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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30
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tain the throngs Of merrymakers who
crowded the popular dancing academy
on Christmas afternoon and night. The
chlldren's matinee began at o'clock,
and the evening party at s, both being
joyment.
Miss Kate Williams Is In Concord, n.
H.. spending the holidays as the guest
Of Miss Julia Streeter.
Miss Ida Hanauer and Mr.. Abe Han
auer Jr returned today from their east
ern trip. Miss Hanauer remains In
Philadelphia for the winter.
b, S. Varan is spending the holidays
in Salt Lake.
Miss Emily Bannlster Of Ogden is the
guest Of Miss Alton Young.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dinwoodey left
this week for New York.
Mr. Frank Roberts is spending the
holidays in New York.
Mr.. Alma Cunningham has returned
to the city.
Mrs. j. d. Ford has Issued invitations
for the usual annual ball at Ford's
hotel on New Years evening.
jay Gilmer is spending the holidays
In st. Louis.
Mr. Frederick Lyons left on Thursday
for Eureka.
Mrs. Burke and the Misses Burke will
spend the remainder Of the winter in
Salt Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. VIII r. Dinwoodey will
entertain New Years eve.
Mrs. w. S. Sharp and son OF Park
City are spending the holidays with
Mrs. NJ. V. Rogers.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Of the Y NJ. C.
A. met Thursday afternoon and COM
pleted arrangements for the reception
on New Years day.
Mr. Ben Hampton Is down from Park
City spending the holidays with rela-
tiyes in Salt Lake.
II. W. Mason and w II. Cunningham
will entertain at their apartments on
New Years daY.
Mr. and Mrs. N A. Ranshor have
gone to California on a pleasure trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Cast are spend
ing the holidays with Mr. Casts
parents, Col and Mrs. Cast at West
Berkeley, California,
Mrs @. D. phean OF Welser, Ida 10
,he guest OF her daughter Mrs. E. W.
Exum, 270 west South Temple street.
Mrs. Haslam Of Nebraska, who has
been visiting with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. John Dern, has returned 10 her
home.
An out Of town wedding which will
interest Salt Lakers was that Of Miss
Louise Merster late OF Salt Lake and
Richard A. keenan, Of Rock Springs,
which occurred on last Tuesday at the
last named place. They were married
in the forenoon at the Catholic church,
with high mass Rev Father Delahunty
officiating assisted by Father Lechner
of Salt Lake. After the wedding an
elaborate banquet was given at the
Commercial hotel.
The groom IL the mayor OF Kemmerer
and proprietor OF the Rock Springs
Opera house.
The newly married couple left in the
evening for a wedding trip to Pennsyl-
yania.
A pretty wedding OF the past week
was that of Miss Ella Van Valkenberg,
OF Beatrice, Neb and Joseph II. Cas-
sldy, Of this city.
The ceremony was performed at the
Continental hotel by the Rev. Alfred II.
Henry. and afterwards a supper wac
served at the home OF the groom's sis.
ter, Mrs r. A. Hayden. The event was
a most delightful one,
Mr.. and Mrs Cassidy will make their
home in Salt Lake.
Miss Lulu Hurd, the sister Of Lieut..
Carl Hurd, OF the Thirty-fourth infan>
try. ia spending the holiday with her
family in Helena.
Mr.. ond Mrs. Morlan c. Fox enter
tained at an elaborate dinner on Tues
day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30
Orlglng Of the Wedding Ring.

According to legend. Jupite- sent to
Prometheus In honor Of his deliveiance
~ Hercules a ring In which was get
piece Of the stone 10 which Prometheus
had formerly been bound In chains.
In northern mythology the ring sym
bcllzes the tridse from this world 10
The next, ~. according to another idea,
the rainbow symbol OF eternity. Hence
II is plain that from most ancient times
the ring was o symbol Of remsmbrancs
Ola eternal recollection. Since the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30

earliest days OF ChrlgtlIty The ring
las been a precious pledge II falthtul'
ness, the talisman Of two souls f1ru.rs
o sacred life union.
The custom Of wearing the welding
RIM or the fouS ergo ~ The M
hani gees batf .Or llg origin 10 HE
Egyptians. from whom HE Gfnss lpt-
RIVED the Gust IN and handed II on 10
the l:cmans. Tie fourth finger was
dedlc1,ed to Apollo the sun god ana
Puli was an additional symln u ihA
SIN. Besides, Il was Relieved ilht
Ap, Hos finger was connected ny a
nerve directly with the heart ana II
was most appropriate that the sign
of ,hr ewing IN should reSi Cd uI'
fir.ger.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30

MRS. CORINNE N. ALLEN.

MRS coRNNE NJ ALLEN the subject of this
prominent Of Utahs women
Possessed
which ndows her with the larger questions
issues OF human besides
gs mat tend towards the broader culture
airs Allen
leadership tending
already distinction n many lines
Allen the daughter
Gator OF Ohio She graduated
Seminary COL
AT the age Of twenty-one married
educator politician
resident Of Utah during
Mrs Allen allied
becoming member Of the Ladies Literary
which
ganizaton Federation
dent of that body and
silver caused her
Partisan Bryans club presidential campaign
Mrs Allen
Memorial
association She acting OF the
National Christian League for the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30
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Mrs. D. c. Jackling left Tor Denver
this week.
Mrs. George F. Downey and children
and Miss Davis arrived at Mania W
time to take Christmas dinner WIZ"
Major Downey.
Mr.. Hall Cobb has returned 20 Eure'
ka.
Mr.. Seward II. Fields leaves shortly
for a trip through old Mexico.
Mr.. Frank Judge, who has oeell
spending the Christmas week with ms
family returned to college To-Day
Thornton Gilmer Is spending the holi'
days In Salt Lake.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
LITTLE WILLIE,

"How / do wish We could have a
ripple Of incident in our daily life!
said Milicent More, closing her book
with sigh.
Nothing ever happens to US said
her cousin Catherine, with a smile, as
she bent forward to pick up a dead
leaf off her pet geranium.
Millicent and Catherine More were
girls of % and 25-old maids" the II
year-olders' called them-who taught
school and supported themselves com
fortably by their own unaided efforts.
Millicent was pretty, with red lips,
clear, bright complexion and hair
touched with the warm auburn gold
that artists copy and poets rave Of, and
Millicent had not quite given up her
little dream of love and matrimony,
but Catherine never spoke of such
things. Catherine was not absolutely
fright, but Catherine was small and
plain, with ordinary gray eyes, hair
like everybody else's, and not the
slightest pretensions to beauty,
But the two cousins were very hap
py together after their own unpreten-
tious fashion, Millicent supplying the
sentimental and pOetical element and
Catherine contentedly devoting her
self out of school hours to the house
keeping.
And upon this particular December
afternoon, just as the girls were de-
ploring the monotony Of their daily
life, the postman tapped at the door
with letter.
"A letter!' cried Millicent.
For me?" echoed Catherine.
And the cousins read it, with their
arms twinod about one another and
their heads very close together.
Uncle George is dead in Austria
lia," gasped NIllicent.
"Oh, Milly-and he has left an or
phan boy!" added Catherine, The tears
brimming into her eyes. I'VE must
adopt him, Milly-we must bring him
/ up"
Millicent drew back little.
Il don't see why" she said, some
what coldly. "Uncle George never did
anything for us
We never asked him to, Milly.'
But he knew we were forced to
support ourselves!"
'Perhaps, dear, he was even poorer
than We At all events, he is dead
now--and this child is left alone in the
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
The Schoulboy's Postscript,

When Dr.. Temple (now Archbishop
of Canterbury was the headmaster or
Rugby, a boy came up before him for
some breach Of discipline, and the facts
seemed so against the lad that he was
in imminent danger Of being expelled.
He had a defence but being neither
clear headed nor fluent in the presence
of the head-master, he could not make
it clear He therefore wrote home to
his father, detailing at length his po-
sisition and his explanation. His father
very wisely thought the best thing he
could do was to send the boys letter
as it stood to DR.. Temple merely ask
ing him to overlook any familiarity of
expression. Apparently the father had
not turned over the page and seen his
sons postscript, for there DR.. Temple
found the following words: IF could
explain 1t would be all right. for
though Temple is beast, he is just
beast" The bishop, in telling this
story, is accustomed to say that it was
one of the greatest compliments he has
ever received in his life.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29

Very important indeed is the part
which the African native Is to play in
the Transyaal war. The side which can
count on the support of the Kaffir Is
able to claim very strong and effec-
tive ally, and the Beers and the British
have each been bidding for native sup
port, just as was done in America a
century ago when France and England
were engaged in their bitter struggle
for the dual possession OF the northern
half of the new world. In the present
case 1t seems that the Britishers are
getting the best OF it, for 1t is notori-
GUS fact that the Boer treatment Of the
native has always been sharp and cruel.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29

Mountains, they are equally numerous
and even more aggressive and furious.
They not only carry off stock from the
nearby farmers, but several parties of
children on their way to and from
school have been chased by bears, and
escaped with thoir lives by the lucky
chance of hunters happening to be in
that vicinity, and hearing the cries of
the children went to the rescue. Over
between the second and third noun
tain on Friday a hunters camp was
literally torn to pieces by two old
bears, the men returning while the
animals were in the act, and so fright
ened were the hunters they left with
out even trying shot. So far only a
couple bears have been killed, owing
to the inability Of the hunters to fol-
low them, but with the first fall of
snow this winter general bear hunt
will occur, and bear meat will then
be as plentiful as pork in this section.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29

two closely drawn files of men and be-
head every man who was standing.
Such an operation would require but a
second Of time. The conception of
these men standing in rows for a mo-
ment after they were beheaded and
before they fell is peculiarly fam
tastic and horrible one.
But when the shell has cut It's way
through the ranks Of the enemy
against whom it is directed its work
is by no means finished. 1t has yet to
explode, and even in its bursting it
will prove more bancful than tbs Or
dinary shells, as the four flying knives
will be almost certaln to strike some
one There are several additional ad-
vantages in the base shell as a pro-
jectile for purely destructive purposes.
One is the terror which it's use would
inspire in the breast Of foe.
In the course Of an interview On the
subject of the shell, MIR. Christmas
said:
There are many very decided ad-
vantages to be gained from the use
of a projectile such as the base she'll
In the first place, it would be particu-
larly destructive when used on the
flank of an enemy. Then, again, ow-
ing to the much broader line of fire
that is obtained through its use, it
would be a desirable shell for unmask-
ing batteries and for clearing out
woods and underground.
II should say that for clearing out
cane-breaks and for close underbrush
work, such as our soldiers are now
called upon to perform almost daily in
the Philippines, this shell would be
especially effective. With the jul
dicious use of these shells any thicket
or jungle would be quickly cut away.
Roads could be opened up for the pas
sage of troops, and hidden enemy
could be uncovered on short notice."
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
STORE CLERKS.
They Are Subjected to Great Injustice by
Womea shoppers.

Womea shoppers.
"The reputation which some large
stores get for being disobliging to their
customers or having unciVil clerks
could in the majority Of cases be
traced directly back to the shoppers
themselves" writes Edward Box, of
"Systemlees Shopping" In the Noyem-
ber Ladies' Home Journal. Il make
no claim of perfection for the clerks
who stand behind the counters Of our
great stores where women shop. They
are only common mortals, full OF
faults. But considering what they are
called upon to go through and endure
at the hands of thoughtless women,
the constant wonder is that they are
so civil and obliging. If the ruth
could be known it would be found that
they suffer far more than they inflict
suffering. If the roll could be called
Of hard working, innocent girls who
have lost their positions because OF
ill-founded complaints made by in
fluentiar customers whose accounts
the firm could not afford to lose, 1t
would be a roll of disgrace to Amer
ican shoppers. The girls behind the
counter are human-although from
the actions of some women we might
believe otherwise-human in their
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
BEARS ARE BOLD.
They Are Carrying or 1.-Two Stock In
Pen lsyivania.

They Are Carrying or 1.-Two Stock In
Pen asyivania.
Bellefonte (Penn.) correspondence
Pittsburg Post: If deer and small game
in Center county is scarce this year,
the numerous nimrods of this section
have promise of plenty of sport this
winter in hunting for bears, which are
reported plentier this fall than they
have been for years in this part Of the
state. Not only are they plentiful,
but they are already raiding the farm
ers stockyards, and carrying off sheep,
calves and pigs, and attack any one
who seeks to drive them off. At the
Arctic Springs, this side Of Philips
burg, D. M. Bilger, the proprietor, mas
had more than dozen sheep CARED
away by bears within the past few
weeks. From Philipsburg northeast
through Snow Shoe and on past Clar-
ence there is hardly farmer that has
escaped with a full herd Of animals. j.
3. Mason the lumbernan, who was In
Bellefonte yesterday, said he never saw
bears 50 plentiful. They are prowljng
round the lumber camp night after
night, and even make raids on the
cooking tent whenever it is possible to
do So On the south side. in the Seven
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29

He even fayors slavery for the blacks.
while the English, on the other hand,
have always been fair and honest with
the blacks who have come under their
domination, many years Of colonizing
work having taught them that such is
the best policy. The accompanying
illustration shows a band OF natives
who have come down from the noun
tains OF the Transvaal and signifed
their willingness to join forces with
tho English in the struggle against the
autocratic Boer. In the picture these
natives are represented as grinding
"mealies," from which the coarse corn
bread OF the Beers is made
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
world. I'll sit down and write to the
laWVnr this minnte"

world. III SIT dOWh ana WfILe 10 lHt
lawyer this minute"
"Stop' said Millicent, COMPRISING
her lips. "Do you mean that you real
ly intend taking great, rough, half
civilized boy into this house?'
"Certainly | do" said Catherine, ear
nestly. ooh. Milly--a motheFles5
child"
"In that case" said Millicent, 81
shall not remain here. If you choose
to open gratis orphan asylum it is no
reason that my slender income should
be squandered to feed yc lr fancies."
"But, Milly, your salary is larger
than mine."
And | do not mean to scatter it for
mere chimera. This child has no
sort of claim upon either Of us Let
the Australian authorities provide for
him"
And Millicent More could not be per-
suaded to take any other view of the
question than this. The next day she
told her cousin that she had made ar
rangemehts to secure a home with
Miss Keturah Bayley who took "a
few select boarders," in the next
street.
And then Catherine sat down to
consider ways and means. She had
taken the house for year-tnere was
no receding from the rent question.
"I'll let the lower story to Mrs. Hop
per, the miliner," said she to herself,
Il never used to like the idea OF living
in half a house, but all pride must be
laid aside now. | will take the back
bedroom myself and little Willie shall
have the front room that looks out on
the street. shall have to do without
my new silk dress and to countermand
my subscription to the illustrated En-
cyclopedla,' but | shall not mind that;
I'll discharge Hannah and engage lit
tie Dorcas Brown, who is so fond OF
children and has such a winning way
with her And | know we shall get
along lendidly-thOugh, to be sure
shall have to ask Lawyer Goodale for
copying to do at home in the evenings
for must be laying up little some
thing against Willie's future educa-
ton"
For it never occurte ed to Catherine
More that she was doing a brave and
heroic thing in denying herself for the
benefit of one whom she deemed yet
poorer and more helpless than herself
nor to Millicent that she was acting
the part of recreant.
The little room in the front OF the
cottage second story was fitted up
prettily for the orphaned Australian
boy-Catherine had sold her cabinet
organ to buy the furniture-and Dor
cas- in clean white apron and ribbons
was bustling around, while Mrs. Hop
per had already arranged her stock OF
bonnet frames. ribbons and artificial
| flowers in the lower windows.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
JAPANESE POLICE E1IOUETTE.
Rules of Department for Their Inter
course with Foreigners.

Chief Inspector Of Police Ikigami
Shiro of Hiogo Ken, Japan, takes
fatherly as well as a disciplinary inter-
est in the force under his command.
He wishes the men to win the respect
Of foreigners by conforming to the
strangers idea3 where circumstances
permit. He ha9 given instructions to
the commanding sfIicers of stations on
the subject and some of them nave
been translated into English. The
chief inspector tells his officers and
men that they should not make calls
on foreigner in the early morning,
at meal times or late at night II tiny
can help it. At any rate they shc<le
pay good attention to their clothing
prior to the call, and they should never
call out for admittanee to house, bat
should use the bell or gong provided.
Or if there is neither, then knock with
their fingers, and before entering the
house they are enjoined to clean their
boots. They must not carry cigar IN
to tho house nor take seat until
asked to do so, they are informed, and
when you call on foreigner In pri-
vate clothing take off your hat and
overcoat outside the room and leav'
them in the proper place The former
is, however, sometimes carried into the
room" Some Of Ikigami Shiro's d.
rections as 70 conduct might be pressed
upon the uniformed forces in the for
eignsrs' countries. Dress your hair
and beard always" he says; dirty
clothing and an unkempt head are an
insult in civilized countries. Cut the
finger nails properly and keep them
clean, Keep your boots clean and
your handkerchief clean. Don't spit III
or out OF the room; never smoke IL
presence of lady; it is a Srogs insult
to put out your hand to a lady before
she does. Greetings TO foreigner are
! conveyed by q simple bow; don't shake
hands with them If you are not invited
to do So" These are q few OF Mr.. Xxi
gami Shir0's lessons in department fo)
his force.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
The Pendulum.

BY q curious coincidence | had read
Poes story of THE Pit and the PEN
Gulum" that morning ont under tree
in Sussex, says Kenneth Herford in
the Detroit Free Press. Get your
hat" said my host after luncheon.
"and well drive over to Rye" In that
quaint little old-World town, one OF the
cinque ports of England, you remem-
Der, there stands a moss and ivy COW
cred churcn. tucked away between the
houses, and surrounded by the yard
filled with tipping, fitting tombstones,
from whose faces time has erased the
written words. 1t was inside this
church | cav the pendulum. | had
never thought POe's affair could have
been genuine, but the Rye church pen
duium is it's counterpart. The clock
to which it is attached hangs against
a beam away up in the arch. The face
is no larger than the bottom of a pail,
but the arm of the pendulum stretches
down to within two feet of the peoples
heads. 1t must be twenty-eight feet
in length. AS it swings it marks an
arc Of the width of the nave by one
great swoop, like that Of huge bird.
The ticks of the clock are forty sec
onds apart and loud enough 10 break
up a political meeting. Tourists are
constantly visiting the old church just
to see the pendulum, and the caretaker
told me that not one out of ten of
them but had been drawn there to con-
firm the story of Poe's pendulum.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
Will Decapitate and Cut to Pieces Whole
Companies Of Soldiers.

with knives set into the thick ranks
of great army. The ancient concep-
ton of death, the grim reaper with his
antiquated scythe, pales into ludicrous
insignificance beside the figure of this
shell of Mr.. Christmas with its four
wings of sharpened steel cutting to
pieces everything that stood opposed
to it's path, and leaving within few
seconds long, clean path through the
enemy's lines where fighting men had
stood.
Again, there is the possibility that
shell of the kind, spreading it's wings
of death over span Of three and a
half feet and flying about the height
of mans head, would move between
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29


taching scythe blades to anything so
fearfully destructive as an explosive
shell is naturally, you have displayed
an ingenuity that is almost uncanny."
When ready for firing the base
she'll" as he calls it, differs but little
in appearance from the long conical
Shell now in use III the United States
field and fortihcation guns. Like them
it is filled with some high explosive.
For setting oil the contained explosive
the shell carries either a time fuse or
a percussion cap.
An important particular in which
Mr. Christmas pTojectile differs from
those in ordinary use is that 1t has
a base which is separate from but at
tached to the main body Of the shell.
The base works on ball-bearings and
is SO attached that, while the shell re-
wolves in it's flight, the base, working
on frictionless steel balls, remains free
from any but the forward motion Of
the projectile.
But the main point of difference and
the distinguishing feature of the base
shell as compared with the shells in
everyday use at present is this: At
tached firmly to the four sides of the
base of the shell and fitting in special
" fashioned grooves, which run the
entire length of the shell, are four
long, murderous looking steel wea-
pons. In shape and appearance these
weapons resemble when opened from
the shell the American bowie knife,
whose bloody and effective record Is
known to all When closed these
knives fit closely into the body of the
shell and conform so closely to the
shape that they are scarcely distin-
guishable from the main body of the
projectile.
The shell Is touched off from the
powder charge after the ordinary
method. In it's passage to the muzzle
of the gun the rifling causes the shell
to revolve at a high rate Of speed.
Thus, almost at the moment the pro-
jectile leaves the nuzzle Of the gun a
set of specially contrived springs, aided
by the centrifugal force of the revolv-
ing body, causes the knives to be
thrown outward and back. A simple
mechanical contrivance locks each
knife in it's place The four blades
held thus perpendicularly to the
length of the shell steady the base
and cause it to come to a state Of rest
while the main body Of the shell con-
tinues to revolve on the ball bearings
With the four terrible razor-edged
blades locked in its base and covering
in an effective manner space equal to
more than twenty-five regulation
shells of it's own caliber, the base shell
plows into the ranks of the enemy
against whom it Is directed. It's pos
sible execution is something fearful to
contemplate.
Fer example, take a five-inch base
shell whose length is little over 20
inches. Add to its base, which is five
inches, the projection Of two 20-inch
knives. The distance from tip to tip
of these knives is As inches. The shell
itself weighs probably a little less
than 100 pounds. But the impetus
which the touching of Of the powder
charge gives it makes it's forward force
equal to many hundreds Of tons.
Now. imagine the base shell flying