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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
DARKEY BOYS CHRISTMAS
How Bije's Prayer Was Answered.

Mora Donley.)
Way down south, where little black boys
grow like dandelionS in spring time, there
lived certain boy, named Bile. Bile was
just as black as all the other little boys,
and lust as ragged; but something hap
pened TO Bic once that made hlm feel
shat he Was superior TO any black boy
that ever was born. 1t was this, only you
must not tell ii, because BiJe mas never
told any one, and IL would nurI NM 10
think fnat the same thing might happen
10 any boy il he knew about il:
There was a lad: IN -BiJeS town VINO
SATURDAY morning for Iidy1ng up the
garden pain and picking uD chips. One
saturday she asked BiJe il ne would not
like TO go to the white folks SUNDAY
woman, and did not mind uhe little back
boys sitting beside her in church.
bije's eyes got big and white and he
SAID, Yes m.
He could not sleep that night, he was
so excited. And next day, when he found
INNS =, actually sitting in the lady's pew.
with pretty clean, white children sitting
all round MIN, he was so scared he torSoc
TO snap his finger joints, a feat Bile
seldom forgot. he resolved never TO go
again. and the lady could not persuaue
hun 10 change his mind.
But Bile heard the superintendent teach
the lesson even IL he Was scared. It was
about asking God tor anything you want
ed, no matter who you were, and you
BlJe nked that.
All this happened the Sunday before
Christmas but Bile never thought of
putting two and TWO together, as the
grown folks say, until he woke up Christ
mas morning. Thea when ~ did not find
any stocking fun of goodies, or anything,
in fact. 10 delight the heart of even d
little black boy he thought of the Lord.
He thought of what the Sunday school
superintendent had said and his little
black face lit up.
I'm ketch de Lawd Chris mus gif'," he
said.
he dressed himself and yurrfed out into
the yard under a chinaberry tree.
Chris mus cif', Lawd," he said very
low Then he waited. His teeth chartered
with the cold and nervousness. His face
was ashy. He had never talked with the
Lord before. IL was as bad as going 10
The white folks church. But the super
intendent said anybody" Maybe ne did
not mean niggers. Maybe. Just then
tree right at Bijes feet. Bile picked 1t
up. Ii was a wooden mitten. He pulled il
over the stiff, cold fingers of one hand.
1t fitted nicely, and was SO warm.
He did mean niggers, he cried. He
showed the other hand in his trousers
pocket and began to run. | do not know
how far he ran nor how long, but when
ne got back TO his mammy's cabin he felt
better.
That was all the Christmas he got, ex-
cept a piece of gingerbread from his
mammay. and it was all he wanted.
He had caught the Lords Christmas
gift and He had thrown him down
present. Bile was happy
/ do not know whether or not 1 told
lived. and they do say he was a terrible
thief
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

can have bully fights. We red civil
war. using balls of the snowY5r bullets
confederates and Cousin Frank was
captain of the Union men. After my
side won three days running, Uncle
ThaddeuS said it would be a good plan
for me to change over to the Union side
or we'd be reversing history. He's no
end of fun and I like him immensely.
haven't told him about my idea of
shipping snow, as I'm afraid he'd think
il was going to be too expensive. They
have no idea how rich father is. Next
week l expect to get the snow off. When
you receive it, have the men distribute
it "a evenly as possible, or else the sled
runners will sink into it and you won't
make as much speed. Be careful not
to throw the snowballs too hard, for
they can hurt like sixty. You can
spread little of the snow on the side
walk nd then run and slide on it the
way we used to on our ball room floor,
only after it has been smoothed down
2 little you can go twenty or thirty
feet. And bet you'll tumble over when
you first try it on. | did and I was at
the head CT about ten of the fellows
and the way they all piled on me was a
caution. No more now until l write to
tell you that I've shipped it"
'P. s. You'll have the merriest
Christmas you ever heard Of
Frank Parsons and VIII Bill managed
the affair and they bribed the train
hands not to tell Rod that the snow
would melt. The cay before he shipped
it there was big snow fall. which
made the work Of loading much easier.
Roderick and all the boys helped the
workmen, and by nightfall there were
fifty cars full of nice. clean, packed
down snow.
And then Rod decided to go with the
train. Il want to see the fun myself"
he said. .I'll come back again in
week or two, after the Christmas holi-
days" The boys were sorry to have
him go. and several felt like telling him
of the trick at the last moment, but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
A sideshow at kentucky Revival.


THE greatest human monstrosity of the
nineteenth century was exhibited Mon
day night at the Thirteenth street colored
Baptist church. Covington. where re-
vival is being held. living woman. per-
fectly formed in every way, with two
heads four arms and four legs, double
kneed ana doubie-jOinted. and with eyes
in the side of her head, was the curiosity.
With suDerStitious awe the assembled
colored people gazed upon this extraor-
binary combination.
.'Fo God" said one old negro. rever-
entity. "slle is de most salambacious look
in white woman dat l ever did see- My
OF woman can see enough out oh two
eyes, but when il comes to To- excuse
me- and the old fellow shuffied off with
an indignant look at the four-eyed mon
s;rosity.
She could sing like a knocking bird or
play the guitar. She said she had sung
before. all the crowned heads of Europe.
She can read book with TWO eyes and
fiirt with the ice man with the other two.
She can keeD her eyes from picking and
stealing but she cannot keep her lips
from evil speaking. for the Post reporter
heard one pair of lips singiU because
] Love YOU while the 9th IA
'.cussing" the bandman-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

Il am going to have Christmas
party and invite the boys and girls
love the most
Margaret threw down her book and
sprang to her feet. clapping her hands.
'.Oh, what fun. Aunt Helen. Who
shall We ask?"
Il shall ask Mary Carver and Danny
Carne and Wisely Brown and Debby
Mackson."
why, those are grown up. You said
boys and girls"
''WeH. they were boys and girls just
the other day" replied Aunt Helen.
1T is no time since Debby Madison
and / were wading in Hickory creek
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

you came up to see me for. You came
to invite me to the party
Why. 1 didn't know you knew about
the party,"
Yes. we all know. Ny costume is all
ready. I'm going to be Topsy. cause
Use so funny and so wicked, you
know"
"Oh. oh, what fun. Aunt Helen
didn't tell me you were all going to
wear different characters, Who am
going to be-"
You are going to be Little Red Rid
ing Hood. This is your hood and cape
Mother made it. She had just finished
it when we saw you ride up TO the
gate Aunt Helen kept everythingfrom
you so there would be more fun in a
bunch, but you mustn't ask me any
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
WHEN IRVING WAS A BOY.

Most of the children of today. judging
by his portraits, look upon Washington
Irving as a venerable old gentleman.
chiefly interesting to US as the author OF
Rip Van Wrinkle" and The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow.
Back in the days of the revolution, when
he was a mischief-loving little boy who
was the cause of great anxiety to his
mother he was passionately fond of
music and devoted to the theatre, to the
great horror of his strict parents. When
ever he had amused few pennies he
would steal off to the old theatre that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

once stood on John street. Now. as the
family always had prayers at O'Clock in
the evening and attendance was conf
puisory. little Washington-who. by The
way was named after the Father OF his
CoiIntrv[wouId rush back home in time
for the evening devotions, and when over
ne would go to his room, and while his
family thought he was asleep in bed ne
cresf opt of his window. down the
veranda to the ground and OFF to the
theatre to see how the play ended.
So you see boys in those times were
very much as they are today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

they knew the other boys would make
it hot for them il they did. so they re-
Trained
pulled out Of Loudonville. which is the
name of the Loudon Hill station. Rod
erick. well bundled up, climbed into
the cab with the engineer and waved a
farewell te the boys. Thanks, awful
ly. boys, for your help said he.
The engineer muttered something
about its being really too bad. :"
Whats too bad?" asked Rod, but the
engineer said he was talking to the
fireman. At the last moment Frank
was seized with remorse and would
have blurted out the secret to Roderick.
but VIII Bill stuffed his handkerchief
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
Always a Domestic Affair.
tchicago Times-Herald.,

tCmcagO I1neS-HeraId.J
"Our wars" said the South American,
"have one distinct advantage over the
wars that are waged on other parts of
the globe
What is that?" he.was asked.
When you go to war; he replied. you
make IL necessary for some other country
to be at war. We don't"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
FIFTY CARLOADS
OF CHRISTMAS SNOW
BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
Copyright 1899 by Charles Battell
Loomis.)

Roderick Dawson lived in that part
of the United States where the mercury
never gets lower than 60 and where
snow is so entirely unknown that the
very word has dropped out of the local
dictionaries Rain they have and plen-
ty OF it, but they wouldn't know snow
if they saw il.
When Roderick was IL years old he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
The Lessless Age.
philadelphia Nor

philadelphia North American.)
Its 1essless age" remarked Simp-
ers
What do you mean?- inquired Gales.
Here's a couple who entered upon a
loveless marriage. drove away in a horse
less carriage and received all their con-
gratulations by wireless biography
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

Never quit certainty for hope"
Never take a medicine of doubtful
value instead Of Hoods SarSaparilla,
which is sure to do you good.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

Opal rings that dazzle your eyes at
prices that suit your purse. Jensen.
The evening times., 1899-01-31
The Earan Sentence.

1t was stated this morning on what ap-
pears to be trustworthy authority that
nine of the thirteen members of the Eagan
court recommended leniency in the case or
that offender Generals Merritt and But
Ter are said TO have been strongly opposed
TO suggestion of mercy which they re-
garded as injustice 10 the army ana
degradation of the retired list, on which 1t
is expected Eagan will be placed. 1t Is
incomprehensible that nine members of the
court should have allowed a mistaken
sympathy and a dramatic performance 10
impair their judgment. If they had gone
into the beef scandal they would never
have consented TO any such recommends
ton.
Still. it is much less offensive for them
TO do that than for the President 10 be in
huenced by their plea. He has larger
responsibility in the matter than they had.
To them, Eagan was a man who used foul
language, TO which he professed TO be
goaded by an unjust accusation. To the
President he is high officer OF
the army, entrusted with the tre-
mendously important duty of provid-
ing proper rations for men on whose
heroism and physical wellbeing the
fate of a war depended. The President has
knowledge which did not come before the
court that this high official was either neg
lectful of his duty or incompetent or will
fully blind and Indifferent TO the quality
of the rations supplied to the soldiers.
The President has this on the authority
of General Miles backed by the official
statements of General Breckenridge, Gen.
erals Wheaton and Carpenter and nearly
a score of regimental commanders in Porto
Rico; of DR.. DAILY, OF a commissary SER
geant and OF scores of company officers
and any number of soldiers; of Mr.. Mar
shall a reputable retired meat packer, and
others. This has not come before the
President as the finding Of any court. but
nevertheless he knows the fact He knows
that in spite of tSe warning Eagan receiv-
ed of the character of the beef, he made no
effort TO discover for himself, through
chemical examination, whether the charges
against the beef were untrue. He trusted
entirely TO the assertion of the Surgeon
General Office that reputable packers did
not sell inferior beef to the Government
for its soldiers. He has seen the state
ment OF an agent OF the Armour Company
that in filling a Government contract lit is
not necessary 10 be particular as 10 the
quality" This is a grave reflection on the
efficiency OF the inspection in Eagans de-
partment.
The President has a right. and ii is his
duty, to take account of all this in consid-
ering the question of leniency in Eagan S
case. Why should he be Ienient? Because
Eagan was driven to foul language by
unjust charges? On what ground can the
President assume they are unjust? Any
such assumption is the condemnation of all
the many reputable army officers who have
testified to the contrary. The Alger Relief
Commission will whitewash the beef scan
dal, but will the President lean on its re-
port for support in a reflection on the in
teligence or honesty of SO many honorable
officers?
The evening times., 1899-01-31
BRAIN TUMoR REMOVED.
Chicago Butcher saw Double Until
the Pressure Was Taken Away.

Chicago Butcher saw Double" Until
the Pressure Was Taken Away.
Chicago, Jan. 3l.-With a drainage tube
of rubber replacing an insanity producing
tumor in his brain, Joseph Sepic. butch
err, who saw things double for many
months, is improving at the Mercy Hos
pitaI, where he was a few days ago the
subject of an operation which is said to be
unique in the history of American medi-
cal science.
He went to the institution suffering from
suicidal mania. Throbbing headaches made
him believe his skull was being battered
to pieces His case was diagnosed as the
hitherto incurable disease of brain tumor.
Through the aid of the x-ray the tumor or
cyst was located in the brain, just over
the right eye.
The operation of trephining, quickly
performed. was suggested as affording
possible chance to save his life. Consent
of his friends being gained, the operation
was undertaken.
When his skull bones were readjusted
and he was left with two inches of rub
ber tubing imbedded as a miniature canal
to drain away the pus aecretions, Sepic's
wonderful vitality helped him materially
in his battle for life.
No more does he see things double"
and the throbbing headaches are gone. The
case has passed the danger point, and in a
few days the tube will be removed from
the patients head.
The evening times., 1899-01-31
No Traffic with Gomez.

The President should be allowed to ad-
minister Cuban affairs in his own way, but
we can hope that Mr.. Porter does not rep
resent his purposes when he enters into
negotiations with Gomez. That patriot is
Unsuitable, and as soon as the Government
recognizes him in any way it will put it.
self in the position of a man who once
submits TO the demand of a blackmailer.
He insists, as the price of disSanding his
army, that this Government shall pay for
three years service of some forty thousand
Cubans at the rate of pay that prevails in
our own army in time of war. He requires
eleven thousand dollars year for him.
self, and after receiving his thirty three
thousand he will go to San Domingo and
become a dictator.
There is not the least reason to suspect
the President will consider any such insane
proposition, but there is a fear that he
may be committed TO some sort of recog-
The evening times., 1899-01-31
milton of Gomez. Now, Gomez is an off,

milton of Gomez. Now, Gomez is an OH
Ger only by authority of a Cuban govern
ment which this country has distinctly re-
fused TO recognize. He does not have the
claim that Garcia had, for the latter placed
himself and his few hundred men at the
orders Of General Miles. Gomez refused
to welcome American assistance and with
drew his alleged forty thousand men TO
the remotest hills where they were utter
ly idle during all the time that the Ameri-
cans were fighting the Spaniards. With
forty thousand men, Gomez could have re-
enforced the American expedition so that
Santiago would have been carried with
single sweep. But Gomez held no COM
munication with the Americans and re-
sented their intrusion. Therefore, neither
as an army instituted by government
which we have refused to recognize nor as
an army cooperating with our own, have
the soldiers of Gomez any claim on the
money of this Government or on the pres
ent revenues of the island.
To enter into any negotiations with him,
as Mr. Porter seems inclined to do, is to
give some seeming of warrant to his claim.
1t is to make the Cuban soldiers look on
him as their leader, although they aban-
doned him when Havana was evacuated.
If anything is to be done for the Cuban
soldiers il should not be done through him,
nor should he receive any share in any
money that is distributed. 1t should be
made plain TO the Cubans that to obey the
orders of Gomez TO gather and menace the
American authorities is to forfeit all
chance of getting dollar Otherwise he
will be strengthened and emboldened to
make endless trouble.
The evening times., 1899-01-31
The Librarian.
(From the Brooklyn Eaple.l !

From the BROOKLYN Eagle.)
The master and manager OF the Library Of
Congress should be a man of affairs He could
well be statesman. because he will be con-
stantly called to meet statesmen and to CON
fer with them. He should have the justice, the
skill, the urbanity, the patience and the tact
which every large employer should have, for he
is himeh very large employer. He need not
have any extraordinary zeal for civil service re-
form, because the merit system is as certainly
fixed forever in library matters as it is anywhere
else in this world. He need not be a specialist
in cataloguing, or in shelving, in stacking, OF
in indexing, or in any incidental arrangement of
books by authorship subject matter, because
trained experts in those useful, but not difficult
and not supremely important, divisions of service
can be hired by him, and he can hold them to
the proper performance of their delegated duties
The evening times., 1899-01-31
LOADED DOWN WITH LUGGAGE.
Numerous Trunks of the Manila
Bound Annapolis Cadets.

New York, Jan. 31-Upon the deck of the
United States supply ship Solace yesterday
afternoon there poured stream of trunks
handbags. dress suit cases and valises. the
property OF eighteen cadets fresh from
Annapolis, who reported to Commander
Dunlap. They were graduated last Friday
and are to be sent to ships in the Philip
pines on the Solace, which is under orders
to sail from the navy yard at daybreak to-
morrow.
Officers in the navy soon learn 10 pack
their baggage scientifically and rarely
travel with more than one trunk. But each
of the cadets had four or FIVE trunks and
several small packages 1t was their first
experience on long cruise, and the older
officers forgave the youngsters, although
they were at their wits end TO know what
TO do with the baggage.
The Solace before she starts finally on
her long journey is to go to Norfolk for
coal and ammunition. She is 10 return TO
the navy yard in June.
The evening times., 1899-01-31
CHILD ON A HOT STOVE.
Charge Made Against Father in
Divorce Proceedings.

Scranton, Pa, Jan. 31.-What the limited
testimony would tend to show was the most
brutal murder ever committed in this coun-
ty was unearthed at a divorce hearing be-
fore Judge Edwards yesterday in the case
of Susie Bliscoe against Frank Bliscoe.
Witnesses who were brought forward to
prove the charge of cruelty brought against
the husband, among them John Lucatz,
father of the libellant, told, among other
things, that young child of Bliscoe died
in 1896 from burns which she received by
being placed on a red-hot stove by her
father.
The law preventing wife from testi-
flying against her husband prevented Mrs
Bliscoe from corroborating the story, but
she exhibited scars on her hands and arms
which she said her husband inflicted with
a red-hot poker.
Bliscoe went away on May IA, 1897.
Nothing has been heard from him since
Judge Edwards has called County Detec-
tive Leyshon's attention TO the matter
The evening times., 1899-01-31
TRAGIC DEATH OF A
PITTSBURG WOMAN
SUICIDE OF MRS. WIN. MAYER
Jumps From the Pier mt Atlantic
City While Her Maids Attention
Was Diverted Elsewhere.

Atlantic City, Jan. 31.-Mrs. William I.
Mayer, wife of Pittsburg wholesale to-
bacco dealer, tragically ended her life here
yesterday by jumping from Capt. John
Youngs pier, at the ocean end of Tennes-
see Avenue, into the surging breakers. The
fatal leap was taken about 1 o'clock Mrs.
Mayer, in company with her maid Miss
M. E. Horn, had gone on the structure
about noon. She was an invalid suffering
from nervous prostration, and was here
for her health. They were coming from
the pier and on their way to the Home
hurst Hotel, where they were sojourning.
The maid said her mistress appeared to be
in unusual good spirits and talked of her
returning health as they were walking
ShoreWard.
When about midway in the maid turned
her head in the opposite direction from
Mrs. Mayer and was looking at a distant
object when she heard a rustic of skirts
and turned just at the moment her mis-
tres had thrown herself over the railing.
The woman had leaned against the guard,
which reached about to her waist, and then
by movement of her body, had purpOsely
oyerbalanced herself. The maid reached
to catch the folds of her dress and sue
ceeded, but they were wrested from her
grasp. No sound was uttered by the fall
Ing woman as she plunged into the break
ing surf, which had a depth of ten or
twelve feet. She made no struggle to keep
herself afioat or TO save herself
PIER employees promptly lowered a boat,
in which were Officers Woodruff and
French, and within very few minutes
they had picked up the floating and un-
conscious body and rowed ashore with it,
Doctors were at hand almost as soon as
the boat landed, and they with the off,
GERS worked for an hour in an endeavor
TO bring back respiration, but to no ef-
feet. What seemed strange 10 the physi-
clans was the fact that the stomach did
not give up more han pint Of water The
inference is that the shock of the cold
water killed the woman almost as soon as
she was submerged. The body was turned
over to a local undertaken by Coroner
Lemuel Wooten. Mr.. Mayer arrived to-
day and took charge Of it.
From information gained at the hotel
il was learned that Mrs Mayer had been
in the city ten days and intended 10 re-
main for two or three weeks longer, as
she found her health improving. She had
been for several days past somewhat
melancholy. but at no time did she ex-
press a wish to die. Her continued i'll
health was the cause of her tragic act
The suicide was thirty-one years old, Of
good height and build. and quite hand
some. She had been under treatment in a
private sanitarium in Walnut Street, Phil
adelphia, and had been sent there by DR..
Dercum, the physician in charge. No
papers have been found to indicate that
she had been contemplating suicide.