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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

are caring for their young, the breed
ing males, or bulls, have charge of their
harems, while the non-breeding males
or bachelors" are compelled by the
bulls to herd by themselves. The males
take little or no food during this sea-
son, while the females are obliged to
go to sea daily to obtain food in or
der properly to nourish their young.
Scattered over the seal islands are
numerous lakes and Iagoons, connect
ing with the sea by means of narrow
inlets, through which these smaller
bodies of water are supplied with fresh
water by the action of two tides daily.
From San Francisco the special agent
had transported a large quantity of
wire netting with which he fenced these
lakes and lagoonS about, leaving open
ings through which the seals could be
driven and which could be closed by
means of gates. The bachelor seals
were driven into these enclosures about
the first of August and kept until the
first of October, and having plenty of
fresh water to disport-in and by ma
ture requiring no food, were kept in
good condition until the open season
had expired, when they were let out
and allowed to frequent the open sea
again. These methods have been so eff
fective in their results that the pelagic
sealers have become well nigh discour-
aged and offer to give up the business
providing the government will reim-
hurSe them for the cost of their vessels
and outfits. This our government would
be willing to do, it is said, were the
government of Great Britain to guar
antee that pelagic sealing by any of its
subjects should forever be abandoned
MAKING OFFICIAL ROOKERIES
A very careful investigation was
made of the seal rookeries of the Uni
ted States and Russia by a joint COM
mission of the United States, Great
Britain and Canada in 1896, to ascertain
their true condition and to study the
habits of the fur seal. The commission
in behalf of the United States was in
charge of David Starr Jordan. presi-
dent of Leland Stanford, jr., university
of California. Another member of the
commission for the United States was
DR.. Lucas of the United States Ma
tional Museum, who made a careful in
Vestigation of diseases of the seal Dr.
Lucas found that the death of many
seals was caused by the prevalence of
a minute worm in the intestines of the
animal. No direct remedy could be
devised, but it was found that those
| seals living upon rookeries that were
! well supplied with rocks were nearly
free from the trouble. So, at the ex-
pense of much time and labor, the spe-
cial agent caused to be broken up and
hauled from an adjoining bluff, large
! quantities of rock, which were scat
tered about over those rookeries which
had hitherto been nothing less than
/ beds Of almost pure sea sand. And in
proof of the correctness of the hypo-
/ thesis set up by the Investigators, the
health of the herds frequenting these
sandy rookeries began at once to be
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You really don't know what COM
Portable travelling is if you have
never travelled via the Burlington.
Holds the Worlds record for long
distance fast running 1926 miles,
Loaf minutes.
The Burlington Route is 1887
miles 1ong-nearly one-third the dis
lance round the world.
Offers a wider choice of routes than
any other line, to and from Chicago,
st. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City and all
eastern points.
Two through trains each way daily.
vestibuled buffet smoking library
cars, Pullman sleeping cars, reclining
chair cars (seats free) coaches. Fin
est dining car service in the world
Dining cars operated on the cafe
plan; that is, you pay only for what
you order.
Tickets at offices of connecting lines.
I. A. BENTON, Ticket Agent, r. G.
W. Ry., Dolly Block.
R. F. NEsLEN, Travelling Pass. and
Freight Agent
W. F. M'MILLAN, Gen. Agt.
2A4 S. w. Temple St., Salt Lake City
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BEIRA. TIE Widest TOWN IN AFRICA
Owned and Ruled by Portuguese Everyone Who Goes There
is Arrested Sooner or Later.

it presided a short, fat Portuguese
German, who represents the United
States of America as consular agent
in Beira. Above his desk in bas-re-
lief on the consular coat of arms.
lurcfed forward a much battered
American eagle, which seemed to ex-
tend friendly claw
RESCUED BY TWO GIANTS.
"Doan ged SO fresh at vonce, young
man." said this individual, when 1
made a somewhat hostile demonstra-
ton, ''or l viii hat you sent pack to
jail we're you Will stay some time, yesi''
He then explained that my arrest
had been procured as a courtesy to the
consul general, with whom I had had
some difficulty. l was a total stranger
in Beira, and it was beginning to look
ominous for me, when a movement at
the door caused a dozen clerks. who
had been called in from the counting
house, to tumble over one another in
frightened haste and in walked two of
the most powerfully-b men L have
ever seen.
One was tall and smooth-faced, with
keen gray eyes. rather angular in fin
ish, but hardy-looking. He wore a white
duck suit and moved about lightly on
his feet like a trained athlete.
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A DEATH BLOW TO ENTHUSIASM.
The Materialism of Modern Life Is
Responsible For the Blase Child.
New York Evening Post.)


Responsible For the Blase Child.
(New York Evening Post.)
The nil admirari tone of the young
men and women of our day jars nasn-
fully on those of their elders who,
nourished in a simpler school, nave
never forgotten to be young in heart.
The difficulty of arousing enthusiast
in the average city-bred youth of
either sex, unless 1T may be for an
athletic contest or a favorite actor, is
really incomprehensible to their grand
parents Many a dear wrinkled face
will light up with the quick apprecia-
ton and sincere eagerness of admira-
ton which arises from hearts younger
in every element of feeling than those
which mark the ebb and flow of the
life-blood of men and women fifty
years their Juniors.
Charles P.
Smith he
Says Christmas is an exploded idee, '
was the comical method with which a
man drolly expressed his final opinion
of the feast. of good will
A sordid view of life and its necessi
ties has possessed this generation. The
moneyed value of things is the touch
stone of regard for what we get, and
the eagerness to have what our neigh
bors possess is born in our children.
tom Jones has pony; 1 am tired of
my goat" is as sure to be our boy S
cry as that he sees the grander step
towards manhood and possession that
his neighbor has taken. Love for his
faithful and much beaten and sorely
tried little companion will rarely be
visible in the child of today. but in It's
place a quick readiness to get rid of
him, and a proud display of that which
has displaced him. This is the refiec-
ton of the eagerness with which the
old is pushed out Of sight by the heads
of the house to make way for
the new and more expensive. To
move into better neighborhood
to own handsomer home, to
have the latest fad in fashion
able color and form, lies far nearer the
modern housewives heart than to hold
fast to that made precious by associa-
ton. Enthusiasm, the indwelling OF
the spiritual in us, which gives insight
into the essence hidden in the form
must die where material value is the
common standard of comparison. Fal
happier is the poor child on the door
step of tenement, who, looking at the
battered face of the tattered doll, sees
something to love and cherish, than she
who knows that her pet is from Paris
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ARRIVE
On Effect July II. 1881
From Chicago Omaha, St Louis,
Kansas City, Denver, Park
city and Ogden. ..............-.... $40 pm
From Helena, Butte Portland.
San Francisco. Ogden and in
termediate points,. .......... $3.50 am
From San Francisco, Cache Val
ley, ogden and intermediate
points :............. ....:.......... us pm.
From Chicago, Omaha. St. Louis
Kansas City, Denver and Og-
'From Frisco Milford. sanpete. ~ ''''ii'
Provo. Eureka, Mammoth Sill
yer City and intermediate
points .-......... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. go pm.
Tooeie and Garfield Beach. 400 pm.
DEPART
For Chicago, Omaha, Denver,
Kansas City, St. Louis Ogden
For San Francisco, ogden.
Cache Valley and intermediate
For Ogden Denver. Kansas City,
omaha, St. Louis. Chicago and
intermediate points .............. 6:25 pm.
~ land and San FRANCISCO s:45 pm.
Provo, Nephi. Sanpete. Mil
1ord, Frisco and intermediate
MIXED train for GARFIELD Beach.
Tooele and Terminus. 7:45 I'm
= TRAINS south of Juab run daily except
t*Daily except Sunday.
CITY TICKET OFFICE under Masonic
Hall; No. 200 West Second South street.
Telephone No. $50
Railroad and Steamship Tickets on sale
to all parts of the world.
g pullman Palace Car ticket office.
). w. ECCLES, d. z. hurley,
Gen. Trf. Mgr Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agt.
w. II. BANCROFT,
Vice Pres & Gen. Mgr.
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cars big. green umbrella serves for
protection to all.
UNIVERSAL ENGLISH PIANO.

cars a big green umbrella serves for
protection to all.
UNIVERSAL ENGLISH PIANO.
+ There was a piano at the Beach hotel.
Isn't it q peculiar fact that in what
ever part of the earth you find Eng
liShmen, there you viii be sure to see
some species Of piano? 1t is part of
the coionizer's stock in trade. In the
relrotest sections of Natal. where few
English settlers We're huddled together,
in the heart of black land, we never
failed to find a piano.
Captain Foraker struck a few chords
on this one, and in a few moments the
room was thronged with a motley
crowd, all roaring the chorus of ooh,
the Soldiers of the Queen and Down
One Block There is a Bloomin' Row."
In one of the Breathing spells loud
slap was heard. and the singing was
suddenly stopped. Carney and Rogers
are going to fight" screamed a little
French Jew, who delighted in seeing
other. persons get into trouble. Lets
see it,"
In the barroom a ring had been
formed, and two smooth-faced, boyish
looking, thick-sft chaps, who had been
quietly shaking dice with each other
all evening, were moving about in true
pugiistic style. Presently they mixed
it up, and for six rounds boxed very
roughly, but with some science. The
fight was interrupted by a black boy,
who announced that the guard was
! coming on the midnight rounds. The
! two fellows We're hastily pushed out
into the court and there resumed fight
! ing after the guard had passed
What are they fighting about?"
asked Captain Foraker.
FIGHTING FOR THE JOY OF IT.
ooh, nothing in particular, he
laughed Just fight because they like
it. They're the best of pals, and have
lived together from boyhood. L fancy
they see so much of each other thai
they get tired and vary the monoton5
in this way. There's not month goe:
by that they do not have scrap
/ The hotel is built in the shape of {
quadrangle, two stories high, with We
randas on all sides, and the womer
j guests crowded on the upper verandas
demanding to have the cruel figh
stopped. Six more rounds We're fought
however, before it was finally broker
up. Both men We're then so bruised
and bleeding that they could hardly sec
and they We're put to bed in cot three
feet wide, where they fell asleep
clasped in each others arms.
isn't this the greatest town or
earth?' chuckled Captain Foraker tc
me, as he emerged, wringing a bloody
handkerchief Nowhere else could you
have so much fun in one night. These
people here are so stupid that they
don't appreciate it."
But 1 had had all the fun I wanted
for one day, and was anxious to get
some rest. 1 went to sleep, hearing the
deep bay of the British India steamer
from Rangoon calling for pilot to
take her in the harbor.
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improved, and the disease has been
very nearly eradicated.
BY the way, the results of the labors
of this commission as regards the sub
ject of pelagic sealing embodied in a
carefully prepared report are now be-
fore the joint high commission, COM
posed of representatives of the United
States, Great Britain and Canada
which is in session in the last-named
country and it is expected that action
will be taken whereby the vexed ques-
ton of the seal fisheries, which has for
so many years been subject of con-
Great Britain, and threatening at times
to involve the two nations in open hos
tilities, will be settled for long time
to come.
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BRANDING THE SEALS
Profitable Idea Borrowed From
Cattle Ranges of the West.
-S-
THIEVES 0UTWITTED BY IT
COLORADO MAN SOLVES A Diff
CULT PROBLEM.
Means Discussed Of Stopping Pelagic
Seal Fishing-Herding the Wild
Seals-oficial Rockeries.
THIEVES OUTWITTED BY IT
(Snecial Corresnondence }

Fort Collins, Colo, Nov. 25.-One
mans originality has done more to set
tie the sealing question that has vexed
four nations for forty years than any
other one thing. And this man was
neither a diplomat nor great inter
national lawyer-he was simply a spe-
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Tt lies easily in the power of the
young mothers and fathers of today to
parents once owned, but which they
tailed to hand down to them; to give
them insight into the hidden spiritual
value and beauty of human ties and
earthly possessions; to teach them to
form strong, faithful affections for
home and friends, and to adhere ten
derby to them; to guide them to value
a book for what it conveys to them,
and for what it incites in their hearts
and minds, and not for the misused
talent which has made it an absorbing
delight to study crime and read of
earth's darkest deeds made fascinating
by the beauty of diction and the rich
ness Of imagery; to help them to be
happy without excitement, and inter-
eSted without being amazed.
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THE COLORADO MIDLAND R. R
Two Through Trains Daily.

WU LuIOUSH LIelIII5 IdIIy-
Between Salt Lake City. Ogden and Lead
vile, Cripple Greek, Colorado Springs.
Denver and all points east. Only line
running THROUGH CHAIR CARS.
Through sleepers on both morning and
evening trains. This line. in connection
with the Rio Grande Western. reaches
Denver earlier than any other line via
Colorado Springs. No change of cars or
delayed trains. Take the Colorado Mid
land and save time and enjoy the finest
ride and grandest scenery in Colorado.
For full information call on any R. G.. w.
Ry. agent, or
w F. BAILEY o. A BROWN
G.. p. A, Gen. Agent.
Denver. Colo. Salt Lake City.
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BY ALLEN sANGREE.

Beira is the fourth stop on the left as
you so up from Cape Town to zanzi-
bar. 1t grew yesterday. Today it is
the widest town in the world.
Imagine, if you can, a. squad Of Bret
Harte's representatives from Poker
Flat or Roaring Camp. knocking elbows
with reformed cannibais from NADIA
gascar, Malays from Singapore, Par
sees from India, Jews from Moscow,
Yankees from Massachusetts, demirepS
from Hamburg, half a dozen mission
aries, crooks from Johannesburg. mer-
chants from Paris and Berlin, 500 Eng
lishfnen, less than that many Chinese
coolies and a pinch of Japanese in the
shape of alnond-eyed tea girls i'm
ported by an Arabia slave dealer.
Keep in mind then that all this figaro
is ruled by a k-tempered. dark
featured, sensitive Portuguese from
Lisbon. with the aid of thousand little
soldiers, who viii accept a bride or jab
g sword into you with equal alacrlty,
who hate real White man just a
shade more than they detest the real
black, and purposely limit their knoWl-
edge of English to the one word--'ar-
rested"
CECIL RHODES ENJOYS BEIRA.
That is Beira. Cecil Rhodes found
the place so interesting last year that
he preferred staying in a shanty with
an American cowboy watching people
from all over the earth get into trou-
bic, rather than journey to Umtali,
sixty miles way, where Sir Alfred
Miner, the newly-appointed British
governor general, was waiting to meet
him. The great colonizer probably re-
garded events with other than feelings
Of mirth, for if any one can be held re-
spopsible for this little bunch of hui
manity hanging on the edge of Africa
in the unhealthiest spot known, it is
Cecil Rhodes, the explorer of Central
South Africa.
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LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY.
1.-THE Overland Limited" for
Chicago, st. Paul, St. Louis,
Omaha. Kansas City. Denver. 700 am.
1.-The Fast Mail" for Chicago.
St Louis Omaha, Kansas City
and Denver ........................ 6:25 pm.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
"The Overland Limited from
Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha,
Kansas City. Denver. $40 pm.
'"The Fast Mail" from Chicago.
St Paul St. Louis. Omaha,
Kansas City and Denver. ........ $40 am.
CITY Ticket Office, 201 Main street.
Telephone No. 665.
H NJ. CLAY. Gen. Agent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

Hewlett Bros Three Crown Spices
are now put up in handsome litho-
graphed pepper box cans. If you
want goods that are absolutely Pure
and of the Best Quality, you get them
in this brand.
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LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY.


No 2-For Provo, Grand juno
ton and all points east......-.. $50 am.
No. 4For Provo. Grand juno
ton and all points east......... Z 40 pm.
No. 6-FOr Bingham, Lehi, Pro-
vo. Mt. Pleasant Manti, Bels
KNAPP and intermediate points. SEQ am.
No. S-FOr Eureka, Payson. Pro-
vO and intermediate points,. SEQ p. m.
No. 3-For Ogden and vest. 800 D.
No. For Ogden and west......12:30 pm.
No. 42-For Park City .............. 1925 am.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No From Bingham. Provo.
Grand Junction and the east....12:20 p. M
No. 3-FrOn Provo, Grand juno
ton and the east.........--....... 800 pm.
No. 5-From PROVO, Bingham.
Eureka. BelknaP Manti and
intermediate points. -............. 5:35 I'm.
No. 2-From ogden and the west. $50 am.
No. 4-FrOm Ogden and the west. 7:S0 pm
No. From Eureka, PaysOn.
Provo and intermediate points. 1880 am
No. 41-From Park City............ 6:45 pm
Ticket Office. 1OS West Second South,
POStOffice Corner.
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SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY.

Daily Time Card. in Effect September
10, 1898.
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
salt Lake. Farming Farming Salt Lake.
ton & La ton & La
200 a. m. TAO a. m. 1850 a. m. $50 a. m.
$3.50 a. m. 1910 a. m. 1920 a. m. lilo a. m.
$3.50 p. m. 410 p. m. 4:90 p. m. $40 p. m.
$50 p. m. $40 p. m. $50 p. m. 7:1O p. m.
Additional trains Sundays and Holidays:
Leave Salt Lake. 11:30 a. M. 100 p. m.
Leave Lagoon, 1890 p. m; 2:30 p. m.
Round trip to Becks, including bath.
% cents.
H. w. EARLY, SIMON BAMBERGER,
Pass. Agt. Gen Mngr.
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thorities with but little favor at first,
but consent was finally given to have
the experiment tried. Those opposing
it expressed a fear that if the brand
ing did not absolutely destroy the life
of the seal. it would impair its re9ro-
ductive faculties. The experiment was
first tried upon adult seals. A full.
grown seal with a pup at her side was
first to be branded, and the iron was
brought to white heat and the ami
NAL branded to the very quick, yet
but little pain was manifested by the
seal, and as soon as the operation was
done the old seal went TO her pup and
calmly nursed it. After some $50 adult
female seals had been branded, the
branding was confined to pup seals be-
tween the age of three and four
months The entire back of the AMI
nal, from hip to shoulder, is gridironed
with deeply burned scars, so that the
skin is rendered absolutely value1ess
for the manufacture of fuTs, and the
animal is left to breed by the open sea
SealerS
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HERDING WILD SEALS.

The special agent then directed his
efforts to the preservation of the male
seals. The open or Delagic season I'M
der the present international agree
ment between the United States and
Great Britain extends from the first of
August until the first of October This
period is included within the breeding
season. When the seals, both male and
female, old and young, are inhabiting
the rookeries. The breeding females
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

The M. & M. is choice natural
leaf Japan tea, controlled by M. J..
Brandenstei1l & Co., San Francisco.
Hewlett Bros Co., sole agents for
Utah and Idaho.
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OREGON SHORT LlNE-*
RAELRoAD.
Ahh1N T.

Trains arrive and depart at Salt Lake
City daily as follows:
ARRIVE
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-03-30
TIES rIMoNIAL TO COACH SWIFT
f.. ii. =. Foot ball Players Express
Appreciation for Services Rendered.

| r.. IL. =. F0ot-ball Players Express
/ Appreciation for Services Rendered.
| The Ellsworth high school foot ball
team is deeply indebted to f. G. SWEET,
| now of Bangor, who coached the boys
during the last half of the season. Coach
SWEET, it will be remembered, took hold
OF the team when the season was half
over and when 1t had played three losing
games, and pulled it out of the season
with three games to its credit.
T For tn ssarvine the Ellsworth foot ball
players Hut their friends have never
ceased their expressions Of admiration for
Coach SWEET. The Ge,tfe 10 give some
material evidence OF this appreciat ion
found expression lust week in the presen-
tation to Mr.. SWEET OF pair Of silver
backed military brushes appropriately
engraved
In the following letter Mr.. SWEET very
gracefully acknowledges the gift and
incidentally gives hint which it will be
well for would-b be athletic champions in
Ellsworth to remember:
BANGOR Me, March 81 1898.
To Manager Moore, Captain Beltauy and
members of the T.. II. S. football team:
My DEAR FRIENDs-Your handsome and
most appropriate gift came last Wednesday. To
say that was surprised and delighted would
be expressing my feelings but mildly. Next to
taking pleasure in ones work and being salts
fed that 1t amounts to something, is to know
that 1t has been appreciated.
Measured by the standard of your generous
gift should indeed feel pleased, for your APP
probation of my more or less valuable services
Is, fear, far greater than they deserve. had
considered the good work done by the team, and
its record in the last three games, a sufficient re
ward for the short time and small amount of in
structon was able to give the players. There
fore, appreciate the brushes all the more, and
shall always cherish them along with the
memhrancc of the pleasant days passed in ELS.
WORTH and of the individual members of the +.
II. 5. foot ball team of ls91.
| trust that you all have learned and fully
comprehended the absolutely necessary re
quircments for success in athletic teams, and
especially In foot. ball Unity. brains and work
and that with these principles firmly fixed in
your minds you may press onward to victory in
future years.
Hoping that the partial success of last year
may he repeated in AN entirety the coming sea.
son. and again thanking YOU all Tor your great
Kindness, remain
four true friend,
FRED. GEO. SWIFT.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-03-30
State Board of Trade.

This afternoon the State board Of trade
meets at Portland. The topics to be dis
cussed are as follows: "Our Merchant
Marine; Its Decadence and Restoration u
to be opened by E. c. Plummer, Bath.
"What One Thing Best Promotes the
Material Interests of the State of Name"
A. c. Sibley, Belfast, and o. Gardner,
Rockland.
'The Summer Tourist, considered
last fail at Ellsworth and tabled by Hon.
c. f. Libby, for further discussion.