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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

from the clerical force of the state de-
partment in Washington, which is al
ready under the civil service rules, and
in a generally efficient condition.
1t is in the interest of commerce that
this matter is pressed. 1t is of especial
Importance to all American ports where
foreign shipping is a leading branch of
business. The fact has gradually forced
itself upon the attention of American
shippers that the consular service has
been weak in those essentials that ap-
peal to the manufacturer and shipper.
Secretary Olney put into operation an
Independent merit system for the con-
sular establishment, which was rigidly
enforced as long as he remained in Of
fee, as many place-beggars discovered
to their cost. But the present admins
tration started in appointing a lot of
consuls and attaches who are decent
enough citizens, with no special adap-
tation for their new work, but with
present ignorance for their chief dis
qualification.
Civil service rules, applied to this de-
PdI MOulQ endD1G I11Sll " 1SIllsADA
in their positions after demonstrating
their usefulness to this government and
it's shippers. But, as Washington
correspondent of a Gotham paper puts
it, when the present officials begin to
learn their duties and are ready to give
the government a fair service in ex-
change for their salaries, another cleo
ton will be held, there may come AN
other Pharaoh who knows not these
Josephs, and out they will go like their
predecessors, to make room for lot of
raw recruits, on whose sitting educa-
ton the government will waste another
four years.
The Adams bill, which is now before
the house, would answer every purpose,
at least as a point of departure; the
great thing is to have a bill of some
sort in evidence, because it can be
amended and improved in as many par
ticulars as desired.
All that is needed is to break up the
habit of arbitrarily discharging a
whole army of competents every four
years, and for political reasons alone,
and only to fill their places, equally ar
bitrarily, with incompetents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
CHARACTER AS A SHIELD.

Character is a shield which protects
man from calumny. An empty charge
against a citizen whose career is known,
whose course has been honorable,
whose reputation has been above re-
preach, works him no injury.
The incoherent and evidently unwar-
ranted accusation made by Mr.. Stout,
who is now suffering at his home in
this city from a pistol wound inflicted
in some mysterious manner, will not in
jure Mr.. Jones, against whom it is di-
rected.
No one believes that Mr.. Jones has
ever entertained the slightest wish to
harm his former associate in business,
Mr.. Stout, either physically or fnan-
ciaily. There is an utter absence OF
motive. There was no disposition to
commit a crime. There was no oppor-
tunity. Mr.. Jones was at home when
the shot was fired. The officers say
that it would have been impossible fol
Mr.. Stout to have recognized an as
saAlant at the place and in the gloom
where the shooting occurred
Besides, Mr.. Stout had a revolver in
his pocket when he was taken home.
A shell had been recently discharged.
Mr.. Stout admitted that he had fired
It. Still, pedestrians in the immediate
vicinity declare they heard but one
shot. It took one cartridge to infict
the wound from which Mr.. Stout is
suffering. Were two pistols discharged
simultaneously?
It is always annoying to be compelled
to meet a grave imputation, even when
its origin is in a, mind diseased. It is
embarrassing to establish innocence
when malice or vindictiveness makes it
necessary. But no one really believes
A. B. Jones capable of assaulting a
broken old man like MI. Stout in any
way, much less with murderous intent.
1t is contrary to his nature. 1t is al
variance with all the facts that are
established.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
SOME GOOD, SHORT STORIES
Hermann Was Overmatched.
washington Post.)

lWdSIluSI EOSl-)
''The dead magician, Hermann, loved
nothing better than game of poker,
and by his wizard touch could manip-
uIate the cards beyond the possibility
of detection if he so willed,' said Mr..
r. w. Sully of Boston at the Norman
die.
But Hermann scorned TO do any
thing crooked. If he ever cheated he
did so for a joke, and invariably re-
funded any money won by his art.
Once he was tricked in a very funny
way. He got into a two-handed game
with a noted western gambler, who
was almost as expert as Hermann.
The latter had been told to look out
for this man, but he hadn't the slight
est doubt of his ability to protect him
self.
1.-THE pair set in to play freeze-out for
big money Hermann had a lot of
rather worn paper currency and some
gold and silver, while the professional
had mostly crisp new bills of large de-
nomination. The game was warm ana
very interesting, but Hermann had the
most luck, and he managed to get hold
of the new bills of high figure, the gam
bier acquiring the old notes and a ma
jor part of the coin. Herman quit
heavy winner, and then said TO his OPP
ponent: II want you to take back all
the money have won of you, for did
not play fairly. 1 wouldn't keep dol
lar unless 1 had won it on the square"
ITO his surprise the gambler abso-
lutely refused to accept the offer. I
played just as crookedly as you Gid,
he said, and whenever a man beats me
at my own game he is welcome to my
money All efforts of the magician to
get him to reconsider were unaValllng,
and finally Hermann went away with
about $500 of the fellows new currency,
while the gambler took off something
like $500 that ne had acquired from the
wizard
Later on the wizard saw the method
in the professionals madness. He was
telling some friends of his queer ex-
perience while taking a drink in bar
room, and Hermann, saying he was
! enough ahead to set up the wine, Of
cred a $50 in payment. The barkeeper,
after seconds inspection, handed him
back the money. 1t was a counter
| felt, and so was all the rest. That was
Herrmann's last game of poker outside
! his own circle of personal friends.
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to whom German is no unknown


Unknown to the young shoemaker,
when, next day, he went to buy the
leather, he was "shadowed". The per-
son who followed him was not a de-
tective, but a gentleman, who had been
commissioned to inquire about him,
and had done so with satisfactory re-
suits. The shoemaker was about to
pay for his purchase, when the leather
merchant astonished him by Offering
to give him credit. The unseen "shad
oW" had contrived to say a good word
for him in the ear of the merchant.
That open account was the begin
ming of better days for the poor young
man. Prosperity followed, and sur
prising orders from the Wealthiest fam
lilies poured in. He married and estab-
lished a comfortable home, and for
years was known in London as the
parliament shoemaker"
Had he stayed in London he might
never have known who his secret friend
was, but the longing of his wife for
her native country finally decided him
to return to Berlin. When he paid his
last bill his dealer told him that the
man to whom he owed the credit that
put him on his feet was Mr.. Gladstone
The great minister happened to be in
the whispering gallery at the opportune
moment, and had overheard the tale of
the young workmen's poverty.
When Mr.. Gladstone died, a plain
oakleaf chaplet came from Berlin,
through the hands of the British con-
sui in that city, to be placed with the
funeral offerings around the states
mans casl1et. 1t was the German
shoemaker's gift of remembrance, af-
ter twenty ears, and it's simplicity
would have delighted the heart of the
ilIustrious Englishman, who was as
modest in his private kindness as he
was grand in public command.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
WHAT LEADS TO SUICIDE.

One seldom picks up a newspaper
nowadays but he finds an account of a
suicide or an attempt at self-destruc-
ton in some part Of the country or an
other. 1t is only when the matter is
brought home to ones doors, when a
neighbor or a fellow-townsman be-
comes the principal in such a tragedy
that the awful significance of such an
act is realized
There are moments in the life Of al
most every person when the charms of
existence vanish in the gloom of de-
spair when the future holds out no in
ducements, and fortune seems to mock
every effort to overcome the obstacles
fate places in the way.
Men lose riches to which their very
souls seem bound, they lose hope at the
same time. The success Of others irri-
tates and maddens them. They shrink
from the realities Of life. They are
afraid to face its hardships. Perhaps
they have always been in good circum-
stances; have never experienced the
Inconvenience of want or tasted the
bitterness Of poverty. It is hard for
them to welcome ills they have always
magnifed, to enter condition they
have always despised.
Financial reverses have led to so many
attempts at self-destruction. Bank
ruptcy is the cause of many a suicide.
The victim is generally an object OF
the deepest commiseration. Who may
tell his struggle? Who can describe
his agony?
Temptation may have logged his
footsteps for days and weeks, begging
him to fly from the whips and scorns
of earthly existence. Night after night
he may have tossed upon a sleepless
pillow, haunted by dread and despair
In time sort Of madness comes, a
strange foreboding, a melancholy that
becomes a malady. Then another fear
springs up-the fear of madness. The
mind is haunted And in this condi-
ton desperate deeds are done or at
tempted.
But there are moments when a word
Of cheer will do world of good; when
a little encouragement viii lift an aw-
full load from a Tired heart; when a
way through the future may be point
ed out, and even the path of age
descended from opldance to poverty be
lighted by the rays Of friendship II
this were borne in mind and men would
pause in the rush and hurry of bust
ness life to drop a word, to give a
smile Of brotherly interest for those
who are struggling with misfortune
there would be fewer cases Of suicide
and attempted suicide to record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
THE SEXTON OF THE SEA.

John James Meekan in Leslie's Weekly
You scatter flowers on the grassy mound
That marks the spot where your loved
ones be;
You bring them emblems with never a
thought
For the dead beneath the sea.
For every ship that the hands of men
Have builded with chart and wheel,
The bones of men in hundred-fold
Are laid beneath its keel.
A canvas shroud and an iron bar
At the weary head and the wasted feet
And 10! from the deck they move away,
From the hearts that throb and beati
Soldiers and sailors and captains grand,
Babes with a mothers breast
Wet with the lips that will touch no more
Come down in my arms to rest.
And 1 lay them gently alone to sleep,
Where the bed of the sand is clear;
And none may wander, and none shall
stray,
For 1 keep them, oh, so dear!
And bark! When the bell-buoy tolls al
night,
You may know that 1 keep my Fathers
watch
him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
PRAISE FOR THE PRESIDENT.

Banker Clews is making regular
political monkey Of himself. After the
late election he issued a circular of
praise to the people who voted for Re
publicans and gold recommendation. An
other circular bearing his well known
signature has just found dy way this
far west, although published prior to
the issue of the presidents message.
President McKinley's message may
be expected to be one of the most
memorable ever penned by any presi-
dent of the United States. 1 do not
think 1 make any mistake in saying
that its eloquence in praise Of the army
and navy of the United States and
their valiant deeds during the war will
electrify the nation. Never has there
been a better opportunity for such a
document than is now presented, and
all patriotic voices throughout the en-
tire nation viii respond with praise of
our wise, sagacious and in every other
respect most excellent executive, for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

The st. Joe (Odo.) Gazette contains
the following complimentary notice of
a representative-elec from Salt Lake
county to the state legislature:
Charles Matthias Jackson, formerly of
st. Joseph, has recently been elected a
member of the Utah legislature. Col
onel Jackson will be remembered in
local circles as a reporter for the Ga
zette in 1SS6-SS. He was large, rough
gem in those days, and, according to
late reports, has stubbornIy resisted all
efforts at polishing. He went from here
to Omaha, where he gained fame as a
reporter and writer, and thence drifted
to Salt Lake, where he has been shin
ing in his own rough way for the past
eight years. Colonel Jackson is a man
of great force, and throws what he was
pleased to call great juice and junction.
into his work. That he viii be a dis
tinguished member of the Utah legis-
lature there is no doubt"
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His Secret Friend.
youths Companion.)

YOUTH COmDdHlOIl.(
Really great men are apt to like quiet
ways in their benevolence. They
''Do good by stealth, and blush to find
it fame"
There lives a humble, but thrifty. shoe
maker in Berlin, Prussia, who remem-
bers one instance of this with peren-
NAL gratitude.
When he was a young man he went
to London and opened little work
shop, but his gains were so small that
he made nothing beyond his present
needs, and his hope to earn home OF
his own seemed doomed to disappoint-
ment A worthy German girl at service
in the city had become engaged to him,
and his pride at first would not suffer
him to tell her the whole truth; but
when, one day, a customer came with a
generous order, and he found himself
too poor to buy the leather to make
the shoes, he felt that he must share
his trouble with his only friend.
In the brief hours of a half-holiday
they took stroll together, and, among
other places, visited ST. Pauls cathe-
dral. BY the time they entered the ia
nous whispering gallery he found cour-
age to reveal the whole story Of his
circumstances. Their presence in the
church suggested the one theme near
est their hearts, and, in talking of it,
he forced himself to tell his betrothed
wife that their marriage was almost
beyond hope.
The brave girl encouraged him, and
insisted on giving him her own little
savings, so that he might purchase the
leather and fill his customers order
Business would improve, and theh
| prospects brighten bye and bye, she
said.
Probably both were too much preoc-
walls have ears and ceilings are tell
tales-and that there are EnglishmeI
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
Greeley Played Checkers.

(New Orleans Times-Democrat.)
''My father had a curious experience
with Horace Greeley years ago." said
Mr.. Albert Caldwell Of st. Louis, who
is spending a few weeks in New Or
leans, land the story has never been
told in print. 1t was in the lively times
just preceding the Greeley-Grant cam
paign. My father was then living at
Utica, N. Y, and became interested in
some political scheme don't know
what-about which it was considered
very important to obtain Mr.. Greeley's
advice. After much consultation he
was sent as committee of one to New
York City to interview the great edi-
tor. When he arrived he found it al
most impossible to secure an audience.
Greeley was besieged by an army of all
kinds of people, big party leaders from
here, there and everywhere were con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
Dewey's Humor.

Admiral Dewey has a lively sense Of
the ridiculous. Among the volunteer
officers of the army in Manila is a cap
tain in a California regiment, whose
mustache rivals an ordinary growth of
whiskers in it's business. 1t spreads
over his features from his eyes to his
lower jaws, and reaches back to his
ears. While ashore one day the adj
miral saw this captain at short range,
and his keen, gray eyes shone with I'M
usual brilliancy as he turned to a
brother officer and quietly remarked:
TT isn't fair to fight the Spaniards
with that officer" why do you say
that, admiral?' He's in ambush all
the time" was the reply, and the ad-
miral's joke had circulated throughout
the whole fleet before night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.
Yesterdays Observations at the To-
cal Weather Bureau Office.
Salt Lake CITY. Utah Dec 10 IS

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 10, $685.
Mean temperature, a degrees; departure
from normal minus degrees; maximum
temperature. 81 degrees: minimum tenn
perature, L. degrees; accumulated deficisn-
cy Of temperature since first of the month,
SO degrees; accumulated deficiency of tenn
precipitation Qnches and hundredths),
none; departure from normal minus 05
inch, accumulated deficiency of precipita-
ton since first of the month, As inch;
accumulated deficiency of precipitation
since Jan. I, 10 inch.
Following is the local forecast of the
weather for today: Fair. stationary tenn
perature. J. II. SMITH
Section Director.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
CIVIL SERVICE coNsULs.

Consular reforms are contemplated
by the president. The diplomatic ser
vice is not a matter that congress viii
be able to regulate, badly as it seems
to need attention. It rests largely with
the chief executive. About the only
change to be effected by legislation is
in the way Of providing a better cleri-
cal force S2r the embassies and lega-
tions, by requiring it to be recruited
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
STILL A NOVICE.
Chicago News.)

TOHICdE5U NGWS.1
In childhood days we played together;
I kept a store, she came to buy;
Sometimes / was her husband
And she would cook and make mud pie
Ali that was long ago, and many
A country have | wandered through;
Today she's married to another
And settled down and happy too.
Last night they had me in to dinner,
| ate piece of pie she made
She knows no more about pie-making
Than she did when we, as children
played
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

Although The Herald announced yes
terday morning that DR.. Millspaugh
had accepted the presidency of the
Minnesota state normal school, he was
commended to the people of the neigh
boring state of Wisconsin. That goes,
for he will be good neighbor. But to
the people Of Minnesota with whom he
is soon to be identified as fellow citi-
zen, he is especially commended.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

washington Evening Starr
what are the powers of Europe that
the Americans allude to so frequently
whenever there is any runor of war?''
inquired the favorite Of the harem.
Chose, my dear answered the sultan,
laZily, after pausing to drink a cup OF
coffee and light another cigarette, ''are
merely conversational powers"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

The pottery trust has completed it's
organization under the laws of New
Jersey, with s20,OOO,OOO OF capital stock
Where is the attorney general and the
federal antitrust statute?
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His Vindictiveness.
(Puck.)

Farmer Hawbuck Cooking up from
his newspaper)-By whack! The editor
of the Weekly Clarion is an unforgivin'
cuss!
Mrs. Hawbuck-What makes we say
so, Lot?
Farmer Hawbuck-Why, he still goes
on calm the Spaniards the naughty
donS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

Eastern ladies should calm them
selves. There is really no occasion for
alarm. 1t is believed that Mr.. Roberto
has all the wives he wants.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
Economical.
(Detroit Free Press J

Husband-Why, you got twice as
much from this dressmaker as you said
you wanted.
Wife, thought it best to get it all
from one place, dear, on account of the
war tax.
"But why?"
''You only have to send out one check
-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

''Hazing at Princeton" says. dis
patch, sis now officially dead" This
is not the first fatality announced in
connection with Princeton hazing.
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ON THE SIDE.
IL. A. w. Bulletin }

IL. A. w. Bulletin)
Where highways are too rough to ride,
Why, here's a fact that should be
known:
Whene' er. you walk your wheel beside,
You have sidewalk Of your own.
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Taking It Literally.
.Puck.)

Mamma-Have you decided what to
do in the matter?
Papa-I'm waiting to see which way
the cat will jump.
Johnny (eagerly)-TI make her jumpI
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

The stockholders of the Boston Ma
tional bank voted to liquidate last Fri
day. When bankers take to drink it is
time for depositors to keep sober.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
CARVING It to An Extreme.
cleveland Plain Dealer.1

"Bixby is the most rabid anti-annexa-
zionist I ever met"
How is that?'
His wife had floating islands the
other night for dessert. and he wouldn't
touch EN-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
A sIight Misundergtanding.
(Judge.'

Honey-Yer mudder's wash woman,
heigho, heighol
Babe-sh' aint-she's a laundress, so
she is
Honey-sh'aint got a lawn dress to
'er name-nuffin' but a ole calico.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11

Utahs
United
the
S a a
legislature panaking
=
y
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THE REAL TEST.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune)
To gain renown some men will wade
Through fierce and bloody war;
But none has won a lasting fame
Until he has conferred his name
On some five-cent cigar.
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STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks, and
other High Grade investment securities
bought and sold
Loans on Stocks.
Dividend-paying stocks bought ana sold
Investment orders from institutions
trustees OF estates and capitalists will re-
ceive the best Of attention.
JOHN c. CUTLER. JR..
Tel 127. IS Main Street.
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OFFICE. THE HERALD block. corner
Vest Temple and First South streets, Salt
AXE City.
u7EEAFC on CT-PCCpTroTroNr
Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-11-17
SUDDEN DEATH.
Noses Pinkham. West Gardiner. Dies in His
Carriage Of Heart Failure.

A West Gardiner man was in the city,
early Wednesday forenoon, to summon
Coroner Hildreth and an undertaken to
that town to take charge of the body of
Mr. Moses Pinkham, whose remains were
found in a pasture, late Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Pinkham, who was hunter and
trapper. left his home near Browns Cor
ner, Tuesday forenoon, TO visit his fox
traps. He could drive to the places by
letting down bars, and made the trip in
his team. Not arriving at night, his
family became alarmed and notified the
nelghbors, who formed hunting party
and started out in search of him. About
10 o'clock his body was found in a pas
ture. somewhat bruised, and the horse
and wagon were nearby.
From all that could be ascertained, it
is supposed that Mr.. Pinkham, who had a
heart trouble. died in his wagon. and the
horse not being able to get out of the
pasture, wandered around the enclosure