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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02
NMTI

In other particulars of fire equip
ment also the Germans are ahead of
us. In Berlin the firemen wear water
jackets. with a double skin, which they
are able to fill with water from the
hose. If the space between the two
layers becomes over filed, the water
escapes through a valve at the top of
the helmet and flows down over the
fireman like a cascade, thus doubIy
protecting him. The smoke helmets,
also a German invention, are largely
used throughout Germany, and in Aus
tralia, Holland and Italy, and are now
on trial in some of our fire depart
ments. The smoke helmets enable the
wearer to breathe, and to see, with
some degree of comfort, in a smoke
laden atmosphere; some of the newer
patterns of these helmets contain a
means of telephone communication,
leading out of the building and into
the street below.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02

German fire apparatus builders have.
after several years of trial, produced
a fire bicycle, which, if it falls short
of being perfect, is an invention far
ahead of. anything of its kind in use
in the United States. 1t is a four-wheel
truck, with a low, compact superstruc-
ture; is fully equipped as an engine,
and has complete outfit of life-saving
apparatus The wheels have solid rub
Der tires, it is pedaled by two firemen,
sitting tandem, and runs rapidly on
good roads, while it's handling and ma
neuvering is extremely simple The
firemen having the one in charge at
Gruenewald, suburb of Berlin, re-
Gently covered a mile, made the hy-
drant attachment and were at work in
something less than five minutes. The
bicycle engine carries the following
tools and implements, slowed snugly
away, and each held securely in place:
One life-saving sack.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02

answer any letters Of inquiry If stamps are
enclosed for reply"
Dr.. R. V Pierce is and for over thirty
years has been, chief consulting p1ysi-
clan at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, of Buffalo, n. Y Thousands of
women have written to him describing
their symptoms, and, on following the
advice he gives freely, have become well,
strong and happy. Many sensitively
modest women write to DR.. Pierce and SO
avoid the disagreeable questioning, ex-
a1ninations and local treatment SO gener-
ally insisted upon by physicians. DR..
Pierce's medicines cure you in the pri-
vacy of your home, and Mrs. Heckert's
case is only one of thousands that have
been cured after the doctors failed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02

him because he had held Office before
or had asked for the job.
THE AVERAGE PRESIDENT.
Summing up all this, we may fairly
conclude that our average president
was simple liver, who yet liked good
cookery and liked it to be we'll served
He also liked whisky, but did not care
for wine and did not drink it except in
Difference to his guests.
He was a plainly dressed man and
cared little for ceremonies. He had had
rather more than half a course at col
lege. He wrote legible hand, though
not an excellent one. He attended the
Episcopal church, but preferred the
low form to the high. In making APP
pointments ito Office. he was generally
but often yielded to po-
litical or personal pressure.
CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02
Another Author Gone Wrong.
cleveland Leader.O

''She folded her arms and looked the
ideal picture of scorn," read the literary
critic aloud from book he was review
ing. We'll, by the jumping jabber-
wocks!" he exclaimed. what do YOU
think of that for imbecile rot?'
Why asked the horse reporter.
whats wrong with it?"
Whats wrong with it?'' echoed the
lierary critic. I'D like to know how a
dizzy female could pose for a picture of
scOrn with her arms folded, when any
fool knows that the finger Of scorn is
always pointed at something or some
body. That writer gives me a pain in my
comprehension"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02

Fifteen of our presidents have been
college graduates. three attending viii
liam and Mary, t > Harvard and one
princeton. The rest were scattered
among the smaller colleges, none hav-
ing attended Yale
Mckinley is the third Methodist to oc-
cupy the White House, Grant being the
first. Washington and seven others al
tended the Episcopal church, while
jackson and five others We're Presbyte-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02

hO4pOA lAACAA oAA-
but Dr. PieTce's
and 1 recon
mend it to all
my friends. The
Favorite Pre-
scnption help
cd me SO much
7 always keep it
in the house. I
also have the
Peoples Com
mon Sense Med
ical Adviser and
think it is a
great book. 1
mn willing fO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02

red hair, Tyler black and Fillmore
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02
The q. S. Govt Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior to all others.
CHEEKY TELEGRAPH CONCERN.

War Increased Its Profits and Now
It Wants Damages.
The fifty-fourth ordinary half-yearly
general meeting Of the Cuban Sub
marine Telegraph company Qimited)
was held at the company's offices. IS
Old Broad street, today. under the
presidency of Charles W. Parish. when
a dividend at the rate of per cent
per annum and a bonus of shillings
per share, both free of income tax,
were recommended, leaving e3.713 to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02
Mrs. Lily Heckert, of Bartlesville,
Charot-se Nat Ind Tv ;xDr;tee-

nearly crazy. I had doctored with five different
physicians, but they did me no good. One of
these doctors. of forty years experience. said to
me, can't do you any good. so why not try DR..
r. V. Pierce's Favorite Prescription 1 wrote
to DIR. r. Y. Pierce and described my troubles.
He wrote me a nice fatherly, kind letter i'll
ply, and l followed his advice.
Lie is pleasure to me now instead CT a bur
den as it was before. Three of my neighbor worn
en- have used DR.. Pierce's medicines and ii has
heIned them all will take no other riledicine
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Republican pisxen.ion.

1t is somewhat significant that the
Philadelphia Press. the organ of the
Postmaster General, should print an
editorial calling attention to Repub-
lican dissensions in Ohio 1t is more
significant that the Press should assert
that these dissensions are owing to
bossism. OF course, the Press is right,
to certain extent, in It's charge that
bossism has disrupted the Republican
party in the State of Ohio, but why
should McKinley's Postmaster General
throw bricks ut McKinley's friend,
Mark Hanna?
This attack on Hanna is not covered
up In mass Of glittering generalities.
On the contrary, the Press alleges that
the trouble began in Ohio when Sher-
man was forced out of the Senate to
make room for the new Republican
boss. 1t is further alleged that Hanna
has been engaged in the work of build
ing up personal machine in the Buck
eye State entirely regardless of the
party interest and that the result has
been that the national administration
has been drawn into the fight in spite
of declarations that it deplores the di-
vision. In all this the editor of the
Press sees danger to the popularity of
Mckinley, who will be held responsible
for this results of Hanna's pernicious
activity.-Chicago Democrat
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
suobbery v.. Democracy.

Bryan's rebuke to Perry Belmont, an
English-American snob, and president
of the so-called Democratic Club, was
well merited. Belmont is one of the
assistant Republicans who repudlated
the Chicago platform in 1896, but still
masquerades in the garb of Democracy.
Bryan refused an invitation to attend a
banquet lin honor Of Jefferson" which
Is being engineered" by Boss Croker
and Perry Belmont. at "ten dollars n
head" for good reasons. which he I'M
reservedly and emphatically stated, but
he accepted an invitation to attend an
other banquet, on the same occasion, in
the same city, at which Oliver Belmont
tPerry's brother, to divers shamel will
preside, and which will not be "exclu-
sive." but, on the contrary, be In conso-
nance with "Jeffersonian simplicity"
This is giving Croker and Perry the
double cross" But even David b.
Hill wrote sarcastically of the "swell'
affair, which he also declined to attend,
as do many other prominent men. Hill
attributed the Democratic defeat at the
late election in New York to too much
Croker" and when such forces as he
and Bryan combine In common cause
something is pretty sure to drop. We
hope 1t may, and we think it will be
Crokerism-which means everything
that is vile, un-American and undemo
cratic. "The situation is delightful
San Francisco Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

a very remarkable occurrence has
been brought to my notice. Recently
well known lady. who shall be called
Jones, dreamed ridiculous dream, as
inconsequential as most dreams are,
Mrs. Jones dreamed that dog of hers
had died and that sne received an Off
cial communication ordering her either
to cremate the remains or to herself
skin the animal and throw the body
into the river. Mrs. Jones chose the
latter alternative. but having half
skinned the body and becoming tired
threw 1t as it was into the water. The
dog disappeared for an instant and
then reappeared on the surface alive
and. swimming across to the opposite
bank, trotted off. evidently in great
suffering. There ends the dream. The
next morning the postman brought sew
eral letters. The first one was adj
dressed to Lewis Jones. Esu.-there
being no such person-and ran as fol-
lows: "Sir, your dog crossed the riy-
er last night on to my property. but
being very severely injured it was
found necessary to kill 1t. Should YOU
wish to have the collar. which bears
your name and address, shall be han
py to send it to YOU" No dog belong
ing to Mrs. Jones had died nor had
she lost one!--London Truth.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
GETTING INTO LINE.

Formulating issues for the campaign
OF 1900, the Democratic National Com
mittee, in its ST. Louis conference, put
two Important matters to the front.
These two things are cognate, one de
manding the destruction of criminal
trusts and the other protection from
oppressive trusts.
Democrats are getting into line, and,
as William j. Bryan observed, the
Democratic party is opposed to the
principle of monopoly wherever 1t mani
tests itself. and he cllnches this with
the statement that the party has de-
clared war on the trusts. Not little
trust only, but big trust MS we'll. Not
against one kind Of trust only, but
against all trusts. In discussing this
matter, the New York journal says:
Next years contest will test the
question whether the trusts can be de-
stroyed or deprived of their power for
harm. If the Democracy can win on
these lines, all will be we'll. IL 1t lose.
the question may be tested again. But
If, after thorough trial, we find that
the trusts have outgrown the power of
the Government to suppress them, the
people will have to adopt new order
of battle. They will have to fight for
the possession of the trusts and their
management in the public interests.
Those conservative thinkers who are
alarmed at the thought of such an ex.
tension of governmental functions will
do well to aid the Democracy In its at
tempt to restore the old American sys-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21


William j. Bryan's declaration at st.
Louis against the trusts and imperial
ism outlines the two great issues on
which the Presidential campaign of
next year will have to be fought. The
Democratic party stands ready to OPP
pose the Republican policy of favoring
the great combinations Of capital, and
the pursuing of any policy which will
make n large standing army neces-
sity.
The most dangerous of all the trusts,
as Mr.. Bryan pointed out. is that which
aims to secure an absolute monopoly
of the furnishing of the money of the
country by combining the government
to the coinage of gold only, while for
itself 1t seizes the exclusive right to
issue notes whose value rests on the
national credit This is trust that
should be smashed first of all, because
It is by far the most dangerous. The
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The vulgar braggadocio about what
the Mckinley administration has done
is an assumption that the people Of the
United States are nation Of fools.
The whole proceeding was shochngly
dishonest and disgraceful, and will try
the patience of the mass of the party.
Judge Nash has been exploited as q
man of gentle associations and high
character. The work of the Columbus
boss and trust convention must surely
be shock to his respectability.-Cin-
cinnati ENQUIRER
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

1t is the fashion of some writer's to
speak of the Arctic regions as n worth
less quarter of the world, which has
never paid for all the dangers and suf-
fering there. and yet the Danish pos
sessions in Greenland are almost
unique among the colonial enterprises,
having paid profit to the general gov
eminent every year for more than a
century. Practically, all the mineral
cryolite used in the industries of Amer
lea and Europe comes from Greenland
and, according to the estimates of Gen
Greedy, the whale, seal, walrus and
other products of the Arctic regions
have, in little over two centuries,
contributed about $1,000, 100000 to the
wealth of the world
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The new definition of treason will be
rejected by vast majority of Ameri-
cans. They will insist that the man
who disregards the constitution in or
der to give support to policy that the
Constitution and Declaration Of indie
pendence condemn is much more of q
traitor than the man who sticks by the
two great documents rather than by
the vacillating policy of Il President
Omaha World-Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The first Republican State conven-
ton held to nominate candidates to be
voted for in the fall Is that OF Ohio,
and the outcome was watched with
considerable interest because Presi-
dent Mckinley comes from there.
There is always something of a fac
tonal fight in the party. and there was
loud talk during the past few weeks
about downing" Boss Mark Hanna
and his following. His particularly
devoted aspirant for the Governorship,
Judge Nash, was to be laid out cold"
when it got to the balloting and was
never to be heard of in politics again.
The convention has been held and the
candidates have been nominated, and
heading the ticket that the Republi-
cans of all shades are expected to vote
for Is the name of Judge George Kill
bon Nash! He had more votes than
any other man on the first ballot, and
he became the unanimous choice Of
the delegates on the second. Hanna,
instead Of being "downed," was an
easy winner. He is still the supreme
boss of the party in the State of Ohio.
and even his fiery colleague in the
Federal Senate, Joseph Benson For
aker, has to bow to him.
1t is noteworthy, however, that In
order to win over the OPPOSITION to him
in the convention. Hanna had to OBJ
tain the assistance of the Republican
boss in the city of Cincinnati George
Cox, who has the reputation through
out Ohio of being the most malodorous
political manipulation that the State
has yet produced, which Is saying n
good deal. That this alliance will cost
the ticket thousands of votes is freely
predicted, and there are Democrats
a-plenty sanguine enough to expect the
wiping out of the 1900 Mckinley ma
jority of three years ago.
There are also good reasons for
watching closely the anh-Hanna Re
publicans in Cleveland where the
candidate of the latter for Mayor was
opposed and beaten by the boss and his
following, and where knives are out
for anyone favored by him. as Judge
Nash is. Taking the situation as 1t is
throughout Ohio to-day. much stranger
things have happened in politics than
would be the triumphant election of Il
popular Democrat for Governor there
this year-New York News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
1owa,s New Towns

Through the railroad extensions that are
being made now in this State, several doz-
en- new towns are to be created Farms
Will be cut up into town sites and thrown
on the market in the shape of city lots.
There will be booms in the price of sur
rounding realty that will go long way to-
ward advancing the aggregate value and
tax paying power of the State. Homes
and business openings for hundreds of
men and their families will be created.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
The Ohio Ticket.

With the exception of the immediate
personal and political friends of the
gentlemen who comprise the Republi-
can State ticket, few Ohioans will re-
gard 1t as having special strength be-
fore the people This would be true,
even II the nominations had been made
as the unanimous choice of the dele
gates; but, since they We're made in
the face of a bitter fractional fight that
still refuses to subside, and upon a
platform unsatisfactory to thousands
of voters in the party, the weakness of
the ticket is most apparent and the sit
uation develops fewer reassuring fea-
lures than have ever been noted in this
State following the adjournment of
a Republican Columbus
Post-Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

All sorts.
Nothing is SO infectious as example,
Kingsley.
Don't think fancy umbrella handle
turns the rain.
Don't attempt to play Hamlet unless
you have at least Il ghost of a show.
Time-A experimentation arrange.
ment for making yesterdays Of to-mor-
rows.
A grain of fine sand would cover
about 100 of the minute scales of the
human skin; each scale covers from 800
to 800 pores.
The pain Of a mosquito bite is caused
by a fluid poison injected by the insect
into the wound in order to make the
blood thin enough to float through the
mosquitoes throat.
The tustodo navalis, or ship worm,
has caused the loss of more vessels
than We're ever destroyed in war. In
tropical countries this worm penetrates
the timber of vessels and eats away the
wood until there is only shell left,
which will crumble at n slight blow.
Large beams. apparently sound after
removal from vessels. after the outside
crust has been broken. have been pull
ed to pieces by the fingers. During the
last century an East lndiaman, locked
in London, cruml.ed to pieces when the
supports We're placed underneath and
| the water removed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Tho Thought of You.

In green fields where the toilers reap
Meath skies of storm or cloudless
blue;
In light or darkness of the deep,
TITS evermore the thougnc of you!
In earth grown barren, or made new
The thought of you-the thought of
you!
On heights where Glory sits supreme
And Fame Is fair in all mems view,
Or in the deed, or in the dream,
TITS evermore the thought of you.
The faithfullest-the sweet-the true
The thought of you-the thought of
you!
All, never any thought save this
In all the dreams-the deeds to do.
The crown to trample, and to kiss
The cross in the sweet thought of
you!
In life, and when deaths face view,
The thought Of you-the thought of
you!
Frank l.. Stanton, in Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

Senator Mcmillan of Michigan does
not propose to step out Of the contest
for reelection to the upper house for
the purpose of obliging Secretary Al
ger, who has announced his candidacy.
As Il result of this stubbornness on the
part of Mcmillan, the discredited Sec
rotary Of War will have such lively
fight ON his hands that 1t may result
in his resigning his Cabinet portfolio.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Mule. for the Eiit I.lana..

Forty mules have been sent to the
Fiji Islands from San Francisco, Cal.
They will be used on Il large sugar
plantation. This is the first shipment
of the kind, and is regarded as an ex-
pertinent. which, if successful, will re-
suit in many others of the animals be-
ing sent to the South Sea Islands,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
The Sway of the Ro.se..

There is big element in the Repub-
lican party, who each year become
more deeply disguised with the bosses
and bossism. and their allegiance has
only been retained, by giving them
some special and temporary sop. In
the nature of things this element is a
little larger and more thoroughly dis
gusted than ever. and the thing which
troubles the boss the most is to devise
something that will fool them just once
more and keep them within the party
traces.-Ashtabula Standard.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

This extract from one of Abraham
Lincoln's speeches sounds reasonable
now. but it shone with the light Of
truth and right when the words were
uttered: when the white man gov
erns himself, that is self-government;
but when he governs himself and also
governs another man that is more than
self-government-that is despotism."
Lincoln's speeches ought to be censore-
ed. Perhaps they should be suppressed
altogether.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The Mckinley of 90, who has deter
mined to raise the standard of i'm
perialism, finds himself overshadowed
and discredited by the Mckinley of
'9s, who, speaking for this nation, SOL
emily declared that extension of ter
ritory through conquest is criminal ag-
gression.' The present William Nc
Kinley has been driven to the point
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

There is school teacher in Kansas
who writes her county superintendent
that she is "A years of age, and wishes
to pass the examination for State GER
tificate, and also to enter for a year at
the Normal School to study new meth
DDS.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

bill has been enormous. Would he say
that half the amount of money expend-
ed in some other ways would not have
proven more effective, leaving out of
consideration the heavy loss of life and
permanent injury to health MAN
chester Union.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
censu. Jobs on part;,an 1.,r.s.

census Jobs on Partisan Lines.
The Democrats carried Texas by
over 100000 in 1896, but Director Mer-
riam allows them but six of the thir-
teen census supervisors, giving the
other seven to the Republicans. In
nearly all of the States Mr.. Merriam
is distributing these places on partisan
lines, and In some Of the States there
is much complaint over his Methods
Springfield (Mass.l Republican.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

opposition to the trusts and to militar-
ism cannot begin to open the fight that
is before it too soon. The monopolists
and imperalists are strongly organ
lied already, and they cannot be beaten
excepting after hard fght.-New
York News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Too Thin for the Array.

In Ireland recently n quarrel had
taken place at fair, and n culprit was
being sentenced for manslaughter. The
doctor however, had given evidence
to show that the victims skull was alb
normally thin. The prisoner, on being
asked if he had anything to say for
himself, replied: NO, yer honor; hut
would ask was that skull for IL man
to go to n fair widl"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The great pyramid of Cheops is the
largest structure ever erected by the
hand Of man. Its original dimensions
at the base were 764 feet square, and
its perpendicular height in the highest
point 44S feet,