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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-30
DOMINION OF CANADA.
Cities.

not included in totals because contain
ing other items than cleartngs.
Chicago Live Stock
Chicago, Oct. 29-CattIe-sales were
largely at 4.5OQ5.1O. The extreme range
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Der. Prices are sliii To be well mlisf,-
tainsd. th7mgh 2 10 Sc below f0rnlsT asking
press, but occasional heavy sate5 indicate
concessions 1og isauidaIfcrl of speculative
lots. Inc market fer woi>tesl goods IS nioft
active, as prices nave been 50 far cd
Vencsd as TO hinder buying, iEl many cases
Internationally. uCtM iGln future is mere
cle3E. and 1he mills have ahead quite as
largo c0ntrarts as EEley just now d.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-30

Loaisviiie Courier journal; "Age is be
ginning u tel on our book keeper"
Kew % you know21
'llo has qutt picking the rest Of Us UP
on DrOnunci1tiORE
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Our $500

Ulster is a snap for man that
wants coat for warmth. These
are made with wide collars to cover
your ears and head, and they are
Ing enough to keep your legs
warm They come down to your
ankles.
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These are Of the latest cut, one
in a heavy winter weight, made
without lining Something extra
ordinary nobby and up-to-fashion;
this coat is $500.
Our $4,000 covert is made of
lighter weight, serge Innings, extra
fine tailored, has no side top pock-
ct, something that swell dressers
Will want This coat is $4,000.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-30
BLACK NORSTED OVERC0ATS

At S27.oo gives you one of the
finest made and trimmed coats
that can be had at any price. This
coat is lined throughout with
heavy skinner silk faced out to
the edge; any tailor would ask
you for a fifty dollar bill for this
coat-here it is only $27-oo.
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$500
Gives you your choice from a var
led line of overcoats in all colors,
blue, black, brown, tan and gray;
these coats are made for good, hard
wear, the cloths are kersey, beaver,
millions. This Price gives you a
very large line of well trimmed
and tailored coats to select from
that are sure to suit. This line is
too large to describe in detail. We
ask you to look at them before
you buy.
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$4,000

Is the price of our up-to-date
overcoat, patent beaver, blue or
black, made with silk yoke and
clay wOrsted skirt lining, the fin
est thing to be had. We challenge
the finest tai1ors to make such a
coat for double the price They
are strictly high grade tailoring,
hand button holes, handmade col
lars eyerything you get from the
tailor except the price.
$4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
Charlotte
Smiths S
Scheme

The latest lunacy of Mrs. Charlotte
Smith and her group of female impersona.
tors is an endeavor to have Congress pass
laws making matrimony compulsory. No
one is to be exempt-even the tramp
must take unto himself a trampess-and
he who refuses to wed must pay fine
equal to the support of wife, thus leav-
ing beautiful choice between matrimony
and alimony-between the lot OF hen.
pecked husband and that of a pocket
picked bachelor. In the meantime everv
court throughout the length and breadth
OF the land will be grinding out bushels of
complaints, where the people of California
or some other State will be plaintiff and
John Doe defendant, and the aforesaid
John Doe will be charged with having
wlilfuliy, maliciously, teloniously and
premeditatively refused to marry, the
same being contrary to the statutes ana
again>t the laws of these United States OF
America, ETC., and John Doe will trv to
establish an alibi or claim that he Is q
c;azen of Canada and that, under the
circum STANCES, international matrimony
is entirely too rich for his blood. Cunid
will lay aside his bow and arrow and
patrol up and down the land. armed with
u search warrant and pair Of handouts.
The poor man will be forced to join the
matrimonial stam pede, while the rich
man Will grubstake substitute.
Already Charlotte Smith is preparing to
mandamus Congress, and, while the law
may be far in the uture, when l think of
us wonderful and fearful possibilities [
trembIe for the safety of my grandchil-
dren. Nick BowDEN.
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rich the first Rana
soon had bucetu OF But
their and Frisco
long time even did roll EN- pretty high because gambed
BUT the
there had for
hung had Then
how the
strapped Then
About in
try evebod again
blew II at Visalia
since then have pospected all California
l a in The
Comsok made big
half holes,
Panamin dwhen
am going to open her And this
so hack East settle down.
who farms They've
amt gon until strike rich lam
sure"
Old Peters story hard
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what seemed an hour to me and ten min
utcs TO the colonel. OF truth, we are so
accustomed 10 seeing pretty women that
our interest flags when the view is bought
at the cost of personal comfort. AS they
sauntered by. singIy and in groups OF
, , twos and threes, l thought, with many
twiRges OF regret, of occasions when 1 had
proudly escorted Eastern friends down
town to prove that our re eputation for good
looks was deserved, only to return, after
much weary tramping sadder and wiser.
tor invariably on such day the pretty
women are all at home.
However, 1 think one Is always safer
in looking for them in the mornings.
Why it should be so I am not prepared to
say. Suffice to state that one who is
connoisseur and spends all his valuable
time studying lovely woman told me so
and it has proved 10 be a straight tip.
The college girl and athletic girl are one
here. Whatever intricate problems are
stored away in the pretty heads of the
college girl she is as crisp and trim as
tailor's model and wonderfully we'll up on
the proper thing as to neckties, cuffs and
collars. She swings clubs, rides, rows,
sw ms and develops form and carriage
that put her caricaturists to blush.
The striking features of the typical San
Francisco girl are her height and splendid
development. IN a great measure our
hills are responsible for this. Watch
throng OF people and you viii NOTICE how
many couples there are where the woman
overtops the biz OF ma calinity at her side
by half head The typical girls
| features are rather large to match the big
plan that she is built on. But her eyes
have rich coloring! Match me these if
you can. They are her natural heritages
| handed down from the senoritas who
graced the yes,er-years, who dropped
their long ashes and brought forth sweet
sounds from the guitar with long, slim
brown hands, who famed away the heart of
the youths, holding the little instrument
of exquisite torture III manner that de-
hes imitation. And the senorita loved the
gliste ming baubles, the briliant-colored
scarfs. the cloth that cleaned with scar
let and gold and every hing that was gor-
seous and bright AID gay. Why cavt
then at our girls because they sometimes
bedeck themse yes in colors thai vie with
the rainbow? They never wear the right
gown at the right time-a bright-hued
one on the street, jacket and walking hat
at the opera. They arc as uncertain as
the log that rolls in without word of
warning and plays sad havoc with feath
ers and hair. But even her incongrulties
are charming.
Because thew are large of heart and
strong OF body, clear Drained and self re.
liant. picturesque, artistic, vivacious and
tnousand other lovab.e things besides,
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the story has gone out have been fairly
overrun with curious visitors. If you care
to see 1t and hear the story, and will keep
my name out of it l will talk with pleas
ure, otherwise no."
Assuredlv l was mistaken. There is lit.
tie of the canayy bird about this little lady
save her soft fluffy prettiness and dainty
ways. She IS firmness personitied, and as
puzzled over the anomaly met her eyes
squarely and they solved the mystery.
They don't belong 10 her personality at
all. Wide, clear, steady, of 4 light aim ost
cold gray, with unusually large pupils,
they belong to some one with an iron viii.
decided character and fearless heart; some
grim Saxon ancestor of hers who ruled his
retainers with stern hand, had broad ideas
concerning his individual rights ana
fought for them sturdly, but having
fallen heir to them they have domina ted
her lie and made her what sne was and is.
L gave her my word and then she took
her badge of honor from its casket and
laid it in my band. II ls a Maltese cross
less than two inches square depending
from Il knot OF faded ribbon, once of the
brave German colors. 4 crown ornaments
the upper arm, the letter w il in the CEN
ter and at the bottom is the date 1870; a
little line of beading outlines it, running
Just inside TIE edge Surely a simple
thing, worthless trifi1 10 any who do
not know its story and sign ificance, but
10 those who do jewel of priceless
worth.
Alter that she told me briefly OF herself
Born in Dresden, but passing her childhood
and the little OF young girlhood that was
hers IN Australia, she married at the age
OF 10 an Eng ish physician of excellent
family and high professional reputation.
during the early years OF their married
lie the Franco Prussian war stirred all
Germany to patriotic action, and the
young wife felt herself specially called to
work for her country and its heroes. 1t is
scarcely PROBABLE that she could have
gained her point, however, had it not
been that a maternal aunt of hers, a Ger
man lady OF title. whose hu- band was
colonel In the Prussian army. determined
to follow his fortunes and become q tielq
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SAN FRANCISCO'S PRETTY GIRL S

Pretty girls are as thick and number
less in San Franci co as the Pay NOTES
that dance on the sunbaams The plain.
absolutely unattractive girl is ''rara avis"
and for every one thus cut Off from
beauty's domain We can point to three
favored with the most fateful of all gifts.
From sun-kissed south to w1nd-swept
north, from Greenland's s icy mountains
to Indias coral strands" search and you
will net find a ratio 10 compare to this.
Classic beauties have we none The cold,
pure, regular type does not flourish on
our soil. Our girls are all aglow with
color and dash. Otker cities may possess
women OF greater individual beauty, but
here it is more equally distributed, and
the tout ensem bic IS thing of Joy and
wonderment forever to visitors from less
favored chimes. Feminine sojourDers are
not so prone to acknowledge this as are
those of the opposite sex. 1t is seldom,
If ever, that the New York or Chicago
women look with augnt but cold disap-
proval upon our finest specimens.
The reasons for this are shown. The
New York woman is short of leg, remark
ably long of waist and bustless. Thus
feminine New York seated appears very
much taller than it does when standing.
Chicago women are long of leg, fairly
broad of shoulder but sans bust. sans
hips-more like the English woman than
the New Yorker can attain after dozen
severe attacks of angloms niacism What
wonder, then, that our types do not ap-
peal TO themi They differ as the pine
tree that shoots straight and strong
toward The sky differs from the shrub.
There is height and breadth. a respon-
siveness and spice of originality about
them that is as refreshing as the aroma ic
breath OF the pines. They are to be found
everywheTe-in the numerous places of
amusement, in the cafes on the cars and
ferries, and on a sunny morning they
swarm, like bees in the hives where
tempting things are put forth 10 attract
the brgh. dollars and brighter eyes of
fair purcha ers.
One morning this week 1 ran across an
English who is visiting a prominent
member of the Bohemian Club. He stood,
leaning against the wall at Post anu
Kearny streets, closely scrutinizing the
passers-b by. Il have been standing here
for half hour" he said, "and l have
counted more pretty women than one can
see in London III month. 1t is veri-
table Dream of Fair Women"
A girl with painted cheeks, bleached
hair showing black and brown and green
ish where the chemicals were beginning
to wear away, assed. "a nightmare now
and them" added the colonel, makes
sweet dreams pleasanter by contrast"
L held up decidedly uncomfortable
and unappreciative plank of the wall for
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gold; there is scarcely the faintest shadow
OF line on her fair face; the blue ribbo ms
on her invaiid's robe are wonderfully be-
coming; and my inner self, noting these
things, kept repeating amazedly and per-
sistently, And it ali happened over a
quarter of a century ago!"
Presently, however l became aware
that my gracious hostess was speaking of
her children - three. all married - and
then, quite as a matter of course, of a
grandcnild or so. And then l began to
realize how much can be crowded into a
few years of life when one marries al IS
and serves her country at an age W hen
other girls are just beginning 20 plan their
debut into society.
She smiled when put this thought into
wcrds-a little YEARLY, for she has been
an invalid for over three years now, and
to be prisoned in even so pretty a home as
this of hers is almost unbearabIy irk-
some to one of her active and energetic
temperament.
u was always one of the workers until
1 was forced to be idle" she Md, ''and |
hall soon work again. for l am gaining
now daily. When a woman is left a
widow in her early twenties, and brings
up two sons and daughter by her own
unaided exertons. she does not find time
hang heavy on her hands by any means,
but now" She sighed, little shadow
passing over her bright face. The prls-
oned bird will beat its wings unava,lingly
against the bars at times, no matter how
gay that cage may be nor how carefully
tended. The blue sky outside looks so
fair; the open air and freedom to fly
where 1t will, are so sweetI
l told her my errand, how had heard
Of her ana wished 10 hear her story from
her own lips and see Tor myself the famous
Iron Cross which, riLh'ly. is her greatest
treasure; but though gracious still she
positively refused to let me make the mat
ter public.
'My friends know OF it," she said, land
before was Ill, fOr chsrity's sake, / was
persuaded to show myself and the cross in
public; but | isIike notoriety-tndeed [
cannot bear anything of the kind now
and wherever l have been heretofore and
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hospital nurse curing the campaign.
Yielding to the pleadings of both the
English husband allowed his wife 20 90
where she felt that her highest duty
called her, only stimulating that she
should serve in the same divis on as her
aunt and be under her loving care at all
mes.
Scarcely was the permission given than
the TWO enthusiastic women were at the
front, arrayed IN their gray stuff gowns,
with the safeguard of the cross upon their
eeves, busily picking lint, rolling and
folding bandages and making all posi- bic
preparations for the carnage which was to
follow.
At Metz the devoted young patriot re-
ceived her first baptism of blood and fire.
and she pales little even now, in spite of
those fearless gray eyes of hers, as she
speaks of 1t. And when she tells OF the
wounded, torn and mangled eroaning on
the field as the broken ranks swept over
them, and all, unheeding, left them to
live or die as they might, while they hur-
ried on 10 the glory of victory, the tears
course down her smooth cheeks.
'It was dreadful, she said. 1--WE had to
step over the bodies of the dead 10 minis
ter to the living; and the groans and cries
i can hear them yet, when | lie awake
al night anu think of those awful days
and nights on the battlef fields. They
buried the dead in trenches with their
uniforms on, just as they fell thirty and
forty in one ditch hastily covered. The
wounded were carried to convenient
houses or sheds, and sometimes we had
,ltrt tn
the amputations and tue washing and
dressing of wounds" L glanced at the
hands lying folded i'll her lap, looking for
all the world like two slightly crump pied
petals of q Laurette rose palest cream
shading to blush pink at the tips. "Thev
have been red with blood TO the wrists, "
she said simply.
Then she told me of the weeks of caring
for the wounded and dying in the rear OF
the army, and the privations which they
all endured. The hampers sent from
home full OF delicacies suffered the for
tunes Of war on the way, and when they
arrived. if they arrived at all, we're
emptied of all daintes. Pea sausage and
pumpernickel was the food upon which
nurses and patients had to depend for the
most part, and sometimes there was a
scarcity even OF this coarse fare.
At Sedan she was again under fire, this
time feeling quite veteran. Here the
same scenes were re-enacted, and here
again the brave little German nurse did
her duty well in spite OF bullets and can
nom balls and bursting bonn and gnastIy
horrors of torn flesh and shattered bones
and hideous sights and sounds such as we
stay -homes can never realize, though even
mere description makes us shudder.
And then 1t was all over. and one day.
just before the volunteer nurses disbanded
10 go back to their homes and prosaic.
everyday life again. King William of
Prussia-crowned the German Emperor
soon after-summoned her to his pres
ence. and, with his staff looking on with
grim approval on their triumphant faces.
pinned the iron cross upon the bosom of
her gray gown.
Il was more frightened then Than I was
on the field" she says, smiling al the re.
membrance, "and l scarcely heard or saw
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peced Cor toryeig has
color.
According to Toms
friends and worked prospecting for months But
his
However
found
And still this old had team
but he knows place there
there.
Such stories as those just related could be
They the of trials
all seem happy Not OF those have
boy his first fishing
The here the early
OF the mines held
settled
could do nothing
do They simply went from
with the hope of striking are still
49er's in the W111 Sp.prs
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To noblv win and proudly wear the Iron
Cross. Such has been, and is, the glory of
one woman for some years now a resident
c. our fair city, who carries her honors so
modestly that, at the present time, few
outside of her most intimate friends are
aware that she Is a heroine whose hero
ism was rewarded by the hand OF royalty
itself
Over a quarter OF a century ago it all
happened, duriug the Franco Prussian
war; ana the decoration coveted BY so
many and bestowed upon so few was
earned by bravery and devotion 10 the
wounded upon the field of battle at Meiz
and Sedan.
When 1 heard the story 1 straightway
drew mental picture of the woman, who,
1 was told, had braved shot and shell and
privations of all kinds to help her
couutry's soldiers in their need and asso-
ciating, as we are apt to do, the idea OF
courage with that of strength and size, l
imagined her to be d person OF command
ing stature, resolute bearing, and deter
mined countenance. This picture | car
ned with me throughout my able journey
to her home; and then, when a lasu [ was
admitted to her presence, it was shattered
In an instant. nao come expecting 10
see a gray eagle, a noble but somewhat
forbidding and awe-inspiring bird, and l
found-at least it seemed so in the first
moment of meeting-a pet canary!
Surely there must have been some mis-
take, | thought bat my uncertainty was
quickly ended by her greeting of gentle
Egnity. Sac was the lazy whom l had
ired to see, most, certainly, and L trust
/ L Aat she forgave the rudeness of my won
dtSng gaze as she MADE me welcome.
such very mite of a woman IS this
German heroine is J Though not gigantic
myself l fairly doomed over her, and she
is as daintiiy delicate of form and feature
and coloring as an exquisite Parisian doll
rather let me say, since nation aiities
clash trite perhaps still-one of those
charming and graceful little Dresden
she pherdess figures which we know so
well.
Her luxuriant hair has on the curve OF
the soft ripple just the CLINT of FURNISHED
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The Giant Motor.

Australia claims the largest aIto- m obile
carriage ever constructed for actual SER
ce. This car utilizes seventy-fYe horse
power. The car travels. from Coogardic
to the coast for the transportation of mer-
chandise 10 The mines. Besides the load
on tAe car ITSELF it drags two "trailers"
over distance of 400 miles. A railroad
was too expensive a luxury TO indulge in
In that counts and so the idea OF the big
motor was conceived. So scarce is water
along the route travelled that The steam is
not exhausted into air, but saved, recon-
verted into water, and thus used over and
over again.
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The the fiddle and the
boards
clicking
hear
He wine
stakes high hall
he The
the when his life before He
lives
old
while all tell a one.
Peter He
have another but nobody
his face and he
asked ne that he
big of fiery tongue
of mi
OF
hole am No
Yes got California eary-Sptember Struck it
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stood leaning little heavily upon her
chair. L wished that might tell her how
had heard from oIher> that the bravery
winch won her the cross of which she is
so proud has been characteristic OF her
whole unsel6sh life, and has won her the
golden cross OF her children's grateful
love and the respect OF all who know her,
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but 1 went there TO talk of the battles OF
nations, not OF the harder battles of
life.
II am going into the ranks again az
soon as am well, she said as we parted.
But l answered her, mot in the ranks.
surely; you have long since earned pro-
notion" FLORENCE MATHEsoN.
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anything until the cross was on my
breast. Then The King bent and kissed
me on the forehead and said that l was
the youngest woman TO whom he had
ever given that reward and that he
wished me godspeed in all my after life.
And that is all.'
When l rose 10 go she rose also and
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here's a long life 10 them-the pretty San
Francisco women! NANCY LEE.
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love the
hopes OF
die of
just be
Coffee
could Kondke
California snce
perhaps, typical mining
IN California to-day In by looking
of
Old
long, There
lined both sides buildings
that through day
AS
Of the in
And there life The
day nigh and the busy
with outfits From house
where
mp-thu
1t old forty-niners to Il
prob bly, fifty of them
and working the mills
early their and ALL
But Of them discouraged All
OF striking
Although these old fellows
saloon with rough board floor and atmosphere filled
oil tobacco There
places in days BY and there will find the 49
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-16
We Know a
Thing or Two

that is never out of place to mention.
For instance it is never wrong to
call your attention to the condition of
your house, the wood work that needs
touching up on the outside with lit
tie fresh paints on the inside with
paint or hard oil. Then again the
mating on your floor may be sufli-
GENTLY soiled or stained to warrant
being RELOCATED to the back rooms.
Dust stained or faded window cur.
tains give the room neglected up.
pearance that spoils the otherwise
homelille and quiet effect so much de-
sired.