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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01

AAAA AAsNt-' A'AA hNCf'ANCf
How about the times; are they really
getting belter?'
eyes. they are undoubtedly improv.
ing, "repled the Vlce-President. "Money
is coming back into the New York
banks at the rate oil $40, 900, 600 week.
Within the past eleven weeks SIIo, 600, e
ouo have been deposited. You could
never borrow money so cheaply as you
can now, provided you have good Sc
curity. Why, you can get it in New
York now for two and one-half per cent
a year. II is true tine bankers will not
lend it at that to the west, Tor they fear
the danger OF reputation. New York
capital is now very distrustiul OF the
west"
"Will the improvement continued" l
asked.
II think so, without doubt" replied
Mr.. Hobart. with the Inauguration OF
new tariff law which will be passed
and with the making of the duties on
goods specific and no tad valorem the
times will grow much better, and be-
ieve that we are about to enter upon an
era OF great prosperity"
NOT AFRAID OF THE SENATE.
"How do you look upon your work at
Washington, Mr.. Hobart Do you APP
prehend any trouble in fulfilling the
duties OF Vice President"
II see no reason 10 fear" replied the
Vice President-elect. l don't think the
position is difficult one TO fill. You
sec, have had some experience. | was
speaker OF the New Jersey legislature
for Two terms and alter that president OF
the senate. | apprehend that the work
OF presiding over the United States
Senate will not be much more difficult
than that OF presiding over the New
Jersey legislature"
You have been in politics more or
less all your lite, have You not, Mr..
Hobarti"
yes" was the reply, "but not in the
sense OF being in it as business. Poll.
tics has always been a side issue with
me. My partner, Mr.. Tuttle, was an
old politician and was close in the coun-
sells OF the party, and this threw me in
politics ms a young man, and have
never gotten out was elected prose.
cutting attorney when was quite young.
! was the youngest member OF the legis-
lature at the time OF my first election,
and have had more or less to do with
aiding in the management of the party
Tor Yeas have long been a member
OF the national committee and have al.
ways done my part in politics"
POLITICS FOR YOUNG MEN.
Do you think young man ought to
lake part in politics."
81 believe that every American citizen
should do So The salvation OF our
country. in tact, rests upon our young
men. They should take part in all
elections as especially should they attend
Z. L.. =. 4
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01
THE VICE PRESIDENTS HOME,

During my stay here | have spent
some time with the Nice-President. elect
at his home. He lives in an unpreten-
tious-looking frame house OF three stories
on the corner OF Carroll and Ellison
streets, The house is surrounded by a
large lawn. and great elm trees hang
over it. Upon entering it you are sur.
prised at its size. II has about twenty
rooms, all OF which are large and well
lighted. A wide hall runs through the
center AT the right and LETT there are
parlors, and at the back oil the right,
hand parior there is large library with
picture gallery more than thirty feet
| long in its rear. The walls of all the
rooms are hung with fine paintings, and
| everywhere about you you see the
mementoes OF travel. There are bits Of
fine art from the different countries OF
| Europe, There are wonderful mosaic
pictures from Italy and carvings from
the great masters OF Japan. There are
bits OF fine china, statue or statuette
shines out here and there, and the whole
| house is, in fact, museum embracing
the collections OF the Vice President and
his family during their European travels
Sill, with all this, everything is so taste
| fully arranged that the house is com
| Portable home, and, unlike many rich
mems houses, it does NOT seem too nice
to live in. This is chiefly due to Mrs.
Hobart, who, by the way, will be an I'M
portant part OF the vice.presidential
family during the next four years. She
was, you know, the daughter oil Socrates
futile, the man with whom Mr.. Hobart
studied law, and with whom he after
ward went into partnership. Mrs. Ho-
bart and her husband were acquainted
with each other before they reached their
teens. They have been married Tor a
score OF years, and their relations are as
close together as they were during their
honeyml on They are both fond OF
society, and Mrs. Hobart is well fitted
to take the place which, owing to the
delicate health of Mrs. Mckinley, she
will probably have OF being the leading
lady OF the coming administration.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01

pay attention to the minor elections the
purer will our politics be-"
aside from the duty Of every man TO
take part in politics, Mr.. Hobart, do you
think it paysl'
yes, do" replied the Vice'Presi-
dent-elect. at gives man new ac-
quaintances and brings him into contact
with business men and with those upon
whom he has to depend for his living
1t Identifies him with the community in
which he lives and it is in all ways a
good thing"
THE TROUBLES OF A V1cE-PREStDRNT.
asked Mr.. Hobart something as TO the
changes brought about in his lie by his
nomination for the vice-presidency. The
Chief one is in the increase IN his cores
pondence. He now gets more than a
hundred letters a day, outside OF his
regular business channels. and fully hity
OF these are from people who want
charity. There are churches all over
the country who write Tor contributions.
Yesterday a minister wrote Tor money
for a new suit OF clothes, in order that
lie might attend conference meeting
respectfully. The trustee OF a church in
Indiana asked Tor 1850 10 pay the arrears
OF minister's salary, and pu,'the post
script at the end OF his letter stating
that the church still owes 81, coo on It's
building, and that the Lord will reward
Mr.. Hobart If he will send check iof
this at the same time. There are lots
OF letters which come from young ladies.
Some want new dresses, others want
money TO send them to school, and
New Orleans girl writes to the extent OF
thirty pages, asking that she be sent
$40, % to be used in completing her
musical education and requesting that
Mrs. Hobart telegraph her at once how
soon she can have the money. linen
there are letters from widows who need
support There are letters from voters
who have mortgages which they want
lifted, and, queerest OF all, there came
today pathetic appeal from girl in
the country for IS. to be used to buy her
a set OF false teeth. She writes that she
has three sisters, and that they all have
false teeth. and that she needs the same
in order that she may appear as well as
her sisters. Then there are from seven
to eight letters every day announcing the
births OF the finest babies OF the United
States, each OF which has been named
Carrot A. Hobart aud the owners OF
which each expect present by return
mail, One OF the funniest OF these has
Just been received. 1t is signed by the
man and his wife, and states that they
are so poor that they can hardly support
themselves, Nevertheless a few days
ago the Lord added TO their responsible
ties by sending them twins. One OF
these they have named William Nc
Kinley and the other Garrett A. Hobart.
The couple request that twin baby
10. -, 81.
close their letter with the pathetic post
script: 1--WE ask this especially as we
did not expect twins"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01

~ and trouble yon5I
M - was he replv. az have of late
wears made il 4 priucinle mol 10 let NV.
ell no Worried have cducntod n,y.
self 10 dron INV yyort. vixen / an, awnv
from il / am wiling also 10 lei Others
have their nart of t6e worry. and I do
mot botber nvsen ahou, ,hinos which
na,uraiiv iall 10 n her men. have ONE
nrincinle which thinl, is n Good one. |
viii moi do bovs, work. never COPY
nor mail INV own letters. use a stenor-
rsnbar whenever I can and / save nv
strene III for The things which | have TO
De-
Isoz
"IIow ohor, the chances for fortune
uaking todayf Are they ms good as
thev ,.,.re when Won started liie2p
al tbink thev tare. replied the Vice
Pre- sident eve are on the edge of
s,rea, ,jan,ce in r,sny limos Loot nj
the electrical possibilities of today.
What a field ,here Is in electricity lSr
fortune rnakine In The future There is
no telling what If viii not accomplish or
vbat CHANGES il NAV moi make"
"Bul how about congregations and az
eregations nj canital MIR. Hobart
Donit tbev make il inpossible for a poor
man ia climb mp,
"NoD ,yss tbe answer. "The rich
man of TODAY is Inc moor man OF tomor-
row, Fortunes are accommodating and
disintepratiny ali The time There are
thousanus III men maEinp fortunes TO.
day, There are thousands who will lose
them tomorrow. 1t is brains and work
that tell IL has alvay5 been SO and it
will ALWAYS be So"
Then YOU don't think we will ever
have p7rty of the rich and a party OF
lie poor in this country?n
"No. | do not"
ANARCHY AND THE ANARCHISTS
How about Patersoup This is great
manulacturlne place. You must have
many moor ueople here. -
We have sotne.D
..va ae YOU b s,y ', nanon ns ,ho Zoo
they are TO be found among me French
overs employed IN me sile mus. YOU
see this Town Is the Lyons OF America
we MAKE mere, l venture, hity million
uollats' worm OF SILK year me raw
slis Is imported rom Chlha ana Japan,
ana these men aye II 10 increase It's
welsht ana color. II may surprise you
that GOOD deal oil tne weight oil SIX
comes rom Inc aye. Inc hnest OF the
black silks are more than hall dye
wen, theSe dyers are IN certain sense
skilled iaborers, but not those possessing
the highest skin. There are some anar-
chists among them, but the proportion
in comparison with the number OF labor
ers we have is not large"
do you apprehend any trouble in the
future from anarchists
There may be trouble, but think
the sober sense oil the American people
VIII always predominate. Oniy the
smallest proportion OF our great wealth
is held by millionaires Our people are
all capitalists in a small way. l he mo
ment a man has little money ahead he
becomes a capitalist. and the number OF
such men increases every year
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01
S, /, BALL, TEMPLE BAKERY
Ie Main Street.

Has cakes OF every description, lunches,
sandwiches, tea and coffee, oysters. Try
our gluten bread. Wedding cakes and
ornaments q specially.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01

There is only one other member OF the
| Hobart family, and he is by all odds too
important a member for me to leave out
OF this letter. | refer to the little boy
who is the only child that Mr.. Hobart
now has. His daughter, a beautiful girl
| OF twenty, died in Italy about two years
| ago. The boys name is Garret A. Ho
bart, r., but his father and mother call
him Junior Tor short, Junior is Just
twelve years old. He is bright little
fellow, with a decided taste for mechan.
les, and what might be called almost a
craze Tor electrical work. He has little
electrical laboratory in the top OF the
house and with a boy friend, he has
established partnership Tor the putting
up and repairing OF electric bells,
electric lights and matters oil that kind.
don't think his father much likes his
doing any such work outside OF the
family. but the boy, you know, is an
only child, and that makes a difference.
He really does wonderful work in elect
richly. He has put up many OF the
electric bells in his fathers house, and
during my stay he took me up 10 his
laboratory and showed me the different
electrical machines which he had there.
| He has a hall horse power electric
motor which runs his machinery, and he
has a large lathe, by means OF which he
carries on his boyish experiments. There
are five different lights in the room which
he put up himself, and these range in
size from little incandescent globe OF
two'candle power up to large one of
fifty candle power. Alter had admired
these he induced me TO take hold OF the
| two handles oil his electric battery and
set every nerve in my body TO quivering
until | persuaded him TO turn off the
current. He showed me some trans.
parencies which he made to be lighted
in honor of Mr.. McKinley's election, and
upon leaving handed me couple of his
business cards for my friends.
e ~.A< 4. C.4u.>l.s
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-01
POLITICS FOR YOUNG MIN

DO you think young man ought to
lake part in politicsf"
81 believe that every American citizen
should do so, The salvation OF our
country, in fact, rests upon our young
men. They should take part in ali
elections as especially should they attend
the primaries: 1t is there that the chief
chances for fraud are, and the more we
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-18

The letter had "come hard" 1t had
plainly been written at dictation and
under compulsion. No wonder Dyer
had sworn when he had finished 1t.
Evidently the poor fellow was not at
all his own master In that house. l re-
solved anew to see him and to rescue
him. Where could he be2 Where, but
in that other room on the north end
Of the house, the room that had seen
no one enter or leave on the preceding
day?
There was a door between the rooms.
I turned the knob. It was locked on
the other side. / ventured to call soft
ly: "Bertram!" A confused murmur--a
painful, smothered sound-was aud
ible within. 1 called again, as loudly
as / dared. Still the same murmurlnS 4
noise a little louder than before. Had
they tied the poor fellow like a dog
and gagged him? 1 put my strength
upon the door, softly, steadily. The lock
yielded. I entered
The room was dark, but q light sud
denly flashed up. / saw a tumbled bed.
Q flaring lamp on a table; and, beyond,
Grandfather Graves in his scanty
night clothing, Just In the act of TAX
ing down an enormous old-fashioned
musket from the wall.
Bertram Dyer was not there, and a
half second later neither was I. My
form might have been seen fitting
across the lawn, while behind me, and,
indeed, all around me, achoed the re-
sounding bang of the old musket.
CTo Be Continued.)
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-18
One Way 10 Help
The Coal Trade
From the Colliery Engineer.

from the COllerY Engineer.
The conditions surrounding the mar
keting of anthracite coal have mater
tally changed in recent years. But a
few years ago no size smaller than
chestnut was sent to market and in
fact thousands of tons of the latter
were thrown on the culm pile at the
mines on account Of hack Of market.
In course of time this waste of chest
nut coal ceased and the demand for
that size became almost as strong as
that for stove coal. The broken and
lump coal sizes were used exclusive
ly for steam purposes at manufactur-
ing establishments in the Eastern and
Middle states. Later the cheaper Bit
luminous coal wTested the trade of
manufacturers from the anthracite
operators and anthracite became grad
ually known as domestic coal for
which it is peculiarly fitted. This re-
suited in less demand for lump and
broken COAL and made necessary the
production of larger proportions of egg,
stove and chestnut. The breaking of
these large sizes down to the sizes in
demand naturally increased the pro-
portion of pea, buckwheat and rice
coal. In most recent years improved
appliances have made it possible to Sc
cure most excellent results in steam
raising by the use Of the smaller sizes
of anthracite, or those below chest
nut in size. Owing to the absence OF
smoke and the great heating power OF
anthracite, manufacturers in many in
stances prefer it to bituminous, and
the anthracite trade has, therefore,
resolved itself into two distinct classes:
First, the trade in domestic coal, which
takes the sizes larger than pea coal.
Second, the trade in steaming Goals.
| which takes the small sizes. About
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-18

intercession with her cousin, and when
that was over there might be some-
thing else that could do for her. At
least I could help tlne lanky boy whom
she had honored by her preference to
make a profitable use Of such talent as
he had.
Suddenly was startled by something
falling beside me. 1t was my cigar,
which had slipped from my fingers.
had been asleeu The moon had sunk
almost to the hills upon the west. 1t
was nearly 8 o'clock.
I re-entered the house and softly
closed and locked the door. AT that
moment heard a noise from the other
end Of the. hall. Some one was COM
ing.
1 ha -tily stepped into the unlighted
sitting room. A slender, dark young
man with disheveled hair passed close
to my hiding place, but did not see me.
He was carrying a lamp and yawning
painfully. When he had gone upstairs
and entered bed room stole up after
him. The remainder of the night 1
passed in slumber.
When I come down the next morning
I met Mrs. Graves in the hall.
"Bertram came back last night"
she said. Perhaps you heard him
drive up to the front door, little after
twelve?"
No; I hadn't heard him, nor had 1
seen him, though at the hour named
l had been sitting almost directly be-
fore the door. However, I did not tell
her that.
Later in the night" she continued,
''he was taken very sick. You won't
be able to see him. We have sent to
Greenvllle for a doctor"
/ expressed my deepest sympathy.
About nine o'clock the doctor from
Greenville arrived. / recognized him
as the young man with the tangled
hair who had passed so near me on the
preceding night.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-18

twenty-eight per cent Of the coal
shipped to market from the collieries
Of the Girard estate In Schuylkill coun-
ty in 1896 consisted of sizes below
chestnut. The percentage would have
been materially increased had all the
small sizes possible been shipped. This
proportion is about an average one for
the anthracite region.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-18
Glen Mountain House.

Glen Mountain House.
WATKINS, SCHUYLER COUNTY, N. Y.
On Seneca Lake. On line Of New York Gem
tral, Pennsylvania. and Lehigh Valley Ran.
roads 1,40o feet above sea. No malaria.
New water works, supplying mountain
new management splendid fishing. 600
acres, including the famous Watkins Glen.
Popular prices. Special rates for excursion
chamberlain, Mgr. Address w. E. ROBIN
SON, Prop.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-07-09
Decay of Animal Matter.

\ great many proofs now more or
less familiar to most people show quite
clearly that the decay of animal or
vegetable matter is not simple chem
zeal change, inevitable in the nature
of things, but violent interference
with the natural course on the part of
hostile organisms. The bacteria which
produce decomposition are very minute
plants, which grow, like mushrooms
or molds, upon organic matter, and
which reproduce their like with incred-
ible rapidity.
Tyndall showed long ago that the
spores of these plants exist in myriads
in the air, floating everywhere around
us; that they occupy all crannies and
empty places on the surface of the
earth, and that they swarm in their
millions in all ponds and puddlcs. An
easy way of proving that these spores
alone and the plant colonies which
spring from them are the cause of pu-
trefaction may he obtained by boiling
beef tea in test tube, so as to kill
the bacteria, and then, while the liquid
is still steaming, closing up the
mouth of the tube with plug of cot
ton wool, which admits the air but
strains out the germs of the putrefac-
tive organisms. Under these condi-
tions the beef tea will keep good for
years, but if you remove the plug il
will begin at once to putrefy. Long.
mans Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-07-09
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Fyperiments have shown that the
ash constituents Of coal, which are not
readily permeable, NAV he roughly
estimated by means 81 Roentgen rays
on comparison with slabs having
known percentage Of ash.
4 magnetic well Of great power has
been struck at BoWersville, five miles
south Of jamestown. Ohio. The wch
vas drilled 10 feet deep, and at inns
depth the drill became So mag hetlAeH
that PARTICLES Of iron chung 10 II.
VI. Pinto If Rio de Janeiro has dis
covered new process for preserving
meats by electricity. The process
consists ia immersing the meat IN
thirtvpcr cent. solution Of salt, through
which electricity isPasscd. In ten to
twenty hours the curing Is completed.
Some idea Of the fine point to which
platinum wire can he drawn will be
realized from the fact that threads
have been drawn two of which can he
twisted together and inserted within
the hollow uf human hair. These
threads are so iniinitesimal that It
needs magnifying glass to see them.
According To the experiments of VI.
Seguy and VI. Quenisset the N-rays
cause dangerous palpitations of the
heart. The experiments were made
on medical students and upon them
selves, and VI. Seguy and NJ. Quenis-
set describe the palpitations as violent
and uncomfortable unless the rays were
intercepted by metallic plate.
Prudon. of the Belfast Ureland) hos
pital for skin diseases, is an earnest
advocate of oil and massage in the
treatment of skin diseases. He uses
olive oil. sometimes with the addition
of cacao butter. He claims to have
obtained excellent results in three
cases of pityriasis rubra and in cases
of eczema squamosa. In the latter
disease he adds some stimulant, such
as the oil of cade, etc. He has also
obtained good results in various forms
of erythema.
An immense electrical influence ma
chine has been constructed by James
Wimshurst, whose name is so well
known in connection with apparatus
of this kind. 1t is duplex in form, a
shaft on each side carrying twelve
plates thirty-six inches in diameter,
each plate with thirty-two sectors.
The machine is certain to excite itself
before the hand-crauk mas made com
plete revolution. 1t gives torrents of
electricity, the length of the spark
between the two outer terminals being
thirty-two inches. The machine is
nine feet long outside the case by two
feet nine inches in width.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-07-09

Fireproof paints have been alto
Gether satisfactory. Those that have
proved effective have, of course, had
no oil in their composition. Water
is alone used as the blending agent.
One of the standard paints of this
class is described as consisting of 40
pounds of powdered asbestos, ten
pounds of illuminate of soda, ten
pounds of lime and 30 pounds of sill
cate of soda, with the addition of any
nonresinOus coloring matter desired,
the whole thoroughly mixed with
water, that is, enough of the latter for
producing a perfect blend and render
ing an easy application; two or more
coats of this is the rule in applying it
to any wood surface. inside or outside
a building. Another formula involves
the use of 40 pounds of finely ground
glass, like amount of ground por-
CeIaln and similarity of china clay or
the same quantity Of powdered ashes
tos and 20pounds of quicklime. These
materials are ground very fine and
then mixed in 60 pounds of liquid sill
cate of soda, with water, AS in the pre-
cediug formula; two or more coats, if
necessary, are given. Each of these
paints is applied with brush in the
ordinary way, the drying being accom-
plished in few hours, and, if color
ing matter is desired, the above pro-
portions are varied accordingly. Fur
ther, if used one after the other, the
following solutions are effectively fire
restraining, namely, solution of sill
cate of soda in water and then n mix
ture of quicklime, asbestos and some
white lead.