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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
SPREAD OF THE PLAGUE.

Europe is threatened with a scourge.
The cholera is raging on the Red Sea.
and the epidemic is rapidly spreading
in every direction. Eternal vigilance,
energetic enforcement of quarantine
regulations and heroic treatment are
absolutely necessary to prevent Its
sweeping eastern Europe. 1t has al
ready gained such Roadway in Russia
that the government is thoroughly
alarmed. For weeks it has been NOW
ing humanity down in Turkestan and
an international conference of CONT
mental physicians was called to devise
ways and means to confine the plague
to the infected region
The death of the gypsy husband Of
the Princess Chimay the other day has
directed attention to the scare in the
vicinity of Cairo. Cases are reported
from Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers; and
wherever the MusselmanS are found
there is danger of the bubonic disease.
One of the greatest barriers in the way
of checking it is the fatalism of the Mo-
hammedans, which allows such things
to take their course.
But the chief source of danger to this
country is the prevalence of the pesti-
lence in the vicinity of the China sea.
There is an infected port about 500
miles from Manila, and the extremity
to which the F'ilipinos are reduced
makes them susceptible to the conta-
gion- 1t goes with the filth of the
Orientals and follows in the wake of
famine. In the current number of
Harpers Weekly Julian Ralph explains
how the germs are carried by the In
dian sailors who are employed on most
of the trading vessels in the Philippines.
He says that is is likely to invade the
United States unless extreme measures
of precaution are taken, and holds that
it is just as apt to show itself in the
temperate as in the tropical zone. The
fact that it is raging in Turkestan is
cited in evidence, where the altitude
and climate are almost the same as in
the intermountain states.
While we do not apprehend any dan
ger OF its introduction into the United
States. Europe has some occasion for
alarm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
MODEST MR.. JOYCE.

The supreme court of New York has
just passed upon a question that bears
a striking resemblance to the Ellsworth
bill introduced into the assembly CT
that state two years ago. and to the
anti-phcto law in California.
One Thomas Joyce, an old offender
and an associate OF criminals. was ar
rested a. short time ago, convicted of
assault, and sentenced to term of six
months in the workhouse.
As a memento. the police commits
sioners requested his photo. Thomas
refused to sit. on the ground that no
one had right to his likeness except
those who held his written permission.
and he appealed to the supreme court
for a writ of peremptory mandamus to
restrain the peace authorities from
compelling ham to be photographed.
Justice Truax denied the application.
holding that the photograph was a nec-
essary part Of the record required to be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
AN OLD RIDDLE
AND ITS ANSWER.
To the Editor of The HERALD:

To the Editor of The Herald:
In your issue of Friday, June 9, you
published riddle printed in a religious
paper can give your readers an inter-
esting account of the origin of the riddle,
as well as its answer. Some fifty years
ago my father, Dr. John Richards, was a
practicing physician in Taunton, Mass.
Among his patients was an old lady who
was very fond of him. and one day, as an
especial mark of her favor, she gave him
a riddle she had composed. and of which
she was evidently very proud. Ii was in
manuscript, and as time went on the pa
per became yellow ana crease-worn with
much handling. as it had been copied from
numerous times by friends who wished to
possess the riddle 1t was nnally thrown
away, 100 worn and tattered TO be of use,
and not even rewritten, strange to say,
L presume because the family had COM
mitted the riddle TO memory. As perhaps
read this very clever enigma, l VIII give
1t again:
God made Adam out of dust
But thought il best to make me first,
SO was made before the man,
To answer Gods most holy plan.
My body he did make complete,
But without arms or legs or feet;
My ways and acts he did control,
But TO my body gave no soul.
"A living being 1 became,
And Adam gave to me q. name.
1 from his presence then withdrew,
And more of Adam never knew.
II did my Makers law obey,
Nor from it never went astray;
thousands OF mics l go in fear,
But seldom on the earth appear.
For purpose wise which God did see,
he put a living soul in me;
A soul from me my God did claim.
And took from me the soul again.
For when from me that soul had fed
l was the same as when first made,
And without hands or feet or soul,
l travel on from pole to pole.
Il labor hard by day and night.
TO fallen man L give great night;
Thousands of people. young and old,
Do by my death great light behold.
mo right or wrong can l conceive,
The scriptures L cannot believe;
Although therein my name Is found,
They are to me but empty sound.
mo fear Of death doth trouble me.
Real happiness L ne'er shall see;
To heaven l shall never %.
Nor to the grave, or hell below.
Now, when these lines you closely read
Go search your Bible with all speed,
For that my names recorded there
l honestly 10 you declare.
A peculiar incident is connected with
this riddle, which would seem to be a
proof that there is no chance" in what
occurs in life.
L was in a mixed company one evening,
some thirty years ago, in Princeton, Ill.
l overheard a gentleman remark 10 an
other that he had read in his home
paper''-a paper published in some Penn
Sylvania town-a very curious riddle.
author unknown, and no answer given;
that the editor of the paper was very
anxious to learn the authors name. also
the answer TO the riddle. L was very glad
to be able to give the desired information.
The answer is-a whale.
MARY Z. ALMY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
PUGILlSM EAST AND WEST.

When it happens in Nevada they call
1t a prizefght. In New York it is a
glove contest. When Fitzsimmons and
Corbett met in the Carson City ring
it was brutal. When Jeffries and
Fitzsimmons pounded each other in
New York pavilion the other night it
was scientific. Yet both were fought
to a finish. The worlds championship
for heavyweight pugilism changed
hands in each instance.
After all, which was the more brutal
exhibition of the two? Which afford
ed the better display of scientific skill
in the art of self-defense? At Carson
the men were pretty evenly matched in
height and weight, both were clever
at sparring, active on their feet and
quick Of eye. Only a drop or two of
blood was spilled and both men were
comparatively fresh and strong when
a chance body blow, the effects of which
had no nauseating effect upon spec
tators, ended the contest. But in
fastidious Gotham Friday night the
ring was slippery with gore. From
the second round TO the last the blood
streamed from the mouth and nose of
the Cornishman. With a cut over each
eye the Californian fought his way
with marvellous strength and desper-
ate courage TO victory. There was
fifty pounds difference in the weight
of the two men. This made mere
trial of skill absurd, although both men
possessed it. And when the end came
and Fitz, weak, tottering, dazed and
bleeding, but pluclzy still, steadied
himself to receive the knockout blow
from which he was powerless to de-
fend himself, it was delivered by his
antagonist with all the pitiless strength
the giant possessed, with both hands
and the full weight OF his massive
form behind them. And this was
scientific contest, a match for points
only, witnessed by 5000 "howling
swells'' of the cultured east
If New York ministers and news
papers continue to manifest a virtuous
horror of pugilism as practiced else
where we shall begin to suspect that
they want a monopoly of it in their
home city. For a number of years
while instigating crusades against
prize fighters in other states and cities
they have witnessed boxing contests
like the recent one without leaving
home for the privilege. They were
instrumental in chasing Corbett and
Fitzsirpmons out of Texas. they en-
listed the righteous opposition of the
governor of Arkansas, they made
Roby, of Hoosierdom, hiss and by
word and have made it almost impossi-
BILE for a pugilistic encounter to take
place-except in New York City.
Dixon and Murphy, Mccoy and
O'Brien, Maher and Sharkey, Maher
and Choynski, Mccoy and Sharkey,
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons, and a score
of lesser teams have fought bloodier
battles in New York City since the
Carson fight than the people witnessed
there; and there have been as many
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
Finally Paid For the Glass.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)


Nothing is more incomprehensible TO
European walters than the American
custom of breaking eggs in a glass.
Chauncey NJ. Depew likes to follow the
American custom. and one day, says
writer in the New York Herald, the
waiter at the Hotel de Russie( in Paris,
told him he mustn't do IL. There was
dispute and the head waiter was
called. The glasses cannot be proper
ly washed afterward." it was explained.
''They ale ruined"
Nonsense said Mr. Depew, MY
servants at home do it every day in
grease"
Then Mr.. Depew broke his eggs into
the glass, as usual. and the waiter
watched him. When the glass was set
aside. he came with a dustpan, cracked
the glass on his boothell and disappear
ed with the fragments. The charge for
the glass was on Mr.. Depew's bill and
he refused to pay it. He was too good
= customer to make angry, so the hotel
people smiled They knew that Mrs.
Depew was going to remain a week
longer. A broken egg glass was in
geniously worked into her bill and she
paid it, but Mr.. Depew didn't know it
for many months afterward, when he
was telling the story as an instance OF
his success in counteracting the eXtor-
tons of European hOtel-keepers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
Faith Cure-A Poultice.
New York Herald.)

tNeW 4Ork derdlQ.1
1t seldom occurs in this enlightened
age that there is not a man of the mo-
ment or the occasion who says the
right thing at the right time, and clears
away a mass of blunder and miscon-
ceDtion.
The opportunity produced the right
man once more in the graduation ex-
ercises of the Bellevue Hospital Medi-
cal college. He was the Rev. David j.
Burrell, who addressed the graduating
class. He opened the young doctors
ears by declaring: II believe in the
faith cure" and then told why.
"Hezekiah, the king, was going to
die, and the prophet came in and
prayed. The prophet prayed and put
on a fig poultice. That is the point OF
the cure-after you get through pray
ing, put on a poultice. That is the rea-
son believe in faith cure
That is the position of the community
and the health authorities in a nut
shell.
Nobody objects to the prayers and
spiritual administrations of the faith
curists. Per Sc they can do no harm,
but they cannot be permitted to the ex-
clusion of the regular practitioner.
1t is the poultice that the law insists
upon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11

Some excellent work could be done by
the city in REMEMBERING the houses AS
it is now, it is almost impossible for a
stranger, or even an old resident, to
locate houses by the present system.
There seems to be no regularity on
many of the streets, and houses are not
numbered consecutively. Especially is
this true of the north bench and the
the city. The city keeps extending, and
some method of designation should be
adopted more modern than that of the
western editor who located his office as
being opposite an old oyster can in the
street."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
as fifteen in the great metropolis on
q single. evening.

as fifteen in the great metropolis on
a single evening.
1t is preposterous to call these slug
ging matches boxing contests" or to
say they are for points only when the
championship of the world depends
upon the result. Yet the savage mill
of the other night was witnessed by the
chief of police and a squad of blue
coats who had early announced the in
tention of stopping it the minute there
appeared the first suggestion of
brutality. 1t is presumed that most
of the city officials attended, that the
politicians were there. and that the
governor of the state, who occupied a
seat of honor while he viewed the
Maher-Choynski battle about two
years ago. was either present Friday
night or sorely disappointed.
And this is the proud Empire State,
the Mecca of wealth, the dollhouse of
aristocracy, the home of refinement
and cultured! And these are the people
who hold the barbarous west in scorn
and loath Nevada for having given
legal countenance to the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons mill,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Office
of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah. June 10. 1899.
Maximum temperature, 50 degrees:
minimum temperature. 46 degrees; mean
temperature, SO degrees, which is l de-
gree below the normal; accumulated de
ficiency of temperature since first of
month, Go degrees; accumulated deficiency
of temperature since Jan. l. 1873 degrees.
Total precipitation from p. m. to p. m,
none; accumulated excess of precipitation
since LIST of month .55 inch; accumulated
excess of precipitation since Jan. !, 2.2
inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
His Great Memory.

tYonkers Statcsman.)
He. as they are seated in a quiet nook
near the links-Are you quite sure we
never met before this season?
She-Yes; quite positive.
And you haven't a sister,"
mo; why do you ask"
''Well. I'm positive I've Rugged that
shirt waist before, somewhere
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
The Higher Joy.
(ChicaCn Record.l

well. did you have a good trip"
mo. Merely sold a lot of goods to men
that wanted them
What on earth do you consider good
trip?"
Selling a lot of goods to men who
don't want them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
Just a Glimpse.
cTruth.)

Papa-By the way, who is the lady that
bowed to us as we left the carriage?
Dorothy-The one with the black silk
skirt, the rose petticoat. plaid silk waist
purple collarette with silver clasp. tan
coat black hat with purple tips, carrying
a silver-trimmed card case?
Papa--Yes.
Dorothy-I don't know; just caught
glimpse of her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
A Big One.

Guest-Where is my bill? / told you
half an hour ago to bring 1t IN.
: Waiter-They are bringing 1t up on the
freight elevator, sir.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
Reflections of a Bachelor.
New York Pressl

When most girls get into a hammock
they try TO look awful lonesome there.
Children are no more heartless than
grown-up people; they are just more
honest about il.
As most girls get married merely to
find out what it is like, wonder why
widows get married again.
When a mother is shedding tears over
the neglected. misunderstood child in
the story book she boxes the ears OF
her own if it interrupts her.
A pessimiSt is man who doesn't
think any worse Of the world than he
does because he can't think of any
thing worse to think of it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
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 e. CUTLER, JR..
Tel. I27. Sc Main Street.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11

Terrible Swede, champion long dis
lance rider of the world, Calder's.
Sunday.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21
MAD STONE
Brought $6S2.5O After the Upset Bid
Was Revoked.

LEEsBURG, Va, March 21.-The
famous mad stone, after being in
the Fred family here for $50 years,
and never failing to cure the bites
Of rabid dogs and snakes, which was
sold at the December term of Court
to settle up an estate, has again
been sold. 1t was bought by one of
the heirs for $3.50, but 10 per cent
additional upset bid was put in, and
the Judge of the Circuit Court, C..
Z. Nicols, ordered another sale. It
was started at the raised bid of $495,
and reaching S6S2.50 it was knock
ed down to Dr. c. B. Turner, of
snickersville, Loudon County, Vir-
ginia.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

In the interest of Humanity the
Spanish Red Cross has INTERVIEWED
in the war on the poor Philippines.
What commentary on our occu-
pancy of that unfortunate portion of
the earth's surface.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

While there are number of va
cancies in the United States Senate
the fact is still unassailable that it
is better so than with the men back
who have been filling the places.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

Morgantown has been the educa-
tional center of West Virginia for
nearly a hundred years And it has
been SO recognized by people of the
state.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

General Eagan is now evidently
hunting for more punishment in the
way of raise in salary.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

There is another story going the
rounds about revolt against Reed
but when Reed looks in that direc-
tion the leaders take to the brush.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

The Ohio gold discoveries have
been found to be myth but the
visible supply of office seekers from
that state keeps up.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

When fire proof building can
burn up forty-five people we tremble
to think of what fire in an ordinary
building would do.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

Eleven pardons in three days
takes the linen from the shrubbery.
Atkinson should take some more
patent medicine.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

General Joe Wheeler is another
man who has been slated for retire
ment by the army ring.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

Fairmont could give Tammany
Hall points on how to conduct an
election.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

No Governor on earth ever issued
eleven pardons in three days until
Atkinson appeared.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

The ground hog is glad that he
can't be blamed for it.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

Search will soon have 10 be insti-
tnted for the pavements that have
gone out of sight under the mud last
winter.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

All the birds were blue birds while
the snow storm lasted.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

The Indictment OF Col. Jack Chinn
of Kentucky, for carrying aguu, is
blow at the very foundations of that
commonwealth.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

In Greenmont the office has to
seek the man and up to date the
man has managed TO keep out of
sight
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

1t takes lots OF liquor to run a
campaign in Fairmont
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21
House For Sale.

A new seven room house with all
modern improvements. Price rea-
sonable. Correspondence solicited.
Address JAMES FOSTER,
Box 1923.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21
MoRGANTowN. MARCH q. 1880.

Paving will shortly take the cen
ter Of the stage.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

The sun has gotten onto the mud
and we hope that it will dry up.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

The peach crop could never have
stood the last one anyway.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

Mckinley is. enjoying his trip to
the south and incidentally hunting
for delegates to the next convention.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

Uncle John Sherman is very sick
and this fact is making some people
feel better. He may not live to fin
ish his book.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21

March hasn't been so bad when
compared with the reputation that
it has 20 carry with ii.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21
For Rent

Five rooms, with basement, pan
try ETC., in Second National
Bank building. Also a six roomed
house in rear of Bank Building.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21
LUMBER YARD
AND -
P1 a ning M i | l
VS.. MONTGOMERY 4 co.

Will carry complete line of Build
ing Material in stock, such as Frame
Lumber Siding, Flooring, Ceiling
Moulding, Sheating, Shingles, Plas-
tering, Lath, Doors, Windows and
Frames, Nantes, Stairs and Porch
Work and Inside Furnishings our
speciality.
Good stock, prompt delivery and
reasonable prices our motto. Call
and see us at TYGARD MANU-
FEATURING CO.. old Factory.
Estimates for buildings complete
furnished on application.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-21
For Rent.

A five roomed brick house on Main
street, all modern Improvements.
Large garden. Inquire of S. G. Chad
wick.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-06
WAR RAISES OCEAN FREIGHTS.
Great Britain Charters Many steam
ers and Rates Went Up Yesterday.

NORFOLK. VA. oct. 5.-Special.-I am
reliably informed that the British govern
ment has chartered seventy ocean steam
ers for use in Transporting men and muni-
tions of war 70 the scene of the trouble
i'm South Africa. Thirty Of these vessels
are stated 10 be In the north Atlantic
trade.
The draft upon the tonnage afloat PEE
suited to-day IN a great advance in ocean
frelghts and rates went skyward here.
IL Is believed that OF the vessels called
for by the British government several
are transatlantic passenger liners.
Further calls are expected and ship
ping agencies here have been advised 90
refuse TO contract for ocean freights for
the nresent.
NEW YORK. Oct. 5.-The Tribune to-
morrow will say:
Surprise and interest have been excited
I'm shipping circles by the news that with
in the last three days some thirty-hve
vessels engaged I'm the Transatlantic
trade have been chartered by the British
Government for periods Of three months
and upward. Among the ships chartered
are a number belonging TO the big pas
senger and freight lines thought the
complete list is not known az the offices
of the line in this city. rs the transactions
were conducted abroad"