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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
CALIFORNIA; eoLDl-. JUBILEE

1t is a great event that the people of
California celebrate today-the discov-
cry of gold in their state just fifty
years ago. When one looks back to
that event and thinks of what changes
have taken place, not only in the his
tory of our own country, but of the
world. and recalls the romance of that
period, it seems as far off as the days
when the Spaniards were searching for
gold in Mexico and South America.
They never thought that far away to
the north of where they sought the
golden treasure, it lay in untold mil
lions. But it was there. and adven-
turers as brave and hardy, but not so
cruel. as those who followed Pizarro
and Cortez. sought and found it. OF its
kind it was the most remarkable event
in the worlds history. Had gold not
been discovered in California, the de-
velopment of the west would have
been retarded for perhaps a century
or two, remaining practically unknown
save to the trappers and mountaineers.
1t is worthy of note that just fifty
years after gold was discovered in Cali
fornia, tens of thousands of fortune
hunters are preparing for just such
rush TO the gold fields of Alaska and
the Yukon country as took place to
California. And it is not impossible
that the new gold fields may surpass
in richness those of California herself.
But whether or not they do, the great
rush to the north in this year is an evil
dence that the spirit that actuated the
men of '49 still lives.
How conditions have changed in Cali
fornia since Marshall and the men
working for Suffer picked UP that first
gold! Other changes as great may be
IL store for the state and the whole
country. Who can t,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
ExPECroRATING IN PUBLIC.

A committee of ladies has petitioned
the city council to pass an ordinance
prohibiting expectoration upon the
sidewalks. This, we believe, is asking
more than those who desire reforms
in this direction have asked before San
Francisco has an ordinance forbidding
expectoration in street cars and public
buildings, and Baltimore is about to
try the experiment. If the city coun-
Gil deals with the question at all, it
should deal with it as has been done
in San Francisco.
There can be no question that the
habit of expectorating on the streets
and in public conveyances and build
ings is a very disgusting and repulsivo
one, but it cannot be entirely cured by
a city ordinance any more than other
bad personal habits can be. The real
cure is public opinion, and that can
soon be educated to such a point that
the habit would become rare. To aid
this public opinion an ordinance might
have very good effect. The objection
to such ordinances is that they are
an undertaking by the state to regu-
late peoples personal habits, and when
this is once begun there is no telling
where it will stop. 1t is by no means
certain that any action on this petit
ton will be taken by the council, but
it is a good thing to have attention
called to a rather common habit that
is offensive and very likely to be un-
wholesome. Almost anything that viii
tend to decrease the habit should be
encouraged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
TALES OF THE DAY.
He Was Blnfing.

Captain Dan Kinney. a well-k own I'll
zen and before the war one of the Lest
known steamboat pilots on the Tennessee.
and Mississippi rivers, tells a COED st5ry
on an old friend of his river DAYS. fEt
man on whom the story is told is an in
mate OF the county almshouse. poor, but
proud In his prosperous days he visited
England, and became acquainted viii
Lord Palmerston, OF whom he was great
admirer, and often spoke of him on his
return, and for this reason was known as
MY Lord. My Lord became addicted
TO drink. and went from bad TO worse til
he lost everything. Captain Kinney went
10 him few years ago and begged him tc
brace up and go into the brokerage bust
ness This he promised 10 do and one
day shortly afterward he entered inc
face.
rHows business today. My Lord?'" in
quired the captain.
Good" answered NV Lord" II have
made Ss5 today
a bystander at this juncture spoke up:
'CRp. III bet YOU Sl0-note that My
LORD hasn't made $50 today"
NV Lord gave the captain the nod
and the wager was made.
Now. My Lord, /" said the captain,
produce the goods"
Haven't got it in my pocket" he re-
piled. but it IS in my trunk. Come and
go to- my ROOM.
Nothing was left to do but go TO the
room, so the trio departed for MY
Lord room, which was in the old Kirk
man building, where the Palace now
stands; Ascending a fight of steps and
NJ Lord pulled out a large bunch of
keys and knelt down TO massive trunk.
which ne unlocked. took out several trays,
and plunged his hands to the bottom.
then turning TO the captain with look of
oismay. he said:
Cap we are gone I was bIuffing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
THE STIR IN ENGLAND.

Not since the flying squadron was
fitted out and put to sea as England's
answer to Williams congratulatory
telegram to Paul Kruger has such q
wave of patriotic excitement swept
over the tight little island as is now
sweeping over it as the result of Hicks
Beach's announcement that the Brit
ish government is determined, even at
the cost of war, that the door of Chin
csc commerce shall not be closed to
Great Britain. 1t has stirred the Brit
ish soul to the very depths and filled
it with martial ardor. Party lines have
been obliterated, and press and people
are for England and English rights.
No doubt they are so profoundly
stirred because it is once more Ger
many that is facing England as rival.
and rival who menaces in other than
trade matters. France is England
hereditary enemy, but Germany is fast
supplanting her IN England's hatred.
This rivalry and growing hatred of the
two nations may some day bring them
into conflict, for they are becoming so
intense that hardly anything but con-
flict can satisfy either.
What viii the probable result of this
great enthusiasm be if Salisbury should
retire, as it is said he may? 1t would
almost inevitably elevate Hicks-Beach
to the premiership. But what an en-
thusiastic lot these phlegmatic Eng
lishmen are when once they are well
stirred up. And they are stirred up
now. No people is more patriotic than
they and there is not one of them that
is not willing to die for his country;
and they think their country the great
est on earth, and they have much to
make them think so. Few countries
have had a greater history than Eng
land. and it is one of which her peo-
pie may, on the whole, be proud.
Enthusiasm in a nation, like enthu-
siasm in a man, is a good thing, and
when either gets so old that it is no
longer possible, the period of sure and
final decay has set in. Evidently this
period has not been reached in Eng
land.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
A NEW USE FOR 1NJUNcT1oNs.

The possibilities of the injunction are
unknown, Notwithstanding the expert
ence the country has had with them
1t is known to be greater than the con-
stitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, and now it is proving
to be greater than love-love. which
conquers all, levels all Thus a Kuem
Is. d. telegram to a New York paper
says that elopement arrested by in
junction is the latest feature of South
Dakota Jurisprudence. Mr.. and Mrs
Michael Pruisner well-to-do Russians.
recently arranged to marry their
daughter, Lena. to Nicholas Batagle,
a neighboring farmer. But Miss Pruis-
ner loved another-Alexander Helm
The Pruisners learned that HELM in
tended to elope with their daughter A
neighboring justice of the peace was
invoked, an injunction secured against
the elopement, copy of the writ
served on HELM, and an officer sta
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

toned on the Pruisners premises to
arrest him should he presume to set
the law at defiance. As was antici-
pated, he came despite the injunction.
and was duly taken into custody and
locked up Before Le could secu e a
bond, Lena was married to The man
she did not love.
Does not the law make man and wife
one? And does it not turn round les
pecially in South Dakota ana make
them twain again2 If a giddy girl has
her heart cracked or br oi-en ny cruel
man. does not the law undertake to
mend it for her by giving her dam
ages, heavy damages?" Vow, why
may not lovers be prove tied by in
junction from clipping, or even signing,
as for that matter? Lena should have
gotten another injunction restraining
her parents from marrying her TO a
man whom she did not love.
What queer-iaws they must have in
South Dakota when a just:.a of the
peace can issue an injunction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24


as he went along he chewed the end of
the cigar with violence AS he came into
statuary hall he sDat out some of the
tobacco juice An attendant. who was
standing near. stepped up to him and
said: You must not spit on the floor.
sir
ITS against the rules, is it?' said the
governor. sarcasticaliy.
Yes. sir" answered the attendant.
We'll" said the governor to Judge
Spencer. who Accompanied him, things
have changed since 1 was here. A man
could smoke and spit where he pleased in
those. days Plutocracy certainly is in
trenched in the nations coDitai."
Just then Congressman Joy of St.
Louis happened along, and Governor
Stone related his experience TO him Mr..
JOY told him that the attendants had in
formed him rightly as to the rules.
But, put in Judge Spencer, Il saw
two members smoking in the corridors
Don't rules apply to them?"
My dear judge" said the governor.
the man in power can ignore rules but
the poor 'ex' is worse off than if he had
never been
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
The Discovery of the Day.

Aug. j. Bogel, the leading druggist of
Shreveport. La, says: DR. King IS
New Discovery is the only thing that
cures my cough. and it is the best
seller l have" ]. F. Campbell. mer-
chant of Stafford, Ariz.. writes: DIR.
Kings New Discovery is all that is
claimed for it; it never fails. and is a
sure cure for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. / cannot say enough for its
merits" DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Coughs and Colds is not
an experiment. 1t has been tried for
a quarter Of a century, and today
stands at the head. It never dis
appoints. Free trial bottle at q. c. NJ
/. drug store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

It is very eviden- that the Philadel-
phia Ledger does not approve IF the
Teller resolution, for it says:
IF the senate were res onsible to the
popular will, the attem otei agitation #
this proposition of repu 1iation would
he Indignantly suppressed az once.
Nothing could be more inopportune
than the introduction of such a resolu-
ton when the country is entering upon
an era of prosperity which, if un-
checked by unpatriotic congressional
action and disturbing debate. may be
phenomenal in our history. Our rail-
roads are reported as rapidly recover
ing the prosperity of their best years;
there is a remarkable falling off in
business failures thus far in the new
year as compared with the same pc
panding rapidly beyond the heavy ex-
ports of last year. The great indicia
of business present a cheerful outlook;
but the senate finance committee is
dominated by silver inhationists. to
whom the impairment of public bust
ness confidence is a meaningless term.
Happily, the sober business sense of
the country will not permit its repose
to be disturbed by these Parthian shots
of the silverites at the honor and in
tegrity of the country"
II the Ledger will only wait patiently
it will have chance to see what the
sentiment of the country on the silver
question is And it will only have TO
wait till November, 1898.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Here IS a queer bit from the New
York Commercial Advertiser:
Suppression of the friends of Cuba
in the house yesterday simply illus
trates possibilities of growth in writ
ten constitution. The most valuable
development in republican forms of
government since the war has been the
conversion OF the house of representa-
tives into benevolent despotism. The
necessity of it in cases like these must
appeal more and more to the country
as time goes on. Every country has
found one-man power absolutely neees-
sary in foreign policy. international
questions, involving near or remote
possibilities of war, cannot be handled
by debating societies..
Why not enesman power in every
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
THE CUBAN SITUATION.

1t IS not always that the right man
is in the right place at the right time,
hut in the case of Consul General Lee
there as a happy conjunction of all
three ne has had, and still has, a
most difficult post TO fill, one requiring
cooIness, courage and the best of judg-
ment, and he has shown them all. Dur
ing the riots in Havana some days ago,
General Lees course was all that could
have been desired. BY his course he
avoided precipitating any trouble,
thing that would have been very easy,
because Of the excited feelings of the
people of Havana. Had he requested
that a warshiD be sent to the harbor
grave complications might have follow
ed: but he did not ask for one, and
subsequent events have shown how
wise he was in not asking for one.
Matters appear to be drawing to.
crisis IN Cuba, and it may be precipi-
tated at any time This being so. it is
well to have a number of war vessels
within easy reach of Havana that
American interests may be protected.
It is by no means certain that interven-
ton may not be necessary. If it should
be- it would be criminal folly not to be
prepared to support it TO the utmost.
Intervention does not now seem so re-
mote p contingency as it has in the
past. L it should come. it is not i'm
probable that it might lead to very
serious trouble With Spain. The people
feel that in General Lee the country
has a representative upon whose judg-
ment and discretion they can fully
rely. The president has done a very
wise thing in continuing him in his
present position. That the Cuban sit
uation is getting acute everybody must
see
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

when right conditions are reached
by mort5ls, how every sense will be
freighted with entertainments. and
thinking of this, the other thought
comes that man in his best estate
stands only a little lower than the an
gels; that maybe all these things await
such as faithfully tread the wine-press
to the end" SO says a contemporary.
This is rather a new idea-that the
realms os eternal bliss are reached
through treading the wine-press. If a
man did not reach them through this
process, he might be justified in crying,
"Sour grapes"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.


Atchison Globe: DIR. NJ o. Terry, sur
geon general OF the National Guard Of
New orK. 1ss ..ub,slisI pampaieS IN
which he proves thai appendicitis can
be cured by the rso OF cathartics and
sweet oil; that of u cases under his care
AZ were cured in this way. Dr. Terry mas
the doctors all over .hs country being
after him. DR. Terry is undoubtedly
right. but such is the fad 10 be cut that
his argument will have no weight
Omaha World-Herald: Mr.. Wolcott is
almighty slow in coming 10 realization
OF the fact that during all these months
he mas beer attached 10 a string, the 'lDer
END of which was fastened to the barrel
organ of a gold administration
Baltimore American: A womans club
IN Washington. is going to establish
precedent by admitting man 10 mem
Dership, ana this man IS the Chinese min
lister, who asked to be permitted 10 join
SAYING he considered it a privilege to be
intelligent women Will American gal
lanrry be equal to this Oriental challenges.
Philadelphia Ledger: The confirmation
Dy me United States senate OF Henry D.
Saylor, senator from Montgomery county.
TO be consul at MatanZas, is a fine eX-
ample OF senatorial courtesy President
Mckinley Indicates his right or appoint
ment in favor of Senator Quay, and the
latters colleagues cheerfully ratify the
proceedings. But what do the sober
minded Republicans of Pennsylvania
think of their humiliation in being repre-
scented abroad by a greedy fee-grabber,
who was sternly rebuked by the Repubi-
can governor of the commonwealth for his
obnoxious conduct? What of President
MckinleyS lofty sentiments respecting
the reform of the consular service? When
men in high station show themselves in
different to moral considerations no Won
der there is rottiness in politics.
Washington Post; Hon. James Hamilton
Lewis has a perfect right to use blood
bleached bones in his oratorical flights
if he so chooses. They go very nicely
with the booted and spurred gladiators"
which have figured in the congressional
debates.
Boston Herald: Congressman Mercer,
of Nebraska, has introduced a bill pro-
hibiting the construction of barbed wire
fences in the District of Columbia. The
Nebraska, statesman doesn't state his
purpose. but il is presumed that the bill
is intended to promote the favorite con-
gressioral attitude of sitting on fences
while important subjects are under con-
sideration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

The Boston Posts Observant Citizen
is responsible for this:
Yesterday I heard two ladies on a
Brookline car discussing the relative
merits of different authors. The CONVEX
sation was most interesting, but the
climax came when one said to the
other: I do so enjoy the works of Lewis
Wallace, especially his Benjamin
Herr - Massachusetts people are moth
ing If not cultured.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Ex-Governor William J. Stone of Mis-
corri was at the Capitol the other day
and was an interested listener during
Senator Wolcotts address in the senate
on the work done by the bimetallic COM
mission abroad, says the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.
When Senator Wo,cott had concluded
Governor Stone left the chamber and
drftee over toward the house to meet
some of his Old friends among the con-
gressmen- On the way he lighted a cigar.
He had not proceeded any farther than
the supreme court chamber when an
officer stepped up TO him and said: You
cannot smoke here sir
Can't l? Why not?' asked the COVER
nor. 4
ITS against the rules. SIR
All right: We won't break the rules
said the governor, and with that he
knocked the light off his cigar He was
little ''riledv at the interference, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Senator Morgan spoke four days on
the Hawaiian question. Senator John
2. Jones still holds the long distance
speech record. He talked one day
longer than it took God to create the
heavens ana the earth and the fullness
thereof
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
Confined to Her Bed.

my wife has been in poor health
for a long time and unable to do her
work, and part of the time was con-
fined to her led. A few months ago
she began taking Hoods SarsapariiIa
ana now she is entirely well and able
10 do her work. We are grateful for
Hoods Sarsaparilla." Gabriel Greago.
St. Johns, Ariz.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

thing else? So far as the house is con-
cerned, Speaker Reed does exercise it
on any and all occasions when it suits
his one-man power fancy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

At its recent meeting the Sugar trust
held back from division some s92. 900 900
in profits. as a working fund" What
kind of a scheme is it going to "work'
porU9
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

What the French deputies should do
is challenge the Austrian deputies to a
free fight, and so determine which is
best fitted for representative govern
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
WIT AND HUMoR.

Philadelphia Record: Put It in Two and
1t Rained.-.Here, my dear said the far
sighted husband. put this money in the
stocking for a rainy day"
So she bought a pair. and they really
looked lovely on Chestnut street yester-
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

That Ohio man who sold his daugh-
tiers to pay his debts IS no worse than
those who sell their daughters to buy
2 tile
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

"Who dictates to New York;" asks
the New York Herald. We don't know
positively, but it is the general suppo-
sition that one Richard Croker does.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Omaha is still in the ring for all the
1898 meetings and conventions that are
yet loose" says the Omaha Bee. But
is Omaha still under the ring?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Ohio legislators refuse to talk. But
that they refuse to talk is no sign that
they refused to take
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

All day yesterday one could hear the
sleighs with their bells. There is a
merry sound in the sleigh bell possess
ed by nothing else in the world.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

How it mus make China feel to
know that those two new Japanese
cruisers were paid for out of the indem-
nifty fund she paid Japan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

New York police captain has fallen
heir TO $4,000. He at least won't have
to explain where he got it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

DR.. Schenk may produce boys at Will,
but he Will find that he can call all
Gay Tor a boy when one is wanted to
go an errand, but the boy is never
there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

It is not unnatural that the senatorial
deadlock at Annapolis should lead to
keyhole listening.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

South American monkeys play foot
ball and croquet in their native wilds,
says an exchange. So do North Ameri-
can monkeys.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Paradoxical IS It may seem. John
Bull is going about the China shop like
a roaring lion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

The New York Tribune talks about
rapid transit vanishes." How can that
vanish which never was?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Yonkers Statesman: She (reading)-
Mice are fond of music and will get as
close to it as they can.
He-Just cut that out. and I'll send it
to the girl I'm the next fiat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

What ambitious Marylander can say
of the Maryland legislature: 1t is mine
oyster?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Chicago Record: Papa. what is a
financial forecast?"
ITS the way your mother looks
through my pocketbook at night before
she asks me for money next morning..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Bismarck and Gladstone might swop
health; neither could lose much by
such 4 trade.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Evidently it is the Ohio idea that the
secrecy Of the ballot should include the
secrecy Of the bribe
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

Indians never kiss each other. They
each other by.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

The merchant who doesn't advertise
doesn't prosper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24

wick says Tom Dulwich spent two hours
on his knees before her last week
Mau6e-What did she do paralyZe him
by saying yes before he could get started
on his proposal?