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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12
BRIGHAM Young College.

AT the meeting Of the PhilOmathic So
ciety on the Sd inst, Elder NJ. ]. Bal
lard spoke on THE Third Parsonage
of the Godhead,'' treating the subject
in q very creditable manner. The close
attention of the audience gave evidence
Of their great appreciation.
The gymnasium is being fitted up.
Ladders, horizontal bars, parallel bars,
chest weights, travelling rings, etc, are
being put in place.
\ class in physical culture for chill
dren has been organized. A class for
men not connected with the college may
be formed soon.
President Kerr gave an address to the
Cache County Teachers institute on
Saturday. Subject: Qualifications of
the Teacher"
There is a noticeable improvement in
attendance at chapel since our last
communication.
The minutes of the various students
societies might profitably be abridged
Ten to thirteen minutes time devoted
to this purpose becomes tiresome.
Class work in the neW biological lab
oratoly was begun Thursday. This de-
partnent has recently received new ap-
paratuS from the east, and now has
better facilities than ever for thorough
laboratory work. Through the efforts
Of Professor Linford, the collection in
the herbarium is steadily growing. Over
500 specimens have jusz been received
from West Virginia, North Carolina and
Illinois, in exchange for specimens from
our own state.
Results of the examinations were sat
isfactory. The students generally are
doing a good work.
Now is the time to begin to prepare
for the June examinations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12
FEARFUL STORMS ENCOUNTERED
Fuerst Bismarck's Rough Voyage
Across the Atlantic.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE Hamburg
American line steamer Fuerst Bismarck
arrived today from Genoa, after the
longest passage the steamer ever made
across the Atlantic and one of the
toughest in the experience of her Off
GERS. The voyage from Gibraltar TO
New York was made in twelve days
and seven hours.
Terrific gales We're encountered from
Feb. 1 to :, enormous seas frequently
sweeping over the vessel smashing
rails, doors and other woodwork. Sew
eral VentilatOrS We're swept overheard
and two boats were carried from their
checks. On Feb. 8. Otto Lohse, a sailor.
was washed overheard and lost. For
five days the great steamer rolled vio-
lently and labOred heavily, until the
decks were flooded and many of the
passengers were violently i'll. On ap-
preaching the coast. intensely cold
weather was met, and the spray froze
as it fell, covering the hull, boats.
bridges and rigging far up the masts
with a heavy coating of ice
The Fuerst Bismarck appeared like a
veritabIe iceberg. The outer gangwayS
were so laden with ice that they ap-
peared like tunnels through some ice
cave, with enormous icicleS hanging
from the decks above. The bulwarkS
and rails We're Swelled to enormous
proportions, while the bridges were one
solid mass. The crew had to break the
ice from the decks and gangways in
order to land the passengers.
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sits back quietly and lets the promot-
ers Of the scheme work themselves to
death in its interests. In this way,
much personal effort has been expended
by the club members. Every one knows
that the Orpheus is composed of bust
ness and professional men, who have
Joined the club chiefly for recreation,
and it IS rather too much to expect
them to neglect their respective voca-
tons for the sake Of the public, how
ever much they may have its interests
at heart. 1t must be remembered that
the sum subscribed for these concerts
is merely handled by the club for the
benefit OF subscribers, and as the best
artists which the amount warrants are
secured, it IS plainly to be seen that
the club derives no financial benefit
Therefore, if the public wishes to
show its appreciation of this splendid
plan, they should, another year, make
it known by voluntary action. and in
so hearty a manner that no doubt will
remain as to the permanency of the
Orpheus club subscription concerts. For
it is barely possible that the club will
grow tired OF soliciting and entreating
the public for the public's own good.
The organization has demonstrated its
ability to achieve and maintain a very
high artistic standard OF this, the
public needs no further assurance, and
one thing is certain-after the present
series, we will be satisfied only with
the best that the country affords The
great success of the first concert adj
ded to the famous names of Katherine
Bioodgood and the Kneisel quartette
will certainly make a gala season and
a permanent. reputation for the Or
pheuS cluD as concert giVer.
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Agricultural College.

The recent cold snap has played
havoc with the college waterworks.
The water is again on, but there are
still many broken pipes and semi
submerged floors.
Mrs. c. /. Goodwin, librarian, is again
at her post, after a few days absence
on account of Ia grippe.
The dance given by the Athletic as
sociation Saturday evening, in spite of
% degrees below, was well attended,
and brought in nearly $50.
Miss Moench's classes in elocutiOn
and physical culture will give an en-
tertainment next Saturday evening in
the large chapel. The exercises will
consist of drills, recitations and music.
Miss Moench will recite and Mr.. c..
w Thatcher, jr., will sing.
More students have been absent the
last week on account of illness than at
any other time in the history of the in
stitution. Colds. and la grippe are the
common diseases.
Mrs. Tanner recently entertained sew
eral members of the faculty and their
wives at the college practice dining
room. Invitations are out for the en-
tertainment of some others.
AT the meeting of the Cache County
Educational institute at the college Sat
urday, Professors Langton, Snow and
Miss Moench were on the programme.
There will be a farmers institute at
Brigham City on the 22nd to 18th.
Among the exercises will be addresses
by Professor Tanner and Mrs. Foster,
and papers as follows by other MEM
bers of the college faculty: Professor
Linfield, Dairy Profits; Professor
Dryden, Poultry Industry; Professor
Foster, Soils: Professor Merrill
"Blackleg''; Professor Swendsen, ''Irri-
CATION; Professor Hedrich, ''Evapora-
ton of Fruit
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University notes.

A mass-meeting of students was
called last Thursday to give general
instructions. Room % was crowded,
the larger part of the students having
to remain standing.
At this meeting the students APP
pointed a committee to draft resolu-
Young and of sympathy with his be-
reaved friends. DR.. Young graduated
from the university in 'SS, and has since
been staunch friend of the institu-
ton. He still has many friends in the
student body and in the faculty.
On, account of the cold weather, all
class Rotations were suspended at
the university last Monday, and on
Tuesday the west building could not be
heated. This, together with the heavy
snowstorms, caused the whole week to
be one of unrest
There was no school in the training
department last Monday and Tuesday,
on account of the cold. and Mrs. Steph-
ems room was unheated-all the week.
Miss May Anderson has been en-
gagged to aid in the supervision of the
reading-room in the west building.
Professor MarshalPs lecture on
Westminster Abbey which was to
have been delivered tomorrow night,
has been postponed until further no.
tice. The lecture was to have been
illustrated in full, but some of the Ian
tern slides on which the professor was
depending have failed to arrive.
Professor Maud M. Babcock went to
Ogden last Thursday to attend meet
ing of the board of directors of the
State School for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind.
The newly organized class Of 1902 met
last Wednesday and appointed COM
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mittees to select class colors and to
formulate class yells.
Mr. Fred n. Poulsen, principal of the
Payson High school, visited the various
departments of the university last Fri
day.
Memorial exercises in honor of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln will be held
tonight in the First Congregational
church. The members of the Delta Phi
fraternity for some time past have
been exerting themselves to make the
evening a most pleasant and entertain
ing one, and the following programme
indicates that their efforts will be well
rewarded;
Voluntary ........... Professor Radcliffe
Invocation. -. DIR. James E. Talmage
Tenor solo. Mr.. George d. Piper
Address of welcome Observation-Disclosures.
..............M Mr.. Thomas E. Mckay
Lincoln, the Statesman" ...
...........-....Mr H. Claude Lewis
Baritone solo. Mr.. John Robinson
Lincoln, the Man :. Mr.. A. J. Ridges
Organ solo. Professor Radcliffe
$500. Professor Byron Cummings
The members of the fraternity extend
cordial invitation to all their friends
and to all admirers of Lincoln. The
services will begin at s o'clock.
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Like a whipped school boy, who COM
forts himself by muttering plants and
maledictions against his successful ad-
Versaries, Reginald de Koven, in last
Sundays Journal, undertook to reply
TO the critics who did not treat his new
opera, The Three Dragons" with
what he considered proper respect. It
was for all the world like a defeated
prlzehghter, who criticiseS and bias
pheanes his opponent because he has
been successful. In this little display
OF bad temper, Mr.. de ROW6n made
some gOod-sized mistakes. In the first
place, he showed himself TO be peevish,
which is bad admission for any man.
and particularly for one who has en-
jOyed public favor TO the extent that ne
has, ever since Robin Hood" was pro-
duced- When man arrives at a Ger
tain pinnacle in his own estimation, he
is too high UP for > proper valuation CT
criticism, and unless he be possessed
Of immortal genius, is IN rather an i'm
practicable position all around. I re-
alize that Mr.. de KoVen'S position OF
composer critic must be extremely
hard, and l wonder if he has d motto
saying, DO unto others as you would
they should do unto you" hanging in
his Sanctum.
In regard to ''The Three Dragons
he considers that he was treated very
badly by his confreres of the pencil, and
tells them, individually and collectively
what he thinks OF them. 1t is delight
fully candid, if a, trifle raw, and he is
no doubt at perfect liberty TO enter his
protest against what he claims was a
wilful Misrepresentation of the facts in
the case.
In short, It is a beautiful example of
a difference Of opinion Mir. de Koven
thinks he is good, and q lot of people
disa gree with him, Chat is all. \ COM
mon enough occurTence-it happens
every day on a larger Or smaller scale,
but if we all became possessed of a
desire to air our grievances publicly.
special newspapers for the purpose
would be necessary. Mr.. de Koven's
beautiful faith in himself probably Sc
cures for him more hours OF happiness
than the ordinary ambitious and dis
satisfied persons experiences, but he
should remember that he is not the only
one on this over-populated earth who
is trying to achieve something, conse-
quently he cannot expect to capture
alI the plums.
4 person who is wilfully unjust is
small, and one who takes time to quar-
rel with utterances. of .wilful injustice,
becomes, by this act, equally small
Mr. de Koven claims. that most of the
criticisms We're prejudiced. Well, if
this be true, there is Mr. Henry T.
Finck in the Evening Post, who says
that some of the songs in the opera
viii rank with the composers best
work. Why net accept this as the ora
Gle, then, Mr.. Reginald de Koven, and
be content? For if, as you claim. your
own opinion OF your own work is I'M
biased, without malice or prejudice, and
according to your concluding statement, /
s'the vox popuH, speaking through the
box office, has given the critics the lie
ere this, and will aSain-Reginald de
Koven' '-why, you have nothing to |
fear.
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INVASION OF CHINA.
Russian Government Pouring Troops
Into Port Arthur.

Into Port arthur.
San Francisco, Feb. 11.-Advices from
the Orient state that the Russian gov
eminent is pouring troops into Port
Arthur and Talien-Wan, on the ground
that the force now garrisoned there is
too small, in view of the apparent dis
content of the inhabitants of the Liao-
Tung peninsula, who have, within the
last two months risen up against the
Russians in thirteen different toWn-
ships and districts.
Further, that no less than 5000 men
have landed at Port Arthur within the
past month or so, and that it is intend
ed to add $4,000 men more before the
end of the Chinese first moon, making
q full strength army corps of some &C.,
Geo. in addition to the garrisCnS of 49,
coo men for Port Arthur and 5000 for
Talien-Wan.
The plague has again broken cut,
and IS causing much alarm in the dis
tricts adjacent to Canton.
A fire which started in the market
place at Sai-Chin on Jan. destroyed
$50 houses before it was eXtinguished.
Ii Hung Chang is trying to raise a
popular subscription in aid of the suf-
ferers by the Yellow river floods.
J. f Rennison, foreign manager of
the Pao-Wo mine at Ninsikong, near
Ning-Po, arrived in Shanghai on Jan.
IA, and stated that he bad been forced
to zee for his life from the Chinese,
who We're enraged at the opening Of the
mine, which was only accomplished I'M
der the protection of a strong guard.
When the soldiers withdrew the ma
tives drove the manager away and
WIRE cked an adjoining temple Two REQ
pie G,e said TO have been killed and
several wounded.
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their pearls. But it is, after all. rather
more OF gambling business. since
chances vary so much in it One
traveller says that it develops the i'm
aSlnat1ons of the divers. Some of the
oIueSt ones among them spin regular
fo'castle yarns about their remarkable
adventures and hair breadth escapes
from death at the jaws of a shark or
the tentacles of an octopus.
Inc demand of the world for pearls
OF great beauty is always in advance
OF the supply, and as there is at pres
ent no way of fishing pearls by cleo.
trlclty, the occupation of the human
pearl nsher, either as diver or yarn
spinner, is not soon likely TO vanish
from the earth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12
New Productions.

Mr.. James a. Herne, who became so
wen known all over the country by
reason of his remarkably successful
play, Shore Acres has Just produced
a new play in New York at the Herald
Square theatre. 1t has a prosaic and
d1iII-sounding title, THE Rev. Griffith
Davenport. - One would not imagine
that New York. with its Turtles and
Mile. Fifis and Zazas, would warm uD
10 heavy-soundihg name like The
Rev. Griffith Davenport" It sounds so
awfully good and country-not to say
preachy. The play is founded on a
novel >by Miss Helen Gardiner. called
IAN Unofficial Patriot and deals with
that interesting period of our history.
the opening of the civil war. The son
of a wealthy planter Griffith Daven-
port, does the unexpected by becoming
a. convert to Methodism during a period
of religious excitement, and as a result.
decides 10 become a. preacher One of
his strongest convictions is that slave
holding is immoral, and when he in
herits a number Of slaves from his ia
ther. he sets them free, thereby incur
ring the wrath of his neighbors. and
is opposed as we'll by his eldest son
AS life is made unbearable in this way.
davenport and his wife move to Wash
ington. Soon after. he is sent south as
q guide to the Union army, and is ar
rested as a spy. Upon proving that he
is a. regularly appointed officer of the
Union army. he is sent to Richmond as
a prisoner of war. A dramatic incident
AT this juncture is the fact that he is
captured by his own son and finds his
wife as an army nurse at the confed-
crate capital.
,sThe Rev. Griffith Davenport is not
a war drama, but hiss rather the slav-
cry question for its main idea. 1t re-
minds one more OF Uncle Toms
Cabir' than any other story of the
SINE period Tie horrors of the slave
trade are vigorously depicted, and one
of the highly dramatic scenes is where
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a slave suicides, preferring death to a

a slave suicides, preferring death to a
whipping.
The tone of the play, however, is
quiet, and the action proceeds peace
fully, without any startling climaxes.
1t is chiefly commended for its truth,
its quiet Vigor, its wholesomeness and
its artistic treatment. Whatever con-
demnation is expressed is directed at
the lOng-winded speeches, the explain
atory and preachy element.
AS actors, Mr.. Herne and his wife
have achieved an artistic success.
which is no small thing in these days
of dramatic art versus anything which
a depraVed public Will tolerate and
patTonize, proclaiming meanwhile, with
a blase air, that it is better to be
shocked than bored.
It is prophesied that if Mr.. Herne
VIII observe the suggestion to cut out
a fair portion Of the wordiness, he Will
have a play with the wearing qualities
of Shore Acres The cast includes,
besides Mr.. and Mrs. Herne, Julia and
Chrystal Herne, Newton Chisnell and
Logan Paul.
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THE OHIO MAN.
Merit System No impeachment to His
Mania For Getting Into Office.

Chicago Times Herald.)
Many people thought that the adopt
ION OF the merit system by the govern
ment at Washington sounded the death
khell OF OhiO'S ubiquity among the ma
tlonal tieshpots. They overlooked the
fact that the first Congressional legis-
latlon IN that direction was known as
the PendIeton bill, and Pendleton hailed
from Cincinnati
George H. Pendleton was the last
man In the Forty-siXth congress who,
would have reduced the opportunities
OF an OHIO man by a single Office. The
report or the civil service commission
just issued proves that he knew his
business He formulated the law and
the Ohio man did the rest
In the report referred to an ANALYSIS
is made of the percentage of a29oint-
mentS under the merit system on the
aDDortlonment to which each state is
entitled on basis of population. When
the AbouS of the commission came to
inspect the result, behold Ohio's per-
centage led all the rest.
In the entire list of states and terri
tories only five reached the full quota
of their aDDortionment The Indian
Territory, Nevada and Wisconsin,
stood level with their rights at 100;
Maryland-alas that Eugene Higgins
had not lived to read the eulogy of his
pernlclouS act1Vlty'-had secured f07
for each 100 of it's due while Ohio.
grand old Ohio, that has pushed Vir-
ginia from her seat as the mother of &
presidents-OhiO scared out of sight of
all rivals with 100 offices for every 100
to which the cold figures entitled her to.
Was there ever 4 grander tribute to
the ubiquitous merit of. thetOffo man?
Under the merit system he gets there
in the proportion ofs120 to rs. for the
sons Of Illinois, 70 for Hoosiers, and Il
for Hawkeyes. The New Yorker has to
be content with 66 chances, where the
Buckeye has 120 when merit holds the
scale.
But it must not be thought thatthese
figures truly represent the success of
the Ohio man under the civil service eX-
aminatiOns. Thousands of the office
holders credited to other states first
drew breath within the magic lines that
bound Ohio Senator-eIect Beveridge,
of Indiana, is not the only Ohioan ac-
credited to = sister state. The offices
are full of them.
Professor William Matthews. might
have condensed his How to Get On in
the World" into the single Injunction:
BE BORNIN OHIO
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CALIFORNIA PEARL FISHING.

The pearl fisheries of the Gulf of
California are interesting and much
less well known than their interest
warrants. A recent visitor to the gulf
coast, Which Cortez was first among
white men to visit, says that the whole
coast is now controlled by concessions,
and the pearl crop is worth from a
quarter to half million dollars a year.
while the tons of shells exported bring
in more than million year.
The largest pearl ever found in these
fisheries. was sold to the emperor of
Austria for $4,000. Their yearly output
is now much larger than it was before
the improvements in diving bells made
it possible for good divers to go down a
hundred feet and stay for an hour or
two. Formerly, when native divers
were employed, they went down only
in water, of thiTty-five feet depth. and
could remain, of course, but a very
short time.
La Paz is the headquarters of the
pearl industry, a little town whose
dealers sent most OF their wares direct
to the great jewel markets of the world
in London and Paris. There is always
a good deal of romance in the idea of
pearl fishing, since so few oysters have
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of Faust" The last time it was given
in Salt Lake, it was done in very in
adequate fashion at the Grand, so the
admirers of the famous play will be
glad of an opportunity to see it pre-
sented in good style. This will be Mr..
Morrison's last tour in the role.
Melmourne Mcdowell and Blanche
Walsh (not Blanche Bates, as the Bee
informs u.s. will follow the Morrison
engagement, Monday and Tuesday, the
Goth and 21st. Fedora" and La Tos-
ca" Fanny Davenport's great plays,
will be given. Blanche Walsh is sure to
be warmly received by her friends and
admirers here, for these roles are the
most ambitious she has ever attempt
ed. She made her fame in "Aristoc-
racy" and "Trilby,' but principally in
the latter part. By a peculiar coinci-
dence, Miss Walsh is said to bear a
striking resemblance to Fanny Daven-
port.
Anderson, the scenic artist, is now at
work on the special scenic sets re-
quired for the "Trip to Africa" which
the Salt Lake Opera company will
bring out on the afternoon and even
ing of Washington's birthday. The
opera will be repeated on the 23rd. 24th
and 18th, and for the second matinee on
Saturday, the 18th. The expense which
the company will go to to put on the
work properly, VIII be at least double
that ever incurred before and the man
agement feels justified in putting it
on here for a longer run than usual on
this account. Mr.. Weihe is enthusiastic
over the work and says it will outshine
anything the company has yet done,
not excepting the Queens Lace Hand
kerchief,' and the Chimes of Nor
mandy"
The Grand will present "The South
Before the War" which has already
been seen in Salt Lake. 1t is, needless
to say, a story of happy go-lucky negro
life, in the south, and some interesting
specialties OF the present coon fad va
riety may be expected. This theatre has
had one of the best drawing cards of
the season in lyon Yonson" the past
week.
The second of the. Orpheus club con-
certs takes place at the congregational
church Thursday evening. The pro-
gramme includes a trio by Willard
Weihe, violin; James p Olson, cello,
and Arthur Shepard, piano. Mr.. Shep-
herd and Mr.. Weihe will also be heard
in solo numbers. The star of the ever
ing will be katherine Bloodgood, the
famous New York contralto.
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Subscription Concerts.

An excellent indication of the ten
dency of this community to advance
ment in musical matters is shown by
the interest taken in the Orpheus club
subscription concerts. The first series,
given last season, presented no remark
able Soloists, but was highly commend
able, inasmuch IS it introduced the
subscription system and gave the club
some valuable experience, the profit Of
which is evident in the concerts Of the
present series.
The Salt Lake public is almost pro-
verbally slow to warm to a new otter
prise. and usually waits to be asked