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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
CABINET MAKING.

President-elect Mckinley is making
what may be called rapid progress in
the selection of his cabinet. Already
the people know who will fill the two
most important positions in it and who
will fill two more. And they like to
know so soon as the selections are de-
cided upon, instead of having to wait
until a day or so before the nominal
lions are sent to the senate. And why
should they not know so soon as the
president-elect has chosen his advisers
and they have virtually accepted the
posts? By letting the public know who
have been selected for the cabinet, the
president-eIect has a very good OPP
portunity of feeling the public pulse
and ascertaining to some extent how
his administration will be regarded.
This is ALWAYS a matter of interest
and importance to an incoming presi-
dent. If he can know a month before
he takes office how the people will re-
gard the wisdom of his choice of cab
met officers, it will do much to assist
him when he begins to administer the
affairs of the government.
MAUI hChllllSy lOW hl-OWS III WHAT
light the people will receive the ap-
pointment of four cabinet officers. He
knows that those who voted for him
on the financial question are more than
gratified with his choice of a secretary
of the treasury; and that is the one
cabinet office in which they are most
deeply interested and around which
the greatest interest and anxiety will
center for the next four years. The
unanimous approval Of his choice of a
secretary of the treasury by those who
supported him during the campaign
cannot but be gratifying to Major Nc
Kinley. 1t will give him faith in him
self and in the further selection OF his
advisers. Then these early announce
ments of cabinet selections will make
him popular to a certain extent, for
the people will say that the president
elect has taken them into his conf
dence; and it is always good politics
to have the people feel that they are in
the confidence of those who administer
the laws. Major Mckinley has inaug-
urated a new departure in announcing
cabinet appointments, and one that is
TO be commended.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

show what tremendous effort in be-
half of silver will be made by Major
Mckinley it is only necessary to peruse
the terms of the bill under which he
will act in trying to secure an interna
tional monetary conference. This bill
provides:
That whenever after March 4. 1897.
the president of the United States shall
determine that the United States
should be represented at any interna-
tional conference called by the United
States or any other country with a
view to securing by international
agreement a fxity of relative value
between gold and silver as money by
means of common ratio between
these metals, with free mintage at such
ratio, he is hereby authorized TO ap-
point five or more commissioners to
such international conference; and for
compensation of said commissioners
and for all reasonable expenses con-
nected Herewith, to be approved by
the secretary of state, including the
proportion to be paid by the United
States of the joint expenses of any
SucH conferences, the SUM u 9IOO,OOu, VI
so much thereof as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated.
Sec 2. That the president of the
United States is hereby authorized, in
the name of the government of the
United States. to call, in his discretion,
such international conference to as
'semble at such point as may be agreed
upon
AS President McKinley's discretion
as TO calling an international monetary
conference to consider the silver ques-
ton will be in the keeping of his
secretary of the treasury, and as he
will be one of the most pronounced
gold standard men in all the country,
the prospects that the incoming adj
ministration will 10 something for
silver through an international agree
ment, are fiattering in the extreme. In
the true interests of silver it is to be
hoped that the financial policy of the
administration will be a thorough
going out-and-out single gold standard
policy. 1t would afford the people a
much better opportunity for seeing
just how it works than anything else
could.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
She Was Dead Easv.

Philadelphia Record: A convivially-in-
clined young benedist attended a dinner
the other evening and. fell among a
crowd of bachelor Philistines. At 2 a. m.
he was tortuous1y Wandering out Spruce
street in a confused state of mind and
had paused. supporting himself against
a trolley pole, to get his bearings. A
"nighthawk" hackman driving his dis
reputable looking equipage down the
street recognized the puzzled pedestrian
as an old customer. The latter was then
about $50 feet from his home. but did not
know it. The benevolent nighthawk dis
mounted and. leading the convivialist to
his residence, propped him up in the
doorway. Before he could ring the bell
the door was opened by the young wife,
who was undergoing her initial experience
of sitting up for Charlie" Her husband
was speechless. but the hackman was
alive to the situation and prompt to act
With a wave of his hand toward the
cab which his intelligent beast had
drawn up in front of the door. he said:
Two dollars, lady. Brought i'm FIN tn
club. Two dollars, please" He got not
only the two dollars, but douseur of an
other dollar as well. and little later,
as he gleefully told the story to
brother nighthawk on Broad street, he
remarked: She wuz dead easy, she
wuz.'
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is a matter for him to decide and rot
for the general public.


There is much %orriment and cha
grin in the east. that section of the
country where the light comes from,
over the fact that Nevada has legaliZed
prize lighting. Thus the Philadelphia
Times says: Away out in the Rocky
mountains among the cliffs of che
Sierra Nevadas is a sparsely settled
community that does not equal in pop
ulation that of some of the large wards
of this city; but it is by courtesy called
state and it's name is Nevada. This
state was created in the throes of the
civil war as political necessity, but it
has all the sovereignty of a common
wealth equal to that of New York or
pennsylvania, and it has just passed a
law that was rushed through both
branches OF the legislature and ap-
proved by the governor within week,
legalizing the coming prize fight be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons. and
the bruisers have now, for the first
time, a state or territory in the Union
where they can exhibit their brutal
skill under color of law. The passage
of this bill to legalize prize fighting in
one of the IS states of the Union is
reproach upon the republic, but Ne
vada is a sovereign commonwealth and
it can have prize fighters amuse them
selves in. that jurisdiction if the legal
authorities of the state invite it by
statute. 1t will call conspicuous atten-
ton to the one state of the Union that
has long been single and alone in di-
minishing both business and popula-
ton, and that is willing to have its
escutcheon clouded with disgrace to
gain the profits of prize fight" The
Equalization of prize-fighting is
not to be commended, but the great
wave of horror that is now passing
over some parts Of the country because
of it, is horror over a name and not
over a thing. The boxing matches and
glove exhibitions that take place in
almost everv state in the Union are
the very same things that the state of
Nevada has legalized under the name
of prize fights. Our Philadelphia con-
temporary should pick up a little on
its geography. Away out in the
Rocky mountains among the cliffs of
the Sierra Nevadas," is about as cor
rect as talking about the sands of the
Sahara that drift over the steppes of
Russia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

from one of the railway lines and which
bore an address of poetic rhyme and
measure, as follows:
o. bear me away at a furious rate,
To Maryland postoffice. Missouri state.
Miss Myrtle Hill wants me there;
l am no humbug. for here's my fare.
At the end of the verse was placed a
stamp and the letter bore a western post
mark The postal authorities, surmising
that Maryland was written for Maryville,
thought to try that place. Sure enough.
the letter was received here and POST
master Trueblood gazed at overwhelmingly.
When Miss Myrtle Hill called for her
mail Yesterday, he himself delivered the
eDlstle 10 her. She is comedy young
Missouri giri. and she smiled as she read
the novel direction. A blush mantled her
face as she walked away. but the af-
fectionate bard is still unknown.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
JESUS PLAYMATES AND THE
SPARROWS.

1 like that old, old legend.
Not found in Holy Writ,
And wish that John or Matthew
Had made Bible out of it.
How the little Jewish children,
Upon a summer day,
Went down across the meadows
With the child Christ to play.
And in the gold-green valley,
Where low the reed grass lay,
They made them mock mud SparrOWS
Out of the meadow clay.
So when they were fashioned
And ranged in rows about,
Now" said the little Jesus,
'Wo'll let the birds fly OUT
Then all the happy children
Did call and coax and cry,
Each to his own mud sparrow,
Ply as l bid you fly
And earth they did remain,
Except the one bird only
The little Christ had made.
Softly he leaned and whispered.
Fly up to heaven, fly
And swift his little sparrow
Went soaring to the sky
And silent all the children
Stood awestruck, looking on,
Till deep into the heavens
The bird of earth had gone.
like to think for playmate
We have the Lord-Christ still
And that above our weakness
He works his mighty will.
That all our little playthings
OF earthen hopes and joys
Shall be by his commandment
Changed into heavenly toys.
Our souls are like the sparrows'-
Imprisoned in the clay;
Bless him who came to give them wing:
To soar to heavens bright day.
-Bedford'S Annual.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

If the legislature consults the senti-
nent of the people of Nebraska, it will
tske I'D the Trans Mississippi EXPOSE
ton bill and pass it without unneces-
sary delay, says the Omaha Bee Ne
braska is almost unanimous in its
endorsement of the exposition enter
prise. II looks to the exposition to
draw the tide of immigration and in
vestment to the state and inaugurate
the new era of old-time prosperity.
The people who elected the legislature
want the exposition made an unex-
ampled success and stand ready to ap-
prove the reasonable requests of the
exposition managers. The Nebraska
legislature should take the initiative
in making the exposition a success. If
il doesn't. it cannot expect that other
legislatures VIII do much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

idE HERALD is franchise mem
neg OF The United Press, and re-
cehTes the complete leased wire
overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es' embracing accurate intelligence
Oh All current events in the whole
world With it's special wire and
operator in it's own Office THE HER
AID In daily in Immediate possess
sion of the latest new. uD till the
hour of SOiHg to press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
KNOWS HIS BUSINESS.
Letter Bearing Unique But Enron
eous Address Reaches It's Desti-
nation.

st. Louis Republic: Maryville. Mo-,
JAM 25.-The efficiency of Uncle Sans
mail service was demonstrated in this
city yesterday when a letter bearing
mysterious and no less unique address
reached its destination. The Republic
few days ago printed a special dispatch
from Chicago which gave the story of
letter that reached the Chicago postoffice
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

The latest discovery, or rather the
latest theory, in science is that of
brain waves. Professor William
Crookes described it in his address as
president of the British society for
psychical research. If the theory be
many people are guilty of.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

All the gold papers of the country
are enthusiastic in praise of the selec-
ton of Lyman J. Gage to be secretary
of the treasury. No doubt he is an able
financier and his selection an excel
lent one from the gold standard point
of view. 1t shows how thoroughly anti
silver the incoming administration will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Governor Jones of Arkansas saws
they would not tolerate such a thing
as the prize fight law of Nevada in his
state. That is right; nothing milder
than lynching with an occasional
burning at the stake will do in Ar
kansas
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Philadel-
Dhia is able to borrow money for less
t.-an 3l2 per cent. But the kind of city
tbs country needs is one that will stop
adding to the enormous amount OF mu-
niciDal indebtedness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

It is not impossible that envy of Mrs
Bradley Martins wealth and not So
licitude for suffering man is at the bot
tom Of the hubbub about her proposed
hall
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Michigan's a. P. A. congressman,
Linton, is goarg to make a contest for
his seat. He viii probably be so thor
oughly knocked out that he viii be
genuine Know-Nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Public opinion is veering around to
Mrs. Bradley-M Martin. 1t is beginning
10 be realized that her great fancy
bali will put a large amount of money
in circulation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Boston Herald: There's a great deal
OF rot IN this world. said Senator Haw-
ley, summing up the debate in the SEN
ate criticising the programme of the in
augu-al ceremonies. The senator's Ian
gu@%e may not have been strictly par
liamentary. nor quite elegant, but it ex-
presses a great truth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Who ever would have thought that
staid ST. Louis could have gotten up
dinner" that would rival the Seeley
orgy in New York? Yet st. Louis has
done this very thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Eastern papers are publishing pic
lures of Mrs. Mckinley as she will ap-
pear in her inauguration cloak. The
figures on it look for all the world like
s marks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

a Mr.. Dawes will be McKinley's
comptroller of the currency. Mr..
Cleveland's comptroller of the currency
is p good deal of a jackdaw.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Cleveland Leader: She-"What would
this world be without love?"
He remembering the opera and the
supper of the night before)-"It would
be a blamed sight cheaper, for one
thing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Massachusetts, may be said to have
a white elephant on her hands in the
person of State Councillor Isaac B.
Allen, who is a full-blooded negro.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt will spend
the winter in Washington. The good
people, OF that city hope he will spend
his income for the winter there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Chicago Record: Social Discretion
"Osmonds new girl baby is sending her
cards around
We'll, let's hurry and call on her be-
fore she learns to talk
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Up to date the official history of the
war of the rebellion has cost $2,30O,O 600.
It bids fair to cost as much as the war
itself before it is finished.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
WIT AND HUMOR.

Harper's Bazaar: She says she's %,
but she's 80. L can read it between the
lines"
What lines?'
Those on her face
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Philadelphia Record: The Midvale Steel
company at a single blow has punched
suc-- big hole through the high pro-
lection wall that the Republican plat
form will drop through it without graz
ing if it doesn't watch out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

The Texas win have to share hon
ors with the Brooklyn as a bumper
against sunken rocks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Mrs. Cleveland had returned from
her walk when LiIioukalani called the
second time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

The Michigan legislature proposes to
take a step backwards bY-substituting
annual for biennial sessions of the leg
islature.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Major Mckinley will wear an all
wool. American-made suit of clothes on
Inauguration day. Others will wear
sackcloth and ashes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

The contest over the Delaware sena-
torship looks as though it might be
Kilkenny cat affair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Nevada hasn't enjoyed so much ad-
vertising since the palmy days of the
Comstoak
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Up to date the selections for the cab
met seem to have been personally con-
Quoted by Major Mckinley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Chicago Tribune: John, what are you
going to do?"
II am going to hitch the horse to the
sleigh and drive HIN over to the park
and back. He needs exercise
Aren't you going to church,"
No. II s too cold"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Sherman and Alger will sit on OPP
posite sides Of the long table at cabinet
meetings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Russell Sage doesn't believe in
squandering money on balls. He is a
sage man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

The Nevada law authorizing prize
fights is legislation after Theodore
Roosevelts own heart.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

engagements. South Dakota, favors
quick divorces.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Chicago Record: you geniuses are
getting so thick that you will soon crowd
common people off the earth"
No, we won t-most of US are so lazy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

President-elect Mckinley is finishing
his cabinet with neatness and dis
patch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Detroit Free Press: II wish to inform
vou,' said her lawyer. that your wife
has filed a Dill for divorce
30, of course" responded the busy
banker; cts nothing but bills, bills, bills
How much is this one?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
SOME EDITORIAL SAYINGS.

San Francisco Call: Demolishing the
resorts OF the highbinders is good in its
way. but there is little profit in destroy
ing the den and letting the wolf go free.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Boston Transcript: Mrs. Mann (meet-
ing former servant)-"Ah, Mary, I sup
pose you are getting better wages at
your new placer
Mary-"No, ma'am; I'm working for
nothing now. I'm married.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Mail and Express: Chicago's best So
c:ety' consists OF just 800 persons. They
sa-i so themselves, and that settles it.
STU. nobody ever supposed there were
SO many of em.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Mrs. Bryan was secretary of war in
''The First Battle"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: Let Us
Hope Henry
Yes, your exceilency?"
Speaking of Mr.. Bryans book. The
First Battle F"
Yes, sire?"
do you suppose it will be followed
by war articles in the magazines"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Tit-Bits: Author-"I am troubled with
insomnia lie awake at night hour after
hour thinking about my literary work. -
His Friend-"How very foolish of you!
Why don't you get up and read portions
of it?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Chicago Dispatch: Did Grover call her
Mrs. Dominis 'i''Your Majesty" Great
and Good Friend or ',Lily?''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Harper's Bazaar: mike having been
directed to go down to the station and
see when the next train left is gone about
two hours.) Perkins (anxiously)-"Well.
Mixer
Mike-'Well sor. / had to wait a long
tonne, sor, but it has just left
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Puck: Utilizing His Devotion-Amy-
Yes; he is very persistent. He says he
would go to the ends of the earth for
me-"
Alice-"Why not send him? 1t would
take him some time to get back"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
The News Condensed.
important intelligence FrOm All Paris.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Proceedings OF the Special Session.
A test vote on the tariff question in the
senate on the 18th showed majority OF
one in its favor. The Indian appropriation
bill was discussed. A message was received
from the president urging that suitable
provision he made for adequate representa-
ton of the United States at the Paris ex-
position in 1900. The nomination of James
II. Angel, of Michigan, to be envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of tho United States to Turkey, and of
George d. Meiklejohn, of Nebraska, to be
assistant secretary of war; were received
from the president. The house was In ses-
sion but ten minutes and then adjourned
until the 18th without transacting any
business.
The senate spent the time on the 18th
considering the Indian appropriation bill,
but did not complete 1t. Senator Davis en-
deavored to secure unanimous agreement
upon a time to take a vote upon the Anglo
American arbitration treaty but failed.
Senator Hansbrough introduced bill au-
thorizlng the appointment of committee
to introduce and popularize the bread
foods of the United States among the peo-
pies of the orient.. The house was not In
session.
The senate was not in session on the
nth In the house a bill was introduced
by Mr.. Lewis (dem., Wash) providing for
the repeal of the act for an international
monetary conference. Mr.. Grosvenor (rep.,
o. introduced bill to declare the true in
tent and scope of the civil service act. Ad-
iourncd to the 21st
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

Car Nicholas, of Austria, says that
nothing now remains but to abandon
Turkey and Greece to their fate and
leave them to measure strength.
Severe fighting occurred in Macedonia
between the Greek irregulars and Turk
ish forces.
The president of the Swiss republic
has been selected as arbitrator of the
boundary dispute between Brazil and
French Guiana.
1t is said that the withdrawal of at
least part of the great army that Spain
has maintained for several years in the
island of Cuba will soon begin.
War has been declared by Turkey
against Greece. The Greeks have cap
tured the Turkish positions from Nez-
eros to Koutra, while repeated attacks
by the Turks on Analipsis have been
repulsed with heavy loss.
Over 600 Chinese passed through OF
tawa, Ont, on their way from the Pa
cific coast to New York, en- route to
Cuba.
Gen. Ruis Rivera and Col. Bacallao,
the insurgent leaders recently captured
in the province of Pinar del Rio, are
recovering from their wounds.