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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
ISSUES FAIRLY JOINED.

TT is a foregone conclusion" says the
New York Sgn, that in the election OF
1900 the Democratic party will not sus-
tain the gold standard. Not even the
most sanguine gold Democrat has the
least expectation that the Democratic
party will be for gold"
Therefore it urges all Democrats who
left the party in 1896 to ally themselves
for once and all with the Republican
party-"the only organization that is
irrevocably and unecuivocally pledged
to the maintenance of the Single gold
standard" This is in line with the dec
laration of all Republican newspapers
of national standing. They claim that
a gold man has no more business in the
Democratic party than a silver man
has right in the Republican party.
But there are a great many Demo-
cratic boilers of 1896 who are heartily
sick of their change, says an eastern
contemporary. They are more opposed
to trusts, scandals. spoils-p eddling,
wars Of conquest and broken pledges
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT.

The officers of the Grand Army for
Utah have been earnestly working up
interest, not only in this state, but in
all the western states, in securing the
national encampment in 1900 for Utah.
With tho support and material assist
ance of the railroads and the business
men of the state they may succeed.
Without this they cannot hope for sue
cess.
The bringing of $4,000 visitors to re-
main here a week would be a benefit
of such magnitude that it is difficult to
measure it.
The national encamDment meets in
Philadelphia Sept. and fixes the place
of the next meeting. There is no time
to lose if the claims and advantages
we have are to be presented properly
in Philadelphia The reception to the
returning volunteers is laudable and
proper. That is patriotism. The pro-
ject of bringing the encampment here
is a business investment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
BUILDING A GREAT NAVY.

AS the Emperor of Germany remark
will be upon the seas. The warlike
power of a nation nowadays depends
upon the size and strength of fits sea
power. We have an excellent navy
now. There is a large one in process
of construction. Forty eight vessels
are in the different stages of building
Eight of these are first-class battle
ships. The Kentucky and the Kear-
sarge were authorized in 1895 and are
nearly completed; the Alabama, Wis
consin and Illinois were authorized in
1896; the Maine, Ohio and Missouri
We're ordered last year and will not be
finished for three or four years. Each
of these battleships will be larger than
the Iowa, the present giant of the navy.
The four Observation-Disclosures, Con-
necticut, Florida and Wyoming-are to
have a displacement of 300 tons each.
Each will carry two Pinch guns and
four 4-inch guns. The eight battleships
will carry, all told, twenty 13-inch
guns, twelve 12-inch guns, twenty eight
5-inch and ninety 6-inch guns, to say
nothing of the lighter guns in the sec
ondary batteries.
Here are twelve new vessels to be
added to the navy within the next four
years, having an aggregate displace-
ment of 1O6, 525 tons, carrying 164 heavy
guns, all improved for rapid fire and
smokeless powder. The 12-inch guns
carried by the Maine Ohio and Missou-
ri will be of great length and will have
a muzzle energy of $4,000 foot tons, as
against the 1885 foot tons of the T.
inch guns of the Iowa. The rapid-fire
6-inch guns will have 5000 foot tons
energy, as against the 3,204 foot tons of
the 6-inch guns now in use. The new
guns will have a muzzle energy of
nearly 100 per cent more than the old
armament.
There are cruisers, protected and I'M |
protected. dynamite ships, torpedo /
boats and destroyers, making a grand |
total of forty-eight additional vessels !
for the navy. Measured by tonnage. |
and speed, the navy in |
is stronger than our navy
now afioat. as a sea power. the United |
States will soon take second place
unless expensive blunders prevent the
of tie plans already rat
flied.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
The Missouri.

Cameron Mann, in the Century,
Between low Drinks of ragged clay
The rapid river takes its way
Its heavy. tawny waters flow
AS if their road they did not know;
Swirl off in loops. spread out in lakes.
Whose sandy shoals trail sluggish wakes
They gnaw away the tumbling banks,
Now down their leafy willow ranks;
They dwindle. till the dust blows round
Where fishes swan and men Were
drowned.
Then flood the bottoms miles away.
Fence. barn and house their scattered
prey;
But vet. far back, the hills remain,
Which all their wanderlings restrain.
O mighty river. we may see
our new democracy in thee
No Rhine art thou. by cliffs beset
With castles on each parapet;
No Thames, of placid, even tide
With grass lawns edging either side;
But strong. and turbid. and perplexed.
By frequent whirls and eddies vexed-
At times an overwhelming fall
OF brute destruction-yet through all
where once swept by floods.
And so we know. whate'er thy force,
Gods hills will hold thee to his course.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
IMPERIALISM AT HOME.

Men who protest against the launch
ing Of ship of state upon sea OF
conquest, who feel that the safety of
This republic is imperiled by such a pol
Icy, who consider it their duty to sound
q note OF warning before the slave
driver craftsmanship of Mark Hanna,
involves the nation in complications
that future generations may have to
unravel-such men are the daily tar
gets of the subsidized press in this
country.
They are called traitors because they
hold their country above the scandal
infested administration unfortunately
at its head. They are compared to the
Tories of Revolutionary days, and by
newspapers, too, that have likened
Aguinaldo to Washington and held his
cause more sacred and sublime than
the cause of independence for which
our forefathers of the American Revo-
luton fought.
Men who believe that we ought to
stick to our solemn and official pledges
to wage no wars of conquest, who feel
that the present war in the Philippines
was brought on, as the Tribune has
tersely put it. by INDIGESTION and a lack
of common sense on the part of those
in authority; men who are convinced
that the Filipinos are suffering from
the mistakes of our own chief execu-
tive and from false hopes built up
within their hearts by American von-
suls and by American newspapers,
which described them as the principals
and our troops as their allies in the
Spanish war of the Philippines; men
who sense these conditions and the i'm
pressions they must have made on the
insurgents, want 10 know why some
concessions have not been made by this
great power to the wretched natives,
whom we found struggling for their in
dependence. as the Tribune has re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
UNIVERSAL PEACE AND HEROES

So long as heroes of the battlefield
are adulated and glorified, by tongue
and pen, in press and pulpit, war will
not be banished from the earth. 1t is
the laudable ambition of every boy to
be hero. He looks about him for
models. He listens to learn whom the
world applauds. He sees the plume of
the great general nodding and waving
above the heads of other men. He sees
the CLEAN of the sword and the CLINT
of the bayonet outshining all the
modest deeds of the hero in every day
affairs. 1t has been so in all times past.
Even now in the meridian of a Chris
tan era, when the world is filled with
peace-prOfessing people, the martial
sounds of war, the thrill of the trumpet
call, the tread Of the soldier, the rum
BILE Of the cannon wheels upon the stony
street, the sharp command, the me
chanical evolution of troops are more
seductive than any other customary
sights or sounds.
Young and old feel the blood leaping
with excitement through the veins at
the roll and rattle of the drum; they
elbow each other in securing a place to
witness the march of the military; men
and women admire alike the prancing
steeds. the glittering steel, the uni
forms, the men of war. Even peace
loving, strife-abhoring women hasten
to buckle the corselet'' upon the SOL
der brave and strong.
Is it any wonder he is proud of his
L.
If he enlist for a purpose specified? Is
it any wonder those who remain be-
hind contemplate his glory with
mingled emotions Of envy and admira-
ton? Is it any wonder then that war
fingers by her pennons, reluctant to
quit a field where applause is always
certain and where the most conspicuous
honors have been Won?
1t is this tendency of the world that
prevents the establishment of universal
peace more than the feuds and ambi-
lions of kings The war lord of
Europe, the emperor of Germany, was
reluctant about lending his sanction to
the International arbitration plan, not
because he fails to perceive the import
ance Of peace to his people but because
of his passion for military glory, his
delight in the pomp and circumstance
of glorious war" and the fact that he
IS able to impose upon this weakness
of humanity and preserve the adula-
ton of his countrymen by dazzling
their eyes with halo of military
grandeur.
But this weakness for military heroes
is one that we all possess. No matter
what may be its influence upon the
race or its consequences to the coun-
try. we glory in it. It is a weakness we
cultivate. 1t is an inspiration we i'm
part TO our children. And when the
heroes. who left Utah last
year to offer up their lives, Unnecessary,
for the sake and salvation of the
ignorant and oppressed. come marching
back to receive the heartfelt welcome
of those who babe them godspeed as
they went away, every string that
binds enthusiasm should be cut; every
lock Of reserve upon cordiality should !
be broken
They are heroes. We adore them. |
They are coming home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
Hullol
New York Weekly.)


When you see a man in woe. -,
Walk straight up and say, Hullo!
Say, "Hullor' and How dye do?
'.How's the world been using you!
Slap the fellow on his back.
Bring YOUR hand down with whack;
Waltz straight up and don't go slow,
Shake his hand and say, Hullo!
Is he clothed in rags? oh, no!
Walk straight up and say, Hullo.
Rags are but a cotton roll
Just for wrapping up soul;
And soul is worth true, 49,
Hale and hearty. How dye do?
Don wait for the crowd to go,
Walk straight up and say, "Hullo.
When big vessels meet. they say,
They salute and sail away;
lust the same as you and me,
Lonely ships upon the sea;
Each one sailing his own jog
For a port beyond the fog,
,et your speaking trumpet blow,
Lift your horn and cry, Hullo!
Saw 'sHullor' and How dye dog
other folks are good as you.
When YOU leave your house or clay,
Wandering in the far away;
When YOU travel in the strange
Country far beyond the range,
Then the souls you've cheered VIII Know
Who you be, and say, Huilo-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
Let These Things Be

Constance Farmer, in Chambers Jour-
nal)
Let these things be, Oh, Time. whate er
befall:
The memory of cornfieldS by the sea,
The tender evening light shed over all
Pale gold and gray-a sombre symphony,
And the weird music of the curfews call
Such sights and sounds as hold the soul in
thrall-
That other scene of SDringtime's mys-
terry. 80
The budding mays. fields prankt with
lilies tall.
Let these things be!
So. through LIES darkened chambers
may see
These old sweet pictures dimly on the
wall,
I shall not find the long, still evening pail.
Let hese things be!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
Snap -

More than any others who have attempt
ed that difficult feat, Sir Edwin Landseer
IN art and Rudyard kipling in the Jungle
stories have succeeded in making real to
us ordinary, unseeing. unappreviative hui
mans the comedy and tragedy of animal
life. But case of Dignity and Impu-
dence. as plain as Sir EdwinS famous
picture, a case in which the chief actor
was an Indian adjutant StOrk-that I'M
beautiful, but interesting bird which fig
ureS so wildly in kipling'S tale of the
"Undertakers lis reported from actual
life by Mr.. c. J. Cornish. The adjutant.
like his fellow storks of Europe has a
fancy for perching on the towers and pin
nacleS of lofty buildings.
In one town. says Mr.. Cornish. it
was noticed that an adjutant always sat
on the top OF a native college. An Eng
hshman, who was engaged in examining
another part of the roof, noticed that d
single brick had been laid on the parapet,
and that the adjutant. anxious to gain a
couple of inches in altitude. was standing
on this brick-poised. according 10 Gus
tom. on one leg.
"A crow slipped up behind and pulled
the storks tail, upSetting it twice from its
post. As it approached to do this a third
time. the adjutant caught sight of II,
darted down its enormous beak. caught
the crow and swallowed him whole After
which. with a tOuch-me-not expression, II
reoccupied its brick pedestal"
Was ever comedy more unmistakable. or
retributive tragedy more overwhelming?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
The Angelus.

margaret FIGHTER. in Donahoe's.)
Lo. as a taper set beside the bier of day,
One single star its vigil keeps on yonder
hight,
Whence sable slippered dusk. with
noiseIess tread and light,
Steals down across the dewy lawn and
rose lined way.
Unto the old church there, and nunlike
kneels to pray
Before the altar place; soft breasted
doves and white
Look out the belfry crevices upon the
night.
That comes apace. and swift winged
swallows. circling. play
About the caves; within their stalls the
sweet breathed kline.
Their milky store all yielded, rest, and
the tired swain
Wends homeward now thro' hedged lanes
and odorous:
While Ger the fields. like a master chord
of peace divine
To close days Earring song Of WEAKNESS
and pain.
In blessed benediction falls the Angelus
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
that with the same propriety dry goods

that with the same propriety dry goods
stores and millinery establishments
might use a bell to draw trade. WIZ,
bless your soul. that is just the idea.
The church bell stands in the nature
of an advertisement. The dry goods
stores and millinery establishments
have recourse to the daily papers, in
which to proclaim their wares, while
the church people, more modest, and
knowing. the proneness of the average
citizen to sleep late on Sunday morn
ing. employ the church bell to adver-
tise their services. If you want to sue
coed in business, advertise-make
noise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
Senator Jones Hot Retort.


You can't help liking Senator Nevada"
Jones, who is spending his summer at the
Hoffman house. 1t Is refreshing to find
some one in public Office in Washington
who actually believes in something. and
believes in il with his whole heart and
soul. Besides. there are more pith and
color and original suggestion in one Of the
silver senator's chance conversations than
there are in any half dozen average con-
gressiOnal speeches boiled down.
Senator Jones holds the gold monometal-
lists in great contempt. He defines them
in the same way that Joe ChOate defined
the Mugwumps. as persons educated be-
yond their intellect"
He was talking with Senator EdmundS
one day, and was exploiting his theories
with his usual enthusiasm, when the icy
Vermonter interrupted him with a sneer-
ing query:
Whom are you going to get to take
your silver money after you issue it2'
The hot-bloOded Welshman bridled up.
You would take it for one he re-
sponded with equal disdain, or else you
would have to tramp for d living
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
HAn Emntv Wagon y

An Alabama exchange gives this story
of former governor, George 3 Houston.
a Distinguished man in the public life of
the state He had an appointment TO de-
liver a speech, and had to drive "A long
distance into the country. When he
reached the farmhouse where he was 10
have dinner Houston was sick. His COM
paniOn had "A ravenous appetite
MIR. Houston" said the housewife. with
some Indignation II see you are not eat
ing much / know the dinner isn't much.
but ii is the best l could get up I'm sorry
YOU don't appreciate the dinner
MY good woman. the dinner IS perfect
but | am ILL., In addition to that, have 10
make a speech Immediately. and can
speak well after eating freely.
Yes responded the. woman, with
shirt Its Just like this: An empty
wagon makes the loudest roise." Houston
was silent. The other man ate raven
ously.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
POEMS WORTH READING.
The Automobile.

Frank Swain Bailey in Puck.)
How does 1t go, If l may ask?"
Said Margaret the maid.
I'll show you now, Ill show you now"
The gallant driver said.
1t needs no horse 10 draw it
II pushes itself, you know:
This lever here-it starts and stops
And runs il fast or slow:
This wheel is what you steer 1t with
Wherever you want to go
It just the thing TO ride in
OF a morning."
TT takes knack to run it,"
Said Margaret the maid.
"A little knack. a little knack,
The modest driver said.
You have to use both hands, guess?"
1 have no hands TO spare"
You have TO have a watchful eye"
Indeed, watchful pairi'
Il m not much taken with it,
Said Margaret the fair;
IT'S not the thing TO ride in
OF an evening"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
Cured Him.
detroit Free Press.)

Detroit Free -PresS.)
There used TO be the greatest hypocon-
driac in Detroit" remarked an old mer-
chant OF the city as he pointed out a re-
tired lumberman.
Why. he looks the picture of health"
SO ne is Tough as a pine knot. Ought
10 live to be 100. But when We were
younger he was always grunting. He
thought he had everything from govt to
sahoping consumption. and never ex-
pected 10 live the year out. He averaged
quart OF medicine day TO say nothing
OF external applications"
What cured him.
i did. He growled so much that IL al
ways gave me the blue devils to meet
MN. one day ne was telling me the old
story or how his days were numbered and
now ne had complications enough TO kill
an alllgator in twenty-four hours Jim
sstld i, you make me tired. You're Just
ABOUT as pleasant company as a skull and
ana cross bones. There's nothing on
earth the matter with you. Give me s.. 90
a year while you live and I'll insure you
for $4,000, and secure payment"
Did ne take you?"
Jumped at 1t. Insisted on paving 81 90
down so as to make ii more binding From
that minute he began to get strong and
take on flesh. He was worrying about
the money was getting instead of about
nlmsen, don I YOU see? l caught him
I'VE years running, and since that he
dodSes- Never speaks and never sees me.
Rates me, suppose. I'd refund. but he'd
De sure TO have relapse" and the old
merchant not only chuckled but winked.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
Pockets and Sentiment.
philadelphia Inquirer.)


''Marrier or unmarried" asked the
measurer of a Walnut street tailoring es-
tablishment of a customer, yesterday
afternoon. just the The Saunterer CHANGED
to stroll into the place.
Unmarried replied the young man.
with a blush.
Inside pocket on the left side. then"
observed the tailor. as if talking 10 HIM
self. while in the memorandum book on
the counter he made note to that ef-
feet
After the young man had departed. The
Saunterer could not refrain from the
query:
What difference does his being single
make in his inside vest pockets
All. my dear sir" observed the knight
of the thread and needle, with bland
smile. ali the difference in the world.
Being unmarried. he. of course. wants the
pocket on the left side so as to bring his
sweetheart's picture over his heart
But doesn't a married man want his
wife's picture In the same place, in
quired the scribe.
We'll. there may have been an instance
of that kind replied the tailor. in a
doubtfully hesitant tone of voice but 1
must confess that such a one never came
under my observation"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
The Man Behind the Checks.
Boston GIobe.)


When YOU see the summer army
Setting out on it's campaign,
Mothers, sisters. wives and daughters
All determined TO attain
To some coy "coign of vantage
Where Old Sol no more snail VeX,
Do YOU ever give thought 10
The brave man behind the checks!
When YOU read of beauty's sortie
Into fashions cold domain,
Armed cap-a-pie correctly,
II means money-that is plain;
But do you who read or they VINO
See how beauty now bedecks
Herself e'er stop to pity
The poor man behind the checKs!
When YOU hear OF an engagement
'Twixt a pretty Yankee girl
And a titled foreign beggar-
Count or baron. prince or ea--
Can YOU quite forget in dwelling
on the little she'll annex.
With it's barren. empty honor.
Her poor pa behind the checks!
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The Influence of Prejudice.
New York Times.

The doctor, like many doctors, is an
inveterate smoker. This is q great an
noyance TO one of his best patients She
likes the doctor. but that annoying habit
of his is great trial to her. Her case, it
may be incidentally remarked. is one
which possibly could be best cured by one
of those scientists who treat by means OF
faith. Faith had been doing its perfect
work for some time; perhaps any way.
she had not seen the doctor for many
months. but she was i'll again and sent
for him. The doctor came. of course, and
the patient was glad 10 see him, but she
was prepared for her usual trial upon the
occa sion of his visits.
oh doctor" she exclaimed. as he came
in. with the long-drawn sigh of one who
bears much. that dreadful cigar,
The doctor was a big. bluff, hearty man,
and he laughed big. bluff, hearty laugh
at that as he answered:
Madam, 1 haven't smoked for over
year.
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A Great Dream Book.
Chicago Times-Herald..

tChlcaSo IlmeS-deralu-'
He wrote a book and sent copy
To one whom he adored:
He put these words upon the hy-leaf:
Il pray il may afford
You such sweet pleasure in the reading
AS il has give me
The while l wrote il, dreaming-dream
ing
Shall L confess?-of theer'
In time he got the maiden's answer:
Thanks for your book" she said:
And still it is unread.
Each day when l loli in my hammock
l have your book with me
You wrote il dreaming. and in reading
J. too, have dreams" said she.
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Bereaved.
(James Whjtcomb Riley !

Games NnitcomD Riley.)
Let me come in where you sit weeping
aye
Let me. who have not any child to die,
Weep with you for the little one whose
love
1 have know nothing Of
The little, arms that slowly. slowly
looSed
Their pressure round your neck-the
hands you used
To kiss. Such arms, such hands never
knew
May 1 not weep with you?
Fain would I be of service-say some
thing
Between the tears that would be COM
forting,
But ah. so sadder than yourselves am 1.
Who have no child to die
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau

sat AdAS lily, = IAN, aug. ~ 1857
Maximum temperature, 81 degrees; min
imum temperature. 20 degrees; mean tenn
perature n degrees which is l degree
above the normal accumulated deficiency
OF temperature since list Of the month, 70
degrees; accumulated deficiency of tenn
perature since Jan. l, ia degrees; total
precipitation from p. m. TO p. m, trace;
accumulated excess of precipitation since
1st of the month. 50 inch; accumulated
excess of precipitation since Jan. !, 2-So
inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13

Maybe those milk dealers who "em-
balm" their product with salicylic acid,
believe Ayers beef expert who said the
salicylates were really beneficial and
attributed to it the success of the Am
erican soldier in Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13

We advise the batterymen in San
Francisco to diet for about three days
before they come home. They'll need
the room when they get here.