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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
MUSIC IN MANKATo.

The town council of Mankato, Kan,
intends to stop, by ordinance, the sing
irg, humming or whistling of that i'm
mensely popular song, "a Hot Time in
the Old Town Tonight" The reason for
this action, it is alleged, is that the
song has become a nuisance Certainly
the song that has become a nuisance
is the greatest nuisance in the world
Mankato has struggled with popular
songs which have become a nuisance
before. In 1894 the town suppressed
the singing, humming or whistling of
After the Ball" Similar success may
await it in the present instance.
Evidently the city fathers of Man
kato do not care who writes the songs
of a people, so long as they can sup
press them. There is such a thing as
having too much of a good thing, and
this often happens with popular song.
At first it is pleasing and catchy, and
then it becomes epidemic, and once be-
come epidemic, its ravages are fright
full. Who that is advancing towards
middle life does not remember how
MY Grandfather's Clock became cpl
demic nearly 20 years ago? 1t was the
song that was heard in palace and
hCvel, that was sung, hummed and
Whistled by prince and pauper alike.
Saint Saens, being on a visit to Eng
land. was taken to a cathedral where
there was a celebrated organ. He was
asked if he would like to try it, and
he answered yes. He sat down and
began to improvise, as his hosts
thought, and in their admiration they
heard, or seemed to hear, through the
long drawn aisle and fretted vault the
pealing anthem swell the note OF
praise" In their wrapt attention their
souls We're filed with music as never
! before. But, bark! what note was that
which fell upon their ears, for it had a
familiar sound? They listened, and
again they heard it. Their ears were
not deceiving them. That note with
the familiar sound was from my
Grandfather's Clock" at the time be,
come epidemic in England The great
French composer, finding it so popular
had taken it for theme, upon which
he had made strange and beautiful var.
iatio2s. But his auditors wanted nc
more
Who has not heard Sweet Violets'
till the soul almost sickened and died
And who that has heard it but has
wished that the singer, hummer o.
whistler of it might perish and become
! as the dust of the earth when he sound.
ed the first note? While he who ha.
not music in his soul, may be fit fol
treasons, stratagems and spoils, The
popular song (also considered music
become nuisance predisposes a MAJ
to treason. stratagems and spoils. TIL,
town council of Mankato are wise mel
in their day and generation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
AN ARROGANT LABOR ORGANIC.
ALTON.

1t is hardly likely that the members
Of the Illinois national guard who are
also members of trades unions will
obey the behest of the Chicago fedora
ton of labor and resign from the
guard. Those in charge of the Chicago
federation of labor, if they are rightly
reported, must be either asses or
knaves, while their order presupposes
an objection on the part of members
of trades unions, who are also members
of the guard, that is absolute.
But what presumption on the part
of the federation! It's officers arrogate
to themselves an authority that is
paramount to that of the state of Hi
nois. To whom do the people of Illinois
owe allegiance? To the federation of
labor, or the state? It will be the gen
eral opinion that it is to the state. If
the men to whom this command has
gone forth do not resent it, we shall
be very greatly. surprised. The order
treats them as though they had sworn
allegiance to the federation and fore
sworn allegiance to the state and ma
tional governments. So long as a man
is member of any organization, trades
union or other, he should comply with
its rules and regulations, but those
rules and regulations must not inter-
fere with the sovereignty of the state.
The officers of this Chicago federation
of labor are trying to interfere with
the sovereignty of the state, and they
should be stopped by the authorities Of
Illinois.
What are usually termed the labor
| ing classes often complain that they
are downtrodden and that the consti-
tuted civil authorities are all against
i. them. They are wrong when they so
complain. The very worst enemies
! they have are the demagogues whom
they sometimes yes, too frequently,
elect as officers of their organizations.
Take the officers Of the Chicago feder-
ation, for instance. They are enemies
| of the state and Of the men who have
put them in authority. They would
array the members of their organiza-
ton against the state that protects
them and it. If the members are wise
they viii quit it, for it is becoming
arrogant and insolent. 1t is the exist
ence of such organizations as this fed
Grafton that does more to make a
militia necessary than anything else.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
THE HOLIDAY HERALD.

The holiday number of the Salt
Lake Herald, to be issued December
26th, will be mammoth issue (32 or
40 pages), filed with carefully pre-
pared and appropriate matter.
Among the conspicuous features
will be the following:
a review of ''Utah's Jubilee Year.
by Judge Z. f. Colborn, of the Ju-
bilee Commission.
The states growth, magnitude OF
her chief industries and condition of
her material interests.
Brief review of the years progress
in the various counties of the state,
carefully prepared by a corps OF
special correspondents.
An entertaining story of the year
in Utah's sister state of Idaho.
Local sketches and holiday stories
reminiscent of the pioneer holidays
Christmas stories by the most enter
tanning writer's in the land, besides
the usual strong features of the Sun
day Herald.
The issue will be profusely illus.
trated and the art and mechanical
features will be of the highest degree
Of excellence.
The Holiday Herald will be jus
such a paper as thousands Of Uta1
and Idaho people VIII desire to keel
as a souvenir and to send to far-awa!
friends. Orders for extra copies
should be placed with agents at once
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: TUESDAY, DECEMBER q, 1897

partially filled with whisky, which he
dearly loves. He is receiving pension
for a stiff knee, which came upon him
after the long lapse of time.
This mans son was as sound as q
dollar for thirty years after the war.
Then he accidentally cut himself with
an ak. He also has a stiff knee.
Another man is drawing a pension of
S27 a month for deafness. He is only
partially deaf, and his whole family
are deaf, or partially deaf, as a result
of heredity. This pensioner is reason
ably well off and he is dealing in gold
mining claims. His pension is as good
as an $4,000 government bond drawing
4 per cent interest.
Another man who returned from the
war uninjured, but lost his sight later
by the bursting Of a cannon one Fourth
of July, is getting $36 month. This is
equivalent to about $11, 600 in govern
ment bonds drawing 4 per cent, and
now selling at from $114 to $1.2S.
I know a man who accidentally shot
himself through the hand long after
the war, but is not disabled, and yet is
drawing a pension. Another with
is drawing a pension. Another who
owns houses and has money to lend
| gets pension, though he has no per-
/ ceptible disability.
Of thirteen pensioners know all
those having injuries received them af-
ter the war; the others have no per-
ceptible injuries or disabilities what
ever.
1t is not improbable that that state
ment could be duplicated in almost
every town in the Union where there
is any considerable number of pen
sioners. Such cases are a great wrong
to the country and to the brave sol
diers who were manned and disabled
in the war. The country loves to honor
them, and cheerfully pays their pen
sions, but the class mentioned by this
Pittsfeld man has no business upon
the pension rolls. They are rolls OF
honor, and they should be kept IN
! Sullied
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
EXPERIENCES WITH SUMNER.
Asked For Bread, He Gave Speeches

Washington Post: Il had two expert
ences with Senator Charles Sumner. the
noted Massachusetts, statesman, said
Captain John NJ. Tobin, at the Ebbitt.
The first was when. as adjutant of the
Ninth Massachusetts infantry, | rode in
from camp near Falls Church, Va, in the
winter of 6l-'62, to invite him to Christ
mas dinner. for which the officers had
subscribed generously, and at which he
was to be the guest of honor. l found
him in the midst of a banquet that he
was giving to some foreign diplomats, but
he came out to see me promptly, and
never did he appear in more gracious
mood He talked about the situation in
his usual captivating way, and asked me
many questions regarding camp life and
it's duties. He was sincerely sorry he
couldn't attend our dinner, but urged me
not to fail to visit him whenever 1 came
to the capital.
1.-THE next time I was in Washington
June. 1S64,ny right arm was in sling
from an ugly wound occasioned by a piece
of shell, and with me was Lieutenant NJ,
a bright young officer, who rose from the
ranks, but who was then in worse con-
ditton than myself He was nursing the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
Held For Bribery.

North Vernon. Ind, Dec. 2O-John
Morris, cashier of the Vernon bank
and Charles G. Beatty, county COM
missioner, are both under arrest on in
dictments; the former for bribery and
the latter for acceptance of a bribe, it
being alleged IL the indictments that
Morris gave Beatty $50 to award a
Inan of So 0n0
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Governor Leedy's scheme to build a
canal from Montana to Texas, at a cost,
estimated, of only $3.50, OOO, goo, shows
what great head for engineering he
has But why stop at one canal? Why
not build two OF three while about it?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The largest jewelry store in st. Louis
has been burned. 1t is always unwise
10 carry too much carbon in the form
Of diamonds, for it burns almost as
wei in that form as in any other.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

A Chicago policeman shot and killed
a highwayman the other night who
was robbing a citizen. Erect a monu-
ment to the policeman and bury the
rnhher deeD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Hon. Clifton r. Breckenridge has
presented his letter of recall to the
car. 1t is not stated in the dispatches
whether or not he wore those famous
little breeches on the occasion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa,
says: My child is worth millions to
me; yet would have lost her by Group
had [ not invested twenty-five cents in
a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure. Z"
1t cures coughs, colds and all throat
and lung troubles. A. C.. Smith. c. d.
Swift.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The Christmas number of the Butte
Miner, with its So pages, is a great
paper The first page has a picture
entitled Under the Mistletoe,' in color.
1t is a beautiful thing. The history of
each county in the state is given, and
it is very interesting. The number is
illustrated throughout with half-tone
pictures, and they show up unusually
well. The edition is one of which the
Miner, Butte and Montana may we'll
be proud. It would be very hard to
slIrpaSS it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The grand jury presented General
Felix Agnus, publisher of the Balti-
more American, to the states attorney
for Indictment, and now the indictment
has been returned to the court zig
nored." What a grand triumph for
Senator Wellington
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

For seven long years we have waited
for rapid transit says New York
paper Evidently the paper did not
know how TO wait, or the rapid transit
would have come to it long ere this.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
COWBOYS NIGHT SONG.

The stars are winking at the moon,
Sing no! Ya-hoi
The wolves are bowling out of tune,
Sing hoi Ya-ho
The nighthawks spread their wings on
high
And cut their didoes in the sky,
The owl in silence bats his eye.
Sing no! Ya-ho.
The sleeping cattle have no fear.
Sing no! Ya-ho!
When my angelic voice they hear
Sing hol Ya-ho!
The gray wolf sneaks across the trail,
The whip-poor-wills above me sail,
The bobcats in the canyon wall,
Sing hol Ya-ho!
With fear feel my broncho quake,
~ Sing ho! Ya-ho!
Sing no, Ya-hol
l gaze upon the moon so fair,
And wonder, as it hangs in air,
If cowboys are a-riding there,
Sing no! Ya-ho!
Ny riding days will soon be done,
Sing no! Ya-hoi
I'm going to wed my little one,
Sing no! Ya-ho!
I'm going to wed female girl,
A pretty Colorado pearl,
And try the tied-up life whirl
Sing ho Ya-ho!
My love is like a prairie rose
Sing ho Ya-hol
She's thoroughbred from head to toes,
Sing ho Ya-ho!
Her smile is like the morning sun.
We now are two; we'll soon be one,
Then 1 will be her son-of-a,gun.
-Denver Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

It is said the president viii use pat
ronage as a club TO compel congress-
men to stand by his currency reform
schemes. a reform brought about on
q bargain and sale principle wouldn't
be liable to command much respect
from any quarter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Prince Henry feels that he is at lib
erty TO make as many and as ugly
faces as he chooses. so long as his big
brother stands by him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Senator Morgan believes that Drey-
fus is innocent. It is to be hoped that
he won't want the United States to
fight France ever the matter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The news that Colonel Henry Inman
is coming TO Salt Lake to get material
for book on the Great Salt Lake
Trail, is very interesting The coloneTs
book, 1.-THE Old Santa Fe Trail . is one
OF the chief books of the year. 1t ranks
along with Irving's Astoria" and
Parlman's Oregon Trail"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

In territorial and political sense
those two missionaries who We're MUIR
dered in China We're the most valuable
lives that Germany possessed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Boston Transcript: Running Down.
Wife-Harry. you promised to come home
early and here it is past l o'clock.
Husband-But you see. my dear. my
watch ran down and l did not know what
time it was
Wife-Harry, the next time your watch
runs down ] shall run down to the club
and tell you what time it is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Diseases often turk in the blood be-
fore they openly manifest themselves.
Therefore keep the blood pure with
Hoods SarSaparilla.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

observed xerxes the King. my will is
Law
Doubtless" answered the wise man Of
the court after consulting few author
tiles that is to say, il your majesty
doesn't leave too large an estate.
For even in those crude days, ere yet
Jurisprudence had become the positive
science it now is, there was nothing GER
tain about any will which devised more
than million.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

President Andrews of Brown univer-
sity served through the civil war as a
private losing an eye and sustaining
other injuries in battle. Yet because
he favors free silver he has been de-
nounced repeatedly as one who was
DESTROYS of bringing ruin upon his
country
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The Tintic Miner of Friday is an
eight-page edition. 1t is replete with
information about the great mining
district. Anyone wishing to dissemin-
ate knowledge of the resources of Tin
tic can do no better than to get the
Miner of Friday and send it to friends
and enquirers, Success to the Miner
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Carl Schurz rebuking the anti-civil
service reformers will make General
Grosvenor pause-and for about one
moment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The name of the superintendent of
the Kansas institution for the blind is
Toothaker. Why doesn't he have it
puIlad?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Boston Transcript: Feminine Incon-
sistency-F women are so in
consistent don't you know?
Duddy-For example?
Fuddy-Mrs- Finley was at the theatre
the other night and at every damn
she laughed as though she'd die; but when
her husband INDUCES in the expletive, she
thinks he is just horrid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The Dillon, Mont, Tribune for De-
cember % is a holiday number of six
teen pages and special cover. Special
attention is devoted to Dillon, which is
well Illustrated with numerous half
tones. There is a picture of Dillon. from
the normal school, and several of the
normal school and its interior.
Salmon City, Idaho, and Virginia
City are. well illustrated also The
Tribune and the people of Dillon may
well fell proud of the holiday edition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The Hon. Bill Bynum viii make
Brooklyn his home in future. Indiana
is to be congratulated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

a clergyman says the average fiat is
IAN institution Of the devil. He GER
tainly is very fat-footed in his state
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Speaker Reed says that ne viii allow
no riders on bills. Theren be a circus
if he doesn't.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

There are people who affect to recall
a time when Chauncey NJ. Depew made
more speeches than Eckels is now max
ing. But they are regarded as of the
class which always enlarges on the
recollections of the past. None of
them, however, claim that Chauncey, in
his palmiest days, produced as much
fiction as Eckels is now turning out
on the financial question" says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. And Eckels' f1c-
ton is not of the entertaining kind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Florida is moving her orange belt
south. California must have been hit
ting below it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

The jingle of the sleigh bell was
heard in the land yesterday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Every cold snap is followed by coal
snap-for the dealers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Worcester Spy: The new Order of the
Twenty-ninth takes the shine all off the
other competing orders of sons and
exclusiveness and the authenticity of the
family coat of arms which must have
been in the possession of the original i'm
migrant when he landed in this country
in sixteen hundred and something or
other. According to the records of the
Historic society, there are
ONLY 80 names thus duly attested, but as
this world alive has four GRANDPARENTS,
eight great-grandparents, Is great-great-
grandparents, etc, the longer he waits for
his birth the more chances he has of
hooking on to a Twenty-niner some
where. There is quite population to re-
cruit from, as it is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Denver Republican,: His TBryans1 re-
ception by President Diaz and the people
in general has been so cordial that no
question can be left in the mind of any
sympathy with the movement for BIZ
metallism in this country. 1t is altogether
for Mexico's interest that silver be re-
stored to it's old place among the money
metals, and it swould be very strange
viewed from this standpoint, if the in
telligent men of that country should not
be in sympathy with the free coinage
movement in the United States
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Puck: a Regular Fiend.-'Do you like
tenderly, just after the thirty-ninth kiss
She looked Into his eyes and sighed.
'All I have to say, she murmured, '.is
that my last dying wish will be to have
some of it planted on my grave" Then
they resumed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

London Tit-Bits: A Composer.-Ethel-
Who was that man you just bowed to?
Penelooe-That was Dobson. the great
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Gray's Laxative Pellets cure consti-
patton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Kansas City Times: Mr. Gage is rather
presum!ng in advocating the reissue of
legal tender notes only in exchange for
gold. Something like a half of the peo-
pie do not think those notes need to be
redeemed in gold at ALL The law says
coin, and coin is not always gold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Philadelphia North American: Haines-
Do you think there is any basis for
S9ain..s claim of the right to search
American ships?
CadDury-No, sir The tariff law re-
serves that right exclusively for our rev
enue officers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

San Francisco Examiner Representa-
tive Dingley. in his special plea in con-
gress, for the tariff that is rapidly bring
ing the Mckinley administration face to
face with the prospect of bond issue
said that he violated no confidence in an
nouncing that the secretary of the treas
ury and the president expect the receipts
or the government next year will equal
the expenditures Still. this looks as
though the Republican car of prosperity
had encountered a Jolt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Ethel-A composer, did you say?
Penelope-He manufactures soothing
SVruD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
WIT AND HUMoR.

Chicago Record: MY wife has to take
two weeks to do her Christmas shopping"
Does she buy so many presents?''
NO, but she has to go down town every
day and exchange all the things she got
the day before
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Detroit Journal; will-"of course
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21

Boston Herald: The cutting of the ven
cradle Dover castle in England by fire
was due to defective tiue. The blame
be put on the late julius Caesar. who is
popularly credited with having erected
this castle several years ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

New York Herald: AS We Yuletide ap-
proaches a remarkabl change occurs in
the demeanor of We naughty flat house
Janitor. No bell rings that is not an
sWered. two pints of milk are in every
quart measure that is sent up, no one but
yourself is burning your coal, and postal
cards are unread in transit He knows a
thing or two, does We eXpectant janitor