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

Russia has chosen an opportune time
for annoying Great Britain. in northern
China. The lions attention is pretty
well taken up in Africa. The British
army is scattered all over the world.
doing garrison duty in the various colo
MES. There is mutinous spirit among
the Hindus just now on account of the
plague regulations. A band of insur-
gents sweeping down from the Hima-
layas might cause England no end of
trouble Russian diplomats are ex-
pecting something of the kind to hap
pen. They would not be averse to Civ
ing it encouragement, under the cir
cumstances. They might even consent
to direct it, for this is along the line
of Russian diplomacy.
Great Britain could not successfully
defend her rights in the north and
conduct an invasion of the south while
engaged in a civil war in India. One
end of China or the other would have
to be relinquished. This is a danger
that weighs on the mind of every Brit
ish statesman; for, while the Briton is
pugnacious to a fault he is noted for
the excellence of his Judgment.
Chinese trade is valuable, but not
rich enough to justify the placing of
Indian interests in jeopardy The
peaceful possession of India is better
than the occupancy of a Mandarin pen
insula- Then the cost of war must be
counted, and war with a great power
like Russia would, in all probability
cost more than all the business with
northern China would amount to in
many a year
The strength Of the British navy
would make it possible for Great Brit
ain to take and hold the Chinese ports
[ and d narrow coastline from Korea to
Tong King. Russia's immense army
would have to keep out Of the range of
John Bulls floating forts. But the pol
icy of Russia is to turn commerce to
the interior and away from the sea.
And that is why Russian aggression in
China is particularly Objectionable to
England.
The Russian policy is one of closed
doors, one of monopoly, one of extreme
seifishness. If every Chinese port were
sealed the effect would be to turn the
trade of China westward, northward: to
send her products into Russia, over the
Russian road, through Russia to the
world.
The authoritative announcement that
Russia is about to assume the aggres-
sive at the entrance to the Gulf of
Pechili, that Russian army is to oc-
cupy a point on the Liatong peninsula
which Great Britain has declared must
not fall into Russian or other foreign
hands rather indicates that Russia has
made up her mind that there will be no
Anglo-American alliance.
When Russia sent one of her greatest
diplomats to this country at the close
of the war it was to feel the American
pulse and acquaint his government
with the sentiment here regarding the
mooted combination. 1t is clear that
he soon discovered the national reluc-
lance to enter into foreign controver-
sizes, and that he so reported may be
inferred from the renewal of hostile
movements on the part of the czar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27


pancy; they are not permitted even to
cut timber for sale. The only title TO
reservation lands they have is an es-
tate for life. They have no right to
grant a permanent interest in the res
ervation, or in any part Of it. They
cannot sell the soil. the trees or the
minerals; they cannot authorize others
to sell the soil. the trees or the miner
ais; for no one can lawfully convey an
interest that does not belong to him.
1t is the prevalent opinion that the
syndicate, which is bargaining through
government officials with government
wards for government property, is
composed of administration CAPITALISTS
like Hanna, Alger, Elkins and Quay.
If this be true, the alacrity with
which Secretary Bliss closed his ears
to the other side of the case may be
easily OWNED.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
WHAT THEY ARE PAID.
Great Prices That Are offered Favor
tie Authors.
New York World.

Admiral Dewey, the greatest naval
hero of the war, commands today the
highest price in the literary market.
He has thus far refused all bidders.
The editor of McClure's magazine
cabled him recently an offer of $1,000
for one short article on the Philip
pines Admiral DeWey's response by
cable was:
Thanks, but I am too busy"
Lieutenant Hobson, the Merrimac
hero, receives offers of $4,000 each from
two magazines for an article describ-
ing his exploit at Santiago. Lieuten-
ant Hobson, though a modest hero and
a. sincere, straightforward officer, put
himself in the hands of lawyer, who
managed to obtain $4,000 for the ar
ticle, which Lieutenant Hobson is soon
to write. The Century got it.
These prices put the naval hero above
the literary genius, although twice
within one year Rudyard Kipling has
been offered by a newspaper $1,000 for
1000 words and has declined it. The
regular price paid for the long stories
of this extraordinary young man is
now $3.50 thousand words, and for his
short stories from $4,000 to $1,000 each
Conan Doyle received only $3.50 for
the first Of the series of Sherlock
Holmes adventures. Several American
publishers are ready to pay him $4,000
an article for anything else as good.
The prices of first-clasS authors are
getting higher every year.
Kipling has been paid so cents a word
for a poem, and Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps SO per line for poetry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
Romance of An Iron Mine.
New york Tribune. )


A correspondent gives the following
as the correct story OF Charles a. Cha
pins life, about whom the Tribune
printed a paragraph the other day:
Charles a. Chaplin (not Chopin was
d merchant in a small way in a little
village in the upper peninsula OF Mich
igan (where alone in Michigan is iron
ore found). In course of time Mr.. Cha
pin failed in business and turned over
all of his property to his creditors and
was left pennilesS in his old age. At a
meeting OF his creditors in Detroit it
was by one of them remarked: Any
way, Charley Chaplin is an honest man,
and L don't feel like turning him out on
the world naked. Among the property
turned over to these creditors was a
quarter section of timber land that, if
cleared, rocky though it was, might be
made to produce a living for the old
man and his equally aged wife. This
tender-hearted creditor proposed that
they should deed back this land to Mr..
Chaplin. This was done, and in clear
Jag the land iron ore was discovered on
it, and, in course of time, the discovery
became the celebrated Chaplin mine of
Crystal Fails, Iron county, Michigan.
Mr. Chaplin leased the right to mine the
ore to a Milwaukee (Wis.) company,
with a provision that not less than
$4,000 tons of ore should be taken out
each year, and on that a royalty of so
cents a ton should be paid to him This
royalty of not less than $4,000 a year
was duly paid to Mr.. Chaplin for many
years, making him a very rich man,
and he finally removed to Niles, Mich,
where he doubtless still lives. During
one of the periodical depressions that
overtake the iron business, Mr. Chaplin
reduced his royalty, and 1 believe it is
now fixed at % cents a ton. The output
of the mine has been enormous; some
years it has been over 500, 900 tons, and
last year and this year it has been
over 100000 tons, giving royalty of
100000 a year"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
THE OUTLOOK IN EGYPT.

Trade journals are urging the Amer
lean manufacturer to study the needs
of foreign customers in the exporta
ton of goods, as it has been Demon
strated that he can enter into active
and successful competition with the
manufacturers of any country in the
world
While it is claimed that he needs pro-
lection from such competition here at
home. he is. perfectly able to pay for
shipping his goods abroad, TO pay the
entrance duties to foreign marts, to
compete with the free trade factories
of Great Britain and the ''pauper la
Dor" of continental Europe, and make
mcrev on his bargain.
Particular attention is being called
to Egypt, where the population is con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
WHEN THE HICKORY NUTS ARE
FAILIN'.

CWilI T. Hale in New York Times.)
Bout the fust days of November seems
the world is at its best,
With it's cam an stately bearin, in its
gorg'us beauty dress d.
True the fioWer-ScentS are scar Ger than
in leafy days er June,
An the bird songs amt as plenty as some
summer afternoon;
But they's somethin' in the silence with
your better nature chimes
Like the Lord was somewhat closer then
than at all other times!
An you walk about the woodlands full
er memories an dreams.
While the hickory nuts are fallin' with
IL spatter in the streams.
Roamin by the hazy pastures Whar' the
cagegrass spreads away
Like a muddy inland river er a slowly
wavin' bay,
You can mighty-nigh see faces that have
long been hid from view,
And the skies er old-time Apriles in the
jay birds coat er blue,
While the whistle er the partridge brings
yer boyhood back again,
When you romped along the byways
minus care an much er pain;
An you half wush life had faded with the
glad old boyhood dreams,
When the hickory nuts are fallin' with a
splatter in the streams.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
REID FOR AMBASSADOR.

Whitelaw Reid would like to repre-
sent this government at the court of
st. James. if agreeable to Messrs.
Hanna and Mckinley. Mr.. Reid is a
Republican of eminence, diplomat of
experience. an editor CT renown.
He served his party as a sacrifice in
1892 with signal ability. His success
IL securing appoiDtive offices is better
than it is in obtaining elective positions.
Mr.. Flihu Root. who has received the
endorsement of the Republican organ
ization Of the Empire state, is his chief
competitor.
1t is said that New York Republicans
have pushed Mr. Root for the place to
rid themselves OF troublesome candi-
date for the United States senate, to
satisfy a dangerous faction, and to re-
store harmony in time for the next
campaign
These well-laid plans may gang
aglae,'' for Whirelaw Reid is a name
to conjure with at Washington, and, if
it comes to a question of Root, Reid or
die, the party of Platt may as well
order snrouds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
SOME GOOD, SHORT STORIES
Irish Repartee and Sarcasm.
Nondon Telegraph.)

uOndon Telegr2ph.)
Repartee, or readiness in smart, wit
ty, sarcastic retort, is common among
all classes in Ireland. On old Carlisle
bridge in Dublin there was a fruit stall,
the keeper of which, ''Biddy, the APP
pie Woman" was better known figure
than even the lord mayor. She had a
ready and glib tongue, and never al
lowed a verbal assailant to retire with
all the honors. An American visitor,
thinking to take a rise" out of the old
woman, took up one of the watermel-
ons she was displaying for sale, and
said: These are small apples you
grow over here. In America we have
them twice the size" Biddy slowly
removed her "dudheen,' or clay pipe,
from her lips, and coolly surveying the
joker from the head to heel, said, in a
tone of pity: .'Yerra, what a fool yez
must be whin yez take our gooseberries
for apples
Daniel O'ConnelPs sarcastic and
graphic description of a lady of stiff,
cold and formal manners is very happy.
She has all the characteristics of a
poker, except its occasional warmth. >"
l once heard a bumptious little man
who, acting as steward at athletic
sports in Dublin, was very assertive in
keeping back the crowd, thus addressed
by an angry spectator: IF the consate
was taken cut of yez, ye'd be no bigger
than a green gooseberry, and ye're as
sour as one already"
A happy example of a man falling
into the pit which he had dug for some
body else is afforded by the following
we'll known, but always fresh story of
a famous repartee. John Parsons, one
of the first Irish commissioners of in
solvency, was travelling in coach with
Lord Norbury, the judge. Passing a
gibbet, Norbury said, with a chuckle:
Parsons, where would you be now if
that gallows had its due?" Riding
alone, Norbury,' was the quick reply.
Chief Baron OGrady, subsequently
the first Lord Guillamore had a dry
humor. and biting wit. The latter was
so fine that its sarcasm was often I'M
perceived by the object against whom
it was directed. A legal friend of his,
who was extremely studious, but in
conversation exasperatingly dull,
showed the judge over his newly built
house. The lawyer prided himself es-
pecially on a library, which he had
contrived for his own use, so secluded
from the rest of the building that he
could pore over his books in private
quite secure from disturbance. This is
capital" exclaimed O'Grady. MY dear
fellow, you could read and study here
from morning till night, and no human
being would be one bit the wiser" This
recalls the capital story told of the late
Father Healy of Bray. A very pom
pous friend was showing Father Healy
and other gnests through his new
house, on which he had spent good
deal in furnishing and decorating. In
the library the host, waving his hand
toward the book shelves, exclaimed:
Here, surrounded by these best
friends, I feel most happy" and !
notice. said Father Healy, examining
some of the volumes, that, like a true
friend, you never cut them"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
A Road of Diamonds.
New York Herald.)


1t is not often that it is given to
man to travel daily on a high road
literally grooming with diamonds. I'm
til 2 few years ago there was such a
road, and it was neither a vision Of
the pipe nor the press agent. 1t was
located in the Kimberly district, in
South Africa, and when a man walked
over it he walked over millions of dol
lars worth of the precious stones.
Five thousand dollars yard was the
record Of some parts of the road. The
diamonds are not there now. It seems
that when the diamond mining indus
try was some years younger than it
is TODAY, there was a vexing scarcity
of water in the Kimberley country. so,
when a miner couldn't get a supply of
water to help him in his search, he
had to do the best he could, and hustle
around with his tools in the dry earth.
He would spade here and there until
he struck a lump of earth which held
the agerly-sOught prize. Then ne
would abandon the little mound of
earth his spade had overturned, and
seek for diamonds in another place.
After a while, several years, in fact,
these mounds amounted to a conSid-
cradle obstruction to travel and fur
Their digging. The loose earth was in
the way, but no one would volunteer
to cart it away. Finally the k1mber-
ley municipal council offered to use the
dirt in macadamizing the roads around
the city, which was branching out and
reaching quite respectable proportions.
The offer was gladly accepted by the
mine-owners, and the mounds were
cleared away. Nearly a score of years
later there was drop in the diamond
market The price of the precious
stones fell and in order to bring about
a return of high figures, the mine
owners decided to restrict their output.
This necessitated a big cut in the pay
roll, and as result the Kimber-
ley district was soon overrun with I'M
employed miners. Then some of the
wise men in the land came to the con-
clusion that they might pick up a few
overlooked gems from the highroad, if
they could get municipal permission
and a plentiful supply of water. They
got both, for each year a portion of
the road which had been strengthened
by the mound dirt was turned over TO
the men, and they worked on it with
astounding results. Diamonds to the
value of 5000, 600 were recovered yearly
for several years From one little piece
of road no bigger than the floor of a
Harlem drawing-reom, there was taken
100000 worth of diamonds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

Robert j. Roosevelt of New York has
written a letter to the war investiga-
ton commission which exposes the
embarrassing methods of that body in
trying to cover up infamy and shield
ignorance. 1.-THE witnesses have utter
ly failed to fix the responsibility, al
though they have made bad showing
for somebody was given out by mem
bers of the commission recently. Mr..
Roosevelt says: I'VE supposed that all
the witnesses had to do was to give
the facts and that the commission
would fix the responsibility, that being
the express purpose for which it was
appointed He criticizes the apollo
gists for Alger by saying that no COM
parison with the civil war will excuse
the criminal and unnecessary neglect
of the sick and wounded in this war.
'The witnesses have proved monstrous
incapacity," continues the writer.
''They have done their share and it
only remains for you to do your best"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
INDIANS AS FIGUREHEADs.

Senator Rawlins did not believe that
Secretary Bliss would lend himself to
the Uintah leasing scheme. But the
senator was thinking of the secretary
as a man. AID not as a part of the ad-
ministratiop machine. when he gave
that opinion.
Secretary Bliss has not only per-
mitted the wards CT the government to
harter away their reservation rights,
but he has encouraged them IN the
transference of privileges they never
possessed.
The elaterite lands Of the Indian
reservations belong to the government.
This fact renders the action of the sec
rotary of the interior all the more re-
markable. Here is a high government
official. member Of the cabinet. TAX
ing part in a proceeding that is con-
trary to law. to common sense. and to
public policy; authorizing irresponsible,
incompetent ard improper persons to
convey government property to a SYM
dictate. It appears outrageous on its
face.
Indians have only the right of occu-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
He Keeps Ducks In His Bath Rooms.
Chicago Tribune.)


The Chinese minister at Washington
has found a novel use for his four bath
rooms. They are every one of them
beautifully tiled and provided with porce-
lain tubs and wash basins to match.
But the extreme Oriental idea of the pur-
pose of a bathroom is different from ours.
and so it happens that the minister from
China he's found a better use for these
convenienceS than mere washing. He
keeps ducks in them. Where supply Of
running water is available it is obvious
that water fowl may be kept. and so why
not in a bathroom? Cinnamon, as every
body knows, are extremely fond of ducks.
A bathroom. from the Chinese minister's
point of view. is admirably adapted for
the purpose of a live preserve" and as
such he employs it. Four bathrooms will
accommodate thirty-two ducks comfOrta-.
bly,. and thus the dinner table of the lega-
tion on Q street is kept continually sup
piled.
The management of the I1cks in the
bathrooms is remarkably complete. In
the daytime, the porcelain tubs being
filled to the brirn. they swim about as
happy as can be. Incidentally they are
fed TO fairness like any ordinary ducks.
At night the water is withdrawn from
the tubs and they go to perch on sticks
conveniently placed across those recep-4
tacles or otherwise bestowed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

The Cleveland Plain Dealer contains
the following item of local interest:
Admiral Sampson owns farm near
Palmyra, N. Y, on which Joseph Smith,
the founder of Mormonism, was said
to have dug up the golden plates on
which the Book of Mormon was in
scribed. The Latter day Saints tried to
buy the ground in 1893, but the admi-
raj refused to SELL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

Richard Shepard representaveec county,
the only hope held
fall elected member of the house of
a valuable
of
n
his ability
affairs his counsel
candidate
ssteny
the duties of the presiding
shortly beginning the legislative
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

him on the Republican side, and all
detested him on the Democratic side.
He was a Sejanus- of-a-fellow, who
seemed to say:
THE world knows only two, that's
Rome and T.
He came here to fiji out an uneXpired
term of a dead man, and tried to be
every man himself the very first thing.
He is a man of ability; no doubt of
that, and he is man of information;
no doubt of that, too He is a formid-
able debater, and if he had the courtly
style of a man like Henry G. Turner
he would be a power in congress.
Quigg was just SO years old when he
got there, and he had a mission. 1t
was to settle the tariff, and he had not
| a doubt that he would successfully dis
charge that mission, and. truth to say,
he did his level best in that behalf;
but he failed. The wicked Democrats
had a majority, and they passed the
Wilson bill. 1t is impossible to imag
inc a more offensive man in debate
than Quigg. His voice is a provocation,
and would be a proVocation if he were
trying to pay a compliment. He gives
no quarter and to do him justice he
asks none One day he was making
speech denouncings the Democratic
party up I'LL dOWi deSAC, wien AAC
brought in a figure of speech and said
something like this: "These barbarian
gladiators, booted and spurred, riding
rough-Shod over the country and de-
stroying all in their paths" He was
talking about the free-traders. Asher
Caruth was standing down in the cres
cent in front of the speaker and wanted
to know when and where 1t was that
gladiators wore spurs and rode horses.
preciated the joke.
There was then and is now a man in
congress from California named Loud.
He is chairman of the committee on
appropriations. He has a hobby and
it is a reform of the law concerning
second-class mail matter. Loud is GER
tain that he can save to the treasury
anywhere from $50, 000,000 to 100000 coo
per year He is a dogmatic man and
fierce of temper-a man after the order
of old Bill Morrison, without Morrison's
frequent and long lapses of good hu-
NOR One day Loud fell foul of Perry
Heath and used a great deal OF IAN
guage Well, Quigg attacked LIQUIDS
bill and tore it all to flinders. Among
other things he declared it would not
save the treasury $4,000. Quigg re-
manned in perfect good temper; Loud
been entertained by a fine speech from
Champ Clark on the country newspa-
pers but this row between Quigg and
Loud was far more entertaining. The
bill was killed and Quigg claimed that
he killed it.
Quigg was born in Maryland, the son
of a Methodist minister. In his youth
he went to New York and engaged in
Journalism. He was a reporter on the
Times and an editorial writer on the
Tribune. He is the very sort of fell
low to succeed. He has plenty of brains,
a good deal of culture and the i'm
pudence of the devil himself. Senator
Platt loves bright young men, and
about four years ago he attached
Quigg to his train, and Quigg has been
his right arm ever since.
1t is announced that Platt and Quigg
have concluded to give the other sena-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
LEMUEL ELI QUIGG.

Washington Correspondence Louis
vile Courier-J ournal: One of the sur
prises of the late election is the defeat
of Lemuel Eli Quigg of the Fourteenth
New York congressional district. There
will be few to regret him. Few liked
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
THE SECRET OF
A GOOD SHOE

does not lie so much in the leather it
is made of, nor the shape it's made in.
as in the honesty and ability of the
man who makes it.
The truly good shoe depends for it's
excellence upon the good sense and
judgment of the maker. hence, in buy
ing shoes for our patrons we seek out
those makers whose work is of the
careful sort, and we select their best
styles and order lines of such as We
think will best please the people Of
Shoeton.
The result of our pickings for Spring
selling may now be seen Our stock is
thorough and complete, and the prices
will prove revelation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

Another great battleship has been
pushed out into the ocean at San Fran
cisco to seek and awe and punish the
enemies of this republic. The Wiscon-
sin was built by the same company
that built the Oregon, the pride of the
American navy. Step by step this ma
ton is striding to the front rank of
military powers.