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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-27

~ UST rorty-nine years ago Sacra-
mathematician OF all human
emotions as It was, and had oeen
n ever since MarshalTs wonderful
- discovery had acted as q load
stone to bring men Of ell sorts and con-
ditious to this common center-expert-
enocd new and surprising sensation
Nothing that had UP to that time
ever occurred In that then feverishly
busy and prosperous metropolis of Cal
ifornia had given such decided shak-
ing up to the entire community and
created such unanimous and openly
expressed interest as an event which
took place during one sunny afternoon
Of perfect day In June OF the year
1850,
RobSerlcS, murders and suicides there
had been even then on this side Of the
Rockies ghastty tragedies OF moral
ard physical death such as always fol-
low In the wake az intense mining ex-
element whore greed Of gain for
tine overshadows all else, save In the
strongest and nobaest natures These
haopeninZz, however. lacked the eie-
ment OF novelty which distinguished
the act performed on this special and
lonE-rsmemhered occasion By pre-
viousty retiring and unaSsuming young
man who thereby made himself the
center CT undivided pubic attention for
the time being and the hero OF the
hour.
There h xtIu more than one hardy
pioneer Left hero In California who re-
members wel the occurrence, which
even at the time was tnr more than
u ~'nine days wonder" The one who
remembers Il best OF al, however, Is
naturally he who played the somewhat
cxacttng roe Of the star In TIE nign-
class comedy performance that took
the town OF Sacramento by storm dur
ing his brief engagement and made
most decidedly the hit OF the season"
This Ezn Is Alm2zin B Paul, for
u.Sny years past and no1E a resident Of
San Francisco and q more than locally
noted mining engineer and authority
On al mining matteTa.
For brief thirty minutes or SC. Mr..
Paul WIS the cause OF an entire sus-
PENSION OF business On the principal
streets Of Sacramento, In those days
when every moment OF q business hour
was q golden one
And what, pray, was the act which
he accomplished that had the power TO
work such an Upheaval In the estab-
lfsHeG customs of the money-makng
town. What doughty deed did he per
form, or what spectacle did he present
that attracted to himself the unwaYer-
ing observation of the multitude and
made him the focus of the public gaze?
What was II which was the occasion of
his sprfnging SO suddenly from COM
parative obscuTity-since the town was
generally too busily preoccupied TO take
much notice of individuals-into the
fierce light of notoriety? What was it
that gained him that day a title which
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12


course he took on the senatorship.
This, Mr.. McGlynn states,.i is altogether
in error. He. says; that he never die
tated, and could not dictate, Mr.. Wheel
,er's vote on any question. To this he
adds that he is Democrat and a be-
lever in che Democratic principle of
majority rule. II only asked Mr..
Wheeler once to vote on the senator
ship" he said. THAT time 1 asked him
to support Mr.. McCune. He declined
to do so, and l never mentioned the
matter to him again"
Mr.. McGlynn was unquestionably
done an injustice by being placed in the
ranks of Democratic obstructionists by
this paper.
The genuineness of his Democracy is
vouched for by other Juab county
Democratic leaders, and The Herald
hopes that when Mr. McGlynn returns
to his home he viii be found advocat-
ing, as in the past, Democratic princi-
pies. 1t also hopes that when the DEM
ocrats of Juab county meet again in
convention to nominate a candidate for
the legislature, Mr.. McGlynns voice
will be heard demanding the selection
of a man who will be governed by the
time-honored rules of Democratic party
government
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
SLANDERlNG THE DEAD.

The London Daily News prints infor-
nation from Paris which indicates that
the late president of the French re-
public was a moral coward or that his
enemies are pursuing him into the
grave.
1t is asserted that as recently as two
months ago, during an audience granted
to a French missionary from Oceanica,
President Faure admitted mis- belief in
the innocence of Dreyfus, but held that
it would be hard to release him at so
late a day. as many important men
would thereby be ruined.
While Faure was an opportunist, says
an eastern exchange, commenting on
the matter, it is not easy to believe that
he could make a confession so damag-
ing to himself morally, whatever might
be his conviction. All that need be said
of this charge is that, since it was not
lodged while Faure lived. it is Infamous
to lodge it now that he is dead and be-
yond the power of response.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
REMEMBER THE BATTERIES.

Tomorrow evening. at the Salt Lake
theatre, a lecture viii be given on the
subject of 1.-The Philippines"
1t Will be interesting, instructive and
illustrated with numerous stereoDticon
views of life among the Fiiipinos.
The lecturer, DR.. Prentiss, is a trav-
eler of learning and experience, and
has passed a portion of his life on the
Spanish archipelago. He knows the
natives. the social conditions and COM
mercial possibilities of the Philippines.
Not only will the lecture be a treat,
but it is given in a most worthy cause.
The proceeds are to be devoted to the
establishment of a hospital fund FOR
batteries A and B of the Utah artillery,
now engaged in active service in the
vicinity oe Manila.
1t is a cause that appeals to every
patriotic man and woman in the city
and state. As many as can should at
tend. Those who cannot go should send
some one. By all means show the boys
that they are not forgotten. 1t is bril-
liant work they are doing. They have
proved themselves heroes and deserv-
ing. Their courage and patriotism have
never tagged from the day they left
Salt Lake. The love, the confidence,
the appreciation, the patriotism Of
those who remained behind but gave
them Godspeed as they went have not
waned, either.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12

very large percentage of these lands
do at some portion of the year produce
grasses and herbs of some value for
grazing. but with inconsiderabie excep-
lions they are valueless for other pur-
poses without irrigation"
! All that is needed to make these lands
valuable farm lands is irrigation. There
| is a water supply available for that
purpose which will be sufficient to ir-
rigate Il, 100000 acres, and with these
acres irrigated the rest of the land Will
be suitable for grazing. So it is not
such a bad desert after all.
To be sure, there are vast tracts OF
land in the United States which are real
deserts But the government does not
call them so. 1t calls them barren,
irreclaimable wastes" The area of this
real desert amounts to 69,00o,Cc0 acres,
or about 100000 square miles, an area
about half the size of France. and lack
ing only about 10000 square miles of
being the size of the United Kingdom.
Nevada heads the list with barren and
irreclaimable lands, having 20,000,0O0
acres, California comes next with 49,
600, 900 acres and Arizona is third with
100000 acres. Utah has 100000
acres of waste and Wyoming 100000
acres.
This SO, 00O, OOJ- acre desert viii prob
ably never be of any use, but the $780,
10000 acres of land which is officially
denominated as desert or grazing
viii ultimately all be taken up and
will be turned into farms or grazing
lands.
Probably the most valuable of these
lands have been selected by the several
states under land grants for educational
and other purposes. But there are mil
lions of acres yet unclaimed upon which
future generations will live and flour
ish. There is plenty of room at home
for growth, plenty of elbow room for
our population, an immense field for
enterprise and undeveloped resources
and undiscovered treasure world with
out end.
We can use the Philippines to adj
vantage possibly, but we can manage
to get along without them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
.MANDALAY.


By the old Moulmen pagoda lookiR east
ward to the sea-
There's Burma girl asserting, and I
know she thinks of me:
For the wind is in the palm trees, and the
..o temple-6ells, they say:
Come you back you British soldier;
come you back to Mandalay."
Come you back to Mandalay,
Where the old flotilla lay;
Can't you ear their paddles chunkin'
from Rangoon to Mandalay?
On the. road 10 Mandalay, where the
hyin fishes play,
An the dawn comes up like thunder
outer China 'crost the bay!
'Er petticoat was yaller an 'er little cap
was green,
An er name was Supi-yaw-lat-jest the
same as Thebaws queen.
An l seed her first a-smokin' of whack-
in white cheroot
An a-wastin' Christmas kisses on an
earthen IDOLS foot;
Bloomin idol made o. mud
Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd-
Plucky lot she cared for idols when |
kissed 'er where the shud,
On the road to Mandalay.
When the mist was on the rice fields an
the sun was droppin' slow,
She'd git 'er little banjo an she'd sing
Kulla-lo-lo";
cheek agin my cheek
We ulster watch the steamers an the
hathis pilin teak.
Elephints a-pilin' teak
In the sludgy creek,
Where the silence Jung that 'eavy you
was art afraid to speak;
On the road to Maudalay.
But that's all shove blind me-long ago
an fur away,
An there amt no buses runnin' from the
Bank to Mandalay;
An I'm learin' ere in London what the
ten-year soldier tells;
IF you've card the East a-callin' you
won't never 'eed naught else
No. you won't eed notin' else
But them spicy garlic smells.
An the sunshine an the palm trees an
the tinky temple-bells;
On the road to Mandalay.
am sick of wastin' leather on these
gritty PAWN stones.
An the blasted Henglish drizZle wakes
the fever in my bones
Tho | walks with fifty 'ouSemaidS outer
Chelsea to the Strand,
An they talks lot o. lovin', but wot do
they understand?
Beefy face an grubby and
Law; wot do they understand?
I've a heater, sweeter maiden in a clean
CT, SIeeHtI ldHu.
On the road to Mandalay.
Ship me to somewhere east of suez, where
the best is like the worst,
Where there amt no Ten Commandments
an "a man can raise thirst;
For the temple-belli are CALI an it's there
that l would De--
By the old Moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy
at the sea;
On the road to Mandalay
Where the old hetilla lay,
With our sick beneath the awning when
we went to Mandalay
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flynn fishes play.
An there dawn comes up like thunder
outer China 'crost the bay.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
All the Flats.

cleveland Plain Dealer)
The new reporter was fine dresser.
His clothes were of the latest patterns
and cut and ne usually wore a silk hat.
That he looked well in his fine feathers
there can be no question.
In fact, the souls of his confreres at
the police station were torn with envy.
So they resolved to bring that shining
tile low.
1t was bad night 1t had turned
bad suddenly. The well-dressed youth
had come to the station in his usual
finery. 1t was a good night for the
plotters.
About midnight the telephone bell
rang. Mr.. Easy was wanted. Mr. Easy
was the new reporter.
Mr.. Easy went to the phone.
This is what he heard:
rs this you, Easy? Be guarded in
your replies. Don't let the other fellows
get on. A big fire has just broken out
on lower Seneca street and it will prob
ably take in all the flats. Yes, all the
flats. Now, make some excuse and get
out as quickly as you know how"
Two minutes later, to the intense de-
light of the plotters, the new reporter
hustled through the outer door and his
feet might have been heard pounding
the sidewalk as he raced down Seneca
street hill.
Some forty minutes later he came
back, wet and bedraggled, his silk hat
looking like a souvenir of the flood
The temptation was too strong for
one of the plotters.
Did it take in all the fats?" he
was asked.
But the new reporter only scowled.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
Mr.. Cannon's Accuracy.
(Pittsburg DIspatch.l

Uncle Joe" Cannon, chairman of the
great house committee on appropria-
tions, and expounder of government ex-
penditures, was a guest at dinner one
evening last week, says the Washing
ton Post. His charming hostess seated
the eminent Illinoisan by the side of a
beautiful southern girl, recently mar
ried, who had been much admired this
winter in high social circles.
A North Carolinian by birth, Uncle
joe" in spite of his long association
with startling arrays of figures and
hard facts incident to dsbursing rev.
enues, retains many of the graces and
congenial instincts of the Southland.
Accordingly, he and this fair girl chat
ted merrily, Uncle Joe" was playful
and everything moved along as swim
mingly as the most fastidious hostess
could hope for. But in an inauspicious
moment the conversation diverged to
age and. somehow, the young lady,
probably proud of her three and twenty
years, ventured the dangerous query:
Mr.. Cannon, how old do you suppose
l ~
Uncle Joe" looked intently at the
fair creature.
Three tens he answered shortly,
and at the same time displayed three
fingers, with which he so frequently
emphasizes the important points of his
arguments on the floor
OF course. there was a startled pro-
test, which attracted couples all around
the splendidly decorated tables. "Un-
Gle Joe" lOked again, and in that honest
tone of voice which he assumes when
he announces, well, 1 will say to my
friend" in answering some member of
the house who has disputed with him.
he repeated, as though convinced of
the accuracy of the estimate: Yes, 1
should say about three tens"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
OPPOSED TO MAMMON.

Aquila Nebeker is a logician. He
opposes one man for having wealth,
and condemns another for having none.
This is the first point he makes.
The second point is that he is i'm
mune from criticism because some of
his relatives pushed handcarts over
the plains. 1t isn't every hero will
climb his family tree during an en-
gagement or hide behind a tombstone
while he takes shot at someone.
Quill is indeed distinguished.
Another point he makes is that men
who have not had his opportunities to
ACQUIRE means in Utah have no right
to condemn his course.
'Quil is trifle inconsistent. He ought
to read Hugos apostrophe to poverty
again He ought to take his bearings.
There are differences as we'll as dis
tinctions in poverty as in rank. There
is the man who gives up his last dol
lars worth of property to his creditors.
And there is another who does bust
ness in his wife's name.
If either is rat, which?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12

their heads. But Pasteur and Koch
proved that certain forms of bacilli ac-
companied certain diseases of animals
and men, and were able to reproduce
the same diseases-even after several
generations of them had been main
tanned in harmless broths-when they
were introduced into the blood of
healthy animals.
Still the sages shook their heads. Pas
teur went a step further. Having dis
covered the germs, he sought a varia-
ton, a cross breed that would produce
a milder form Of the contagion. This
he accomplished in the case of some
diseases by exposing germs to the in
huence of the air for longer or shorter
period; in others by passing the germs
through the bodies of number of ami
mails and cultivating mild variety OF
the disease with as much care as breed
ers cultivate a particular marking or
quality in their stock. This much Sc
cured, he experimental with vaccina-
ton to secure immunity, following in
this the suggestion of the incubation
and vaccination for smallpox. Other
diseases were met and battled with
more or less success. Anti-toxine treat
ment for dlphtheria was also con-
demned by the old school doctors. Viris
treatment for hydroDhobia has become
successful after a series of experi-
ments.
Then Kochs researches brought us
a little nearer the place the medical
fraternity occupies today. He under
took to ascertain the origin and best
treatment of tuberculosis After prov
ing that it was produced by bacillus,
Koch discovered that one of the pro-
ducts OF the bacillus was a specific
poison, fatal to the bacillus itself And
at least an application of electricity,
made in a certain way, has been found
to destroy the bacilli in the human
system. An invention now on trial is
said to have cured several stubborn
cases of consumption, and is equally
effective in other diseases. The possi-
bilities in electric are in
calculable. The other discoveries led
up 10 ito what perfection will it lead
suffering humanity?
These triumphs of science, made pos
sible by patient investigation and ex-
pertinent, will bring the boon of life to
thousands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
THE NEW WIFE AND THE BUTTON
Showing That Matrimony Has Its
Problems For Both Parties.
(New York Commercial Advertiser)

(New York Commercial Advertiser)
They had been married for nearly
eight months before the young husband
had the misfortune to lose the upper
button on his business coat. Instead
of stopping at the tailor's that evening
long enough to have the damage re-
paired, as had been his former custom,
he simply ran in and secured but
to2.
Dear" he said, after getting home,
II lost button from my coat today,
VIII you sew it on for me?'
Why certainly said his wife"
He hung his overcoat on the hall
rack and laid the coat with the missing
button across the back of the chair,
slipped into his slippers and house coat,
lit his pipe and buried himself in his
secured her work basket, inquired:
Where did you say the button was
missing?"
.oh. where the top buttonhole eames
over"
81 don't see any threads"
NO: 7 pulled them OUT
"Well, you mustn't pull them out
again, for it is hard to find just where
to sew the button when you do
"All right
The next morning he arose early, and
when he put on the coat he found the
button still missing.
Why he exclaimed, you didn't sew
that button on for me, after ALL
"Of course l did, exclaimed the wife.
Then she laughed. But 1 didn't sew it
on that coat"
We'll, where on earth did you put
it?'.
why, on your overcoat, way up I'M
der the collar: you said it was the top
one, and put it up there"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
That Pink Envelope.
(Jewish Comments.)


One morning last week lady living
on West Lexington street answered the
bell to find a bulky boy. with an inno-
cent red face and peach-colored ears.
standing on the steps. He explained
that he wanted to see her husband, and
she answered that her husband had left
for his Office.
I'm the boy who sweeps out all the
Offices in the building wherss he II -
said the boy, as he backed down the
steps, and this morning found a. lst-
ter in the big scrap sack
We'll, you can leave it," she replied.
II guess I hadn't better ne half
whispered, as he showed the pink en-
velope.
''Boy-that is-boy, let me see that
letter" she said, as she advanced and
extended her hand.
"Oh. twouldn't be 'zactly right,
ma'am, cause l know he'd give me so
cents
See. here. boy she said. as she felt
in her pocket for the one-dolIar bill
morning, you take this, give me the
letter and don't say a word to Mr.
about finding it."
Il don't believe it is much of a let
ter" he remarked.
Never mind; hand it over. Here's
your money"
'Mebbe there hain't word O. writin'
in it, ma'am.''
Here: give me the letter. Now co.
She took it and entered the house.
and the boy with the peach-colored
ears flew down the street like a canni-
bal going to dinner
In about forty seconds the woman
came out, looked I'D and down the
street, and the expression around her
mouth was not happy and peaceful.
The boy had seemed to doubt that
there was any writing inside the enveI-
ope, but she was not quite prepared to
tear it open and find a typewriter doc
ument beginning: Whereas, Default
having been made in the conditions of
a certain mortgage" etc. She wants to
hold just one more interview with the
lad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12

The census law requires political
head to make suitable appointments
and a census expert for the actual work
of the bureau. Curtis writes the Chi
cago Record that the friends of a scien-
tific census who were disappointed by
the appointment of Ex-Governor Mer-
Ram of Minnesota as commissioner, will
be fully consoled when they know that
Fred H. Wines of Springfield has been
as1ected for deputy commissioner be-
cause of his rare qualifications. 1t may
be expected that Mr. Merriam will look
after the politics and Mr.. Wines after
the work of the census bureau.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
YOUNG UTAH TO THE TRIBUNE.
Salt Lake City.
-

salt Lake Clly, MdGcn IL
To the Editor of The Herald:
If d man is so constituted by nature
that, despite his best efforts he is unable
to grasp a proposition or comprehend d
fact; if, in other words, he has the desire
to be honest and not the ability, our SYM
patty is freely enlisted for one so unfor-
tunate.
But when we discover the hypocrite
who, having the ability to be honest, yet
ing but unbounded contempt. The for
mer is to be pitied the latter despised.
The small local branch of Young Utah
in three previous letters published in The
Herald have preferred specific charges
against the, management of the Salt Lake
Tribune. and in every instance thus far
the crafty genius in the editorial chair
has designedly ignored those charges and,
with some coarse sneer that Ill becomes
one who feigns so much anxiety for
Young Utah s welfare, attempts to dis
miss our claim with one magic stroke of
the pen. after which, without excuse or
reasoning, he wanders off into maze of
poetic philosophy that has no more con-
nection with the bone and sinew of our
letter than would a description of an
Irish wake or Peerys expedition to the
North pole 1t is a deliberate and studied
evasion that IS neither dignified nor hon
est. and which suggests one of the two
conditions referred to in the opening of
our letter.
The charges preferred by this small
local branch of Young Utah against the
Tribune management are either true or
false In either case the evidence must
come exclusively from the Tribune files.
and when the editor attempts to crawl out
Of the pit he has dug with his own pen,
by directing our attention to what some
other person or persons have said, it will
not work. The subterfuge is too trans
parent. 1t is the Salt Lake Tribune that
is now on trial-not Mr.. Frank Cannon
or Mr.. Rideout or any other gentleman,
and. in the legal phrase of the court, we
object to the introduction of such test-
mony, on the grounds that it is ''irrele-
want, incompetent and immaterial," and
for the further reason that it is mot the
best evidence
II man is arrested for having stolen
property in his possession, 1t does not
shield his crime or diminish his punish
ment because he informs the police that
his neighbor next door has some goods
that he thinks are very similar. And
right here IL would be very interesting to
ascertain If the gentlemen named by the
Tribune viii appreciate the doubtful COM
pliment paid them; for it should be under
stood that the. '.small local branch of
Young Utah in three separate letters
have charged the Tribune with wilful
Misrepresentation, with gross SANDER
with rank hypocrisy. with unwarranted
assumption, with economzing the truth
with social depravity, cowardly abuse,
etc, and instead of accepting our offer to