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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

OF addiction to strong drink and genera
worthlessness The humorous touch that
finished the picture, as he came up with
q genial smile and a good deal of man.
ner, was a round and fresh clerical col,
lar, which had evidently been lifted very
recently from the premises of the neigh
boring college.
Madam, he said, II am a missionary
but latel-, returned from long years OF
service in China and other heather lands
For the sake of health and relaxation ]
am renewing my acquaintance with ma
ture and nv native land in this uncont
am selling for the merely nominal price
OF 10 cents this record of my missionary
experiences
The fellow made his speech with look
IN his eyes that showed his endowment of
the game. The volume was a dirty cast
away, rescued from an ash barrel, but
still The Life CT the Rev. So-and-So
many years missionary in the far East
Dear. dear" said one of the ladies'
haven't you clean copy?"
Madam. there are others but they are
With my baggage. And they are % cents
COPY. he added: this is the popular
editionl"
One of the company. charmed with the
style and imDudence of the scalawag
went in to get the change. Then he took
his money, waved his dismantled Derby
affabiy, and went on along the highway
The incident was happily closed by the
purchaser of the Life" of the departed
brother reading aloud when she could
catch her breath. these opening lines OF
the precious narrative: Il was born OF
humble parentage in the town of Glas-
tonbury, Conn.,, March is, 1892"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
GENTLE DULLNEss' FATAL JOKE

1t is an old saying that Gentle Dull
ness ever loves a joke" The worst of
it is that Gentle Dizziness never fails
to have his joke at an inoDportune
time or to choose a bad subject to
make a joke Of A week or so ago
Gentle Dizziness, in the person of
young man of this city, played a joke
by holding another young man up.
That Gentle Dizziness was not perfo-
rated by bullet he may thank his
lucky stars and not his poor wit.
But Gentle Dizziness lives in other
cities than this. There was one in
Lansing, Mich, last week but he has
been gathered to his fathers through
his own foclishness. his foolishness be
ing of the same order as that of the
young man of our own city above re-
ferred to.
Gentle Dizziness of Lansing was
two years of age, and for some time
had been paying attention to the
daughter of highly respected family.
One evening he had an engagement to
accompany the young lady to a party,
but before going to her home his poor
wit conceived the bright idea of hav-
ing little fun, of playing a joke on
the family of the young lady he was
to accompany to the party. This bright
idea was to frighten the members of
the family. To carry it out he put on
a false beard, buckled on belt, into
which he thrust a brace of pistols and
attached an old sword. Thus accou-
tired he sought the residence of the
young lady, and when arrived he
tapped on the window and attracted
the attention of the family. Thus far
the joke had been very successful.
Having attracted the family's atten-
ton he demanded admittance. The
father was not at home and the mem
bers of the family became greatly
alarmed. But a son, nineteen years of
age, was at home, and when the de-
mands of Gentle Dizziness for admit
lance were renewed, this son picked up
a shotgun and fired. The result was
that he who had arrayed himself as a
highwayman received the charge from
the gun full in the face, staggered
few steps and fell dead.
Gentle Dizziness has had his joke.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
TALES OF THE DAY.


New York Herald: The woman lawyer
slammed a pile of briefs down before the
judge and said:
- move to discharge this prisoner on
the ground that the prosecution have not
proved their case and that the evidence
IS irrelevant and immaterial.''
Motion granted" said the Judge
mo more dastardly outrage was ever
perpetrated,' began the lawyer, than
the incarceration of this, my innocent
client. He was engaged in the pursuit OF
his daily vocation, when the strong arm
of the law descended upon him. He
Madam said the judge, have 1 not
already told you that your motion was
granted? The prisoner is discharged"
He was a man without guile, con-
tinued the fair counselor He supported
his family as best he could. He was in
the midst of his family circle when a
minion of the law entered and demanded
his immediate incarceration"
Il have already decided in your favor.
madam. as | have told you twice. .
drawled the judge. What more do you
want?''
What more do / want, indeed?'' cried
the woman lawyer her face flushing to a
crimson hue. Why, / want to argue
this case. l stand upon my constitutional
right as woman to have the last word
and / mean to have it,"
And she did.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
AT DARGAI.
OCTOBER 20. 1887.


Fifty yards wide the platform stretched
Between the sheser and the ridge:
Only such slender space to cross,
And It's the Victory of the Bridge!
But on those rocks eight thousand foes
With furious fire the passage close.
Fifty yards wide! No more! Yet dare
One step upon that leveled space
And the brave Linesman, torn with shot,
Falls. dead or dying, on his face.
A storm swept Bridget A Bridge of He'll
How deadly yon prone corpses tell.
The Ghorzas start, Not readily
Will those 1.-the pigmies of the hills
Turn back for flames. or shot or steel;
But here today tbs courage kills.
The boldast man by man must bleed;
The Ghorkas cannot do this deed!
Dorsetshire men. and Derbyshire-
Fearless they close the long-linked ranks,
OF that stern gap to bear the brunt;
What manhood may, and loyalty,
And pride and pluck, this foe shall see!
Alas. too dreadful drives the hail
OF kissing lead! The constant slain
Roll, numbering those heroic feet
Which would advance; the bloody plain
Is Uttered DER with red and black;
Dorsetshires Derbyshires, turn backl
The haunting, bitter screams are heard
Of tribes who mark a British line
Stayed, baffled-nay. but not afeared!
Eight thousand mus6ets keep the hill:
And that Red Bridge untraversed still
Then. from gray hollows where they
crouch,
The sons of Scotland silent gather
Wild indigo and tamarisks brush
The limbs bred in the purple heather
The Gordon Highlanders fall in
Pipers and all-Hells Bridge to win!
Men of the Gordon HighIanders"
Colonel Matthias loudly cries,
THE generals orders are to take,
At any needless sacrifice.
Yonder position! His wen make it!
The Gordon Highlanders will take iti'
To skirl of pipes and CLEAN of blades
The glorious band leaps joyous forth,
Drowning the muskets on the hill
With slogan from the north.
Stay theml Deaths self, Helrs self, give
When Gordons to the Battle boundl
Fierce, splendid, faithful, stream our
Scots
To lightsome. homely Highland Tilt;
Rush buskin. plume and kilt,
The fifty yards of fire are passed.
The savage ridge is gained at last!
Down from the emptier sangars fly
Those rabel hordes; the flaming hill
Is cleared-the grim position seized
As was the generals will.
The coloners simple word did make it
THE Gordon Highlanders will take it,
Dear Brothers. of our Blood The cheers
Which hailed you conquerers as We
came
Mid glad battalions welcoming you.
Down marching from the Hill of Fame
Echo in British homes today.
I From north to south, from Thames to
Tay.
Folks saw vour earliest f1ac v,ara roisad
In bonny town of Aberdeen,
Where lads King Georges guinea took
A duchess lovely lips between.*
Scots of the Gordon Highlanders,
The country's kiss is yours, like hers,
*Alluding to the story that the beauti-
full Duchess of Gordon offered each man
willing to join her husbands new regi-
ment a kiss and guinea.
ST. Edwin Arnold, in the London Tele-
graph
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

oklahoma should be allowed to
knock a good while longer before it is
granted statehood. The Union wants
no more decayed boroughs of the Ne
vada kind. 1t is only seven years ago
that Oklahoma was organized as a ter
ritory, and while it has increased swift
~ in population since then, it is noto-
rious that a numerous portion of the
population consists of prospectors and
adventures who, like the Arabs, may
at any time fold their tents and silent
~ steal away. Oklahoma's place is on
the probationers' bench for a few
years. It may be added that there is
no crying need at present for more free
silver senators to obstruct legislation
at Washington" says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Oklahoma
should be admitted whenever she is fl
ted for statehood, and it makes no diff
ference whether she sends free silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
senators or sold standard senators to
the senate; what her senators are are
but accidents and not essentials

A Washington dispatch to the Chi
cago Record says that the president is
contemplating another surprise for the
spolismen in the nature of an order
placing deputy postmasters, assistant
postmasters, cashiers, chief clerks and
other postoffice officials who we're left
out of the last order within the CLASH
fed service. This will embrace 5000
or 1000 officials, and some of the best
positions in the postal service. If The
spoilsmen but know the password they
will not be dismayed by any such ex-
tension of the classified service, for
they know that it is only an affair of
paper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Chicago's chief of police proposes to
establish training school for the off
GERS under him. as he has become con-
WINGED that all his subordinates are not
possessed OF sufficient powers of dis
elimination in making arrests of per-
sons who should be treated with the
utmost respect That is right. Train
them up in the way they should so and
when they get old they will not depart
from it-may be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

The Republican party of New York is
processing great Indignation against
Tom Platt because Of his course in the
late municipal campaign in Greater
New York The Republican party of
New York has no right to kick against
Platt, for he is the direct product of
New York Republican politics, in fact.
it has never produced a higher type of
the product the machine turns out
than he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

In our article, Revenue Under the
Dingley Law" yesterday. in speaking
Of the revenue for The first four months
Of the fiscal years 1895 and 1897, it was
stated: Excess OF revenue from all
sources for four months of 1887 over the
same period in 1896, S1,OS2, SS7.42.
Through a typographical error the
excess revenue-s1. OS2. SS7. 42-was cred
tied to 1897. when it should have been
credited to 1896
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
A Tramp Sells Els Memoirs.

Buffalo Commercial: The audacity an6
wit of the American tramp are proven
bal. and undoubtedly they often save
him from harsher treatment than his
merits and dement's entitle him to- A
ceived a call from one Of these species.
The man was dirty. unke-upt and unmis-
.takably tramp. He also DO . the signs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

a New York dispatch to a Chicago
paper says that Mark Hanna displayed
great modesty in talking about the
Ohio fight. 1t is generally supposed
that he displays a great check-book
when talking about Ohio politics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

The people of Davis county are in
teresting themselves in the Ogden
sugar factory proposition. This is a
good thing, for Davis county would
benefit as much by the factory as the
people OF Weber county would. And
when the Ogden factory is finished we
hope to see a project for the erection
Of one in Davis county started. It has
every facility for one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

The Chicago Times-Herald and the
New York Evening Post want the In
dianapolis monetary convention to re-
assemble. BY all means let it do it.
1t is a harmless concern and seems to
give great pleasure to those who are
members Of it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Mayor-elect Van Wyck, of Greater
New York; AIayor-elect Master, of Bal
timore, and Mayor-elect Clark, of Salt
Lake City, have made no promises.
Has the oId-fashioned promising may
or become a thing of the past?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

At the conference of Charities and
Corrections held at Springfield, H., one
Chicago doctor strongly advocated
work as a cure for loafing, when the
loafer is able-b bodied. That was SEN
sibIe doctor and he never gave better
advice
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
Bucklen's Arnica salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores. letter, Chapped Hands.
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles. or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by z.
c. M. 1. drug store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

teresting remnant of some race and if
they were studied scientifically by
skillful ethnologists some interesting
facts would be sure to be developed.
First attempts to study them would
probably be quite hazardous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Yellok Book: Her Father-You have the
nerve TO ask me for my daughter. sir
the JOY of my old age, the priceless jewel
in my diadem?
Her Adorer-Thats what-and want the
jewel and the diadem thrown in.
Her Father-In that case you can have
her. I'm looking for man with nerve,
for her.
Chicago News: Tom-Is there any diff
ference between shop girl and sales
lady?
Jack-No. The difference is always be-
tween them and the hoorwalker.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

It seems that the London fire was
not so disastrous as at first reported,
still the loss is enormous. And after
all the wonder is that the fire was not
more disastrous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
Never Felt Better.

MY brother was troubled for several
years with a severe cough and also
with rheumatism. He has taken a
few bottles OF Hoods SarsaparilIa and
is relieved. He never felt better in his
life. He now coughs but seldom and
never feels anything Of the rheumat-
ISM Cora Evans, Panguitch, Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
ASSURANCE OF A PACIFIC
ERA"

It is a good idea to have on hand
supply of torpedo boats and 10-inch
disappearing guns for prudential rea-
sons and as a peace measure The
work going forward on them day and
night is an additional assurance of
pacific era.
So says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. If peace could only be had at
the price of torpedo boats and 10-inch
disappearing guns, it would be a wise
thing for the government to fill the
harbors Of the country with the one
and the forts and arsenals with the
other, and to do this it would be the
greatest possible economy to borrow
several hundred million dollars to sup
ply them at once.
How long is it since this country be-
gan to rely on torpedo boats and 10
inch disappearing guns for the contin-
uance OF a peaceful era? In the past
this country has relied on the policy
of attending strictly to its own bust
ness and refusing to be drawn into
any entangling foreign alliances for
the continuance of a pacific era, and
lhe TeAanCe HASH DeeH III VAIL buI
of late a large portion of the press, if
not the people, has come to believe
that this country must rely for peace
on the same means that the armed
countries of Europe do-preparedness
for war. 1t is not nearly so safe a,
reliance as. the old one that has never
failed. Our ST. Louis contemporary
talks very much Ike Emperor Will
liam does when he speaks of the guar
antee of European peace.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Secretary Gage told the Indianapolis
monetary commissioners that he had
better plan than theirs. And yet there
were forty-six submitted to the Indi-
annapolis convention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

indianapolis Journal: One Neighbor-
Don't you ever have any fears that you
won't be able to raise that boy of yours?
L do. THE good die young you know.
Il wasn't thinking of that 1 was Won
dering if you had no fears that some
with an AK for blowing that tin horn all
day long,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

The Illinois supreme court has held
that breaking into and robbing a, hen
roost is not burglary. Still this doesn't
give one any license to go chicken
stealing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

The New York horse show was a
great success. The horses were given
some show as well as the society peo-
pie. In the past the horses have had
no show.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Cincinnati Enquirer: Excited Spectator
I've seen a great many football con-
tests. but this one is the fiercest and most
brutal | ever attended.
Another Spectator-Why shouldn't it
be? Don't you know the terms of the
game? The losers have to get their hair
cropped close.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

They are making quite as much fuss
in England over the muzzling of dogs
as though the attempt were being
male to muzzle the press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

People who have money should place
it in banks; and while banks are not
absolutely safe, they are very much
safer than barrels and bedticks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Are the pilgrims a failure?" asks
the Louisville Courier-Journal. Not
much; any one has but to read the
history OF New England to ascertain
this fact.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Having conquered the Princeton Tig-
ers, why do not the sons of Eli tackle
the Tammany tiger? There is a game
worthy Of their prowess.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Charles T. Yerkes having purchased
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, presumably
that paper will in future become the
great authority on astronomical mat
ferS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

1.-The long winter evenings are upon
u.s. says the Provo Enquirer. And
yet our Provo contemporary doesn't
seem any more benighted than usual
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

If in the next world President Nc
Kinley can secure pardon as readily as
he grants it in this, he will be all right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

They don't have female suffrage in
Maryland, but they have Anne Arundel
politics all right enough.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

A Chicago man is named P. D. Quick.
But what's in a name?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

In his address to the clergy Of the
diocese of Albany the other day, Bishop
Doane said:
1T is unfortunate with US that our
public men are by the force of our con-
slant political changes unframed either
in the arts or in the language of di
plomacy. It is still more unfortunate,
when statesmen forget the art and Ian
guage of courtesy. Always in an I'M
amalgamated civilization like ours,
when we have not yet become one ma
ton, but are conglomeration Of in
Vulnerable nationalities only in a. pro-
cess of assimilation, Their are two dan
gerS-the one of assertions of old-time
prejudices and antagonisms, which
have no place in our SOIL and no ref
erence to our relations to any other
country in the world; and the other the
objectionable political device of pan
dering to some of these transplanted
parties. The more mindful men in En-
gland look with amaZement and as
constituent on what sometimes seems
to them the unbridled violence of our
hatred and dislike of England in Amer
lea. 1 am as sure of the absence of all
such feeling among thoughtful people
at home With these extreme express
sions of violence, the English govern
ment, the English people and the En-
glish press have been most patient; but,
unless we come to recognize more than
,x-o 40 +ba raclxIassneSs of sDeech the
facility of rousing prejudices, and the
danger of provoking even the most pa
tient strength. we may bring about
state of things infinitely disgraceful
and infinitely dangerous to our Chris
tianity and our civilization"
These remarks are those of a lover
of his country, and one worthy of care
full consideration. They point out a
fault only too common-that of nag
ging our neighbors, and one that can
have no fruit but evil.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

They mad hot time in the old town
of London the other night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Secretary Bliss says that Alaska
needs notice. For the last year it has
had more notice from the press than
anything else, not excepting the patent
medicine al.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
STATE PRESS COMMENTS.

Eureka Democrat: few more en-
dorsements of his administration like
that given by Ohio and even Mr.. Nc
Kinley will be able to see how worthless
the Republican nomination for president
in 1900 VIII be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
WIT AND HUMoR.

Philadelphia North American: "Is it
true that Rakeuo has been in search of
buried treasures?"
II guess it is. He said something to
me about diving into his wifes pocket for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

The Harvard football team having
dropped the H s" hencetorth 1t viii
be proper to speak of the great uni
versity as Award.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Hoods Pills are the only pills to
take with Hoods Sarsaparilla Easy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22

Ogden Press: Great care should be
exercised by the parties in all wards to
see that men are put into the field who
are representative men on school matters
or representative women as the case may
be. There is disposition in some quar-
ters to do away with the high school.
Only known friends of the school should
be selected