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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-19
PUTTING UP A GOOD FIGHT.

The Beers are putting up a plucky
fight, and no mistake. They have out
generated and outfought the British up
to date. They have gained friends and
sympathizers all over Europe by the
audacity with which they began the
conflict. as we'll as by the skill and
grit with which they are carrying it
on
Germany was secretly pleased at
the first few reverses of the English.
She is outspoken in her admiration of
the Beers since the repulse of Butler.
Russian newspapers are outspoken in
their friendship for the Beers. one
of them, d semi-offieial organ published
at st. Petersburg, says that the AL
mighty is manifestIy bestowing his
blessing on the Boer arms. God is pun
ishing an arrogant and rapacious peo-
pie. who have oppressed and prosecuted
other races in order to enrich them
selves
Ireland is on the verge of an upris-
ing. The people who have CALLED for
generations under the yoke of imperial
ism which gave them a better govern
ment than they could give themselves
the excuse of imperialists everywhere
for infiicting their superior rule upon
unwilling peoples-and all ever the
United States descendants of Erin are
offering their services to the Beers.
London newspapers reflect the alarm
that English statesmen feel for. the
safety of the empire. The Times takes
n viz Of cit
Neither the Crimean war nor the Indian
mutiny gave rise to greater dangers TO
the empire than that with which we are
now menaced. nor at either of those criu-
cal periods was Great Britain SO isolated
politically or regarded with such dislike
and suspicion as are now almost every
where apparent, unless the calmness
which impresses the foreign observer pre-
ceeds only from apathy or want of suf-
ficient imagination TO realize the immi-
nent danger 10 the whole fabric of our
empire. The great efforts now urgently
required will surely be made before IL is
too late to relieve the situation. We are
fighting not merely for supremacy in
South Africa but our position great
power.
England has attempted an enormous
task. SO long as she was fighting saw
ages the world was content to let her
go her way. She is struggling now
with a civilized enemy-a Christian
people. The world is not apDlauding.
They see an empire striving to- over
throw a republic. They see a giant
battling with a pigmy and getting the
worst of the encounter.
The population of the English king
dom at home. exclusive of its colonies.
is to the combined populations of the
Transvaal as 200 is to !. If a man
200 feet high and massive in proper
tions. We're fighting man one foot
high the assembled nations and peo-
pies of the earth would bestow their
sympathies and prayers very much as
they do at present. There is no glory !
in it for England if she wins in the end. |
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service of the church. But with the
broadening of the field it now entered
science. and observation and discovery
were still advancing and the influences
of the outside world were strengthening
the painters physical as well as mental
vision. Homely and familiar themes,
homely and familiar emotions. claimed
illustration at his hands. and with
these claims a still more convenient and
ready means OF expressing them was
required ~ 9
then, this satisfactory and effective
method of using pigments with oil,
new world of possibilities was opened to
the painter and 1t was like reveal
ton to the lover of painting as we'll.
for effects in nature that were Droba-
bly, discerned and appreciated by many
before art could render them, became
now legitimate material for graphic
portrayal. An exquisite variety of COL
or-subtle or dramatic srenditions of
light and shade, fine differentiations of
textures: the resonance oe-metal. the
rustic of silk. the simmer of satin, the
flash of diamonds. the gIimmer of
pearls: in fact, all the characteristics
of the vegetable. animal or mineral
kingdom that by appeal to the eye re-
veal its density or lightne6s. its texture
or its color-now became the properly
OF the painter, a storehouse from which
he drew the materials OF his art The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-19
A Good Eye For Business.
Golfers Weekly.9

Mr. Kuhn was thrifty in money matters
and cared little for his own personal APP
pearance. He had worn the same old
shabby overcoat until his sons were all
ashamed of him. and tried TO induce him
to buy a rev one.
.'Oh. no." the old gentleman would al
ways say. Il would rather have the $40
that it would cost
One day the sons determined that he
should have a new coat. and. BELIEVING
that If he could get one at good BAR
gain he would buy ii. arranged with a
tailor 10 sell him SO coat for $3.50, they
TO pay the difference 1ney. then went
hone and tod their father what a hand
some coat they had seen and what a
bargain il would be 10 buy 1t. SO the
father " ent and looked al it. and after
Leating' the tailor down to Sc. took 1t and
started for home.
But when he reached the door he had
no coat with him.
Didn't you buy the coat. father
Yes. got it for S." replied the old
nan.
Where Is it?'
..Oh, / was showing it to a friend on the
street car. and when he offered me $ fer
it / let him have it,
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(By Hals.)

suited in some of the most notable
works of pcI'traiture. In this field of
painting he antedated Rembrandt, and
Rembrandt himself in these same sub
jects or others kindred to them. pro-
duced oanvaSss that are the gforv CT
Dutch art How can it be said. then,
that this man was worthless fellow?
Much misnpprehension and lack of
appreciation have followed Halls, but
there are now, and have been fo-
number of years past, evidences that
he is coming into mis- own.
1t is sometimes difficult to tell just
why one painter is longer than another
in receiving recognition. In the case of
Halls. however, it may be attributed to
the extreme mciernity of the artists
methods. Frank and direct in his
vision and possessing a facility 50
astounding, Halls in a great measure
painted to please himself, and often his
canvases do not permit of the close
inspection that his contemporaries had
been accustomed to regard asa test
of the perfection of workmanship Re-
ceiving vivid impressions from nature,
ard not 50 ina sinative as Rembrandt.
he Painted with an impetuosity at
times which forgot everything that con-
ventional painting respected. He could
none the less give his portraits great
care and completeness when he wished
to carry them farther than robuest
sketch. But his skill was SO great that
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ter. using water as the medium for
mixing the colo-s. This Obliged the
artist to work very rapidly besides
limiting to a comparatively narrow
range his choice of tints. Consequently
no great depth of tone could be secured
and anything like a realistic effect of
nature was by this means quite out of
the question. The very sobriety of color
imposed by these restrictions, however.
aided in a way the class of art then
called for, i. e., religious painting. Dig
nified and imposing subjects on a mon
umental scale for public buildings and
churches could thus be presented with
all the realism demanded by their func-
ton as accessory to architectural en-
Enlistment. But when it became de-
sirable to produce works destined for
different purpose-pictures that might
be easily portable--portraits of individ-
uala for the adornment of the home,
and illustrations of themes for the
personal qualification and pleasure
they may give-a new method was
wanted. one capable of recording the
wider range of physical facts which
now revealed themselves to the obser-
walton and scrutiny of the artist. With
increased acquaintance on the part or
the painter of visual effects in the
world about him came a like advance
in the means of recording them, and
we find that painting in distemper came
into practice. This called for the en-
ploymeirt of glue and the yolk of egg
in the mixing of colors. and pigments
thus prepared could be used over dry
walls and wood and canvas. This was
not, however, its only recommendation;
it permitted the employment of
greater number of tints. greater depths
of effects of light and shade to be at
tanned and gave to the artist wider
scope in force and brilliancy of color.
This larger liberty extended also to the
character of the themes depicted, and
art began to include in its repertoire
of subjects scenes from contemporary
life as we'll as those from biblical story.
Art. in a word. became more human,
a although il was still retained in the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-19
EFFECTIVE NAVAL WORK.

The British navy is playing more
-ssfominent part in the Boer war than
was deesned possible at first, owing TO
the fact that the Transvaal has no
seaport. AT Ladysmith the naval guns
did very effective work. according to
reports at London During the fight
ing General White was reinforced by
a second naval force, which caused
more damage by dropping shells into
the camp of the Beers than the guns
of the besieged army were able to &C
complish.
Captain Hedworth I.ambton, in COM
mand of the ships off Ladysmith, is an
officer of distinction and is looked upon
as a future admiral of the fleet. He
may be said to belong to the corps
d'elite of naval captains. The third
brother of the present Earl of Durham,
he joined the royal navy at the begin
ming OF 1870 His earliest and most
notable service was seen when he acted
as flag lieutenant to Sir o. Beauchamp
Seymour. afterward Lord Alcester, on
the battlestip Alexandria, in 1882 He
thus came TO present at the bonn
bardment Of Alexandria, on July IL
was at Tel-el-Kepir. and served, in
fact. throughout the whole war with
so much distinction that, besides re-
ceaving the Egyptian medal with two
clasps, the khediveis bronze star and
the Medjidie decoration. he was pro-
NOTED 10 commander after only four
years service as lieutenant-a rare
honor lie afterward served in the
royal yacht. ana from il was promoted
TO captain in 1889. Promotion has come
70 this officer swiftly, with the result
that TOW he is near the head of the
list of captains. In June, 1894, he be-
came private secretary to the first lord
of the admiralty, and held this cherish
ed arpointment until the spring of 1897,
when he was selected to hoist the maid
En- pennant of the cruiser Powerful, the
largest ana swiftest ship of her class
ir the world.
That naval backing for an army is
very effective was shown by the
destruction caused by our cruisers
along the coast of Luzon few weeks
ago Whole towns and villages were
wiped from the face of the earth. the
Inhabitants scattered indiscriminately
through the streets, except the more
able-bodied. who struck for the hills of
the interior. SO far as death and de-
yastation were concerned, nothing in
the whole Philippine campaign equaled
the work of these ships.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-19
GOLD STANDARD BLESSINGS.

Germany doesn't seem to rest as easy
under the gold standard as goldbugs
say that single standard countries
should. Fearing drain because of the
panic precautions of the Bank IF Eng
land. the capitalists of Germany are
locking up their gold.
1t is coming to that in this country.
Owing to The fact that the brokers and
bankers have free access to our gov
eminent vaults the people may have
extra burdens piled on them in the
United States without an actual panic
taking place. We are still contripu ting
to the Golfers of the trusts, still paying
for syndicate exploitation of the Phil
ippines, still paying war taxes, IN I the
administration is still buying in bonds
and bestowing favors upon The bankers.
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SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
Weighing In a Mayor.
CLondon News.)

Uondon News)
me time honored custom of .sweighing
in the mayor was duly. observed vester-
u esy at Hign Wycombe in connection with
the formal election of the borough's chief
magistrate 1t is believed that Wycombe
Is the only place in the kingdom where
s s custom survives. The members of
the town council met shortly before noon
at the residence of the retiring mavor.
councillor Deacon, nearly half n mile
from the Guildhall. whittier a procession
borough beadle in their quaint old En-
sisn dresses of blue coats and brooches
six stockings and cooked hats being
CONSPICUOUS features of the assembly. The
new mayor. Councillor Vernon. was then
l9rmaiIy elected in open hail. and at the
close or the speeches which naturally
characterized the occasion another pro-
cession was formed. headed by the new
mayor, to an ante-room where the Dor
ough 5 head constable O. d. Sparkling
was IN attendance with a weighing ma
cnine, by virtue of his appointment as in
spector of weights and measures The
mayor weight was then solemnly as
certained, and with no less solemnity re-
corded in a big book. After that the al
dermen and councillors were treated in
the same manner. and then the police
men on duty. including the towns re-
spected senior sergeant. who. as usual
turned the scale at eighteen stone. The
outgoing mayor had lost little of his fif-
teen stone. Notwithstanding a year of ex-
traordinary activity, while the town clerk
was AGAIN the lightweight or the cOrpo-
ration he being some pounds less than
niEe stone
The prevalence of this curious custom
can be traced to the year 1855. in the reign
of Edward /, when the first mayor.
Roger Hurried. was elected. Down TO the
passing of the municipal corporations act
the ceremony was of more extended
character. During the forenoon of the
day Of election the -great- bell tolled SOL
EMMY for the outgoing mayor. and the
procession to the. .Guildhall was headed
by a drummer, who ..drummei OUT his
worship. The new mayor was subse-
quently 'drummed in" while the bells
rang merrily. and the weighing in was
the concluding formality.
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Van Eycks, by freeing painting of its
technical restrictions, led up to this.
This. then, was the moment when
Dutch art became emancipated. and
Franz Halls was the man who emanci-
pated it.
l think. fer such destiny. biography
has seemed strangely unfair TO this
man. Born at Antwerp and not at
Medhlin, as some Writers say, little ap-
pears regarding his apprenticeship TO
his art other than that he is supposed
to have studied with Van Mander. OF
a social and genial DISPOSITION, great
stress Las been laid upon his fondness
fcr the pleasures of the tavern. his i'm
providence and his too frequent lapses
from si3briery. Yet he is recorded as
belonging to several of the honorable
guilds of the town and a pension was
awarded him by the city. He lived TO
the ripe age of 81. In addition to this
respectable record, he has enriched the
world by some of the most mastery
canvases it has inherited from any
hand.
Now it was in Franz Halls. as / have
said, that this Capitalization culmi-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-19

While Crusaders Schroeder and Owen
are trying to make it appear in Wash
ington that b. H. Roberts has violated
federal law. an official inquiry might
be ordered to ascertain why United
States District Attorney. Whittemore
hasn't been enforcing this federal stat
ute. 1t is generally understood here in
Utah that Whittemore was appointed
on the joint recommendation of George
Q. Cannon and P. II. Lannan, who went
IN person and together to the president
with the request. 1t is also related that
Mr. Cannon told the president that
owing to the fact that Mr. Whittenaore
understands the peculiar conditions
which exist in Utah his appointment
will be very satisfactory to our peo-
ple''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-19
PROSPERITY IN MEXICO.

'eThere is more money coming into
Mexico than ever before" says a New
York banker. recently returned from
that land, in an interview printed in
the Tribune Of that city.
He says that the republic is pros
porous. paying off its national debt and
furnishing hundreds of thousands of
new laboreIs with employment every
year. He calls attention TO the fact
that banks are being organized
throughout the country, and soon every
town viii have its banking institution.
Railroads are being opened in parts
of the country which have had no OPP
portunify heretofore TO market their
produce This cheerful condition of ar
fairs is dres5 the Americans and Eng
Csh. who have started in business in
Mexico. The railroads are bringing
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VIII. FRANZ Halls.
BY FRANK FOWLER.

d KIN h r OW LtR.
Every great advance in science seems
4 sort of disqualification of forces which
the previous centuries have held latent,
waiting. as it were. for the right mo-
ment and the right man. This appears
peculiarly the case with Dutch paint
ing and the Dutch painter who is the
subject of this sketch.
About 200 years before the arrival of
Franz Halls upon the scene. the broth
ers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck had re-
leased from-its letters the art of paint
ing by placing in the hands of artists
the facile vehicle of oil to be used in the
mixing of pigments. The masterpieces
produced before this time that have.
come down to US were painted in fresco
or in distemper. Fresco painting, as
the word implies. meaning fresh" was
the practice Of painting on fresh plas-
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ri,ite1. for he thus marked as it were,
technically, the cumulative point in
Dutch pairting. Rembrandt, his i'm
mediate successor, indeed in a degree
MS contemporary, although more than
twenty years his junior, represented
the full flower Of Dutca genius. But
E'lls had cleared much ground before
Rembrandt ssesan. to paint. Before
that time, and sipce the Van Eycks,
Dutch art had not made great progress.
1t had, E0wever. been preparing the
way for the right man to take up this
improved instrument of oil painting
and to WELD it right valiantly. This
Franz Halls did. He practically left
the field CT religious art. took up con-
temporary life and depicted its scenes
and feelings. Halls was almost the first
master of the laugh in painting. His
Jovial nature made this portrayal of
m;rth on the Hun-an countenance al
.r,-Gt infectious. His splendid freedom
Of touch gave much readiness in block
ing in these facial muscles which come
into play when the features are re-
Taxed by this emotion, ari his people
really laugh when he wishes them to
GO so. IT is no galvanized and stereo-
typed expression which ne gives us
we Zeal that the muscles are mobile
ani mat without effort thew will re-
sumo their normal caimness. Then,
to-, this painter had distinguished
sJ.ISe of tone and color-ihis method is
modern in rs franlnesls and truth of
relative values in Egtc and shade. He
paints opposing planes with a sturdy
intention. There is cCrporeity and
volume in his persona es-tley are
flesh and blood. =
AS the call for religious PARTING be-
came lesa the demand for the interpre-
taItion Of national traits increased, and
Halls was in a measure the faceler of
the art of genre painting. Fisher boys,
cid housewives, toners and ,rollicking
burghers lived on his canvdses. and he
was capable of perpetuating the honor
able members of civic guilds with a
coed taste ard Judgment that have re-
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Mexico nearer TO this country and ems
ahlins planters to ship their crops TO
the best markets. The Americans and
English have also put up great sugar
mills, which has sent the sugar growing
industry along at great bounds. Part
of the new railway mileage is through
the tropical belt. and is giving an i'm
petus 10 the marketing of tropical
frpits-.
IF he gave a reason for this prosper
ity the newspaper which interviewed
him failed to record it. According to
the theory of the goldbugs capital
investors should fear it as land of
robbery and Reputation. But it does
mt pan out that way in Mexico. There
are no panic scares there. The none
tary standard is stable. The supply of
money is sufficient tor the demands of
trade. While other nations are hoard
ing their currency that of Mexico is In
circulation. performing the functions
for which money was created.
Mexican statesmen and financiers at
tribute the prosperity enjoyed by their
people ana republic TO the unlimited Use
of silver as medium of exchange.
They have a currency which is not
constantly approaching in value to the
detriment of all other forms of wealth;
currency which cannot be cornered,
manipulated OF controlled by few to
the injury of the many: a currency
which foreign fnapciers cannot limit
or lock up at pleasure; a currency
which enables the producing classes of
Mexico to realize from their products
more than the base cost of production
in short, currency which is satis-
factory to ana sufficient for the trades
men and producers and 70 everybody
except the usurers and the money
changers, who have been scourged
from the temple of Mexican progress.
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They Tsthered Him.
(SDare Moments.)

Edale is primitive village in the mid
most depths of THE Peak" in Derby
shire The Inhabitants are all of the
rousneSt type. and keep as much as pos
sible out of the sight of strangers The
following excellent story Is told of one OF
they. who. some fifty years ago, was so
adventurous as to make a journey to
Sheffield about twenty miles distant from
the village. When he set off to return IL
was raining hard and his host lent him an
umbrella. opening 1t himself, in order TO
save his friend all possible trouble. A
fortnight afterward this man of Edale
was seen TO return in the finest possible
weather, but with the umbrella still up
Why" he explained. we had a peck
way in the village we could ger un
through, so We tethered IN in a rleld-
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wARDlhe OFF A PANIC.

Eastern capitalists and spectators
are exerting themselves to prevent a
panic in what has always been regard
ed as good stocks.
There was similar scare in Wall
street about two weeks ago. The adj
ministration went to the rescue of the
gamblers" then, Secretary Gage made
them present of the interest on sew
eral millions of dollars paid before it
was due, and saved them from disas-
ter.
1t begins TO look as if he would have
to go to the rescue of the wreckers
again. They are in sore straits. A
panic among the spectators is immi-
nent. Nothing but another gift or bond
sale can save them. If the treasury
could be thrown open to the bankers.
brokers and spectators every time
panic stares them N the face, there
would always be prosperous times with
them. whatever might be the portion
of the wealth producers While keeping
the treasury supplied under such con-
ditions.
When Secretary Gage explained the
tightness of the money market he said
that it was due to speculation. Yet he
aided in the triumph CT the spectators
on the bull side--within two days, by
offering to buy bonds. Thus the gov
eminent has become a potent factor
Oh change, booming stocks at reas-
Enable intervals.
This sudden change in the senti-
nents, or at least in the tactics. of
the secretary of the treasury is con-
nected with a mysterious visit of
Brother Abner" to Washington. 1t is
apparent that Mr.. Gage was acting I'M
der orders from the executive man
sion when he reversed himself. And
Wall street is satisfied.