are fed or drained by innumerable streams, not to mention the mighty Mississippi on the east, the Red River of the North on the west, the Rainy lake water courses on the north, and their great tributaries, which, together, pene- trate nearly every section of our vast territory''