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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03
THE HISTORICAL NOVEL.

l Tho fact Is that no man can step off | his own shadow. By no effort of the 1 will can he thrust himself backward l into the past and shed his share of the | accumulations of the ages, of all the | myriad accretions of thought and sen-
 tin,ent and knowledge, stored up in the | centuries that lie between him and the | time he Is trying to treat. Of necessity l he puts into his picture of days gone by more or less of the days in which he is | living. Shakespeare frankly accepted | the situation. Scott attempted the inn | possible
 Not only is 1t impossible for a man
 to get away from his own country, but 1t is equally impossible for him to get
 away from his own nationality, Has
 any author ever been able to create a
 character of different stock from his own? Certainly all the greatest figures
 of fiction are compatriots to their own | authors. We have had many carpet bag novelists of late--nen and women who go forth gaily and study foreign
 country from the platform of parlor
 car-and some of these are able to spin
 , oiIlS WIiGl llpltt lHb dllGullOl nl llSt- ening thousands. What the people of the foreign countries think of these su-
 perficial tales we can measure when we
 recall the contempt in which we Amer
 jeans hold the efforts made by one and
 another of the British novelists to lay
 the scene of a story here in the United
 States. Dickens and Trollope and
 Reade were men of varied gifts, keen
 observers all of them; but how lament able the spectacle when they endeavor-
 ed to portray an American! Probably most American endeavors to portray an Englishman are quite as foolish in the eyes of the British. Dickens twice chose to compete with the carpet bag novelists; and if we Americans are un- willing to see a correct picture of our life in Martin Chuzzlewit" we may be sure that the French are as unwilling to acknowledge the Tale of Two Git ies" as an accurate portrayal of the most dramatic epoch in their history There are those who think it was a piece of impertinence for a Londoner like Dickens to suppose that he could escape the memorable limitations of his birth and education and hope to see Americans or Frenchmen as they really are. Far finer artists than Dickens have failed in this-artists of a far more exquisite touch
 The masterpieces of the great paint CTS instantly declare the race to which the limner himself belonged Rubens and Velasquez and Titan travelled and saw the world; they have left us DOT traits of men of many nationalties, and yet every man and woman Rubens painted seems to us Dutch, every man and woman Nelasquez painted seems to us Spanish, and every man and wo- man Titan painted seems to us Italian. In short, man can no more escape from his race than he can escape from his century; it is the misfortune of the historical novelist that he must try to do both.-Prof. Brander Matthews in the Forum.
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{ IoWed, for him, with forms and figures: then he had gone on in seeing all life Tn torms and figures because that min lstered infinitely to his craft.
 II ever a man fully found his eXpres- sloh It was, l think, Du Maurier; Q truth really confirmed by the informal nature of his eventual literary manner. which rendered all the better because It was loose and whimsical the thing he cared most to render, the free play or sensibillty in the presence of the hu- man envelope. His forty years of pie torlal work form not merely a repre- Sentation, or collection, of so many images given him by so many sub Jects, but come as near, probably, as an artists outward total, that scanty slgn or the inward sum, ever, at the pest, does come to complete discharge Of obligations. His particular chance was that if there was still, for the ob- server-the observer, mean, of his in- spiration-to be any mistake, he achieved practical summary of it afresh, at the last, with the aid of an other art; abounding again in the af- flrmation Of sensibilities and humors, and moods, of the personal, the beau tiful, the ugly, abounding in all imme- diate perceptions and surrenders, the downright loves and hates, the natural gayeties and glooms that were to make the unprecedented fortune of an unpre meditated stroke, and be answerable for a trio of books which, as he lived them, as it were, so much more than wrote them, gave others also the rare and charming sense of their being more lived than read.-Henry James in Har
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QUErR lEGIshar,oN,


 The members of the Iowa legislature are not taking any pride just now in one of their performances. They passed bill which imposed tax upon the premium income of European in surance companies greater than the tax imposed upon the premium income of American companies. The result is that the Minister of Switzerland at Washington has called the attention of the Secretary of State to the fact that the Iowa statute would operate to the disadvantage of Swiss Insurance com panies doing business in that State, and that such discrimination is forbid den by an article of the treaty of 1850 between the United States and Swttzer- land, which provides that mo higher lmpost, under whatever name, shall be eXacted from the citizens of one of the two countries residing or established in the other country in which they reside, nor any contribution whatever to which the latter shall not be liable" Secre- eafy sherman in turn calls the atten- ton of the governor of Iowa to this provision, and the legislators are thus notiiled of the failure of their scheme.
 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but TO knowledge is more dan gerous
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03
POSTAL SAYINGS B4SKs

It is believed that measures for the
 establishment of postal savings banks will receive attention in congress this winter Postal savings banks have worked well in England. Within a
 mile of nearly every farmhouse in the United Kingdom there is a postoffice savings bank, with the British govern ment as proprietor which pays 21s per cent. interest on the savings of the peo
 pie. The growth of the postal savings
 bank system of England during the last ten years demonstrates in a re- markable manner it's popularity with the people. In 1886 there were 6.562. .395 depositors. In 1896 they had increased to 11,3S4,977. In 1886 the value of the postal deposits for the year was G15,- 696,S52. In 1896 these increased to es2.- 07S,66O. In 1886 the interest paid to de- positors or placed to their credit was G1,l69,590. In 1896 the interest paid to depositors amounted to 92,222,545. The total amount standing to the credit of depositors jumped from 50,S74, ,338 in 1886 to e97,s6S,975 in 1896. In 1868 there were only eighty-one such banks in Canada, and the balance, to the credit of depositors then was $205, ,0OO. In June, 1S97 there were 800 banks and the balance due depositors amounted to $31, 100000
 Some think that postal savings banks cannot we'll be established in this coun- try because there are not enough na- tional securities outstanding in which to invest the deposits, but this difficulty could doubtless be overcome.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03
CURRNNCY KEEORM.

If E. V. Smalley is right, and he probably is, currency reform may not be as distant or as difficult as some have thought. MT. Smalley writes to the New York Post that in business cir cles in the West, among the merchants in country and town, and on the boards of trade and other commercial bodies. there has been a good deal of ripeninc of opinion in the past few months on the money question, and that strong pressure will be brought to bear from these sources next winter upon mem bers of congress in favor of the imme- diate passage of some simple measure of currency reform. Western business men do not now talk in a vague and general way on this subject, as they did last winter and spring. but they seem to know exactly what they want. Nine out of ten of them, at least. if questioned will say that the first step in the direction of reform is the repeal of the law of 1878 which obliges the sec retary of the treasury to reissue the greenbacks as fast as they are re- deemed. With this law repealed they think that the gold standard will be
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with embroidered edges.


 gave the belt.
 The party dress that served all through the summer will do again for winter, if you spangle the bodice and add touch of jeweled velvet. If you weight the now saddened gauge drap- cry with jewels and spangles and set on frill or so of taffeta on the foun- dation skirt so that freshness of hang" may be conveyed, you will have win ter party gown that will adhere to the most exclusive taste, and at the same tune will have cost less than an entire iy new gown of a design that your pocketbook can afford It Is wisdom to expend money on new things Of the simplest kind and to leave elaborations for the making over. How foolish it is to make big outlay on a spangled, em- oroldered or painted ball gown, since it therefore will have but one life. Get one plain, let its first beauty be that of perfect harmony and simplicity then later when that first freshness is worn off let 1t blossom into new radiance of elaborateness
 Colored julie veilings are pretty, but they do not last well, and they only suit young folks. A handsome brunette With brown eyes and good skin looks better behind coffee colored cloud. but if the wrong sort of brunette does this, the effect is dreadful! A blond With clear white skin can risk blue tulle to touch up her eyes," but if her complexion is not good the effect will be ghastly, for blue and yellow make green, A creamy yellow just suits some skins, taking away the sal lowness and if the eyes are an uncer- tain y-blue it gives to them an elu- sive tint of green. Wearing tulle veils in color Is matter for an artists Judgment, and monkeying ignorantlv with it's effect is dangerous.
 FLORETTE.
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- ---'----s- NOT GU3LTY.

My lord" said the foreman of an Irish jury, when giving in his verdict, | 'we find the man who stole the mare not guilty. .'-Tit-Bi 1 Bobby (admiring the India-ink tat tooing on Dickey's arm)--'Did it hurt much?" Dickey-"Not till my mother saw it."-Boston Transcript | Parker-"I believe these weather clerks just guess at it." Deacon-"Oh, no; they'd get it right once in a while if they just guessed. "- Cleveland Leader. A Natural Question.-Sapsmith entists say that mans mind Is a blank when he is asleep" Grimshaw- ''Then how do you know when you are awake, Sappy?"-Judge
 Another Thrust.-She-"N "Now-listen here-the average woman has a vocab- ulary of only 5000 words!" He-"Yes; but remember-she uses them all every day."-Detroit Free Press
 Excited Wife-"oh, professor, the cook has fallen and broken her collar bone" Professor-"Discharge her at once. You told her what to expect if she broke anything more. "-Tit-Bits.
 A Lucky Man,-Spriggs-''H old man, I'm awfully glad to see you out again. l heard that the doctors gave you up" Bowles-"Yes, I guess I'd have died if they hadn't."-Cleveland Leader.
 Yeast-"That man in Dougbton is very skepticaI. Unless he sees a thing he won't believe it exists Crimson Beak-"He never ran into a rocking chair in the dark then ?"-Yonkers Statesman.
 Julia" said the old gentleman, re- proaehfully, If I am not mistaken you gave that young man kiss" q did no such thing" returned the young woman with emphasis. Tt was trade. ."-Chicago Post.
 Young man." said the elderly gentle man, in a choking voice, "she is the only daughter I have"
 "Yes," acknowledged the young man, that is one reason I thought T would like to marry her. ."-Indianapolis Jour nal.
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sufficiently fortified fer the present. The second measure they advocate, With almost entire unanimity, Is an act authorizing strong banks, with large capital in the principal cities to estab- fish branch banks in the small towns, Such a measure, they say, would make the present ample currency supply of the nation available at all points where 1t might be needed for immediate business use, and would give the con Venlences and advantages of banking to the farming communities throughout the West and South.
 If the business men of the West and South want something like this they will probably be able to get it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03

i cupy not only the desert places of the earth, but the debatable grounds, the plllier territories, which hitherto have separated them from those ancient ma tions, with whom they now soon must stand face to face and border to boz der But who will say that this vast general movement represents the thought, even the unconscious thought, Of any one man, as Caesar, or of any lew men? To whatever cause we may assign 1t, whether to the simple con ception of personal divine monarchy | that shapes our ends, or to more com plicated ultimate causes the responsi- blllty rests upon the shoulders of no in- diVidual men, Necessity is laid upon the peoples, and they move, like the Jennings of Scandinavia; but to man, pelns not without understanding like the beasts that perish, it is permitted to ask, 'Whither?" and What shall De the end hereof?" Does this tend to universal peace, general disarmament ana treaties of permanent arbitration? IS IL the harbinger of ready mutual un- derstanding, of quick acceptance of, and delight in, opposing traditions and
 
 quick acceptance found now where easterns and western impinge? Does contract forebode the speedy disap- pearance of great armies and navies, and dictate the wisdom of dispensing Wlth that form of organized force winch at present is embodied in them?
 What then, will be the actual condi- tlons when these civilizations of diverse origin and radically distinct because the evolution of racial characteristics radically different-confront each other without the interposition of which the contrasts, being more remote, are less apparent, and within which distinctions shade one into the other?
 Positions suitably chosen, frontiers suitably advanced, will do much to re- tard and, by gaining time, to modify the disaster to the one party, and to convert the general issue to the benefit of the world Hence the immense inn portance of discerning betimes what the real value of positions is, and where occupation should betimes begin. Here, in part at least, is the significance of the great outward movement of the European nations to-day Consciously or unconsclously they are advancing the outposts of our civilization, and ac- cumulating the line of defences which will permis to survive, or at the least will insure that it shall not go down till it has leavened the character of the world for future brighter even than it's past, just as the Roman civilization l inspired and exalted its Teutonic con- querors and continues to bless them to l this day.-A. T. Mahan. in Harper's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03
DU MAURIER's LIKES AND DIS.

LIKES.
 He disliked the earnest attitude, and we often disagreed Git only made us more intimate} about what it does for enjoyment; 1 regarding it as the very gate or gustatory mouth of pleas ure, and lie, willing enough indeed to take 1t for a door, but a door closed in ones face. However, no man could have liked more to like or more not to. and we often came out by roads of very different adventure at the very same finger-post. His sense of things had always been, and had essentially to be, some lively emotion about them--juSt this love or just this hate: and he was full of accumulated, inspiring experi- ence because he was full of feelings, admirations, affections. repulsions The world was, very simply divided for him into what was beautiful and what was ugly, and especially into what looked so, and so far as these divisions were with everything they opened out to-a complete account of the matter, noth- ing could be more vivid than his view or more interesting It was a view for the expression of which. from his ear Hest time, he had had the happiness of finding a medium close to his hand: he had begun to draw because all life over
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FASHION NOTES.
Summer Favorite Carried Into Fall.

A Summer Favorite Carried Into Fall.
 Linon has been so generally used this season that there has been no end of pretty dresses in it, but few of them were as dainty as the one shown here. It was white, dotted with pink, and the bodice had plain back, but was draped in front in bolero fashion the edges held with a bow of pink ribbon. Below the bolero effect the material was gathered full, and near the side seams were lace scarfs that were tuck ed in the waist and fell on the basque Which was a rufile of the linon. The skirt had a plain foundation and this was trimmed with three deep flounces
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in sertion. Five Cents Word for full week (seyen times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in- sertlon, S1.2O; each subsequent insertion; 70 cents; one week, $320; one month, SlO; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals, 90 cents each. Local Notices 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be unobJectionable), and thelr contracts do not include Wants, To Let For Sale, etc.
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An English paper publishes this ad- vertisement: we hereby publish our intention to repudiate any demands for payment of moneys obtained under any pretense whatsoever by any person Whomsoever." Then follows the firm name and address. Few are as frank as this.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03

A deaf mute, named Theodore Grady, has been admitted to the bar in Cali fornia. It Is not believed that he will ever become great jury lawyer"
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, l5 CENTS A WEEK, 30 CENTS A MONTH, S3 FOR SIX MONTHS, 60 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
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Parisian women of the highest social rank are organizing beauty clubs. These are bath clubs, where all the famous recipes of former days for keep ing the skin fresh and beautiful are provided As such preparations are ex- pensive for an individual, these clubs are organized. Thus some will use asses milk, a favorite of Queen Tsa- bella of Bavaria. Others prefer melon juice, rose water, Mecca balsam or some other thing that is supposed to benefit the skin. The Marie Antoinette bath is a mixture of aromatic herbs and salt thrown into water. Another favorite contains sweet marioram thyme, and crushed rice and barley. The wife of the Russian czar Alex ander l., used every morning in a sil- yer tub small barrel of Malaga wine, and is said to have been benefited bv these regular ablutions. These and many other recipes are provided by the clubs to their members at reason able rates, but when one enthusiastic member recently asked of a famous Paris physician which of these baths had the best effects, he replied that the result in most cases depended upon the imaginatio of the bathers.
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The leading savings banks of Detroit have decided hereafter to pay 31s per cent interest instead of 4.
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More mortgages have been paid off in Minnesota this year than were canceled in the two years preceding
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AMERICA AND THE NEW HORDES
 OF BARBARIANS

The peoples Of European civilizatio after a period of comparative rcpose, are advancing all along the line to oc-
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 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Very large and rich deposits of mer- cury have been discovered on Noggriga creek, New South Wales, by party working under aid from the govern ment prospecting vote. A forty-acre mineral lease has been secured by the party, who have sunk shaft to a depth of one hundred feet, at which depth the lode carries a high percen- tage of metal. Two other forty-acre blocks have been taken up on the line of the lode, and two shafts sunk with very encouraging prospects.
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Tillman doesn't appear to mind what he says, but he occasionally stumbles onto a truth. Why can't New York get along without boss?' he cried. Several in the audience attempted to answer. Because we've always had one," said one: because we've got to have parties, and parties must have bosses" said another; because we can't shake Platt and Croker,' said a third. No" thundered the South Car olina senator; tits because you're such internal fools you don't know any bet ter"
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Tn Chandler, Oklahoma, the other day William Overmar was the defend ant in a breach of promise suit brought by Grace Allen. The plaintiffs lawyer introduced William to the jury by say ing: This is the male calf who took buggy rides with this fair flower, lisped dulcet strains of his puerile passion into her ear, and now says she asked him to take her buggy riding Gentle men, this lousy cur should be thrown into a we'll filled with scaly snakes that they might hiss and hiss at him for all eternity" A male calf riding in a buggy with flower lisping into its ear would be a sight to see.
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It is encouraging to see that each year brings diminution in the num- Der of cases on the docket of the Trnit- ed States Supreme court The docket for the next term, which begins on October Il, contains so far only 446 cases Last October, when the court reconvened after the long summer re- cess, there were 595 cases waiting to be disposed of. Before the creation of the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal. early in the course of the Harrison ad ministration, it was no unusual occur renee for the Supreme court to find it. self from four to five years in arrears, with the litigation constantly piling up on its calendars. To-day there is a fair prospect that the end of the century will see the court actually up with it's work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-15
and shipments occur regularly from

and shipments occur regularly. from
that property.
AS for smaller claims there are any
number of them, the most important
of which are the West Cable, Eagle,
Utah and Northern Spy All of these
are being worked to a certain extent,
and most of them have indications of
becoming among the foremost mines of
the district.
AS for the mine owners in the other
end of the district, every one of them is
fully aware of what they are doing for
the welfare of Tintic.
Very few idle men now linger in
camp, and the business houses report
a heavy business for the past month.
Taking everything into consideration,
Tintic should come forth as the banner
district of Utah this year, as 1t did
last, and with the addition Of such a
bonanza as the Lower Mammoth and
many others should pull out among the
best districts of the west
Ten carloads of ore were shipped from
the Bullion-Beck to Salt Lake this
morning.
The West Gable mine resumed work
yesterday after a months shut down.