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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

it, all the time murnuring prayers for
my souls sake. I completely obscured
its occupant from those behind me-
Timidiy and -everently 1 touched the
small hand-touched and closed my
strong fingers about it, with clinSing
protection in the clasp could not con-
troll for am a son of Adam. To my
utter undoing, the eyes. which had be-
fore remained closed. swiftly and eau
tiously opened large and black. upon
me. One hasty look of entreaty and
appeal they sent down straight into my
soul, while the fingers had well-nigh
dropped pressed something into mine
The eyes closed again. and ]. with very
little breath left in my body, stood
gaping vacantly before me.
1t seemed scarcely credible 10 me,
now that so strange thing could hap
pen and that my first vivid thought
after q flash of delight at the beauty
of the lady's eyes should be bitter
rage at those dreadful bandages of
mine. All other considerations-the
probable insanity of the patient; the
wonder as to what she had forced upon
me. were for the moment absorbed in
frivolous regret that such eyes should
have taken their first look al me whilst
a silk handkerchief was knotted about
my head and my right eye glared upon
her, swollen, infiamed, and inexpres-
slNe- MY poor vanity tSdih IL Dche
beneath a heavy load to bear and
had no leisure in which to bind up its
wounds. The situation was growing
frightful- ''Well?" asked Brown, curt
~. at my elbow. and with a start /
drew back and faced him. rs there a
table convenient" l asked sharply;
and then, as sop to the Impotence
which / saw racked him. l explained
condescendingly. ''as l must prepare
her soothing draught. Her fever is
running pretty high
With that / snatched up the medicine
case, which seemed to follow me about
without any intelligent effort on my
part. and made over to the corner of
the room to which slow-footed Hoskins
had ambled with a second lamp.
Evidently boiling with irritation.
Brown flung himself into a chair beside
the bed. so that. after Kidding myself
OF the woman by sending her for
glass of water, 1 was able to swiftly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

run. leaving the charge of sudden mad
ness to rest on the memory of DR.. A
when his corpse should be discovered
by the roadside? That l battled with
these thoughts 1 well remember, but
their fascination grew upon me, and l
kept returning to them at intervals
until my whole line of action, despite
the efforts of my reason, was clearly
mapped out before me.
Gradually, too, the whole thing grew
upon me as funny and theatrical, and
even the certainty which possessed me
that the dead body OF that unpleasant
doctor still lay by the roadside could
not hinder me from a certain awful rel
isin in IL. In vain did l force myself TO
dwell on the shocking figure he must
cut; but all that guilt and shame could
do for me, in the state of mind 7 then
endured. was to force from me a gen.
eral forgiveness of his offensive treat
ment of me. That done, my /loral sense
would bulge no farther.
And now another disquiet laid hold
upon me. 1t was becoming painfully
evident that we must have long since
passed beyond the limits of the city
No lights now flashed in at the car
riage windows: no opposing roll of
wheels deadened the sound of our vehi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
AN EVENTFUL NIGHT.
BY CLARA PARKER.


at that moment there came a loud, i'm
patient crack of the whip, the horses
bounded forward into the night, while
l., well, l was dazed with the pain of
the late operation, an uncomfortable
sensation of coagulated blood lay about
my teeth, and when you add to this, my
injured self love as well as my annoy
ance at the glaring INSTRUMENTATION of
the driver, it would seem to me there
was sufficient excuse for what followed,
1t is true, and l have never denied it,
that the check-strap was at that mo-
ment within easy reach of my hand,
and bloodless critics now claim that
reason demanded / should pull it. stop
the carriage, denounce the coachman,
confront the intruder. and otherwise
air the various items of the mystery in
which ! thought myself involved; but
/ scorn their logic.
As have before, explained, the city
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-08

The passion for cheapness and the
greed for gain have proved too strong
for the American conscience. Alto
gether too many manufactures are
turning out goods which pretend to be
one thing and are another. This Is seen
in furniture in architecture, in patent
medicines. in drugs, In clothing, i'm jew
elry i'm food to name at random few
typical branches of industry. II Is well
that Emerson ana Carlyle, Holmes and
Ruskln and William Morris, have
ceased to rage against the hollowness
Of veneercd civilization What won Il
they say to the vulgar, stone-faced
buildings with their himsy walls and
imitation woodwork How would
they endure the vanished rubbish that
finds place in so many homes, and the
10-cent books that will fall to pieces in
half a lifetime and the plated jewelry,
and sweat-shop clothing, and the mon
strosltles of advertising, and watered
milk and watered stock, and other
denominations? Emerson's sarcasm
would have to be Reinforced; Carlyle
would tear his hair and hunt for new
anathemas. 1t Is fundamentally vice
of the mind that leads to such universal
deception The man that is content
with appearance is the man who keeps
up the market for shams. The woman
who prefers cheap gold plate to real
silver in her ornaments because "sil-
yer is so common" makes a good Gus
toner The builder who is willing to
put mp bad walls on bad foundation
and cover them up with respectable
finish and furnishings In order to make
n little more on n contract Is a partner
in the crime. The druggist who mixes
alcohol with some powerful opiate or
nerve stimulant aud sells 1t for ten
times its cost to people who know no
better than to buy unlabeled poison is
another sinner. The grocer who sells
coffee consisting of blighted berries
glazed with metallic compounds. and
canned peas treated with copper to
make them green, and jellies made
from the gelatine obtained from the
skins and cores of apples, boiled. strain
ed and mixed with glucose, with the
addition of tartarlc and in some cases
sulphuric acid is an accomplice of the
wretch who sold him the goods The
dairyman who milks his pump as well
as his COW has long been Il standing
joke; but his boric and sallcylic acids
which he introduces into unsuspecting
human stomachs are no joke They
prepare the way for the patent medi-
cine man and the fake healer. one
sham makes another
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-08
Patching the Sofa.

After the civil war the furniture at
certain notable country-seat in Vir-
glnia, which had grown shabbier for
want Of renewal and repair, had reach
ed n climax In the matter of dilapida-
ton. At about that time a distinguish
ed stranger, staying for short visit in
the neighborhood, came one morning
to the house ON a ceremonlous call
Harper's Magazine tells the story Of
what followed;
The mistress Of the establishment.
thrown into n tlutter Of excitement by
the magnitude OF the occurrence, was
stil further confused by the fact that
her husband. usually such an efficient
host, sat aloof in a remote corner Of the
room.
MIR. Jones'" she exclaimed, reproach-
fully. as soon as the visitor was out OF
hearing, ''you didn't help me at all!
Why didn't you sit near the general
anu talk to himT'
my DEAR" replied Jones, rising and
pointing meekly to the seat he had just
yacated, Il was patching a hole In the
sofa"
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Of solids a day. namely: One and a half
pounds Of breadstuns, one pound Of
meat, half a pound of fish, two pounds
Of vegetables and fruit and half
pound OF various other foods That
means nearly a ton year, or iftyfour
tons In sixty years A man drinks at
least a half pint Of tea or coffee for
breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper, and
between times he has a full pint Of
something weak or strong, or both.
This makes $50 pints, or slxty-nine gal
Ions, per annum, equal to 1880 gallons
in seventy years. All in all, man con-
sumes 103,0OO pounds of food and drink
in seventy years, II his appetite is good.
That equals 1880 times his own
weight, assuming that he weighs not
less than $50 pounds.
Man must have his cigar, his pipe, his
cigarette, or all three of them. Our
mathematician says he began smoking
in his twentieth year, and that he aver
aged one dozen of cigarettes a day. Up
to the present time he has smoked 219-
600 cigarettes, which in the aggregate
would fill wrapper sixteen feet long
and eighteen inches thick. He smoked
also six cigars a day, which, made up
In one wrapper, would weigh about two
tons and measure sixteen feet thrc
inches, and two feet thick. Il nev,
used to smoke more than an ounce OF
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latter he listened attentiyely to an ac-
count of their proceedings and asked
many questions bearing upon the work.
Then in conversation, after the formal
reception was ended he remarked with
characteristic impulslyeness, Soap.
more soap! That's the weapon to check
disease" Technically the Kaiser is
right. specialization is civilization.
General Wood proceeded upon that the
DRY In Santiago and proved It. Con
tagious diseases, scientists tell us, are
dirt diseases. Eradicate the dirt and
you arrest contagion and its conse-
quent disruption Of society. II all de-
ponds upon your definition Of soap If
the ordinary combination Of oils and
alkali are considered the crying need
OF the world Is more soap as the soap
trust win readily agree. If by the term
is meant n political lubricant we have
entirely too much soap already.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-08
FOOD OF A LIFETIME.
EDl5LES REQUIRED BY A MAN
MAKE GREAT BULK.
In Seventy Years of Life He Fats a
Herd Of Cattle, and Drinks More than
Wonid Fill the Heidelberg Tuu-In.
teresting Comparisons.

A prominent scientist Of mathemat-
teal turn, having a little spare time on
his hands, devoted some Of 1t recently
to computing the bulk Of food he has
consumed in the seventy years Of his
life. The resulting figures are surprls-
ing, and in the comparative details of
his report the average man who eats
and drinks will find much to interest
him. The scientist says, in summing
up, that If all the bread he has eaten
could be duplicated and gathered to-
gether it would weigh fourteen tons
He has Toasted on a good-szed herd Of
oxen, sheep and pigs, which, If repre-
sented I'm one animal of each of the
kinds mentioned, would make the pre-
historic mammoths look like babies in
comparison. "If all the milk. tea.
coffee, beer, wine, liquor and and water
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FroEeMlNo HIMSELF.
Brave Engineer Who Atoned far HI
Error by Fiery Death.

nyave Engineer Who Atoncd f.r Hi.
Error by a Fiery Death.
Men who are ignorant Of fear are
rare. The bravest are those who.
knowing the danger do not finch when
duty calls. The following act Of hero
ism in the case of a railroad engineer
is told in the Century Magazine.
August sieg, the engineer in question,
employed by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, met death by fire to save the pas
sengers behind him.
The train, composed Of ten crowded
passenger coaches, had just left Jersey
City and was passing through the
Bergen Cut when smoke suddenly
blew in through the. open door Of the
smoking-car, and a moment afterward
the engineer and fireman scrambled in
over the tender.
The smoke cleared for an instant,
and showed q roaring fire in the open
furnace and flames streaming back
from the cab. 4 sudden burst Of fame
from the furnace had set the cab on
fire and forced the engineer and the
fireman to beat a retreat.
But in deserving the cab without first
doing something to check the speed Of
the train, they had lmperiled the lives
of all the passengers; for the flames
were spreading back so fercely that it
was only a question Of time when the
whole train would be on fire. To leap
from It would mean death or manning,
for 1t was rushing along at full speed.
People had crowded into the smoker.
Doubtless Sieg heard their mutterings.
1t required only a few minutes for him
to realize the situation. He sprang
through the smoking-car door, and
moment later had disappeared amid
the flames beyond
Presently 1t was felt that the trains
speed was Stacking, and soon, with a
lurch and a bump, it came to a fun
stop near the bridge over the Hacken-
sack.
The passengers rushed out. With
the sudden stoppage of the draft
caused by the rush of the train, the
flames from the cab rose straight into
the air. The head and shoulders Of a
man were seen protruding from the
water-tank on the tender. 1t was Sieg,
his face disfgured, his hands burned,
his body blistered. He was taken TO a
hospital but his burns proved fatal.
In retreating before that first fierce
burst of fame Sieg had been guilty Of
a grave error; but who will say that
he failed to retrieve it like a hero?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-08

EscroQuerie is a crime which has no
distinct counterpart in any country but
France. An English lady was recently
sentenced to twelve months imprison-
ment for ordering a costume she was
not able to pay for, and an English
governess was sentenced to six weeks
Imprisonment for taking a cab without
being able TO pay the fare. The French
are eminently practical people, and see
no great difference between running off
with an article and getting it without
paying for it. 1t often happens that
the English fall under the law with re-
gard to escroQuerie.
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l have used or wasted in those years,
he continues, had been stored in
vessel of sufficient capacity its size
would make the famous Heidelberg
tun look like 30 cents. Being an ordin-
airy man, without special likes and dis
likes in the matter of food, bread was.
the staff of life with me, as it is with
most men and women"
What Giant Potatoi
He reckons that he daily ate one and
one-half pounds Of bread biscuit, cakes
aud crackers during sixty out of his
seventy years of life, adding that as a
boy under 10 years he probably con-
sumed about half that quantity. This
makes in seventy years 100000 to 300,-
600 pounds of bread, etc, a quantity
equal to AL cubic yards "A man eats
on the average three potatoes a day,
weighing in the neighborhood of one
quarter of n pound" continues this au-
thorlty. "rhat isn't much per week and
per year, perhaps, but amounts up in
sixty or seventy years. Imagine TWEEN
ty-one potatoes piled up week after
week for seventy years, making due
allowance for lesser consumption dur
ing the first ten years The giant potato
evolved would fill two nat railway cars
of the longest kind, and 100 men would
be unable to move it. Carrots and tur-
nlps, though healthful vegetables. are
not eaten in great quantities, yet if
those consumed by the 70year-old man
in life were formed into one big don
key would look insignificant beside it.
The rest of the vegetables he consumed
would fill twelve farmers big wagons"
The Baby aud the OK.
One of the Illustrations printed here
with, showing an OK and baby. gives
the comparative size of the OK needed
to supply all the beef he got away with
in sixty years. The proportions are
drawn accurately; the baby weighs
twenty pounds. the OK 100000 pounds
Most people eat fish of various kinds,
besides meat and vegetables Figur-
ing one-half pound of fish as the aver
age daily consumption, the total
amount consumed by man. If he lives
to ripe old age like our friend, the
mathematician, is 10000 pounds. The
calculator asserts that he has eaten
10000 eggs. Americans are great
sugar eaters. The statstician quoted
confesses to having eaten 10000 pounds
Of sugar since his birth. To offset the
sugar, person eats twenty-five pounds
of salt per year. or about 1000 pounds
In lifetime of seventy years. Assum-
Ing that the average weight of man is
100 pounds. ten mems forms could be
made out of the salt the Septuag enarian
has consumed SO far. OF butter he CON
sumes a ton, adding $50 to 300 pounds
of cheese to aid digestion. The average
man. he says. will eat apples in quaint
ties to aggregate in size one big apple
measuring fifteen to sixteen feet in cir
conference; the giant orange made up
of the oranges he eats in a lifetime
would measure at least ten feet In cir
cumeference, the pear five feet
! Man consumes five and half pounds
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A Blow at Cupid.

at was pretty hard to have the
honeymoon clouded before we had
been married two hours" complained
newly married man, as reported by
the Detroit Free Press. Fact is,
though, the excitement of the wedding
day took away the little sense l had
remaining.
I'VE were married at noon. and after
lodging the customary rice and old
shoes, left for the station. We had
barely time to catch our train, and 1
rushed up to the ticket window at once.
Then, once more. we had to run the
gauntlet Of friends, who think it smart
to throw rice down ones collar and
nave it sift down into ones shoes.
I'VE got aboard at last and when the
train started / heaved a sigh of relief.
When the conductor came around for
the tickets l handed mine over. After
looking at it for moment he asked
me if the lady was travelling with me.
THAT was the last straw, and
snapped out for him to mind his own
business.
That is what l am trying to do
he answered. coolly. One more fare,
pleasc.'
"Then it flashed upon me that in the
hurry and excitement of the moment ]
had forgotten that had a wlfe-and |
wilted right then and there. paid the
other fare and tried to laugh it off, but
lie look that my wife gave me will
linger with me as long as l live. 1t
took me two hours to argue her out OF
the impression that l didn't love her
any more, and she isn't fully satisfied
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lean up against the wall, and it defes
the most ingenious to devise a scheme
for holding-it while repairing or clean
ing it. The table of Charles Colsten. Of
Jersey City, fills the bill. The wheel
stands upon the saddle and handle
bars on the table, which places it at a
very convenient height Two springs
grasp the handle-bar in such a way
that the machine is held perfectly rigid
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In New York prize fights are toler-
ated. but the American governor gener-
al OF Cuba sternly suppresses lotteries.
In England sunday newspapers arous-
ed a wave Of public Indignation and
protest, but the institution Of the bar
maid. which would not be permitted
by the police Of any American city, is
a delight to the ale-tlpplng subjects of
her most gracious majesty. No won
der the Latin mind is bewlldered in
trying 10 fathom the moral ethics Of
the Anglo-SaXon.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-08

when General Miles asserts that the
automobile win largely displace horses
dn army operations in the near future
we trust he doesn't mean that officers
OF the general stan are to be deprived
OF their chargers on the field OF battle.
Fancy the generals ana colonies gal
looping along on automobiles And
what, then. would become OF all our
equestrian statues, those noble heroes
mounted on bronze horses, having one
foot paving the air, while their tails
and names are waved by the wind? 1t
won't be the same thing at all to repre-
sent military hero sitting on an auto
mobile, either in marble or bronze.
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Facts About Our Calendar.

No century begins on Wednesday,
Friday or Sunday. The same calen-
dars can be used every twenty years.
October always begins on the same day
of the week as January, April as July,
September as December. February,
March and November begin on the
same days. May, June and August al
ways begin on different days from each
other and every other month in the
year. The first and last days Of the
year are always the same. These rules
do not apply TO leap year, when com
parlson is made between days before
and after Feb. %.
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Germany was the star performer al
the Hague when she not only blocked
the Cars scheme OF disarmament IN
a very effective manner, but also nm
nounced her conversion to the Anglo.
American arbitration plans. Those
prophets were right who declared that
the Kaiser was meditatng move that
should put him at the center of the
stage and demonstrate that he had q
very large part in the play. That he
has consented to the principle Of per-
manent arbitration tribunal is wei
come news. His country IS both a
great and a growing power, whose In
Guence should be made to tell for all
the objects Of the peace conference
that are practical and praiseworthy'
and the permanent tribunal Is one of
these. 1t has been criticised because
1t is said that the questions that viii
come before it are not such as to pro-
yoke war, but the establishment of the
principle is likely to have far-reaching
effects once the nations have begun
the practice of appealing to the court
its value I'm the case OF larger interna-
tlonal problems is sure to be recog-
nzed and wider application Of the
principle will follow. The triumph for
arbitration IN the concession of Ger
many Is particularly gratifying to this
country, to whose efforts it is primarily
due. Our Government and our dele
gates deserve congratulations on the
eminently practical way in which they
formulated and advocated one of Tie
few great and feasible schemes of the
conference.
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Gently there was unveiled stat
which ittingly commentaries the
ventor, philosopher and patriot II
located in front of the postoffice and
stands on the site where Franklin is
supposed to have made his historic eX-
pertinent with kite. The sculptor is
John ]. Boyle. of Philadelphia.
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celona for this offense. Witnesses ac-
cused them of squeezing the fingers Of
anarchists with thumbscrew. One
of the victims is among the accusers.
The Governor Of Barcelona, who is q
general in the army, is taking an active
part in the proceedings. A railway
porter of San Martin, who had this in.
strument applied to him, has lost the
use Of his hands and arms.
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STATUE OF FRANKLIN.

Inventor, Philosopher and Patriot
Comm emorat-d in Rronze.
For years the absence Of a suitable
memorial to Benjamin franklin has
been a reproach to Philadelphia, where
he achieved his scientific and literary
fame. THE stain Is now removed. Re
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Is there any sphere into which Amer
lean enterprise hesltates to enter If IL
can but obtain the open sesame of the
gatesY II it were not for the success
that usually follows 1t one would be
tempted to think 1t synonymous with
that thing that "rushes Ia where an
gels fear to tread" Its latest achieve
ment is to put a modern elevator down
TO the catacombs of Rome and TO light
the catacombs with 2,760 lncandescent
hghtsl
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The measure of a woman's devotion
is the extent to which she will make
herself uncomfortable for you; the
measure of q mans is the effort he will
make to have you as comfortable as he
proposes to be himself.
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A terrible calamity befell a fishing
party last week. After reaching its
destination some twenty miles away it
discovered that the key of beer had
been left behind.
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The case of the Western young man
who has begun suit for damages be-
cause he was mistaken for burglar
and badly beaten teaches a valuable
lesson. Even when counting it is well
TO so boldly up to the front door and
ring the bell instead Of slipping around
70 the side of the house and tapping on
a window 1t may not be SO romantic
but il is whole lot safer.