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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
MATCHMAKING A FAILURE.
Advice to Mothers of Manageable
Daughters and Spinsters.

The wedding was over. AS the we'll
dressed mob poured through the high
arched doors The last strains of Lohen-
grin's nUptial chorus echoing in their
ears, she turned 20 her companion and
observed: mo, it certainly does not
mot pay!" he exclaimed. why, the
groom has an incOm. II $4,000 a year
from 5 per cent interest IN real estate.
MY dear sirl, what are you talking
about 2'
THAT isn't what 1 mean the woman
continued, looking thOughtfuiIy down
the street. Il was thinking 81 al the
mothers and daughters with sore hearts
and pocketed pride in that ass enb.J.
The man has been a notable 19G'ti for
two dozen years, and the bates OF Is
many seasons have tried in vain fer this
Dosftion little Hiss Nobody 5ileG 50
dowdily before he altar This morning.
1 Ieu you, my friend, Matchmaking Is
a failure"
Nonsense" returned her escort,
ssevery winter scores of them are liked
up successfully IL society"
Occasionally. yes, when titles and
fortunes are big enough TO silence per-
sonal inclinations, but l am talking OF
every day folks, like ourselves. They
may be made IN heaven, nut there IS
no use of any earthly agency trying II
arrange them. And of all futile
schemes we women are prone to lend
ourselves TO, the very idlest is that OF
attempting to marry men and women
10 each other, through outside influ-
ences. Human beings absolutely refuse
TO mate according to either preceDt OF
example, and when it comes TO nlatri-
nlony, both lightning and. quicksilver
are more reliable factors-are more re-
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small outlany and in very short time.
All that is necessary is for the support
ing pillars to be made according to
measurements forwarded by the engi-
neers, who are at present going care
fully over the ground picking out the
best spots for erecting the pillars.
Then, when these pillars arrive, it win
be necessary only for workmen o
plant them firmly in the ground, and
the foundation of the roadway viii be
laid. The stringing of the three wire
ropes will be simple matter, and the
building and equipment of the power
houses a matter of a few months
work only.
The great design of the builders of
the road viii be to make the road
strong, and at the same time light.
The carrying cables being stationary.
can be locally graduated to the strains
they have to bear, so that on long
spans across chasms they will be made
thick. and on short stretches from near
pillars they will be thinner. The strain
will be greatest on steep grades, and
on those especial care will be taken to
have the ropes strong enough to make
an accident impossible. Upon slopes
the weight of the loads is shared to a
certain extent by both carrying cable
and traction rope, the amount borne
by each depending on the inclination
the sleeper the inclination the greater
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05

When all is ready for the trip the
gripman picks UP the whirring cable,
and away the car goes, held IN its
aerial position by the wheels that run
on the rope tracks above, which, being
constructed TO carry about three times
the weight OF the cars. may be relied
upon to safely convey the living freight
across the Chilkoot Pass. The road
Will be constructed in two sections
four miles long, with a power house
for each cable. The first section will
be from the Dyea canyon on Sheep
Camp, q trip that viii necessitate a
rise of LOCO feet, 10 be extended across
the entire distance according to the
best Judgment of the engineers. The
second road Will extend from Sheep
Camp to Summit, three and q half
miles, with a rise of $500 feet, and
thence to Crater Lake, with a fall Of
500 feet. Iron supports about hun
dred feet apart will carry the wires.
The roadway win haVz a carrying
capacity Of 100 tons daily, or, as the
company estimates it, it win be able
to carry over the pass 200 miners, with
their outfits, every day.
The great advantage that such .
roadway as this win have over all the
other plans suggested for surmounting
the tremendous obstacles of the Chill
koot, is that it IS so light and strong in
construction that it can be built for a
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makes it SO admirably adopted for use
in the ChillOot Pass. as the gulches can
be crossed with ease, and canyons that
ii would be impossible to bridge can be
spanned by the wire rope with as much
facility as with telegraph wire
The company was promoted by Mr.. S.
S. Rush of Louisville, KY, who has
been in the Klondike for several
months. He Travelled through the pass
By foot and by water, and LAID out the
plan by which the road was to be built
After figuring the cost of such a road,
he came to New York and began the
organization of a stock company. Mr..
II. c. Walls was elected president The
company was incorporated. and has
since put three parties of surveyors at
work in the pass, one Of them being in
charge OF William Schweigart, a New
York engineer. They have worked SO
we'll that already part of the plant
has been delivered at Dyea, and grad
ing is under way for the erection of the
power houses. Leading men in the en-
terDrise are George B. DodweH, man
ager Of the Northern Pacific Steam
ship company, and Hugh G. Wallace
president of the Washington q Alaska
Steamship company. They believe that
this transportation system will en-
able gold seekers to reach the Yukon
easily and quickly at a minimum eX-
! pense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
MONTANA'S BIG FOUNTAIN.
Anaconda Will Have the Largest in
the World.

New York Times: The Anaconda
Mining company has acquired rights to
all the water in Hearst gulch and lake.
at Anaconda, Mont, which are fed by
the melting SHOWS that exist there dur
ing the entire year. This lake lies up
against Mount Haggin, 1900 feet above
the level of the street in front of the
Montana hotel. The company will
raise the bans about Lake Hearst so
as to make it a reservoir with ca
pacity of nearly a billion gallons, and
giving a daily flow of 100000 gallons
down a slope of 5000 feet into the city
A steel pipe line will carry this wa
ter down six miles to Anaconda, where
another immense reservoir Will be built
to receive it. This reservoir will be 320
feet higher than the business center Of
the city and quarter of a mile long.
It's shore line will be irregular, lying
against the hills, and it will be a beau
tiful sheet of water AS further
means of adding to the beauty of the
spot. the supply main from Lake
Hearst viii terminate in a fountain in
the center of the reservoir. Only q
portion of the enormous pressure will
be used, but a solid jet of water over
three inches in diameter will be thrown
220 feet vertically in the air, while
around the base Of the fountain will be
a fringe of spray, consisting of rows
of jets rising to varying heights and
at different angles. The fountain
when completed will be, without ex-
ception, the largest in the world. The
jets will rise from a massive base of
rough masonry.
The embankment which will form the
reservoir will consist of tough. tena-
cious clay. eXcavated from a large de-
post in the vicinity, over 10 feet thick
at the base and Il feet wide at the top.
Lengthwise through the center will be
a solid wall of concrete masonry. No
pipe will be allowed to pass through
the embankment, but in the solid rock
beyond it's end a valve we'll will be
excavated and connected. Every pre-
caution that can be suggested will be
taken in building the reservoir, and
the valves flowing from it will be regu-
( lated and controlled by electricity.
When completed there will not be q
point in the city where water cannot
J be thrown over 100 feet vertically by
direct pressure.
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~

With a capital OF over q million dol
lars, a company has just been formed
in New York to push to completion il
the early spring a plan for surmount-
ing the Chilkoor Pass. Engineers have
declared that the pass cannot DE pro-
Vided With a railroad OF the ordinary
description without the expenditure Of
millions Of dollars in tunnelling, the
nature of tho mountains rendering it
impossible 10 run a railroad across.
The plan of the new company is to
construct was is known as a wire read
from Dyea to Lake Linderman. a dis
lance OF eight miles. The road will be
one Of the most novel for passenger
traffic IL the world. The cars. which
VIII be constructed to hold two pas
sengerS and a gripman, will travel
nigh IN the air along an elevated track
consisting OF two parallel wire ropes
with a third rope or cable in the centre,
and below from which the motive
power of the car comes. The car runs
on wheels supported on these two
tracks, and is suspended below them,
the cable rope being underneath the
car and attached to it or loosened at
the viii OF the gripman. They can
cTaVei at speed of ten miles an hour.
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liable than men, l mean. Ninety per
cent Of my sex have little or nothing
to do with choosing husbands. If it
were possible to get way down to the
ultimate truth underlying the unions of
most people, you would find each WOm
an eonfessing, He asked me. and 1 did
we'd
stop! Isn't that an exaggerated
statement Of the case?"
why not say what you mean?" she
replied. 1t strikes you as both coarse
and false to say us YOU are mistaken,
even the newest woman has failed to
change the old order that commanded
women to wait and told men TO WOO.
Nor does all the manly chiValry, protes-
tations and pleadings on one side, with
the coquetry and pretty hesitations on
the other. change the fundamental
facts. The truth is rot always agreeable
just at first, but in the long run il pays
to follow it. For example, suppose all
the solicitous mothers with daughters
10 marry. and low-spiTited women yerg-
ing on spinsterhood, could be made to
realize that trying had nothing TO 90
with the case They would be saved
such : vast deal OF useless labor and
anxiety
what do you mean? That is all 4
matter Of luck, and you women are alb
soiutely passive agents.
precisely. Our line of action is un-
nistakably defined, To go on calmly
and cheerfully, hoping for the best
For, by the way, all that silly stuff
talked about our not wanting to marry
4 is th.s Veriest cant. When q woman is
a fire normal specimen Of her kind. she
regards a successful marriage as the
/ highest estate 10 which it is possible fol
/ her to be called. There is plenty of GOOD
] work TO do, and many noble sentiments
s to cherish, while waiting, but as fol
putting forth any active energy in at
tempting TO marry according to oul
particular inclinations. it is sheer waste
CT force. It is permitted us to love anc
! look and long but unless my lord, the
man, holds out the scepter, like Esther
we kneel patiently in the distance an6
| await his pleasure. And singular
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05

phase of these conditions is that neither
beauty, virtue, ardor, propinquity nor
our own desires guarantee an approach
to the throne.
There was a case in point this morn
ing" the speaker continued. "Poten-
tally the bridegroom has had hundreds
of wives offered him, has loved scores
of times, no doubt, and just as we
settled down to the conviction Of his
confirmed bachelorhood he meets by
accident an insignificant, impecunious,
plain-faced country girl, and promptly
offers her his heart and hand. How
much had she 10 do with it do you
suppose? She had no mother to scheme
for her. no means OF setting forth her
attractions ana was contentedly buried
in that rural village, when To- Mr..
Nabob sees and instantly desires her
above all womankind. The look of
pleased surprise has not faded from
her face yet. With such daily illus
trations OF masculine caprice under
their eyes, I fail to understand why
mammas with manageable daughters
I concern themselves SO vainly. Think
for @ minute over the women of your
acquaintance, recall how many good
looking, clever, pleasing girls you have
seen drift into spinsterhood, women of
charm, who have enjoyed wide ODpor-
tunities, and, moreover, women who
unquestionably would have welded had
they received suitable offers. Then, on
the other hand, contemplate the / UNI
bers of plain, embarrassing females
who have been enthusiastically sought
in marriage.
That's true" the man conceded with
/ evident reluctance.
Let me tell you of a tiresome, ac-
tually a homely girl I once knew, who
parted from a New York acquaintance
a good-looking fellow, who had beer
passingly civil to her, but nothing
more, For ten years she lived as resi-.
dent governess in a fashionable Chi.
cago boarding school, hearing only in
directly from her eastern friend. I'm
agine the governess' establishment las
winter to be ushered into the drawing
room to see d gentleman whose yer,
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name she failed to recall. He was the
New Yorker, who had hunted her up,
and three days later he asked her to
become his wife Since their marriage
he has confessed that while he had
fancied and admired numbers of wom-
en-, she alone was. associated in his
mind with the thought of a wife; and
the contamination of their union was
merely realizing a purpose he had
cherished uaswervingly through ten
long years.
All of which goes to prove that the
maiden may be immured in a tower
as high as st. Paufs steeple, with
never an opening through which to
show her face, yet if the prince wants
a garden of girls to find the one par
ticular object of his devotion. You
can't drive or wheedle or bride the
average man into marriage. He is i'm
PEELED by an instinct he does not in
the least understand himself, an i'm
pulse that urges him to pass over the
good and lovely Marys, Marthas and
Hannahs of his acquaintance, or vice
versa.
THE matrimonial market is a whim-
steal mart where few of the ordinary
rules of trade seem to obtain Crying
up ones wares, dressing ones stall and
setting forth the goods attractiVely
seldom haStenS business. The shy or
eager buyers who pass by have no
notion themselves what they have
come to seek until their eye lights on
the object. After that no reason, pru-
dence or arguments prevail. The wise
merchant is one who sits placidly in
the sun, gets all the joy out of life
While results are maturing.
''Oh, you may laugh as much as you
| like the woman concluded, but there
| is vast deal of comfort in this as
pect of the question. Don't you see
! that if there is prince in the world
for me, or for my sister, or my cousin
or my aunt, he will find us just as in
evitably as will death or taxes and
there is the consolation of knowing
| that no amount of scheming on the
part of the other women can keep hin
away. Nor when he comes will he
care button whether 1 am a princess
or dairymaid, whether my clothes
are fashionable, my cheeks wrinklec
or my color fresh. If he is in the
world at all he belongs to me alone
irrespective of circumstances, and il
| he is not there-Well, then, what gooC
will it do me to braid my hair and si1
by the roadside calling One way
keep a light heart and high hopes, thu
other is a torment and a vexation tt
! the spirit. MARY ANNE,
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and that is fundamental axiom to my
creed. Earnestness, training and ambi-
ton are also necessary, in my opinion,
for successful acting.
"T consider the calling of an actor,
or an actress, a sacred one, and not to
be taken up by any but those who are
prepared to undergo hardship, if need
be, in the cause of their profession
True ambition, unfortunately, is a sa-
cred commodity among many of the
young people of today-they don't aim
high enough. To many. it seems cas-
Ter to drift, and they are content to
do this.
What a gift youth isl often wish
I could go back to those days before
was 80. and revel in the imagination
and anticipation of the dreams to be
realized in the days to come. Youth is
the time for forming ones ideals-for
ouarrying ones own nature Looking
back to youth. believe most of my ar
tistic aspirations have been gratided,
except the desire to play Rosahnd, per
haps my GREATEST amhstion Of alls
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Miss Terry, with an expression of child
like unconSciousness was restoring the
little puff to its place in the box and
was talking on as charmingly as ever,
quite as though such things as toilet
accessories had never for q moment
entered her mind.
This interesting process was repeat
ed after the meats, and again after
desert had been served, and each time
it was done with an unconsciousness
that was delicious, and with the air
that it was as much a part of the din
ner as was the serving the soup and
the fish.
collecting the eyeglasses of celebri-
ties is Ellen Terrys latest fad. When
we reached the drawing room, Miss
Terry showed US several pairs, includ-
ing Sir Arthur Sullivan's, Sir Henry
| Irving's, Mr.. Mackenzies and one OF
Whistlers. Miss Terry told me that
/ they were all authenticated, and that
I she had lent them to exhibitions several
She added that she had lost a
so doing, and; meantrtosbe very
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
ELLEN TERRY AND HER POWDER PUFF.

A London interviewer tells this story
of a visit and dinner at the home of
Ellen Terry: TT was after the second
course that my attention was attracted
to the head of the table by Miss Terry
making little dabs at her nose and chin
with something white, and something
that did not in the least resemble a
handkerchief. I looked down at my
plate, then at the flowers, and did my
best not to look just then at my hos
tess. But a second glance at the head
of the table revealed a slightly whittier
and more notwithstanding face than
I had noticed moment before, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
ENGE-AND'S MILITARY SCHOOL
Lieutenant R. Scalan of the English Royal Artillery Con-
trasts West Point With WOolwich and SandhurSt.

ment, every Saturday from u noon till
Sunday night at II p. m. Most of the
young fellows having friends or rela-
tives in London, it is a nice relaxation
after the weeks work to assume plain
clothes" again and forget that there
are such things as parade or punish
ment drills Three months vacation
are given in the year, one at Christ
mas and two in midsummer, so that,
considering everything, the cadets life
is a fairly happy one, as he is willing
to acknowledge when he has left the
shop" some years behind him.
In conclusion it may be safely said
that the American and English sys-
TENS are both equally good in their
way, but neither is suited to the other
country. The ancient proverb of one
mans meat being another mans poison
explains the situation fully for while
Woolwich and Sandhurst are essential
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careful of the others in consequence.
She has been obliged to take to wearing
spectacles herself lately. Apart from
her study, Miss Terry has a voluminous
correspondence, to which she gives her
personal attention. The people are al
ways sending her plays to read, and,
as she says, it is no wonder her eyes
are giving out.
From spectacles We fell naturally to
talking OF art and more particularly of
that fascinating art of which our hos
tess is so perfect a mistress. Seeing
that the other guests, who were all old
friends. were amusing themselves each
according to his tastes, Miss Terry said
to me:
BY acting one learns how to act,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
BY LIEUTENANT r. scALLAN

. LIE IE4N<A4NI II. EoOALllItN.
The essential difference that exists
between the respective methods of I'm
Gle Sam and John Bull for the educa-
ton OF their embryo officers is one of
money. England demands that her
cadets pay, and pay heavily, too. for
their training, whereas the United
States is content to pay her military
pupils as well as educate them There
is but little similarity in the two sys-
TENS, though the result achieved is the
same. AS everybody knows, nominal
ton by ones state senator and plain
school education is sufficient to admit
the young American, thirsting for
glory, within the portals of West
Point. But admission to the Royal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05

Detroit Free Press: LAS long as my
employer lives" said the big work
man, I'm sure of just as fine a dinner
for Thanksgiving as the market af-
fords.'
Invited to his house?"
mo, of course not. He has too much
sense to set me down to a table with a
lot of upper crust. I'd feel like crawl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
His Part In the Elopemen-

ly aristocratic institutions, West Point
is truly democratic.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-01
nRusToL AND EUGENE SAIL.
on 10 -. Michael After Partially
pncifyfnr the Passengers.

VICTORIA. n. c.. Aug. si.-The miners.
who have been In this city for the past
sesen or eight days awaiting the sailing
of the Bristol are now on their way TO the
guild fields. During their stay In the city
they held many meetings To discuss their
grievances concerning delays. board hills
on river steamers and on other matters.
but everything seemed TO be settled before
their departure. saving the matter of board
on the Eugene The company holds that
II viii charge 80 cents per meal on the river
steamer, or the miner can feed himself
out of his OUTFIT. and miners maintain that
the price paid for their passage includes
their board
The Bristol got away on her northward
Journey 10 ST. Michael about o'clock this
morning and met the Eugene In the roads.
that vessel having steamed over from Port
Angeles where che has been awaiting the
departure OF the big steamer. The Bristol
and Eugene viii proceed on their Journey
side by side. stopping only at Comox for
coal. prior 20 arriving at ST. Michael. On
arriving At that port the passengers and
goods on the Bristol will be transferred
70 the Eugene and sir hours after their arr
rival, the stern-wheeier viii be on her
way up the Yukon. The Bristol viii not
take the smaller steamer In tow unless II
II absolutely necessary.