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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
A Dispatch Riders Goodness.
Gondon News.l

One of the most remarkable instances
of self-possession on record is accredited
to gentleman who arrived here so late
as Oct. %. He rode a bicycle. and his dis
patches were made up in a brown paper
parcel which he carried in his coat pock-
ct. so that if he saw trouble ahead he
could commend the safety of his parcel
to the open veldt He was riding swiftly
and. on turning a treacherous corner.
found himself face to face with a party
of about twenty Beers. who had been
looting. or. in their more charitable
phraseology. communicating. He at once
dismounted and said ''good-day." and as
his get up was excellent, one of the
Beers shook hands with him.
This gave little respite and allowed
him to collect himself Yes. he said. he
was coming from Kimberley and was
looking for work. He preferred looking
for work to taking UP arms. Before the
Beers sought TO search him he brought
out two hard-boiled eggs which he offer
ed them. They refused. and then he pro-
duced his brown paper packet of dis
patches, ard said he had two sandwiches
which they could have. His seeming kind
ness was his salvation. and the Beers
were satisfied They gave him plenty of
advice and told him TO keep his sand
witches. as they had a sufficiency of bill
tong.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING.

Stockings of all sizes. shapes. colors,
textures, ages and doors will be found
hanging upon mantels, chairs, tables
trees and door knobs, in mansions, cot
tages. cabins, tenements, tents and
novels in the morning.
Some will be full of sweetmeats, some
will reveal the angles of books or
skates or blocks, Others will bulge with
handkerchiefs. ties, muffiers, gloves and
fancy work, while dolls or jumping
jacks will peep from others.
All OF the stockings will be fam
ished tonight when they take conspic-
uous places to attract the attention OF
the red-faced, white-haired individual
who comes down the chimney, through
the keyhole or any way to get in with
out alarming the little folks. Some of
these receptacles will be gorged in the
morning-wholly inadequate for the
treasures left, others will be oceans too
big, and few may be overlooked en-
tirely and hungry still.
With varying emotions this ancient
signal of enticement, this flag of greet
ing-the Christmas stocking-will be
hoisted tonight. The little tot will hang
his tiny footwear up with nervous
dimpled hands and toddle off to bed to
dream of Santa Claus. The larger boys
and girls will scramble for positions,
C..twish each other, make plans for the
morrow and secretly cherish designs OF
weylaying the welcome intruder who
burglarizes homes on Christmas eve.
The grown up children try to hide their
own excitement, smile with a knowing
look upon the simple faith of the little
ones, but the young men go to sleep
wondering what they will get, anyhow,
and the young ladies will slip out of
bed when the house is still, hang up
stockings that would discourage any
body but Santa Claus, and creep back
to bed wondering if they will hold
anything besides the piano or bicycle
upon which their hearts are set.
The Christmas stocking is one of the
most serious problems that confronts
the old man who runs heavens de-
livery wagon on Christmas eve. 1t is
a revelation and drain upon his re-
sources, in some instances. and still,
ii is thing of beauty and a joy for
ever
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

gether with the kind and quantity Of
dence of some person known to the
dealer as a witness to the transaction
except where the sale is made on the
written prescription of known ply
sician
In most states it is required that ali
bottles containing poisonous substances
shall be so labeled, and that it shall be
label so it viii stick. 1t would be bet
ter to require that poison should be
sold only in bottles of a special make
and color with the warning blown in
the glass.
No more insidious danger threatens
human life than the carelessness or the
criminal ignorance of druggists. People
who take prescriptions to drug stores
are compelled to rely upon the pre-
scription clerk; if they send for SIM
pie liquor or powder they ought to have
some assurance that poison of the same
appearance will not be returned to
them. 1t has been only a few days
since an order was sent to a druggist
in this state for gin; the bottle
went back filled with carbolic- acid
and withod. a label, though the clerk
declares he labeled it; the man who
sent for the alcohol is dead and the
druggist is in custody. Cases like this
are of common occurrence in some
parts of the country. Druggists who
are licensed and allowed to sell poi
sons should be required to know and
to watch their business. The public
should have the protection of the law
so that it will not be necessary to take
compounds obtained from alleged
pharmacists to chemists to ascertain
what they are, then to toxicologists to
find out if the ingredients are poison
Gus and then back to the physician to
see if he really intended to prescribe a
certain amount of poison
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
Old Bill Brown.

New York Telegram.)
Old Bill Brown was a sailor. bold.
Ship ahoy Ship ahoy.
And many tale could he unfold.
Ship ahoy. Alloy.
He could see five miles beyond fog.
He liked his quid and he loved his grog-
Yarns, well, as easy as rolling off a log.
Ship ahoy. Anoy.
Travelled all over in foreign lands,
Ship ahoy. Ship ahoy.
Often attacked by savage bands.
Ship ahoy. Alloy.
Surprised one night while in Bombay
By vicious tribe who were wont to STAY.
Bill jumped on scale and got weigh
Ship ahoy. Ahoy.
Bill said things were coming to a terrible
Ship ahoy. Ship ahoy:
And that his trade was going to grass,
Ship ahoy. Alloy.
"A girl for lighthouse work. gracious me!
VIII wonders never cease 10 De-
Old Bill was man of great intellect,
Ship ahoy. Ship ahoy-
And many a time has he been SNIP
Ship ahoy. Alloy.
He's often been around the Horn
Long before you or were porn, o-,
And he still gets around one every morh-
Ship ahoy. Ahoy.
Bill could tell you some stories you'd
hardly believe,
Ship ahoy. Ship ahoy,
For he has q. great stock of them up In
his sleeve,
Ship ahoy Alloy.
He remembers the time when the ocean
ran dry.
Now, this comes from Bill. SO it can't be
a lie, A..
Fish had to stand on their heads or the
POOR things would die.
Ship ahoy. Alloy
One night while sailing the billowy deep,
Ship ahoy. Ship ahoy.
Pirates murdered the crew while all were
asleep.
Excepting brave Bill, who fousnt there
One man against hundred on the bill
loWy foam.
Chased them all up an aliey, an" tneh he
walked home.
Ship ahoy. Alloy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
uNREPENTANT AGUIAALDO.

It is reported again for the 'steentf
time that 1.-The backbone of the Philip
pine Instruction is broken" Anothe'
trap has been set, and Aguinaldo j:
billed to walk into it without delay
over forty traps of one make" or an
! other have been sci along the high
ways and byways most frequented by
the insurgent general, but he very
awkwardly stumbles past them instead
of gracefully stepping inside.
Aguinaido has disappointed his aud
! fence so many times by not fulfilling
! the engagements Otis has announced
for him that public interest in his per-
| Torrance has almost ceased, and no
body cares much any more whether he
takes to the hills or climbs a tree. The
opposition show in South Africa is at
tracing a great deal moro attention
right here in America, notwithstanding
the frantic efforts of Patriot Hanna to
make US believe that his Spanish side
show is the only one in the world worth
seeing, and in spite of our great and
good Mr.. McKinley's fiag-waving and
vociferous barking under the admins
tration umbrella at the door of the i'm
perialist tent.
If Aguinaldo knows what is good for
him, he viii surrender, even il he has
not already done so. AT war with this
country he runs considerable risk of
being shot, and more of dying of old
age if Otis is to remain at the head of
our Oriental crusade.
Let him surrender, however, and he
will be taken to Florida. supplied with
comfortable lodging. given all the
food, tobacco and gin he wants, allowed
the freedom of the enclosure, and treat
ed as somewhat of a social lion by hys-
terieal females of the cultured east.
Besides he viii have chance to get
some of our benevolent assimilation"
administered in a new form-hypoder-
mic injection on bayoret-mounted
breechloaders only being used in for
eign lands for this purpcse-and will
have a rare opportunity TO read our
gospel of peace on earth. good will to
men, without the annoyance of the
smoke os war with which our armies
have filed Luzon. and by another light
than that made by the blazing towns
and homes of his people. If Aguinaldo
would only be kind and considerable and
wise enough to surrender. he would be
enabled to enjoy all these great privi-
leges and the additional one of learning
to drink our treaty making, tribe-con-
quering "firewater" on its native
heath.
g % q
But Aguinaldo refuses to be accom-
modating. He read somewhere last
year that this government was in con-
troll OF ''imbeciles and thieves" who
neglected the soldiers entrusted to
their care and robbed the people who
placed confidence in Them and he read
it in Republican newspaper. too. He
naturally shrinks from entrusting the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
JOHN CHINAMAN II,

Those who deal with the Chinese ped
the Chinese merchant, have doubtless
discovered that, heather though he be,
John likes our Christian holidays and
| takes a child-like pleasure in bestow-
ing gifts upon his customers or all who
take his fancy.
The Chinese lily is a favorite gift,
for he has A. superstitious notion that
| it brings luck to its possessor. and, de-
spite the contempt with which he is al
most universally treated in this coun-
try, John wishes nearly everybody well.
People who visit Chinatown during
their New Years festivities in Febru-
airy are made 70 appreciate their hos
pitality even if their offerings of food
and drink are tasted with misgivings
or viewed with suspicion. John is a
great hand to distribute trinkets among
the children of his acquaintance, and
seems to find real pleasure in their ac-
ceptance of the gifts.
The commonly expressed and rarely
questioned estimate of Chinese charac-
ter is that they are a parsimonious. sell
fish set-prosperous beyond their de-
serts and economical to an offensive de-
gree. For some reason or other John
is regarded as a sort of 'sap-sucker."
who remains in this country five or ten
years, lives on little or nothing, and
then returns to spend his gains and the
rest of his life in the kingdom of
flowers.
But John is misunderstood. and con-
sequently misjudged. He is here be-
cause his home land is overcrowded
with workingmen. He is here to work,
and if his services are not satisfactory
ne doesn't get anything to do. If his
garden stuffs are not so good and so
cheap as those of his competitors, he
can't sell them. John has to take mis-
chances. Yet he is anything but fru-
gal He is fond of fan-tan and a good
meal. He works early and late, but it
is no uncommon thing for laundry
man o. gardener to squander his en-
tire earnings for a week or n month at
a single sitting. He likes glass of
beer over the bar. and when he is
broke he knows what the pawnshops
are for. When he is pinched he lives
on rice and rodents, maybe. TIT with a
flush pocket he buys the delicacies Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
HOLIDAY ExTHAvAeANcE.

Christmas trading has been fairly ac-
tive this year. 1t will continue to some
extent all week. AS a rule the children
are cared for in the weeks that pre-
cede Christmas, while frequently grown
folks remember each other best on
Christmas day or during the interval
between Christmas and New Years, af-
ter the wants of the children have been
supplied.
For a month past the stores and
shops have been thronged with sight
seers, holiday FOUNDERS and patrons
handling delicate fabrics. reading pop
mechanical toys out of gear.
There will be great deal of money
spent foolishly this. week, as there was
last week, and the week before. and as
there has been in every Christmas sea-
son for many a year. Men and wo-
men who are spendthrifts all the year.
exceeding their incomes for their own
pleasures, are tempted in holidays to
expend trifie on someone else. Christ
mas extravaganza does them no harm.
1t adds but little to the burden they
| bear constantly and is really the most
wholesome and commendable extrava-
gance in which they indulge. Those
who are close. to whom extravaganza
is a stranger most of the time are not
apt TO indulge in excessive extrava-e
gance in the holidays. while the pleas
ure they get from the pleasure they
give is of infinite advantage to them
it is Christening influence which keeps
their natures from becoming sordid.
So, while some money is foolishly
scattered. while money is laid out on
trifies that might be spent on necessi-
ties. it is questionable if it would be
expended in any other way than that
in which it is done.
There is, therefore, a side to Christ
mas extravaganza which preachers of
Thrifty morality do not seem to take
into account. 1t is not altogether a
waste of means or perversion of gene
rosity to distribute trifies with neces-
stiles in sowing seeds of joy. The I'M
necessary OUTLAWS and uncontemplated
extravagances of Christmas-tide are to
be reckoned among the blessings rather
than among the drawbacks Of the sea-
son.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
POEMS WORTH READING.
Merrie Christmas.

(Sir Walter scott-)
Heap on more woods The wind is chill.
But let it whistle as 1t Will
Each age has deemed the newborn year
I The fittest time for fsstal cheer:
And well our Christian sires of old
And brought biithe Christmas back again
With all his hospitable train
Domestic and religious rite
Gave honor to the holy night:
On Christmas eve the bells were rung.
On Christmas eve the mass was sung;
That only night in all the year
saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.
The damsel donned her kirtle sheen;
The hall was dressed with holly green;
Forth TO the wood did merry men so
To gather in the mistietoe-
They opened wide the baron's hall
To vassal. tenant. serf and all;
Power aid his rod of rule aside
And Ceremony DOTTED his pride.
Inc neir; with roses In his shoes.
All hailed with uncontrolled delight
And general voice the happy night
That TO the cottage as the crown
Brought tidlngs of salvation down.
The fire, with well-dried logs supplied.
Went roaring up the chimney wide;
The huge hall tables oaken face
Scrubbed TIL 1t shone. the day TO grace,
Bore then upon its massive board
No mark to part the squire and lord
Then was brought in the iusty Drawn
BY old biue-coated serving man;
Then the grim boar head frowned on
high
Crested with hays and rosemary.
Well can the green-barbed ranger tell
How. when and where the monster fell.
What dogs before his death he tore,
And all the batting of the boar.
The wassail round. in good brown bowls.
Garnished with ribbons. blithely trowis-
There the huge sirloin reeked: hard by
Plum porridge stood, and Christmas pie;
Nor failed old Scotland TO produce
At such high tide her savory goose.
Then came the merry maSkers in,
And carols roared with blithesome din;
If unmelodious was the song.
II was a hearty note and strong
England was merry England when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
Twas Christmas preached the mightiest
ale:
Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft would cheer
The poor mans heart through half the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
DRUGGISTS AND The PUBLIC.

1t is almost criminal for an absent
minded man to engage in the drug
business. or for a druggist TO employ
an incompetent clerk. In many states
it is a misdemeanor for any apothe-
cary TO entrust the handling of drugs
or chemicals in the trade to clerks or
statesmen who are not regularly IL
censed. The penal code of New York
state declares 1t misdemeanor for any
apothecary or druggist or pharmacist.
or any person employed by him, to sell
or give away any poison. poisonous
substance or dangerous drug or chem
ical without first recording in book
10 be kept for that purpose the name
ana residence of the person receiving
sush poison or dangerous mixture, to-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
Senator Beveridge's Youth.
Washington Post. J

You look. ike very young man." said
some one to Senator Beveridge of Indi-
ana. in the senate corridor yesterday.
Yes. said Beverage. with the air OF
one who has made a patient Investigation.
Il am five years younger than was Alex
ander Hamilton when he was appointed
years younger than Thomas Jefferson
when he wrote the Declaration of indie
pendence: To. be sure. Henry Clay, when
he was elected speaker, VAS
At this point the senator's voice had
faded away and he had disappeared
around q corner of the lobby.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
A Suspension of Sentence.


For twenty-five years Squire Quigg held
the office of justice OF the peace in Doni-
phan county. and in the early part of his
administration he held the idea that a
justice had as much jurisdiction as a dis
trict court. Once shooting scrape oc-
CURED in the township and the culprit
was brought before tie squire for prelim-
mary examination. After listening to the
arguments. the squire ordered the. prison.
you be hanged by the neck until dead,
dead dead Turning to the constable.
the squire said: Take this prisoner out
There is rope halter in my buggy" The
constable. made move for the prisoner.
and then the squire. taking a second
you had better not hang the prisoner I'M
I'll we see whether his victim dies
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
Ratified Ry a Royal Visitor.

On one occasion the Prince of Wales
visited Hndoo school in Madras. The
youngsters had been drilled into the pro-
priety OF saying Your royal highness.
should the prince speak TO them. and
wnen the nsir-apparent aecosteu a
matte compass. asked: What is this?''
the youngster all in a dutter. replied:
IT'S royal compass. your prismatic
highness."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local OF.
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City. Utah, Dec. %, 1899.
Maximum temperature. "a degrees; min
imum temperature. 20 degrees; mean tenn
perature q degrees. which is degrees
below the normal: accumulated deficiency
OF temperature since LIST of the month. 80
perature since Jan. /, 151 degrees; total
precipitation from D. m. to 6 p. m.
trace: accumulated deficiency of precipi-
tation since LIST of the month. .13 inch:
accumulated excess of precipitation since
Jan. l, LES inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

The Christmas number of the Deseret
News is very handsome publication,
filled with a great variety of interest
ing articles. The mechanical and typo
graphical features are also of great ex-.
cellence, and the edition reflects credit
upon the management.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
Melzar. the Gentle.

Mabel Cronise Jones in Leslies Weekly. }
Melzar, Gentle of LyStra, buffeted marsh
ly by fate.
Heard with a startled wonder, Paul the
Apostle great.
Ignorant wretched. unIettered, he listen
ed in awe and believed;
Christ as Messiah and Master the simple
Gentle received.
Pondered he long the story. the marvellous
Christ-child's birth.
Vision of love incarnate coming from hea-
ven to earth
Often wished Meizar the Gentle, that he
had beheld the star.
Following after its cleaning to the sacred
manager afar.
Ignorant quite. and untutored, he ponder
ed again and again,
Wistfully hoping the beacon once more
might appear to men.
Seeing one eve with rapture star with a
Me,zar. iii with fever. hastened into the
night
weakened with stuff ring and anguish.
feebly he rose from his bed,
Following, following. whittier the star in
it's beauty led.
Surely at length 1 shall see Him. Mel
Ear rejoicing cried:
Lead me- oh. Star of Wonder, close TO
my Masters slider
For from his home they found him. there
on the grassy plain;
Whose seeketh the Christ-child seeketh
Him not in vain.
Surely star will lead them close to their
Masters side
Me.zar. dead in the sunlight. never in
truth mad died.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-14
Ia WV TENNIS.

GEoRGB II. MILES NARROWLY ESCAPES A DE-
FEAT
Orange. ~ j.. June IL (Special.-The first
citing match for the New-Jersey lawn tennis
championships played here this afternoon be-
tween George ii. Miles. OF Orange. and f. b.
Alexander. OF Princeton. The collegan beat Gifin
a local player. early In the afternoon, and then
went In against Miles In the semi-hnal round. and
put up a brilliant game. After n close struggle In
the first set. Alexander captured the second and
secured n lead In the last. Miles rose to the oc
casion. however. and pulled out victory after
close struggle Alexanders defeat was more
glorious than Miles's win" for the latter was
rated high among the experts last season.
Darkness overlook Paret and II. NJ Miles before
they could finish their match In the second round
and and Il VIII be played again tomorrow. The doubles
VIII also be started There eight teams entered
for this contest The scores OF to-days matches
follow:
Championship singles C.econd round,--J p Paret
against r. NJ Miles. jr., G-3. 30 Oinnnished); r. B
Alexander b~at Irving OHM, %, o-i.
seml-nnal round-o. H. Miles beat r. d. Alexander,
- a-6. ca.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-14
"LANKY BOBS' POPULARITY NOT GONE
HE Is SAVED FROM a NOR or ovER-AFPECTIoN-
ATE FRIENDS BY A QUICK-wITTED CABBY

HE Is SAVED FROM a NOR or OVER AFFECTION
ATE FRIENDS BY A QUICK-wITTED CABBY.
Robert Fitzsmmons. the prze-fghter has ap
parently not lost his hold the popular sympa-
thies in losing the heavyweight championship.
He called yesterday morning at the office Of his
lawyers BOese & Carhart. In the Lords Court
Building and the news OF his presence spread
rapidly Men and boys poured into the big lower
hall OF the building TO catch q glimpse OF him
when he should 20 out. and 30 many OF them had
errands to the seventh floor. which the pugtists
lawyers have their office. that the Jantor finally
instructed the elevator men 10 let nobody at all
alight at that floor.
At last Fitzsimmons came downstairs. and the
enthusiastic mob set upon him. shaking his hand.
patting him the back. trying TO raise him to
their shoulders and meanwhile cheering Justify.
The crowd finally got out into Exchange Place.
where hundreds more had gathered, and with Fitz
simmons In the van, his coat torn and his hat
Jammed over his eyes, the procession swept up
Exchange Place toward Broad-st., upsetting the
pushcarts and taking toll from their contents OF
bananas and frankfurters. The outside crowd"
Of brokers. In Broad-st In front OF the Mills
Building. was swallowed up In the larger crowd
and nobody knew where the procession was likely
to end. when "A qulck-witted cabdrver wheeled
his cab at right angles with the curb and opened
the door; titzsmmon popped into the vehicle. the
cabby whipped up his horse. heading uptown and
the ovation" was over