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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
To THE FARMERS Of Utah

If you haven't seen the Utah Land
Guide" send for it at once.
1t contains the most useful information
for farmers ever published.
Mailed 10 any address on recent or .
cents. w NJ. WANTLAND,
212 South Main. Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY

SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY.
Daily time card. in effect September
18th. 1893.
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
salt Lake. Farming Farming Salt Lake.
ton * La ton * La
coon. COON.
100 a. n, TAO a. m. 100 a.. m. $50 a. m.
e:s0 a m. 1910 a m. 1879 a. m. 11:1O a. m
3:3O %. m. 4:IO p. NJ. 4:3O p. IN $40 p m
$50 D. m 6:10 p. m. $50 p. m. I:l0 p n.
Additional trains Sundays and Holidays:
Leave SAILS Lake. II 30 a. m: 80 D. m.
Leave Lagoon. 12:30 p. m; 2:3O. p. n
Round trip to Beck's. including bath.
Fl. w. EARLY, SIMON BAMBERGER.
Pass. Agt- Gen. MnSr.
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SssSIs Time Table.


No. 2-For Provo. Grand juno
ton and all points east........ $50 am.
No. For Provo. Grand juno
ton and all points east......... 7:40 pm
No. 6-For Bingham, Lehl, Pro-
vo. Mt. Pleasant. Manti. Bel
KNAPP and intermediate points. 500 am.
No. S-For Eureka. Payson. Pro-
vo and intermediate points,. 500 pm.
No. 3-For Ogden and vest. $50 pm.
No. 1-For Ogden and west......12:SO I'm.
No. 42-For Park City,. S:25 am.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No, From Bingham. Provo,
Grand Junction and the east. 30 I'm.
No. 3-From Provo. Grand juno
ton and east NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 900 .. m.
No. 5-From Provo, Bingham.
Eureka. Belknap. Manti and
termediate pOints................. 5:25 pm.
No. 2-From Ogden and the west $40 am.
No. 4-FrOm Ogden and the west 1880 pm.
No From Eureka. Payson,
Provo and intermediate points 1000 am.
No. 41-F'rom Park City........... $50 p. m.
Ticket Office. 1O3 West Second South.
Postoffice Corner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30

Professor Howard. with his classes
in zoology, spent yesterday forenoon up
City Creek canyon upon an insecting
tour
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

homes. Dot knew it, and she was CRATE
full.
But, dearl If only Cousin Tirzah did
not have such strange ideas about girls.
Dot did so dearly love a good time now
and then. IL was only now and then; IL
was not five or six times a week; IL was
not "traipsng' lit was not enough to
tucker her out" All the other girls
could go and have fun enough to talk
about for a week afterward. Dot gave a
tremulous great sigh, almost sob.
"Dorothea,' said Cousin Tirzah. II
thought you were more sensible. Can't
you put your mind where 1t ought TO
be-"
Dot strove to put II where Is should be.
She tried to eat her supper cheerfully, but
an hour after supper she found that her
mind was still just where 1t had been.
"Pve got a kind Of a headache" she
said. forlornly. Il guess IN go TO bed,
Cousin Tirzah.'
Already? Very well Take my CAM
phor bottle" said Cousin Tirzah
Up In her room Dot leaned out at the
window. The moon was almost fun and
the world bright beneath it. What night
for the straw ride! Hark-she heard some
Of them going past, on their way TO Della
Ridgleys, talking and laughing and car
rying on" She listened TO the last mer-
~ echo. A big, hot tear splashed down
on the sill
Suddenly she jumped to her feet. She
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
YOUTHS PAGE


as a chronometer. Each one costs about
$1,000"
How many torpedoes are there on a
battleshlp?'
six or eight; that is there have been.
But l may tell you that in the future it
is likely our big lighting ships like the
oregon ana the Brooklyn will go into
action without any torpedoes aboard. That
is one of the things we have learned in
the present war"
How do You mean?'
Il mean that torpedoes are too danger
Gus against the ship that carries them
to make their general use desirable. You
see. if an enemy's shell happens to strike
one Of the torpedoes il is good-hy ship
That is one reason why che Spaniards suf-
fered so cruelty; we succeeded in eXplod-
ing some of their torpedoes; and but for
good luck or bad shooting they might
have returned the compliment
"Then how will torpedoes be used in the
future?"
Perhaps on fighting ships specially con-
structed to carry high explosives"
Like the Vesuvius?"
eyes; except designed for the use Of
torpedoes. You know, the Vesuvious
throws dynamite"
us dynamite as dangerous as gun-cot-
ton?"
More dangerous, just as nitro-glycerin
is more dangerous than dynamite. Nitro
glycerin is not used at all in modern guns"
AS a final question l asked how much
dynamite the Vesuvius throws, and earn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

them good, and get all the black out from
under the nails, and then fasten them on
him again; so that in the morning when
he awoke, he was clean, and he did not
have to stand and wait and cry while
his mother was attending to his fingers.
Whenever he did not want to be dis
turbed by hearing a noise, he would take
off his ears and put them in his pocket.
When he wished to see over high fence
or over some ones shoulder he would take
out an eye and hold it up and thus could
see without any trouble, even if he could
not get his head up high enough. When
he wanted TO write notes in school, (which
he sometimes did, 1 am sorry to say, he
would take off his right hand and slip it
over to the boy sitting behind him, and
then take out an eye and give it also to
the same boy; then the boy would write
notes on his slate, and the eye would read
them and the hand would answer them;
and all the while the loose boy apparently
would be studying his book.
Now, you may think this is all very
fine and you may wish that you were like
this boy; but there were some things that
were not very pleasant about it, Like all
boys, he was very forgetful some times.
He would get halfway TO school some
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

money and all about it," Durfee jack
son laughed. Keeps 1t locked up in
secretary upstairs"
Easy busted" said the other.
Il should say so, ruther," said Durfee
Jackson, with the staggering voice that
Dot knew. There's silver and stuff, too;
the old lady's well off. She's got enough
spoons To-
ANY man there?"
Mop. Feller that works for her goes
home nights, I've found that out. There's
just her and a woman that does the work
and a little gall
The little gal" leaned against the barns
side She felt as If her heart had quite
stopped beating; she wanted to scream,
and she pressed her hands over her mouth
She had heard enough; child, even,
might have understood IT, Her thoughts
We're like lightning flashes Durfee jack
son, who had robbed postofiice-he, and
another man, that night, at 1 o'clock-the
yellow house with the cupola, cousin Tir-
zah's house-the money Ia the secretary
upstairs. And nobody there but cousin TTr-
zah and Janet and herself
A great wave Of something stronger than
fear swept DISQUALIFICATION. Durfee Jack
son. 10 be meaning TO break into Cousin
Tirzahs house and steal her money! II
was too awful 20 believe
She thought swiftly. She knew exactly
what she should do. She had lost her ter
ror Even II they saw her, even II they
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

boys and arrested them and brought back
to the loose boy all his members.
Now When the little loose boy got home
and told his parents about what had hap
pened to him, they were much frightened,
and said: This will not do. What if those
boys had succeeded in getting away; then
our child would have gone through all his
life a cripple. We must do something at
once to stick him together tight"
So they went TO the carpenter and said:
can you fasten our little boy togethe.
so he won't come apart?" But the carpen
ter answered: why, no. l have only nails
and screws and they would hurt him if l
drive them in"
man who makes the paste by which the
bills are stuck on the fences and walls
and asked can you paste our little
boy together, Mr.. Pasteman. so he won't
come apart?" But the paste man an
swered: Il can stick him together, but if
he goes in swimming he viii melt apart
and come to pieces"
Then they went to the blacksmith and
inquired: Can you weld our little boy
together?" and the blacksmith replied:
NO; not without heating him red-hot
and that would burn him too badly"
Then they went to the string man, but
he said chat tying the boy up with string
would not be of much use, for somebody
might unite him. And then they went to
the baker, but found the boy could not be
baked solid without burning; aand to the
plasterer, and found that plastering would
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

morning and discover that he had forgot
ten his left ear, and would have to run
all the way back home to get it, Once
he had two of his fingers off, playing
with Them in church; and when the col
lection box was passed around he drop
ped in a finger by mistake, instead of a
penny, then he cried out loud: "Oh, say,
you've got my finger" and everybody
laughed. Another time his father told him
to run quickly TO the drug store and get
some medicine; he jumped up and hasten
ed to the shore only to find when he got
there that ne had fotgotten his head and
could not ask for what he wanted be-
cause, of course, he didn't have his mouth
with him. You see, his mother happened
to be washing and comoing his head when
he ran out.
But the worst thing Of all happened to
him one day as he was coming home from
school, Some bad boys caught him, and
one of them said:
What did you call me that name for
the other day."
Now. he had never called the bad boy
a name at all; but, you know, that is a
way bad boys have of doing; when they
want to pick quarrel and can find no
excuse, they just walk up to another boy,
usually to one smaller than themselves,
and say: what did you call me that
name for?" or, "Why did you throw that
brick at me yesterday" or What made
you tell the teacher on me?' and then
they go to fighting the little boy.
So these bad fellows met the little loose
boy ana asked him why he had called them
names. and then, before he could answer,
they pitched into him and began to pull
him apart. One Of them Jerked off leg,
another an arm, another his nose. and
another an ear. and then they scampered
away as fast as they could. So he leaned
up against the fence and cried. And a
policeman came along and pursued the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
RABBITS FOR HUNGRY SNAKES.
If Is Not Pleasant sight TO See Rat
Tors Fed in the Zoo.


tiers Fed in the Zoo.
Come around some evening and see me
feed those rattlesnakes,' said the keeper
of the zoo, as l stood watching the Ian
guild writings of two fine specimens. 1--WE
feed them in the evening to escape obser-
walton. as it is not altogether a pleasant
sight for the over-sensitive to witness.
But it is natures arrangement, not ours,
and if these big fellows were on their ma
tive heath, the same slaughter of the in
pocents would be bound to occur
you see, they prefer killing their own
prev. and often-though 1 regret to say,
not aIways-it is an instantaneous process.
We let loose in the cage three or four
good-sized rabbits; usually the rattlers at
Jack them at once and make short work
Of their victims. They do not begin their
meal, however, until some time after death
has taken place They are really very
iasddious in their reptilian way, and wait
until their meat is in a proper condition,
according to their ideas, just as we would
wait for ours to cook. Then they begin
always at the healthier slow process of
swallowing, and it is sometimes two or
three hours before you see the tip of the
tail finally disappear from their capacious
mouths. Thus disposed Of the Inflated
prey slowly works its way down the long
body of the snake, and it is two or three
weeks before digestion really begins.
How often do we feed them? Once
in four months. They are more refined in
this particular than some people, as they
never eat unless hungry. We once tried
feeding them before their long fast was
up. They did not rise to the occasion at
all, but one of the rats that we had put
into the cage for their evening meal, did.
and forthwith attacked and killed one of
our finest specimens. Those fellows there
are beginning to feel the pangs of hunger
now. You can tell by their generally lean
and gaunt appearance and by their rest
lessness, After being fed they remain in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
THE coy ALL LOOSE.
SOME OF THE CoNVENIENCEs AND
ANNOYANCEs OF FAILING TO
PIECES.

While 1t Was Fun TO Leave His Hair
and Face and Ears With His
Mother TO Be Combed and Washed,
Ii Proved "a Nuisance to Forget
His Head When on the Way to
school.
Copyright, 1885, by Frank Crane.
One time there was a boy who was all
lose. His arms and hands and feet and
legs and head, and everything like that,
were not grown tight to him, as yours ana
mine are; but they were simply fastened
on so he.could take them off. This was a
great convenience to him in many ways.
When one Of his eyes was sore he did not
have to go TO the DOCTOR as other boys
must do, but he could take out his eye
and leave it at the doctors Office to be
cured while he would go on with his play
When his mamma was helping him dress
in the morning, she would take off his head
and wash its face and comb it's hair, while
his body went on dressing. And it was
easy for him TO put on his shoes and stock
ings, too. He did not have 10 stoop over
and work hard TO keep his stockings from
getting into a lump when he drew on his
Shoes he would just take off leg, put
on the stocking and shoe easily and then
snap the leg on again
His mamma always waited until he was
sleep to clean his finger nails She would
quietly take off all his fingers, without
waking him up, wash them and brush
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
By Emma A. Upper.


Dot knew who had rung, and surely
enough, she opened the door to Harlow
Seaman.
We're going to meet at Della Rldg-
leys," he said, "at 7:S0 O'clock and start
from there-Whats the mattef?" he broke
off.
For Dots face was lugubrious. Il can't
so. Harlow" she said
Cant So" Harlow echoed. Can't so
to the straw ride! Why says you can't?"
Cousin Tirzah," said Dot, speaking low
and Harlow saw that Mrs Eldred. Dots
Cousin Tirzah, was in the sitting room
within hearing. He backed down the
steps, his face twisted with deep scowl
of indignant sympathy
"Who was it?" Cousin Tirzah inquired.
Harlow Seaman" said Dot; she could
not keep tremble out of her voice
about that straw ride? Well" said
Cousin Tirzah. Il wouldn't have you go
ing off like that, with a great noisy raft Of
youngsters"
ITS just the boys and girls in our set"
said Dot.
Going off goodness knows where"
Cousin Tirzah pursued land getting home
goodness knows whenW
ITS only five miles over to Fanny Good
sells, and they're coming home real ear
ly," said Dot
Cousin Tirzah frowned. 'If It was
party right here in town." she began.
But you wouldn't let me go to Sarah
Lyons party last week, nor 20 Joe EN-
ery's,' said Dot, nor"
THAT will do" said Cousin Tirzah 81
had my reasons, Dorothea. l don't believe
in letting girls of your age 30 tralpsing
off FIVE or six nights in the week to all
kinds of doings. 1t isn't good for them. 1t
wears and fuckers them all out. I've got
my good reasons, Dorothea," said Cousin
Tirzah; she called Dot Dorothea in her
severer moods Il have your best good at
heart; don't l always consider your best
good?"
"Yes'm," said Dot, and she tried to think
about that. Cousin Tirzah was good to
her She was very distant cousin, but
when Dots father had died and left her
alone, being widow and very comforta-
bly, off, Cousin Tirzah had taken Dot. And
she had given her a good home the best Of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
VEGETABLE MARRIAGES.
S,r,uge HindoO Custom by which
d, Girl metimes WEEDS a Tree.

l.
II, certain Hindoo regions a young wo-
In cannot wed until sfter the marriage
l.'i ts- eldest sister. But the difficulty is
o-oi4e5 by the older sister espousing at
op'r-,,-i-I a tree or plant. following in do
.n9 IN the theories of metaphysics. in the
II1zbr,anfc world. The Inconvenience is
- rra7t in having for brother-in-law a
r,,I,r or a fig tree and one can always
ssslsrr tree having a heart like the oak.
r., who desire widowhood could choose
r..ping willow, and those endowed with
on ansociable character, the acacia.
In many places these symbolical IN
Inns do not much constrain those who
nortract them. They marry again, having
4r.t thrown into the fire the plant TO which
tb4v had plighted their first vows. But in
,bose regions winch have not been affect
al NV European influence such marriages
have the value and importance of a sol
ar,n religious VOW. Those who try to evade
tL.n' are sure to have reason 10 repent of
For the Brahmans watch with jeolous
.ar. 10 see that the promise is rigidly kept
and they use means of coercion very eff
fcaei1us against those who would be I'M
faithful
In he mountainous districts around
DeIbi. the holy city, perjured women have
oflen been thrown to the flames. AT Ne
raul where manners are more rude, the
customs are less barbarous. The unfalth-
fni are simply chained during several
weeks in some underground place, or sub
iected 10 a severe fast.
On The contrary, those who remain con-
etaut to the VOW to the honey-suckle are
nai5 great honor. For it is that fragrant
and beautiful plant which is nearly al
wavs chosen as spouse to the young Hin
doc girls. In springtime the appearance of
the first flowers of the honeysuckle is the
signal for a great feast and for imposing
religious ceremonies in which the greatest
respect is shown these strange married
opfs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
POWDER AND SHOT.
Precautions Necessary in Handling
GuncOttOn.


GuncOttOn.
New York, Dec. 2.-We had come into the
store room for torpedoes at the Brooklyn
navy yard and the talk turned to high eX-
plosives.
1--WE have to keep sharp watch on the
guncotton," said one of the gunners who
was with me, ito see that it does not get
dry and does not get too acid There is
never a day goes by on a battleship but
careful inspection is made of the stores
of guncotton. Dip in a piece of litmus pa
per, and see if it comes out blue; if it does
all is wen. but beware if it comes out
red. That means acid and acid means
danger
what do you do when it comes out
red?" I asked.
"Neuralize the acid. You see, guncotton
deteriorates lot in an acid solution"
do you always keep the guncotton
vyei?'
Always; that's one of the first princi-
pies. When it's wet it's safe; when ats
dry it isn't. Let it have all the wafer it
win soak up, which is about 30 per cent"
suppose you were 70 TOUCH Oll SCillN
guncotton here on the ground, what would
happen?'
Nothing 1t all if it wasn't confined You
might burn a ton of it like cordwood in a
bonfire and you'd only get a pretty flame.
But pack 1t in a tin box, even fiimsy
one. and you'll have fun. And of course.
the stronger the box the more fun you'h
have"
How is the guncotton brought here?"
q cro.r
Most of what we use is made in this coun-
try, but during the war We imported
lot from abroad. A few weeks ago 1,SO0
cases Of imported guncottOn We're landed
here off the steamer that brought it. In
peace times il. would have been landed al
Gravesend bay for greater safety, but In
war we have to take changes. That day
ferry boats in New York harbor splashed
by fifty tons of the stuff, and never knew
it,"
How much guncotton is there in Il
case?"
Just enough for a single load sixty
pounds. That lot was for the twelve-inch
mortars, that throw a projectile weighing
half a ton"
Throw it how far?"
"Oh, five or six miles, and then the gun
cotton explodes."
The gunner went on to tell about the
carried by the battleships. There Is about
a hundred pounds of this in each torpedo,
but It is all packed in the small, pointed
steel head, the long, polished body being
occupied with the machinery for propen-
ing the torpedo and with the compressed
air reservoir.
care the torpedo heads made Of hard
ened steel so as to penetrate armor?" 1
asked
"Oh no." he said. they are quite soft.
just rigid enough to resist the water pres
sure as they are driven through il. The
explosion comes instantly when they strike
the side Of a ship"
Theb he went into details about tandem
propelors and intricate devices by which
the torpedos rudder may be set for any
depth from five to twenty feet A great
silver FISH, the modern torpedo Is, twice
as long as a man, with a little deadly head
and body fun OF apparatus as delicate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

not stick; and at last they gave up in
despair, and all three, father, mother and
loose boy, sat down upon the edge of the
sidewalk and cried.
They cried and cried and cried. And
they shed so many tears that the gutter
was filed with tear water. And they kept
on crying until the gutter became river,
a great river of tear-water. Then the little
boy said:
Lets sail away to land where there
are no loose people"
So they got into a boat and sailed away,
away out of sight, and they were never
heard of afterwards.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
WONDERFUL WATCHES.
comparison Between the First and
Last Watches Made shows EnOr-
nous Progress

Comparison Between the First and
Last Watches Made shows EnOr-
nous Progress.
During the recent watchmakers' con-
VenLon at Berlin, Germany, there was an
interesting collection of rare and curious
watches exhibited, where the progress Of
the art Of matchmaking could be studied
from its first beginnings in the fifteenth
century to this day. Comparison between
We earliest and the latest products of the
art brings out the enormous progress made
!" lais, as in every other industry. our
Illustrations show alongside of each other
ue irst known specimen of a watch con-
suucted by The young Nurmenberg lock-
sul+Oil, Peter Henlein, called for short Hele,
uua The smallest watch ever made, recently
.oMpieted in Swiss factory. Hele was
VI, ule hrst to employ a spring in watch all
,e parts of which ne made of stee. Or
non His watch weighed couple Of
tO~nds. The little watch is here Illus
~aled full size. It's face is six mill
da'l1ers or about quarter of an inch in
ttt'otheter, and it would take about 500 of
a'se watches to weigh a pound. Yet
price is In no proportion with the
mount of material employed In it's con-
rt eOon, for It's costs $1,000. This price
Sitly represents the cost of making this
"g watch, for in its production entirely
machinery and tools had TO be used
f' invented in part, which are useless
''' any other purpose.