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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17

"oiiS huu holhuu cunning 10
America. ROLAND will Immediately
open correspo ndence with the execu-
tors.
THESE ARE ONLY FIRST 0oUsINe.
New York, June IA dispatch
10 the Word from Boston says:
Two men In Bjston claim to be first
cousins OF Bsrnnto. Tney are Bar
mott Meyers and Wolf Meyers, cigar
makers at tue North end.
Barney Bsrnato's right name was
Barney Isaacs. His father and
our mother were brother and sister"
said Barnett Meyers. ave grew up
together In Londop and my brother
and myself came here with our par
enls about forty years ago.
| A short time before we starto for
America l met Barney Isascs on the
street. We were both named Barney
after our uncle, Barnett Isaacs. He
sh uted across the street to me, Chow
do you do Barney"
And l shouted back "Howdy d.
Barney2"
| "Wnat are You going to Anterior
ioi?" he asked. "You can't get ahead
over there"
ION, want to go TO America. L
think there is a good show there, "
said /.
"Better come to South Africa with
me-" said Barney. "rhers's lots OF
money to be- made there.n
mo, choose Americas" replied.
| Barney was poor then and he was a
besgar. called at one of his off SOS
In London three or four years ago nui
when came away he gave me $l25,
l never asked him for money. There
are other relatives, but not so very
many. Some are wealthy. There is
his eldest brother, Henry Isaacs,
worth $50. 100000. There is Kitty, his
| sister-in.Iaw. Shs Is worth several
millions. suppose they will get q
good share OF the property. We OK.
pect to get little something when the
thing Is settled up.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17

"rhe 5ocial democracy OF Ametc,,'
was incorporated in the preamble.
NJ. Dsbs advanced reasons for the
Uilu ANA this paragraphs In tne pre-
sDble which we're approved by an AZ
parent majority OF the delegate. The
project viii be taken up, piece by
piece, after the constitution II the new
organ zion Ia settled upon.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17
Guilty OF Embe..I, men.

DENVER, Col, June 17.-Matt
Adams, ex-clerk Of the district court
who was found guilty OF embezzl,-
msnt Of county funds was today ssh.
tencad to the state prison for five
years. After the. discovery Of 100000
shortage in his 1accounts Adams hei
to England, whence he was extradited
last year,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17

LONDON, June 1.-THE Prince OF
Wsiss's entry, Psrsimmons. winner OF
last years Darby, won the gold cup ut
the Ascot races today. 5ullivan's Wink.
field Pride second, and Hamar b ass
Love Wisely thirJ.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17
Missionary Reeeption,

Elder Hyrum Olsen was rendered
very pleasing reception In the
Eighteenth Ward Indepe dent school
house last evening as q prelude to en-
tering upon 4 mission in the near
future. The following program was
rendered..
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17
LILIUOKALANPS VIEW.
Fifteen Hundred People Ars Giving
Her Country Away.
The Natives. Sho says, DO Not want
Anusxation-Iniusti to the
kx.Queen.

New YORK, June ia special to
the Journal from Washington says:
In All interview ex.Queen Liliuoka.
lani said of the proposed treaty be-
tween the United States, land Hawaii:
"Filtesn hundred people are giving
away my country. The people Of my
country do net want to be annexed TO
the u nited States nor do the people Of
the u nited States want annexation.
1t ia the work OF 1900 people, mostly
Americans who have settled iu
Hawaii. o. tnis number those who
are not native born Americans are Of
American parentage. The population
OF the islsnds 10 los. 900. OF this mum.
Der 40, 900 are native Hawaiians. Tn o
Fest are A Hericsrs, Germans, Portu.
guese, Japanese. Chinese, English,
aud small portion from other ooun-
iries. The l 800 Americans who are
responsible tor what was done today
are running the affairs Of the islands.
There 10 no provision made IN this
treaty for me. In the Harrison treaty
was allowed 100000 per year. hui
that treaty never went iinto effect.
bnve not received one .doIlar from the
United State. No one looked after
my interests In the preparation Of this
treaty. Yet my people who form 80
large part OF the population OF the
islands would want justice done me. "
JAPAN MAY OBJECT.
PLYMOUTH, Eng, June Bishop
Wins, OF Honolulu, has Just arrived
hero from Hawaii. In an interview
he Is qu )ted as saying that the feeling
In the islands is against the Uniteu
States and greatly In favor OF British
annexation, but the bishop adds, Great
Britain has held aloof, although q
third Of the capital OF the country is
British. Bishop Willis SAIL that he
thought that II Great Britain would
not take the country, the next best
course was for Japan to reiIstate Queen
Liiiuokalani.
Rsierring to the proposed anuexf-
ton OF the Islands by the United
Slater, the bishop said this proposal
was only advanced In order to please
certain politicians, as America did not
want the ISLANDS, "becRuse the Chi.
nese exclusion act would become NULL.
fed II Hawaii wac annexed"
In conclusion the bishop 10 quoted
as saying that there 10 no doubt that
japan viii enforce her claims IN
Hawaii, In which country her com.
mercial prospe cls are good.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17

Tne exsrcises were well writ on anu
delivered In n way 70 Mold the ntiot-
tiCn nj tho fairly good auiience. El.
Iers NJ. w. Merrill Of this council Of
Apnntles ami Orsob smith, President
OF Cache stake, nc Cd as chapls'Ds.
The class received numerous b uquets,
books and ether remembrancps from
friends.
The alumni banquet wns given in
the old library room at 3 Pm. Abou,
one hundred we're were laid ana
there were but few vacant placre. The
repnst wss delicate, bou nteous aud
appreciated. Toas,s were responded
TO impromptn as follow:
Did Shakespeare banquet Prof MacEwnn
ny nrst banquet. .Prot roster
~ sirls airs ooy
why am leaving ccliege"..... Miss Kenyon
ntlhh Mbter.... .'.,..-.. hi.t nhtt
The class ofi'si..".... no. j. Widtsoe
A well atte1jei bal Ia tne,v
closed tie week. festivi:ie'. NJ.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17

and Mise Pike. The tunjecls OF the
gradueteS etsays snd speeches were
ps TO lIows.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17

Kimberly and Roland coming to
America. ROLAND will Immediately
open correspondence with the execu-
tors.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
Why Grant Never SWOre.

General Horace Porter, in his
campaigning With Grant" in the
May Century says: While sitting with
him at the campfire late n night,
after every one else had gone to bed,
I said TO him General, it seems
singular that you should have gone
through all the rough and tumble of
army service and frontier life, and
have never been provoked into swear
ing. l have never heard you utter an
oath or use an i~mprecation.' "Well,
somehow or other, I never learned to
swear he replied. when a boy I
seemed to have an aversion to it, and
when 1 became a man I saw the folly
of it. ]. have always noticed, too,
that swearing helps to arouse a man S
anger; and when a man flies into a
passion his adversary who keeps. cool
always gets the better Of him. In
fact, I could never see the use Of
swearing. I think it is the case with
many people who swear excessively
that it is a mere habit, and that they
do not mean to be profane but, to
say the least, it is a great waste OF
time
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
A Misguided Burglar.

Scar-faced Skies, the burglar, was OPP.
Grating on the ground floor Of a house Of
18th street the other night, making judi
cious selections from the articles OF sill
yer and alleged silver which he found in
the dining room, when he inadvertently
made a noise, which disturbed somebody
upstairs.
He heard that somebody cautiously
open q door, and then all was still, as II
the somebody were listening. Q a
voice aoate6l down the stair case:
"William, is that your
Without a seconds hesitation the bur.
glar replied, "Yes. darling" and begant to
move toward the door, hoping that his
reply had satisfied the inquirer, who
would then 10 back to, bed, and walt for
"Willisn" to come upstairs. But be was
disappointed.
The voice Immediately let loose some
piercing screams, and as the burglar
rushed out into the street. he said to him
self:
"That comes of my inexperience with
the ways of husbands. Instead ofreply-
ing Yes, darling I should have said.
of course it's me; shut up aud go to bed
That would have been more natural and
soothing, and T could have getaway with
out giving myself nervous fit"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
A Queer Marriage.

GAINESVILLE, GA, Aug. l6.-ln
joining together a colored couple here
on Saturday Judge j. N. Boggs, ordi.
nary of Madison County, made use OF
the most unique ritual by which a
marriage was ever solemnized.
This ceremonial originated with
Judge Satfold, Of Madison, and was as
follows
"By the authority vested in me, as
an officer of the State Of Georgia,
which is sometimes called the Empire
State of the South; by the fields Of
cotton that spread in snowy wilderness
around US; by the howl Of the coon
dog; by the gourd vine whose clinging
tendrils will shade the entrance to
your humble dwelling place; by the
red and luscious hcart Of the water.
melon, whose sweetness fills the heart
with joy; by the heavens and earth,
in the presence Of these witnesses. I
pronounce you man and wife. 10
forth and multiply"
At the conclusion of the ceremony
the bride and groom thanked the
Judge and walked out Of the Office.
smiling and happy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
Two Billions in Pensions.

Thirty-two years after the end of the
civil war the number of pensioners on
account of that war exceeds by about a
quarter of q million the number of SOL
diers actually engaged in service in all the
armies of the Government at any time
between the firing upon Sumter and the
surrender of Lee at A%ppomattox. The
army of pensioners after q third of a ZEN
fury is between 80 and 40 per cent larger
than the fighting army at any one time
during the war.
In the period between the war of the
Revolution and the second wal with
Great Britain the pension expenditure
eliminated at 81, $1,000 in 1904, about
twenty years after the end Of the Revolt
tionary struggle. In the period between
the war Of 1912 and the Mexican war the
pension expenditure eliminated in 1916
and thereafter decreased, with fuctua-
tions. from 81, 800, GOO in 1916 to $780, 900
in 1886. In the period between the Mex
lean war and the war for the Union the
pension expenditure'wss highest III 1852;
when it reached S2,4 0l 900. This is all
according to the normal process of growth
and decline.
Dividing the years since 1865 into four
year periods, each equal in length to the
duration of the wal itself, the increase of
pension expenditure to its present siupen.
ions propOrtiOns is thus exhibited:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
Late New Inventions.

To lock communicating doors between
two rooms so that neither room can be
opened in the absence of the occupant a
new lock has q double bolt, one-half of
which is drawn from each side of the
door by means Of a key.
For use in fishing a new boat has an
omen we'll cut in the center of the boat,
In which is mounted a wire cage, which
can be raised and lowered, the interior
being divided into compartments for live
bait and the fish caught. :
To assist in cutting the hair a new clip
per has q stationary comb plate attached
TO the lower handle OF the clipper,
with q spiral bladed cylinder mounted
on it lust back of the comb teeth to be
reyolyed by contracting handles OF the
Anew hitching post is formed ofiron
to be set in the ground with a slotted top
in which q number OF clamping jaws are
set to grip the rein or hitching strap after
it is passed through n OF the slots, a
lever being provided to close each jaw
tightly.
a new can opener is made with a curv-
ed pointed blade, with q projection on the
lower side OF the blade to be used as q
fulcrum in opening the can, the point OF
the kQl10 D6l0R lOIceu Iuto tho
pried along by bearing down on the han-
die.
Hunters will find a new gun case very
useful, the case being formed of canvas
with pockets and cartridge holders on one
side for use when the case is removed
from the gun and doubled to form a belt
to be fastened around the body by straps
near the center.
To assist a farmer in planting corn and
like seed in hills a new device is attach
ed to the back of the hoe and consists of a
reservoir for the seed, with an opening in
the bottom, which is fitted with 2 drop
per to be operated by a rod running up
the handle of the hoe.
In q new blotter just placed on the mar
ket a spring steel clip Is made of such
shape as to slip over the back of the hand,
the blotting paper being fastened to a
wheel set in the clip, to be revolved by
turning the hand over and drawing it
across the paper.
To assist in loading railway freight
| cars the floor in front Of the doors 10
mounted on an elevator set in the side OF
the car go it can be lowered to an equal
height with the platform to load the
freight, after which it is raised to the level
of the car floor and unloaded.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
Sam J0nes's Hit.

Some years ago Sam Jones preached
at a campmeeting in Texas. The
grounds were located near a little
town where there were ten saloons to
every church spire and schoolhouse.
In his sermon the first night he told
his audience that he was going to
preach to men only every morning at
5 o'clock, and that unless he had good
audiences at every sermon he would
pack his trunk and go home. For
seven mornings the horn sounded at
five. and, strange to say, nearly every
seat in the big tent was occupied. In
his farewell sermon he said:
"I suppose that 1 should make some
sort of an explanation as to why l
have called you men out here every
morning before daylight. Well, I'll
tell you. If l gave you until nine Or
ten o'clock every day, you would be
so full of Texas beef and whiskey that
it would take somebody bigger'n Sam
Jones to get next to you. l have
tackled you on empty stomachs when
you were weak, and as two hundred
Of you have joined the church, |
think my system has worked pretty
wnl1n
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amdessnu gmteItfgeneer.
Thirty.nine Years in Bed

A spinstcr lady of fortune died last
week at Teignmouth, Devanshire, who
for the last thirty-nine years has led a
most extraordinary life.
One evening in the year 1858, being
then in her 3Sth year, and in perfect
health, she retired to rest as usual.
The following morning she remarked
that bed was the most comfortable
place in the world, and announced her
intention of remaining there for the
rest of her natural life. And she did.
From that day until the day upon
which she was placed in her coffin last
week she never got up again, although
remaining to- within a few months of
her death in the best Of health. For
two years she lay in an upstairs room,
but for the last thirty-seven her bed
was placed in one on the ground floor,
commanding the entrance to the house
and grounds. From this vantage
point, by an ingenious arrangement OF
mirrors, she could see everything that
went on around the house and in the
gardens; while her sense of hearing
became so acute that nothing tran
spired inside it's four walls which es-
capped her attention.
Neither the death of her father nor
that of her mother, which took place
after she had.retired for this long rest,
operated to alter her resolution. On
the latter's decease she found herself
possessor Of the property. She had
the house locked up at 8 O'Clock. every
night and the keys put OF a table at
her bedside. She proved an excellent
woman Of business, transacting all her
affairs, managing her servants enter
tanning her guests and revising her
visiting list, without turning a coun-
terpane, SO to speak. Neither did she
change her diet in any way, but, de-
spite her re%cumbent habit of,life, con-
tinued to eat her usual meals, dining
at 8, and consuming such things as
ducks, game, peaches, pork and all
things indigestible, and taking her
coffee and liquors regularly all her
life.
Doctors visited her, but she had no
need of there Prescriptions, and it was
only a few months ago that the effects
Of her extraordinary manner Of life
began to- be visible. Then she gradu-
ally broke up. The medical men who
made a post-mortem examination Of
her remains found that her heart and
lungs were free from disease, so that
had she led an ordinary existence she
would in all probability have lived for
another ten Or fifteen years. At her
death, at the age of II, she weighed
nearly seventeen stone, and the coffin
in which she was buried was considered
the largest ever made in South Devon.
She was no miser, but lived we'll, gave
freely and handed on her fortune un-
impaired to her collateral descendants.
The London Mail.
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STUCK.

UNCLE FED-Hello, Jim Stuckup.
J1M-Hello back at you, Uncle Fed.
How's everything? You's de same
old delvish niger you's always been
for 30 schores and ten, I guess.
UNCLE FED-No,J Jim, I heerd sum-
fin yesterday dat tickled me, too old
as people seq | is.
J1M-What' dat you heerd?
UNCLE FED-Dat you got in nigh
ty bad scrape carryin' your gal to ride.
JrM-Oh, yes, I did. I'll tell you
how it was: I carried my gal to ride,
and whin we started back home we had
to cross a road, one Nv desc railroads,
and whin we come a flying down to
cross, here comes a trane, and law dat
cal commences hollowin' and we struck
dat old engine and knocked 'em right
straight up.
UNCLE FED-Stop, stop, right dar ;
you've got it mixed or hine part be
fore, one or tother. You knocked
what :?
JIM-We come right down de track
flying, and here comes de train to cross
de road that I done tole you bout, and
nv gal blows, or hollows, l mean, and
we run up and knocks de engine head
over heels, and de boxes tumble right
by and down de-
UNCLE FED-Hole on, you fool mig
ger amt you got a bit of sense :? If
YOU goin' to tell about it tell de truf.
JM--I'se doin' de best | ken. We
list knocked de train all to pieces and
UNCLE FED-Stop dar, again. You
knocked what?
JIM-De train just knocked US and
UNCLE FED-Well, go on now and
tell all yer got to say. Knocked nuth-
in'-the train knocked you to splinte-
r%ations, and [ know some things my
self.
JrM-Well, I got it straight now.
My gal blowed and come like light
ming down de track and knocked-no,
| mean de train bowed and knocked
US both higher and a kite, and knock
ed two arms off my gal and both Shoes
and I don't know what else it done to
her, but I tell you somethin' had to
done, and I jist run cause de boss was
unhitched den and gomez to G. S:
Minors and de Ten Cent Store and
got a bottle of Iron Glue and picked
up de pieces of my gal and stuck EN-
together, and stuck hershoes on, too,
and what you reckon she done tother
day
UNcLEFED-(with mouth open lis
tening)-What
J1M-I met her on de streets in An
derson and she was SO "stuck up she
wouldn't speak to me.
UNCLE FEo-You don't say so.
Well, let me tell you somcthin' about
sticking stuck, having been stuck.
b'leve that's right. Now, Jim, desc
arc facts about dat G. S. Minor and
dc Ten Cent Store. Use been traden
wild him and his boys-no, not his
boys, but his Clerks-ever since be-
fore he gone into bizness, and right
now I'm stuck: to him tighter den all
de Cast Iron Glew can stick dc world
together anG let me tell you, Jim,
dere is sights and sights OBJ people all
over dc whole country dat's stuck on
him, and l tells you agin, best OF all,
dat man Mr.. Minor is gone off now on
a bizncss trip and sum pleasure, too,
and dem boys in dar are selling dc
stuff. Jist go see for yourself: Eve
rybody 60! And now, Jim, lem me
tell you-don't say nuthins about it,
tho'-dcm very boys are running
things just to suit 'cm, cause dem
prices is lower dan anything is eve
called low. Go sec en-.
THE BOYS, at
G. S. MINORS and the
TEN CENT STORE,
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one of tho family of the eight.

- One of the family of the eight
ing Bells of Augusta County, Va,
has died at the homestead at Long
Glade, at the age Of 80. He was Al
exander R. Bell, one of five brothers
who together had 10 sons who fought
in Capt. Cushing's company Of the
fifth Virginia regiment, Stonewall bri-
gade, and were nearly all killed in
battle or died Of wounds. A. R. Bell
had been for nearly so years an elder
in the Presbyterian Church.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01

The finest wire in the country is
made at Tauton, Mass. This metal
cobWeb of minute diameter is exactly
.1-500th part Of. an inch in thickness
much finer than human hair. Ordi-
nary wire, even though of small diam
eter, is drawn through holes in steel
plates but, on account Of the wear,
such plates cannot be used in making
she hair wire. The Tanton factory
mentioned uses drilled diamonds for
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01
Why Sophia Welded.

Sophia Smith was a well-known
character in the town Of A. She
owned a small house and a little patch
Of land, but was willing to turn an
honest penny by going out for a few
weeks at a time to do housework for
select families. As she was brisk,
tidy and Industrious, she was much
esteemed by her employers. When
Sophia. was about 40 years of age she
married an idle, worthless fellow by
the name of Howe. Mrs. Baker,
whom.she was 'shelping out during
an attack Of rheumatism, once asked
her:
"Why in the world, Sophia, did you
ever come to marry old Howe !"
"Wal,"i replied Sophia, s'to tell the
truth, Miss Baker, I did it so as to
have the prayers of the church. You
see they pray forthe hes s Of families,
the widow and the fatherless, and the
little children, but who ever heard Of
their praying for an old maid
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= North Dakota is paying a bounty CT
cents q bushel for grasshoppers.

5U Genus q puSuel loi RfaoSnoPPeAo'
A book has been lately published in
which one quantity remarks: Don't call
my work lowly because it is that Of Q
shoemaker. Atthe Judgment I will hand
in a sample OF my shoes, and you q
sample of your sermons; and the reward
will be according to the excellence of each
as ermons aud as shoes" a.
= ZootherapY is a new system OF curing
ills devised bya Florentine named Ie-
rspi. It consists in transferring any dis
ease a man may have TO some animal, and
is the converse of the medical theory That
animals convey disease to man. Among
che cures he advertises is that Of a rheu-
matte who made his dog lie across his
bed, the man being cured and the dog
diving. Goldsmith has written a poem on
an analogous case, where a man was Bit
ten by a mad dog. Other cases are those
Of priest who took his cat to bed with
him and was cured of q fever; OF a
Lausanne lady who transferred her
severe headache to her toy terrier by
pressing it against her head, and of a
doctor who gets rid of pains in his arm
by getting crows to perch on his Shout
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