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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25

bill certain limitation as to age. The
government retires an officer at Ga on
three-quarters pay. If men are placed
III the army at an advanced age, they
render the government absolutely no
adequate service for the obligations the
government assumes TO care for them
during life. The question of how long
q man should serve before being re-
tired, was one the committee was not
at all agreed upon. but a compromise
was finally placed in the BILL limiting
appointments to those not over so
years of age.
The retired list should not be used
as an asylum for men who have spent
their active life in civil employment.
An exception was made in. a new sec
ton, exempting all the staff corps now
open to appointment from civil life,
from the operation Of the age limit, all
men who served in the civil war and
the recent war with Spain. The rea-
sons for the Incorporation in the bill
of section 5 is found in the following,
submitted by an officer from the war
department:
4 have made calculation that the
bill prepared, provided all promotion
in each arm is by seniority in each arm
respectively. would give the following
res ultS as regards promotion to cap
~NN-+@-
terants and sixteen second lieutenants;
in the artillery, all the present first
and forty-two second lieu
tenants; total FOR infantry and artil-
lery, ffty-eight. In the cavalry, fifty
seven Of the present first lieutenants
would be left such. The scheme to
equalize promotion to captaincy would,
therefore. give fffty-seveTA captaincies
in the artillery and infantry to the
remaining first lieutenants
of cavalry. All of the first lieutenants
in each arm would he captains, and all
the second Heutenants in each arm
would become first lieutenants, leav-
ing the vacancies at the foot of the
list of first lieutenants and all the sec
ond lieutenants to be filed by promo
ton from the ranks. from the volun-
teers and from civil life
The official estimate of the cost of
the army under the organization pro-
posed in the bill. Chairman Hull states,
is about $4,000, COO
Mr.. Hull estimates the pay of the
army at $24 416,SS7, and the additional
cost for subsistence and all other eX-
penses to bring the total up to not to
exceed $S3, Geo, 600.
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Poetry That Paid.
(Chicago News.)


Colonel n. o. Borders, the genial
claim agent of the Burlington in Mis-
souri,. once paid claim for death
loss" without investigation Of the facts.
1t happened a good many years ago,
and he doesn't speak of it very often,
for fear he might induce other ''attor-
neys for the plaintiff to resort to SINH
lar tactics An old plug of a mule be-
longing to one Jones got Son the right
of way over in Linn county one day,
and the obsecuies occurred soon after
the west-b bound train came along. Jones
filed statement, reciting his bereave-
ment, which ne broadly limited was sus-
ceptible to amelioration by a pecuniary
consideration No terms were offered
by the company, and he put the matter
in the hands of Judge W. II. Brownlee.
a prominent attorney OF Brookfeld.
Brownlee wrote the claim agent several
letters-ffteen or twenty-each one get
ting hotter and more peremptory, until
the last one fairly sizzled. Still no an
swer Judge Brownlee has a great rep
utation as an orator, and some as a lit
erary man and poet. He resOrted to
strategy before choosing the last re-
sort" He grabbed his quill and ground
this out:
Our donkey stood on the railroad side,
Your train came whizzing by
The driver pulled er open wide
And knocked our mule sky-high!
No bell was sounded o er the hill,
Nor friendly warning foot.
And if you fail to pay your bill
By George! we'll enter suit.
Jones check for full amount came in
return mail
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
CHRISTMAS TINE IN PARIS.
How the French Children Enjoy the Winter Holidays.

NOEL NOEL That joyous cry again
resounds through the streets of the gay
capital of the pleasant land of France.
On Christmas Eve, at the midnight
mass in the churches, great hallelujahs
arise in praise of him who was born to
bring peace and good will to men.
Children are lulled to sleep with songs
in his honor, and in their dreams the
little ones will see 'le cher petit Je-
sus' coming to fill their shoes with all
kinds of things dear to the childish
heart. The rich, the gay and the care
less are lavish with their gifts, while
the poor, however pinched and .stright-
ened, endeayor to give their little ones
something to make them happy ON
Christmas day.
There are many poor in Paris. not
Withstanding that wealth is much more
equally divided in Frarr,e than in any
other country, but ever the most indi-
gent remembers Christmas, and al
though many of them have little to
make them happy, they catch up the
joyful cry of Noel! NOEL
The bells are pealing. The cold
streets TEEN with humanity, some rich
and well bred, others poor, ignorant
and meanly clad. They have one des-
tination, the churches. In the Gothic
cathedral from the organ floats, like
mysterious murmur, the harmony of
the Gregorian chant, the great white
supplied choir sings the preface, the
venerable priest at the altar answers
in a voice broken with emotion. The
bread and the wine, the flesh and
blood of the edeemer, are received by
the people within the holy cenacle by
the rich and the poor, the we'll fed and
the hungry, the learned and the ignor
ant, kneeling side by side. The cele-
bration of the mass is a very impress
sive ceremony, and the churches in
France on Christmas night are invar-
iably crowded.
When the midnight mass is over the
muItitudes repair to the restaurants or
their homes, where they enjoy the ia
nous ''reveillon," which may be called
in English, "a midnight lunch" This
meal is generally composed of ham,
sausage and ''boudin,' blood pudding,
washed down with more or less copious
libations of wine, after which the peo-
pie repair to their touches, perchance
to dream like the children who retired
early in the evening.
In France, as in America, the most
interesting and pleasing part of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
Something For the New year

The world-renowned success of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, and their con-
tinued popularity for near half a CEN
fury as a stomachic, is scarcely more
wonderful than the welcome that greets
Hostetter's Almanac. This medical
treatise is published by the Hostetter
company, Pittsburg, Pa, under their
own immediate supervision, employing
sixty hands in that department. The
issue OF same for 1899 viii be over eleven
millions, printed in nine languages. Re-
fer to copy of it for valuable and
interesting reading concerning health,
and numerous testimonials as to the
efficacy of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
The almanac for 1899 can be obtained
free of cost from druggists and general
country dealers in all parts of the
country
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
FAYORETE PRESCRIPTION
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TRAGEDY NEAR SPOKANE.
Woodchoppers Quarreled and Two
Were Killed and Cremated.

Spokane, Wash, Dec. 24.-The
charred bodies of two men were found
this morning in the embers OF a cabin
burned last night five miles north of
the city. Eight wood choppers were
living in the cabin. Yesterday they
were paid off, and all but Archie Car
roll and Oscar King came to the city
to celebrate Christmas There was a
gallon of whisky in the cabin, and it
was at first thought the men drank
themselves into a drunken stupor and
persisted in the burning building.
Blood was found in the snow in front
Of the cabin, and this and other sus-
picious circumstances suggested the
possibility of crime. The suspicion
deepened when it was found that BillM
Banks and Jack David, two of the six
men who came to town last might,
parted from the others and stated that
they intended to return to the cabin.
They have not been seen since The
officers have theory that they re-
turned to the cabin Friday night, quar-
relied with Carroll and King and were
murdered. 1t IS thought that Carroll
and King, after killing Banks and Da-
vid, fled or went into hiding. They
came here from Kentucky about two
months ago.
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PEARL WEBB IS DISCHARGED
JUDGE TIMMoNY HOLDS SHE
WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Contribution Taken Up Among the
Officers and Presented to the Girls
Mother-Police Notes.

Pearl Webb, the little girl IS years
of age, who, with her mother, Mrs.
Emma Webb, was arrested for shop
lifting, was discharged by Judge Tim
mony yesterday afternoon. The court
expressed his opinion that the girl was
the hardest criminal for her age he had
seen in thirty years, and that she must
have received maternal instruction. He
considered the mother responsible for
the chiId's doings, and since jury on
Friday had acquitted Mrs. Webb on a
charge of petit larceny he regarded it
his duty to discharge her daughter also.
Later a contribution was taken up
among the officers and quite a little
sum collected, which was presented to
Mrs. Webb, who accepted it very
thankfully and left the station with her
DAUGHTER
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A JOYOUS HOMECOMING.
President Rulon S. Wells of the Eur
onean Mission Arrives Home.

opean Mission Arrives Home.
OF all the joyous households that Christ
mas eve made in Salt Lake last evening.
it is doubtful whether there was one
where real true joy reigned in more un-
bounded fashion than in certain little
cottage on Second street, not far from
the Eagle Gate. 1t was the home of
Rulon S. Wells, who, for the past two
and a half years has presided over the
European missions of the Mormon church.
terday. His wife and eldest daughter had
gone to New York to meet him. and the
sisters. cousins and aunts of all three
had gathered at the home to greet them
back again. A big turkey dinner was set
at o'clock, the hour set for the arrival
of the train. Then came the news that
the train was several hours late, and the
turkey was hustled back into the oven.
From that time on till night the Short
Line train dispatcher's life was made mis-
cradle answering the telephone. Finally
came the news that the train would be in
at o'clock. Fifteen minutes later the
lights of a carriage flashed up Canyon
road. All Second street was out in the
snow and the air was rent with shouts as
Mr.. Wells stepped out of his carriage and
was Immediately lost sight of in the
surging bundles of feminity which en-
quilted him. Mr.. Wells might well have
been pardoned for a temporary beWiider-
ment. OF his children, the youngest placed
in his arms he had left a three-Weeks'
old baby, and it was now an excited
shouting Xoungster OF over two and a half
years. His eldest son, whom he left
bashful kid, was now lusty Rugby root
er, and the other children had progressed
to equally unrecogniZable extents. Need
less to say the gathering that surrounded
the Wells family board last night made
the Christmas eve an occasion never to be
forgotten.
M. Wells is hearty and well and does
not look changed an iota Accompanying
him was Joseph McMurrin, his counselor
IN the European mission.
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Christmas celebration is the delight of
the little folks, when, on Christmas
morning. they find the presents which
the pleasant fiction teaches them have
been brought for them by the mys-
ferrous parsonage that in this country
is designated as Santa Claus. The
children in France leave their shoes
as the receptacle in which the gifts
are to be placed, instead of the stock
ings used for that purpose in America,
and our Santa Claus is displaced for
lie cher petit Jesus.
Children everywhere in the civilized
world take a great delight in this part
of the Christmas festivities, but prob
ably nowhere is the joyousness of the
occasion so apparent as among the
bright, vivacious and mercurial chill
dren of France. There even the chill
dren of maturer age enter thoroughly
into the spirit of the occasion, forget
ting, for the time, at least that the
happy days of childhood have passed,
remembering only the Christmas morn
ings of the past, when they saw from
their little beds the playthings and
bOnbonS that the little Jesus himself
had, during the night, left for them
They remember the thrill of pure child
tsh delight which they felt; they for
get that the illusion and the days of
childhood are past, never to come
again.
On Christmas day gay throngs pa
rade the streets, but there are also
many beggars. who, on that one day
of the year, are allowed by the police
to solicit aims unmolested; consequent
" the mendicants are numerous, and
include many who really do not need
to ask for aims. They wait at the
doors of the churches and accost each
person as he or she enters, with. the
phrase, "a little sou, my good sir; a
little sou, my good lady" If their pc
tition meets with response the usual
reply is, May God grant you paradise
at the end of your days. uttered with
more or less frequency, according to
the magnitude of the gift. In the even
ing of Christmas day the people of
Paris enjoy themselves at the theatres,
the opera and at balls and parties. The
students who occupy what is known
as the "Quartier Latin" hold high
revels in the form principally of the
bal masque and similar orgies, fire.
quented by the cocotte, the grisette,
the files de ballet, and so forth, and
which do not terminate until the sun
has risen on the day after Christmas.
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N0N-SBCTARIAN DECISION.
Sisters OF Charity Cannot Teach In
Public Schools.

Albany, N. Y, Dec. 24.-State Super
intendent of Public instruction Charles
Skinner has given decision in the
celebrated case OF Edward Keyser, who
appealed from the action of the board
of education of Poughkeepsie in leas-
ing for school purposes two buildings
owned by st. Peters Roman Catholic
church, and the employment as teach
ers of two sisters of charity, who
dressed in the garb peculiar to their
religious sect, and are addressed
usually in the school by their Christian
names. prefxed by the term sister"
Superintendent Skinner holds that
the wearing of a religious garb by
teachers constitutes a sectarian inf1u-
ence which ought not to be persisted
in, and that the same may be said of
the language in which such teachers
are addressed, and holds that the
continued leasing of the church build
ings for school purposes is not war
ranted as an emergency measure. He
directs that all these practices be dis
continued.
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TELLS WHY He is FOR M.CUNE
R. B. SHEPARD EXPLAINS HIS
SENATORIAL PREFERENCE.
Utah Needs Business Man In the
senate-He Never Was Pledged to
Anyone.

Richard IS. Shepard has announced
with customary directness of diction
his intention of voting for Alfred W.
McCune for senator. To- those who
know Mr. Shepard, this announcement
means with certainty one thing-that
when his name is called on the first
ballot he viii respond ''McCune," and
continue doing so on each succeeding
ballot until the decisive one shall have
been taken.
In discussing the process of reason
ing by which he had become convinced
the states interests could best be rep
resented by Mr.. McCune, Mr.. Shepard
said the great and urgent need for q
capable, tried man of business had
largely influenced him.
Senator Rawlins,1 said he, lis a
profound lawyer. Congress-elect Rob
erts is the peer of any public speaker
Ihelr natural complement is a man C.S
affairs, who is able to make rapid
progress toward any desired end I be-
lleve that Mr. McCune more nearly
than any other candidate fills the re-
quirements I have decided should be
possessed by the successor of Senator
Cannon. Hence [ am for Mr.. McCune"
When it was suggested to him that
he was claimed by the King managers
by virtue Of some pledge, Mr.. Shepard
replied that ne had never been pledged
to anyone. L did not promise to vote
for Judge King" he said. Il have said
was not pledged to any man. And 1
am not now. I have simply decided to
vote FOR McCune."
Mr.. Shepard's announcement is re-
garded among the politicians as being
very significant, and for this reason it
has been much commented upon In
all estimates of the relative strength Of
the candidates, Mr. Shepard's name has
always hitherto gone in the King COL
unn.
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ANOTHER DOCTOR.
Coffee May Agree With Some People
and Not With Others.

Until year ago, / was a most in
veterate coffee drinker.
1 have always assiduously abstained
from all other forms of stimulants, in
Guiding tobacco, and. hence, could cas-
lily localize the cause for the numer-
Gus abnormal symptoms ! became sub
ject TO. l grew nervous and irritable,
became easily excited and experienced
a decided loss of memory, together with
many other symptoms, indicating an
unduly stimulated nervous system. My
appetite was poor, sight deficient, bow
els irregular Like thousands of others,
l could not bring myself to believe
that my favorite beverage was the
cause of my abnormal conditions.
About a year ago package of Pos
tum Cereal came to my office, and l
concluded to try it. [ was very much
disappointed with the trial, the liquid
being light-colored, weak and insipid.
1t lacked the strong flavor l had been
so long accustomed to.
1 concluded, however, I would have
to cultivate a taste for it, and hence
persisted in drinking the almost taste
less mixture for several weeks, until
finally 1 became Disguised with it and
quit it. l noticed, however. an i'm
provement in my nervous symptoms.
Shortly after this my attention was
called to your specific announcement
as to the length of time the mixture
should boil l took the subject up
again. following the directions eXplic-
lily, and the result was truly crafty
ing. The color, the aroma, the taste
and everything Except the nerve rack
ing stimulant) was there, and 1 was
completely satisfied. The nervous symp-
toms entirely went and all other alb
normal conditions vanished The ex-
perience in my own case naturally led
to a conclusion as to the cause of the
disorders with many of my patients,
and l have had occasion in numerous
cases to insist upon the abandonment
of coffee entirely, and the substitution
of Postum Food Coffee, with highly
gratifying results.
DR.. Geo. w. Hogan, 113 East Long
street, Columbus, o.
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and. army and navy officers have had
much difficulty in obtaining good quar-
tiers for their families and rents are
advancing rapidly and unduly. In the
rural districts of Puerto Rico flour
costs today about SIS a barrel. The
reason for this is traceable to duties
and high municipal taxation, and it is
these latter which the new governor
will change.
There are many people in the country
districts who are literally halfstarved.
General Henry will give relief to these
sufferers. even if he finds it necessary
to issue them rations. A knowledge Of
this state of affairs would serve to dis
pei some of our illusions of the fat and
happy islander scratching the soil for
a bountiful living.
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Big Lumber Plant Burned

Burlington, VT, Dec 24-Twelve
acres, containing 100000 feet of lum-
Der, planning mill, eight sheds and
large quantity of machinery the prop
erty of the Shepard & Morse Lumber
company of Boston and this city, were
swept by fire today, causing a. loss esti-
mated at S250,0D0. The entire plant of
the company was practically wiped out
of existence, and it was with great diff
Guilty that adjoining property was
saved
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Murdered Bv Robbers

Lorraine, O.. Dec 24-The investiga-
ton in the mysterious death of Charles
Riego Of Chicago, in a fire yesterday,
is proceeding. So far, the testimony OF
witnesses examined shows almost con-
clusively that the man was murdered
by robbers and the fire started to cover
the crime. Riego carried considerable
money in a bag that was held by a
string around his neck. Who struck
the fatal blow is unknown as yet but
officers in charge of the case have
strong suspicious.
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That Three-cornered Fight.

Pete Otterson and S. R. Ferry, arrest
ed for assault and battery upon Joe
Plant at the Klondike saloon Friday
morning, were discharged by Judge
Timmony yesterday afternoon. The
evidence showed that ice precipitated
the row by making a play at the bar
tender with knife without any cause
and that Otterson and Ferry went to
his rescue, although they carried it too
far by kicking Joe numerically in the
face when he was down. Judge Tim
mony concluded that Joe got about
what he deserved
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Real Estate Transfers

S. A. Chase to Onesime Bourbon.
part of lot 2. block ., plat BIS
Salt Lake City to John Laugenbuch-
er. part of lot 5, block 50. plat A. 800
Theodore Tangwell to Charles Trip
tow. part of section 10, township
south. range l east............... 3GG
William sherwood to Charles Trip
tow. interest Bryan lode. Little
r. p. Lounsbery to Robert Hank
ness. interest Davenport lode Big
Cottonwood .........................
Frances e. Wallace to j. II. Dean,
part of block 139, plat A........
q. G. Rognon to New Mammoth
Gold Mining company, Mammoth
lode, etc, West Mountain -. l.. OOc
f. 2. Keate ct al. to New Mammoth
Gold Mining company, Francisco
lode West Mountain. q
United States of America to Thomas
Weir. Monte Carlo lode, etc, West
United States of America to o. j.
West Mountain .................-
Salisbury ct al, Peabody lode,
United States of America to A J.
BEETLES, Aetna B. lode, West
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The Woes of Womankind.

Flossie is s years old Mamma" she
asked one day. If get married viii L
have a husband like Par
Yes" replied the mother, with an
amused smile.
And if I don't get married viii have
to be an old maid, like Aunt Kate?'
Yes. FlOSsie'
Mamma, she said, after a short pause.
cts hard work for US women amt