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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
Something to Wander At.
(Chicago Democrat.)


These two had been friends for years,
but for some reason they had drifted
apart They were not the same as in
the days gone by, and it apparently did
not matter much to either one of them
whether they We're ever friends again
or not. But, be that as it may, they,
with other friends, were sitting where
stories were being told and the booze
was being passed frequently.
One of the two had been opening the
bottle too much for his own good, and
when he came to say something it re-
flected to a great extent on his erst-
while boon companion, and the latter
Immediately demonstrated. Well, this
remonstrance was such as to permit
one to draw a conclusion, and that con-
clusiOn was that the truth was being
tempered with. 1t aroused the nara
tors ire.
Sir. do you mean to insult me?' was
the naughty query. DO you mean to
intimate that 1 am a liar, sir, q liar, do
you understand" The other fellow
paused for a moment, then said:
No, l am too much of a gentleman to
use such a vulgar term. but really my
dear fellow, L would like to be so con-
versant with the English language, and
so intimate with truth, that l might
be able to take such lawful liberties as
you have been doing" and the other
fellow is wondering yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
TO AMUSE IHE PASSENGERS.
The New Ship Deutschland to Have
a Playroom and Gymnasium.
(New York World.)


Another great ocean greyhound will
early in the coming year make her
maiden voyage between the old and the
new world. She is now being con-
structed by the Vulcan Shipbuilding
company of Stettin, Germany, for the
Hamburg-American line. She has been
named the Deutschland. She will be
of 10000 tons burden, have a length of
SIS feet, a width of 67 feet and a depth
of ~ feet. Her two engines will develop
to attain an average speed of twenty
three and one-half knots per hour It
was originally the intention of the
Hamburg company to make
her the largest ship afloat, 4 distinction
which now belongs to the new White
Star monster, the Oceanic but it was
found that it would not be possible to
build so large a ship as was contem-
plated and have it ready for service
during exposition year.
The Deutschland will have a number
of new features. These will include a
large playroom for children and a we'll
appointed gymnasium. in which pas
sengers may find recreation and relaxa-
ton from the routine of lie aboard
shin. Another novel feature will be
grillroom on the promenade deck, where
one may have a broiled chop or steak
as nicely cooked and properly served
as in any hotel or restaurant in New
York. The dining saloon, ladies' parlor
and smoking room will be unusually
capacious and will be furnished with
elegance. The ship will be provided
with bilge keels, which are great factors
in modifying the motion of a vessel and
preventing seasickness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
MR.. SHERMAN'S SCRAPBoOKs.
He Has Kept All Newspaper Articles
About Himself For Forty Years.
(yVaebin o~ton after

Tt may not be generally known that
Mr. Sherman has the largest collection
of newspaper personal clippings that
any public man in this country pos
sesses. He has scrapbooks that run
back between thirty and forty years
It has been characteristic of him to
save everything said concerning him,
and these scraps have been carefully
pasted in uniform books. The eX-sec-
rotary is one of the best patrons of the
newspaper clipping bureaus. Before
such agencies were established to gath
er from newspapers the comments on
public men and their acts, Mr.. Sherman
had his own system of collection. He
has never excluded the articles of I'M
friendly character. In fact, he seems
to take the greater interest. if possible,
in the unfavorable criticisms published
upon him. He had done one thing that
probably no other public man can du-
plicate In Mr.. Sherrnan's library are
numerous books filled with newspaper
pictures of himself And these pictures
include the cartoons by the hundreds,
which have appeared in daily and
weekly papers, going back to the great
controversy over resumption of specie
payments. Many of the pictures of Mr..
Sherman thus preserved would never
be identified as such without the labels.
Aside from personal interest, these pic
ture books illustrate in an interesting
manner the great progress made in the
art of newspaper portraiture. Mr..
Sherman's collection of newspaper
scraps about himself was great before
he went on this trip to the West In
dies. Now he will add to that collec-
ton a very notable supplement, COM
posed of the obituary notices eulogiStic
in varying degrees.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
HOW WE ENTERED SAMOA

A correspondent wants to know how
in the world the United States got
mixed up in this Samoan affair in the
first place"
To make a long story short, Ger
man by the name of Steinberger in
duced President Grant to investigate
the islands in the interest of national
trade This was in 1872. Grant ap-
pointed Steinberger a special agent to
view the land and make report to
the United States government The
German adventurer went and began to
exercise diplomatic functions immedi-
ately upon his arrival at Apia. But
the American consul soon got tired of
him and disputed his authority. Stein
berger then sought TO stir up trouble
between the Samoan chiefs. In 1877
this reached a climax, and delegations
OF Samoans We're sent out to invoke
the powers to establish peaceful rela-
tions on the islands. One party went
to Washington to make treaty with
this country. another party went to
England on like errand, and still an
other went to Germany.
4 three cornered proteetorate was the
result. each country having obtained
the grant Of harbor in consideration
for a promise to use its mediation in
case of trouble with any other power.
Grants agent" had succeeded in
making some sort of bargain with the
ruling tribe in the name of the United
States, which he turned over to Ger
man traders after his rebuff by the
American consul. The natives We're
not disposed to recognize the transfer,
and so, in 1885, DR.. Stuebel, the Ger
man consul general. professed to have
a grievance against the Samoans, and
seized all the territory Of Apia as Sc
curity for good behavior
Our consul ran up the stars and
stripes and proclaimed a protectorate.
y conference of the powers was under
taken, but it failed. Then followed
war between the Germans and the ma
tives in 1887. Then the three powers
got together, made a tripartite treaty
and set up an autonomous government.
This is how we got into it. 1t seems
much more difficult to get out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
WHAT is IMPROPER.

Our morning contemporary excused
and defended in 1895 that which the
News would look upon as an unwar-
ranted interference with political af-
fairs.
The Herald remarked recently that
members of the dominant church in
Utah were never freer from ecclesiasti-
cal interference and dictation in poll
tics than right now under Presi-
dent Lorenzo Snow And this we be
lieve to be the secret of our neighbor's
change of front since 1895.
Our morning contemporary has con-
doned conduct which the News would
regard as improper. The News of last
evening contains the following PARA
graph:
IL voter was commanded to cast
his ballot for some person or measure
TO which he was personally opposed. or
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
Contrary to His System.


A local real estate man was a good
deal astonished the other day by a
colored applicant for a house. The col
ored man wanted to rent the house
Where do you live now?" inquired
the real estate man.
The applicant told him.
And why do you wish to move?'
queried the cautious agent
I'll tell you" said the colored man.
It's on account of our boy. You see,
there are too many children in the
neighborhood, and we find that we can't
keep the boy entirely away from them.
we find, too, that he is learning to
speak English, and can say several
words of the language already"
But don't you want him to learn to
speak English?" inquired the agent.
"All in good time" said the colored
man. AT present it is contrary to our
system
But what does he speak,"
Exclusively French and German
And how old is hep"
Just thirty-two months"
The real estate man looked dazed.
When we get him well grounded IL
the more polite languages" said the
colOred man, I'VE will let him have a
thorough course in English-but it will
be long time first. In the meantime,
however, we find that constant aSS0cia-
ton with the small boys and girls of
the neighborhood has been giving him
some inkling into the English tongue.
He has actually learned to say damn"
And we must move"
I see" said the real estate man;
but I'm a good deal afraid the neigh
borhood where this house of mine is
situated is just as full of children as
the one you are quitting-and my i'm
preston is that they all talk English"
SO the father of the infant Dhenom-
enon went away disappointed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19

Last Sunday morning The Herald
printed the story of the Pelican Point
murder mystery from the beginning up
to date. 1t printed the story as a mat
ter of course, and didn't go into double
loaded ecstacy over the fact, and call
attention to it as "a wonderful sensa-
ton" There was no sensation about
it. People have been discussing it for
some time. The board of pardons was
expected TO take it UP next day. And
so The Herald printed a complete his
tory of the affair, together with a clear
and fun synopsis of the new evidence
unearthed by Sheriff Storrs. Either
that day or the next the Tribune came
out with the legal documents in the
case covering a period of three wears,
and a striking likeness of a two-horse
wagon. to which it called attention in
a vociferous editorial, and pronounced
it "a fascinating romance" Our neigh
Dor fairly patted itself on the back and
shouted itself hoarse over doing what
other newspapers do every day without
thinking anything about it. mo greater
sensation has been sprung for many
months than the Tribune presents in
this matter this morning" it exclaimed,
apparently as we'll satisfied with itself
as when it published lot of June fig
ures on New Years day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
uTAH'S STEADY ADVANCE.

Whether times are really better in
other parts OF the country or not, they
are certainly improving in all the in
termountain states.
This Improvement is so noticeable
thai many speak of it as. a "boom. -
This is the case in Utah. There is an
activity in mining circles unparalleled
in the history of the state. Other de-
partments of industry have caught the
spirit. the real estate market is iivening
up, the mercantile outlook is conse-
quently nattering. every indication
points to a great harvest, the water
supply has not been So good for many
years. the ranges have an abundance
of moisture. and there is every reason
to believe that Utah win have a year
Of unalloyed prosperity.
But it isn't a boom. The advancement
is TOO steady and substantial for that
1t is the natural and healthy growth
of a great commonwealth whose fertile
and extensive valleys and metal-laden
hills insure for it Increasing wealth
and permanent prosperity.
Capital is headed westward. The field
is most inviting here in Utah. Invest
ors may hesitate while because of the
croakers and their efforts to paint the
state den of infamy. where laws are
unobserved and the courts powerless.
But it viii not be for long. When men
looking for homes and for business in
vestments find out that they are as
safe in Utah as in any state of the
est, that rights are as much respected.
and that the mossbacks of the old fight
are not nearly so dangerous as they
make each other ont TO be, then a
healthy influx OF people and capital will
begin commensurate with the openings
and opportunities the state presents.
Nothing can impede the progress of
Utah now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
TRADE I'm SOUTH AFRICA.

The Herald referred the other day to
a recent dispatch from Cape Town TO a
New York evening paper concerning the
growth Of American trade in South
Africa.
An error in the types made it read
"cape Horn" and this affords our
pedantic and hypereritical morning
contemporary a chance to show of its
African erudition. But, as a western
Journalist once remarked. an editor who
spends his time looking for typograph-
zeal mistakes in the columns of an ex-
change bears the same relation to jour
nalism that a louise hunting Piute bears
TO ornithology.
Had our neighbor been content to
merely crack the result Of its invesuga-
lions as a joke and let it go at that, it
would appear to better advantage
than IL does. For it denies that Amer
lean steamers. or steamers controlled
by American shippers, which amounts
TO the same thing, have to travel far
Their from New York TO South Africa
than the steamers from England, and
still that freight is Is per cent less than
from London"
Yet The dispatch from Cape Town
asserted such to be the case, and Sir
Robert Gifin, in a paper read some
lime ago before the Royal Colonial in
stitute. in London. stated that Amer
lean merchants were crowding the
british out Of South Africa by cheaper
production and cheaper freight rates
from New York than were given from
London Notwithstanding the fact that
American vessels have the greater dis
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
AMERICAN CAPTIVES.

War with the Filipinos is not yet
over. Encouraged by the capture of
fifteen marines from the Yorktown yes
terday, the natives will doubtless be
more insolent and persistent than ever
1t is the first capture of any Amer
leans since the beginning Of the con-
hict. and no one can conjecture how
the insurgents win treat their prison.
ers. If they offer the marines any in
dignities or butcher them in cold blood
as they have slain Spanish prisoners
or as the Samoans did the American
and British marines the other day, it
may be long time before Aguinaldo
has chance TO sue for peace.
il is one thing for soldiers to fall in
battle and quite another for them to
be subjected 10 torture and the savage
treatment of a half-civilized enemy.
The pathetic part of the occurrence is
the fact that the captured sailors We're
on an errand of mercy rather than Of
Bloodshed, for they were attempting to
suecor a Spanish garrison of eighty-tive
men which had been besieged for many
months. when the natives surrounded
and made them prisoners. And it is
particularly unfortunate that this
should have happened just as a Filipino
civil commission was negotiating with
the American commission for a cessa-
ton of hostilities and an agreement for
peace.
I. may interfere with this arrange
rnent or it may hasten its consumma-
lion. But, in any event. no stone should
be left unturned 10 recover the Unfor-
tunate sailors from their uncertain and
semi-eivilized captors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
Frank Advice.

Some of the French cures. or parish
clergymen, are in the habit of giving
very frank advice to those who come
to be married One of these clerics thus
addressed the bride and bridegroom:
1T is from the bottom of my heart,
Joseph, that 1 congratulate you upon
the great step you are taking. 1t was,
indeed, sad to see you wasting your
youth in a. life of disgusting drunken
ness. However, alrs well that ends
well; and it pleases me to think that
you have said goodbye forever to the
wineshOD.
AS to you, my poor Catherine, thank
heaven heartily that you may have
been able, ugly as you are, to find a
husband. Never forget that you ought,
by an Interchangeable sweetness and a
devotion without bounds, to try to OBJ
tain pardon for your physical imperfec-
ton, for, repeat. you are a real blum
der of nature. And now, my dear chill
dren, l join you in the holy bonds Of
matrimony."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
THE OLD GARDEN.


MARY Clarke Huntington in New Eng
land Magazne.)
This is the garden where grandmamma
Grandmamma, witching and dark and
This is the garden where she sat and
Meath rose vine arbor beside the wall,
While somebody's horse at the garden
Weighed Impotence of somebody's wait.
Here is the spot where the heartsease
And bachelors buttons there were set.
With larkSpur-crimson and white and
blue.
And fragrant patches of mignonette.
Youder were lilies, coXcomb red,
And velvety pansies, bed on bed!
In dress of muslin as white as snow
With the briefest waist and the scantest
skirt,
She chatted with gallant powdered beaux-
For grandmamma was an arrant flirtl
! know by the letters have read
Letters from lovers she would not wed.
For one she scorned, and at one she
laughed.
And one bachelors button gave.
And coxcomb handed TO one who quaffed
Her smile till he vowed himself her
And then she would send them all away,
And walk by herself in the dying day.
But somebody came-as somebody WILL
When Youth and Beauty are still I'M
we'd
And grandmamma's saucy laugh was still
When this tall somebody bent his head
To her lesser height, as they slowly
Tween stif box borders. or sat and
talked;
Sat and talked while the cleaning fell,
And whinnies sounded beside the gate
For wnen young Love has a tale TO tell
Then somebody's horse Derforce must
And a heartsease sprig on somebody
She pipned-but I will not tell the rest.
Rose petals drop on my head today,
As they dropped on those lovers heads
of yore;
And down the path. where the shadows
play.
+ I fancy coming from open door
Grandmamma-such a charming bride!
With courtly Grandpapa at her side.
Tho dead those lovers of long ago.
Dead tender bridegroom and winsome
bride.
The gardens story will live. / trow.
Like scent of roses that grandmamma
dried
A subtle sweetness. a rare perfume,
A bud of Already burst in bloom.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
A Query For Him.
New York World.)


He had discussed learnedly, if some
what wealyingly, to his friend on the
influence of food upon character.
Tell me-" said he, in summing up
tell me what man eats and 1 will tel
you what he is.
His friend, though fatigued, was evil
IDENTIFY interested.
There is only one question 1 wish tc
ask you" he said.
Ask it," replied the discourser mag
unanimously, with an air that said very
clearly: Give me a hard one while
you are at it, and I'll show you how
smart l am
1T is this" replied the fatigued
friend. How much sage tea would you
have to drink to make wise man Oh
yourself?'
No answer being promptly forthcom-
ing, the conference broke up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
Must Have Lied.

James Russell Lowell used to tell the
in Chicago had great deal to say of
his travels in Europe. Lowell remarked
that Georges SAND was one of his fav-
orite authors. This reference to the
great Frenchwoman called forth a
characteristic rejoinder. "Oh, yes!" ex-
claimed the representative of Chicago
culture. Il have had many a happy
hour with Sand You know Georges
Sand, them" asked Lowell. with an ex-
preston of surprise. Knew him? Well
1 should rather say I did" cried the
Chicago man, and then he added, as Il
clincher: Il roomed with him in Paris.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
ADJUSTMENTS.

The moving picture" exhibition was
repeated at the Salt Lake theatre last
night to an appreciative audience. To-
night closes the engag cement.
@ g g
A good advance sale is reported fol-
the Roland Reed engagement at the
Theatre, and for Isl Perkins at the
Grand, Thursday evening.
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An interesting recital was given last
evening by the Flanders Amateurs at
the Ladies' Literary club house. a linn
tied number of Miss Flanders pupils
appeared on the programme, and as US
ual delighted their friends by the excel
lence of their renditions. A pleasant
variation to the instrumental numbers
was a duet called THE Angel" sung by
Mrs. Kenneth Kerr and Miss Alton
Young.
O o @
The Devils Auction is announced
for one night at the Salt Lake theatre,
next Monday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah, April is, 1899.
Maximum temperature. 65 degrees; mini
mum temperature, 3S degrees; mean tenn
perature, 50 degrees. which is degrees
above the normal; accumulated excess of
temperature since first of month, 50 de-
grees; accumulated excess OF tempera-
ture since Jan. !. 12O degrees; total pre-
cipltation from p. m. to p. m. OF
inch; accumulated deficiency Of precipi-
tation since first of month sc inch; ac-
cumulated excess Of precipitation since
Jan. ], LA inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19

threatened with any pains or penalties
for the free exercise of his own iudg-
ment, or exposed to any disabilities on
account of his difference in politics with
leading church authorities. there
might be some ground for objection
and for structures against ecclesiastical
influence in political affairs. But in
their entire absence, the cry that is
raised is as absurd as it is gronndless
and false"
This is not the practice today. in spite
of the Storm Starters howl.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
Women Will Wear Ascots Again
New York JournalN

A new bit of neckwear consists of a
soft silk stock tied in front with two
bows, one beneath the other. Each bow is
made with loops and ends and is fastened
in the center with a tiny jeweled buckle
With shirt waists, plaid ginSham rows
and Ascots will be worn and short puff
ties of silk-fiinish cheviot. as we as the
taffeta bows with very long ends
Among the new stocks to wea.. with
elaborate gowns are those o. wired lace.
the designs picked out with bits of coral
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
An International Exhibit In Vienna.


The Oesterrischische Leo Gesellschaft,
or Austrian Leo association, with its seat
in Vienna, opens in 1900 an international
exhibition of all objects exclusively sacer-
dotal in architecture. sculpture. painting,
decoration, metal and textile industry. A
series of lectures and conferences will also
be held appertaining to sacerdotal art and
art industry. Would-be exhibitors. 1 see
by the Vienna papers, DESTROYS of further
information are requested to apply until
May 10 of the present year to Die Kanzlei
der Leo Gesellschaft l. Bezirk, Anna
gasse O. Vienna
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19

What is the number of vessels of
all kinds belonging to the United
States?" asks a correspondent. Of
sailing vessels we have 12,259, with a
tonnage of 1,S29. 4S7; steam vessels.
6,5S9, with tonnage of 2,S53,9OO; be-
sides which there are boats and barges
listed to the number of 2097S.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19
Broncho Bob's Opinion
washington Evening starA

Washington Evening Starr
1 might of made it story
To work in my dialect:
But it isn't the style that is most wutt
while,
But the moral. as / suspect.
An I've Tarnt among the Injuns,
Whar my comrades have bit the dust,
The heather despised may lie civilized,
Rut ~ prudent 10 lick em fust.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-19

And now the cruisers Marblehead and
Newark are to be added to Rear Ad-
miraI Kautzs command at Samoa. A
few more shells will be dropped among
the naked islanders in the name of
humanity