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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
OHIO PEOPLE JOLLIFY.
Message From Mckinley Read at
a Peace Celebration.

Cincinnati, Aug ia special to the
Commercial-Tribune from Piqua. o.. says:
The return of peace was celebrated during
the night with a grand jollitication in
which thousands of persons participated
A street parade, fireworks and speech
making were features. In response to a
telegram sent by Colonel Z. j. Battele,
President Mckinley wired as follows:
Telegram concerning celebration re-
ceived l rejoice with you and all the
people on the return of peace. All honor
victories have given added lustre to the
American name
The message was read to the aSsemblage
and was received with q tremendous ova-
ton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
PRIVATE LUFF DEAD.
One of Gaines Troopers succumibs to
Typhoid Pneumonia

night of the death of Private Albert w.
Luff, Of Captain Gaines troop, which
occurred at the Preside yesterday.
Henry Luff. his brother, received in
formation yesterday that he was dan
gerously i'll of typhoid fever, and start
ed at once for San Francisco, but be-
fore he reached ogden he received the
news of Albert's death. The body will
be brought home for interment. De-
ceased was we'll known in this city, and
he is the only Utah volunteer who has
died in the service of his country
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
White Pass & Yukon Railway

Vancouver, B. c., Aug. 15.-Advices re-
ceived here today from London report
that the White Pass e Yukon Railway
company has been asking the public to
subscribe for s750,C90 worth of debentures,
70 be laid out in surveys of the line,
works. land. wharfage, etc. This COM
pany is the one that is building from
Skaguay to Selkirk, a distance of 325
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16

wave that has never had a parallel
here within the memory of man. The
maximum has been 102, 100, 107, f03,
log, 104, and 103 for several days. To
add to the disagreeableness of the
weather there has been a very low
barometer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
What Maddened Ike.

ter with YOU, KEEP asked the rural lawyer
of the rural editor. L never knew you
TO pitch into man the way you have into
the deacon.
Eyes. and / hain't through with him yet.
Think of that old skinfiint subscribin for
government bonds before he subscribed
for his home paper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16

When Captain Ducat returned from San
tiago he brought with him some souvenirs
of the great charge UP San Juan hill in
the shape of five empty Mauser shells and
a Mauser cartridge, which were picked up
on San Juan hill after the fighting.
These grim relics of the fierce battle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
Association of Ideas

Detroit Free Press: annie, dear" said
her dulcet-toned rival. these latest pho
tographs of yours make me think of
Tom. They're just like him
why, you old darling! Where's the
resemblance"
'They fiatter you So"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
Name For a Dog.

Chicago News: so you call your dog
Dewey. do you? 1t seems to me that he's
a very homely looking cur to be honored
with such name.
but Dewey is an especially appropriate
name for this dog.
How 500"
he doing he's always ready to suspend
operations for breakfast.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
Mauser Cartridge acual sze of Five Exploded Shells

We're presented to the captain. who has
brought them with him to Fort Douglas.
The cuts illustrate the cartridge, actual
size, and reduced picture of a set OF
five shells, that being the number used in
the Mauser magazine.
The relics were presented by Captain
Ducat to Major H. c. Hill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
American Cyclist Won

Paris, Aug. &c. w. Miller, the
American cyclist, won the 72-hour BIZ
cycle race here today, covering 1872
kilometres. Frederick, the Swiss cy-
ciist, was second, covering 1907 kilos.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
One He Didn't Know.

Chicago Daily News: What an excep-
tional person that. man Blgley is.
IN what Way?
He doesn't seem to know anybody that
Just missed going on that boat which was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
THE BOYS WARSHIP.
Young Americans Starting Fund at
New York City.

New York, Aug. 15.-W Rankin Good
and Harry J. Price, the Cincinnati boys
who are raising fund to buy battle
snip TO replace the Maine, called on
Acting Mayor Guggenheimer today to
explain their purpose and seek his en-
lorsement. Young Good asked the act
ing mayor to recommend them to the
school commissioners and to act as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16

General Weyler was governor of the
islands for four years. He saved
81 .OO0, 600 out Of his annual salary OK
5000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16

Boston-First game, Boston, 4; Cleve-
land, 8. Second game, Boston, g.; Cleve-
land. O.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
Blunders at Santiago.

London, Aug. 1.-THE Santiago cor
respondent of the Times, who acted as
interpreter for General Shafter dur
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16

Philadelphia-St. Louis, Z; Philadel.
phia, 4.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
CALIFORNIA; Hot Wave.

San Francisco. Aug. 15.-There has
just passed over this section hot
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16

Baltimore-First game, Baltimore, 8
Pittsblyg. 3. Second game, Baltimore
6; Pitt.3urg, 1.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-16
ON THE DThMoNO

Observation-Disclosures, 1; Louis
vile, 8.
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New York-Brooklyn, 0; cincinnati, 5.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
A PROSAIC SERENADE.

Oh, come, my love, to your window
now!
The moon is shining clear,
And the night wind softly fans m,
brow,
AS l stand singing here.
I an picking away on my old guitar,
AS l MARBLE my little song,
But you know I'm a sufferer from ca
tarrh,
So l mustn't stay too long.
Oh, come, my love! Look down~sn me
From your chamber window sW>el!
There isn't a soul around to see, =
There's nobody in the street.
Though across the way a complaining
Is begging me to shut up,
And the fellow next door, as fast as he
Is loosing his brindle pup.
Oh, come, my love, to your window,
quick,
For soon l oudll nave W SO.
I was almost hit just now by a brick
That l saw your father throw!
I love you, dear, and my love l sing
In the most melodious way,
But it's dangerous here and to life
cling,
And, so, oh, my love, good-day!
-Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

So finely are the scales of nature ad-
justed that it is probable every defect
has its compensation near at hand.
Mans part is to find it. In Kansas
and Nebraska the rainfall is insufficient
to supply the needs of agricultural
vegetation. Nevertheless it has re-
Gently been ascertained that an mex
haustible deposit of water lies directly
below all the arid region; while the
wind, natures agent to lift the water,
blows during the whole summer. It
was from air registering one hundred
degrees below zero that Nansen, by
means Of a windmill, wrested the
power to light and heat his ice-bound
Fran.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

There are in the principal cotton
spinning countries of the world about
81, 600, 900 spindles and 1920, 900
looms. OF these totals As, 200, 900
spindles and $50, 0OOlooms are credited
to England. In the last ten years
there has been an increase of more
than 5000, 900 spindles and so. 900
looms in Great Britain. Nevertheless.
the exports of cotton have gone down
instead Of up during this period. The
United States now have II, 800, 900
spindles, against 1880, 900 ten years
ago, and 354, 900 looms, while the
European Continent has o. 0 600
srindles ia, 900, 900 in 1897 and $780,
600 looms. The exports of textile ma
chinery from Great Britain have in
creased from $26, 600, 600 in 1898 to
s33, 500, 900 in 1896.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
Ia the Days of Old.

The fashionable folk of Edward Tvs
court rose with the lark, dispatched
their dinner at II o'clock, and shortly
after 8 were wrapped in slumber. In
the northumberland House Book for
1872, 1t Is set forth that the family
rose at 6 in the morning, breakfasted
at Z, dined at 10, and supped at 4 in
the afternoon. The gates were. all
shut at g., and no further ingress or
egress permitted. In 1870, at the Uni
versity of Oxford, it was USUAL to dine
at II o'clock, and sup at 8 in the after
noon. The dinner hour, which was
once as early at 10 o'clock, has grad
ually got later and later, until now it
would be thought very eccentric in the
fashionable world to sit down to table
earlier than half-past six o'clock, while
others extend it to 8 or 1O.-Chicago
Times-Herald.
GET A WHOLE LOT FOR NOTHING.
The nan who always wants some
thing for nothing made a discovery in
a Diamond street restaurant. A waiter
upset a glass on the handicapped
lunch counter, breaking the edge of
the glass. The waiter carelessly tossed
it under the counter and got another
with a smooth edge for the customer
he was serving.
what do you do with glasses thus
slightly damaged?" asked the customer
of the restaurant proprietor, relating
the circumstance.
ooh, we give them away; have to get
rid of them; can't endanger the lips Of
customers by serving them IN nicked
glasses. But why are you interested?"
"Why, I thought if you would give
me a few of the old glasses my wife
might use them for jellies."
"Give me your address and I'll send
you some," volunteered the restaur-
ant keeper.
The man for a longing for articles
without price went away gleefully, cal
culating mentally on how much he had
saved on jelly glasses. Two days
later, when he went home from bust
ness, he found thirteen barrels in his
back yard. His wife said she supposed
he had sent them and she paid the man
$4.75 for delivering them. When
opened, the barrels were found to con-
tain broken glassware and china of all
sorts. None of it couYd be used, not
even for jelly glasses. An ash hauler
charged 81 for taking away the rub
bish. The man who wants things for
nothing has withdrawn his patronage
from a particular restaurant in Dia-
mond street.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tel-
egraph.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

"You may fire when you are ready,
Mr.. Gridley," said Admiral Dewey to
the Commander Of the flagship Olym-
pia on that memorable May day in the
harbor Of Mauila, and the battle be-
gan. The glorious victory was not Sc
cured quite SO cheap1y as we thought,
after all. Captain Gridley was in
jured and, being invalided, died on
his way home at Kobe, Japan. He is
the first officer of high rank to perish
IS the result of the war, and his mem
DRY will be justly honored as much as
if he had died on the deck of his ship
in the thick of battle on that Sunday
morning when he opened the fire upon
the Spanish fleet.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

Germany's debt in 1877 was 49,
O00, 600. In 1887 it had increased to
nearly 1925, 600, 900. It is o $685.
CSC, 1000, and is still going up with a
steadiness which bears strong testi-
mony to the financial resources of the
frugal Fatherland. 1t will soon be
able to point with pride to a national
debt Of the highest class, scientifically
adjusted to the capacity of the people
to bear it, like a pa%ck-saddle to the
back of an Andorra mule, just shade
easier to stand up under than to lie
down under.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

A.powerful labor organization OF
New York City, Typographical Union
No. s, IS making the interesting ex-
pertinent of teaching it's unemployed
members how to make O living by
truck-farming. The union has Sc
cured from the city q tract Of ground
comprising two hundred and fifty
acres. Each applicant receives half
an acre for purposes of cultivation,
and is expected to devote q minimum
time of twenty days TO the task dur
ing the season. The preliminary ex-
penses of the farming operations are
borne by the union, in cooperation
with q charitable organization Of New
York. So far, many members OF the
union, Who would otherwise be in
idleness, ! spending their time
probably in proving the practicable
Iity OF this industrial experiment.
-
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
NAVAL FLAG SIGNALS.
A Key by Which LandIubbers May Interpret

Sea Signals.
An admiral's flag is square, with four
stars in a diamond on a blue ground;
a vice admiral's has three stars, form
ing half a diamond. Rear admirals
have three flags, according to rank,
viz: Blue, with two white stars in the
center Of the field, one above the 9TH
er; red, with two white stars; white,
with two blue stars. Commodores have
also three flags-blue, red, white, sWal-
low tail, bearing one star in center of
field.
The secretary. of the navy floats a
blue square fag-a foul anchor sur
rounded by for white stars. This flag
came into US in 1850.
M ""{nltfnN he President comes on board
a United States vessel a blue square
flag containing the arms of the United
States is hoisted at the main, honor
ed with a salute Of twenty-one guns,
and remains aloft while the President
stays aboard. The vice president Is
received with the American ensign at
the fore.
A flag of truce is a white flag dis
played to an enemy to indicate a desire
for parley or consultation.
The red flag is the mark Of danger,
and shows a vessel to be receiving OF
discharging powder.
The black is the symbol Of piracy.
The yellow flag belongs to the quar-
antine service, and when displayed is a
sign of contagious disease.
A convoy flag is white, triangular in
shape, bordered with red, and is worn
by men of war when conveying mer-
chant vessels.
A pilot flag is the jack, bordered
with red, hoisted at the fore.
A compass flag Is a square flag divid-
ed into four squares or c~antons-blue,
yellow, white, red-hoisted owe the
mineral flags of the signal code rep
resenting the points Of the compass.
A dispatch flag is a white square flag
with five blue crosses, generally known
as the five of clubs; hoisted forward
denotes important and urgent special
service, which must not be interfered
with by any officer junior to the one
by whom it was dispatched.
A church pennant is a white pennant
without swallow tails, charged with a
blue Latin cross, hoisted at the peak
during divine service, over the en-
sign.
The cornet is a square flag divided
into four equal parts of alternate red
and white, and when hoisted anywhere
without other flags is a peremptory
order for all absent boats and officers
to return On board without delay. It
Is also a signal for sailing, and has
long been used in the navy for that
purpose.
To strike the flag is to lower the
national colors. A flag at half mast
means a death has occurred, and hoist
ed union side down is a signal of dis
tress. Dipping the colors is lowering
the ensign some distance, and then
hosting 1t again to salute a vessel or
fort.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
The Value of Nickel.

Nickel is a modern metal. It was
not in use nor known of till 1715. 1t
has now largely taken the place of sill
yer in plated ware, and as an alloy
with steel it is superior to any other
metal, for it is not only non-corrodible
itself, but it transfers the same quality
to steel; even when combined as low
as five per cent. prevents oxidation.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

The crop expert Of the Orange Judd
Farmer figures it out from present in
dications that we shall have a 7OO,-
900, 900 bushel yield of wheat this
year. The outside commercial esti-
mate of the 1897 crop was $50, 600, 900
bushels, and the biggest harvest ever
reaped-that of 1991-was 6S5,-
600, 900 bushels, so it can be imagined
with what a glow Of prosperity the
country will be painted.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

against it. I hadn't been able to fee:
her make the contact.
Two deep grooves in the Old tie
showed where the fianges of the Griv-
ers lad cut into it. as I frautically
slipped her for ten or fifteen minutes.
Even now the thought of that exper-
fence nearly overcomes me.-Herbert
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

The copra is a preparation of the
cocoanut made in great quantities in
tropical islands oil cver the world. It
seems to be q relatively new product
for the Philippines; II, 500 tons were
exported in 1898. The cocoa palm is
very common and highly priced in the
Philippines. All parts of it are used.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

Truly, we live in an appreciative
age. Bravery meets with prompt re-
ward. Fidelity to duty receives quick
favor. All commanding officers of
Dewey's fleet are promoted for gal
lantry, and all the world %applauds.
Faith, hope and charity are abroad in
the land.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
Atlantic Fogs.

The captain of an Atlantic liner, at
ter many calculations, has come to the
conclusion that the general size of a
fog in the Atlantic is about thirty miles
in diameter.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

Ex-President Harrison declared the
sinking the Merrimac in the entrance
to Santiago without a parallel in his
tory.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
oPELOUsAs. LOUISIANA.
Oklahama is preparing to offer a
80, 600, 900 bushel crop of wheat as an
argument for statehood.

When he takes an inventory of cap
tured ships Uncle Sam will reflect
that everything comes to him who
waits; even q navy.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10
DENECHAUD
THE VALUE OF PERSISTENCE.
How a Stranger Got and Kept a Good
lob.

How a Stranger Got and Kept a Good
Job.
"I'm lookin' for a job. I'm a good
Teller and I'll work cheap"
This is the language in which an hon
est and rather simple looking nan ap-
preached the head Of a Chicago firm.
"Sorry," smiled the proprietor, "but
we have nothing to offer just now. Call
round again"
Jake, as he called himself, walked
away a couple Of blocks, and then
faced about and returned to repeat his
application.
II been here" he said, EUR a job, and
you told me to come again. I'm here"
The proprietor, being busy, did not
recall the previous visit, and, after in
forming Jake that there was nothing
for him yet, asked him to come again.
This time Jake made a round trip Of
about half a mile, and again dropped in,
offering his services as twice before.
persistent and looks honest said
the proprietor to his bookkeeper. "Won-
der what he could do?"
Might give him a chance to collect
some of our impossible accounts"
laughed the bookkeeper. Hes the kind
Of a nan to keep pegging away, and
even creditors a be worn out"
Jake was given some of the worst old
accounts that could be hunted up and
started out. BY making forty or fifty
calls on the same man on the same day
he began to make an impression, and
the firm is now getting a good deal of
money that had long since been charged
to profit and loss.
The radius of influence of a great
institution of learning is strikingly sug-
gested by a recent gathering in historic
Lucknow, when twenty-one mission
aries came from all parts of the Indian
Empire to organize the Boston Uni
tersity Alumni Association Of Southern
Asia. Most ittingly to their and other
fostering mothers might n apply the
Psalmist's saying, ''Their line is gone
out through all the earth, and tEesz
words to the end of the world"
The Opelousas courier., 1898-09-10

/ saw a flicker Of light under a box
car, then a lantern-several lanterns.
The tug had whistled and the crew was
coming. I glanced a%nxiously back. The
float was stuck again. I wanted to yell
to the crew to hurry up, but was
ashamed to do so.
They had started when they heard
the tug whistle, but had seen that The
tide had damned the float again, so
they took their time and came down
the bridge in a leisurely manner, smok-
ing their pipes, swinging their Ian
terms, and talking and laughing as if
they had not a care in the world.
My fireman was with them. My in
digntion toward him rose to the point
OF fury.
My steam was nearly gone, but,
thank heaven! the float was moving
again, and was coming steadily ahead.
At last-the most grateful sound I ever
heard-she bumped cumbrous1y into
the bridge.
/ closed the throttle just as the con-
ductor-a big, oyergrown bccby-came
abreast Of the cab, and leering up 10
where I stood, a b~reathless, perspiripg,
nervous wreck, he asked:
What you trying to do, engineer
saw the stop-block off,"
| climbed weakly down to the bridge
and found that before leaving the crew
had fastened cross the rails an old
tie that was used as a stop-block when
the engine had to stop there for any
length Of time.
The engine had stood a foot or two
ahead of 1t, and as I was slipping her
fariously when she sagged back
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-09-03
AN uNKNowN Suicide.
Body ofa Man Found Quarter of = Mile
from Barsias bridge.

Body ofa Man Found Quarter of a Mile
from Barsias hridge.
The body OF an unknown suicide was
found under a tree on the west side Of
the bed of the Rio Granda and about a
quarter OF mile south OF the Barelas
bridge at O'Clock this morning. The
man, who was about i0 years Old and
weighed probably l75 pounds, had eyi-
IDENTIFY shot himself but "A few minutes
before that hour, "a the tree under which
the body WAS lying Is alongside a road
aud the Diet passerby must nave seen the
form Of thesuicide. Felipe Hubbell, who
was driving TO- the city, discovered the
dead man, aud. remaining TO watch the
tody, sent a young man, who was with
him, 10 notify the sheriff.
sheriff tlubhell and Marshal McMillin
we're soon on the scene, followed a min
ute later by IA CITIZEN reporter.
The bullet that ended the mans life
was fred from new 45.calibre Colts
Frontier revolver held in the suicides
right hand He had doubtless aimed at
hl- heart. as the bail passed through his
body slightly below that organ.
There were no letters or pipers on the
mans person that would lead TO hi,
Identification. A quantity Of plug and
smoking tobacco, pair Of spectacles and
q silver watch were the only article.
found In his pockets. lie wore the Oif
Fellow symbol, three links button on
his coat lapel.
A comparatively new hat bore the nam,
Of Monaghan q Murphy, Needles, Cali
rOrnia, on the inner band. From this Il
6, taken that the man IL recent arriya
CON the Needles. tie appears 10 be- d
machinist. a miner or railroad work
man of some kind. His shoes, pair o
golfers, are almost new, while his cloth
ing il in fair condition. lie also wore
heavy steel truss.
The mans head il partially bald ant
the left eye seems TO bear cast Of SOM
kind.
Undertaken Montfort drove out and Va
cured the body aud having prepared tn
remains IL holding the same, thinkini
that some one here might know the man
A large number OF people have In
speeted the remains during the day, bu
at the time OF going TO press no one ha
succeeded in Identifying them.
Arthur Everitt states that he repaired
the watch In 1891 which was found OF
| his person.
The police have been unable TO fnD
any place where he purchased his cart
ridges and revolver. so he eyidentl
bought IL In some other town.