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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03

man who worked in my shop is US
ing my ideas, cutting my price down
and running me. l can't make a cent
on my own invention. Give me an
Injunction against this man until I can
get the case settled
THE TROUBLE IN THE COURTS.
THE court says: No, we won't do it,
We viii let him go ahead and fight it
out Then the man who owns no real
patent gets the benefit of the laws-nOt
the man with the paper, not the man
who deserves the reward for his trou-
bles, trials and eXperiments-and when
it comes to settlement, the other fellow
practically has won the fight, while
the inventor has lost everything. for by
that time the sale of the invention will
have stopped or have become so feeble
that there is nothing in it.
'lnfringers of patents take advan-
tage of the practice of the United
States supreme court. If you get out
a patent which is likely to become
valuable to the public at large, you will
lind that it will sooner or later be in
fringed upon. If it were possible to i'm
mediately get an injunction against an
infringer, all would be well; but you
cannot do this. When you start up.
the other fellow sails right in and be-
gins manufacturing and selling lust as
you do, and generally at lower price.
You cannot do anything in court for
five or six years, and the infringer
knows this After having spent a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
is LONDON IMPROBABLE?
The Possibility of Hostile Fleet Capturing the Capital Of
England.

government, and a most valuable addi-
ton to coast defense. The continued
success of its trials has convinced every
one who has seen it in operation Of the
value of the weapon in harborS and
narrow waterways in time of war. The
secret of its mechanism is most jeal-
ously guarded; even the officers who
manipulate it know very little of the
principle on which the tOrpedo's action
depends, and are bound not TO reveal
anything they do discover. The popular
theory is that the torpedo works on the
principle of a reel of thread, which rolls
away from a person who pulls the loose
end Of the thread. Be that as it may, it
is certain that the torpedo can be di-
rected from the shore, and with an eX-
pert at the helm, the striking and
blowing up of ship on every run is
a practical certainty, the little engine
of war doubling in and out and dash
ing hither and thither at a speed of
nearly 10 knots an hour, and acting
within a large radius.
The result of the defense of Lon
don" maceuVers shows that no hostile
fleet could eve. hope to force or even
obtain by stratagem a passage beyond
the defending batteries; but, in COM
pairing the defenses of that city with
those OF New York, it is advisable to
consider that the waterway of this
harbor IS much more difficult to de-
fCnd, as the enormous area and open
situation is greatly to the advantage of
q powerful fleet of battleships which
would make their attack at a. great dis
tance. The lilliputian maneuVerS of
London would have to be conducted
here on a brobdignagian scale.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03

employment for her needle. She worked
extraordinarily well for inferior prices.
and among dressmakers that is a method
sure TO furnish bread, If not butter.
For a year she was a most unsettled.
unhappy creature, and only making
enough to keep soul and body together
The only chance she got for appearing
on the stage was in chorus of a comic
opera She did not find the atmosphere
very congenial, and when she was re-
queSted TO appear in tights and very
little else, she gave up her position, and
her histrionic ambitions at the same time.
She settled down to attend TO her dress
making for all X was worth.
At that time she was living in "A
Wretched little room, in which she slept
and Sewed and cooked and ate. She lived
on The cheapest food. mainly rice. for
two weeks. 10 save money enough TO
carry out a little scheme she had in her
head. This was TO make a nightdress
after 4 pretty, novel idea of her own.
and then try and sell it as a model to one
of the big shops
She succeeded and got $50 for it. Now
she was enough ahead TO try another step
she had conceived as likely 10 advance
her. She went TO q young actress who
was to appear IN a new costume part
of the 18th century, and offered to make
one of her gowns for nothing if the &C
tress would give her the benefit of her
influence in getting more work. The ac-
tresS had none too much money herself
and our heroine managed by some arts
and arguments to get the job.
Enough of the preliminary steps, and
let us look ct the dressmaker as she is
now. She rents d beautiful house on one
of the good cross streets near Fifth
avenue. Part of the first floor she lets TO
fashionable physician, and his is the
only sign that appears on the dwelling;
she is too swell for a sign. She has TWO
or three dodgers. and the rest of the
house is used by herself and the 80 seam
stresses she employs.
Last summer. in the dull season, she
went to Newport. and cleared $500 in two
months. She dresses very beautifully her
self, and gives her costumes a little touch
of picturesqueness that advertises her
talent to the theatrical folk. who are still
her chief customers. She says their pa
tronaGe is the only connection with the
stage she wants now. She is still young
and handsome. and certainly has fair
prospect of a, fortune at as early an age
as the successful self-made man gener-
ally achieves it.
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wood borrowed from seven neighborS-
Then the molten lead is dropped into
cold water and the form of the solldlned
drop shows how the harm has come.
If it resembles an eye then II is the
gaze of some person that has made
the mischief, but if it be in the form OF
A tongue then the cause has been some
snol1en word. This or that man or wO-
man has called the child fat (Which IS
a complimenO or pretty. which IS
worse for there is no surer way or
bringing the evil eye upon baby than
TO Draise it To prove this one has only
to stop in admiration before bright
eyed little one growing in its mothers
arms and say that it is beauty or a
darling. Instantly the mother Will spit
uDon her infant and cry out, Cover
it up. the ugly thing" and doing this
simply to avert the evil which comph-
ments are thought to bring
Coming back now to the molten lead,
the mother having thus discovered the
cause of her child's illness, will rub
some of the water into which the lead
has been dropped upon the babys fore
head and then upon it's stomach, ana
she will think this better than any
medicine. though it be clear case OF
crOup or cholera infantum or any other
chiId's disease. Needless to say what
the mortality among children is in
country where such practices are pre-
ferred to serious treatment by COM
petent physician.
AS might be expected. the widespread
belief in the evil eye makes people anx-
ious to take precautions in advance
that it may not strike them. No
sooner is a baby born in most Turkish
families than a talisman of some sort
is attached to it's little body one OF
the most common being large blue
Hr1l Ar1h
oven among adults the use of talismans
against the danger is very general,
missionary in Talas assuring me that
nine out of ten men in that vicinity,
even the more intelligent ones, would
be found to have about them some
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
FOUR DAYS ON
TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF

Among the delegates to the last Chris
tian EndeavOr meeting at Boston was q
young western girl who had never been
able to afford the advantages of travel
But on this occasion. by availing her
self of the excursion rates, she man
aged to buy her ticket to Boston and re-
turn, with q maager amount left over
for board and current expenses.
When she arrived in New York on the
return trip, she had in her pocket, be
sides her railroad ticket. the sum of $3.50.
Instead of Immediately boarding the west
bound train-as most girls with so small
a reserve fund would have domestic de-
Improvement, and resolved that no petty
money consideration should interfere with
her plans.
She went to the industrial home of the
Christian league for the promotion OF So
cial purity which is practically a home
like but cheap boarding house for self
supporting women. where she was able
to hire clean bed in an airy dOrmitOry
for p cents a night. and could purchase
her meals at prices ranging from two
cents TO %.
BY the judicious curtailment of all table
Injuries, and by ignoring all means of
conveyance except her own two feet. she
was able TO remain in the city four days.
During that time she saw everything for
which no admittance fee was charged,
from the statue of liberty and Brooklyn
bridge to the museums of Natural History
and of Art where she took notes.
Her money and the four days came TO
an end at the same time, and she cheer
fully took thu train bound for her home,
severence, gained a more thorough
knowledge of New York city than the
average tourist with more time and plenty
of money.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03

us out of one eye as we went past. the
rest of her face being covered with her
veil.
What did she do?' I asked.
she did nothing" said the interpre
ter, but if she had crossed in front of
us it might have brought harm" And
he explained that this casts the evil
eye with great certainty for woman,
especially a Moslem woman, to cross
the road in front of horses.
And 1 noticed at nightfall, when we
were weary and hungry, that there was
frequent delay in getting Sleeps milk
from the villagers. And after the milk
was boiled. which did not add to its
flavor, 1 afterwards learned that Turk
ish peasants in certain sections of the
country are afraid 10 sell milk until af-
ter shutdown lest the evil eye fall upon
them or upon their cattle. And in other
sections the peasants, for the same rea-
son, would neither sell nor give butter
on churning day until the large jar in
which they put the butter was filed to
the top and duly marked on the sur
face with a talisman sign. On the
other hand they will neither sell nor
lend yeast if the one who needs it, let
him be friend or stranger, comes after
shutdown. I could find no reason for
this distinction between yeast and milk.
I did not try verv hard, for to search
reason in this matter would be a vain
pursuit.
The most common harm that is be-
lieved to come from the evil eye is bod
lily illness. especially to children. and
near Caesarea ] was shown a large
stone by the wayside with hole cut
through it, This stone is believed to
have particular powers for relieving
children from the baleful effects of the
evil eye, and mothers are often seen
passing their little ones through the
stone so that they may be restored to
health. After doing this they leave a
small piece of money upon the stone
and go away, confident that whoever
takes the money will take with it the
childs trouble.
DRIVING AWAY THE EVIL EYE.
Another step taken by Turkish doc
tors to drive away the evil eye when it
has fallen upon child is to melt some
lead over a fire made with sticks of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03

therefore not pleasant, Stevenson invited
us into his den for "a game of cribbaGe-
The newspaper man dldn I feel IKE play :
ing, for his eye had caught sight of a lot
of queer books as soon as we reached
Stevenson's library den, and he wriggled
out of the game in order to have chance
TO look over them. So Stevenson and l
played He was pretty good prayer
without being particularly lucky. didn' t
take much interest in the game. for
never cottoned very hard to any KIND OF
we had played a couple of games of crib,
each of US winning one, said TO steven
son:
g What's the matter with a two-handed
game of penny ante poker?
g Nothing whatever the matter, SAID ne
except that / can't play the game, allS-
ious as I've been TO learn it since first /
read Bret Harte Are YOU q good player?
well. this was kind O. mixing it up q
bit with me- and the best 1 could do was
to tell him that l knew the difference be
tween an ace full and a pair of fours.
American way of saying that you
know all about it, said Stevenson. Teach
me poker, now.
Now. I've taught a good many men
how to play poker and it's 2, pretty dan
gerous thing to do-for the teacher. 1
mean. About every man 1 ever put in an
evening with teaching him poker hands
has wound up the night by getting every
thing l had on me, except car or cab fare.
maybe. The luck of the poker beginner
is simply something that can't be eX-
planned. A man that's got only general
giimmering idea Of the value of poker
hands gets hands when he's learning the
game that would take the breath away
from a seasoned player. | mentioned this
queer fact jestingly to Stevenson
"UNLUCKY AS AN OPAL"
You stand in no danger with me, said
he, smiling, I am as unlucky as an opal.
We'll, l ran over the deck and told him
what the hands stood for That's about
all you can teach a man of the game of
poker. He's got to acquire the rest of it
in practice. But Stevenson was remark
ably quick to grasp the value of the
hands. The flush pleased him particu-
larry.
d" That's an apt and fitting word said
he. -fiush-fiush of diamonds and he re-
peated the phrase several times. Why
didn't they term it a freShet though-an-
other fine old English word DerDetuated
by you Americans. However, you shall
earn my gratitude by dealing out a flush
of diamonds at the outset. 1t would be a
good omen
we started to play nickel ante-there
are no pennies in the island-using wax
matches for chips. Stevenson became
tremendously interested in the game after
a while I gave him the best of it at
first, of course but after a while, when he
began to win my nickelS with a good deal
of regularity, without bluffing at all, but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03

in the West Indies, or even in the
French settlements of America, and
whose parents were Europeans, from
those born Indigenous to the soil. where
there was possibility of negro parent
age. To be a creole was to have ones
white blood pure. There are now in
New Orleans those who call themselves
creoles, ard it is a local custom in
Louisiana to call all persons born
within that state creOies. But the
practice in either case is without sense.
The word ''creole" ought TO be placed
among the obsolete words which were
used to designate conditions that no
longer exist. There are no creOles now.
S. H. c.
1908 Pennsylvania Avenue, Pittsburg,
Pa
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
A SELF-MADE WOMAN.
A Nightgown Model Was the Begin
ming of Her Fortune.

Here is a true story of young
womans failure ard success as q bread
winner in New York. She came to the
city from a little country town intending
to go on the stage.
handsome and had a talent for dress
and perhaps a talent for acting. but of
that no one can speak with much assur-
ance for she has never had any chance
to act She besieged managers and
agents only to meet with plentiful snubs
from the responsible ones; her only
chances of engagements came from the
shakiest of travelling concerns, and as she
had no money to spend in paying her own
way home from remote parts of the cOun-
try. as she disliked walking long dis
tances ard had always level head. she
would not leave the city.
In the meanwhile. as she was very
clever at sewing and demonstrated it in
her own clothes, she managed among the
actresses she encountered to get some
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
BY LIEUTENANT r. SCALLAN
r. A

In view of the excitement caused by
the recent resolutions adopted by the
New York chamber of commerce re-
garding the improvements which that
body deems advisable in the defenses
and Notifications Of New York harbor,
II is interesting to consider the means
by which the war department. of the
British government proposes to repel
any attempt on the part of a hostile
1eet TO take London by surprise. 1t is
not generally known, in fact very few
people outside the official pale are
aware that a mobilization and manning
OF the Thames ports and batteries takes
place annually, and in a mimic war the
efficiency of the defenses is tested.
The maneuvers for 1897 are but lately
concluded, and the impression created
on the mind Of a casual spectator is
that though more or less satisfactory as
lar as they go, yet the means taken
to defend the great capital leave much
TO be desired from one point of view,
namely, an attack from the land side,
If ever an enemy should succeed in
making an effective landing of troops
by eluding the vigilance OF England's
pride and glory, her navy.
Ever since Napoleon cast terror
throughout the length and breadth of
Great Britain by his threats OF lnVa-
sion, the possibility Of such misfor-
tune has been the nightmare OF COM
mercial England, and, accordingly, fol-
lowing the maxim Of Wellington and
Nelson, that EnglandS navy must be
her first line of defense, this arm has
been improved and added to with an
expenditure of money that the imagin-
alton recoils from, until now the admit
rally declares it capable OF meeting any
possible combination Of the worlds ma
vies. Yet from time to time q still
small voice has been heard putting the
anxious query: "Supposing that, not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
SOME GREAT THINGS.

The Oldest city in the world is Nip
pur, the Older Bel' of Babylon. The
foundations were laid 1000 years B C:
the ruins have lately been unearthed.
8 g g
Spain has more sunshine than any
other country in Europe, the yearly
average being 5000 hours.
p e g
The largest fund expended yearly by
any country on behalf of its army is
that of Russia, the latest military bud
get of which amounted to &42, 500, 900
@ @ G
The people of the United States sup
port and read more newspapers than
England, France and Germany COM
bined.
@ g O
There are more theatres in proper
ton 10 its population in Italy than
elsewhere in the world.
O. o @
The largest hotel in the world is the
Waldorf Astoria, a s1O,OO00O0 estab-
lishment, built by millionaires for mil
lionalres.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
THOMAS A EDISON, FROM HIS LATEST PHOTOGRAPH

and completed model. to protect him
self in the courts Of law. In short, as
l said before. the value of a patent TO
an inventor is directly decreased as the
value of the public increases. The
pl- .tice of the United States circuit
court is such as to drive all the in
ventors away from revolutionizing in
Mentions into little details"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
.eThers Are No Creoles Now

New York Herald: To the Editor:
The word creole" of which your cor
respondent asks a definition, has passed
out of all present use or application in
this country. Beyond dispute the word
was used in the last century to dis
tinguish those persons who were born
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
the Woman Crossing Our Path

charm or piece of writing designed to
keep them safe. Indeed, there are
priests ell over Turkey who do quite
business in writing these charms
against the evil eye, which they sell for
a plaster or two, and many OF them
make the task more easy by having
large brass seals made craven with
mystic words. With this, all that is
needed to make q. talisman is to ink
the surface, press it upon a piece of
paper, and the thing is done. 1 was
able to purchase one of these seals in
Caesarea. and it is really an interesting
object. 1t is in circular form, about
four inches in diameter. and around the
outer circumference, in three cOncen-
trio circles. are Arabic characters said
10 be the seal of Solomon. Within these
circles is o square about two inches on
n side. and this is sUbdivided into 100
little squares, in each of which are
sentences from the Koran. And along
the four sides of the large square are
the names OF the four angels, Michael,
Israel, Gabriel and Raphael. Finally,
there is an inscription in Arabic
which says that the person carrying
with his this talisman will have good
health and be safe from all pernicious
influences.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
BLOOD FEUDS.

As natural part of this superstition
is the belief that certain persons have
power TO cast the evil eye, and l have
already said that those with blue eyes
are under this suspicion. In addition
to these are numerous crazy or half
witted men who are found in all Turk
ish villages wandering about the street.
sometimes quite naked and who are
given perfect freedom, housed and fed
by general contribution and treated
with great indulgence. largely because
they are credited with power for evil,
and no one cares to incur their en-
nifty. Various other people are be-
ieved to have power to cast the evil
eyes. and individuals may possess it for
a time and then lose it. There are
villages in Turkey which have been
distracted for years by blood feuds
which had their origin in nothing more
substantial than the belief that some
member of one family, at some time in
the far past, cast the evil eye upon
some member of another family.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-03
STEVENSON AT POKER.

How the Author Met the American
Game In Hawaii.
From a Chicago Paper: Washington
Turner c. Northrup, the California grape