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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
INCREASED ARMY NEEDED.

An important question to be dis
cnssed at the coming short session Of
congress is that of reorganizing the
army. The general impression, ac-
cording to a Washington dispatch, is
That the regular army should consist of
100000 men, and that number viii no
doubt be recommended in the draft of
the bin being prepared by the war de-
partment.
Others, who have given some thought
to the matter, suggest that q. regular
standing army OF $4,000 men and a pro-
visjonal army of $4,000 men, the latter
made up largely of natives Of the is
lands where the United States must do
garrison duty, would meet all require
ments.
With several millions of unruly saw
ages in Polynesia to deal with, and sew
eral millions Of revolutionary Spanish
fellow citizens to control, it is very
doubtful if an army of 100000 will be
equal 10 the task.
In a few years it may be an easy
matter to raise an army Of any size
required. By that time the ambitious
insurectionists win have become rec
onciled to the domination of Uncle
Sam. But, naturally there viii be a
reluctance about enlisting while the
present secretary of war is allowed to
hold the destinies of the soldiers in
his unsldlled hands. Americans, as a
rule, are not infatuated with the AL
gerian methods OF conducting a war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
FRANCE AND ITALY.

There is nothing alarming to the rest
of the world in that Franco-It
treaty. 1t is a commercial agreement.
not warlike alliance. A profitless tar
if rivalry has been injuring the trade
relations of both countries for a long
time, and both have grown weary of it
at last.
France has never regarded her ar
engagements with Russia as satisfac-
tory 1t has been a "heads I win. tails
you lose" partnership. In Asiatic com
plications France has been expecting
to assist Russia at the critical mo-
ment, but to the African difficulties
Russia has never paid any attention.
Russia is willing to accept all the aid
France is ready to give, but the
Frenchmen are to be satisfied with the
privilege Of being allowed to strike an
ancient foe
Rather than help Russia under such
conditions France would strengthen her
position in the commercial world, court
friendship where the blood is thicker
find allies nearer the Nile.
Inc dread OF Gallo isolation and the
fear of another conflict with England
in colonial expansion on the dark con-
tinent, has induced France to assert
her leadership of the Latin nations. a
place to which she is certainly entitled
by reason Of her wealth and the
strength of her army and navy.
Italy is impoverished and Spain is
crushed, but they have commercial
prestige in the Mediterranean and long
coast lines from which France would
derive some benefit as their military
leader and trade director.
But the announcement that the
scheme was to detach Italy from the
triple alliance and England appears to
have had little foundation. For the
present, at least, it is only an advan-
tageous trade arrangement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
CONSISTENT AT LEAST.

Ex-senator Edmunds, were he a
member of the house, would vote to
expel the congressman-elect from Utah.
This is what he is reported to have said
to a member Of the contest press bu-
reau at Washington.
OF course ne would. There is nothing
in the career or utterances of the gen
tleman from Vermont to indicate that
ne would take any other position. His
attitude, from the beginning down to
the present time has at least had the
merit of consistency.
The ex-senator never undertook to
profit by the support OF the class of
people he condemns; he never advised
them to take part in politics, to turn
against them now; he never was salts
fed with the conditions of Utah's ad
mission; he never told the people to
make a constitution simply to satisfy
the president and the preachers; he
never approved the candidacy OF men
or women involved in the system of
polygamy; he never supported them on
any ticket, in any campaign, or for any
Office, local or national.
Ex-senator Edmunds has a right to
continue the fight for which he is
chiefly noted in the west. It is his
fight. He has never given the people
of Utah to understand that it was over;
he has never, by word or act, condoned
conditions peculiar to this common
wealth; he has never intimated a will
lingness to allow the local problem to
solve ITSELF with the aid of time; he
has never played politics or talked in
political meetings from the same stand
with men whom he seeks to disfran
chise.
Ex-senator Edmunds' opposition to
Utah's congressman-elect is no sur
prise. Let the ex-senator oppose if he
likes. It comes as near being his right
as that of any living man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
SOME GOOD, SHORT STORIES
Breaking In a Book AGENT.

"I am afraid I once spoiled good
book agent said the head member of
a book agency to a Detroit Free Press
reporter.
I'VE had gotten out an expensive re-
ligious book. and had advertised for
agents to handle it.
Among the numerous applicants was
a tall, lanky youth. 1 asked him if he
thought he could sell books, and he
said that he reckoned he could.
VERY WE'LL said I, I'll see what
you can do. Take this book and con-
slider that 1 am your intended victim.
The price of the book runs from 81 to
81, but you must always endeavor TO
sell the highest-priced book, although
it is no disgrace if you only succeed in
selling the cheaper kind. If you sue
coed in selling me book I'll hire you.
Now go ahead
He took the book, fumbled it awk-
wardly. and then stammered:
" Ye don't wanter to buy a book, do
ye. mister"
Better buy one said he; I'll sell
it to We pretty cheap
Get out of here' L yelled, pretend
ing to be mad. Don't you see that sign,
Book agents not wanted?"
" I'll let We hey one for 81, mister.
SEEM it's ye,' said he, taking off his
coat and throwing it on the floor.
&" L am afraid [ began.
-Four dollars, mister, an cheap at
the price he added, as he rolled up
his shirt sleeves.
II didn't like the looks of all these
warlike proceedings, and declared the
test off. But he refused, and gave me
three minutes to dig up the price Of
the book.
while 7 was trying to make the
fellow understand that the joke had
gone far enough, he jumped at me.
IT didn't stand the ghost of a show
with the husky youth, and 1 soon found
myself on the floor, with the would-be
book agent sitting on me, saying some
thing about a book he would sell me
powerful cheap
ITO save my life I reluctantly con-
sented to take one of the 50 kind he
said he was sorry, but he only sold the
81 kind.
"He allowed me to get one hand loose,
and L produced 81, whereupon he re-
leased me, and wanted TO know how
soon he could go to work.
81 kept my word and hired him, sent
him as far west as 1 could, and then
discharged him by wire"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

necromancer so mysterious as the mys-
terry of electricity. There is no mystery
wrought through its agency so mys-
FERROUS as that Of electricity itself
Electricians talk of telegraphing
through the earth without wires, and
they have fulfilled so many rash prom
ises that the public has almost ceased
to doubt them. Messages can be sent
from one flying train to another, from
one ship to another, and without the
aid of wires.
Electricity is destined to become a
powerful factor in warfare. 1t plays
an important part already. Tesla, a
wizard greater than ever charmed a
modern audience or frightened an an
Gent congregation, second only to the
immortal Edison, has announced that
he is prepared to destroy ship with
electricity from the shore without
wires.
AS naval battles are fought near the
shore, this would practically abolish
naval war. It would increase the haz-
ard of Transporting troops as well, and
thus contribute more than peace pro
posals from a half-dozen military pow
ers to the total abolition of all war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
HIS PARTY COMES FIRST.

The president has already changed
his mind two or three times in relation
to the holding of an extra session Of
congress in March. It was announced
few days ago that he would incur no
such expense. But he is weakening I'M
der the pressure brought to bear While
Messrs. Allison, Grosvenor, Dalzell and
some others are willing to let currency
reform rest until the regular session of
the new congress, there are many
others who favor immediate and ag-
gressive action in the interest of gold
recommendation.
Chairman Hanna of the single stand
ard commission, Congressman Over
street Of Indiana and other currency
reform enthusiasts, who, by the way,
stand very close to the president, be-
lieve that the bankers or business
men," as they are designated, demand
immediate action.
The enactment of the currency re-
form" measure cannot be brought about
too soon to suit the president, but he
is in doubt as to whether or not it is
good politics to call an extra session
for that purpose.
The latest semi-official advices from
the executive chamber remind the pub
lie that as the president never sepa-
rates himself from his party by walk
ing far in advance of it, and as has
not yet had an opportunity to get at
the consensus of opinion, no final de-
cision has been reached"
The same report says that his excel
lency will be governed by the wishes of
the Republican party, as soon as he is
able to ascertain what its real opin-
ion is
The wishes of the Republican party
are for currency reform" It may not
be good politics." though, to crowd
the bill in an extra session.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01


his inability to maintain his eauilib-
rum on the throne, Ferdinand was re-
leased from prison and allowed to re-
sumo his ruling business at the old
stand
In 1888 he died, after lodging a dozen
revolutions aimed directly at his head.
It was lucky for the United States that
his regime ended when it did. The way
Spain was losing colonial possessions
under Ferdinand VII wouldn't have left
enough for humane Intervention pur-
poses in another decade.
He married three times, but none Of
his wives bore children. Three years
before his death Ferdinand took unto
himself a fourth wife. Two DAUGHTERS
were the fruits of this union, which
did not interfere with the right of his
brother, Don Carlos, to succeed him.
Then the Carlist movement began.
The Sale law prohibited female success
sion But, by exercise of the prag-
matte sanction" which means that the
king may change the law if no one is
strong enough to prevent him, the sue
cession was settled on his daughter,
Isabella. Carlos objected, the king
died, and the people fought it out
among themselves The little queen
was triumphant, and her mother ruled
as regent.
Isabella and her mother ruled Cor
thirty-f1ve years, during which time
the scandals of the court were the talk
of the world and the shame of royalty.
The immortality became so offensive
that even Spain revolted, and Isabella
was compelled to flee from her native
land.
The crown went begging for while
then. It was offered to Prince Leopold
of Hohenzollern, but France objected,
and the Franco-Prussian war followed.
1t was rendered to Amadeus, Duke Of
Aosta, Italy, and he wore it for two
years, but laid it down one day and
left for home. A republic was attempt
ed, but there was too much church
rule for popular form of govern
ment
Alphonso, a son of Isabella, was
crowned in 1879. In ten years his
ueiuS ulSI, NLSICeuSS, SuCCSSdSd ILL.,
Then Alohonso XIII was born.
In the meantime the Carlists have
been rising and. rebelling at critical
times. This is such a time The pres
ent Don Carlos is grandson Of the
original Don Carlos. He is said to have
a large following, because of the dis
satisfaction of the people with the gov
of he
war. 1t is only a matter of days until
another revolution will be in full blast
in Spain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

of her choice, has been sued for $4,000
damages by T. j. Riley, the offended
ex-bathing master and life-saver of the
beach from which she vanished. Mr..
Riley, in his complaint alleges that, as
result of Miss Kings remarkable
performance. he lost his job with MIR.
Balmer, worth $500 a month; that ne
sustained great financial loss in drag
ging the shore from Gravesend bay to
Canarsie with six assistants; that he
suffered great anguish of mind in
thinking that a fair young woman had
gone to her death through some lack of
vigilance on his part, and that his high
reputation as a life-saver, accumulated
through fifteen years of hard work,
was materially damaged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
Relighted.
Detroit Free Press.l

\DSLTOlL FREE GTSSS.)
In the dim and murky past, it hap
pened that the wife of Sultan Mo-
manned Abdu passed from this world
into the world beyond.
The sultan was much grieved. She
had been his favorite, and he knew
not what to do. Many times and oft he
sought her tomb and wept coDiously
upon it. Roses were planted there by
him, by his own hands. And by and
by he erected a monument, bearing
upon it's polished surface only these
words:
THE Light of My Life Has Gone
Out
And even thereafters many times and
oft did he seek the tomb. The winds
blew through the roses and scattered
the petals far and wide, and they died.
With them sped the love of Sultan Mo-
manned Abdu.
There came into his life another, and
a younger-a maiden fair of face and
form, such as it was joy for him to pos
Sess.
He took her unto himself and placed
her in his establishment.
After the marriage he walked one
day with her to the burial ground.
They passed the tomb of the other IA
vorite.
The new wife read the inscription cut
there in the monument: The Light Of
My Life Has Gone Out" and she spake
unto Sultan Mohammed Abdu, saying:
you must fix that"
And the sultan did.
One day he went into the burial
ground alone. with cold chisel and a
hammer.
He worked long. The clink of the
chisel on the stone was heard beyond
the walls.
At eventide he stepped back and sur
veyed his work. There, beneath the
inscription, had he cut these words:
But I've Struck Another Match
And Turkish record has it that they
lived happily ever after.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
JAMES wH1TcoMB RILEY.

edward F. Burns in Boston Globe.)
Just a singer, not a seer,
Nor a sage with mystic scroll,
Nor a saint with daring guesses
At the riddle of the soul;
But a modest word-musician,
With his hand upon the keys,
That emancipate the voices
OF the rivers and the trees.
And we cheer him and revere him,
And forget the poet art
In the word song, like bird song,
That rises from his heart.
Not a fiction, nor fable.
Do the Grecian poets tell
OF their Orpheus who was Followed
By the summit and the dell;
, For we know a dear magician,
With dominion over words
That. in sorrows bleakest winter
Bring the blossoms and the birds.
And we laud him and applaud him,
And forget the poets art
In the word song, slike bird song,
That rises from his heart.
There's another, stranger story,
That the wise today deride,
OF how Orpheus played in hades,
And was given back his bride.
Yet I've heard a human singer
Of the simple songs of truth
Who can. give US back the sunshine
OF the buried days of youth.
And we cheer him and revere him,
And forget the poets art,
In the word song, like bird song,
That rises from his heart
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

Twelfth senatorial
in the of
Utah. Tay1ors
vile, 7, of
John and Esther A Bennon Mr. Bennons father
which
until
the administrations of George
Joseph Lppman In 1893 Mr.
Ashley
Since this position 1894
councilman
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

After all, Mr.. Edmunds does not see
how congress can refuse to seat B. H.
Roberts. Now let the contest bureau
revive the proposition of settling the
matter at home" Anything to keep up
the agitation from now until the new
congress assemblies in twelve months.
Business men will appreciate it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
Her Escapade Costs Him His Position

CFrom New York Dispatch.)
Louise King, who disappeared from
Coney Island bathing beach last Sep
TENDER, leaving her maid and lot of
clothing to certify to her death in the
briny deep, was found in PHILADELPHIA
ten days later, and married to the man
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

Cleveland Leader: 'I wonder what
makes Scribbler such a cynic? His stories
are simply made up OF pesslmism and I'M
belief. 1 should think he'd write some
thing cheerful some time
HE did try being cheerful once. but
the publishers wouldn't take his stuff at
any price So he went back to his
agSin''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
A display surprising all efforts of

A display surprising all efforts of
former seasons, every conceivable
style can be found here, from the
cheapest SC grade to the Finest
French Bisque Dolls in all styles.
Buy them nowI You can save money!
Have ample time to dress them at
your leisure and avoid the extreme
rush that's inevitable the last week
before the Christmas Holidays.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

Uncle Sam threw up on his Ladrone
capture. He took Guam, but gagged at
the rest. Yet they were all captured,
as much as were all the Philippines.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

One of the worst storms that ever
swept along the Atlantic coast is rag
ing now. Great fleets of vessels have
been wrecked Fifty-six are known to
be totally destroyed. Hundreds of peo-
pie have persisted in the hurricane, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of property has been destroyed. More
ships have been sunk in two days than
Spain lost in the recent war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

Blanco has sailed for Spain. Fitz-
hugh Lee should have been at the Cal
LIBERIA wharf to see him off.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

''Uncle Toms Cabin company opens
a two-night engagement with Saturday
matinee ct the Salt Lake theatre to-
morrow night. Popular prices will pre-
| vail
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

Lincoln J. Carriers Chattanooga"
comes to the Grand for a weeks run
next Monday night. Like all OF Car
ter's productions, it has some realistic
stage effects, the browning feature of
this show being a locomotive which has
the appearance of rapid motion, by
means of a moving background. The
effect continues for several minutes,
and those who have seen it pronounce
n ,1ar<oof in ,oaIiepo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
sToCKs ANp INVESTMENTS.

STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.
other High Grade inVesrrnanf ssc1lr, re-
sought and sold.
Loans on Stocks.
Dividend-paying stocks bought and sold
Investment orders from institutions
trustees Of estates and capitalists will re-
eefye the best of attention
JOHN, c. CUTLER. JR.
Tel III IS Main Street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
ADJUSTMENTS.

Hi Henry's minstrels open a return
engagement at the Grand this evening,
and those who saw this splendid organ
ization last week will many Of them,
go again. Hi Henry's Ministries are do
ing phenomenal business everywhere,
and no better SIN of success could be
produced than this return to Salt Lake.
For an evening of real enjoyment, this
attraction is ahead of anything seen
at the Grand this season, and far ahead
of most minstrel. shows ever in the
city.
The advance sale is large for every
night, and it is safe to say the play
house will again be packed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

Soon after Major General Merritt
reached Manila he began to experience
trouble with the insurgents. Aguinal-
do was not disposed to pay much heed
to the generals orders, and the general
complicated matters more or less by
endeavoring to avoid any clashing of
the American with the insurgent forces
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

cat, whirling tossing, tumbling and writh-
ing like a thing possessed. Her jaws
were distended to their utmost limits, her
yellow eyes were as big as an owls, and
her hair stood on end like porcupine quilts,
She was making the weirdest noise had
ever heard from even the most resource
full of vocalizing felines. 1t was not a
yowl, or 'me-oux,' But a sibilant rasp-
ing gasp, something like the escape of
steam from an engine pipe.
1.-THE rapidity Of her movements abb
sorbed the outlines of her body, and all
she presented at first was a blurred mass
of wide-open jaws, starring eyes, kicking
feet and ruffied fur. But soon the con-
fusion took form and showed me the
cause of her extraordinary performances
nothing less than an eel tightly colled
around her neck like boa constructor
around a pig. The head and tail of the
eel were threshing the air wildly, but the
rest OF his body was firmly impacted in
three coils around the neck. Just Aow
vigorously the eel was hugging l could
form an idea from the neck's unusual
elongation and the poWerlessnesS OF the
cat TO cry aloud
/ ran to the oddly assorted combatants
at once, but the terrible convulsions of the
cat prevented me from separating them.
Gradually, however, her struggles grew
weaker, and soon she fell over on her side
and remained motionless Then l stopped
down and uncoled the eel. His skin was
badly lacerated by the claws of his an
tagonist, and the moment 1 removed him
he gave a shudder and then became as
void of external signs of life as the cat. l
thought it was all over with him, but put
him in a small aquarium in order to give
him a chance to recuperate If there was
the slightest chance for HIM. A servant
whom I summoned, carried the cat into
l.
and l had no doubt, being a firm. believer
in the theory of nine lives to feline,
that she would recover. Indeed, she was
so far revived after a few moment that
she managed to stagger to her feet, but
was unable to make use of them for pur-
poses of locomotion. The constructing
force of the eel, or rather the evidences of
it as exhibited by the cats neck. was a
profound surprise to me. That little fell
flesh of the cats neck into ridges, like a
screw.
1.-TWO hours after the battle the servants
informed me that puss had. curled up and
died. l went 10 look at the eel, expecting,
of course, to find him departed to the land
of eel spirits, but instead he was moving
stiffiy around the aquarium and evidently
on the high road TO recovery. As matter
of fact, he did fully recover within two or
three days, and is now disporting himself
as gayly as ever in the fountain basin.
'What started the remarkable duel is
a matter of mere conjecture, but it seems
to me the only logical conclusion is that
puss was fishing with her paw in the
water when the eel came along and was
seized in her claws. 1t was a COMPARE
lively easy matter to draw him out, but /
suppose in squirting around he managed
to get his stout coils over her neck and
took a twist which all the cats clawng
and scratching could not make him aban-
DON"