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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
THE DAY AND THE EVENT.

Good Friday is generally recognized,
except. possibly, in strictly Protestant
communities. as one of the mos solemn
of all the sacred anniversaries
1t is observed with appropriate cere-
monies in memory of the passion and
death of Christ, and is, therefore, day
of mourning. In early days the
churches were closed and draped in
mourning. but. the practice finally
dwindled to Spain, and eventually
ceased altogether. In Catholic commu-
mites, where the day is observed with
greater ceremony and solemnity, per-
haps, than in any others, services are
held, but the organ is not played and
the bell is silent.
OF recent years there seems to be a
growing tendency on the part of Pro-
testant Christians to recognize. in APP
propriate services, the mournful sig
naficance of the day. This is another
indication of what has been frequently
observed of late-the gradual drawing
together of the CHRISTIAN people. which,
despite a little friction here and there,
is surely going on.
The different Protestant denomina-
tons are becoming more tolerant more
fraternal, and the brotherhood of man
is being received as the broader creed
in which sects, like minor differences.
exist
In the same way the course of the
two main branches of the Christian re-
ligion are converging, Professionalism is
losing its puritanical harshness and
Catholicism is losing its illiberality of
the past.
Good Friday is the day of all days
responsible for the existence of the
Christian church. AS the death of
Christ was that the world might live,
SO must the accepted anniversary OF
the day of his death remind all churches
and all Christians that their existence
dates from this day.
Inherited antipathy TO the Catholic
church may furnish an objection to an
observance of the day, but these relig-
ioas animosities are happily dying out.
Good Friday, like Easter and Christ
mas, is the common heritage of all
Christians And all these days We're
handed down through the medium of
the mother church.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

Some OF the most pronounced admin
intration organs are weakening in their
undertaking to defend Alger and shield
the president. The New York Tribune,
for instance, made apologies and ex-
cuses for a long time, but the evidence
against Alger, Eagan and the president
has become so overwhelming that they
cry enough, while the Tribune says:
The people who have been anxious to
vindicate the beef-whether to discredit
General Miles, or for some other pur-
pose, 1t is unnecessary to inquire-have
an opportunity to vindicate their own
motives by accepting the proofs all
ready found and assisting a more COM
plete exposure of the evils they were
slow to believe existed. They may re
sist, or even prevent full revelations
henceforth. But they cannot blot out
what is already known, and any at
tempts at suppression VIII only deepen
the conviction that the soldiers were
wretchedly ill-fed, and strengthen the
suspicion that the ill-feeding was due
to more than incompetence and was the
result of crime"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
Wrote "The Heavenly Twins
(Chicago Record.) ),


About a mile from Tunbridge Wells,
England, in little gray house, lives
Sarah Grand who wrote the Heavenly
Twins" She is nearing middle age, is
medium-sized woman, with dark hair,
clear-cut features, and is an easy con-
versationalist.
In the room where her writing is
done there are SO quaint things, among
them a stork mounted SO he appears to
be watching her at work That she may
not forget the suffering of the world
she keeps close by her desk an engrav-
ing of Dudley Hardy's picture of the
destitute poor of London. Her desk is
a table of mahogany. fitted with draw
ers, and the top is Uttered with blotters,
books, ink, pens and papers. The chair
at the desk is high backed, with curved
legs, and a bookcase stands close at
hand.
There is a bay window in the writing
room, which has been made into a cozy
corner with couch, pillows and cur
tains. Handsome rugs and paintings
add to the room.
Sarah Grand is fond of children, es-
pecially Beth, the baby daughter of
her stepson, and the child frequently
plays about her while her grandmother
is writing, seemingly not at all disturb
ed by childish prattle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
TEARING OFF THE MASK.

Our morning contemporary is trying
to make its readers believe. that those
Republicans who repudiated the gold
ticket and platform in 1886 did so FOR
the sole purpose of getting into office,
This may be our neighbor's highest
conception Of the motives which in
spired men to leave the Republican
narty it reflects upon the hundreds
who LEFT for principle and thought no
more about it.
FOR two years our morning contem-
porary has been trying to induce sill
Yer men to return with it TO the Hanna
fold. to which end it has abused Dem
ocrats like pickpockets and endorsed
Mckinley men for office. apoointive
and elective.
1t has succeeded in pursuading
number of Republicans to follow it in
to administration ranks where they
together crooked the pregnant hinges
of the knee" and swallowed the, plat
form prepared for them by that high
official of the National Republican
league, William Glasmann.
I'VE endorse and applaud all of Nc
KinIey's policies" said the reunited
Republicans of Utah and our .eX-cham-
pion of silver. the Salt Lake Tribune,
said Amen.
Now it is getting anxious for more
Republicans 10 get together.
II says that all Democrats are ut
terly unscrupulous and unreliable in
office" wherefore. it doubtless expects
Mayor Clark to aid it in this reorgani-
cation Of the Republican party and the
installation of more Republican Of
ficials to satisfy our neighbours clamor
and cool its sizzling ire.
If Mayor Clark is a shrewd observer
he Will have noticed ere this that the
Tribune's interest in a non-partisan
movement was centered in Pratt and
Devine, and that it has no further
care. since Pratt has been defeated,
than to get Republicans together under
its banner Anything to beat the Dem
ocrats." and to make a furious on
slaught upon public patronage.
But is Mayor Clark willing to assist
a Republican organ in building up q
machine with Which to fight the Dem
ocratic party2
The next city campaign viii be
fought between Democrats and Re
publicans with Pratt as the Re
publican leader and the Tribune as its
organ. There viii be no more non
partisanism. Make no mistake about
that. 1t hasn't panned out well The
people prefer oDen movements TO par
tisanship in disguise. Men win have
to make W their minds to take one
side or the other. If they prefer Pratt
and a local branch Of McHinleEism
they know where TO go. If they want
peace and have lad enough Of Pratt
they know the other side.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
SMELLING SAMOAN TOWNS.

Trouble has begun in the Samoan is
lands again. and English and Ameri-
can warshlps are Smelling the
towns and wiping out the followers Of
old Mataafa, the hero Of that histori-
cal hurricane where battleships were
destroy ed, even as Dewey and Schley
destroyed the Spanish fleets, and scores
Of brave seamen persisted in sight Of
the shore.
AIataafa. to whom the old king, Ma
lietoa, gave the crown; Mataafa, in
whose interest and name he abdicated
before being seized years ago by the
Germans and exiled to an African col
ony: Mataafa, whose rule was char
acterized by wisdom, justice, progress
and prosperity ard who was himself
subsequently exiled to an island near
South America by the Germans on ac-
count Of his fairness, his impartiality,
of watch the English and the Ameri-
cans We're beneficiaries. And now the
natives are being shelled and destroyed
b. English and American warships be-
cause they prefer Mataafa TO Malietoa
Tanus, 9 boy, az their leader and ruler.
II would be easier to make peace with
Aataafa than with the German off,
Gals there, and safer to rely upon his
peaceful promises. his sense Of fairness
and his lasting fidelity. for these have
been tested in both.
We talk about wars for humanity
What was the presidents attitude to-
ward the Fiipinos. Hating. vacii-
lating. cowardly. irritating and dam
gerous. IL brought on the conflict It
puzzled the senate. 1t exasperated the
natives. and now we are engaged in a.
work Of determination.
The same timid, unsatisfactory. wait
ing policy has been pursued in the Sa-
moan islands Instead OF doing jus
tiee. instead Of allowing the natives to
choose their own king, who is nothing
but nEurehead anyhow, our official
representatives insisted upon another,
allowed the German consul and COM
missioner to draw them into an en-
broglio out Of which few native Sa-
rnoans are likely to emerge alive.
And this is war for humanity, too.
Oh. that some decided policy were
adopted, some decisive action taken
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

Since the adoption of the federal con-
stitution, says bulletin just issued by
the bureau of statistics, this nation
has exported merchandise to the value
of SS0,S52. 2O2, 1856. and imported mer-
chandise to the value of S29,979, 961, 4S7,
leaving an apparent balance of trade
in our favor of $972, ,49S The ex-
ports of gold and silver since 1889 have
amounted to So, 400, 62S, 5S1 and the I'M
ports to $1,94O, 150,32O, an outflow
of S1.4e0, 473,261 This brings the
total exports, both. merchandise and
specie. to 34.352, SIG, 566 and the imports
to S51,920,111,S07, an apparent excess in
our favor of 81, 432, 714,759. But when the
cost of transportation and the import
duties are added the balance is found
to be the other way. 1t continued thus
fer 100 years. Since 1876 our exports
have exceeded the imports, according
tc the value of the latter at the place
where purchased, by s., 81. 054,671.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
Not An observant Man
Chicago News.l


The old man in the shaggy overcoat
mentioned something about Kansas in
his talk, and the Bostonian leaned over
toward him and asked:
Did you say you were from Kan
sas?"
mo; but 1 jes' come from thar"
Then 1 want to ask you few ques-
lions. How are times out there?S
II dunno"
rs money plenty or tight?"
Cant say"
But don't you know how the farm
srs are feeling?"
rs business good or bad in the
towns"
Il didn't ask anybody"
''You-yOu are not an observing
man." said the Bostonian.
No, l guess not. 1 went out to Kan
saS to see a wilder 1 used to know, and
to ask her to marry me. I got to her
house at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
asked her to have me and she said she
wouldn't, and at $3.50 I was on my way
back. / didn't see no crops, nor ask
about good times or bad. The state of
Kansas may be holdin' reg'lar Fourth
of July over good times, or everybody
may be goin' to the poorhouse All
know about it is that I'm an old fool
for spendin' $50 to run arter a Kansas
wilder when I could hev married a
New Hampshire gal fur twelve shil-
lin'sr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
Old Toms Chophouse Sold.
New York Worldl

The real estate salesroom was crowded
Tuesday with buyers. operators and
curiosity seekers. The properties offered
were in all parts of the city, and the
Offering of odd Toms Chophouse"
caused interest. The old hosiery which
has opened It's doors to so many his
torical celebrities was described BY Will
lam Kennedy but the biddings were not
numerous. The opening bid was $40, 600.
and 1t was evestually knocked down for
$4,000 to Aiken. Lambert & Co., manu-
facturers of fountain pens, represented
by the president, John b. Shay. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Shay was buying for
some one else. 1t could not be ascertain
ed whether the restaurant business would
be continued or whether 1t would have 10
make way for an office building The
price given was considered a fairly good
one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

unhampered by political schemes.
prompted only by sense Of right and
justice!
Wars for humanity should not be
made conquests of. superior wealth and
strength and power; they should be in
tercessions in behalf of the weak
against the strong, as the war was be-
gun against spain to compel that coun-
try to cease fighting her ignorant, help
less colonists.
This news from Samoa is distasteful.
a victory there adds no glory to the
achievements of American arms.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

by having a corOners jury report on the
matter. The foreman of the jury was a
friend of the commanding officers, the
members of the jury were companions of
the heutenants and the verdict was We
the jury find that the deceased came to
his death by a wound inflicted by his own
hand The soldier who shot him was
Indignant I caught him in the back of
the head at nearly half a mile he said,
and look what that fool jury says And
the other privates sympathized with him"
@ o %
The lieutenant who had watched Indi-
ans in Nebraska in the early days woke
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=
lasted one day It became offensive On
the second day it was 50 bad that we had
to summon a court, and the court decided
to throw it overheard. So it went over
the side. we had all the experimenting
with it that we wanted"
If ever a clear case Of criminal neg
ligeaee and vicious Indifference was
made out against an administra ton,
one has been made out against McKin-
ley and Alger. Nor will Hanna be be-
lieved when he says: .Oh, these
charges are made for political effect,
as he remarked last fall during the
original investigation.
Now that real inquiry is being
made, not by whitewashers, but by an
army board. the sickening truth is COM
ing out. And it is damnable and
damning to the present administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
A Possibility.
CBoston ,JournaI.)

She was a portly lady, with a lot Of
bundles-and it may be noted at this
point that it is almost always the case
that the larger a lady is, the larger and
more numerous are the bundles she
carries-and when she entered the rail-
road station she was pulling so that a
drowsy man on the front seat jumped
up suddenly, thinking it was the en-
CINE of the train he was waiting for.
She approached the ticket window and
there she put her bundles in all the
available space. They were nice. new
store bundles, however, and no objec-
ton was made.
rs the train for Jungleville gone
yet?" she inquired.
mo, ma'am," responded the clerk.
How far is it there?"
about seventy miles, I guess,
ma am" for he was new to that place
and was not thoroughly conversant
with details.
Whats the price of ticket?"
''One ninety-eight, maam.'
"One ninety-eight?" she repeated.
How does that happen?"
Il don't know. ma am," he re-
piled. as he eyed her bundles. II guess
it must be marked down from 81
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
The Irrepressible oliver Herford.


Z USI.J
There is "A writer whose opinion of the
merits of his own work is in nowise af-
fected by the dictum of editors. His name
is Oliver Herford. and it is because of this
same disregard of his for editorial opinion
that the most talked of verses he has
ever written came to be published. They
We're submitted to the editor of Life. and
they were returned, not once, but as
remember it, twice. They started on
their third journey to Life, accompanied
by note to the editor.
My Dear Mr. Mitchell" it began or.
come to think of it, l believe 1t had the
confidence to begin. My Dear Mitch, =
and it continued: During your recent
absence from your office your office bow
has been returning masterpieces. one of
which l inclose. Please remit at your
earliest convenience" And the editor did
remit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

Business On the Sabbath.

T
Had it no been the Sabbath day
said Perthshire preacher to an elder
between the preachins.'' Il would
just have asked ye how the hay was
selling in Perth on Friday"
well, sir" said the elder, had it no
been the day it is. wad jest haze tell't
We it was gaun at a shillin' the stane."
Indeed. Well, had it been Monday,
instead of the Sabbath, l would have
told you | have some to sell"
"Umph, ay, on ay, sir. And had it
been Monday. as you say, then wad
jest haze telPt we l wad gle We the mar
ket price Cor it,
The elders carts were at the manse
early on Monday morning, and the
preachers haystack vanished like a
highland mist.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

The Republican organ wants all who
left the Republican party in 1896 to re-
turn to that organization, now that it
has demonstrated how irrevocably it
stands for gold. 1t will not be long
before our neighbor is bowling. as lus-
lily for the single standard as it once
did for bimetallism. Only last fall it
supported Mckinley men for Office and
endorsed all of McKinley's policies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
Tommy Atkins to Rudyard Kipling.

q. o. C. in London Times.)
There's a reg'lar run on papers. since we
card that you was i'll;
An you might be in a 'orspital; the bar
ricks is so still:
We ave all been mighty anxious, since we
card 1t on parade;
An we amt no towards, neither but /
own we was afraid.
An we all prayed ard and earnest!
''Oh, Gawd, don't take i'm yet!
Just let i'm stop and elp us;
An warn, lest we forget"
The sergeant said: "F won't get round.
It's three rounds blank for inn
Il won't write no more stories!' And our
'opes was bloomin' dim.
But you 'ad always 'elped r. Atkins an
though things did look blue
Well! we amt much ands at prayin', but
we did our best for you.
"E mustn't die; we want int
o, Gawd. don't take i'm yet;
Spare i'm little longer,
e wrote Lest we forget''
We card that you was fightin 'ard-just
as we knew you would:
But we ardly 'oped you'd turn lis flank;
they said you 'ardly could.
But the news as come this mornin', an
I'm writin' ere to say,
There's no British son more Apply than
your old friend Thomas A.
80, Gawd, we're all so grateful
You ave left i'm with us yet,
To old us in, and alt MS,
Lest we. lest we forget!'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

j Cllldl n ina d liOOd-
lum didn't like and
- hOodlum prompt
" picked up a coup
lin pin and struck
him in the back of
the neck with it. The
blow broke the poor
fellows neck, but he
was picked I'D and
hung to the limb of a
neah-by pine tree
an left there for
awhile, and later cut
down, falling at the
foot OF the tree. Il.
with several othah
gentlemen of the bet
tab class, was sum
moned or the jury.
We were in a bad
place; the negroes
were in a majority
and if We gave them
an inch they would
try m taka a milo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

Our morning contemporary had an
other bad spell yesterday. Referring
to Democrats in general it said in sub
stance: "Hash-utterly INSCRIPTIONS
petty manipulators-hung tape
worm crowd-incompeten man
Notwithstanding and unreliable
grind, grind, grind-rob till-siz,
boom, bang And that's the way it
feels since Pratt was turned down. 1t
should try biting nail
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
You Will
Not Object

If we try to make a little money
out of the shoes we sell. win you?
You are willing to live and let
others live, too, aren't you2 Ger
tainly; that's good Americanism-
anyhow. we're satisfied to get
along with as little profit as any
one you ever knew. We are not
trying to amass a fortune. All
we ask is enough margin TO keep
the wheels of the business well
oiled and to maintain our gen.
eral reputation as citizens and
handlers of reliable footwear.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
A JUsTIFIARLE ASSUMPTION.
washington Starr

washington Starr
Cheer up Filipinos.
For there viii come a day
When you'll proudly see our colors
Waving Ger Manila bay
You will talk about ''our country"
And you'll say .it's always right"
And you won't use bows and arrows
If it calls you out to fight.
Old England used to hate us,
But she has changed her mind.
Even Spain accepts our money,
And grim Germany grows kind.
This bee that's in your bonnet
In time will cease to buzz:
You will like us when you know US:
Nearly everybody does
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
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. &c Main Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee Of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah March 80. 1899
Maximum temperature. * degree; mini
mum temperature. 50 degrees; mean tenn
perature, Il degree which is / degree be-
low the normal; accumulated deficiency
of temperature since the first of month,
30 degrees; accumulated excess OF tenn
perature since Jan. !, o. deg1 ees; total pre-
cinitation from D. m. to .. m, "a inch:
accumulated excess of precipitation since
first of month, AZ inch: accumulated ex-
cess of precipitation since Jan. l. 2.OI
inches.
LOCAL FORECAST.
The following is the local forecast of the
weather for today: Fair; stationery tenn
perature. l.. II. MURl1oCh,
Section Director, Weather Bureau.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

Ildi "a ~ ulOuIi ltu
men. He ran through.
wire fences and de-
layed the pursuit in
that way, but was
finally caught sight
of near Granite can
yon. The troopers
fired at will at him.
and finally = little
fellow dismounted,
took the Texas grip
on his rifle ard shot
the fugitive through
the back of the head.
He was brought back
to the post, and the
raayt dow tho oolnt,al
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

up under the infiu-
ence of some Differs;
You know" he said,
II was in command
OF a one-company
post in Nebraska in
the early days; the
captain was in Wash
ington, where he is
yet, | guess. and |
had my hands full.
The Indians were
troublesome and now
and then when they
came in the cowboys,
who made our place
headquarters. would
practiVe revolver
shooting on them.
We were in the midst
of the prairies and
r
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
OREGON SHORT line RAILROAD.
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT MARCH 10
ARRIVE.

ARRIVE.
From Ogden. Chicago omaha
-, Louis. Kansas City and
1- nSsIsVSr ..--.-.. .................. 3:aO am
From ogden. Cache Valley. Port
Idnu, Butte and San Fran
rros', 500 am
E, Omaha @ and Denver .......e....; sos p.@
c8in OGDEN, Cache Valley and
from Frisco. Milford Sanpete
r- and intermediate points 9:35 am.
mediate points {. .............. $50 PM
rom Iooele and Terminus. -. 500 pm
DEPART.
For Ogden. Park City. Omaha.
lineage, Denver. Kansas City
ana ST. Louis. ........ ......... 7:00 q. m.
1r Ogden. Cache Valley and in
=. fFs a T; points 500 am
nm mediate points -. ............. 7:sO am.
For Ogden, Denver. St. Louis.
Z, Chicago, San Francisco. -. $40 pm.
Or Ogden. Butte. Portland San
For Provo. Sanpete. Milford
and Frisco .......................5 $50 7. m
For Tooele and Terminus ...... T:45 am.
rains south of Juab Go lot run Sun
sDally except Sunday.
City Ticket Office Under Masonic
Hall, Second South Street.
g. ". ECCLEs. ID. E. hurley.
zen IfeiilS Manager; Gen. p. and T. A
Vice President and GenI Manager.