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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-08

so was going to eat the duck myself.
How did you get here?"
Il don't know" ] murmured in be-
wilderment- I've been walking all
night, lodging Beers, looking for you
and the duck, and at last thought-or,
at least, hoped was on the road for
ward"
My case he said, weakly. Il nearly
ran into the farmer looking for you and
pumpkin-did you come away with
out a pumpkin then I.sat down under
a tree with a club 1 picked up to bash
the Boer with if he came bothering me,
and just as the moon was finally
eclipsed, the tree or something fell on
me and 1 didn't know anything more
until 1 woke up here. 1 believe I
thought l was somewhere near johann
nesburg. I am horribly stiff and cold.
and my necl1'S broken, I think. by that
tree that fell. Did You get that pump
kin?''
1 looked at him MISREPRESENTATION.
Il lost the bally thing" 1 chartered,
for L shivered cruelty.
''The-then,' said the trooper, chatter
ing as badly, "we-we'll broil the duck.
Wait till I get it and We'll clear out of
this neighborhood. It's too warm for
US here"
In one sense it was, but, in another,
felt l would never be warm again.
Before the trooper could move I
clutched him and dragged him back;
and we sank down in some long grass.
From the house came the tow-headed
boy and the constituencies rascal was
as bright and cheerful as if he had not
been the source of all our woes. He
had some corn in his hand for, appar-
emily, the ducks, but that boys eyes
missed nothing. He saw the dead bird
on the bank; he picked it up and ran
with it, yelling, back to the house. The
trooper and I caught at each others
hands like lost children and fed to-
gether, hungry and rt-broken.
The sun was well up when we les
sened out pace, and listened for the
sound of the big Roer's pursuing voice,
but it did not come, and we sank, ex-
hausted.
This is a beast of a country" said
the trooper.
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FRESH ROLLS FOR BREA KFAsr PONCE, PUERTO RICO


robed in tawdry finery. is taken from
the coffin and literally dumped in
More lime is used. then the mutes re-
turn to their employer with the coffin.
Every Cuban and Puerto Rican GEM
etery is surrounded by immensely
thick walls, containing rows of inches
These inches are sold to the wealthy
for five years, the price ranging from
$40 to $500, according to the situation
When body is placed inside a niche,
the opening is bricked up and plas-
tered. Then the services of the ceme-
terry artist are secured, and a suit
able inscription painted upon the white
plastered end. AT the conclusion of
five years, the niche must be paid for
again, or the remains viii be removed
to the common burying corner.
BEGGARS RIDE ON HORSEBACK.
Visitors to our new possessions will
find a multitude Of other queer trades.
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YOUTH OF LANDSEER.
Remarkable Precocity of His Genius
For Painting.

Remarkable HrecocIty OF HIS GENIUS
For Painting.
AS perhaps most American boys
know, Landseer, the English artist,
painted deer and dogs as no one had
ever done before, and as, perhaps, no
one has done since He was said to
have humanized their expression. His
genius developed very early, so that
when only II years of age, his picture
of a magnificent dog, chained to it's
gennel, and carried away by a flood
attracted considerable notice at an ex-
hibition of the Royal academy A gen
tleman, who was very much struck
with its merit, hurried off to the paint
er to make an offer for it. He rang at
the door Of a small garden. When
the gate opened, he saw boy playing
with a hoop with some other little fell
lows. He inquired of the children:
Does Mr.. Landseer live here?"
Yes" replied one of the boys.
when may 1 speak to him?'
Now, if you like; I am Mr.. Land
seer"
But" explained the visitor. "it is
your father 1 want to see I have
called about picture of his at the
academy"
We'll" said the child, at is I who
am exhibiting the picture" and he
proceeded to make the sale.
His technical powers were eXtraordi-
nary. He was once present at a party,
when the conversation turned upon
feats of manual dexterity, and a lady
exclaimed: ''Well, there is one thing
nobody has ever done yet, and that is
to draw two things at oncep'
"Oh, yes[ think [ could do that"
returned Landseer; and, with a pencil
in each hand, he drew rapidly and sim
ultaneously the profile OF a stays head.
with all its antlers complete, and the
perfect profile of horses head Beth
drawings were full of energy and spirit.
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or public undertaken, and enters into
negotiations for coffin. He does not
buy it, but stipulates for the temporary
use. The age and height of the la
mented are given, particulars arranged
for certain trimmings, and as many
mutes as the family purse will permit
are engaged.
The price charged ranges from So to
| $40, according to the size of the coffin,
the decorations and the number of
mourning mIteS. BUrialS must take
place within twenty-four hours of death
under penalty of a heavy fine. Horses
are seldom used save by the wealthy.
When the time set for the funeral ar
riVes, a short service, which the imme-
diate family does not attend, is held.
Then the coffin is lifted upon the
shoulders of four muteS, who are gen.
orally clad in white trousers, long black
coats, ancient silk hats and high col
lars. Huge bouquets Of artificial flow
ers are worn in the buttonhoie, but in
many cases the coffin bearers are bare
footed.
At word given by the master of
ceremonies, also furnished by the I'M
dertal1er, the procession starts for the
cemetery, which may be three or four
miles distant. The spectacle furnished
by four grotesque negroes swaying
and lurcning through the uneven
streets, under the burden of a broad,
shallow, black-Graped coffin, and the
thin line of native friends and mourn
erS following in the rear, all putting
away at cigarettes or chattering gaily
over some mot of the day, is remark
able.
Haste seems to be the main object.
At times the procession moves at a trot,
never at less speed than a rapid walk
Spectators uncover as the coffin passes,
ana some make the sign of the cross
The followers lessen as the cemetery is
neared, and when the grave is reached
there are seldom more than three or
four besides the paid mourners. The
grave is deep. and at the bottom is a
thin layer of quicklime. The body,
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Dreaded Ordeal.
CJudge.ls

The travelling man shuddered-and
yet the sleeper was warm and comfort
able; he turned nervously from side to
side-and set the berth was most COM
Ia0diouS and soft.
Il would sooner" he muttered. saw
agely as he slipped a certain article out
fICm under the pillow and unscrewed
the nozzle, Il would sooner blow a
Spaniard off to two 10-cent drinks
Without telling him anything, than go
through next weeks ordeal. Rut 1 sup
0cse every man has his Gethseminy-
whatever that may mean-Dutch for
getting it 10 the back. 1 believe-and
this is mine. BAH l know Just what
20 expect. From Jane l shall get
6e0'Sf 10 from Kate I shall get a neck
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THE WAY OF THE TRESPASSER.
An Episode On Foes Farm, Showing How Two Travellers
In the TranSyaal Suffered the Loss of Supper.

pockets to feed the ducks in the pond.
and went on to the house. Rising
ground soon hid him from my SIGHT
Following the path. 1 was met by a
small, barefooted boy. on whom 1 Law
ished my smiles. The suspicious little
rascal did not pause to return them.
but turned and ran swiftly to the house
door.
Now, undoubtedly, there was little in
my appearance OF the attractive. A
weeks wallaby, with a half-grown
beard, had possibly added to the pic
turesque aspect. of my personality. but
q Boer, least of all men. has the artists
eve. l was conscious that a new hat
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tie; from Bessie I shall get necktie:
from Mary, Eliza, Hepsibah. Gladys,
Bridget and Heliotrope 1 shall get
neckties. There will be a necktie from
Hannah and a necktie from Daisy
Louise viii send her undying love and
a necktie; Flossie a necktie and a
thousand Kisses. Ethel will express a
necktie; Edith will send one by freight
and PeneloDe's will come by registered
mail'-Exhausted nature could bear
no more-the travelling man slept Alas.
for the poor fellow. 1t was the week
before Christmas. and he was a biga-
mist, with a fond wife in each of sew
enteen counties and four school dis
tricts.
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BY P. Y. BLACK.
Copyright, 1898, by P. Y. Black.)

There are moments and occasions
when utter strangers greet with effu-
sive heartiness and brotherly leaping
Of the heart. I do not know that the
apparipon of my wealthiest friend
would have more lightened my spirit
and more quickly have dressed my face
IN smiles than did the presence on the
roadside of that wandering ex-trooper
OF the Bechuanaland border police. He
recliEed with an assured ease, and a
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Collins are rented by the day in Cuba
and Puerto Rico. When a member of
q family dies, one of the relatives or a
friend goes to a casa de Funebras,"
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The M. & III. is the oldest prepared
tea in Japan. It positively retains
its natural flavor. Hewlett Bros. Co.,
sole agents.
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state of Ohio.
City of Toledo, IS
IMcaS County.

Frank j. Cheney makes cath that he
Is the senior partner of the firm of r
]. Cheney & Co, doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of one hundred dollars for each
and every case Of Catarrh that cannon
be cured by the use of Halls Catarrb
Cure. FRANK ]. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and Subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of Deem
Der, A D., 1886.
(Sea,) A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Inter
nally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system
Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o. =
Sold by Druggists, zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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strange procession, consisting of twelve
or more men. The first six were carry
ing a piano perched upon their heads,
and each of the others ''tOted" q chair
or washstand. A moment later an
other procession came in sight. There
were two heavy iron beds. each borne
by three men; an immense dresser, un-
der which tottered two natives, and
finally several boys, bearing sundry
culinary articles and a few odds and
ends.
Heavens and earth, mani" ex-
claimed the officer, aghast. You have
engaged a battalion. For goodness
sake, what's the bill?"
Doce reales, senior" was the calm
reply. One dollar, twenty cents in
American money
BANKERS ACCOMPLISHMENT
The Americans living in Cuba. at
least that part embraced in the prov
lnce of Santiago &c Cuba. claim that
only one thing worth eating is cooked
rhere. 1t is the bread. Cuban bakers
excel in making rolls. There is little
variety, but what they bake is -irst-
class. Bakers work at night, and long
before the sun appears, the bread H-cn-
der IS crying his wares in the street
lie does not travel in a four wheeled
wagon, emblazoned with the name of
his employer, but carries the rolls, each
neatly wrapped in a leaf or husk in
baskets suspended from the sides of a
Durro- The vendors melodious cry.
Pan fresc-a-ai" is the alarm clock
that wakens half the city There are
two new and rather peculiar trades in
Santiago de Cuba at present, trades
which are the direct outcome OF the
American occupation. They are the sell
ing of alleged curios and pawned a~ti-
cIes. and the shining OF shoes.
The American cannot walk three
blocks in the ancient capital without
being accosted by some native who has
a wonderful curiO for sale. They ap-
preach you with a mysterious air. and.
after q few commonplace remarks
shout the weather and the mortality
Of the city, hint chat you may DE able.
in return for a ri6iculously small sum.
10 obtain possession of the most re-
rlarhable article ever discovered in the
province. If you are new and mex
perienced, you confess your interest
You are conducted down some narrow,
unDaved street 20 an adobe SHACK
and invited to, enter. Your Yankee
CONTEMPT of the native forbids fear,
and you are soon looking at the Won
derful curio. 1t may be a bit of an
American shell, g, splinter of wood from
the Merrimac's foretoo mast. a stone
from MORO castle, or a bone from the
but you can rest assured that. in nine
times out of ten, it is a fake and
snare.
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SIMPSONS EAR FOR SALE.


Shortly after my arrival in Santiago
was shown a dry, wrinkled object
which the curio sharp insisted was i
human ear. 1t certainly resembled that
! appendage in a way, and l FASTENED 10
ask whose particular ear it was.
1T once was part Of an illustrious
American general the man replied,
solencnly.
IAN American general?" I gasped.
''Who?"
General Sampson. senior. 1t very
cheap. 1 sell it for S25.'
The evolution of the bootblack in
Santiago de Cuba is rather interesting.
The genus did not exist prior to the
war, as the Spanish military officers
and the citizens wore white. canvas
shoes, which were attended to BY The
house servants. 1t was not long after
the occupation of the city by the Amer
leans, however, that several of the
street Arabs-as shrewd in their way as
their Yankee prototype-began TO dis
cover that the newcomers liked TO have
their shoes polished.
A good-natured soldier constructed a
box with the appropriate foOtreSt ana
contents. and started one of the boys
in business. He did not hold the mo-
nopoly more than one day. Within
forty-eight hours the vicinity Of the
clubs and the Cafe Venus swdrIned
with half-clad youngsters eager to earn
an American dime. They picked up
English in a remarkably short space OF
time. and they even go the Yankee
oootblack one better by varying their
request according to the color of the
prospective customers shoes. If the
color was tan, they would invaria bly,
say: "MeesterI Care for shoe 1TOwn."
A refusal was met with a choice colleC-
ton of profane words, learned from the
army teamsters, hut uttered ii suck
whimsical English that it was l-nDos
sible 20. show anger.
HOREY-POKEY OF A NEW KIND.
The okey-pokey' of Cuba and
Puerto Pico is a liquid. 1t consists of
a sweetened. unfermented liquor, made
from a plant, and is as much a delight
to the native youngster as the Italian
misunderstanding ice cream is TO the
American boy. The '-fresca," as it is
called. is vended from gaily decorated
carts, and the huckSter announces his
presence in the street by sounding SON
orous blasts upon a cows horn. After
the manner of such men in all climes,
he usually frequents the vicinity of the
schools
COWS DELIVER THEIR MILK
1t is a sad commentary on human
nature when the purity of the milk of
commerce is only accepted when the
COW delivers it in person. That is the
peculiar condition Of affairs in our new
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possessions The good housewife OF
Cuba and Puerto Rico insists on seeing
the COW MIXED at her door. Hence it is
no unusual spectacle to find the narrow
street obstructed by a collection of
bovine animals one of which is being
industriously robbed of it's milk by a
native dairyman- In this operation a
calf plays no unimportant part, it hav-
ing been found by experience that the
mother COW viii surrender her store
more easily when the calf is given the
first chance There are not many dairy
farms in the islands, and butter is
almost unknown In fact, the Spanish
word for butter. ''mantiQnilla." is 81
recent addition to the vocabulary, it
having been derived from ''mantect,''
the word for lard
BUYING ICE AS A CURIOSITY.
The selling of ice is another innova-
ton. 1t is only within the last few
years that ice has been known to the
natives, and even now it is cOnfOunded
with snow in the minds of most. In
Santiago de Cuba it is indiscriminately
called 'nieve" and ''hiele," the former
being snow and the latter ice. 1t is
hawked about in the streets from small
covered carts, and is sold by the pound
and half-pound at exorbitant prices.
The natives from the interior never fail.
TO buy piece as a. curiosity, and their
Cnllullke NOIluermcnI on seeing II melt
in their hands is laughable. All ice
used in the southern islands is manu-
featured.
A FINGER-NAIL ARTIST.
An odd profession in Cuba and Puerto
Rico, and one undoubtedly native to
those countries, is the finger-nail artist.
Among certain members of the lowers
middle class, the clerks and boOkkeeD-f
ers, it is considered the correct thing
to cultivate a certain nail CT the left
hand. In fact, it is visible proof that
the wearer does not perform manual
labor. They argue ingeniOusly that a
man cannot shovel or work with his
hands if he has a finger nail two or
three inches long. The artist has his
regular customers, and he calls daily3
and polishes and rubS and labOrS untilt
the pet nail is in proper condition. 1t is
not unusual TO find him at work in his
customers store while the latter at
tends 70 affairs Of trade. 1t is safe to-
venture that the custom will not invade
this country. 1t is useful, however. as
an additional popularity for the edifi-
cation of Yankee visitors.
HENRY HARRISON LEWIS.
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THEY RENT c0FF|NS
DroIl Doings of Our New Antilles
Citizens.
ODD BURIAL SERVICE
INTERVIEWS HAVE A PLEASING
SOCIAL SIDE.

General" SIMPSONS Ear For Sale
Where Beggars Ride Horseback
How Cubans Carry a Piano-The
Famous Santiago NRole-Boot-
blacks In a Barefoot City.
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In fact, almost every trade or profess
sion is conducted differently from the
methods pursued in the United States.
Beggars ride on horseback and block
your way upon a crossing to inportune
you for a peseta- One day recently,
While riding in Santiago de Cuba, no
ticed a wee native boy following me
upon sorry-looking burro As l passed
the Plaza de Arms another boy, SINH
larly mounted, fell in behind. Near the
cathedral still another joined the pro-
cession. As l spurred up 1 heard q
Gathering in the rear and noticed that
my escort was plying whips in an eff
fort to keep UP. Refining in near the
administration building, 1 asked them
what they wished.
ITO hold your horse, senor," they re-
piled in chorus.
They would have followed me ten
miles for the sake of earning a scent
piece.
CARRYING A PIANO.
One of the officers on General Guy
V. Henry's staff in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. rented house in the pretty lit
tie capital, and sent for his family. A
brother officer, ordered home, sold him
his furniture, and the moving was
placed in the hands of a native hanger
on about the palace. The following
morning the staff officer went to his
new abode to receive the furniture. 1t
arrived as he reached the house. Com
ing down the narrow street he saw
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Three Crown Fiavorlng Extracts
are made direct from the fruit, there
by retaining their natural fayoz.
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FIRING AWAY MILLIONS

BATTLESHIPS DEVOUR THoUS-
ANDS OF DOLLARS IN ACTION
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cows DELIVER THEIR MILK.

1t is a sad commentary on human
nature when the purity of the milk of
commerce is only accepted when the
COW delivers it in person. That is the
peculiar condition of affairs in our new
Hutchinson gazette., 1899-09-28
IMAGINATION PLAYS.
GREATEST MEDICINE FOR MIND
AND BODY.
How tho Little Ones May 10 EntranCod
by Wise Parents Who Want to See
the Mlnds OF the Little Ones Properly
Expanded. v

There was once a mother with sew
eral children, who, being q poor wo-
man, had all her household work to do,
She often toiled far beyond her
strength, yet che was never too busy
to get up some little scheme for anus
ing the children, and, as the years
taught her experience, she devised
something at the outset Of busy day,
says the Philadelphia Times. She
took half an hour to start the mimic
housekeeping IN the playhouse, or she
began the building OF fort and got
out the toy soldiers, or she took a
stick, II the morning was In summer
and addressed II thus: "You look like
a stick, but you are really little shep-
herd boy, with long, brown hair hang
ing down your back, You are dressed
in goat skins and you have little pipe
In your hand, on which you can play
tho most beautiful tunes, over yonder
are wild and savage mountains"
pointing to the woodpile and the hill
locks by the orchard, "but there are
no recesses In them so wild that you
do not know them, There are no
caves which you cannot find, and we
shall probably need these caves very
much, when we are chased by robbers
or by hungry wolves. Also you know
where the kind and good people live
who will give us goat milk TO drink
and cakes of brown -four to eat, Per-
haps you know the peasants hut where
the fairy princess Is hidden, and may
help me TO return her to her mother,
the queen, who weeps for her in
gorgeous palace Of pink glass" With
that the mother would hand over the
stout little stick she had cut to the
child, who wide-eyed and smiling,
stood waiting to receive It, and who
ran with 1t toward the wood pile to
begin the ascent Of the mountains,
whose towering peaks were visible to
the eyes of her Imagination. The
child, entranced with the story, and
at her own elaboration OF It, would not
return until tho hour of dinner, and
then she would come in glowing, and
with an appetite, while the mother,
who had been without the vexatlous
interruptions OF an uneasy little girl,
was eager to greet her.
Hutchinson gazette., 1899-09-28
A Modern Instance,

The wonderful advance made in the
sclence Of farming during the last few
years is one of the best examples of
American progressiveness. A little
incident recounted by the Ashtabula
(ohio) Sentinel is characteristic. One
evening, a short time ago, a society In
Jefferson needed a gallon Of cream.
The committee called up by telephone
the proprletors Of milk farm two
miles north of the town, and asked II
they could furnish 1t. The reply was
that they could as soon as milking was
done. In thirty minutes from the time
the call was made, the cream was de-
livered. The milk had been drawn
from the COW, put into separator, the
cream extracted and sent to town by a
man on bicycle. A few years ago the
committee would have had to send n
boy in the afternoon, yesterdays
milk" would have had to be skinned.
and II the boy had not treed too many
chlpmunks on the way, he might have
got back in time for the festival.
Hutchinson gazette., 1899-09-28
PlFrY CENTS FoR NOTHING.

What will the inventive brain OF
man do neXt9 This Is n question some
one asks almost daily. There Is one,
though, who leads all others, who for
a quarter OF a century has been making
nne laundry starch, and to-day Ia Of
ferlng the public tho finest starch ever
placed on the market.
Ask your grocer for coupon book
which will enable you to get the ilrst
two packages Of this new starch "RED
CROSS" (trade mark brandt, also two
Chlldren's Shakespeare pictures, paint"
ed In twelve beautiful colors, natural as
life. or tho Twentieth Century Girl Cal
endar, all absolutely free. All gro
GERS arc authorized to give ten large
packages of RED CROSS STARCH
with twenty of the Shakespeare pic
lures Of ten of the Twentieth Century
Girl Calendars TO the first Ave purchas-
ers OF the "ENDLESS CHAIN
STARCH BOOK" This is one OF tho
greatest offers ever made to introduce
"RED CROSS" laundry starch, j. q.
Hubingers latest invention.