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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-24
WINDING AN OLD CLOCK.

THE human body" said DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, lis a seventy year
clock. The Creator winds it up once,
when we are born, and then delivers
the key into the hands of the Angel Of
the Resurrection.
Yes, but they do not all run seventy
years It depends largely on how they
are treated. Take the pendulum weight
off the end of the wire, and your
clock win rattle away at the rate Of
half dozen hours in one. Neglect it
and it will run irregularly; now fast,
now slow. Break the handspring or
wheel, and it stops instantly. Take in
tclligent care of it. and a good clock
will serve your grandchildren as faith
fully as it now serves you.
There is an important difference,
however. between your clock and your
body. Even after the clock is compile
tely run down, and at standstill, you
can wind 1t up and set it going again
Not so with the body. Once stopped it
goes no more.
It follows that if Mr.. Orrin w. Fiske
had been completely run down at
the time ne refers to | should not now
be writing Of him as a living man. On
q certain occasion a few years since he
sat for five weeks continuously in a
rocking chair unable to lie down. At
that time he was nearly crushed with a
combination of complaints-infiuenz
bronchitis and organic kidney disease.
For a less cause than this many human
clocks have run down altogether and
stopped dead. An analysis showed Mr..
Fiske's renal affection to be true
Bright's disease: a condition which
even the best physicians treat as of
professional necessity; without eX-
the final stage of a series of VASCULAR
degenerations which begins in partial
atrophy of the liver and ends in death.
plain and again it dashes to q conclu-
IL,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-24

Many are signing the petition for an
extension Of the Quinsigamond line Of
the Consolidated or Greenwood street.
The petition is in Forsberg's dry goods
store In Greenwood street. A meeting
will DE held next Wednesday by those
interested when some definite steps
VIII be taken. This is the second time
an attempt has been made to extend
the lines.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-24

Presiding Elder Rev. John H. Mans
field of Boston will attend the quarter
ly conference to be held in Quinslga-
mond NJ. f. Church next Saturday eve
ming
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-24

Johan Lindahl of this city died at the
city hospital yesterday Of phthisis, aged
81 years. He was a member Of Ragnar
No. 10, Vasa Order of T. S. A. The
funeral will take place on Sunday ar
ternoon, the time and place as yet not
settled. This evening, at s O'Clock,
Ragnar lodge will meet at its hall, 9S
Front street, to take action on his
death.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
TRAIN ROBBERIES.

AS The Herald remarked yesterday,
the train robbing industry has had a
boom in Wyoming. The bandits. who
wrecked the express car near Wilcox
in that state are doubtless members Of
the gang that has infested southeast
ern Utah for years. Several have died
with their boots on, two or three are in
prison, and a price is upon the heads
of others. Sooner or later they will be
run down and the last one killed or
captured, for the people are getting
tired OF them.
The first train robbery to attract gen.
eral attention occurred about twenty
five years ago at Gad's Hill, on the
Iron Mountain road in Missouri But
in those days the robber went through
the passenger coaches with a mask
over his face, terrifying women and
bulldoZing men, who really had more
courage than they possessed, but who
were probably paralyzed with amaze
ment- The modern train-robber con-
fines his operations to the express car
and rarely kills any one but an en-
gineer or a messenger Nearly all of
the pioneers in the business are dead.
The James boys and Younger brothers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
USES MADE OF HEROES.

The world cannot afford to let go I'M
rewarded the man who dares to do. in
stantly and in danger. Instinctively it
rushes to honor the virile and thus in
sureS itself of virility. When the democ-
racy's volunteer comes home men give
him their votes and. women their love-
Portland Oregonian.
The Herald pointed out the other day
a list of heroes who have been rewarded
with public office 1t is certainly a
graceful recognition of heroism. 1t
speaks well for the American people
that their heroes are not forgotten. But
isn't it a fact that political parties take
up military geniuses and place their
names upon tickets more for the selfish
purpose of getting votes than for the
nobler object of expressing a patriotic
appreciation. Isn't it a fact that they
often try to utilize the glory of the war
rior for the furtherance of political
schemes? If heroes are nominated be-
cause of an especial fitness for the po-
sition, as was the case with Roosevelt
in New York, heroes in politics are all
right. If they are merely used as vote
catchers, it is a prostitution of their
glory more than a recognition of their
worth.
There are a number of military he
roes being discussed in relation to i'm
portant offices already, and, while every
one may be the man for the Office to
which it is proposed to elect him, we
have serious doubts as to whether his
qualifications have been considered in
any case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04

have ceased to furnish themes for the
yellow-back novelist, while their lini-
tators are nearly ALI clothed In cere-
ments or stripes. Sam Bass and MS
entire band were wiped out within
year after they began business; Rude
Burrows, Cove Johnson and his three
lieutenants, the Fords, the Daltons and
a score of smaller fry have died violent
deaths, either upon the scaffold or in
their tracks. Several of the McCartys,
who used to operate in southeastern
Utah, fell under fusillade at Meeker,
Colo, after they had robbed bank
California has stamped out one nest
after another, from Chris Evans down
to Joaquin Miller's unnatural son, and
the Hole-in-the-Wall crowd is doomed
to meet the common fate of bandits
There was a time when the highway
man was invested with romance and
fitted out with a heroic personality
which he never deserved and which
made him an object of interest, not TO
say admiration. But he has grown
stale. People have found out that he
isn't hero, that he hasn't righteous
grievance against society, that his ex-
ample is in nowise worthy of emulation,
that his business is far from profita-
BILE, and that he is generally a coward
at heart who never shoots unless he
has the drop on some one, that he is
too lazy to work and steals from pure
cussedness.
Experience has taught him that a
train load of sleepy passengers, an en-
gineer with his eye on the track and
an express messenger in whom the in
stinct of self-preservation is strong,
are really less formidable on a dreary
night than the average watermelon
patch is with its watchdog or a wake
full farmer with his old army musket
loaded with salt and pepper.
Many preventatives for train-robber-
les have been suggested, but the most
effective is to make it extremely haz-
ardous to begin with and the trail ex-
ceedingly hot as an after considera-
ton
When trains begin to pull into sta
lions with dead bandits on board, in the
P"~S u 'ieiSA SeiAS'' 'AiS ii '' -
feet will be felt all along the line. And
when posses are organized and equip
ped for a general roundup that will
continue while a highwayman is known
to be at large, the train-robbing bust
ness will become less and less popular
and profitable until it almost ceases to
be. We say almost, for so long as hu-
mainly has weaknesses there will be
thieves. and so long as there are
thieves they will have a diversity of
lays. Individual robbers will continue
to 90 business at the old stand, but the
games should be broken up. This much
the posses can do and the states inter-
aid and encouragement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
DREYFUs is INNOCENT.

One French officer after another has
confessed his part in the conspiracy
against the French government of
which Dreyfus was convicted, and his
Part in the second conspiracy with the
government against the prisoner of
Devils island. One has committed sui
eide. another has attempted 1t, both
were trusted officers in the French
army and leading witnesses for the
prosecution
Colonel Henry, Patty du Clam and Es-
terhazy have all owned up that the I'M
fortunate victim of militarism and re-
ligious prejudice, who has suffered a
thousand deaths in his prison cage on a
desert island, has more honor in his
heart than can be found in all the min
listers, judges, officers and politicians of
France who have been prosecuting him.
For more than four years this infamy
has been perpetuated in the name of
France, and for the purpose, as was de-
clared, of shielding the honor of the
army.
Few persons who have followed the
case dispassionately have believed in
the guilt of Dreyfus. The mystery of
the original trial and the conflicting
reasons assigned for secrecy, the man
ifest hostility of the courts at all sub
sequent proceedings, the undisguised
malice of the prosecution, caused pub
lie opinion in this country and in Eu-
rope to look with horror upon his treat
ment. Outside of the few Frenchmen
personally interested in his conviction
for preservation, the French peo-
pie themselves admit that there has
never been more than a possibility of
his guilt.
In view of recent publications of the
evidence given before the court of cas-
sation, there is little room to doubt the
absolute innocence of the man, and this
confession of Esterhazy leaves no
longer any room for doubt at ALL
1t has been an infamous piece of
business all the way through. Yet If
1t hadn't been for the perseverance of
a true woman, the loyalty of a devoted
wife, Dreyfus would have been forgot
ten long ago, and remorse would never
have haunted the conspirators until the
nemesis drove some to confession and
others to suicide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04

known, with people of all classes, drink
tics with them; hence, his father had
been dead but week when the young
king announced that he intended to
give his people a new constitution.
Like our American constitution, it de-
clared all men born with equal rights,
and no class had any privileges over
another; the legislative power was
vested in the upper and lower houses Of
the rigsdag, elected almost exclusively
by the people, the king retaining the
veto power, which, however, he never
once exercised. 1t further granted per-
feet freedom of speech and press, free
and compulsory education and religious
liberty.
From now on the intellectual and in
dustrial development of the Danish
people was something phenomenal. 1t
strifes, because the nobility held onto
what they believed to be their God
given rights, and only yielded inch by
inch. Hardly had the beloved king
closed his eyes in death when the coun-
try was thrown into another war with
its powerful neighbor, which left it
exhausted and deprived of two
of its provinces. Yet today Denmark
is among the most prosperous and cul-
tured nations on earth. Though but
one-seventh the area of Utah, it sus-
tains two millions Of people and ex-
ports vast quantities of agricultural
products-of butter alone some $35, 000,-
600 annually.
1t is therefore with full right that
the Danes all over the world will gath
err tomorrow and celebrate their
Fourth of July" In this city they
have prepared a programme for Cald-
ers park, assisted by their foster
brothers, the Swedes and Norwegians.
They have the sympathy and congrat-
ulations of the American people and
their best wishes for the future pros
perity of nation which has furnished
our country with so many of its useful
citizens.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
BANKS AND THE TRUSTS.

Some of the eminent philanthroplsts
who have been engineering the trust
business of late have found that even
r. trust has to take account of public
sentiment. Encouraged by Mr.. Hanna S
fostering care and aided by the Repuo-
lican tariff, which kindly gives them
exemption from competition, they nave
been having a financial picnic at the
expense of small manufacturers and
producers.
Within two weeks they have awak-
ened to find that bankers have become
suddenly alarmed at the violence of
public opinion on the subject of trusts;
that legislation aimed at their monop-
DIV is almost inevitable if consolida-
ton and over-capitalization of manu-
features is TO continue. Naturally, the
bankers have suddenly stopped advanc-
ing funds on shares in speculative con-
solicitations They have called loans on
stocks represented largely by wind and
tariff favoritism. This has stopped the
fever of wild speculation, especially IN
New England, and the result has oeen
almost a panic among the smaller
holders of these stocks.
1t is a notable fact that real values,
in solid commercial enterprises that are
based on safe business methods, have
been very little affected by the demor-
alization of the gasbag shares.
Those who have watched the alb
sorption of individual enterprises by
large combinations of capital, nave
seen the reduction of expenses. the dis
charge of employees and all the dis
tress that follows in the wake of the
trust movement, will observe the fu-
ture attitude OF the banks toward their
friends the trust-makers with absorbing
interest. Later on they will turn their
attention to the effort that will certain
" be made in congress TO deprive the
trusts of the special legislative favors
which lead TO monopoly and wealth on
their side, and to ruin and suffering
among the producers and consumers OF
the nation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04

Salt Lakes commercial growth finds
pleasant, practical expression in The
Herald's advertising pages this morn
ing. Both in extent, taste and variety
these business announcements of the
city's leading merchants testify to the
enterprise of the men who supply it's
needs. Altogether unsolicited, The
Herald notes the Auerbach double-page
display, which is notable enough to at
tract comment in much larger cities
than Salt Lake. 1t is step in the di-
rection Of progressive merchandising,
and marks the firms appreciation of
the value of The Herald's advertising
columns
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
A Pretty Story of Giving.
(WaehinFtOn Post

The prettiest story OF the giving Of
presents that 1 know anything about is
a chapter in the life romance of an
adorable little woman who is the wife of
an ex-senator from state in the mid
die west. She was a widow when the
senator first met her. and he a widower.
1t was the afternoon of life with both
of them, but he woed her with the ar
dor of boy and the persistence of a
man. At one time she had definitely
made up her mind that her duty for
babe her to marry him, and she told
him So she was deaf to his pleading,
and he went away, asking only that he
might give her some gift in token of
his unalterable affection. She would
accept nothing but trifle-a book-she
said; and a book he gave her. 1t was
the most magnificent edition to be had,
and on the back was emblazoned the
title, Paradise Lost"
But later he add his library
their library, in fact-"Paradise Re-
gained"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
CONSTITUTION OF DENMARK.

Tomorrow will mark an epoch in the
history of Denmark. Fifty years ago,
on the 9Th of June, 1s49. King Frederick
VII attached his signature TO the con-
stitution of the kingdom of Denmark,
an event which was destined 10 mark
the beginning Of a new era for its peo-
pie. 1t is true that the country was
not entirely without constitution, for
in 1881 King Frederick VI granted
constitution which established an as
sembly of mobiles, but in that constitu-
ton the common people were entirely
left out Of consideration, and condi-
lions were but little better than be-
fore. During the years following,
Prince Frederick, then the crown
prince, was studying the conditions and
needs of the people over whom he was
later to reign He would mingie. un-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
A Simple Alteration.
Cleveland Plain Dealer)

cleveland Plain Dealer)
Gentlemen" said the long-haired man,
Il have brought you here TO show you a
fine statue that with two or three changes
would serve admirably for the testimonial
to Dewey which you doubtless will soon
erect. This statue was carved for the
friends of certain military man, and was
on what l consider ridiculously puerile
grounds: Look at it. gentlemen. Look at
the heroic proportions. Look at the pose,"
But. hold on" cried the chairman
this fellow is mounted on a horse
True" said the long-haired man, COM
placentiy. II cheerfully admit II. But what
does this signify? Absolutely. nothing"
But Dewey didn't ride a horse" piped
up Committeeman Ezra Talbot.
No said the long-haired man. strict
ly speaking. he did not. But again say
what of that? With a few strokes of the
chisel cut off the equine head and the
equine tail, and / trim down the equine
legs Then ! put a stucco rail here in
front. and 10. you have Dewey sitting on
the Olympia's bridge as large as lifel"
But is it, began the chairman, with
some hesitation, lis 1t customary for
naval commanders to sit on the bridge In
that peculiar fashion,"
Certainly" said the long-haired man.
that's the way they always sit during a
heavy nor easter"
Then the committee went away to think
1t over.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
Like a Lady.

Frances" said the little girls
mamma, who was entertaining callers
in the parlor, you came down stairs so
noisily that you could be heard all
over the house. You know how to do it
better than that. Now, go back, and
come down the stairs like a lady"
Frances retired, and after the lapse
of a minute re-entered the parlor.
Did you hear me come down stairs
this time, mammal"
mo. dear. I am glad you came down
quietly. Now, don't let me ever have
to tell you again not to come down
noisily, for 1 see that You can come
down quietly if you will. Now tell these
ladies how you managed to. come down
like a lady the second time, while the
first time you made so much noise
THE last time slid down the banis-
ters," explained Frances.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
Hens We're Privileged.
(New York Tribune.l

A story is told of woman in Eng
land who Unexpectedly came into for
tune, and promptly hunted up a coun-
try house, where she played the role of
chatelaine to the manor born, accord
ing to her own ideas of the part One
day some of her old-time friends came
to see her, and she condescended to
show them all over the place.
What beautiful chickens,' exclaimed
the visitors, when they came to the
poultry yard.
Yes. All prize BIRDS" haughtily ex-
planned the hostess.
do they lay every day?"
"Oh, they could, of course; but
(grandiloquently) in our position it isn't
necessary for them to do SOL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
Why the Soldier Boy scowled.

wv IOSl-)
One of the soldier boys swung along in
Tuesdays parade with a heart far
heavier than his gun, and as he passed
balcony on the avenue and saw
pretty girl and a repulsively well dressed
man there, he scowled fiercely. Last fall
it was far otherwise. He smiled when
ever he saw the girl. and the repulsively
well dressed man hadn't dawned vet.
Last spring the soldier sacrificed two
buttons from his blouse and had them
made into hatpins for that girl Two
weeks ago he sat near her at the theatre
and when she removed her hat he saw
that it had been pinned on with a tur-
quoise feur de lis and an enameled violet.
The military buttons were not there. The
girl had promised to wear them forever
and ever. The soldier boy went home and
wrote her the witheringest note you can
imagine. He told her that she no longer
cared for him she could no longer value
the button hatpins, and that he'd like
them back again OF course. he put in a.
number of other remarks. some of them
general referring to the sex, and
others specific and referring TO her and
to her conduct. She's a nice girl and an
amiable girl but that note was too much
for her to endure. She sent man ser
want with her answer:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04

When Admiral Schley, during his Salt
Lake City speech, declared that the man
who serves best behind the guns is the
man who has the best woman serving
behind him." he expressed a boosted
Maryland conviction. But, since he was
in Utah. where one man multiplies the
number of those serving behind him. the
admiral. in order to have been punctil-
iously accurate. should have used the
plural when speaking of the power behind
each man.-Baitimore American.
Our Baltimore contemporary does not
seem to understand the situation in
Utah exactly. Still, as a specimen of
Pennsylvania Dutch humor, its joke
may pass.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah, June 8. 1899.
Maximum temperature, g degrees; min
imum temperature IS degrees; mean tenn
perature, IS degrees, which is degrees
of Temperature since LIST of month, % de-
grees; accumulated deficiency of temper
allure since Jan. !, 81 degrees. Total pre-
cipitation from p. m. to 8 p. M, 80 men;
accumuIated excess of precipitation since
Ist of month, .43 inch; accumulated excess
of precipitation since Jan. !, 1.90 inches.