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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
A QUESTION CONCERNING
TEACHERS.

One of the things to which the new
administration of Greater New York
will turn it's attention is the schools.
It is charged against the Strong adj
ministration that it imported a number
of foreign teachers, that is, teachers
who were not residents of New York.
The charge is true. The new admin
istration says that such a thing is a
disgrace to the city; that none but ma
tive teachers should have been en-
ployed, and that such a disgrace should
be wiped out 1t is said that employ
ment should be given to the resident
teacher rather than to any imported
one.
And what reply do those who en-
ployed the foreign teachers make?
They say that the foreign teachers
we're employed because they were bet
ter qualified for the work of teaching
than the resident teachers whom they
beat in the competitive examinations.
They say that while it is highly desir-
able to employ the resident teacher,
where he or she is the equal of the
foreigner, yet where such is not the
case, the interests of the public are
infinitely greater than those of the
teacher They say that the schools are
established for the education and in
struction of the children, and that
their welfare is paramount to all other
considerations.
Their position in this respect is inn
pregnable Schools are established for
the benefit of the pupils, and not that
of the teachers. In the matter of en-
ploying teachers, the question of first
Importance is, Is he or she the most
competent teacher that can be pro-
cured? Where they come from is
matter of secondary Importance. 1t
is very desirable that teachers be bona
fide residents of the city or town where
they are employed, and they should
always be given the preference over
all others, other things being equal. If
any other consideration than that of
fitness, no matter what, is permitted
to determine the choice of teachers,
the interests of the pupils, which are
the reason for the existence of schools,
are more or less sacrificed. The Strong
administration pursued the proper
course in employing the best teachers
it could find, no matter whether they
were residents of New York or some
other state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

was attacked in the manner Croker
proposes to attack the World
If Croker shall make an attack on
the World along the lines Indicated by
the Fourth Estate, it win be a great
battle, one well worth watching. The
World would not shun such a battle; in
fact, we fancy it would rather well
come it, 1t would win in the end, be-
cause it would. have right on it's side,
while at its back it would have the
people of New York and the press of
the country. While it would have all
this. still Croker is not an enemy to
be despised by so great a paper as the
World, even. He would hesitate at
nothing. Some years ago. when Hugh
J. Grant was mayor of New York, if
we mistake not, war was made by
Tammany on the Stats Zeitung, and
that paper was NEARLY compelled to
move to Jersey City for a locus. Pro-
ceedings were instituted to condemn its
building, as the site was suddenly
wanted for public purposes" and the
law of eminent domain was invoked.
Everybody, of course, knew that it was
merely a part of a plan to ruin
great paper Now, Croker wouldn't
hesitate a moment to do all this and
carry things to extremes. He would,
if so minded, Institute proceedings to
condemn the site of the World build
ing for public purposes"
If there comes war between the
great daily and the great political boss,
it will be interesting in the extreme.
1t would be a contest between giants.
But the World would still get the po-
litical news of Greater New York, Mr..
Croker willy-nilly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
MISER GENIUSES.
Men Who Have Reduced Money-Sav-
inc to a Fascinating Art.

ing to a Fascinating Art.
The fascinating study of financial
gain amounts almost to genius in some.
Avarice was the inspiration of one of
our own great men, Franklin, whose
memory is debased by his reputation
as Poor Richard" The masterpiece of
Balzac in his novel, Eugene Gran
det;" the hero, old Grandet, is miser,
whose financial genius amounts to the
sublime, and which Balzac contrives
and succeeds in making almost pictur-
esque.
Among the most distinguished misers
was Daniel Dancer. Upon the death OF
his father, Dancer came into the es-
tate, which yielded a good income. One
of his sisters lived with him and i'm
bibed the miserly teachings. Dancer
was remarkable for the style of his
garments; his coat was made of pieces
of every hue and texture, collected
from the streets and ash heaps. His
garments were held together by a
twist of hay. He and his sister lived
happily in a howell, the painless sashes
of which were darkened with boards,
rags and papers. Soap and towels, be-
ing expensive, Mr.. Dancer occasionally
washed in a pond and dried himself
with sand. Three pounds of coarse
menu for years. except upon one oc-
casion, when Providence changed the
course of these viands.
Mr.. Dancer, walking one day in
search of bones and other offal, found
a dead sheep ard carried it home in
triumph. His sister received it as an
immediate gift from heaven. Time
went on and the maiden fell ill., Lady
Temple, a generous neighbOr, was so
kind that Miss Dancer determined to
leave her $4,000. but she died before
the will could be signed, and her
brother claimed her fortune as the
price of her board for so years.
He constantly guarded against
thieves, and concealed his gold and
bank notes with the spiders among
their cObwebs in the cow house, and in
the holes of the chimney, covering
them with ashes. The light of gener-
osity, however, penetrated one chink of
his miserable soul-he loved his dog,
and while denying himself bread, he
allowed his dog pint of milk daily,
with other delicacies Mr. Dancer s
delight in life was to visit the holes
where his wealth was kept and count
it.
In his seventy-eighth year Dancer be-
came violently i'll, but refused to see
physician. Again Lady Temple played
the good fairy at the wretched howell
attending him to the last, and was
generously rewarded by his immense
fortune, which he left to her.
1t would not be a difficult task to
show the influence of avarice upon ma
tons, the evils of society, the corrup-
tions of religion, and the tragedies of
war have often been instigated and
supported by this base passion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Mark Hanna has been elected to the
United States senate. He had just
enough votes to elect him, but he had
them, and that was all that was neces-
sary. He is not the kind of a man that
an American can feel proud of as rep
resenting a sovereign state, but no one
can deny that he will represent Ohio
as that state is today. And what more
can any senator do than actually rep
resent the state whose legislature elect
ed him? Hanna stands as the cham
pion of the money power in politics. and
that is the power that dominates not
only Ohio politics, but the politics of
the Republican party. This is a rep
resentative government, and in the
senate Mark Hanna will most fttingly
represent the Ohio of today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The board of education will meet to-
night and organize. The board was
not elected on party lines. but it was
elected on a platform pledging the
members 10 maintain the present school
system, including the high school, up
to its existing standard. That is the
n ain thing to be looked after.
While the board was not elected on
party lines. still a majority of the
members are Democratic, and we think
a Democrat should be elected president
of it. Why should this be done? Be
cause the board that has just retired
was organized on a strictly partisan
basis Not only was the president
elected as partisan, but all of his
committee appointments were made
from a partisan standpoint. Not only
were the chairmen of the five commit
tees all Republicans, but on every COM
n:ittee the majority of the members
were Republicans. The president of the
beard must be either Democrat or
Republican Why should he not be
Democrat, when the majority of
the board are Democrats? We
believe that the president of
the board should be Demo-
crat, but when he comes to making up
the committees. we do not believe that
he should appoint as chairmen of the
various committees all Democrats, or
that the committees should all be made
Democratic Politics should play no
part in the board of education, but the
position of president of it being one OF
honor, of a courtesy at least it belongs
to the Democrats. This, no doubt,
would be the sentiment of the people
generally, were they to express them
selves upon the question.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
The Conxention,s Hard Task.

Louisville Courier-Journal: 1t is related
that in the later '40's, on the eve of d
Democratic state convention in Albany,
n. Y, Dean Richmond and Peter Cagger
were IN consultation. Something like this
was the dialogue between the two bosses:
Whom shall we put up for governor"
asked Richmond.
Seymour will do. He is able. respect
able. popular and will render the ticket
invincibie. answered Cagger. And Sey-
mour,s name went down.
WHO for attorney general?" queried
Richmond.
'.Oh. Tremaine He is by far the best
of the lot. Besides, we want the Van
Buren, influence" and down went Ire
maine-
who for secretary of state?' ouoth
Richmond
Van Ness. He, is capable and respect
able and we want the influence of the
Knickerbockers, anyhow and down
went Van Ness. And so it was until the
ticket was completed with the exception
of superintendent of education
Peter. whom shall We name for that?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The St Louis representative. of a
phosphate company says that Clipper
ron Island does not belong to Mexico,
but to this country. He also says the
island could be made an ideal naval
and coal station, commanding any
canal that might be cut through the
isthmus of Panama, and also the trade
of the Sandwich Islands. If clippertop
island IS to command the trade of the
Hawaiian Islands, pray what is TO COM
naand the trade of Clipperton Island?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

There are three or four candidates 1
never heard of either of them before. -
said Richmond
'Oh. d-n it, returned Cagger ''let the
convention nominate the candidate for
superintendent of public education" and
down that went, too.
The following. day the convention put
through the slate so constructed in less
than two hours 1t required more than
two days TO nominate the candidate for
superintendent of education.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
Twas Ever Thus.

New York Press: The Night Mare
Did she look in your mouth, Algernon?
The t-Horse-Neigh, neigh, Paul
inc. The tag was tied to my tail.
From which it may be inferred, how
ever, that it was automatic that if the
salesman hadn't left it on by mistake
she wouldn't have done a thing but
nose for it in the regulation way
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Prosperity comes quickest to the man
whose liver is in good condition. De-
Wits Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for constipation, biliousness.
indigestion and all stomach and liver
troubles. A. c. Smith, c. d. Swift
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Chicago Times-Herald. A New Orleans
paper hopes that prize fighting will be
resumed IN that city because the yellow
FEVER has made the place dead, and
something is needed to stir matters up, .
ana the hight would be just the thing to
bring US prosperity" Why, certainly; see
how Carson City is booming nowadays
Denver Republican,: The spectacle pre-
sented by Secretary of State Sherman in
appealing to the American people of this
country for aims for the starving CubanS
is one that ought to bring the blush of
shame TO the cheek of every decent Amer
lean citizen. If the situation in Cuba is
as bad as the secretary actually repre-
sents-and nobody will doubt that it is ac-
tually much WorSe-tne proper course for
our government to pursue would be TO
either intervene in the cause of humanity
for the protection of the natives of that
cient amount of money from the national
treasury to give them the food and cloth
ing which their necessities call for
st. Louis Globe-D Democrat: The Chi
nsse expect their luck to change after the
total eclipse of the sun in that region
Jan. p. Perhaps ii may, If they drop as
trology and study modern military tao
tics.
Nashville American: In Staying II Span
1sh peace commissioners, the Cuban in
surgents have given good cause TO doubt
that they are fit for salf-government.
New York Evening Post: There will be
great satisfaction among good citizens of
all parties over the news from Albany
that Governor Black win not pardon or
commute the sentence of John Y Nc
Kama, the Graveserd criminal who is at
Sing Sing for election frauds. McKane's
term will expire in three months, and exc
cutiye clemency has been sought now in
order to secure restoration of his civil
rights. Disfranchisems nt was a part of
the penalty justly inflicted upon him for
his crimes, and the governor does well to
let the punishment stand.
Philadelphia Ledger: Having a bad
case, that valiant spokesman. Representa-
tive Grosyenor of Ohio proceeds to abuse
the attorney of the opposition. He at
tacks with the language of billingsgate
the members of the National Civil Ser
vice Reform league, and singles out its
president. Carl Schurz. as the special OBJ
ject of his venom while not heSitating to
attempt to desecrate the grave of George
William Curtis Part clown, part hypo-
critic and wholly demagogic. Mr.. GroSve-
nor attempts in clumsy fashion to wrig-
gle out of the civil service pledge of the
St. Louis platform, on the theory that the
extensions contained in the Cleveland or
der of May, 1885, were not thoroughly I'M
derstood ct the time that the Republican
convention at
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press: After all, sin is a
lot less interesting to the sinner than
it is to the good people
A woman will always deny that she
gets into bed the way she gets into a
street car.
Somehow wives always seem so much
sweeter and more clinging along Christ
mas time.
l wonder which is the worst-to love
a girl you don't want or to want to love
a girl you don't.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

An Ohio man claims to have invented
an electrical sword that will deal
death to all who are smote with it.
The soldier presses a button, which
turns on an electrical current, and the
sword does the rest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

A contemporary has a cartoon of
Councilman Romney grinding an ak
1t says he is preparing to chop sala-
ries. Were it not for the legend, peo-
pie might think he intended to braze
his name On the pillar OF fame.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
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Think what it means to be able
to go right through from Denver to
Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City or St.
Louis-to eat when you wish-to
sleep when you feel like ito smoke
when the notion strikes you-to live
as comfortably and fare as sump-
tuously as if you were in the finest
hotel on the continent.
Yet these are just the things the
Burlington's "Vestibuled Flyer"
offers.
Leaves Denver $50 p. m. Tickets
at Offices of connecting lines.
R. F. NESLEN,
Trav. Pass. q Freight Agent
". T. Mcmillan, General Agent,
No. 214 South West Temple St.,
Oregon Short Line Building,
Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

1t is easy to catch cold and Just as
easy &c get rid of it if you commence
early to use One Minute Cough Cure.
1t cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneu-
monia and all throat and lung troubles.
1t is pleasant to take, safe to use and
sure to cure. A. C. Smith, c. D. Swift.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

4 medical journal says that it is a
mistake to work when you are not in
a fit condition to do so. Then the buns
and the loafers are merely following
the rules OF health, are they?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Joaquin Miller has lost an ear and
a toe in. the Klondike. Still his ear for
music is just as good as ever, while
his poetic feet are unimpaired.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

1t is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of d needle than for
a woman returning from Europe. clad
in a seals1in sacque, to enter the New
York custom house.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The CarIist movement is said to be
growing rapidly in Spain. Rapid
growth. rapid decay, is particularly
true of Carlist movements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

'sThe work of completing the death
loops at the New York entrance to the
Brooklyn bridge continues says the
New York Journal Mayor Van Wyck
killed rapid transit and why wouldn't
it be q good thing to have him kill the
1oonsT
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Professor Schenck might impart his
secret to General Harrison; Mr.. Cleve-
land is no longer in need of it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Strange that England is so opposed
to bimetallism when she relies so much
upon her silver streak for safety.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

During 1897 there We're produced in
England every day Of the year five
novels Of the 1925 novels not a score
will be read twenty years hence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Butte seems to be having an cpl
demic of murder. Better any kind
OF an epidemic than that.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

1t looks as though there was some
thing very eerie indeed about the ap-
preparation for New York's canals.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The New York dramatic critics have
carefully compared Julia Marlowe's
Rosalind with that of Ada Rehan, and
they find that the biceps of the former
compare with the latter's 141k to Is.
TIE BertiIlon system applied to the
dramatic art makes it impossible TO
err. It is a harmonious blending of
science and art
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

A battle between whites and Indians
is reported from Maud, o. T. Isn't it
about time for Maud to come into the
garden?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

When brides are heavy very little is
said about them. 1t is when they are
light that they are most noised about
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

In Japan children are taught to write
with both hands. This enables them
to write on both sides of a question
with equal facility.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

OF course the president is an ardent
bimetallist The only trouble is that
his ardor is of the rapidly cooling kind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

If Hawaii is annexed and comes in as
a state, it would be a leprous if not a
rotten borough.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Stealing gold in the Klondike is
petty larceny; stealing provisions is a
capital crime.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Those recalcitrant Ohio Republicans
who kept Hopping from one side to the
other are birds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The Twenty-second regiment. n. Y.
S. n. G., is to have a new uniform. The
coat will be scarlet. New York always
inclined to Toryism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

As a bear may become a bull so
a pessimist may become an optimist by
becoming an in and ceasing to be an
ont
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
WIT AND HUMOR.

New York Journal: Perhaps.-''I WON
der why Cleopatra dissolved the pearls
before swallowing them?'
Perhaps she feared appendicitis
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Nobody loves Hanna for the enemies
he has made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Enough is as good as a feast" says
Hanna. And on this point he speaks
as one having experience.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Remember the charity ball tonight
and keep it rolling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The passing of Hanna was right into
the United States senate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The Seminoles are up in arms. But
they have no Osceola to lead them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

The Denver department stores refuse
to talk shop through the newspapers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Puck: There's burglar in the houser'
she gasped
Il have never uncovered my head for
any man., her husband rejoined. with an
affectation of hauteur.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Nervous people find relief by en-
riching their blood with Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, which is the one true blood
purifier and nerve tonic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Puck: Our System of Government
Foreigner-The president of course, can
veto bill after it has passed?
Citizen-Yes: and the speaker of the
house can veto a bill before it is con-
sidered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Washington Star: What a beautiful
library you havew exclaimed the visitor
You can never be lonely with so many
beautiful and expensive books about
you.
oh" replied Mrs. Cumrox, compla-
Gently, you don't see all that we have
''Indeedi
Yes. We have any number of books
with paper backs that we read
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Chicago Record: Somebody is trying
to prove that society is responsible for
MURDERS"
Wet. that's wrong; society is made up
OF people who want TO kill one another
and never do"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Detroit Journal: An Offset-''Is it not
fact that enlightened laws have had the
effect of increasing the span of life?"
Hardly. OF course, murderers live
longer, but on the other hand, there are
the murdered. you see."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Indianapolis Journal: Speaking of the
somnambulist" said the Cheerful Idiot,
he at least is no idle dreamer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13
Attention. Salt Lake Ladies.

Auerbach's Grand Muslin Underwear
Sale viii commence Jan. 81. Greater
Values than ever before shown.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-13

Chicago Tribune: This building" said
the little city girl, who was taking her
little country cousin around and show
orphan asylum They intended to make
a whole asylum cut of it, but they found
they didn't have money enough. 'xpect."