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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Each year brings the merry Christ
mas time, and with it come much the
same thoughts and festivities. Above
all other seasons of the year it is the
children's; now they reign supreme,
and everywhere is heard their shouting
and laughter. And it should be so. for
the festal time commentaries the birth
of the Child that came into the world
to save it, because of the love of the
Father Cor It. 1t is the time of peace
and good WILL and all that is antagon-
istic to them is alien to it. But who on
this day of days can express what all
feel? None. Each soul is filed with
hope and memories, and fond anticipa-
tons Why attempt to tell what they
are, when to do so is impossible?
To all The Herald says, A Merry
Christmas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
KAISER WILLIAM.

You are young, Kaiser William" the old
man said,
And your knowledge of music is nil,
And yet you conducted an ode that you
made
What gave you this wonderful skill?"
In my childhood, the kaiser replied
with a smile,
''AIy own little trumpet I'd blow,
And as l continue the practice. l style
Myself q musician. you know"
You are young" said the sage, " as I
And have never yet been in a fight,
But somehow you lecture your soldiers on
Do you think at your age it is right?'
I'm my childhood" the kaiser replied t.
81 sat sat or otte some soldiers of tin,
And the knowledge gained at that criti-
Has helped me my lectures to spin"
You are young" said the sage, land
your hands are unused
To drawing with pencil or paint,
Yet you knocked off poster which great
The pu ii5iif seems very quaint
'As a child said the kaiser. Il painted
the door
OF my nursery crimson and green,
And, if that wasn't art, 1 have never be-
fore
Been told so-by artists, I mean"
You are young" said the sage, land the
ruling of men.
OF course is q difficult task,
Although you are eating on nicely, but
when
Will you govern yourself may ask?"
Il have answered three questions, and
that is enough
Said the kaiser. and if you assail
My rights as a heaVen-born ruler as stuff
And nonsense, I'll put you in jail
-Pick-Ma cup.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
RUss1A's GRAND CANAL.

That is a great story which comes
from Washington, to the effect that
the Russian government will next
spring begin the construction of ship
canal from the Baltic to the Black sea.
The only thing comparable to it in the
way of canal construction is Governor
Leedy's proposition to construct a canal
from Montana to Texas. Everybody
laughs at Leedy's proposition, but is
this Russian project to be taken as a
laughing or a serious matter? That
cannot be determined until it is posi-
lively known whether Russia actually
does or does not contemplate the con-
struction of this canal. If she should
really undertake it she would probably
push it to completion. She could fur
nish the labor as cheaply and album
dainty as China could. It's value COM
mercially would be great, but greater
still from a military point of view.
That it could be constructed for any
thing like the sum estimated-$97, 900,
000-no one will believe for an instant
especially the French, who have had
a great experience at Panama and still
have no canal But into what insignifi-
canoe the talked-of canals of Panama
and Nicaragua sink when compared
with this Russian grand canal! Only
the canals of Mars are worthy to be
compared with it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
TIE HERALD: SATURDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1897

matical precision that America could
not only dispense with foreign silk, but
could supply European markets, and
that the production of silk in this coun-
try was destined to fill the dangerous
deficits in public economy caused by
speculation and extravaganza. And
yet, after fifty-six years, the United
States has not supplied the European
markets, to any appreciate extent,
with silk, nor filed UP the deficits in
the treasury with that fabricl Mr.. Tin
ELI remarked at the same time that
there had already been gigantic prog
ress and the chief thing needed then
was a protective duty on imported
silk.
Throughout the ffties, sixties and
seventies there were many magazine
articles on the subject of silk culture,
written generally by persons who We're
enthusiasts in the matter, and who
laid the blame for the 1889 failure upon
the Ubiquitous speculation in and mo-
nopoly of mulberry trees.
"All Of these writer's were remark
ably hopeful for the future, however,
and the first published note on the
other side seems to have been struck
in 1880, when a writer remarked that
the silk worm industry in America had
been merely a series of attempts and
failures, and that it was suitable only
to densely populated countries where
labor was cheap.
But the pursuit which had under
gone so many alternate revivals and
hardships was destined to experience
one more flicker of the spark of its life.
In 1856 the agricultural department es
tablished a filature at Washington for
the reeling of silk from American CO.
coons Associations for silk-raising
were formed in Kansas and California,
and there was Woman's Silk Culture
association in Philadelphia. In the
same year. 1885, congress voted an an
nual appropriation of $4,000 to enable
the associations tc buy the cocoons
direct from the farmers, reel them and
sell them to the manufacturers. But
the project could not be made to give
any promise of great success, and in
/ 1892 the appropriation was discontin-
ued. Silk culture once more dropped
gently into oblivion, and up to date it
has not emerged for another term Of
activity"
There are two explanations of the
failure to establish the silk-raising in
dustry in the United States: First, it
is not suited to the country; or, second,
the people do not find it profitable.
Were it suitable and profitable, it
would today be one of the chief indus
tries of the land, for it has been given
enough trial and encouragement to
have put anything on it's feet The YER
dict of experience must be that silk
culture isn't adapted to the United
| States
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When riots occur in this country, and
the militia must be employed to sup
press them, we are apt to think that
such affairs are handled much more
promptly and successfully by the mill
tary powers of Europe, says the Phila-
delphia Ledger. But the troubles in
Prague and other parts of the Austrian
empire are not handled in a manner
consistent with any such theory No
riots in this country, not even those
incident to the great railroad strike of
1892, were ever SO ineff1ciently dealt
with by the government as are those
which are now disturbing the peace of
Austria There the strong police force
is unable to dispense the rioters, and
even the army is powerless to suppress
them. Here, in most cases, the state
militia is all-sufficient, and even they
need only make a show OF force, with
out actual violence, while in the few
cases where the regular army is called
into service the presence of very
small detachment of it is quite enough
to restore order. Mobs are ugly things
to deal with in any country, but our
governments, state and national, seem
to cope with them at least as effectual-
~ and with as little trouble and blood
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go much further than that now. Only
yesterday L saw little book entitled
How to Go Counting.
He Strengthened up as if pin had been
stuck in him and. after a very brief con-
sideration of the circumstances, he moved
a few inches nearer to her.
I never heard of that. he said, but
I've heard of one called How to Propose
Properly l thought of getting a copy
once"
Why didn't you?" she asked
We'll, it's really of no value, you know,
without the COMPANION volume entitled
How to Accept Gracefully
There was a brief silence, during which
he got little closer, and then he sug
gested:
you
How do you know [ need it?" she
asked
In truth, any one desiring to make either
of these young people q present of any
one of the volumes mentioned in time to
be of any practical value. would have to
be mighty quick about it. 1t often hap
pens that when Cupid starts out as il
lazy or little lame, he. suddenly wakes
up and develops into a regular steeDle-
chaser.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
TALES OF THE DAY.
Diploma4ic obtuseness.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The aged reader
looked over his steel-bowed spectacles at
the partner of his joys.
Il was asking what's the news, Dan'l."
oh" he said, Il was reading UP on
this Cuby question.
An what about it, DAMP"
why, the argument seems to center
round autonomy"
''Eh?' said the old lady.
Il say autonomy
why 1 didn't know they had any O.
tibet down there.
Any O. what?"
"Hominy'
Who said anything about hominy?'
you did, Danl You said ought homi-
nan thet's as fer as you got. What's
The Old man looked at her with fierce
contempt.
saw woman who had the fust glimmer
of sense about dieplumacy."
He took his paper and moodily staiked
out.
him. Il hope to gracious them poor
starvin Cubans hev got lots of it,"
But the old man was too mad to re-
DiV.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
SILK CULTURE.

Utah has always had more or less
! interest in silk culture, and practical
experiments with it have been made
and some quite gratifying results had.
But as an industry it has never -four
ished, and it is very doubtful if it can
be made to. The first state legislature
passed an act creating a silk commits
sion, and providing a bounty of twenty
! five cents for each pound of cocoons
produced in the state. The act is to
continue in force ten years. That the
silk-raising industry viii flourish in the
state as the result of it, is not prob
able
A writer in the New York Tribune Of
Sunday last tells of Industries that
Failed He traces the attempt to es-
tablish silk raising in this country
from the earliest times. In the last cen
fury, years before the revolution, an
attempt was made to raise silk in
Georgia. In 1853 ten thousand pounds
of raw silk were exported to England.
The last expectation was in 1890 In
III Pennsylvania and New Jersey be-
gan the culture of silk, but it was in
terrupted by the revolution, and after
the interruption" it was never re-
sumed- But it. was in 1880 that the silk
worm fever swept over the country.
Nothing came Of it but a great boom
in mulberry trees. There have been
protests ever since at intervals against
the neglect of silk culture says the
writer. In 1871 an italian named Tin
ELI spoke in favor of it at the Aneri-
can institute fair of that year. He said
it had been proved with almost mathe-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
How 1t Was Done.

Chicago Evening Post: They had sat OPP
posite each other on the sofa for nearly
the whole evening. AS matter of fact,
they had occupied the same relative posi-
ton on q number of other evenings, and
she was beginning to think something
ought to happen.
Isn't it odd" she said at last, that
they are carrying the etiquette books to
such EXTREMIST"
Are they?" he asked in surprise.
ooh yes. indeed she answered. you
practically anything of social nature
that you want to. OF course, some of
them are perfectly idiotic, but there are a
few that | should think might be really
serviceable'
i've seen some telling how to set a
dinner table for is courses" he said land
what knife. to use with the third course
and-and--''
All that's odd," she interrupted. .sThey
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
THE DRY FORK posToFF1cE.

a postmaster has been appointed for
Dry Fork. Uintah county, and the APP
pcintee IS not the lady to whom Mar
shall Miller addressed his rather ef-
fusive communication, telling her the
Office was practically hers, and that he
hoped she would continue to
work for the c. o. P. in the
future as in the past. His
letter was so cheering that the lady
was so indiscreet as TO boast of it, and
finally give it to the papers for publ
cation. That was q false and fatal
step. 1t exposed the marshal to ridi-
cule and the C. o. P. to derision. That
the innocent author of all this should
be rewarded after the publication Of
the letter was an impossibility. 1t was
an indiscretion, to be sure, but in poll
tics an indiscretion is less easily and
less frequently forgiven than a treason.
It is safe to assert that the lady who
received Marshal Miller's letter and not
the postmastership, will not be an en-
thusiastic adnirer and supporter of the
administration in future; nor is it likely
that she will tire herself out working
to further the interests of the C. Q. P.
To al other aspirants for office, the
case will serve the very excellent and
useful purpose of a terrible example.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
MEETING.

The fourth annual meeting of the
Utah State Teachers association takes
place at Provo next week 1t will open
Monday evening, when there will be a
general meeting; this will be largely
in the nature of a reception to the Wis
iting teachers. Tuesday and Wednes-
day will be devoted to the regular bust
ness of the association, for which pur-
pose an interesting programme has
been provided.
There are some twelve hundred teach
ers in the state, and while it would
hardly be possible for them all to be
in attendance, as many as possibly can
should be; it should not be a difficult
matter for a third or half of them to
be present. There isn't one who would
not go away with some new ideas,
some old ideas modified. There isn't a
teacher in the state but knows some
thing that some other teacher doesn't
know; and all this scattered knowledge,
so to speak, should be made common;
and where can this be done to such
advantage as at a meeting of the State
Teachers association? All teachers
who can should attend the meeting;
they will benefit by it; and their pupils
in turn.
President Brimhall has worked hard
to make the approaching meeting a
success, and it will deserve it; the
railroads have granted special rates,
and there isn't a town in the
c+a+a +Iot will o.i,-a tho +aaobare .
heartier welcome than Provo will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
THE HOLIDAY HERALD.

The holiday number of the Salt
Lake Herald, to be issued December
26th, viii be mammoth issue (32 or
40 pages), filed with carefully pre-
pared and appropriate matter.
Among the conspicuous features
will be the following:
y A review of '"Utah's Jubilee Yesr,"
by Judge E. 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 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 writers 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 ez-oe11eToa
The Holiday Herald will be just
such a paper as thousands of Utah
and Idaho people VIII desire to keep
as souvenir and to send to far-away
friends. Orders for extra copies
should be placed with agents at once.
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Denver, Colo, Dec. %, 1897.
Editor of The Herald, Salt Lake City,
Utah:
Dear Sir:-I notice in your Sunday
issue Denver dispatch and editorial
in reference to the report of Cover
nor Adams Indian investigating COM
mission, to the effect that the report
says that if the wardens had not at
tackled the Indians as they did the lat
ter would have attacked the wardens
next day. The editorial was evidently
based on the dispatch, which is very
misleading. Your correspondent evil
IDENTIFY had not read the report, as 1t
says nothing of the kind.
l take the liberty to enclose a copy
of the report It may be subject to
criticism, but not in the respect named
I venture the assertion that the re-
port of Mr. Reynolds, special agent of
the commissioner of Indian affairs, will
! not disagree with ours on the main
facts, as the testimony of the same
witnesses in general was taken in both
Investigations and it is scarcely pos
sible that different conclusions can be
arrived at therefrom.
do not desire to engage in a news
paper controversy or write for publlca-
ton, but merely to give you an oppOr-
tunity to see what our report really is
Yours truly,
D. c. BEAMAN.
Our comments were based upon an
Associated Press dispatch sent from
Denver and not upon any from our
own correspondent. This is what the
dispatch said:
The report says. in substance, that
! I nj
uties assembled at Thompsons ranch
during the night previous to the fight
and dropped down in the camp the
next day before the Indians were aware
| of their presence, the WardenS would
have met with disaster at the hands
! of the Utes, and the story of the con-
! fiict would have been that the whites,
instead of Indians, had been killed.
Mr.. Beaman sends us the report of
the commission, which we have care
fully read, and there is nothing in it to
warrant the Associated Press dispatch,
and it was upon it that the editorial
was written.
1 II the facts in connection with the
! killing of the Indians are as stated in
/ the commissions report, then the game
wardens were certainly justified in all
they did, in fact they could not have
done differently. The report admits
| that the Indians deny having any fire
arms but photographs are attached
showing there were firearms in their
camp They also deny the testimony
of the white men. To come to anything
like a just conclusion as to where the
blame lay it would be necessary to
carefully read and weigh the testi-
mony taken: this, of course, is not in
Guided in the report, but is attached
to it as exhibits. We have no inten-
ton to unjustly criticise Governor
Adams commission, but with the full
report before US we will say that the
commissions conclusions read very
much like a special plea for the war
dens, and they are the weakest part
of the report
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
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shed as those of any other countries il
the world.

Speaking of magnifying ones office:
Ex-President Harrison seems to I'M
derstand the business pretty well, says
the Washington Star. In his recently
published book, entitled This Country
of Ours which, in spite of its title,
is descriptive and explanatory of its
form of government, rather than of
its geography or physical resources, he
deyotes 16 pages to the constitution, 81
to the legislative branch, 81 to the jul
dicial. and 2S2 TO the executive! To
state or municipal institutions he gives
no space whatever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Before the Leiter-Armour wheat deal
is finally closed up, it win probably de-
velop that those two gentlemen are
nothing but the upper and neither mill
stones, and that the people are the
grist that viii be ground between them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Everyone" says James r. Keene,
"ought to be glad that his lot is cast in
this country" a lot of people who have
been cast in bronze in this country
shouldn't feel that way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

On this beautiful morn no one in all
the land will look more anXiously and
eagerly into his Christmas stocking to
see what it contains than Marcus A.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

IT may be that those 1900 volumes
which congressman have taken from
the congressional library ia yea asst
and never. returned, contained So of
those money orders misplaced by Lii
brarian SpoIord.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

The Chicago Times-Herald wants to
send Senator Chandler to Cuba. Be
ing an administration paper, perhaps
it thinks he would meet the same fate
that Ruiz did.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia legislature for establishing a
whipping post. 1t would be a great
improvement over the old hanging post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Ephraim Enterprise: The administra-
ton has at last taken off the mask on
the currency question and through its sec
retar.- of the treasury has recommended
d bill, the acknowledged object of which
is to fasten the gold standard permanent
ly upon this country Thanks to the silver
maj ority in the senate, there is no posi-
bility of its becoming a law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Wolcott and Tracey were not allowed
to box in Chicago. Had they wanted
to turn thugs or highwaymen there
would have been no obstacle placed in
their way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Chicago Tribune: Rapturous Youth
Mildred, I would ask for no happier
eternity than to be permitted to sit b.
your side and press your hand once in q
great, great whilei
Miss Mildred-Well. you're entirely toe
lazy a lover to suit me-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Rev Minot ]. Savage, the Unitarian
divine, says: Jesus. then, I think. was
born about the year 4 B. c." No Irish
bill ever beat that.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

And now st. Paul and Minneapolis
are talking of consolidating. The eoun-
try would be glad to see them made
one if it will stop their quarrels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Mr. Armour has unloaded 100000
bushels of wheat on Mr.. Letter. Mr.
Letters heart viii be lighter when he
unIoads it on some one else
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Little EckeIs has given enough opin-
ions settling financial questions to have
paid the national debt, had his opinions
been worth anything.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

Everybody in New York seems to be
declaring war on Platt And he isn't
any more perturbed than the sultan at
the threats of interference in Armenia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

No one should worry if an embargo is
placed on sealsl1ins. Russian sable
cloaks and sacques can be purchased
for $500 to $4,000.