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The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
THE NEW GOSPEL SCOUT"
How He Induced the sIanEy Boy to
Come Church.

How He Induced the sIanEy Boy to
Come to Church.
A small Cleveland boy has a dread
full stock of slang at his tongues end,
to the great grief and humiliation of
his mother. says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. A good deal of this slang he
learns in the street and some of it
he gets from his wicked uncle. The
other day. while out with his sled, he
had bad tumble on the ice and bruis-
ed his side quite severely. He isn't too
big a boy to be petted by his mamma
and he came nustling into the house
to get her help and comfort. He
bounced into the parlor and there sat
a kindly faced gentleman, with big
black eyes, and curling beard, waiting
to see the boys mother. This is
the way the boy described what fol-
lowed: II knew who it was right
away, mamma, and l said to him:
Amt you tn new gospel scout to our
church?' An he kind O. smiled an
said: You've guessed it, my boy. I'm
the new sermon sharp at the birthstone
shack around the corner Say. NAM
ma. he beats Uncle George clean out
O. sight. Uncle George don't know no
slang as good as that. Then he saw
me holdin' my side an he says:'What's
tn matter? Cracked a slat?' An say.
mamma, he just unbuttoned my jacket
an rubbed the pain right away, mos
as quick as you could, an think he's
the incest man ever knew, except pa
pa, of course, an 1 told him I'd be
sure to come to hear him preach next
Sunday"
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05

In the large fish market at Honolulu
piles Of these delicacies may be seen.
both in the fresh and dried condition.
The head of the family walks round
inspecting the heaps. and chooses the
one which appeals to his taste. This
the vendor deftly wraps in a piece OF
palm-leaf. leaving the stalk out for
handle. The hook with which they are
caught is a most remarkable affair. A
straight piece of stick. about five or
six inches long, forms the backbone.
On the upper side is shell OF the
spotted variety; underneath that
is a solid block Of lead. while at the
other end of the stick two prongs OF
sharp brass wire are fastened. This
is the hook. and it is wonderful the
success the Kanakas have with such
primitive instrument.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
REMOVING RAILROAD CURVES.
They Cause seven-Tenths of the AccI-
dents That Happen.

dents That Happen.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch: The
Pennsylvania railroad improvement at
Irwin, which will cost about $1.000.-
600, is only an example of what has
been done or is being planned all
along the line of the road. The object
to be attained by this expenditure is
to remove two sharp curves from the
track. OF course the distance between
the points where the new track will
join the old is shortened slightly, but
that is not the economy sought. The
whole desideratum is to obtain
straight track over which trains may
pass with much less wear and tear and
at higher speed. Herein lies lesson
of experience of the first Importance.
When the Pennsylvania railroad was
buHt. speed of twenty miles an hour
was considered creditable, and the
most ordinary roadbed was equal to
the traffic. When the speed of passen-
ger trains was increased to thirty
miles an hour, the loss and waste from
curves began to be- noticeable. Now
that passenger trains run from fifty
to sixty miles an hour and heavy
lTeISHls uudhe thirty 10 lOIly Wiies du
hour. it is found to be economy to
spend millions of dollars to eliminate
the curves. The strain upon cars, the
friction between wheel and rail and
the shock to locomotives and roadbed
on the curves are the most serious
problems in latter-day railroad'ng.
The Pennsylvania has already ex-
pended about s15,000,o0O to abolish
curves; its plans contemplate fur
ther expenditure of more than an equal
sum, and it will undoubtedly save
money by the change, while increasing
the efficiency of the road. This state
ment may be better understood by the
application to it of an open railroad
secret-namely, that seven-tenths II
all railroad wrecks and partings of
trains are either directly or indirectly
chargeable to the curves.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
Telephotograpby.

Telephotography has recently been
applied to novel purpose by Italian
engineers in the Alps, south of Mont
Blanc, where the frontier line between
France and Italy lies among the noun
tains. The telephotographic camera
produces magnified picture of dis
tant object, and by means of such pic
lures the Italians have been able to
study the details of French forts which
they cannot approach near enough to
photograph with an ordinary camera.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
Making Cider.

To make fifty-four gallons of cider,
$40 pounds of apples have to be ground
up. Spikes and rollers tear and press
the apples into a pulpy mass called
pomace. This is shoveled into pre-
pared place where men build 1t up by
hand into "cheeses six to seven inches
high. Cheese after cheese is piled up,
layer OF reed between each two.
When the cheese is ready to be pressed
n wreath of straw called the crown is
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
Electric Barber Shop.

A very animated description Of a
barber shop in which most of the ia.
miliar operations are conducted by
electricity is given by LElectricien.
For example, hot water is obtained by
passing stream of hydrant through
German silver tube in a soapstone
case, the tube being electrically heated,
so that the water is nearly boiling
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
Hook to Catch Devil Fish.

The mere thought of eating an octo-
pus is enough to make the everyday
civilized being shudder at the thought;
vet in the Hawaiian islands these devil
fish, as they are commonly called, are
a much-prized delicacy among the ma
tives, while the imported Chinese and
Japanese have also acquired the taste.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
A Change of Diet,

Barlow is keeping Lent very striot-
ly," remarked Bunting. "Nonsense."
replied Larkin. He eats meat three
times a day" Il know that; but you
must remember he is a vegetarian"
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05

put on. then square of wooden
planks, then some blocks Of thick
wood. and the whole screwed down by
hand as hard as possible. A lever is
then applied and worked. and at first
the juice comes freely, then more
slowly. When this happens the press
is unscrewed, slices cut off the cheese
on all sides and the lever once more
applied. This is done several times.
The cheese in the picture produced sew
enty gallons OF pure cider.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05

II we'll fitting shoes are worn at
work about the house. the feet will be
less tired than when one wears the
loose slippers, which are supposed to
be restful, but are really very weari-
some
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
One Advantage.

what is the use of looking for the
north pole?" why, after it is found 1t
won't be necessary to send any more
expeditions to look for it,
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
City Plants.

Plants suffer from the smoke OF
cities because the fumes injure the
porous structure of the leaves and in
terfere with their free inspiration.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05

The French Automobile Club has
printed map on which are noted all
electric stations in France at which the
accumulators can be loaded.
The Springfield herald., 1899-05-05
spain's National Flow,

The mignonette is the national flow
er of Spain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10
SOLDIERS AND DISCHARGES.

The true soldier prizes his discharge
above all the souvenirs of his service.
1t is his certificate of character. 1t
oorroborates his stories of adventure.
1t tells whether or not his wounds were
received in a brawl or in battle. 1t is
treasured as a badge of honor. Ii may
be found pasted in the Bibles or framed
and hung upon the walls in the homes
of the veterans. 1t is often the soil
tary document the homeless wanderer
retains, after he has parted with all
that connects him with his past
In every discharge there is a blank
space left for the filling in of a word
that will show to the friends and rela-
tives of the bearer ami to future gen.
erations the esteem in which he was
held by his country. If the word dis
honorable" is therein written. the char
acter of the man is bad, or his conduct
has been reprehensible from a soldiers
standpoint. If the word honorable"
fills the space, nCehing can exceed the
pride the soldier feels in such q certifi-
cate of courage and manhood. But if
nothing is said, it leaves an inference
to be drawn, and soldiers know it. that
the commanding officers could say moth
ing in commentator and charitably
RETAINED from saying anything derog-
atory to the soldier.
There is no excuse for the refusal of
the mastering out officers TO fill that
blank as the volunteers at the Preside
are receiving their discharges. If ever
men earned an honorable discharge
these men have earned it. If ever
men fought hard and submitted to the
rough discipline of war long after they
We're entitled to honorable discharges.
these volunteers have done so. 1t is
an outrage to refuse to certify to this
fact.
The officers have their commissions
and their reports perpetuate their
names in the history of the war But
the men behind the guns, the men with
the muskets, preserve their history and
establish their modest fame in war
upon the cornerstone of an honorable
discharge
The volunteers are entitled to such
a certificate, and it is a shame to the
republic if it isn't furnished them. Not
that it will add TO the glory of their
achievements, but that it is their due.
and their wish.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10

should have no more place or prece-
dence that it has in actual life. Love
that is to say, the love of man and wo-
man-is but one force-factor in the
complex machinery of human action
There are many other motive forces
Among the more important of these he
placed the love of money. So that in
Balzac instead of the vagaries of the
e-passion, we have the play and in
terplay of modern real life in all its
intricacies of business and everyday
employment. He presents us the life
which now is, or which actually has
been. So far. then, as the object of
his art is concerned, Balzac is the very
opposite of the romanticist He is a
realist.
Then. again. there were the differen-
tiation of which Prosper Merimee 1S03-
1870 and Theophile Gautier QS11-1S72)
were the chief exemplars-the differen-
tiation that made for exactness and
precision and word artistry. Merimee
and Gautier, however, were not the
first De Vigny Q799-1S6D. an earlier
member of the same school, had already
said: "A book, as / conceive it, ought
to be composed, fashioned, sculptured.
cut, finished, filed and polished. like a
statue of Parian marble" Unfortu-
nately. De Vigny. except in some of his
smaller poems, could not realize this
high ideal of his. But Merimee and
Gautier did realize it; the one in his
short tales. the most perfect in form
and finish that any language has ever
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10

seen; the other in his poems and stories
and in his descriptive pieces. Though
differing from one another. the one be-
ing concise and neat, the other, in his
prose at least, flowing and ornate, they
each eXemplify a departure from the
ordinary manner OF the romanticists in
style quite as remarkable as that of
Balzac was in method.
The writings of the romanticists
proper in their earlier days had been
characterized by ''individualism"
is to say, by personal opinions. self
revelation, lyric passion. This was es-
pecially true of one who, as to every
thing else. showed characteristics quite
different from those of the main b0d-
Of the group. George sand QS04-1S76),
in her first great works, Indiana,
Valentine" and Leila" portrayed the
emotions. revealed the passions and
uttered the cries of her own heart.
These works, if any ever were. are per-
vaded to the utmost by that Lyric
thrill which is the characteristic of all
individualistic literature. But in every
other respect they differ from the nov
els of their age. They deal not with an
exotic or bygone life, but with tie life
of their own age and country. And
though their incidents and situations
are moving and absorbing, they are not
extraordinary.
These early works of George Sand
were indeed the beginning of iatera-
ture that has had great vogue in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10
GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS.

There are fossils in Wyoming as well
as in Utah. Most of those in Wyoming
have beer dead so long that they know
il, and thereby hangs a tale. ExpIor-
ing the immense fossil field near Lara
ME this week a party of scientists dis
covered and exhumed a monster dino
saur of the Mesozoic order of archisau-
rian reptiles which belonged to the
Jurassic period.
These ancient and exceedingly rare
animals are known to modern man only
by the death marks and stone images
left by the sculptor. petrification. in the
studio of nature. They were beauties
in their time from all accounts. being
furnished with four ambulatOry feet,
a set of two-headed ribs, perforate
acetabula, and an aching void where
the interclavicle was omitted, probably
on account of a lack of material. The
one found III Wyoming was double
raftered," as we are informed by the
eminent scientists who have inspected
his fine points. His neck was long like
that of a giraffe, his tail heavy and
awkward like that of a beaver. but in
proportion to his great length of sixty
feet and his height of twenty feet at
the hips Imagine a scaly animal, half
alligator and half hippOpotamus, as big
as farmers barn, with long hind legs
and very short forelegs, a snaky neck
and a head like a frog. and you Will
see what you missed by not living in
Jurassic times when the dinosauria
roamed the earth in quest of prey.
1t is better 10 live now and fight the
trusts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10
THEIR LOVE FOR THE SOLDIERS.

Administration organs are beginning
to show how genuine is their professed
love for the volunteer. Tested in the
acid Of party concern, it vanishes in a
vapor. The New York Mail and Ex-
press denounces as towards who re-
GREETED their enlistment before the ink
of their signatures was dry" all who
refuse to subscribe to the imperial pol
icy of our William the Conqueror" and
his prime minister, Mark. The Com
merciaI Advertiser thinks they should
be given a taste of rt-martial-these
heroes who fought their way through
the jungles Of Luzon. who swan the
streams in pursuit of fleeing natives.
ana slept in the trenches week after
week without a change of clothing,
while insurgent bullets battered over
the marshes about them: they ought TO
be punished because they express their
honest views, which do not happen TO
comport 70 those of Mr.. Hanna and
his subsidized press.
What soldiers ever on a field of battle
displayed greater patriotism, courage.
even enthusiasm in the work they had
been commanded to do, than did the
volunteers of the west in the tedious.
unsatisfactory campaign of the Philip
pines. In almost every engagement.
the handiwork of Utah battery1nen was
seen, and in almost every report their
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10
WANT 1T LOCALIZED.

There seems to be a difference of
opinion among leading opponents of sin
gle standard doctrine as to the neces-
sity for legalizing the existing gold
standard. Some very eminent states
men, Benjamin Harrison among them,
hold that a president friendly TO silver
could put the country on Il bimetallic
basis practically unless restrained by
further congressional legisla ton.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
shares this alarm, and loudly calls
upon the Republican party to fulfill its
pledges to the latter and place the
country beyond the power of Bryan. in
the event of his election to the presi-
dency, 10 change its financial system.
1t says: In affirming the single gold
standard, therefore, the law would
merely recognize an existing fact: it
would make no change in commercial
usage; il would make no alteration in
prices and values and obligations. But
with the law as it stands, an admins
tration favorable to cheap money. or
timid about employing the means of
lily substitute the long obsolete silver
standard. and throw all commerce into.
chaos by upsettilg every value and
changing the obligation of every con-
tract. There is d pressing need for leg
islation on this point and party inter
est as well as political principle lays
upon the administration party the obi
gaticn to eliminate the silver standard
from the law books"
The Mail and Express is of the same
opinion. 1t says: Under the law. as
it stands now, a secretary of the treas
ury who was hostile TO the gold stand
ard could force the country to a silver
basis by insisting that silver certificates
should be redeemed with nothing but
silver dollars; but under the provision
above, this dangerous power
would be unable to disturb the basis of
our financial system. even if he were so
But the New York Sun. probably the
most radical goldbug in the country,
calls this idea an hallucination, and as
sures its contemporaries that the sill
yer standard was eliminated from the
law books in 1878. and it will stay elm
mated until it is restored by an act of
either approved by the pres
ident or passed over his veto"
Still. the fear of Bryan's success at
the polls next time is becoming so |
and so deep-rooted among
goldbugs that the majority in the next
congress win undoubtedly undertake to
legalize the standard that was estab- |
lished by fraud and deception in 1873.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10
CHANGES IN CLIMATE.

According to the National Geographic
Magazine the arid zone of the west is
spreading. From recent government
explorations and scientific observations
il reaches the conclusion that "a stead
lily progressive aridity is slowly re-
placing former more humid climatic
conditions"
This view is corroborated by statis-
ties gathered by the agricultural de-
partment The change, observers say,
is manifest in the decreasing volume
of water in many of the lakes and
streams west Of the Rocky mountains.
That constant change is taking place
is evidenced by the appearance of for
mer beach lines at higher levels, the
disappearance of some lakes entirely
within the last ten or fifteen years-of
which Sewer. in Utah, and Tulare, in
California, are examples-and also in
the notifications going on from year
to year in the native flora These phe-
nomena are as noticeable in the high
mountains as they are in the deserts
below.
Several causes are assigned for this
change. The destruction OF forests is
one. Another is the diversion of water
for irrigation purposes. But the most
reasonable view to. take, it seems. is
that these changes come and go like
the ebb and flow of the ocean. For
period there viii be years of rain and
snow, the lakes viii fill. even new ones
will form as was the case a few years
ago on the Colorado desert, new car
pets OF verdure will cover the ranges.
forest fires viii cease to be so common,
ard then a period of aridity will set
in, the lakes win dwindle, the hills
turn brown, and the scientists viii be-
gin to speculate upon the phenomena
again.
1t begins to look already as if the
reaction from an era of minimum
humidity had begun. So much rain at
this season of the year is quite I'M
usual, and the skies continue to threat
en- Whether it rains much or little
people viii complain When the farm
ers rejoice the campers grumble. So
1t goes. We must take the weather. as
it comes and the lakes as we find them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-10
THEoPHILE GAUTIFR.

romance" which both historically and
as a matter of use in the period we are
( discussing implied a tale or story of
events that lay outside of common ex
perience. The cling Mars" of De Vigny
QS26) a dramatic tale of conspiracy
of the time of Richelieu; the "Notre
Dame" of Victor Hugo, a tale of me-
diaeval Paris-works that mark the be-
ginning and the full flow of the roman
tic movement We're each concerned
with conditions of life that had no sig
nificant parallel in the life of the day
they were written in. All the great
masterpieces of Dumas were of SINH
lar character. Like the romances of
Scott, they were the praise and glorifi-
cation of past time. They did not
deal with ordinary life or humanity.
The dramas of Hugo and his other
earlier novels were the same. They
were not real. They were ideal. fanci-
full. ina ginative, poetical.
But a great epoch in literature can
never be altogether uniflorous. Sooner
or later its real fecundity must show
itself And it was so in this case. Ro-
manticism, pure and simple. became
only one feature. and at most but a
prominent feature of the so-called ro-
mantle movement.
Under the true romanticiSts the novel
had the delineation and effective por-
traiture of beauty in nature, or in art,
or in the human form divine" for its
principal objective feature. Its prin-
cipal subjective feature was the expo
sition of the force and variancy of
passionate love. Exploits of various
kinds-of daring. bravery and ingen-
uity in mai, of suffering and endur-
ance and perhaps of waywardness in
women-these made up what may be
called the action of the novel.
Under BalZac beauty was no longer
considered the main feature of the nov
elist's objective treatment, For beauty
he substituted actuality In his sub
jective treatment he insisted that love
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praises were sounded. No regiment
suffered greater hardship or was called
upon for more extended and dangerous
duty than was the valiant regiment
from Nebraska, which was reduced, in
three months of incessant fighting and
exposure, from 1000 to 200 men able
TO go on duty.
Yet the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
concerned more about the plans of
Chairman Hanna than about the well
fare of the republic, far more interested
in the chances Of its party than in the
men whose glory that party will yet
try to appropriate. sneers at the volun-
teers and denounces those who have
questioned the policy OF conquest.
In a recent editorial the administra-
ton champion OF St. Louis says: IN
terviews with the Nebraska and Utah
troops. just returned from Manila, are
telegraphed extensively to the papers
eager to discredit the administration
and especially its management of af-
fairs in the Philippines" Instead of
treating the views of the volunteers as
the views Of American citizens who are
as much entitled to think and speak
for themselves as the st. Louis editor
is to speak for Hanna, it refers TO
them contemptuously as follows: They
do not express themselves in soldierly
fashion, and it may be taken for
granted that they are the chronic
snarlers and exceptions"
Who are the "ccpperheads, anyway?
Those who honor the returning volun-
teers and respect their rights and opin-
ions, or those who grovel in the dust
at the feet Of spells dispensers and ma
Ign real heroes in defense OF partisan
policies?