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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-21
articles intended for other persons or

for sale.
In the absence of rulings by the board
of customs as to articles included in the
foregoing regulation, customs officers
at the port of entry are TO decide the
class and quantity of the wearing ap-
parel and like articles in use entitled
to pass free under the above provision.
having due regard to the length of the
journey and to the reasonable require
ments of the traveller for his comfort
and convenience of the journey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-21
KNOWS NOTHING,
SAYS SOMETHING
Captain of the Wrecking Tug
Talks About the Maine.
DESTRUCTIVE FORCE
CAME FROM WITHIN
Opinion Based On the Appearance
of the Wreck Today.

Captain Wiley Qualities His State
ment By Adding That He Has
Fad No Opportunity of Examining
the Maine Below Water Line-If
Affair Occurred In An English
Harbor, No One Would Question
the Accident Theory.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-21
ONLY one MATCH.

Articles of personal adornment, how
ever, may be held to include one watch
and the jewelry ordinarily in use by
the traveller. For a traveller to the
Klondike region, pair of blankets and
a fur robe and changes of apparel for
use on the journey may be passed free.
Miners gold pans are free under tariff
item No. 555 as separators.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-21

Every Soldier Hustling.
Rurlir~ton- VT. March 20. = Orders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
A Wart Wizard,
From the Breckenridge fKy1 News

y
Uncle John Pate, one of the last of the
race of ante-bellum negroes left in this
vicinity, is dying. He belonged before the
war to the Pate estate, and is now seventy
one years of age Uncle Johnnie has al
ways been considered one of the characters
his younger days, and in a moment of
franknesS told white friend that he only
threw" one race in his life and he was
paid to do that. Uncle Johnnie has always
been looked upon with awe by the other
colored people of the city. This is because
he bears well-established reputation as Il
"conjurer." 1t is a matter of local tradi-
ton that when Uncle Johnnie does a 'Wart
talk those unsightly protuberances fade
away IS the morning dew before the sun
In fact, there are several white women
away up in local society, who confess that
the Ethiopian wart wizard has rid them
of warts and moles. Uncle Johnnie has al
ways kept his 'wart talk" a secret He
says 1t was transmitted to him by an an
cestor, and that 1t has been in the family
He will not accept money for his services
as a wart conjurer, and says that even
an expression of thanks will dispel the
charm He promised to impart the wart
secret to some friend before he died and
give the formula of ''wart talk" SO that
Cloverport should always have a real live
''conjurer' to conjure away its warts in an
hour of necessity, but, Uncle Johnnie is
delrious and nigh unto death, the chances
and that he will be the last of the "con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
X y
Matter-Of-Fact.

He is young man whose unbounded as
surance has ever been his chief charac-
teristic.
When he proceeded to talk to the prac-
teal old gentleman about marrying his
daughter he was evidently prepared for the
usual question:
DO you think you can support my
daughter in the style to which she has
been accustomed?"
The parent spoke this phrase with the
air of man who thinks he has uttered a
poser. The sutton looked him in the eve.
Lets talk this thing over" he said. DO
you think your daughter is qualified to
make man a good wife?"
Yes, Sir. Her mother and / are both
practical people and we have given her a
practical education. She can not only read
Greek and play the piano-she practices
tnree hours day-but she can get a good
dinner and make her purchases in market
as lhtelligently as an experienced steward
Moreover, her abilities with the needle are
not conhned TO fancy work. She's treas
ure, ana we don't propose to have any mis-
understandings about her future"
You were asking me If | thought I could
support her in the style to which she has
been accustomed"
Il was"
We'll, | could. But don't propose to
Alter she marries me she's not going to
practice three hours a day on any piano
nor COOK dinners nor take back talk from
market people. She's going TO have all the
sewing done outside the house, read what
she enjoys, whether it's Greek or Choctaw
and go to the matinee twice a week us
time that girl was beginning to have soma
good times in this life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24


A little thirteen-year-old Pawnee county,
Kan. miss, Bertha Leonard, has lately
given the telegraph companies an unlim-
tied amount of trouble in a most unique
and peculiar way. Berthas daily duty was
to herd and watch a large drove of cattle,
whose range was near the telegraph lines.
For some time past al Irregular intervals
during almost every day these lines abso-
lutely failed to work, and the trouble SEEM
ed to be somewhere in the vicinity of where
this girl ranged her fathers cattle, but
try the line repairers would it could not
be definitely located. Finally il was dis
covered that Bertha, in order to get a bet
ter view of the herd had driven railroad
spikes into telegraph pole, SO that she
could climb it, and that she would, when
ever she got weary watching the cattle
from the ground, climb the pole, pull up a
board by means of a cord, place it across
the wires, seat herself on the board and
spend an hour or two watching the herd
from her uniquely improvised elevated sta
ton. Whenever the board happened to be
damp or wet, and the frequent rains this
year have kept the board wet most all the
time, it destroyed the electric current and
practically cut off all telegraph communi-
cation between Denver and Kansas City.
When discovered and informed of the dam
age she was doing to the business of the
telegraph lines Bertha was greatly sur
prised, and was apparently utterly ignorant
of the fact that her seat on the wires in
terfered in the slightest degree with the
working of the lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
Red river has certainly been appro-
priately named for it may be doubted if
another stream could be found in this
country showing as bright red in its cur
rent. When the morning sun is shining
upon 1t Red river at its normal stage or
especially just after rise in its head
waters. looks a very deep, bright orange,
which in shadow changes to a blood red.
With the oblique rays of either morning or
evening sun Illuminating them, the banks
of Red river display almost every mag
Unable shade of green, and from the palest
gold to the deepest orange; and these bril-
liant variations barmoniZe with the red
and FURNISHED gold of the stream in an eff
feet that is indescribably beautiful
In the evening as the declining sun nears
the horizon. hanging over q CLASSY, ripless
reach il sinks broad, blood-red, gleam-
ing shaft of fire far down into the mirror
like flood, producing an effect of indescrib-
able beauty and brilliancy.
The journey up Red river is full of start
ling surprises. The widest and most lone
some scenery seen on the way to Shreve-
port is met within the first fifty miles from
the mouth; but after that come SUGGESTIONS
of lonesome reaches and richly populated
belts of magnificent cotton plantations
varied near the lower end of the river by
small poultry and truck farms. There are
also scattering fishing boats, cord wood
camps. photograph boats, and many GU
rious outfits belonging to enterprising from
tiersmen: but in spite of all these scatter
ing evidences of humanity, there are still
many shadowy reaches, where the pretty
little white cranes and the big suking ALI
gators scattered over the sunlt sand bars
divide the attention of the tourist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
The Stay at Homes.

Oats pow'ful smaht young man you $
workin foh,' said Uncle Eben.
Il rackons ne is" answered Mr.. Erastus
Pinkley, with great pride. Hes had a
chance at all de learnin dar is an his
maids plenty big enough ter hold it.
When dar's anuthuh lection. 1 wish
you'd do me de favor OBJ findin' out which
way he's gwinter vote. Oars so much
persuasion dis way an den agin dat way.
dat I'd like ter git guidance FUN some
body whose smahtness / kin rely on
Gracious goodness! He doesn nebber
vote. He says it ain no use fer vote, case
de tough Of politicians whah he lives is
gwinter take hoF an run fings anyhow,
an he ain 'gwineter mess up wifi EN-. Me
an him, we bof reckons we gwineter keep
out'n de whole business"
Sonny. did you ebber hyah bout de oys-
ters an de shark?'
Il spos'ns 1 has sometime or othuh,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

From the Chicago Record.
Captain Lamberton of the Olympia Is re-
sponsible for the latest joke in the fleet
he thought the two captured Spanish gun
boats should be given good American
names. He noticed that in the Navy De-
partment at Washington the very commend
able custom of naming ships after colleges
and universities had been adopted. Two
ships had already had their names changed
to the Yale and the Harvard and he
thought the same custom should be follow
ed in rechristening the Callao and the
Leyte- He suggested that the Callao be
given the name Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the Leyte the PennsyIva-
The admiral has the matter under consid-
GRAFTON. Some day we probably will be
writing a thrilling account of a naval en-
sagement somewhat after this style:
The Pennsylvania College of. Physicians
and Surgeons then steamed rapidly to a
point opposite the Pelayo and delivered a
fearful broadside from her primary battery.
or 3-inch guns. At the same time the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology by a
brilliant maneuver around the starboard
quarter of the Pennsylvania College of
physicians and Surgeons, swept swiftly in
and rammed the Spanish battle ship The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology then
withdrew for breakfast, leaving the Penn
sylvania College of Physicians and Sur
geons to complete the work of destruction
After this work was quickly ACCOMPLISHED
the Pennsylvania College of Physicians and
Surgeons cut couple of cables and inter-
cepted the Spanish admiral who was
changing his nag to the various remaining
ships of his fleet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
ADULTERATION OF FOOD,
English Are Adopts in the Business
Especially of Sauces and JANIS

From time to time one reads so much in
the newspapers concerning the adulteration
of American food" said an eminent New
York analytical chemist to the writer yes
terday, that the average consumer might
be tempted to believe that this is the only
country in which such fraud and deception
is practiced. But this is far from being the
truth, for during a recent visit to England
l had occasion to test the quality of vari-
Gus eatables there, and the result was that
l found they contained a much larger per
centage of deieterious matter than our
own products possess.
For instance. bottled fruits are in Eng
land colored green by the addition of cop
per in the form of the sulphate ('blue-
stoneD. knife blade immersed In the
juice of the fruit will rapidly become coated
with a bright deposit of metallic copper.
The English have not adopted the simple
and harmless plan which the French have
OF giving an apparent green color to their
preserved fruits and olives by the use of
bottles made of green glass. Sauces, pot
ted meats and fish are constantly adulter-
ated or colored by means of Armenian bile
This is done partly from custom but chief
ly TO conceal the dirty appearance of the
pastes and sauces. The British public will
have its anchovy sauce red. The uncoIored
sauce is unstable. though the superior to
the red abomination, the filth being re-
moved from the former. while in the latter
II Is merely concealed by the Armenian
bile. Jams are adulterated by the mixture
of inferior fruits Marmalade frequently
contains apple pulp or even turnips Color
ing matter and artificial fiavorings are free
ly used
An ingenious industry goes on largely in
London which is wholly unsupported by the
public. Raspberries, oranges and other
fruits are purchased by the wholesale
chemists and the juice extracted. Then the
pulp is bought at low price by the manu-
facturers of cheap jams for favoring and
placed upon the market as fine new season
jam or marmalade. Mustard is adulter-
ated with -four and tumeric; pepper with
husks of seeds and any kind of dust that
comes handy to the dishonest vender So
that the business of the drug grinder offers
just as much temptation to the adulterator
in England as it does in America"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
A STATE HOTEL,
An Alleged Proposed Improvement.
With Many Good Points

If there is anything more than anothe r
that appeals to the travelling man of these
United States" remarked a New York
drummer, who had been on the road for as
many years as he had teath in his mouth,
1t is the hotel he must put up at and put
up with, for his home life is chiefly confined
to hotels; which reminds me that the odd
est thing l have seen in that line l found
not long ago in this very town of Washing
ton. A hustling Chicago fellow showed me
the plans of new hotel he proposes to
erect in the spring for the especial benefit
of the cosmopolitan class of visitors the ma
tional capital always attracts. The man
las the money subscribed, or told me he
had. and he will so to work on the building
as soon next year as he has secured an
eligible site.
The hotel will be known as The States
this title attaching to it intrinscally, be-
cause it is to be of the states. That is to
say, it will be composed of forty-five apart
ments of five rooms each, though possibly
some OF the apartments will have ten
rooms, and each apartment Will be named
for state, and a guest from that state will
be assigned to quarters under his own vine
and hg tree, so to speak. Naturally there
are more people in Washington from New
York. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Chicago than
elsewhere, and apartments for those states
will probably contain ten rooms. Now,
Wnen guest arrives and registers he will
be sent to his own state room and instead
of landing in the midst of strange sights
he will find pictures of familiar things from
his state on the walls; engravings of his
state capital and other public buildings,
portraits Of well-known men of the state,
and, when possible, various souvenirs in
furniture and finishings, which will be
pleasing to the traveller who finds his
Warmest welcome at an inn.
There will be other home attractions as
well, such familiar drinksat the bar-that
is to say, drinks indigenous to the tastes of
the natives of the various states-as well
as dishes on the table which will make q
man hungry and homesick at the same
time. That idea is a great one, think, for Ii
isn't always man takes an appetite to Il
hotel table with him. There are some other
details that l don't recall now, but you
have enough to catch the idea and be abls
to realize that when The States is COM
pieted and in running order Washington
will have the most unique hosiery in the
country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
TREES WHICH DRAW LIGHTNING.
Select Beeches for Shelter During Il
Storm and Avoid Oaks.

rum tue 81 LOUIS GlODe-DemOcrat.
Alex. Meade has asked the weather
bureau to investigate the question why
some kinds of trees are more frequently
struck by lightning than others. Apart
from the Importance of this subject from
other points of view, it demands attention
primarily matter of saving human life.
AS Mr.. MCAdie shows, many people, par
ticularly farmers and those who work in
the fields exposed to thunder storms, will
work until the storm is almost upon them
and then run to the nearest tree for shelter.
If the tree is an oak, and the charged
thunder clouds are moving toward it with
high electric potential the person or per-
sons under the tree are in the line of strain
and all unconsciously are contributing to
the establishment of path for the light
ming discharge through themselves. On the
other hand If the tree selected for shelter
happens to be beech tree, there is some
reason to believe that it will afford safety
as well as protection though the reason
why is not at present made clear. 1t Is
known that the oak is relatively the most
frequently and the beech the least fire.
quently struck.
Based on the somewhat loose collation. of
figures on the subject heretofore available
it is estimated that in the matter of rela-
tive attraction of lightning, if the beech is
represented by 1, the pine stands at To-
trees, collectively, rank about 40 and oaks
n. The trees struck are not necessarily the
highest or the most prominent. Oak trees
have been struck twice in the same place
on successive days. Trees have been struck
before rain began and split, and trees have
been struck during rain and only scorched.
1t is suggested that the division of for
estry and the division of vegetable pathoI-
ogy shall combine with the weather bu-
rcau in an exhaustive inNeSt igatiOn of this
subject. and that those familiar with for
ests in their respective neighborhoods will
tender their experience as to the relative
frequency OF lightning strokes on different
kinds of trees. But before any statemen.
is made as to the danger of standing under
certain trees during thunder storms, the
more general questions of the effect of
lightning upon trees will have to be gone
into. Such a study will deserve the coop
Grafton of statisticians. physicists and veg
etable Psychologists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
An Execution,

I don't lean very hard on slang, cause talk
that's ready made
Don't seem to me the proper kind fur sim
pie folks and staid.
But there's one remark which strikes me
so expressive-like an strong
That 1 make 1t an exception. It's bout
'jollyin' folks along"
When discouragements are gatherin' an
your weary footsteps flag;
When your heart is gettin' heavy an your
languid spirits sag,
It's a help that's most amazin'; you feel
young agin an strong,
When some happier fellowbein' stops to
Jolly you along
It's like a dash O. rain across the field
that's hot an dry;
It's like a fash of sunshine through dark
an threatenin' sky,
Or a friendly voice from home that greets
you mid a stranger throng
When you're played out an some Teller
stops to Jolly you along
Survival of the fttest-thats the rule of
every race,
But good stock'll sometimes falter in the
fierceness Of the chase,
An mebbe honest merit has been KEEP from
goin' wrong
By some gentle soul that stopped a bit to
Jolly folks along"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

From Mines and Minerals.
Interesting data about the occupations of
the American people is given in the bule-
tin of the eleventh census, recently made
public. Ii shows that the total number of
people engaged in occupations of ali kinds
in 1880 was 22, 735,961. OF the whole num-
Der of wofking people the females form
1922 per cent Divided by classes, the
working people OF the country are as fol-
lows: Agriculture, fisheries and mining o.
O13,336; PROFESSIONAL 9i4,,3533; domestic and
personal service, 4, 3G0,577; trade and trans
portatfon, 3,326 l22; manufacturing and me-
chanical Industries 8 ,o9i ,293 Considerably
more than four ffths of the illiterate male
fourth of the lIliterate female population
are working. Over 50 per cent of the work.
ingmen are married, over y per cent sin
gle over per cent widow I'd and one-quar-
ter of l per cent divorced. In manufac-
lures and mechanics the carpenters and
Joiners numbering Gil 49, make I'D the
milliners following with 400 $50. There are
little over l,0O0.000 bookkeepers. clerks
and statesmen, 690,65S INGREDIENTS and deal
ers, 3,2SlooI farmers, planters and over
seers, and 3.0O4061 agricultural laborers
3f3,o92 miners, and only a little over 60 600
fishermen and oystermen. Professors and
teachers, aggregating 3i7,344 form the
most numerous of the professional classes.
physicians and surgeons, 1O4, S05. come
next; then lawyers, $500; clergymen S.
2n3; government officials, 70, 664; musicians.
ETC., 62,1 100; engineers and surveyors. 43 239:
artists and art teachers, % 49tj: Journalists
2l,Si9, and actors, 972S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

From the English Illustrated.

From the English Illustrated.
Spain is always the land of the Infante
Today it is the kingdom of an infant, just
as 1t was Sixty-fiye years ago, when the
kings grandmother, Isabella II, assembled
the throne at the age of three, assuming
the actual government VIXEN she was thir-
teen. If our own Prince Alfred had not de-
clined the crown of Greece in favor of the
Dane he would have been a king at nine
teen, and carried on the traditions of the
many childmonarchs of Great Britain, in
Guiding his mother, the queen, who was
only eighteen when she was Weakened on
that historic night in June at Kensington
palace to hear that her uncle, William ",
was dead and that she regned in his stead.
Henry III had become King of England at
the age of ten; Edward III at the age of
fifteen, Richard ii at the age of eleven;
Henry VI at the age of eight; Edward "
when he was twenty, while his son, En-
ward V, became king at the age of thir-
teen, which again proved an unlucky num-
Der, for he was murdered in the Tower with
his only brother, the Duke of York, after
he had reigned less than twelve weeks.
Henry VIII was only eighteen when he
came to be king; his son, Edward VI, was
just ten, and was dead before he was f1f-
teen, while his would-be successor the hap
less Lady Jane Grey, was proclaimed queen
before she was eighteen. and lost her pretty
head before she was nineteen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
A CONSIDERABLE MOTHER.
Realized She Was in No Position to
Give Advice Herself.

L had taken a very toothsome out not
highly finished dinner at the mountain
farm house, and when l started on my way
at l o'clock in the afternoon the daughter,
who had looked after my wants at the
table, Informed me that if I had no objec-
lions she would ride a piece with me.
AS she was a good-looking, rudy noun
tain maid, unlike the majority of her kind,
L gave an immediate and unanimous con-
sent, and we were presently jogging along
toward the Cumberland river, which we
could see lying like a silver thread across
the green valley far below us.
I presume" 1 said, bowling with as much
sallantry as the circumstances would per-
NIT, that if any of your beaus should see
us rld1ng together my life would scarcely be
safe from their jealous rage"
oh, l reckon faint so bads that, all to
once she laughed in response.
II m sure they are not so Indifferent as
you would lead me to think. Pretty girls
are not so plenty in the mountains"
smiled, and she blushed.
We'll, 1 s'pose eff Jim wuz here" she
hesitated. at mightn't be SIGH a picnic as
1t looks, fer Jim's mighty bad about me.
That's why he amt here now"
WHY" I asked with considerably more
interest and not nearly SO much bow and
palavar.
He shot hole through the last Teller 1
Ilu WIN ana nad 10 take TO the WOODS I'LL
he gifts we'll
This was not altogether as pleasing as it
might have been, but 1 couldn't run away
from the lady. so l remained.
Well" 1 said in tone Of strong disap-
prevail, do you intend to marry man
like that?
faint safe to marry any other-not
fer him, ner me neither even eff I wanted
to. which don't. Jims plenty suitable fer
me-.
Does your mother approve of your
marrying him." 1 asked, hoping somebody
might be found who would come to the
rescue.
No." she responded easily, Nav amt
talkin' one way ner t'other. She's been
married four times and has made such a
drafted muss Nv it every time that she
says she amt a fittin' person to give ad-
vice on the marryin question. nohow, even
eff 1 wuznt old enough to do my own pickn'
an choosin'," which seemed to be such an
unanswerable argument that 1 retired from
the field,