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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
DEATH IN THE CYCLONE.

Cyclones have been sweeping patches
of the storm zone for a week or more
IN Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Nebraska, they have been terrible
in their force and in the extent of dam
age done
Within three days half dozen towns
have been injured. Three have been
wiped off the earth. Salix and Whit
ney, in Iowa, and Boardman, Hudson
and New Richmond, in Wisconsin, and
Herman, Nebraska, have been practi-
cally obliterated. Scores of people were
killed in Herman. and no fewer than
200 human lives were lost in the storm
which wrecked NeW Richmond. Mil
lions Of dollars worth of property has
ben destroyed, including the loss of
hundreds of horses and cattle, and the
waste of all the growing crops in the
paths of the tornadoes.
As later details are received, it ap-
pears that the horrors OF these calami-
ries were not exaggerated in the reports
first sent out. Just think, In the pros
porous town OF Herman, only a few
miles up the river from Omaha, but
two buildings remain, and they stood
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
"QUiET ON The POTOMAC. ="

With half dozen possible exceptions,
the patrons of the city schools must
have heaved a sigh of relief when they
read yesterday morning that peace had
been declared between the board of
education and the principals of the sew
eral schools, and that Principal Mccoy
had been retained in the Oquirrh.
The Herald has taken the position all
along that when a better understand
ing could be reached a better feeling
would prevail. Since the case has been
thoroughly investigated and the feel
Sings of the public ascertained, the board
has concluded that Mr.. Mccoy did not
transgress any rules or abuse any pow
ers delegated to him. On the other
hand. the principal informed the board
that he recognized its right to demand
his resignation, but that he had re-
fused to comply with such a request
because it had been based upon an un-
just accusation. which rendered COM
pliance embarrassing, both from a pro-
fessional and a legal standpoint.
After comparing notes and exchang-
ing condolences, the principal and the
board buried the Ratchet. The result
was a unanimous vote for Principal
McCoy's retention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
THE HOME STUDY CIRCLE.

With this issue The Herald begins
the publication of its Home Study Cir
Gle, announced heretofore. A perusal
of the first instaiment indicates some
thing of the variety of subjects, the
delightful style and educational value
of the whole series of papers. For
the student, old or young, the teacher,
the professor, the club woman and the
thoughtful reader of whatever occu-
patton. the articles viii be found Of
incalculable value. The Herald has I'M
dertaken the expense of this eXtraor-
binary series in the belief that the
modern newspaper should be, in a
sense, the peoples college as well as
their source of news. All The Her
aids readers will have the advantage
of the Home Study Circle without any
cost TO them other than the usual sub
scription charge. and it is believed the
undertaking viii be a source of pleas
ure TO them as we'll as the means of
enlarging The Herald's circle of read
erS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
I. THE RENAISSANCE.

During the sixteenth century litera-
ture became modern. The indefinite
| literary forms and the crude literary
art of mediaevalism were replaced by
forms and methods in literary express
sion-by an art. a style, a grace, fe-
licity of workmanship, which all sub
Sequent ages have been able only to
! improve upon. The language available
to literature was so developed,
strengthened. enlarged and fitted to
literary uses that it has ever since re-
manned practically what the sixteenth
century made it.
There is some similarity between the
development of literature in France in
the sixteenth century and the develop
ment in England in the same period.
In England, that glorious outburst of
literary power and art which character
lied the beginning of its modern liter
Azure did not take place until toward
the end of the century. 1t is asso-
ciated with the name and reign of
Queen Elizabeth Q55S-160S) But in
France the development began earlier
and its force was diffused and extended
equally throughout the whole century,
There were reasons for this differ
ence. In England the introduction of
the new ideas and the new hopes and
aims of the renaissance had been a
matter of individual enterprise. The
scholars that brought from Italy and
Germany the influence of the new
learning" then fermenting in those
countries were not aided by any ma
tional movement. But in France the
learning, the refinement and aspira-
tons that were the outcome of the
newly developed culture were intro
duced generally among the people by
hosts of Frenchmen who had come per-
sonally in contact with it in Italy in
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in the outskirts of the place New
Richmond was one of the most flour
ishing little cities of western Wiscon-
sin three days ago. 1t is tangled heap
of debris today, a scene of death and
pain and mourning. Only some OF
the towns have been heard from, and
it is estimated that every farm house
in the way of the storm has been de-
stroyed, and many people unaccounted
for as yet have been killed.
Additional gloom is attached to these
fatalities because they appeared to be
the climax of similar, though less
fatal, disasters which have followed
each other up and down the Missouri
river on either bank for a month or
more.
There is such an irresistible strength
about them that human ingenuity must
grow discouraged over the possibility
of ever devising any means to cope with
them. In the course of time, perhaps,
a way may be found to give warning
of the approach of tornado. but they
travel with such velocity that there
would necessarily be a very short in
terval between the notification and its
fulfllment. Still, if it were sufficient
to enable people to seek places of
refuge, it would answer the purpose.
In these recent cases such people as
could get into their cellars were I'M
scathed. In rural communities of the
cyclone belt, and in the outskirts of
towns and cities. the storm cave is an
indispensable part of the dwelling, but
in the cities and in the hearts OF the
larger towns there is danger against
which people are powerless to protect
themselves. For their inhabitants there
seems to be no practicable means of
escape, and the conclusion is reason
able that the more pOpulous the middle
west becomes, the more disastrous tor
nadoes are bound to grow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15

Q495-I553) was the characteristic spirit
of the first half of the century; Mon
taigne Q533-1552) of the second half.
Rabelais. indeed. is one of the greatest
names in all literature. He is little
read now, because there is a coarse
ness. an ever-present protrusion and
profusion of indecency in him that
prevents him from being recommended
by mature scholarship to ingenious
youth; and in this busy e an antique
writer (for. though technically a
modern" Rabelais is nevertheless of
course. today an antique) is scarcely
likely TO be read at all. But in pro-
fundity of natural knowledge. in
wealth and eXuberance of language, in
originality of thought and idea, in
knowledge of human nature, in phil
osophic insight into the laws that gov
ern mind and matter, in poetic imag-
nation. in humor, in wit, in worldly
common sense, in sage wisdom, Rabe-
lais remains today what he has been
for over three centuries-one of the
marvels of the world. His writing has
the additional interest for the student
in being the completest and most vivid
reflection of the thought and spirit of
his age that the world possesses.
Both Rabelais and Mantaigne were
prose writers. and II is one of the many
glories of the sixteenth century that
writing first began to be an instrument
of literary expression of equal power
and art with verse. The most influ-
entail work of the age Gf influence be
measured by changes wrought in mems
lives and thought and conduct) was
the work of young man of 81. John
Calvin, author of institutions of the
Christian Religion''-the first great
work in French writte1 to establish
truth by argument Scarcely less in
1uential, but exercising its influence
not by argument, but by the implant-
ing of fertilizing ideas in the minds of
generous and ardent youth, was Amy
OTIS Translation of Plutarch." ITO
love Plutarch," said the high-spirited
Henry of Navarro, SIS to love me, for
he was long the master of my YOUTH
Nor was the literary influence OF
Amyots work less pronounced than its
influence on conduct and morals. 1t
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
FISHING BEGINS TODAY.

Other seasons may be backward or
forward. owing to the weather. but the
fishing season always arrives on sched-
ule time. It reaches Utah today, and
ANGLERS are up and on the march 20
meet and usher it in Big children and
little ones. old boys and other boys,
professional fishermen with un-
abridged dictionaries of trout flies and
fun rugged brook whips, amateurs
with fancy rods, high boots and i'm
mense baskets. have already begun to
make footprints along the banks of all
the mountain streams.
The air is still fresh, the water is
cool and turbid, owing to the back
ward spring, but there are probably
more fish now than usual, owing to
such conditions. The sooner who
aims to Get in his work from two
weeks TO a month before iaw-abiding
citizens begin TO fish, has been kept
from reaping a premature harvest this
season, and, as the water is yet TO
clear, all parties Will have an equal
start.
The first good catch will be heralded
far and near and those who are re-
warded only with the proverbial fish
erman's luck will have but little to
say.
The Herald salutes the enthusiastic
army Of sportsmen which begins its
marches and counter-marehes against
The 6nny tribe today. and wishes the
anglers success commensurate with
the stories they are sure to tell.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
FlERCER THAN EVER.

| Why should the war department per-
sist in trying to deceive the American
people concerning the war in the Phil
ippines?
Is it because the administration dis
trusts the public? Or because condi-
tions at the seat of war render misrep-
resentation necessary to the plans of
the president? Is it because Alger
holds the people in contempt? Or be-
cause he wants to provoke criticism
that he may pose as a martyr?
For six months repeated promises to
send the volunteers home have been
made and broken. Day after day we
were assured that the Filipinos were
ready to surrender. Time and again
the power of the insurgents was de-
stroyed, according to the reports sent
out. A strict censorship was estab-
lished at Manila to prevent the boys
from writing home exactly what they
saw or heard or felt or hoped. Press
dispatches were mutilated for the rea-
son that the department proposed to
have a hand in the making of heroes
and therefore men were often lauded
who had done nothing to deserve it,
while many a story of heroic action
was stricken out of the reports.
Every officer who has returned to this
country gives it as his personal opin-
ion that the war in the islands will
last a number of years unless a treaty
can be agreed upon in the meantime.
AS often as one of these interviews is
published the war department issues a
proclamation to the effect that the end
was in sight. At last General Otis, in
command of the American army of the
Philippines, announced that he would
have to have 100000 men to accomplish
the task in hand. Then the administra-
ton began to waiver, secret cabinet
meetings were held, and the secretary
of war dissembled more than ever and
got to contradicting one day what he
bad said the day before, until no one
knows how we stand in the Philip
pines.
In spite of all this talk about the
natives being disheartened and the
backbone of their army broken they
seem. to gain in force and fury with
every battle fought. The fiercest con-
fiict of the whole campaign was report
ed in the dispatches printed yester-
day. and it took place in sight of Man
lila, the starting point of the war 1t
will never do to let those islanders i'm
agine they can hold at bay power
like this, for their every attempt to
do so will but hasten their own exter-
mination. Our real mission in the Phil
ippines is not to destroy their inhabit-
ants but to befriend them. 1t was
hard TO convince them of this in the
beginning and now that we have re-
jected every overture for peace that
has come from them it is harder than
ever to make them believe that ours is
friendly mission.
If a little common sense were exer-
cised in dealing with such people and
a little more forbearance shown their
ignorance of our institutions and in
tentions great many American lives
might be saved and war of extermi-
nation nipped In the bud.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
CLEMENT MAROT.

The later movement is the more i'm
portant. Indeed, it is one of the most
important movements in all French
literature. 1t is that which is due to
the work of a body of writer's known
as the "Pleiade." The Pleiade is no
fiction of the literary historian. 1t
was, indeed, an actual thing, an asso-
citation of seven men, of high ideals
and genuine poetic power, formed with
the avowed purpose of making the
French language literary language
equal to any that had been in the
worlds history. and to effect this pur-
pose they employed the French ver-
nacular with all the genius and ability
they had-not in forms of poetic eX-
preston it had long been used to, but
in forms adopted from the classical
literatures of Greece and Rome and
from Italian literature. 1t was, of
course, a purpose that would have
failed utterly if it had not been taken
up by men of such transcendent abil-
ity. As it was, it succeeded. The po-
etc forms adopted by this coterie re-
NAMED almost the sole forms used in
French poetry for nearly three CEN
turtles, and the language which 1t
adopted as the fit and proper language
of poetical expression remained to all
the future, in spite of the many reac-
tions that set in against its use, the
recognized standard poetical language
of the nation.
OF the Pleiade. Ronsard 1524-1oS5)
was the head. Probably no poet ever
enjoyed greater contemporary honor.
Kings and queens showered their ia
vors on him. Elizabeth of England
and Mary of Scotland sent him gifts.
Charles IX even invited him to sit on
the throne with him. Nor was his
honor merely contemporaneous. In this
century, even. his fame, at least for
time, was as great as ever.
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the cruel wars thev had waged there
under CHARLES VIII, Louis XII and
Francis l. The renaissance then in
France, though it was early and gen.
eral, was not characterized by start
ling contrasts with the age that pre-
coded it. It was, indeed, only as if an
old soil had been newly fortified. But
in England, the effect of the renais-
sance was as if a virgin soil had been
not only fertiliZed. but sown to an
hitherto unknown seed. In France the
harvest was as 1t had been before,
though stronger, richer, more abundant.
In England the harvest had to be
waited for, but when it came it was
new phenomenon phenomenon the
like of which had never before ap-
peared in the world history.
OF the renaissance period in France
the two greatest names in literature are
Rabelais and Montaigne. Rabelais
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
VOLUNTEERS COMING HOME

1t is good news, indeed, that the
Utah volunteers are to be returned
from the Philippines at once. 1t has a
familiar sound, as if the promise had
been made before But we all hope it
is TO be kept lnis time.
The boys of batteries A and B have
performed the part assigned them in
two wars with courage and ability.
They have torn the gap in many a
fertilization through which our victor
ious army passed in pursuit of the
enemy They did it in the war with
Spain. Thsy repeated it in the war
with the former vassals of Spain. The
Utah artillery has covered numerous
charges and on more than one occasion
turned indecision into victory.
The boys have earned their release.
They are entitled to rest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
II. MONTAGUE.

1t was only in the sixteenth century,
the century of the bloody religious
wars, which has been called the most
tragic in history, that France really
felt all the influence of the renaissance.
Under the iron hand of Richelieu in
the following century, France, unified
and pacified, was prepared for the
glorious reign of Louis XIV. AT the
same time, all ideas of liberty, of the
rights of man and of his aspirations
were crushed beneath the despotism of
absolute monarchy, and the literature
of the period. the writings of three
men-La Boetie, Rabelais, Montaigne-
slept only to awaken formidable in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15

OF the three great writer's just men
toned, the most widely known is
Michael de Montague. Born in 1888,
when the renaissance had full sway
in matters of education, he was care
fully instructed in the ancient authors
by a father who was an enthusiastic
admirer of the classics. He was. much
against his will, twice elected TO the
mayoralty of Bordeaux, in which posi-
ton he does not appear to have dis
tinsuished himself. In fact, he took
very little part in the tragic events
which upset the whole counry during
his lifetime.
Note.-This study will be excluded
tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
THE HERALD'S HONE STUDY CIRCLE
Copyright. 1899. by Seymour Eaton.)
Directed by Prof. Seymour Eaton.

gave to France the example of her own
vernacular speech, being used as an
Instrument of the highest literary art.
I'VE ounces" said Montaigne, would
have been lost had not this book
reused us from the mire. Thanks to it,
We now venture to speak and write.
1t is our breviary."
The age was great in poetry also.
There are two we'll marked poetic
movements noticeable: an early one
and Il later one. The earlier one is
seen in the work of those literary art
lists that gathered in the court of Mar
guerite of Navarro (sister of Francis
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15

1t is now in order for colored editors
to denounce the mob of negroes that
lynched a negro fiend at Sardis. Miss,
the other day. Several cases of this
kind are of record and wherever the
victim of the assault is a negress her
colored neighbors are quite as ready
10 administer the hemp cure to her as
sailant as are white men when the
victim is a white woman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15

y. OF these Marot Q497-1544) was the
chief. But though those early poets
of the century were impressed by the
spirit of the renaissance and caught
something of it's culture, they neverthe-
less pursued the ideas of the outgoing
medieval age. They invented nothing;
they developed nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15

Courts and legislative assemblies
would render the people lasting serv-
ice to follow the lead of the Indiana
supreme court, which has decided that,
if a concern attempts to stifie compe-
tition, it forfeits its franchise. This is
the way to handle trusts.
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struments for a nation then developed
in the middle of the eighteenth CEN
fury.
While they lived. few could truly
understand them, for the necessity of
such ideas was not yet realized. Man
in the sixteenth century was interested
in his own doings as much, perhaps
as he is today, but he did not know it;
he had not reached that stage of in
tellectual development which leads to
self-study. to the analysis of cause and
effect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, June II.
Maximum temperature. 6S degrees; mimi
mum temperature, as degrees; mean tenn
perature. Sc degrees, which is degrees
below the normal Accumulated deficiency
of temperature since ist of month, 70 de-
grees: accumulated deficiency of temper
allure since Jan. !, III degrees. Total pre-
cipitation from D. m. to p. m. none;
accumulated excess of precipitation since
LIST of month, .43 inch accumulated eX-
eess of precipitation since Jan. l, L9O inch
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks and
other High Grade Investment Securities
bought and sold.
Loans on Stocks
Dividend-paying stocks bought and sold.
Investment orders from institutions,
trustees of estates and capitalists will
receive the best of attention.
JOHN c. CUTLER, JR..
Tel 127 Sc Main Street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15

For Republicans to defend the pro-
tective tariff and denounce trusts in
their platforms is like denouncing the
receiver of stolen goods while shielding
the thief.
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Portland. Butte, Missouri River. Chicago
and St Louis. Without Change
TIME CARD IN EFFECT JUNE 1. 1899.
Trans VIII Arrive and Depart at Salt
Lake City Daily as Follows:
Arrive.
from Ogden. Chicago. Omaha.
~. Louis. Kansas City and
From Ogden. Portland. Spokane. 90"
B;utte, Helena and San Fran
'F'rOm Milford. sanpete. Provo '''' ''''
,Shd intermediate pOints......... 9:35 am
rom ogden. Chicago. St. Louis.
Kansas Clty, Omaha and Den
r and Terminus s@ea' iU 500 pm
mediate points ..... anu ,-..e $50 pm
suite. San Francisco and inter-
mediate points .................. 7:50 pm
Depart.
penver. Kansas City and st.
For Tintic. Mercur and interme- ~ A-
''Eor GsTdeid Beach. Tooeie and '''0 @''''
For Ogden. Cache Valley. Butte,
Heiena, Portland and San Fran
SIScD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 9:40 a. m
For Provo. Sanpete. Milford and
intermediate points .............. $50 pm
FOR ogden. Denver. Kansas City.
Omaha, st, Louis, Chicago and
San Francisco .....-......-....... $40 pm
For Ogden. Butte and intermedi-
ate points ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S:45 pm
Trains south of Juab do not run Sun
- Daily except Sunday
Telephone No. go.
Ticket Office, Masonic Block. No 100 West
Second South Street.
w Fl. BANCROFT. Vice President and
General Manager
5. w. ECCLES. General Traffic Manager.
ID: Il. hurley, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-15
THREE CENTURIES
OF FRENCH LITERATURE.

Contributors to this course: Brander
Phi. D.: Jean Charlemagne Brace a. 3. !;
Alcee Fortier d. Lit; H Morse STEPHENS,
NJ. A. and other specialists in romance
literature
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q. S. HOLMES. Proprietor.
ASSESSMENT NOTICE NO. 6.

THE SUCCESS MINING COMPANY
of Tintic, location of principal place of
business, Salt Lake City, state of Utah.
location of mine and works. Tintic min
ing district, Juab county. state of Utah
Notice is hereby given that at meeting
of the board of directors of said company,
held on the 10th day of June. 1899. assess
ment No. of one % cent per share was
levied on the capital stock of the corpora
ton, payable Immediately to the secre-
tarv at the office of the company. GIL
Mccormick block. Salt Lake City. state
of Utah.
shall remain unpaid on Thursday, july
18th. 1899. will be delinquent and adver-
tised for sale at public auction, and unless
nayment is made before. will be sold on
Monday. the 18th day of July. 1899. to pay
the delinquent assessment. together with
the costs of advertising and expense of
Nv order of the board of directors.
ERNEST. WILLIAMS. Secretary.
Salt Lake City. Utah. June 10. 1899.