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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26

pillow in the morning when he sneaked
out to pick up meal as best he might.
With all her selfishness and neglect.
ne forgave and loved her because she
was Pretty, her ways We're caressing
and endearing and she satisfied his ar
tistic temperament in the way a con-
scientious, hard working. faithful Mar
tina could never have touched or held
him.
The same SAD story is true of An
drea del Sarto, the perfect painter. He
disgraced himself for wife not even 50
worthy as poor Mozart's. while Dante
and Milton and Coleridge found the
matrimonial yoke too heavy for endur-
ance with wives who were capable
cooks and admirable mothers, but
whose souls were not attuned to poetry
The grand exception to this rule is a
no less important individual than
Goethe, After long years of bachelor
hood, the independent poet took to wife
a plain little German girl, a typical
hans frau, to whom, nevertheless, he
was uncommonly kind. BaIzac, on the
other hand, waited until his career was
almost over before he screwed his
courage to the point of marrying, and
then chose a Russian lady whose esprit
and good looks took his heart by storm.
Where great men have married hap
PAiS they nave cHoSeH wives NHose
brains and hearts were equally bal
anced with domestic shrewdness. Bis
marck. Gladstone. Lord Salisbury and
Dom Paul are among the sensible
geniuses who married at once good
housekeepers and clever women. Mrs.
Kruger. though her husband may be a
millionaire, as his adversaries suggest.
knits his socks. makes his coffee. tucks
up her skirts to aid a little Kaffir girl,
her sole maid servant. about the house
work. and contentedly wears sunbon-
net or "kappie." as the Dutch call it;
but for all that. like the wife of Ger
man William, she knows the political
situation in the country her husband
governs as Wei as he knows 1T himself.
Tante Kruger is Dom Paurs second
brain and conscience. and in the pri-
vacy of the presidential mansion has
been known to scold at his mistakes,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26

Copyright by S. S. Mcclure Co., 1899
Newcastle-upon-T Tyne, Nov. 20.-In
the yellow waters of the Tyne now lies
an unpretentious looking craft which
is practically certain within the next
few days to win the distinction of be-
ing the fastest steamship over con-
structed. She is a naval vessel, her
majesty's torpedo boat destroyer Viper.
She has been built by the Parsons Ma
rine Steam Turbine company of which
the Hon. Charles A Parsons, the origi-
nator of the turbine engines, is man
aging director If she fuliills the ex-
pectation of Mr.. Parsons and the ex-
perts of the British admiralty office she
will bring about an important change
in the construction of torpedo boat de-
stroyers. Therefore the interest of ma
val men in all parts of the world is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
PLANS OF TURBINE PROPELLED TORPEDO BOAT VIPER

centered upon the boat and upon her
impending trial trip.
The Viner is the first vessel of any
practical Importance to be built on the
turbine principle. II is true that the
Turbinia was hardly more than a TOW
boat. She was built as an experiment
to prove the feasibility of the turbine
for marine propulsion. What Mr. Par
sons learned from the Turbinia he has
embodied in practical form in the Viper
In external appearance the new boat
does not differ greatly from others of
her class now in use. Her four short
wide tunnels suggest a tremendous
draught across her fire CRATES. Her
lines are the lines of the fast steam
yacht She has a turtle-bacl protec-
tive deck forward, where the wash of
the waves will come when she strikes a
forty-nile gait. Otherwise she does not
differ from her sister ships of less
speed. Her length is 30 feet, her beam
twenty feet and her daught between
five and six feet-the latter an evil
dence OF the extreme lightness of her
working machinery. Her displacement,
in fact, is only 325 tons.
In interior arrangement. however. the
Viper is very different from the ordi-
nary vessel of her class. Her boilers
are much larger, her engines and shaft
ing much smaller and the whole work.
more simple than that OF the ordinary
steam vessel.
How the New Boat Works.
To understand the operation of the
new vessel it will be necessary to ex-
plain briefly the turbine engine on
which her claims TO superiority rest.
In ordinary engines of the reciprocating
type, such as are used generally in
steamships. the steam passes from the
boilers through cylinders of high and
low pressure and thence is applied to
the shafts which drive the vessel by
means of pistons. In applying the
power the motion is changed from the
vertical movement of the piston head
TO the revolving movement of the
shafts. The same thing may be OBJ
served any day by watching the piston
rod that drives the wheels of a loco
motive.
BY this method of applying the power
the piston changes its direction with
every revolution of the machinery it
drives. and this continual change of
direction with every stroke of the en-
CINE causes the vibration which is al
ways present in this method of driving
machinery.
The Turbine Engine.
In the turbine engines, which Mr..
Parsons has perfected after fifteen
years of experimental work, the steam
is applied directly to the shafts which
it drives. There are no cylinders and
no pistons. The only gear used is car
ried by the shaft itself and by the
chest which encloses it.
This gear consists simply of hum
dreds of small steel blades projecting
from the shaft inside the chest and
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hound and foxhound-for nose and
fight. Short-legged, with deep hound
voices and badly shaped bodies, only a
small portion of any and frequently
none of a litter are worth raising, but
when they are good they train into
skillful bear hunters and ferocious bear
fighters. Taught not TO modest the fire.
quent deer or small game on the range
they will bring from $50 to S125 each,
and Bog never lacks Tor a purchaser for
a good dog when he has any too many
for himself ts
The dogs start out coupled. but when
a scent is found he uncouples them and
the chase begins. l have been in at
deer dearhs in the summer time, but
September saw my first bear hunt, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
Put a Stop to Pain

rheumatism, Neuralgia and other
painful Affections are now as easily
cured as they were once hard to cure.
Science has learned what pain is, and
Ballards Snow Liniment is the result
Cures Strains, Cuts, Bruises. Stiff
Joints and Contracted Muscles. Pene-
trates to the very bone and relieves al
most from the moment 1t touches
When a liniment is needed, you owe it
TO yourself to get the best The dealer
is authorized to guarantee this one
Price so cents
Sold by z. c. NJ. I. Drug Department
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as famous hunter as her brother. and
many of the pelts which go to the city
in the spring have her name written
inside. When any of the family kill
the mother bear it is an invariable Gus
tom to bring home the cubs. To Mary
falls their rearing. from the bottle up.
Pansy is the only bear they have ever
kept many years. but she became such
a pet that none Of the family were
willing to part with her till she began
To break her chain and wander about
creating havoc. Then Bog hired an
Indian to shoot and bury her-pelt and
fat and all Sitting with her apron full
of apples. Mrs. Bowman would give
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
The New French Mitrailleuse.
CPan Mall Gazette.

The first specimens of the new model
of mitraillease which is being manu-
featured at the government arsenal at
Puteaux are nearly ready. and in
few weeks time will be at the disposal
of the Alpine CORPS which is to be the
first regiment to receive them.
The new weapon. Which can be easily
taken to pieces, is formed of a single
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
Cabby Knows His Fare.

A well known London alderman recently
took a cab to his residence. which is near
which was just his legal fare and no
more. says Londoro1it-Bits. Cabhy look
ed at the coins, slowly deposited them in
his pocket. and said. pointing 10 his horse:
Dye see that little white 'oss with the
short tail?'
Yes said the alderman. rather puz-
zled: what of him?"
'.Oh. hothink; only hopes as the next
time you're brought here as it'll be by a
black boss with long tail. Evenin /,
sir"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26

Copyright, 1899. by the s. s. Mcclure
Coz
Ukiah, Cal. Nov. 2S.-About sixty
miles west of here. in the highest. Wild
est depths of the Coast Range noun
tains is the cabin where Bog Bowman
and mis- mother and sister live. They
run what is probably the queerest farm
in all the world, for they raise bears
for the market. This is how it came
about, told in his own words, and it
is all true:
I'VE started out to raise sheep and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
CONDOLENCES.
Some Amusing Stories of Marvellous
happenings.
YOuth's Companion

youths Companion-)
Some marvellous things happen in this
world of ours. things that seem TO set
at defiance all ordinary rules for the
calculation of chances. Here are two
/ instances. warranted 10 be true in every
respect the names and locations only
| being changed:
Young married man, who had
called at a lawyers Office on business.
was asked if he knew certain ofncer
in the army, one Lieutenant StSies'
who was on trial for some trivial Of
Tense against discipline. He replied
] that he did
well" said the lawyer, Il have just
been reading his history. L asked you
about him because 1 remembered that
you spent a year or two at west foinI
when Won were & lad. Had he
brother named ]. Simpson Styles?
Not that 1 ever heard OF, replied
the young man.
II have never heard of him, either
But this account says he has L think
the writer of the narrative must have
got two families mixed
After some conversation on otner
matters the caller took his leave
In the afternoon of the sane day he
| went out with his wife "house-hunt-
ing" The first fiat they visited suited
them SO well that they closed bargain
for it at once. 1t was in large apart
ment house. When they were about 70
take their leave the young mans wife
said:
..WeIl. let US see who our next door
neighbor is to be-"
Whereupon they looked at the card
| tackled upon the door next to the one
that led to their own apartments. II
read:
81. SIMPSON STYLES
investigation proved that he was the
brother of Lieutenant Styles
The second instance is that OF
newspaper reporter who had been de-
tailed to go to a city hundred miles
distant. to write up a political meeting
His work being done. he was waiting
at the station for the train that was 10
take him home. when he saw Inc prlh-
cipal orator of the meeting walking up
and down the platform
Obeying a sudden impulse, ne ap-
nroached him and introduced himself
as a reporter for the - Tribune, put
without giving his name.
"Glad to meet you. SIR said the ora
tor. Your home is in -, l presume
comfy temporarily" replied the re-
porter II am from Hartford, Conn.,
Well" rejoined the other. l knew
lust two persons in Hartford. and tnat
was thirty years ago. One or them
was Colonel Thompson, with wnom l
became acquainted while making trip
out west one summer. and the other
was Miss Barbara Jones, an exceeding
" bright young woman. whom nap
pened to meet at reception IN o., WASH
ington once. Ever know them
yes. sir said the reporter; they
are my father and mother
Perhaps some may think the most
singular thing about these two coinci-
dences is that they happened to the
same Young man, at intervals OF only
a few months apart. others, possibly;
nav consider that the most wonderful
mart of the whole story is that man
and his wife were suited with the first
! fat at which they looked
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
to work in. and it is undisturbed by tn
action oe the others.
Vibration Done Away With.

VIUIdIiUu OoIIe AWdy W1tI'
The turbine system possesses certain
features which its inventor thinks of
particular advantage to torpedo boats.
One of these is of course. the high
speed possible. Another is the light
weight of the engine room mechanism
and the consequent light draught OF
the vessels, as well as the possibility of
carrying more weight in the form OF
armament. Another is the complete
freedom from vibration. All those who
have ridden on the Turbinia agree in
saying that there is less vibration on
board her than in any other vessel they
have ever known In fact. Mr. Par
sons claims that the very slight vibra-
ton noticeable in the Turbinia was due
to the action of her air pump engine,
which was of the old-etyle reciprocal
ing type. In the Viper this has been re-
placed by turbine driven air pumps, so
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26

hogs the same as the other ranchers,
but the bears killed them faster than
we could raise them.
THE bears ate up more of our stock,
and all of our profit, and there was no
way of getting shut of them with
so much waste land about. The bears
were the best crop every wear. so L
made up my mind that they would have
to pay for their keep"
They haze
Bog Bowman is known by his fame
as hunter of bear to every sportsman
in northern California, and any sports
man who is so lucky as to receive an
invitation to visit the Bowman ranch
in the autumn or winter when the ami
NAL Clearing out" occurs, has tales to
tell all the rest of his days of Bow
mans bear ranch"
Ten miles from Laytonyille. Bog says
his cabin is, but il is ten miles as the
crow flies, not by the up and down road
a horse walks.
1t was the first of September when 1
went there, and as we rode along from
Laytonville. Bog, looking up at the
trees, had said half dozen times:
There's fine mast this year; that
means a good crop"
Mast" means the nuts and acorns.
but the crop" meant bear, deer,
grouse, quail and rattlesnakes, as well
as pork and sheep. Abundant mast"
means prolific fauna and fat pocket
books for the mountaineer5. Crossing
Eli creek, we came to the first gate of
Boys place and when we had passed
at least twenty others, each with its
own individual manner of fastening
and hinge, we came suddenly upon the
cabin, and the deep baying dogs whose
voice had sent CHEEKY welcome to US
while we were still far below.
My horse nearly dismounted me be-
fore l had invited him to stop, and it
took all my force to keep him from
boiling, so that had little opportunity
to look about for the cause of his
fright. Mrs. Bowman caught his bride
and l jumped down, but If / had not
become absolutely nil admrari by my
previous experiences in those noun
tains. / believe l should have bolted
myself. Everywhere were dogs growi-
ing and baying and fawning, and those
half grown bears were rolling their I'M
calmly heads and surrounding Bog with
the dogs, begging for caresses A
great full grown bear was growing and
pacing, not ten feet from me-
You need not be afraid" Mrs. Bow
man assured me. "Pansy is tied and
the others are as harmless as kittens"
Then l was happy TO see a great
chain, one end at bruins collar and
the other around q tree. If Mrs. Bow
man had not been the incarnation of
hospitality she would have laughed at
me, but she did not until we were bet
ter acquainted. and then she always
reproached Bog for not telling me of
the bears.
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The Worst Kind of Bear.

Now. these bear are the ferocious
black bear, and their cousins or broth
ers. the cinnamon bear. Bog says the
two are brothers-often sons of one
mother, Notwithstanding scientific clas-
ification-and Bog ought to know, for
he has lived among them, hunted and
raised them for twenty years. Bog is
a hunter and a true, fair sportsman
and truthful as hunters and sports
men are. When his words are of his
imagination and of the things which
are not, his eyes and lifting eyebrows
tell the truth, and L know which of his
tales to retell.
He called my attention to the dogs
with as much pride as he ever evinces
for any of his own achievements. Early
enough to make an excuse for their ex-
istence, the dogs are bred TO hunt bear.
They are a judicious mingling- of blood
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
A Plucky Woman's Story.

Away back in the '4Os the Bow
mans had crossed the death trailed
plains, a young couple from Missouri.
When the gold hunters came Bowman
opened a tavern at the ford of the
Sacramento river. where the city stands
today and here nine children were
born. 1t was the first outpost of civil
ization which the returning miner came
upon. and it was not infrequent that
the Bowmans took in 500 in the morn
ing before the children had eaten their
breakfast. all in gold dust at SIG an
ounce 1t was Mrs. Bowman who an
swered with the row boat the miners
summons from the opposite bank of
"Ho, Ferry" and it was she who
cooked the almost priceless vegetables
carried around the Horn in tins. and
sold to the miners for an amount
gauged by the number of tins remain
ing in the larder.
When Bowman did the best thing
he ever had done in his many drunken
years-died-his wife sold out the place.
She knew what seed was in the soul OF
the drunkards children, and in order
to save them she moved with them up
into Humboldt county's fertile hills and
made a home. The Indians came and
burned her house and barn and drove
off her cattle; but she never bent her
head to fate. Wounded in the thigh,
With her chlidren, the older ones lead
ing and carrying the younger ones and
babe of three months in her arms,
she kept her pursuers at bay with her
rifle and covered her retreat to the
nearest neighbor five miles to the
south. 1t was the last outbreak of the
Indians. but it cost Mrs. Bowman her
all. and the federal government is still
delaying her claim for reimbursement
She moved farther south into Mendo-
cino county and took up her present
home, which, with the children's aid,
LII
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Bear Were Everywhere.

There were so many bears on the
ridge that they ate the sheep and hogs
and even the chickens. and the brave
woman watched her own brood that
none of them were carried away by the
demons. The children have all grown
up and married to homes of their own
except Bog and Mary. Mary is almost
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
Boas SISTER FEEDING BEAR CUB FROM BOTTLE

them one at time to the brute, rap
ping her smartly- over the nose II the
bear showed Impotence. But Mrs.
Bowman always got out of range of the
great black clawed paws before the end
of the apples was reached. Six feet
tail. with white hair. Mrs. Bow
man steps over the. steep. rough trails
abouty her home as lightly and fiat
backed as boy, as If up there 50 near
the sky she had found the fountain of
eternal youth TO nullify her rs years of
hardship and womanly burdens.
Simple, Brave Folk Are These.
Bog is like his mother. six feet four
inches tall; thin as an Indian, afraid of
nothing he has ever met. and like her
he will be a child all his days. Sim
pie, honest, hospitable, but with strange
ideas of the majesty of the law, they
live at the top of the mountain ridge.
owners of all the land in sight from
the height where the cabin stands.
Bog is a car of all the Russians on
his own land with patronizing ami
ability for "city folks" of whom he
stands in great awe when in their own
confines, but considers less than chill
dren in his. He has laid down laws,
and whoever comes within his domain
must obey them. No dog which noticed
deer could stay longer than a man
who would shoot doe or yearling or
bird in the mating season. Even bear
has its rights and they must be re-
spected.
And the ranch pays well. There are
from 80 TO 100 pelts every year, and
they bring in from so to $500 each. The
oil from 600 to 700 pound bear sells for
from $50 to $40 Besides. jerked bear
meat is very good. indeed. and SO is
bear steak when the bears have lived
on nuts or an occasional pig or sheep
for sandwich. Add to these items an
occasional s25 to 800 for cub. and
as farms go Bowman's bear ranch pays
without counting the annual band of
hogs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLING MEN
Annual Meeting of Transmississippi
Club-EIection of Officers and
Other Business.

The members of the Travellers Pro-
tective association held their annual meet
ing last night in the rooms of the Travel
ing Mems Transmississppi club and besides
electing a new set of officers for the en-
suing year, they completed arrangements
for the entertainment of delegates to the
state convention to be held in the city next
week
Those chosen to fill positions as officers
were: President, Clarence w. Close; vice
president, j. l.. Houston; secretary and
treasurer, r. +. Hodgin; members of Board
of Directors, NJ. W. Rayley, w. H. Butts,
Ed S. StTeeter, E. E. Elliott, A. II. Ra>
witzer and NJ Meyer.
After discussing plans relative to the en-
tertainment of state delegates it was de-
cided to give a luncheon for them at the
Commercial club Saturday, the date of the
annual election of officers for the state d.
vision and the election Of delegates to the
national convention that will be held at
Louisville, Ky, from May 16 to IS.
Members of the association will spare no
efforts to entertain the visiting delegates
and for the hours when convention bust
ness will not claim their time several the
ater parties and smokers were arranged for
their enjoyment.
After the meeting an auction sale of fur
niture belonging to the Travelling Mems
Transmississippi club was held and all the
clubs furnishings were disposed of The
club was organized at the opening of the
exposition for the entertainment of the vis-
iting knights of the grip and, having out
lived its usefulness, it was decided to dis
continue it and dispose of the property.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
SMALLPOX VICTIM ESCAPES
Breaks Out of the Pest House and is
Finally Rounded Up in
the City.

For several hours last night the entire
squad of detectives and patrolmen of the po-
lice department searched every nook and
corner of the city for Winfield Francis, a
smallpox convalescent who made his escape
from the pest house after a desperate strug-
gle with John Mccoy, the keeper.
Francis overpowered the keeper and fled
at 5 o'clock. Four hours later he was cap
tured by Detectives Drummy and Mitchell
in lodging house at 10 South Thirteenth
street and taken back to his quarantined
quarters on the outskirts OF the city by three
strong men employed for the occasion
Francis was taken to the pest house about
two weeks ago and will be released in eight
or ten days if his condition continues to i'm
prove.
Last night Keeper Mccoy built fire to
warm the house and Francis complained that
there was too much heat for him. Finally
he threw Off his coat and announcing that
he was going out where it was cool, started
to fight his way past Mccoy. hard tussle
ensued, but Francis proved the victor and
made for downtown at full speed
city Physician Spalding Immediately sent
word to the police, with the result that
Francis was captured after a long hunt.