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have for years"
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee. first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases of the heart and
nerves free. Address.
DIR. MILES MEDICA
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
THE RACE PROBLEM.

The race troubles at the south have
developed almost as much feeling be
tween the whites and blacks as the
war between the negroes and miners
at Pana, Ills, has created in that abo-
lition state.
Disturbances at Cheyenne, since the
stationing there of colored troops, have
aroused considerable race prejudice in
the state of Wyoming.
The colored volunteers now stationed
in Cuba are involved in so many out
RACES and affrays that the Cubans are
petitioning to have them recalled.
In yesterdays Associated Press dis
patches there is an account of the ar
rival at Macon, Ga, of a regiment of
colored immunes Thirty or forty of
them, with side arms, attacked store
and threatened to loot it unless their
demands were complied with They
then formed line across the street to
prevent anyone being sent to call for
help"
Race troubles are not decreasing to
any appreciate extent. They may be
less frequent in the south than former
ly, but they are breaking out at ir-
regular intervals in unexpected places.
The race problem is very perplexing
and seems to be as far from solution
as it was at the close of the civil war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
he WON SOLELY ON HIS NERVE
Chicago Chronicle.l


''Nerve is the thing that WINS said
the board of trade man to his COM
panfons at the club "a man may have
money, friends and influence, but if he
lacks that sublime quality he is Shy
the biggest card in the deck. Look at
the case of that man who went out
of here just now. There is no man in
town who lives better than he does and
his investments furnish him the coin
to pay for all he wants without ever
drawing on the principal a few years
ago he was worse than broke. He
didn't have dollar or q friend-in fact
his sole capital consisted of his nerve
and a bad reputation, and on the
strength of that he started a bucket
shop.
I'm building close to the board of
trade he found an office furnished for
the business where another shop had
failed and he put up a stiff front and
leased it until the 1st of May. 1t was
then the middle of the month, so he got
it rent free for the first two weeks.
He ordered ticker put in and hired
boy to mark the blackboard, as he
did not have to pay for either service
until the end of the week, and then he
opened for business People began
coming in to look at the quotations.
and after awhile one man came up to
the desk with $40 and bought LOCO
wheat. The market went right up and
after there was a cent a buShel profit
in the deal the customer came to the
window to cash his ticket.
! This might seem like an awkward
situation but his beautiful nerve never
failed. He sized up his customer, and
instead of springing any four flush
about a partner who had gone to the
| bank or anything of that kind, he just
| said quietly: Here is the ten you put
| up. Now haven't another dollar in the
house, but if you will just go and sit
down and look wise and happy like a
man who has beat the game, why as
soon as anybody else takes a Whirl at
it, I'll give you your other ten out of
what he puts up, but if you start roar
go against the game and 1 don't see
how you will get your ten
well the customer was staggered,
but he saw it was worth SO for him
to keep STILL and so he waited. Pretty
soon another sucker tried to beat the
stock market and backed his judgment
with $40. The first man didn't wait
! long to get his coin and then he stayed
there the rest of the day to see how
the thing came out The market broke
and nearly every one who made trade
was on the wrong side. so the shop quit
a little to the good that night, and il
was a steady winner from that time or
until the grand jury began to make
things hot. Then he closed the place
and has done nothing since but live or
his income and it is big one too"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
REAL TRAGEDY ON THE STAGE

There was a real tragedy on the
Knickerbocker stage at New York the
other night. 1t was not a mimic spec
tire that stalked before the audience.
1t was the grim old Destroyer him
self
Ethel Marlowe played a part in the
performance Of 1.-The Christian" She
did it we'll, the dispatches say. But
just before the final act, she tottered
in the wings and fell. She had said
her last lines. With the glamor of the
footlights in her eyes and the plaudits
Of the crowd in her ears, she made
her exit from the stage of earthly ex-
istence. The curtain of death fell, and
the drama of her life was ended.
All unconscious of what had hap
pened, almost before their eyes, the
audience witnessed the remaining act
Of the play. They expressed their APP
probation. but there was one of the
players who heard it not. In her make
up as Polly Love, the actress lay,
growing cold and rigid, deaf to the
cheering, lost to the stage forever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
SUICIDE AND SYMPATHY.

From Denver comes the sad story Of
young Arthur Van Inwagen who, at
the age of 26, became discouraged at
his prospects and committed suicide
He had been reared in luxury, favored
with choice positions, and taught to feel
that he could afford to engage in
nothing below a certain grade of en-
ployment. He had expensive tastes to
pamper and social station to maintain
as he believed, and it was question
Of so much salary or nothing. He failed
to find the opening he was seeking. so
he turned to the grave. One always
finds an opening there.
But there We're many places where
this young man never applied for
work. There were opportunities he dis
dained; positions he ignored; honorable
employment he despised. Every day he
was accustomed to meet on the streets
of Denver men and women who had a
right to feel depressed, who had every
reason to sigh for some relief from
various ills; he met men every day
whose lack of education or want of
health, deprived them of a hearing;
men with large families, who would
have been glad of the chances he
spurned; fathers in whose ears the
cries of hungry children We're ringing,
eagerly searching for the work he
would not stoop to do.
Such suicides as this are entitled to
but little sympathy. And, after all,
the blame. perhaps should not rest al
together upon them. The real fault lies
IN their training.
Every boy and girl should be taught
that no honorable employment is be-
meath them; they should be trained to
face adversely in any walk of life; the
true nobility of labor should be i'm
pressed upon their minds; a reverence
for life and its obligations should be
the lesson of their youth.
The way to meet disaster, poverty OF
disgrace, is to live it down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
ORGANIZE FOR SILVER.

In his speech at Cincinnati Wednes-
day evening Coin Harvey, general
manager of the ways and means divis-
ion of the Democratic national commit
tee, made an able plea for independent
bimetallism, an eloquent appeal to the
people of the United States to stand
firm for silver, to persevere in the eff
fort to secure free coinage, and to not
take fright at the power and AFRO
gance of gold.
He traced the struggle of civilization
from the earliest ages down to the
present, showing how avarice has al
ways attended prosperity; how it in
fects governments in the flower of their
health and strength; how it saps the
life of a nation, dissipates the. energies
of a people. and destroys the independ-
ence of men.
Greed is the soul of the single stand
ard Gold monometellisrn would perish
but for avarice. History verifies this
conclusion.
Mr.. Harvey said: When the iron
hand of covetousness was laid upon the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

lette gave production last night fully up
to his own standard, and it would be hard
to utter higher praise than that. How
great stickler he is for completeness and
thoroughness in his art, was evinced in
the big cast of Secret Service in which
the smallest of the characters was played
by a responsible man, even the squads of
soldiers and messengers being thought too
important to be entrusted to the usual
super corps. The average manager, with
an eye to railroad bills doubles his small
parts, or sends his repI esentative ahead to
train the resident auxiliaries, which bene-
fits the expense accounts, but oftentimes
plays havoc with artistic results. There
was nothing lacking last night to make
up a perfect presentations people, scenery,
costumes, effects and properties were
just as they have been and will be in the
big metropolitan presentations.
Though it was past O'Clock when the
first curtain rose, and midnight before tine
last one fell due to a delay on the rail-
road, the audience gave no signs of weari-
ness and the enthusiasm and enjoyment
were of the most pronounced character,
each of the strong acts receiving numer-
Gus curtain-calls. Mr. Gillette's peculiar
style of acting has been debated and dis
cussed everywhere from London to Ho-
boken, and critics disagree as to whether
he is really awkward or as to whether
his peculiarities are part of his art.
but there is no disagreement as to
his personal magnetism and his lower to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
GROWTH OF LIFE INSURANCE


friend remarked yesterday that
business was never better in his line
than it is this fall. He is in the life
insurance business.
This does not necessarily betoken a
return of prosperity, however. When
the outlook is gloomy, when men see
ahead of them only long, rugged path
of toll, and little prospect of business
success. it is then they think of pro-
vidins for their families out of their
earnings from week to week, and year
to year.
The increase of the life insurance
business, the mammoth proportions it
has attained, make it a financial power.
whose effect upon interest and invest
nents is worth considering. In a cur
rent number Of an English magazine is
q notable article on the growth and in
fuence Of this institution in Great Brit
ain.
During the last twenty-six years the
Invested assets of English life insur-
ance companies have grown from $780,
100000 &c the enormous sum of Sl,17o,-
600. 900. This is an average annual in
crease of nearly S25,O00,O 900, but the in
crease in 1896 alone was Ss0OO0.0O0. A
similar progression during the next
twenty-five years would show invested
assets Of more than 81, 500 0OO, ooo, while
at the end Of half a century the insur-
ance companies would be enjoying an
income considerably greater than that
Of the British government.
A. G. Mackenzie, the writer of the
article, devotes himself to the consider
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
THEY WERE AUGURs.

A wolf was seen the other night in
the very heart Of Salt Lake City. 1t
is described as "a tall, gaunt, bony
gray WOLF .
Then worst has come to worst. The
evils that Republican calamity howlers
foretold during the campaign. the ruin,
the misery. they are here.
The Philadelphia Press has echoed
back the inprecaions shouted from the
housetops by a local soothsayer. The
augur takes it up again and says:
1--WE look for a good deal more of the
same sort"
Alas! The desolation of the city!
The curses OF the Magi are upon it,
The beast of the desert roams about
its streets. It is impossible, it seems,
to keep the wolf from our doors.
Who thought when the governor
made his prediction that it would be
so soon fulfilled? "Oh, the long and
cruel winterr It has scarce begun,
but what has it in store? What new
distress? What misery?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
SUCH AN EXHIBITION.


Oh. D. B. in Black and White0
1--WE must have peace" the French have
erica;
IAN absolute condition
OF tranquil calm must be supplied fol-
our exhibition
Dear friends" the tsar one day pro-
claimed,
A little letter writing,
! "Of war we ought to be ashamed,
Then let US give up fighting.
Mon Dieu!" Mile tonnerres! Sacrebleur'
They cried, That is reddition:
Revanche we hoped for, avant peu,
Mais apres reXposition."
''vive rarmee! vivent resprit, relan,
Les GenerauX, ces quasi
Dictateurs. Du Patty de Clami
Vivent Gonse ct Esterhazy!
''oh, dear!' the gentle tsar then thought,
How strange an ebullition!
My peaceful projects surely ought
TO suit their exhibition!
Sweet Peace! War makes the rubles go,
And just at present fail ways
OF raising any money, so
| I'll make strategic railways"
Peace peace" the Frenchman yelled
meanwhile,
For our exhibition
| Let Marchand lead unto the Nile
A peaceful expedition"
Peace peace! Don't talk of Dreyfus
now:
We sent him to perdition,
| So let him stop there anyhow;
Don't spoil our exhibition
Peace, peace! vive rarmee! Down with
right
To regions known as neither!
Peace, peace! With strangers let Us
fight,
Or fight at home togetherl'
| At last the tsar will doubtless say;
My dear allies are funny,
| | thought them crazy from the way
They used to lend us money!
"Chers allies. we all confess
Your scheme has reached fruition,
C'est vous qui etes exposes yes,
You are the exhibition!'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
NEVER WILL LIE AGAIN.

The Chicago Journal says that when
Mr.. Perry left his Office he put on the
door this notice: "Will be back at /
p. M
He had been gone some time when
Mcclure, one of his acquaintance,
came to see him on business. Mcclure
read the card, pulled out his watch,
shifted contemptuously, took out his
pencil, wrote something on the card
and went away.
1t was not long after that when an
other man came up, read the card,
smiled, looked at his watch, wrote
something and then went away.
Inside few minutes a third man ar
rived, examined the card added some
thing to the writing upon it and
grinned as he walked off A fourth
fifth and sixth man did the same thing
When Perry returned at 2:15 O'Clock
this is what ne found written under his
promise to return by 1 o'clock:
You're a liar by the watch. J. B
MCGUIRE, lis p. M
You lie again. George E. Smith, IL;
p. M
amen. B. D. s. 1:8O p. M
Ditto. r. NJ. Montgomery, 1:45 p
M"
"Thatn do, Ananias. John Hines
1:4S p. m.
Don't let it occur again. John NJ. NJ
! Comstock, 2:10 p. M"
| He hasn't
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
ADJUSTMENTS.

One of the most brilliant and crowded
audiences the Theatre has held since the
present season opened assembled there
last night in honor OF one of the country s
foremost dramatists,. Mr.. William Gill
lette. The fame of his play of Secret
Service" lately from its triumphant seas
on in London, was well established here
long ago, from the press reports, so there
could be no question of its reception when
it came upon it's western tour. Mr.. Gil
lette last night added one more to the
long list of obligations under which he
has laid Theatre patrons in this city. He
has always been a faVorite here since the
days when he gave his first admirable
production of Held by the EneIny' and
THE Professor" and people here, as
elsewhere, always feel that anything
bearing the Gillette stamp was an ad-
vance guarantee of the highest finish and
the most artistic achievement Mr.. Gil
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

The election of Mrs. L. R. Rhodes to
the presidency of the Womans Demo-
cratic club was a deserved tribute to
an active and intelligent leader among
the women Of the party. Her election
was practically unanimous, as Senator
Matte Hughes Cannon was not a can
didate for the position in any sense,
and her name was proposed without
her knowledge or consent. Mrs. Can
non has not had time to attend the
club meetings, and has never taken
part in its deliberations, although in
hearty sympathy with its work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

Councilman Romney, at the meeting
of the city council last evening, said
that The Herald has reported him as
wanting to keep the eight illegally
appointed policemen on the force" The
Herald has not so stated But Mr..
Romney's gratuitous denial and his
tactics in the council meeting seem to
indicate that this is his real attitude.
1t is not clear which foot the shoe is
on, but certain it is Mr.. Romney had a
bad fit last night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

We believe that the present editor of
The Herald, who thinks that Heber
Grant had great provocation to at
tack US, not six months ago published
in a sheet, which he at that time was
conducting, that one of the first presi-
dency owned the control of the Tri-
bune.-Tribune.
The foregoing is untrue. The writer
never saw the statement referred to,
either in print or in manuscript, ex-
cept the references made thereto in the
Tribune. Neither was he conducting
or in any other way connected with
the paper that printed it, at the time
it was said to have appeared.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

Gamblers are doing business again.
probably not at the same old stands.
but at others. No one thought, when
the grand flourish Of suppressing the
vice was made some time ago, that it
would amount to much. The sporting
syndicate viii doubtless thrive until
threatened competition makes suspen-
sion again necessary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

Smith Merrill daugh
A.. Smith
ranch Piute At the 10
graduating
: first of to be elected vice president
In
literary circles
Utah Artists,
Shakespeare Horne
Revolution
member of the house
= pioneers lifelong Democrat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

The Republican organ objects to
Apostle Grants criticism of itself, on
the ground that 1T is not a square deal
in church meetings" The metaphor
as well as the organ, seems to be
slightly mixed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

John Morley is to receive $50, 600 from
the MacMillans for his life of Glad
stone. The work will require five years
in tie preparation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

Warren Foster denies that he is a
polygamist'' is an item of news that
appears in a morning contemporary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks. and
other High Grade investment securities
sought and sold.
Leans on Stocks.
DiVidend-paying stocks bought ana sold
Investment orders from institutions
trustees of estates and capitalists will re-
ceiYe the best of attention.
JOHN c. CUTLER. JR..
Tel. 12. &c Main Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

John D. Spencer came down from Loga
last evening to pick up work with tn
to Ogden with the Chimes on Thanks
giving day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

The advance sale for the two perform
ances by the Louise Brehany Opera and
Concert company next week opens at the
Theatre this morning.
, 1898-10-14

governor-a fighting Democrat, who at
his W expense fitted out the First
New Hampshire regiment rather than
call an extra session of the legislature.
The commodore has one son, George
Goodwin Dewey, who was graduated
from Princeton university last year and
is now in business in New York city.
The commodore loves children, and
when he returned as a captain to Mont.
pelier he would gather the boys and
girls in the afternoon from the capitol
grounds across the way into the grounds
around his home. He took them driv-
ing, he told them stories about sailor
men until the little girls were almost
frightened and all the boys were dbter-
mined to be captains in the UWted
States navy. He had II fine Ftory
about the voyage of Noah's ark that
Montpelier boys who are men now still
remember. The boys and girls 1alled
him "Uncle Captain"
, 1898-10-14
.YIA
W/r./@:"
ma. R1cuARD JoRpAN eATLINe.

DIR. RICHARD JoRDAN GATLING.
proved since 1851. He went to Cinoin-
natl to build his first guns and at the
shops of Miles Greenwood.
Though there wa much secrecy about
the work it became known that o
dreadful weapon which would end the
war in short order was nearly finished
at these shops. Some jealous friend OF
the Confederacy set fire to the establish
ment of Mr.. Greenwood, and the gat-
ling guns were SO injured as to be
worthless.
After the fire DR.. Calling at another
shop built 18 new guns at an expense OF
$40. 900. When these were finished, he
sent them to Washington IN care OF a
Chicago gentleman who was supposed
to have great influence with the author
tiles. The chief of ordnance, Genera
Ripley, was an old fashioned man who
sincerely believed that the very best
war weapon was the muzzle loading,
smoothbore, fintlock musket. 1t ID
not to be wondered that from such an
official DR.. Gatling's representative re-
oeived small encouragement.
WD6u bD6 wal Wao OfOA oAN
Ripley had a successor In the ordnance
office, DR.. Calling, who in the mean
time had substituted metallic for paper
cartridges, again brought his invention
to the notice Of the authorities in WASH
inRton. An ordnance board was ap-
pointed to test the gun at Fortress Mon
roe In competition with howitzers.
Here is DR.. Gatling's own account OF
this test:
"When 1 got down to the place of
trial. l found that some of the officers
had put up a job on me. They didn't
want my CUR to do better work than
the howitzers, which were a regular
arm of the service. I found that to work
my gun they had assigned a lot of plan
tation darkies, raw recruits just in from
the farm, who didn't know any more
about a gun than a horse does about his
uncle. For the working of the howitzerf
they had set apart q number of picked
men. 1 protested. 1 said l wanted q
measurably fair deal.
"'Give me an hour, 1 said. to drill
these darkies,
"That wasn't much time, but 1t was
better than nothing. They gave me the
| hour, and / Immediately established o
school of gunnery and began the work
of educating my crew. Just before the
| opening of the trial / gave each darby
. a dollar, and / said to him: Now, dc
your best. This dollar is just to begir
on
t ri tell you, those fellows worked like
IL -!-a-1 f@.,r u
one, and the report went on to Wash
Y ington to that effect. Soon after l go
t az order for 100 guns, and that was tn
| first good order / had ever received"
1 JOHN GlLMER SPEED.