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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
A RACE PROBLEM.

The race problem in the South, says
the Medical Record. seems destined to
be settled by natural laws, unless
something be done speedily to save the
negro from the results of his own
vices. This view is supported by re-
cent Investigations into the matter by
"A colored physician, DIR. II. II. Johnson
of Brunswick. Ga. He gathered vital
statistics from nearly 800 towns in the
South and found that the death rate
Of negroes is double that of the whites,
and that the birth rate is smaller
among the colored than among the
white population. Furthermore, the
younger generation of the race make
but poor showing, he says, as re-
CARDS size and physique, compared
with their ancestors. These facts are
attributed to the carelossness and dis
sipation OF the race. In the days of
slavery the negroes We're looked after
by physicians and taken. care of, and
the result was a race of giants; but
with liberty, coupled with ignorance of
sanitary laws, came Righteousness and
the enervatng vices to which they are
now yielding
That the colored race is capable of
great Improvement when placed under
proper restraint is proven by the re-
port Of Surgeon General Sternberg In
his annual report on the health of the
colored soldiers. The Record quotes the
following:
Great Improvement has taken place
In the past few years in the sanitary
condition Of the colored troops. The
white troops have participated in the
improvement. although their rates have
not fallen 50 rapidly as those OF the
colored men. During the past year
the total hospital admission rate for all
causes among the cOlored troops was
SGS,SS per 1000 Of strength, ms compared
with 1,i32.49 among the whites, and as
compared with 9l5.SS among them
selves In the previous year and with
1.SGs.64 their own annual average
for the previous decade, the annual
average Of the white troops having
been 1.2si.95. The non-eihcleucy from
all causes among the colored troops
during the year was 25.15 per 900 of
strength,a as compared with 3i.72 among
the white troops. The colored soldier
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
THE CUBAN QUESTION.


Senator Allen of Nebraska has lost
no time in bringing the Cuban cues
ton before the Senate. In presentine
his resolution for tho racnFnitIon of
tho noIltioal indenendence of Tho island
he tool occasion tn exnress a vie,v on
tirely different from thnt set forth in
the executive message. He even urged
that tbe rocovnItIon of c,b, should
no hacked nm ~ nocoeeorv nv n neet
in Cuban vaters some animated dis
cussion n,v follow this resolution
INT n la NOT ,,,se,v % result In ,nv-
thing more eer,ous ot n,esept as III.
President claims exclusive cortro, of
the foreign rotations Of tho Ranuh,,c
and his v,ev ,s that No ac,iop shouId
ha taken uptit ,ptereererco c,n ho
ius,ieed In tho o,os ~ Tho ci,,i,,,oa
would
The Wow that sna,,,s oears q, ou-
tonomv for cuba are made in good
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
THE HAITIEN TROUBLE.

The emphatic demands OF Germany
on the little Haitlen republic for heavy
damages and humiliating apology
have every appearance of a hold-up.
In view of what has taken place in
China recently the supposition is ire
sistlble that the claim of damages
would have been followed by occupa-
ton of territory but for the intima.
ton by our government that the peo-
pie of the United States believe in the
Monroe doctrine.
The trouble was brought about by
the arrest of one Lueders. This man
is the son of Haitien woman and
German, and is by the laws of the re-
public II Iaitien. He was convicted of
assaulting an officer. an offense 1t is
claimed he has been guilty of repeat
edly, and was therefore sentenced to
imprisonment. He appealed to the
German representative and on the re-
port sent to Berlin the government
demanded the release of Lueders and
an indemnity of $1,000 for each day he
had been imprisoned, with an addi-
tional $4,000 for each day he might be
detained in prison after the demand
for his release had been presented to
the government.
This is what Germany,s representa-
tive in Washington calls moderate"
demands for an indemnity. 1t is i'm
possible to read of the proceedings
without feeling convinced that they
were instituted as n pretext for the
annexation of Haitien territory. Sup
pose German citizen were arrested in
the United States for disorderly con-
duct, convicted and sentenced to
term of imprisonment; what woul
Germany do about 1t? Certainly not
demand an indemnity and send cruisers
to enforce the demand. Wilhelm's
realm is great nation and professedly
a Christian one. Her rulers believe
that the Supreme power has lifted her
up from insignficance to the position
she now holds. They should remem-
Der that power and influence con-
ferTed by Providence are sacred trusts
given to be used for the benefit of
mankind, for the protection of the
weak against the aggression of the
strong, and for the furtherance of
peace and good will among all. Ger
many's struggle for unity was
"Kulturkampf'--a battle for civiliza-
tlon and humanity-in the parlance of
those who took the leading parts in Il.
1t follows that IL the present leaders Of
her affairs turn oppressocG, they prove
themselves unworthy keepers of the
Inheritance from their predecessors
and as such may expect to be sup
planted by others. Nations, as in
dlviduals, may temporarily prosper in
unrighteousness, but the foundations
for permanent success must rest on
the exercise of justice and truth.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

teach. from the Bible but from poems
and books of their own manufacture.
Brigham Young was quoted by this
lecturer as having. said:
II care not for the Bible or any
other book; have just received d reve-
lation from God which Is more bene-
fetal TO us than any book
Miss Webster has met with severn
other extraordinary things in Utah.
Thus,she had found a Young girl paint
ing the picture OF Naomi on the wall,
in the form of II man. and afterwards
praying to the picture. This girl, the
lecturer said. had Just been married to
a polygamist She had also found
several boys from to u years old. who
had never heard OF Christ, there being
no Sunday schools in Utah outside of
Salt Lake City and Ogden.
Concerning the missionaries in the
field Miss Webster said they were men
who could not make Il living Mt home
and therefore went abroad to live on
other people. In this connection she
is quoted as having given utterance to
the following concerning Utah's young
men and women:
ut ls a common thing for young men
and women to cOngregate, sitting and
lying on the lawn. drunk and smoking
cigarettes. while young ladies of high
society boast Of being intoxicated"
After this It is no surprise to hear
that the lecturer closed her Grafton by
saying:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

lost 9i2 days from disability during
the year. tho white soldier, l2.7l; and
the average time Of treatment OF each
cnse was, among the colored troops,
1884 days. among the white, il.22 days
The causes of disability from which
the colored men suffered less than the
white troops were malarlal fevers
venereal diseases, alcoholism, dinrrhoeai
and injuries: those from which they
suffered more were neuralgia, rheuma-
tism and myalgia, tonsllitis. collie and
constipation, conjunctivltis, and pneu-
monia."
Besides the special interest this mat
ter may have to those who are anxious
for the welfare of the colored people in
the United States. the figures presented
are of general interest as proving the
necessity of temperate living for the
perpetuation OF strong posterlty The
effects OF intemperance and the disre-
gard of natural laws work destruction
in short order. It was announced thou
sands OF years ago to the people slow
iy vending their way through the
deserts of Arabia to the land they were
to inherit that the effects of their
errors would be visible to the third or
fourth generation, while strict obser-
vance of the laws and statutes given
to them would bring blessings upon
their descendants on vastly larger
scale. Experience abundantly proves
this to be n fact, applicable to all ma
tons and all ages, 10 matter what may
be the explanation of 1t. The effect
is visible even IL the cause is I'M
known
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

At this time of the year cold is very
easily contracted. and If left to run It's
course without the aid of some reliable
cough medicine is liable TO result in
that dread disease. pneumonia. We
know of no better remedy TO cure II
cough or cold than Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. We have used II quite
extensively and It has always given en-
tire satisfaetion.-Olag Ind. Ter
Chief.
This is the only remedy that is known
to be a certain preventive of pneu-
monla. Among the many thousands
who have used 1t for colds and la
grippe, we have never yet learned of
n single case having resulted in pneu-
monia. Persons who have weak lungs
or have reason to fear an attack of
pneumonia, should keep the remedy ut
hand. The % and 50 cent sizes for sale
by Druggists.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
a sLANDERER, FAIR YET FOUL.

Elder Fred p. Brook. writing from
Indianapolis, December IA. statru that
one Miss Rose Glen Webster, represent
Ing n Baptist missionary society, is
lecturing about Mormonism in eastern
cities. The correspondent attended
one of these lectures held at, private
home on Fletcher avenue. Indiana
polls. The same lecture was delivered
1t appears, mt Franklin. Indiana, at n
Baptist church and was reported by
n paper Of that place, which stated that
her object is to talk of the labors Of
the Baptist home missionary society
and Stir up additional interest In the
work" In her Fletcher avenue talk,
according to Elder Brook, the
lecturer prefaced her effort with
the statement that she had been la
boring in Provo and that what she was
about to relate was founded upon per-
sonal observations.
1t would serve no useful purpose to
publish here the entire report OF the
lecture, but few extracts may be
given in order to show the general
tenor of it. Miss Webster said among
other things:
The Elders do not know what the
Bible Is, and one Of them was handed
BOOK on electricity to find a certain
passage of Scripture and after hunt
ing Tor some time said he couhl not
ma H. but could do so II he had the
~ioi'hoh Bible. The Mormons do not
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
A cHANGE-oR RUIN,


EVERY no" anu theh II pehooNes IN
dividuals' as 1t does corporations to try
TO strike a balance. showing their con-
dition financially, and the change, and
the causes thereof. that may have en-
sued since the last previous examina-
tion. Comparisons furnished by such
n study are nearly always beneficial. II
not always satisfactory; 1t is some
times as profitable to know where and
how and what we lost, ms 1t is pleas-
urable to know how much we gained
Uncle Sam is an individual who
with all his might and energy and re-
sources. can stiIl NOT afford TO neglect
,he occosiona, baI,,ce-sbee, which
nr,,,o+o nersors ,r,, o,,o,, to,oa h,,sinoo.
coroor,,s erd noooss,r,, In Tho t,to,,i-
-. ,,a,,,, -, ,,,,,, ,,,.l,,a,
9r,a ~ 49,. - -
49,. -,
-, -,
9''oau s'us ."Vi'' ''' e,u'S. y"
','' i"s' u"s VI i"Ss inoi'h' ior M
s'aiee' ms in'eres'-pe"i'hs uep'
Hn'ounteu 10 the snug sum Oh sef''So''-
Wv Pou' years ago the hts. VI iaSt
M"rch IL was Soso'oSf'Zoo' so that our
ing these last hity-seven months OF
peace with no unusual reason for eN-
travagant outlay, he has increased his
bonded Indebtedness s262.3 800 or Mt
an average of a little over N.600000 per
month. Worse than that, he Is run
ming behind right now nearly twice
that amount each month. his outlay
every thirty days being about $1,000
900 more than his income. This
policy long continued will naturally
ruin any kind of a business. md our
venerable uncle can expeot no otbo,
fate unless he can institute n change.
Rut bis v,ee mon oo,,o ,ona,ha. T.,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

Ex-Governor Altgeld of Illinois in a
recent speech declared that as a ma
ton I'VE have lightweight senator's"
which shows either that the most tire
less takers sometimes make slip OF
the tongue. or that Altgeld hasn't
learned much in the last two years.
Utah became sovereign State in
January, 1896. We have two senators,
and the nation now has ninety.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
Tho direct line to Kansas city, $

Tho direct line to Kansas City, st.
Louis and Atlantic seaboard, Is via
the Missouri Pacific Railway, from
Pueblo. Through sleeping and chair
cars. and all connections made in
Union depots in the daytime. If you
are going East and care for day
light ride through the grandest seem
cry of the Rocky Mountains enroute.
see that your ticket reads via Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway. Elegant chair
cars positively free to the holders of
regular train tickets.
II. B. KoOSER, c. T. & p A..
Salt Lake City.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

Don't be persuaded into buying lini-
ments, without reputation or merit
Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no more
and its merits have been proven by n
test of many years. Such letters as
the following. from l.. G. Bagley.
Hueneme. Cal, are constantly being
received: 1.-THE best remedy for pain
l have ever used is Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, and l say so after having used
1t in my family for several years" 1t
cures rheumatism, lame back, sprains
and swellings. For sale by Druggists.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

After hearing some friends continual
ly praislng Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Ditrrhoea Remedy. Curtis
Fleck. of Anaheim, California purchased
II bottle OF 1t for his own use and is
now as enthusiastic over Its wonderful
work as anyone can be. The % ard so
cent sizes for sale by Druggists.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09

one thousand dollars per day in d.
rect expense and no one knows how
much indirectly, the people OF Illinois
have to pay for the luxury Of the
special session of the state legislature
which convened last Tuesday. Law
makers come high. but some governors
seem to think they must have them.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
EXCURSION TO LOGAN.


Round trip only $3.50. Trains leave
o. S. l.. depot at s am. and special
at $3.50 p. M. special returning after
the opera. Tickets Will also be good
returning until December 18th.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
EXCURSION TO LOGAN.


Round trip only $3.50. Trains leave
O. ;. l.. depot at s n. M, and special
1T $3.50 p. M, special returning after
the opera. Tickets WIN also be good
returning until December l4th.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
SPECIAL OPERA EXCURSION

To Provo and Return. December 10th,
BY the Salt Lake Opera company
via the Oregon Short Line. Round
trip only st25. Special train return
ing after the opera.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
Salt Lake Valley Loan and Trust Co.,
aI5 South Main Street,

Salt Lake office of First National
Bank of Park City. VIII mako loans
at reasonable rates long or short time,
on real estate, stocks. bonds, mort
cages. or approved personal security.
O. j. SALISBURY, President,
SAM J. KENYON, Treasurer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
The SeQI Fish I Oyster N0IAeI,

j. w. KING, Proprietor.
Has moved to the large new store, 80 Wet
First South, and will carry the choicest assert.
ment OF Fish. Oysters and Poultry to be found
in the city. Telephone 800.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
ONLY si.a5 10 PROVO AND RETURN


Via the Oregon Short Line. Special
opera excursion. Special train leaves
Salt Lake at $3.50. Train returning af-
ter performance.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
ONLY si.ao TO Provo AND RETURN


Via the Oregon Short Line. Special
opera excursion. Special train leaves
Salt Lake at $50. Train returning af-
ter performance.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
SPECIAL OPERA EXCURSION


BY the salt Lake Opera company
via the Oregon Short Line. Round
trip only Sl.25. Special train leaves
salt Lake at $3.50. Special train return
ing after the opera.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
SPECIAL EXCURSION TO PROVO,


Via the oregon Short Line. Round
trip only Sl.25 Special train leaves
Salt Lake at $3.50. Special returning
after the opera.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
City Scavenger No. 5.

CLOSETS AND CEssPoOLs CLEANED.
ma NIL kinds Of scayenger work done prompt
~, thoroughly and at ialr prices. Address;
90 steicnsun's avenue. Orders taken at lis
West South Temple street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-15
FORMOSA SCOURGED BY LOCUSTs.
Myriads of the Pests Suddenly
SwOOD Down and Destroy the
Crops.

letter has been received from For
mosa from Rev. DR. G. l.. Mackay. Of
FormOsa, and ex-moderator of the
Presbyterian general assembly, in
which he says that recently, when
travelling inland, indistinct sounds were
heard far ahead. These grew louder
as he approached. Looking toward the
east was seen, in appearance, a per-
feet snow storm advancing rapidly
westward. The party halted on the
pathway, and, with a rushing noise,
swarms Of locusts on the wing flew ten
feet high over their heads. On and
on with the wind the insect army
pressed forward, until the air was
thickened and the sun darkened. In a
moment they settled on the waving
rice fields of green, and with great
rapidity that color gave way to a
brownish hue. Crowds of farmers,
their wives and children were wild
with excitement and were jumping,
running, yelling and cursing the de-
stroyers
Bamboo groves have been stripped OF
their leaves and left standing like sap.
lings after a rapid bush fire Rice
crops have been made to resemble oat
fields in Canada after the army worm
has marched through And grass has
been devoured, so that the bare
ground appeared as If burned. Hence
the name locust. The heads, bodies
and legs of the majority are yellow,
while others are reddish brown in
color Their antennae are short and
thick. The front wings are straight,
membraneous and four inches in
length when stretched at right an
giles. The hinder ones are sail-like.
transient and three and one-half inches
long when spread out to fly. One spec
linen in his museum is so gayly col
ored that it might be mistaken for a
gaudy butterfly. AS there are count
less numbers in the larval condition
and as eggs are being deposited in the
ground 1t is to be feared these dread
full armies may next year Invade and
devastate vast regions in North For
moSa-
AS this is their first appearance here
the natives are amazed and alarmed
Many declare there are letters on their
wings and that they are a scourge
somehow connected with the coming Of
these Japanese, and many have burned
incense sticks and invited the locusts
to leave F>ormosa and go elsewhere.
Christians declare they understood
better than ever one of the plaques In
Egypt.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-15
BOMBAY BLIGHTED.
Metropolis of India DesOIated by
the Plague.

the Plague.
BOMBAY, Jan. 14.-Over half the
population Of this city, estimated to
amount to about 100000, has fed from
the plague and the erstwhile crowded
streets, docks and bazaars are not rec
ognizable. Business IN piece goods,
crockery and hardware is at a stand
STILL and the money lenders have van
tshed. The courts are adjourned and
the judges and officials have gone to a.
healthier cline. Many of the native
doctors, graduates Of the college, have
fed, and those remaining refuse to at
tend plague cases, or when they do
attend them, will not touch the suffer-
ers. Clerks and others whose voca-
lions call them to the city daily re-
moved to suburban stations, where the
people are mostly living in matched
huts. 1t is estimated that 800, 900 per-
sons are encamped at Andheri, from
whence they will soon be forced to
migrate, owing to the lack Of water and
sanitation, threatening to breed chcl-
era. The cemeteries are already filled
to Overlooking, and the wind is spread
ing the contagfon. The nights are
made hideous by symbals and melan-
choly dirges. Often difficulty Is ex-
perienced in burying the dead, friends
and relatives refusing to carry the
corpses. In some instances women
have assisted in carrying the dead
bodies. A large number of plague
corpses at the Tower Of Silence the
Parsee burial place, have not been
eaten by the vultures inhabiting 1t.
COrpses have been found in the streets.
The official returns show that up to
last evening there were 1894 cases of
bubonic plague and 1856 deaths.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-15
DULUTH GRAIN.

DULUTH, Mimi, Jan. 1.-THE mills were
bidding 112Q2c under May this morning, but
could get no wheat. About 10, 600 bu went
into store at PIC under May The market
was weak at the start, opening at SOhc and
dropping to SOC, and rose steadily to 81Hc
closing with that price |'O'
The close: Cash No. 1 hard, 8O3sc; No.
northern, 1880; No northern. 754sc: No :
spring, n5s@ 729sc; rejected, 555s06S5sc; to ar
rive, No hard, 8Oasc; No 1 northern, 78skc;
NO: l northern, 11sc bid. Receipts-Wheat'
5O,783 bu. Shipments none. Cars inspected
46; last year 49, Receipts-Corn, none; oats
SO664 blu; rye, 5000 blu; barley, 1883 bu
flax fax. 2o46 Blu; oats. close, 17Ac; rye, SS@c.
flax, I4Ac; May. 78Ac. Cash sales were as
bu No. l northern. 7Sc; 5000 Blu No north
e1n' HAc; 1 car No. northern, 75Ac; / car
NO; northern, 75c; car No. 8 spring, 71&c;
1870. -'1'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-15
OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.
GRAIN GOSSIP

Gossip by private wire to C. H. F. Smith
d Co., st. Paul, members Of New York stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade
Trade Bulletin figures that, allowing 45O :
ooO,eOO Blu as conservative estimate of the
wheat crop Of 1896 and 365, 900 900 blu for do
nestle wants and seed 80, 900, 90 Blu exported
to date and 5000. 900 Blu supplies on hand
July l, there is an exportable surplus for the
next six months of about SO 600 600 bu It
also estimates their reports indicate about 40
per cent of winter and about 40 per cent of
the spring wheat in farmers hands. and that
in the past two months deliveries at primary
markets were 24.O00,O00 blu less than in the
same time in 1895. reduction of 43 per cent.
Cincinnati Price Current: Some talk oP
damage to wheat crop but not much change
indicated in average position. Positively IA
vorable reports predominant Weeks pack
ing, 4G5,000 hogs, against 430, 900 last year
Estimate to March 1, 6,675.OoQ, against eS15,-
900 last year. For January and February
3,400, 900 against 1890, 900 last year
Some attention is being attracted b Beer
bohm's statement, estimating supplies avail
able during next three weeks at 7 1850 900 quar-
ters of wheat, while the estimated require
ments is 1900, 600 quarters. It ends signtn-
cantly: What will be the condition of
American markets when 1t Is found that Eu-
rope wants more wheat thaS America can
conveniently spareT'
Ports cleared: 215, 4ss bu wheat, 90, 40 bbls