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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
PORTO RICO.

AT the present time the people are
more interested in Porto Rico than in
! Cuba or the Philippines, not because
General Miles is conducting a cam
paign there, but for the reason that
| Porto Rico is to become American ter
ritory. 1t is perhaps the most con-
tented and prosperous of all Spain's
! colonies. and hence the least objec-
tionable for incorporation into our gov
eminent
The island has a population QSS) of
S1S,9S7. The negroes number over $780,
900. The chief town is San Juan, which
has 23,414 inhabitants; Ponce. where
General Miles was received as a de-
liverer, has S7.545 inhabitants, and San
German. S0,136. In 1895 the revenue
was 5,454,95S pesos; the expenditure,
S,9O5,667 pesos. The principa. exports
are coffee, sugar, molasses and tobac-
co. In 1895 the value of the total ex-
ports amounted to 5,799. 900 pesos; the
value of the imports was 17,446,O 900 pc
SOS. There are 40 miles of telegraph
and 1877 miles of railway in the island,
besides 10 miles under construction.
The roads and bridges have been neg=
lected, and the means of communica-
ton are poor. There are said to be
few good harbors on the northern
coast, which is very rugged. The land
scape is picturesque, there being nu-
merous rivers, the mountain ranges
which reach their greatest height in Ell
Yunque, 300 feet high, are covered
with forests of valuable timber The
valleys are extremely fertile and well
cultivated. There are no volcanoes in
the island, While earthquakes are of
rare occurrence. The hurricanes are
the chief drawback, so far as climate is
concerned. The climate of the coun-
try is warm says an exchange, but
not so enervating as that of the other
Antilles. The temperature rarely rises
above 81 degrees Fahrenheit, in the
shade, while the temperature at night
is not above 20 degrees. Along the
coast the climate resembles that of
Cuba, but at certain places in the in
terror the climate is as cool as that
Of much higher ATTITUDES. The island,
like all other tropical regions, is sub
JcCl6Q " nuIIICdHeS, SOII6 OF WHICH
have been very destructive. All the
valuable woods and tropical fruits
grow luxuriantly, as we'll as the staple
products of tropical agriculture, sugar
cane. coffee, tobacco, cotton and rice.
1t is said that the yield of sugar per
acre is greater than in any other West
India island. 1t is noted as remark
able circumstance that very few wild
animals, birds or flowers are to be
found in Porto Rico. Agricultural
operations are conducted by the ma
tives, but by far the greater portion of
the commerce and business of the
country is in the hands of foreigners
and natives of Spain"
The island is not very large, being |
about 100 miles east and west by about
45 north and south. At the present |
time it has about 800 people to the |
square mile, making it one of the most !
thickly populated regions of the new
world.
In many respects it will be a desir-
able acquisition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

We do not send them all away
Our bravest and our best
When the battle-cry is sounding
And the eagle leaves the nest;
There are brave baTtaliOnS marching.
And the heroes face the roar
OF the guns that heleh Cheir lightning
In the thunderstorm of war.
But the brave hearts. true hearts,
me hearts that wait at home
For the news that tells of battle
On the field or on the foam
Are the hearts that beat with courage
And the hearts whose hoping thriveS
., the little lips of loving,
And the sweethearts and the wives;
When they march away to glory,
When the flags above them wave,
When the nation sends its greeting
To the valiant and the brave.
There are tender heroes waiting.
There are brave ones left behind,
As the buSles note of sorrow
Watts its music on the wind
The brave hearts. true hearts,
With nothing left to do
But watch and wait and wonder
Till the storm and strife are through;
But their courage cheers the nation,
And IL crowns the tender lives
or the little lips of loving,
And the sweethearts and the wives
'Tis a woman's way to struggle
In the silence of her grief;
tbs the child hearts tender habit
In her dreamland make-belief-
To behold the days with courage
And to live throughout the night
With a tender word of hoping
For the breaking of the night.
The brave hearts, true hearts,
The soldier leaves 10 weep
As he takes the weary journey
Down the valley. Ger the deep.
Are the hearts at home so gentle,
Bound in sorrows unseen gives
The little lips of loving,
And the sweethearts and the wivesi
All the little lips of loving,
The little lips that be
So ripe with red-rose laughter
And so innocent with gleei
All. the hearts of SweetheartS. hoping
Till the dawn shall bring the light,
The wives that wait the echoes
From the fields where heroes fight!
The brave hearts. true hearts,
They are not all away
For some are left to wonder
And to watch afaF the fray,
And the heroes left behind.
Noble hearts and noble lives
The little lips of loving,
And the sWeethearts and the wivesi
Baltimore News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
THREE GOLD COUNTRIES.

| The cause of bimetallism is growing
everywhere almost, except in the Re-
publican party. 1t is forcing conviction
upon the American masses and COM
| pelling the consideration of other single
standard nations. Experience is teach
ing that it takes a very rich and DOW
erful people to stand up under such a
system for any length of time
A continuance of the gold standard
in India is now regarded as ruinous,
and the folly of closing the minis to
silver is finally admitted by leading
British statesmen. Financial authori-
ties, at least those who are not act
uated by partisan or avaricious mo-
tives. are owning up reluctantly that
the silver standard is good for some
countries"
India was prosperous under the sill
| yer standard. Since the adoption of the
gold standard that prosperity has van
ished. The outlook in India grew
| brighter each year with silver coinage
Ruin seems inevitable unless a change
is made from the gold standard.
Japan has been quick to adopt the
ways and schemes of other progressive
nations. 1t followed their lead in this
particular to its sincere regret. The
single standard has been a failure in
Japan. Only the marvellous wealth and
resources of the United States enable
the people here to live under such a
system. Japan will return to her double
standard after a brief but costly eX-
Derierce with gold
Chile is compelled to abandon the
standard by which our Republican
friends in this country are wont to
swear. 1t brought ruin to Chile. 1t is
conceded by former goldite, writing
for an English paper, that "Chile's en-
barrassment arises from the fall in
prices that commenced with the closing
of the minis to silver
This writer considers it Sin
gular that the financial col
lapse of Chile should have fol-
lowed so quickly on the abandonment
of her silver currency and the adoo-
ton of a gold one
In contrast with the experience of
these three gold standard countries,
which are forced to return to silver
coinage or fall into the hands of the
Shylocks, note the gradually improving
condition Of Mexico whose minis have
been kept open and free to silver for
quarter of a century. Every report
shows that Mexico is making rapid
progress, considering the class of peo-
pie the government has to depend upon,
and that she is enjoying comparative
with increasing revenues
and decreasing public debts
The adoption of a gold standard
would serve Mexico as it served I2dia,
would bring Mexico to the verge of
ruin, as it did Chile; would compel a
financial revolution, as it has III
japan.
AS the Manchester Guardian says:
Happy the country that may become
the dumping ground for either or both
of the precious metals, as those who
send them must do something-in fact,
must buy something,-to the benefit of
the country into which they may be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
TALES OF THE DAY.
A Schley Coincidence.

In 1884, Just after Commodore Schley re-
turned from rescuing the survivors of the
Greedy Arctic expedition. the Massachu-
sets Humane society presented him with
handsome medal for his achievement,
says the Detroit Free Press, and Benja-
min w. Crowninshield, one of the Bay
states great orators, was sent to Wash
ington to make the presentation speech.
On the way to the capital Mr.. Crownin-
shield fell in with an old and prominent
resident of Boston, who took the Drivi-
lege of asking the orator what his mission
in Washington was. In reply the old gen
tlernan was shown the medal and told
what was to be done with it. Strange
coincidence, unused the venerable gentle
men from the Hub. ''Forty-four years
ago, in 1910. l rode over this same line and
met General Winfield Scott | was as in
cuisitive then as now. and asked him
where he was going. He said that a son
of his friend Mr.. Schley had been named
for him and that he was going to Mary
land to see the baby -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

there proposed to have little fun with
the captain.
They invited him to take a drink one
evening after dinner. and they began on
cocktails. Their order was repeated again
and again, till forward. march, began
They kept on manluly, however, for they
proposed to drink that eye-glass out. The
order was repeated. More cocktails APP
Deared. The Americans were compelled
10 decline. The English officer straight
ened his broad shoulders.
Now. deah boys, he said. with an en-
phasis on the now lets have something
10 drink"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
EFFECT OF THE CURFEW ON
CHILDREN.

In the state of New York some of the
towns and villages have taken up with
the curfew ordinance craze. The latest
of these villages to take up with the
matter is Warsaw, the village trustees
having made it unlawful for parents
or guardians to allow or permit chill
dren under their care to be on the
streets during certain hours, unless
there exists a reasonable necessity
therefor" And if parents let their
children be upon the streets without
"a reasonable necessity therefor" they
are liable to fine mot exceeding $25."
This is coming a good deal nearer
state socialism than the free and in
dependent citizens OF these United
States once thought they would ever
get" says the New York World. IF
the authorities of village can take the
place of parental authority in restrict
ing the liberty of children and saying
what is good and what is bad for them,
there are other logical steps in the
same line which the adopters of these
curfew ordinances have perhaps not
thought Of. Doubtless some streets in
some villages are bad places for chill
dren at night, but SO are some homes
When will the village solons begin to
regulate the homes? Would it not be
a moro sensible and American idea to
make the streets-which are under
public control--decent and safe even for
children
This city has curfew law, but there
is no necessity for it, even if it could
be justified in principle, and its effect
upon the minds of the children is SIM
ply frightful. An officer of the city
who is brought in contact
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

City Councilman Patrick says it is
none of a newspaper reporters business
TO report when a member of the council
absents himself That view is in full
harmony with the non-partisan plat
form upon which he was elected. The
non partisans hold the theory that they
are above criticism; that public bust
ness is no concern of the peoples; that
the non-partisan city government is
everything. Councilman Patrick has
simply given Inference to a thought
common 10 his csisI.-aes. If lie doesn't
wish = haze his absence from the
council enamoer noted. let him remain
II IT. sr~-N-S
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
He Had Lust Started.

Speaking of drinks. says a writer in the
Washington Post. makes me think of
what a newspaper man. just returned
from Tampa, is telling of Captain Paget.
one of the British military men who are
looking on down there. Captain Paget
is. as English as-well. he's as English as
the British lording in an American play.
He wears a single eye-gIass--why is it
wonder that English eyes are so often
not mates-and the eye behind il is ex-
ceedingly wide open. The other eye
oroops a bit. and observing that droop.
several of the American officers down
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Having undertaken to drive Span
iards out of Cuba and right the wrongs
of the Cubans, do not let US set up
as Don Quixote and go about the
world to redress the wrongs of every
body. In his zeal he released convicts
and jailbirds, who turned on him and
repaid his mistaken kindness with
base ingratitude.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

For a United States senator to say
that it is necessary for this country
to take an advanced position in the
Pacific. or it must withdraw from those
waters and defend itself as best it can
after the Chinese fashion. happy if it
shall escape China's fate, is for SEN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Spain has paved the way to peace
with the bones other sons, just as the
monks at the Carthusian monastery,
near Burgos. pave the courts with the
bones of their dead brothers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
Confined TO Her Bed.

My wife has been in poor health
for a long time and unable to do her
work, and a part of the time was con-
fined 10 her red. A few months ago
she began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
ana now she is entirely well and able
to- do her work. We are grateful for
Hoods Sarsapar:lIa." Gabriel Greago,
St Johns Ariz
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

The Philippine insurgents will not be
permitted to loot Manila so long as
there are American soldiers AT Cavite
to prevent it. The United States are
at Manila as the agents of humanity
and civilization. and not as pirates and
plunderers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

The talk about making Fitzhugh Lee
governor general Of Cuba should cease,
not because he would not make a very
good governor, but because governor
generals are Spanish dignitaries, I'M
known TO the American system of gov
eminent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

ator TO talk very much as though he
were full or were a fool The crazy
expansionists seem to think that that
which makes nation truly great is
the land it possesses and not the char
acter of the people who live in the
and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

How much better it would have been
for Spain had she complied with Pres
i6ent McKinleys ultimatum- But how
much better for the world and civiliza-
ton that she did not.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

The archbishop of Manila slandered
and villifed the Americans, charging
them with all sorts OF evil intentions.
and that same archbishop may yet
owe his life to the very Americans
whom he so wronged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Most of the gold extracted by the
Eiectrolytic Marine Salts company was
taken from suckers instead of sea
water. Strange how many people be-
lieve that silk purses can be made
from sows' ears.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Russell Sage says he is only worth
$4,000. No wonder the poor man only
buys two-dollar suits, and only one a
year. But what conscience he must
have to swear he is only worth that
much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

It will take many, many years for
the American people to forget the bitter
hostility of the German press to the
United States during the war. Things
ike that are not forgotten in day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Chicago News: Pa. what's an anna
teur, anyway"
"A stranger who goes around winning
races from fellows who think they are
swift and whose friends have lots of
money"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
Thursday, August 4th, From s to L

See them in our window; So dozen
heavy all linen hemmed Devonshire
Huck Towels, size 17x32; regular retail
price, 171a cents each; for two hours,
limit, six to a customer, at cents each.
F. AUERBACH e BRO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
WIT AND HUMoR.

Correspondence from Rough Riders
camp to the Cheyenne Sun-Leader: One
of the jokes of military life at Jackson
vile is on Colonel Bryan, who spoke of
the regiment camped next to his own as
the delegation from Mississippi"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

In considering the terms of peace.
Spain has assumed a This is so sud
dem attitude, though it was what she
expected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

1t is now believed that the reason
the Spaniards at Santiago did not die
in the last ditch is because there was
no water in it in which to drown.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

When Spain examines those terms of
peace carefully and at leisure, she will
find that they are a code of poetic JUS
tice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Forty-six years ago Bishop McLaren
was a reporter on a Cleveland paper.
and, with one assistant, had to cover
the entire city in every way. He was
succeeded By Artsmus Ward.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Washington Star: DO you think there
will be anything left tc remind the world
of our navy?" inquired one Spaniard.
We'll" replied the other, after much
reflection, there's the ocean it used to
float in -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

General Miles will not get his Iieuten-
ant generalship. He missed his op-
portunity when he did not go to Cuba
and capture Santiago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Cuba will eventually become part of
the United States. This is inevitable,
but it will only be when the people of
the islands voluntarily ask to be an
neyed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

If the Spaniards held any American
prisoners it would be a good idea to
exchange Secretary Alger for some of
them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Acker's English Remedy will stop a
cough at any time, and will cure the
worst cold in twelve hours, or money
refunded. % cts. and 80 cts. For sale
by 2. c. NJ. I. Drug Dept.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

How some of the European papers
will shrink to think that the new
American battleships are to be bigger
and faster.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

AS nation, Spain can just about
pay the debt of nature.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Spanish soldiers who are receiving
American rations look upon hard tack,
bacon and beans as angel food.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

The terms of peace imposed on Spain
are SO hard that Sagasta can't even
keep stiff upper lip.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

For awhile. at least, Plunger Hooley
was right in the swim.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Camp Alger is to be abandoned. Why
cannot the gentleman Cor whom it is
named also be abandoned?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

So far as American possessions are
concerned. there viii be no birds in
next years nests for Spain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Oh, for a shower of Hquifed air that
this too solid heat might pass away.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

If the United States should give pro-
lection to the Philippines, it would
take the form of high tariff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Hoods Pills are the best family
cathartic and liver medicine. Gentle,
reliable sure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

In smoking the pipe of peace, both
Havanas and Manilas are used.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

The weather is hot enough to fuse
anything bur Democrats ana Repub-
licans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

The fusion movement is a. splendid
thing for the enemies Of Democracy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
Plain-Dealer:

Plain-Dealer: why are you weeping
Its b-because of the f-fan of santi-
ago
But you ought to rejoice
Yves, l know II would rejoice if
our little Edward Everett hadn't rushed
in and cried, Mamma, mamma, Santiago
has felIr -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Yankee Doodle has the preference
over the European concert.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Washington Star: I'VE must raise rev.
Yes" replied the other. but there
only one thing that suggests itself to
ne. Those Americans are exceedingly
patient and good-natured / wonder if
they'd stand an import duty on all Span
ish prisoners landed at our ports
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Chicago News: ''And what" the visitor
SUCH loVely one "" $40 S'O'e o0s'' l.
Twenty dollars" Mr.. Wattles an
swered.
1T didn't eitheri You know it was only
$685."
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STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks. and
other High Grade investment securities
bought and sold.
Loans on Stocks.
Dividend-paying stocks bought and sold.
Investment orders from institutions.
trustees of estates and capitalists will re-
ceive the best of attention.
JOHN C. CUTLER. JR.
Tel. 127. IS Main Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04

Washington Star: Il guess we may as
well light up the Belearic islands again,
said the Spanish strategists.
IF we do, the American ships can tell
where they are going
Il know it But if we don't maybe Ca
mara can't see to run away.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-09-02

DRAW EXCHANGE ON
SAN FRANCISCO-The Nevada Bank Of
San Francisco.
Gtd1
NEW YORK-American Exchange Ma
tional Bank.
CHICAGO-Merchants National Bank.
PARIS-Comptoir National d'Escompte
de Paris
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Bank.
HONGKONG AND YOKOHAMA-Hong-
kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora
ton. -
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
Bank of New Zealand.
VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER-Bank
of British North America.
TTOnSGClO GGnGTQlBQnMng GEXChODgG Business
0enosits Received. Loans made on APP
proVed Security. Commercial and TRAY
eIers' Credits Issued Bills of Exchange
Bought and Sold.
COTTECTIONs PROMPTLY ACCOUNT
ED FOR.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-09-02
CLAUS SPRECKELS. WIN. G. IRWIN.
CLAUS SPRECKELS & CO.,
Bankers,

HONOLULU H. l.
SAN FRANCISCO AGENTS-THE Me-
VADA BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-09-02

SHIPMATES, ATTENTION!
You are all welcome to make your
headquarters at the Commercial Sa-
loon. Beretania and Nuuanu streets.
Strictly pure liquors and celebrated
Wieland Beer.
PADDY RYAN,
Manager.