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AFRAID OF SPoILSMEN.

Those emissaries from the insurgent
army went back to their headquarters
empty handed. During their sojourn
in Manila, General Alejandrino made a
somewhat significant remark, according
to the dispatches. THE Filipino people
do not wish to continue the fighting, +"
he said. 1--WE have no army contract
ors. We have no business men max
ing profits from the maintenance of
our army. There is nothing in it for
us nor are our salaries large enough
TO keep us fighting for money and posi-
ton"
From this remark it would seem that
he carries a clipping from the editorial
columns OF our morning contemporary.
on the 18th of May. 1898, it told the
world, and, incidentally, the Filipincs,
that the administration was in the
hands of the money sharks. TO whom
patriotism was a matter of bargain and
sale. The Tribune said further:
The foe more to be feared than the
Spaniard Is a policy of catering to con-
tractors planning for bond issues and
wearing out the heart of the country and
of the troops by uncertainty and bungling
delays.
President Schurman Of the insular
commission. upon his return from the
islands. gave out a statement which
shows that they have heard how the
Mckinley HANNAH latt-Elkins syndi-
cate" is running elections and admins
trations and civil service regulations in
this country, as our neighbor last year
said they were. The professor says:
was often asked in the Philippines if
our civil service was better thas that of
Spain. Here Is a point where the Filipinos
fear and suspect US We must allay their
anxiety and suspicion by a splendid Phil
ippine civil service. believe we shall. it
IS absolutely necessary. But th2re will
be no harder task in connection with
our government Of the archipelago.
I'VE must allay their anxiety" to be
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first among equals, 1t is hardly possible
to do more here than to remind the stu
dent that none of the writers to whom
he has been introduced sits in solitary
state, that each 9f them has been
chosen because he most completely
represents a line of development that
many share.
During the third quarter of our cen
tury the prevailing trend of literature
in every department was toward sci
ence and naturalisfn Literature passed
from the rule of the romantic magma
ton to that of the determinist philaso-
ply of Taine. France exchanged such
historians as Michclet and TflieFry for
men like Mignet, Martin and Theirs.
careful chroniclefs, critical analysts of
the past. Where the older critics had
been personal. impressionist, the new
undertook to be systematic, compare
tive. In the old regime Sainte- Beuve
Is great because of his genius, Nisard
because of his method The method
could be learned, the genius could not
Hence Brunetiere dominates the criti-
cism of the later period, rather than
the independent critical essayists, Ed
mond Scherer, Lemaitre or Anatole
France.
This determinism of Taine had i'm
portant literary results in poetry, drama
and fiction. Everywhere it led to minute,
observation of details. to what We call
'naturalism," and to a conviction that
environment is a determining cause of
character. Hence writer's were led
naturally to deal with those extreme
manifestations by which the laws of
determinism could be exhibited, as it
We're, magnified. The typical natural
istic novelist, or poet, seemed to select
the nonstrosity, the exception, moral
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05
SEARCHING FOR MOTIVES.

The killing of Chief Engineer John
. o Melveney of the Oregon Short Line
by Captain Fred j. Mills was most
distressing affair. 1t is a. crime which
reaches farther than the murdered man
ana brings trouble to more than the
assassin. Most murders do, but in this
case widow and five little fatherless
children are left without a moments
warning to face the world alone, and
another mother and her two innocent
children are bowed with the weight of
a fathers awful crime.
The deed itself was so deliberate and
so STEPPED in treachery and cowardice
that it was either the act of a mailman
or a cold-blooded murder. There is no
conceivable defense except insanity. 1t
is true that rumors have been circu-
lated to the effect that Mills shot O'Mel-
veney because the latter was Grim
inaily intimate with Mrs. Mills. There
ought to be something more than the
unsupported word of the murderer to
entitle this theory to the credit scandal
mongers and motive hunters have given
49, AAAO -hiilo Idlllls troubles are not OIL
recent date. From all accounts they
have been running along for years. In
the meantime Mills sought and obtained
favors from o,Melveney On the day
of the tragedy he was the guest of his
victim at the O'Melveney home Mills
went there as a friend of O'Melveney.
broke bread at his board, ate salt I'M
der his roof, walked down street
with him after lunch, entered the office
on the license of friendship and began
shooting, evidently from behind, with
out a word Of warning or sentence of
explanation. Injured husbands are not
supposed to proceed to right their
wrongs and avenge their wounded
honor in this way. Nor is it justifiable
TO drag a woman's name into the mire
of disrepute for the sole purpose of
building up q defense of crime or fur
nishing a. motive where the whole de-
meanor of the slayer and the victim
seem to indicate that no such motive
existed in fact. Had Mills been the
accuser and O'Melveney the conscious
author of his woe, is it reasonable to
suppose that the latter would have
welcomed him to a chair in his office
without looking UP from his desk? If
this theory is correct. O'Melveney must
have been insane. II it is not then the
assassination was either a cold-blooded
murder or the act of a mailman.
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The Olympia is the observed of all OBJ
servers. Since the admiraFs departure
for Washington the multitudes who lin
ger in New York have centered their
interest on the great flagship. Upon
the plain of Olympia was held the
quadrennial festival of theS ancient
Greeks. There were professions and
banquets in honor of the victors. The
ship has been covered with flowers and
the victors crowned with honors just
as the triumphant Grecians were
crowned with garlands. "On their re-
turn home they We're received with ex-
traordinary distinction and enjoyed
numerous honors and privileges" That
description was written several centu-
ries ago, but it answers the purpose
vet.
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perversity, nervous disease. There was
also in this generation a shifting of
moral standards toward fierce and
militant pessimlsm, which was but a
natural reaction from the roseate ideal
ism CT the romantic generation.
About the year 1880 this naturalism,
peseimism and 6eterminism reached it's
zenith and began to yield to the
studiously unsystematic skepticism Of
Renan. A note Of dilettante irony, Of
aristocratic aloofness begins to make
itself heard and attains its best express
sion in the self-styled 'symbolists." In
general, however. the present decade
may be best characterized as a period
of uncertainty, finding momentary sat-
isfaction in protean inconsistency
that supplies ever new and ever changs
ing points of view. Out of it all 1T seems
as if more sober and purified idealism
were slowly disengag ing itself. But ours
is not the prophets function.
Bearing in mind, now, these two gen.
eral tendencies, the scientific determin-
ist pessimistic. and the aristocratie
dilettante skeptical. Of which the for
mer will claim to follow art for truth,
and the latter art for art, let us pass in
brief review the chief poets, dramatists
and novelists Of the second empire and
the third republic that: have not vet
found a place in these stuGles. s
For the greater mart of THIS period all
Frenchmen would have named az their
first poet Victor Hugo, and truly for
he is the father OF modern poetry IN
France, though he neither guided nor
diverted its development. Beneath the
mask of his rhetoric and prosody We
can trace in his descendants the spirit
of Taine-pessimism violent in Baude-.
laire, gloomy in Leconte de Lisles sad
in y-Prudhnmme. frivolous in Ban-
vile, hedonistic and material in Coppee
stetuesquely coldin Heredia-till at ~
the spirit of Renan selves the French
muse and gives US the strange and
weirdly fascinating verses of Yerlaine
and Regnier, of Mallarme, Maeterlinck
and the "decadents." French verse Is
apt to be a sealed book for American
readers, and we will not dwell on these
poets here, saw to note that the works
best worth reading and remembering in
this group are the 'Poemes Antiques"
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Bret Harte must be getting ready to
lay down his pen. His Complete
works have been announced by enter
prising publishers. Yet he is only so
years old. Many authors have done
their best after that age But Harte
has been a hard worker for 40 years.
half of which time was Improbable:
his income during the last twenty
years, however, must have made him
independent. Fame found him at the
age Of 80 when The Luck of Roaring
Camp" was published in the Overland.
Like Poe and Cooper he found his most
appreciative audience abroad. One of
his pupils, it is said, is Kipling, and his
admirers are legion on both sides of
the Atlantic. It is to be hoped that
Harte viii write many more stories be-
fore his work is completed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05
KELsErs OVERFLOW OF WRATH

Mayor Clark's appointee. the present
2ity engineer. is evidently out of HUI.
NOR. In a column communication t.
the city council he opens the floodgate
of his wrath and fairly mandates the
council chamber with criticism. Mr.
Kelsey doesn't seem 10 like the way
the city is governed, outside of his own
department, bat his supreme satisfac-
ton with his own perfection causes hin,
to magnify the shortcomings of every
one else. 1t has been a matter of COM
ment for some time that the city en-
gincer has gradually reached the con-
clusion that he is the whole thing and
that other officials and departments
should await. his pleasure. His treat
ment Of the council has been insolent
and offensive from the beginning. and
that body has found it almost impos-
siloie to get a report from Mr.. Kelsey,
or two reports that agreed.
The trouble with this irritable and
oficious engineer is that he has been
following the instructions of design
ing politicians instead Of counseling
with men who stand in the relation to
him of employers; he is a tool OF local
boss instead of a public servant And
his letter reads like campaign clap
trap rather than an official communi-
cation. He speaks of a councilman not
being endowed with ordinary intelli-
gence,' and of others whose actions and
methods have been dishonorable and
In every way unworthy of honest men. -
Why?
Because they couldn't harmonic his
reports. something Mr.. Kelsey would
better be doing. than showing his an
noyance at their repeated requests for
him tc do SO. The city engineer is
seemingly blind to the fact that the city
council is directly responsible to the
public while he is not. Every member
of that council was elected by the ma
jority vote of the people of this city.
Mr.. Kelsey owes his appointment to
a private pull. The council represents
the public. It was chosen by the pub
lic-not by any man or committee of
fifty. IF Mr.. Kelsey cannot treat it
with due courtesy and respect, If he
feels that he has been dreadfully
abused, the proper thing for him to do
is to resign. No honorable man of fine
sensibilities will assail the character OF
his employer or his employers ac-
knowledged representative and remain
in his employ. There is no law in this
state to compel a city engineer to stay
in place where he is so unappreciated
and imposed upon as Mr.. Kelsey pre-
tends to feel that he is in his present
position.
The Herald does not regard Mr.. KEEL
sey as a dishonest man or an incom-
petent engineer. But he is extravagant
in his department and has tried to
evade responsibility for this condition
by confusing the council; not that there
was any personal advantage to him in
doing So but he was determined to
have his own way and to prevent any
check upon his administration of the
department.
II is the business of the council to
hold such officials in check and 1t is the
councils duty to curb extravagance.
even when INDUCED in by civil en-
gineers who think they know more
about what the city should expend in
certain directions than do the chosen
financial agents Of the people them
selves
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The indianapolis News could see nc
particular reason for opposing the
Democratic candidate for mayor of that
city, but it gave this reason for sup
porting the Republican nominee: AL
though it is absurd to vote for local
officers merely because of their views
on national political questions. very
plausible reasons can be advanced TO
the average Republican partisan this
year why he should do So" That is
only whispered in the secret meetings
of Salt Lake Republicans.
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Hs5IIIlfTII!III[IIII
|EEI.I.I!IlI.I::|

Two trains each way daily between
Denver. Omaha, Chicago, Kansas CITY,
ST. Joseph Atchison and St. Louis and
all eastern points.
Dining cars on all through trains.
No railroad has better sleeping cars
than the Burlington Route. Not even
ON the famous limited trains between
Chicago and New York are the sleep
ers brighter. cleaner or of more modern
design.
The cars ON main line trains are
equipped with wide vestibules. They
are lighted by gas. Their smoking and
toilet compartments are unusually
roorny. From end to end they are
th1rGuehly up to dale.
Drawing Room has one fun ssetion
and a single lower berth, With toilet an
mex.
Berths may be reserved on gpnlica-
ton to any Burlington Route Ticket
Agent. Sleeping Car Conductor will.
on request. telegraph ahead for accom-
nlodatfOns on connecting lines.
A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES
three feet four inches wide by four feet
long. printed in six colorss mounted or
rollers. shows every state, county, inn
portant town and railroad in the Union
a very desirable and useful adjunct q
any household or business establish
rnent. sent on receipt of Is Eents il
stanps-less than cost.
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XXXIII. CONTEMPORARY
FRENCH WRITERS.

been so fertile, 50 varied or perhaps Sc
great in its achievement as the one now
drawing to q close. We have studied
sixteen authors in this course. One OF
them is Of the sixteenth century, two
of the seventeenth, two OF the eiga-
-teenth and eleven of the nineteenth
and yet half the wealth of French liter
allure in our day has not yet been men
toned. The great writer's that we have
studied are indeed first, but they are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05
Summer Term. ] 1899

Mondays: Vacation Studies for Young
Naturalists. Tuesdays: Historic Cities
of Europe. Wednesdays: Popular Lee
lures in Physical Science. Thursdays
and Fridays: Three Centuries Of French.
Literature. Saturdays: Royal Women
Of European History These courses
VIII continue until Oct. IA. 1899 Exam
nations will be held at their close as a
basis for the granting Of certificates.
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thinks his cause is as high as the
cause in which our revolutionary fore
fathers were engaged. That has
familiar sound in these parts. Wonder
if he takes the Tribune?
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Buckle and Lynch are going right
ahead with their mayoralty canvass
needless of the Republican organs
threat to have some one else nomi-
mated. Are they naturally reckless or
have they discovered that its influence
has shriveled?
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.
81 ZIG Ciiy. Itah, Oct. Z.

Sail Lake CITY, Utah, Oct. 4. 1893.
Maximum temperature. IS degrees;
minimum temperature. 80 degrees: mean
temperature, 81 degrees, which is de-
grees below the normal. Accumulated de-
ficiency of temperature since first of
month. 10 degrees: accumulated deficiency
OF temperature since Jan. ]. 1S3 degr ees.
Total precipitation from 6 p. m. to D.
m, 90 inch; accumulated deficiency of
precipitation since first of month, 10
inch: accumulated excess of precipitation
since san. /. 20 inch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

So Kruger has brother whose resi-
dence is in Nebraska. That may ac-
count for some of the fighting blood in
the Nebraska regiments.
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Rothschild says there will .be no war.
That settles it. When he closes his
bank vault the Boer incident will prob
ably close with it.
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If the city engineer would only put
one Of those water meters on his ink
well he might ascertain exactly how
much of the fluid he is wasting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Berlin authorities are trying to sup
press gambling. Do they want to
cause an exodus of prominent citizens
to Monte Carlo?
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THREE CENTURIES
OF FRENCH LITERATURE.

Contributors to this course: Brander
Phi. D.; Jean Charlemag ne Brace Al b.:
Alcee Fortier, ID. 1t; II. Morse Stephens.
nj. A., and other specialists III romance
literature
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Mrs. William j. De Bruhl, who has
been visiting Mrs, Richard A. .Keyes,
leaves Saturday for her home in San
Francisco
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

John Zane arrived in the city yester-
day from Chicago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Mrs. Tiernan entertained informally
at luncheon on Monday in honor of
Mrs. De Bruhl.
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Mrs. f. W.sRose will entertain next
Tuesday at cards.
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Mr. John Critchlow returned from the
east yesterday. He was accompanied
by his sisters, Mrs. A. c. Colt and Miss
Critchlow, who will spend the winter
here.
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tisism of medieval catholicity 1t is
difficult TO conceive that two books so.
radically different as Down Stream.
with its studiedly nauseating descrip-
tons of cheap eating houses, and The
Cathedral" with it's architectural &C.
stasies and rhapsodies on plain-song.
can be from the same hand. Huysmans'
novels are pilgrims progress. but ii is
the progress of an exceedingly morbid
and over-subtle histrionic self-tor-
mentor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Mrs. T. ]. Amy gives a luncheon to-
day for Mrs. De Bruhl.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John Dern have issued
invitations for a reception next We'd
nesday evening in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Henry Dern.
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SOCIETY NOTES.

Miss Geddes win reach home this
morning, after a summer spent in Eu-
rope.
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Miss Hattie Jennings was the hostess
of an informal affair on Tuesday.
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the Goncourt brothers. Edmond and
Jules. who seemed to seek to reduce
naaterfalisnia to- the absurd, i and yet
produced a4Feally great novel in their
"Gerrninie Lacerteux:M and strangest
of all these HuysnlaIls, who began his
literary career al II naturalist of ultra
crudity and has passed through all
the stages that lead thence to the mys-
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Congressman Lentz regards Aguin-
aldo as second Washington and
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Courses of Instruction.

Note.-This study viii be concluded
tomorrow
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STOCKS AND 1NvEsTMENTs

SIUUAS AND IMVESIMENIb.
BONDS. ~
Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks and
other High Grade Investment Securities
bought and sold. Loans on Stocks
Diyfdend-paying Stocks bought and sold.
Investment orders from institutions.
trustees OF estates and capitalists viii
receive the best of attention.
JOHN q. CUTLER. JFs.
Tel. III. IS Main Street.
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TINE CARD IN EFFECT JUNE a. 1889:
Trans VIII arrive and depart at Sals
Lake City Daily as follows:
Arrive.
/ Fsom- Ogden. Chicago. Omaha.
5 a., ,Lio1iss Kansas City and
From ogden, Portland spokans. -"
1 Ssuates Helena and San Fran
'Frcm Milford ssnDsts Provo $50 -
r anu lntermediate points s...s.s. 9:SS an.
T ull Sgdens Chicago. st. Louis.
"a City. Omaha and Dem
' 5a1 GARFIELD Beach. Tooeie - -.
FTaa Tiasies' Msfcur and inter 40 0l-
mediate points -. .........s.- $50 pm
Ogden and Intermediate nSati e points. $50 pm
rE9In ogden. RStte San Fran
CISCO ana intermediate points 10 pm
Depart.
* vsden. Omaha Chicago.
f peniyer. Kansas Cisy and St.
Fer .intie Me+carr and is isasss- ''
''Eof Garfisid Beach. %ooeis and ~ 4
Far Ogden. Brigham Logan. =" 49,
nFsssson and intermediate
For Ogden. Butts. Helena. Port '''V = -
Ian Iand I and San F'rane.ses -, s:4s am
ra lnts1r .I,; points ...... $50 pm.
SInans. st. Louis. Chicago and
~, aaa francisco ...r.....-.......... $40 pm
fof ogden. Butte and intermedf-
az points ........-....-.....-.... S:45 pm
Gays. =" ~
.tDaiiy except Sunday
,-s, Telephone No. $50.
Itckee Cftlce. Masonic Block No. 100 West
Second South Street
General Manager.
= W sGgLES. General Traffic Manager
Tickle. Agent.
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The Black Cat for October contains the
following stories; Gabriel Dare's, Last
Trip. by Bert Lesion Taylor; odd Sim
clair's Story" by Frank Brandrasn; "rhe
Temptation of All Quong,' by Philip
Francis; The Mark of the Betraber," by
James O. Pagan. and The Woman Who
Was Not Sorry" by Ella Higginson.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Holds the worlds record for long dis
tance fast running, s25 miles in 1,O4i
minutes
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OREGON SHORT LINE RAILRlll.

Ine Only Line Running Through Cars q
Portland Butte Missouri River, Chica&l
ana ST Louis. Without Change
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TICKET OFFICE,
214 South West Temple St
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Littel's Living Are for Sept. % con-
tains a number of articles of general In
terest. There is a womans criticism of
the women's congress. the hidden history
of the oxford movement and several other
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-05

Edwin Milton Royle is a contributor to
the October Scribner. which publishes an
exceedingly interesting article from his
pen on the vaudeville theatre. The num-
sketch of Mrs. John Drew. THE Chronl
eles of Aunt Minervy Ann" by joel
Chandler Harris; The Letters of Robert
Louis Stevenson edited nv Sidney Cal
VIM The Water Front of New York" by
Jesse Lynch Williams; ''Te,ephoto-
graphy, by Dwight l.. Elmendorf. These
are only few of the good things in the
magazine.