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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
Eagan's Successor.
CNew York World.J

General John F. Weston, the unspeak-
able Eagan's capable successor as COM
missary general. has a hot temper and
a splendid physique, both under con-
troll.
About three years ago he took charge
Of the department of New York, with
headquarters in the government build
ing in Whitehall street. One of the
charms of the generals character is
that he rarely shows bad temper.
In small room adjoining his White
hall street office he had pulleys, dumb
bells and Indian clubs. Whenever Wis
itors or red tape angered him he en-
tered this room, shut the door, took off
his coat and for ten minutes made the
pulIeyS creak or the clubs whistle
tune as they cut the air
There was in the army no more reck-
less daring a subaltern than was Gen
eral Weston in his younger days. In
1868. when a lieutenant, he went with
General Sheridan on an expedition
against the Cheyennes.
One evening after going into camp a
small herd of buffalo was sighted. The
lieutenant had thrown off his saddle
and put aside his arms. He caught up
his DeNt III WHICH were lSNOiNSi anu
knife and leaped upon his bareback
horse. After a race he caught UP with
a huge bull and emptied his revolver
into it's side. The bull faced him.
Determined not to be laughed at, he
disrnounted and drew his knife. Hs
walked to one side of the bull and the
animal turned. He began to run, but
the bull kept his lowered head always
toward him. He kept stopping and
turning until the sweat poured from
him: at last he managed to get Behind
the bull and landed upon its back.
The buffalo, with a snort of terror,
dashed forward in a mad numbering
gallon. The spldier worked his way onto
the brute's shoulders, fastened his fin
gers in it's name and began to hack
away at the throat of the terror
stricken buffalo 1t took time, but fin
ally the knife went through hair and
hide.
The brute gave wheeling. roaring
cough and fell forward plunging his
nose into the earth, throwing the rider
fifteen feet in front.
In his early youth Weston was for a
short time an iron moulder in Louis
vile, KY. Recently he visited the city
His fashionable friends wished to make
much of him, but their visitor slipped
away and for one day could not be
found. He passed that day with an old
Irishman a moulder, now retired
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1899

grounds for thinking the contrary is
evident from the publication of the tes-
tinony of Patty du Clam and Ester
hazy, given at the trial of the latter.
Since these matters have been made
public, in defiance of the government, 1T
is apparent that Dreyfusites do not fear
the result. In fact, they are counting
prosecution. because they know that if
there is a trial, not only this.testimony,
but other facts of the most damaging
character, will come to light.
The recent publication of this testi-
mony in the Figaro puts an end to con-
cealment, and there is more behind.
The Dreyfusites have in their possess
sion letters written to President Faure
that if he did not SO order the Dreyfus
case as was desired by the army, a
foreign sovereign would be asked to in
tervene. These meCacing letters were
dictated by the general staff, and help
to explain the curious and at times wab-
bling course of the late president. They
leave no doubt in the minds of disin-
lSTSSl6Q people Out 1IeyluS' 10 TIC VIZ
tim of an official conspiracy. and that
the military authorities of France are
especially interested in preventing a
fair and thorough investigation. These
were long matters of suspicion
strengthened by every development,
every newly discovered circumstance,
until they amount to a conviction in the
minds of the masses now.
The tables are turned. Public opin-
ion has changed. The Dreyfusites are
the aggressors now. Their adversaries
are lodging, whining and fleeing to
that last refuge of scoundrels-patriot-
ism, and whining pleas for the safety
of the state.
But no government can thrive upon
the persecution of the citizen. No army
can maintain the respect of the people
or it's own self-respect, If it Furnishes
an innocent man to screen the guilty.
There can be no greater fallacy than to
imagine that the state, can be benefited
by injustice and persecution.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
A Bond Is a Bond.
Chicago Tribune.l

1 was lunching with Sarah Bernhard
during the fetes celebrated for the car.
She had played before his imperial ma
jesty the night before at Versailles. The
telephone rang and after some parley
madame's private secretary came into
the dining room and asked the divine
Sarah" to come to the telephone in an
swer to call from the Elysee. She eX-
cused herself and then we were highly
amused at the end of the conversation
we heard. After an exciting debate Sa-
rah returned to her guests.
What do you think Felix Faure and
three canailles want me to do?" said
she.
We none of us yentured a reply, al
though Clairin, who was present, looked
as if he might have offered an expla-
nation.
He wants me to accept a Sevres
vase" continued Nine. Bernhard,
wrathfully, instead of the sum of
money stipulated in my contract for
last nights performance.
What did you reply?" / suggested.
THAT I had more beautiful vases in
my hotel than he could find in the fac
tory and that a bond was a boud that
l meant to have my money. He then
replied that Rejane, who took part, had
accepted a vase with great pleasure. [
said Rejane could do as she pleased, but
/ would take none of their crockery. 1t
would make a nice story for Roche
fort"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
VALUE OF A GOOD NAME.

Character is a shield upon which the
shafts of malice and calumny may
make dents but they cannot pierce it.
When a man has lived an upright life,
so that even his enemies are compelled
to admit it, the world is 10th to look
upon him as a transgressor or a Grim
inal.
This has been exemplified in trial
Just ended in this city. An individual
was charged with attempted murder.
The case was aggressively prosecuted.
There were strong declarations against
him made on the witness stand.
The victim of the alleged assault
swore positively that the accused had
committed it; and, while there We're
some incongruities in his testimony, the
prosecuting witness never Wavered in
his story, but repeatedly and emphat-
ically declared that he had recognized
the prisoner at the time of the shoot
ing as the man who tried to take his
life.
The prisoner proved an alibi and
many circumstances were in his favor.
But the strongest polnI III MS uelenSe
was the fact that ne had led an hon
orable life, and that he was always con-
sidered trustworthy, tributes which his
accuser even did not hesitate to pay
him.
Men who have the character upon
which to build such regulations are
bound to have standing with an intel
ligent jury, and they are entitled to it..
There is a lesson in this for young
men and women. Many of them are
too hasty or inconsiderate to recognize
the Importance of character in every
relation of life. Nothing should be
guarded with more care or watched
with greater vigilance.
Let men or women begin the journey
of life, under whatever cloud, whether
of poverty or family obscurity, if they
pursue an upright. honorable course
they will live to see their traducers I'M
done, the gossipers shamed, the SIAN
derers exposed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
QUIZ POLICY IN CHINA.

With the end Of China apparently at
hand, it is important TO consider the
rights and interests of the United
States in connection with this mooted
division OF the empire.
Owing to the desire of this govern
meut to keep out of Asiatic broils and
European politics, our historic nation
al policy has been the preservation and
civilization of China. Russian aggres-
sion Is forcing the issue, and it is liza
BILE to involve this government, wheth
er it relishes participation or not. For
American trade in China and invest
ments in the valley of the Yangtze are
TOO considerable to be surrendered
without at least a. vigorous protest.
None Of these other powers has built
up with all the struggling, and threat
ening and sending Of armies that has
been resorted to, such trade in China
as our merchant shipowners founded
and our merchants have continued, not
only without government aid, but
without government sa1ction OF sup
port. They never viii be able to do SO.
because. while we have outstripped
them in dealing from the Atlantic
coast, and, of late years. the unde
veloped Pacific slope, we shall more
than ever be able to hold our own I'M
der the stimulus of cheaper transport
tation which the isthmian canal will
insure. and with the assistance of a
string of naval stations clear across
the Pacific which we will have, no
matter what may ultimately be done
with the Philippines.
1t is with nations such as Germany,
Russia and France, lacking either the
commercial genius or the surplus prod
ucts to maintain successful trade rela-
lions with the Orient, and consequently
compelled to impose their goods by
force upon reluctant customers, that
our commercial interests conflict. And,
while every absorption of Chinese ter
ritory by European powers has been
accompanied by promises of equality
in trade privileges; and while these
PROMISES have been faithfully kept so
far. there is nothing to prevent "a
change in their attitude whenever their
tradesmen cry out against American
competition.
This Chinese question may. therefore,
within the year be the largest one
unon our national calendar. There is
no longer any use of denying that the
attentions of Russia are serious; that
her advance upon China is steady and
irresistible; that with Russian control
viii come the closed door, and hence
1,...s+o tinr, af orr Foreign market; and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
SPRINGTIME.

Now that spring has come at last
and the mild days are here, it becomes
a moral obligation to take advantage
of the air and sunshine. Those whose
occupations take them out-of-doors
are sure to welcome this weather, and
those who are housed up most of the
year need the exercise and the eXhil-
aration it affords them.
While it is said that half the world
is awheel, it is by no means superfiuous
to speak of the duty of taking exercise,
since the other half is apt to go to the
other extreme and take little or none
at all There are business men and
women, housewives, professional peo-
pie, students and others who work in
doors and imagine they get all the eX-
ercise they need because they are tired
at the close of every day.
But they need to walk and ride and
drive and get out and away from their
endless. cares once in awhile. 1t is
good to breathe the spring air while
it is still bracing, while the sun is
warm enough to make walk cheerful
and yet the breeze is crisp from the
snowbanks among the mountains.
Wheeling is an ideal form of exer-
else, but there are other ways to take
ones constitutional. The old-fashioned
practice of walking is one of the best
tonics to be found Unfortunately, it
is falling more and more into disuse
Some men walk to their offices or stores
and consider that they have humored
their systems quite enough. But they
hurry along, with their minds en-
crossed in business affairs, still work.
ing, and never thinking of recreation.
Walking should not be purely Incl
dental. An occasional after dinner
stroll is better than drive, and wheel
ing, enthusiasts declare, is better than
either.
There are so many interesting runs
10 be made, or walks to be taken,
around Salt Lake City and in the vi
cinity Of every town and city in this
mountain country, that they are ac-
tualIy tempting, when one pauses to
think of them and the magnificent
views to be had on every hand.
People who wish to keep well
through the summer should take ad-
vantage of the warm sunshine and the
cool air. Country folks do this as a
matter of course; and city people owe
it to themselves TO spend at least an
hour each day in outdoor recreation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
EBB-TIDE.


(Guy Wetmore Carryl. in Harpers)
A sodden reach of wide and wind-swept
A sky of shattered steel that pals the
sight,
seems to write
Vast letters slowly on a slate of sea;
The dreary wall of gulls that skim the
OF sulien breakers sliding in to land,
A world grown empty, full of vague I'M
rest,
And shadow-shapes that stride across
the sand.
The gray beach widens. Foot by foot APP
Strange forms of wreckage creeping
Like ghosts that steal in silence from
their graves
To watch beside the death-bed of the
year;
Poor shattered shapes of ships that
once stood out
Full-freighted to the far horizons
To music of the CHEEKY sailor-shout
OF men who sought the wonders of the
deep.
Poor shattered ships! Their gallant
Their cargoes coral-crusted leagues be-
low,
They rise, unnamed, unnumbered, from
Recession of the ebb along the shore,
The tickle tide that bore them bravely
then
Betrays their shame and nakedness
to be
Mute witness to the littleness of men
Who battle with the sovereignty of
the sea.
For me, as well, alone upon the dune,
There sinks a tide that strips the
beaches bare,
And leaves but grim, unsightly wreck
age where
The brooding skies make mockery of
noon,
All dear, that hopes, like tides, should
ebb away,
Unmaskng on the naked shore of love
Flotsam and jetsam of a happier day,
Dreams wrecked, and all the empti
ness thereof,
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OF woe, oh, me, alack!
He loved the fair Ophelia,
Polonius daughter,
4 lady whittier than the dawn,
And weaker than straight water.
Now Hamlet's mother, the frail queen,
Hal wed her husbands brother,
Before her husband was quite cold,
And this was Hamlets bother.
He worried Ger it all the day,
And all the night and then
Went back to where he first began
And worried up again.
One day his friend Horatio
CHE one man in the play
Said, Ham, brace up your croquet pegs
And hear what I've to say:
your father walks about the yard
In fin de steele yelling
And pokes his sword too near our ribs,
The old man must be ailingi
Now, by my bunion," quoth Lord Ham,
III learn what this may be-
He swallowed some st. Jacobs Oil
And went forth nightly.
Anon he saw his fathers ghost
Creep through the picket fence,
But erstwhile his stupendous fear
Whilom went fleeing hence.
Then learned he while the good
And poured some mutton tallOw dip
Into the good ghosts ear;
And took the good ghosts wife and
poor Ham groaned at the story
And sent the good ghost down alone
Unshrived TO Purgatory.
Then Hamlet swore upon his sword
He wouldn't wash his neck
Until he took the King on board
And washed him off the deck.
But Hamlet wished to trap the King
So he pretended madness.
The king half thought it was a fake,
The queen was grieved to sadness.
And then Ophelia WAS forced
To give his presents back,
All, when she failed him, poor old Ham
Was truly on the rack.
The world was dreary to him then
He didn't care thing
For anything in all the world,
Except TO catch the king.
And so he wrote murder scene
And played it on the spot.
The king lit in the frying pan
And bounced out roaring hot.
And then the queen called Hamlet in
To say q thing or two,
But in the fury of the scene
He ran PoloniuS through.
And then Ophelia went mad
And fell into ditch,
And crazed Laertes lost his base
And that made Hamlet twitch.
And then the coward king was scared
When you began to take on;
He thought he'd sacrifice his Ham
And thereby save his bacon.
So he arranged fencing match
And poisoned Hamlet'S drink.
The queen got thirsty, drank the stuff
And went off in a wink.
Now Laertes had tipped his foil
With ipecac and I've
Intending for to make Lord Ham
An angel in the sky.
He scratched Ham first, Ham scratched
him back
Remarking. Don't get gay
Laertes saw that he was doomed
And gave the king away.
Then Hamlets blood began to boil;
He made the king a clam,
Then shuffied off this mortal coil,
And that's the end Of Ham.
MORAL.
Now Hamlet was a fine young man
Who loved his father truly,
But he had spent far too much time
Perusing Mr.. Dooley.
He thought so much he couldn't act.
The inference is plain
If you want to keep your body.
You must do without your BRAIN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Now let the rest of the complaints of
soldiers be Investigated. Neglect of the
wounded, the use of pest ships for
troop transportation, garbage carts for
hauling meat, camps in unhealthy To-
calities, poisonous water, scanty and
bad food, exposure to the elements for
want of tents, cots and blankets-these
killed hundreds of men who entered
the army to fight forrtheir country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

1--WE are satisfied that a two weeks
absence in Emporia would improve the
morals of our contemporaries staff ex-
ceedingly,' says our peevish morning
contemporary. But it's own morals are
too far gone for anything to help. They
are out. of sight-conspicuous by their
absence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
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(PuCk-

''You should try and be a little more
gentle Reginald" said the mother of an
obstreperous 6-year-old. The Bible tells
us that the meek shall inherit the earth,
you know"
And what good would the earth do
me, even If | should inherit it?" snOrted
the injured spirit, wrathfuIly. You'd
either make me put il in the bank, or
send it to the heathen. or divvy it up with
sister Sue, or lay + away and only use
il on SUNDAYS"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

fest hostility of a prominent city Of
fetal The case was aggressiyely prose-
cuted, and ably conducted on both
sides. the rulings of the court were i'm
partial and satisfactory. and the find.
ings of the jury in perfect accord with
the facts and circumstances 1t is a
complete exoneration of Mr.. Jones. and
he deserves it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
She'd Heard fine stregt Cries.

At dinner table the other evening it
was remarked that no one seemed to
know the Christian name of the new
president of the French republic. we
used to hear said a guest, of Jules
Grevy, Casimir Perier, Sadi Carnot and
Felix Faure. but no one seems to know
the Christian name of NJ. Loubet," Oh.
l know it," said an ingenious young
lady, anxious to enlighten the company,
i've read it several times. It's Con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Probably that Kansas editor who was
caned the other day had been in the
habit of calling his neighbors liars
and slaves and had worn out public
patience by denouncing the community
in which he lived as a nest of pledge
breakers and lawbreakers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah, April 8. 1899.
Maximum temperature 40 degrees; mini
mum temperature, SO degrees; mean tenn
perature. "a degrees. which is degrees
above the normal; accumulated deficiency
OF temperature since first of the month,
6 degrees: accumulated excess of tenn
perature since Jan. ], SO degrees; total pre-
cipitation from p. M. TO p. m, o inch;
accumulated deficiency of precipitation
since first of the month. IL inch: accumu-
lated excess of precipitation since Jan. !,
1.S9 inches.
LOCAL FORECAST.
The following is the local forecast of the
weather for today: Fair and warmer;
L. H MURDOCH,
Section Director. Weather Bureau
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
Unity.


Detroit JOurnaIJ
But" they expostulated you have
painted the milkmaid on the wrong side of
the GOVT
Yes" replied the painter, quite sol
But kindly observe that l have painted
the COW without any joints in her legs.
What of it? Why, she can't kick, of
course
Is now well understood that art. while
it may be unreal. is not necessarily de-
void of unity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
In a Manila Police Court.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.)

'eNho and what WAS the deceased?r
"He was tenderfoot from Frisco, your
honor"
And what is your excuse for killing
him?
HE was the sixteenth blasted idiot.
your honor, who worked me with the old
gag about the insurgents playing a Luzon
game
Discharged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

The Herald congratulates Mr.. A. B.
Jones and his family upon the Windi-
cation given him by jury of his peers
last evening. 1t required but few
minutes for the jury to prepare its
verdict of acquittal, which has been a
foregone conclusion from the first. No
man could be found guilty upon such
evidence, Notwithstanding the emphatic
assertions of Mr. Stout and the mani
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
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 G. CUTLER. JR.
Tel. R7. S6 Main Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Ambassador White has been telling
them at Berlin about three akin ma
TONS" meaning Germany, Great Brit
ain and the United States. He must
have meant three achin' nations-ach-
ing TO fight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Agoncillo is reported to have said
that 1.-The Filipinos will win in the long
rum" They are pretty hard to catch
up with, for a certainty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Our morning contemporary now finds
fault with sermons as they are
preached" in the tabernacle. 1t still
holds the western championship for
high kicking.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

If Alger has had enough Miles ought
to let him up and then Mckinley
should follow suit and let him out AL
gers rascality is too crude.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

John Sherman is about well again,
the dispatches say. He ought to in
clude his obituaries among his me-
n1ojrS
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Alger has found an enthusiastic well
come in Porto Rico. He should remain
there. No one else appreciates him.
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HARD LINES.
life

G.ifel
In the crowded car I stand.
Weary and numb and cold:
Jostled and squeezed and damned,
Not even a stray to hold.
This statement meets my eye,
Its mOckery well [ know,
For space in this car apply
To Messrs. AID. and Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

1--WE have not reached the end yet"
triumphantly exclaims Aguinaldo. Then
they must be running in a circle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Carlists are threatening the royal
family of Spain again. Alphonso should
give them foreign appointments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Utah may as well give up reaching
after that Arizona strip and go in for
a slice of China.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

Montenegro, next in authority to
Aguinaldo as an insurgent leader, is
dead. Next.
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.sIsnpIAIpu! OOOO0O'0eI lnoqB 10 GUmeJ
uBunq eql 10 sLaquteu Su!A!I 9ql 10
ulusl-suo ssaRInua aoBI paIoIoo suL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
AFTER THE MATINEE.

Young Hamlet was a gallant prince
Who dressed in deepest black.
And always wore the countenance
OF woe, oh, me, alack,