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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01

from her spare little shoulders when
the Teutonic sailed. Even Mia had
worried and had seen her sisters
worry. Then no sooner did Gov
reach Europe -thans~he began writing
impassioned letters by every steamer,
but that wasn't so bad. She had sew?
eral masculine correspondents. some Of
whom wrote as often as Frank. but
none of whom. to do her justice, got
letters as often as he did. which, how
ever. was saying little. for she hated
writing Gov was to have stayed
abroad three months, plotting the pater
and sister about the scenes so familiar
to him. but they saw how nervous and
unhappy he was They knew ne was
writing constantly 10 some, one. Mil
dred had long since OWNED that there
was al girl at the bottom of Il all. and
longed and strove TO find out who she
was Through the last of JHne and all
i through July he resolutely stood to- his
promise and did his best to be loving
and brotherly to al loving and devoted
sister and dutiful TO q most indulgent
father. But ne grew white and worn
and haggard he who had been such q
picture OF rugged health. and, in her
utter innocence and ignorance as TO the
being on whom her brother had lavish
ed the wealth of his love Mildred began
ITO ask herself should she-not urge her
father TO let Gov return to America.
At last one sweet July evening late IN
the month. the brother and sister were
wandering along the lovely shore of
Lucernes He had been unusually fitful.
restless and moody all day, No letter
had reached him in over a. fortnight.
and he was miserabIy unhappy They
stopped at a grassy bank thatsra down
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01
CHAPTER TX.

One of the most charming writer's of
our day and generation has declared
that the truest blessing a girl can
have is 1.-The ingenious devotion of a
young boys heart" Nine mothers in
ten will probably take issue with the
gifted author on that point, and
though no longer young girl in years,
whatever she might be in looks, Mar
garet Garrison would gladly have sent
the waiting gentleman to the right
about, for, though he was only 20,
Gov" Prime, as aejuniOr at Columbia,
had been ingenuously devoted to the
little lady from the very first evening
he saw her. A boy of frank, impul-
sive nature was ..Gey"-a boy still, in
spite of the budding mustache, the
twenty summers and the barely passed
exam that wound up the Junior year
and entitled him TO sit with the SEN
iors when the great university opened
it's doors in October. Studies he hated
but tennis, polo, cricket. riding and
dancing were things he loved and ex-
celled in. Much of his boyhood had
been spent at one of those healthy,
hearty English schools where all that
would cultivate physical and mental
manhood was assiduously practiced,
and all that would initiate against
them was as vigorously .tabooed."
AT the coming of his twentieth birth
day that summer his father had
handed him his check for $5000--the
paternal expression of satisfaction that
his boy had never smoked pipe. cigar
or cigarette-and the same week Gov
had carried off the blue ribbon with
the racquet. and the second prize with
the single souls. 1t was during the
exams" the first week in June, when
1,.
girls whom he had known for years, he
was presented to this witching little
creature whose name he didn't even
catch. I'VE met her away out at an
army post in Wyoming when papa
took us to California last year, was
whispered to him, and they enter
tanned us so cordially, and, of course.
we said if ever You come to New York
you must be sure to let us know-afld
she did-but'- and there his in
formant paused. dubious. Other call
ers came in and it began TO rama
sudden, drenching shower. and the lit
plainly enough that her hostesses,
although presenting their friends after
our CHEEKY American fashion,, were I'M
able to show her further attention, and
the newly presented-almos all women,
said $50 very pleased, but failed to
lock it, or otherwise to manifest their
pleasure. She couldn't go in the rain.
The butler had 'phoned for a cab. She
wouldn't sit there alone and neglected.
She deliberately signaled Mr. Prime.
1.-The ladies are all busy, She said,
with a, charIningly appealing smile,
but know you can tell me. I have
TO dress for dinner after get home,
and must be at One Hundred and
Tenth street at 7:3O. How long viii it
take a carriage to drive me there? Oh,
is that your society pin2 Why, are you
still in college? Why, 7 thought
That cab was twenty-five minutes
coming. and when it came. Mr., Prime
went with it and her whom he had
not left an instant from the moment
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cleaned like pearls. The mates to
them, half a size smaller, peeped from
the tray of Nita's new trunk.
There came footstep and a rap at
the door. See what it is, Nita, there's
love-I don't want to hop
1t was a card-a new arrival at the
hotel.
Gentleman said he'd wait in the par
Tor IN, . said the bellboy, and vanished.
Nita glanced at the card and instant
trouble stood in her paling face. ST.
lently Mrs. Garrison held out her hand,
took the card, and one quick look. The
buttonhook dropped from her relaxed
fingers The card read:
Mr.. Gouverneur Prime"
For a second or two the sisters gazed
at each other in silence.
At last the elder spoke. ''In heaven
name, what brings that absurd boy
back here? 1 thought him safe in Eu-
rope"
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things she had always been accustomed
to, and couldn't live without. Surely he
would not have her apply to papa No,
but-could she not manage with little
less? He was willing TO give up his
cigars Gndeed. he had long since dong
SOD and to make his uniforms last a
year longer-he who was in his day the
most carefully dressed man at the
Point Well-she thought perhaps ne
ought to do besides-men's fash
ions changed but slowly. whereas
women's- We'll. I'd rather be dead
than out of style, Frank"
And so it went.
But e she did not love her husband.
there was one being in whom her friv-
olous heart was really bound uD-Nita
her baby sister," as she called her,
and when Terriss, the colonel went the
way Of all flesh preceded only a few
months by the wife of his bosom, the
few thousands in life insurance he had
managed to maintain went TO the two
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01
SYNOPSIS Of Preceding Chapters.

The regimental camp on Preside
Heights, overlooking San Francisco mar
Dor, is stirred up by rumors of moving
orders to Manila and by the arrival from
New York of last visitors at headquar-
ters. The visitors are in search of
runaway boy who is believed to have en-
tered the army and Lieutenant Gray, the
most popular young officer in his reSl-
ment, through a supposed acquaintance
with one of the visiting party, Miss Amy
Lawrence, IS envicd by his fellows. The
party, escorted by Colonel Armstrong, at
tends a review on the drill grounds, and is
disturbed by the sight of n young pris-
oner who breaks away from his guard
near them and by ! collision among the
carriages. Mrs. Garrison. an old acquaint-
ance of Colonel Armstrong s, is hurt. Pri-
Nate Morton is arrested on a charge of
stealing money. He appeals to Lieuten-
ant Gray, of his fraternity, for help, and
Gray secures the detail of guard over
him. The troops prepare to sail for Ma
mia. Mrs. Garrison Joins the Red Cross
society ana assists at the embarking.
Young Morton and three other prisoners
escape through a tunnel. Gray is arrest
cd charged with having aided the prison.
ers.
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daughters. Not one penny was ever
laid out in payment of the debts of
either the father or husband. aNita was
sent to an extravagant finishing school
in Gotham. and along in May of the
young girls graduating year, blithe
little Mrs. Garrison arrived, fresh from
the far west, and after a few weeks of
sightseeing and shopping the sisters
appeared at the Point, even half mourn
ing by this time discarded. Thirteen
years difference was there in the ages
of the Fairy Sisters, and not soul
save those who knew them in former
days on the frontier would have sus-
pected it. Mrs. Frank in evening dress
didn't look over twenty
One lovely evening early in August,
just about the time that Cadet Captain
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servant wonen--and what women are
not obssrg aHt-of each other?-dcclared
beth sisters to be desperate fiirts. So
riety at the Point IroNnei upon them,
and, after the first formal call or two.
cropped them entirely-a thing they
never seemed to resent in the least. or
even to notice. They were never in
R-ited out TO tea CT dinrer on the post
Solemn functions nowhere neal. so pal
atable as the WHISPERED homage Of
young manhood. '.Nita is yet such
child she infinitely prefers cadet So
ciety. and always cid like boys" ex-
planned Mrs. Garrison. Some rather
gay old boys, used TO run up Saturday
afternoons on the Mary Powell and
spend sunday at the Point-Wall street
men of 50 years and much lucre.
,Dear old friends of fathers Mrs.
Frank used to say. "and I've simply got
80 entertain them'i. Entertained they
certainly were fcr her wit and yivacity
were acknowledged on every side, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01
rha Liver Keep People Well.

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lust In Time.
.Gr.hscann rrrfhllna..l

@ChfcaS0 TrlbunesG
ssHello. Is that MIR. Highmusf resi-
dence2F y
Yes" ~,
~ That you, Fanuy7"
YES
SsAra you al0nes
yes - -
mas gone to the ball game want. to talk
TO yon a littie. Dar---- ..
ssh Don't you. know the girl at the
central office IS listening
sT)arkness. i was going to- say may
cams an before L get around this even
ing III 81 a nice day. isn't ii? Well good
bye 5@ %'s
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ManV a. Lover

has turned with disgust from an other-
wise Ioyable girl with an offensive
brear n Karl.s Glover Root Tea puri-
fies The breath BY It's action on the
bowels. etc, as nothing else VIII. Sold
for wears on absolute guarantee. Price.
Is cts and so cts. For sale at z. c.
NJ l. Drug Dept.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
A Surprise Party.

Last Saturday was the 55th milestone
in the life path Of Mrs. H. A. Knapp, Of
Barker street. The Ladies of the Mac
cabees and Hamlin Relief Corps, with
their husbands, Ito both Of which sOci-
eties Mrs. Knapp belOngs,) concluded to
celebrate the event, by calling upon her
in body on Saturday evening. Accord
ingly when Hiram had gotten everything
ready and had seated himself in the mid
die OF the floor and was busily engaged
in amusing himself and some Of the
other children playing with toys, max
ing mud pies, etc., ETC., in came the
party and filled the room to overfowing
in very short order. Mrs. K. was genu-
inely surprised and 80 was Hiram init
though his capability for assuming sur
prise is unsurpassed by any man in
town. The guests numbered exactly 55,
a singular coincidence, considering the
age 1851 Of the recipient Of the honor.
A good time was had and that might
go without saying, considering its COM
position. Some neat tokens of remem-
brance were left, a good supper was
enjoyed and thus the ladies and their
husbands helped to mark another bright
spot in the life of their sister.
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in poverty. Matters are at such a stage when
Ethan, after years of European life, comes back to
to Mrs. Gano and Val. 1t is the first time Val has
seen him. She has heard much about him, has
written to him, and has dreamed of seeing him.
She falls in love with him at first sight, and he re-
turns her love. Outlined briefly, the points of the
tragedy that follow are these: They have decided
to marry, when Ethan has long conversation with
Vaps father, who knows nothing of his daugh-
ter's love for Ethan. Val overhears this conversa
ton, in which John Gano points out the curse that
intermarrying has brought upon the Gano family,
the fact that consumption is hereditary on both
sides of the house, and expresses the opinion that
it would be criminal for Gano to perpetuate the
race. In spite of all that, Val and Ethan make
their compact to marry, and determine to have one
year of perfect happiness and they decide if new
life announces its coming to commit suicide to-
gether. They enjoy their year of perfect happi-
ness, and then, as child is about to be born they
fulfil their compact In little sail-boat they sail
away into the sunset out through the Golden Gate,
and there the story ends. There in reality two
open questions One is whether it was right for
physically unfit men and women to perpetuate their
race, and the other whether suffering men and
women are justified in opening for themselves the
gates of death. The book is suggestive merely.
1t simply states the question and makes no attempt
to answer them. The tragedy is made more pow
erful by the fact that Val and Ethan combine in
themselves the very highest intellectual powers
and are both in the best physical health when the
compact is carried out 1t is the fear of what may
come-what is almost sure to come-that makes it
wrong for themselves to do otherwise.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
THE NOVEL OF THE Day,

THE talk of the month in metropolitan literary
circles is The Open Question, the novel by the well
known American actress Elizabeth Robins. The
book was published in English last autumn, and
came to America with the stamp of approval of the
best English critics. The noted artist, Whistler
has pronounced it, in his estimation, the novel of
the age, and at some time other we may look for
an edition with with appropriate illustrations from
his brush. "Dr. Kellner," the great German
savant is another celebrity who was struck at first
sight with the artistic power of the novel. AS
soon as he had read it, he wrote to Miss Robbins,
asking that he be permitted to translate it into
German. With such European record behind this
book, it is of interest to note its reception in the
authors native country. New York critics are very
divided in their opinions but all agree that it is
novel of unusual power, and that is destined to
be talked about through the length and breadth of
the land. One critic said that it was one of the
great American novels Another was certain that
it was anything but that, and while admitting the
genius of the writer, condemned the book severely
The opinions of other critics have varied between
these extremes, but they have all given the book
the full discussion which it merited. The novel
which has created such literary sensation on both
sides of the Atlantic is called "a Tale of Two
Temperaments," and is study of an American
family that has degenerated through long-contin-
ued intermarriage and inherited disease. This
family-the Ganos-were prominent southern
people and were reduced to poverty by the war,
after which they removed to small town some
where in the Middle States, where the greater part
of the scene is laid. Ethan Gano the hero of the
story, was brought up by his maternal grandfather
in Boston, and Val Gano, the heroine, with Mrs.
Gano in the country town in the Middle States.
The first half of the book describes the youth of
each. Ethan has inherited great fortune from his
grandfather while Val, his first cousin, is almost
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
SEC. 2 The state board Of health

SEC. 2 The state board Of health
shall have supervision Of all matters re-
lating to the preservation Of the life and
health Of the people OF the state. The
board shall have supreme authority in
matters of quarantine, and may declare
and enforce it when none exists, may
modify, relief, or abolish it when it has
been established. The board may make
special or standing orders or regulations
for the prevention of the spread of con
tagiOus or infections diseases, and for
governing the receipt and conveyance OF
remains OF deceased persons, and such
other sanitary matters as admit of and
may best be controlled by universal
rule. 1t may also make and enforce
orders in local matters, when emergency
exists, aud the local board of health has
neglected or refused to act with suffic-
lent prOmptness or efficiency or when
such board has not been established as
provided in this chapter, and all neces-
saIy expenses so incurred shall be paid
by the city, village, or township for
which services are rendered. It shall be
the duty Of all local boards Of health,
health authorities and officials, officers
of state institutions, police officers,
sheriffs, cOnstables, and all other officers
and employees of state, or any county,
city or township thereof, to enforce such
quarantine and sanitary rules and regu-
lations as may be adopted by the state
board Of health, and in the event Of fail
ure or refusal on the part Of any mem
bar OF said boards or other officials, or
persons in this section mentioned to 80
act, or he or they shall be subject to a
fine Of not less than fifty dollars upon
first conviction, and upon conviction of
second offense Of fine not less than one
hundred dollars. The board shall make
careful inquiry as to the cause of disease
especially when contagious, infectious,
epidemic, or endemic, and take prompt
action to control and suppress it.
&C PRoBsT, M. D.
SECRETARY.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
TRUE SAYINCS OF CREHT MEN.

FrOm Neal DOW ana his century, Dy OaIlOS martynJ
"By abstaining from sensual iudulgences we be-
come temperate. Aristotle.
"Drink not liquors that intoxicate and disturb
the reason. ."-Buddha.
"Surely wine is abomination, of satan,
therefore avoid it."-Mohammed.
"There is never the body of man, how strong
and stout soever, if it be troubled and inamed but
will take more harm and ofense by wine being
poured into it."-Plutarch
"Whosoever hath wine hath not himself. ATT
gustine.
"Where will we find sermon strong enough to
rescue us from this drink devil 2"-Martin Luther.
'All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many
of the human race, nor ALLEVIATE so much property
as intemperance. Lord Bacon.
"Wine and youth are fire upon fire. e."-Fielding.
SIN all the towns and countries 1 have seen,
never saw city or village yet whose miseries
were not in proportion to the number of its public
drink houses. oliver Goldsmith.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
THoMAS JEFFERSONS OPINION.

The Sage of Monticello laid down the three fam
Gus tests for an office seeker: Is he honest? Is he
capable? Is he faithful to the constitution? After
reading DR.. Benjamin Rushs famous book on
effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Body and
Mind" which confirmed his own observation and
experience, he added fourth test. Said he: "The
habit of using ardent spirits by in public Office
has occasoned more injury to the civil service and
more trouble to me than any other circumstance
which has occurred in the internal concerns of the
country during my administration; and were to
commence my administration again. with the
knowledge, which, from experience have acquired,
the first question l would ask with regard to every
candidate for Office should be, SIS he addicted to
the use of ardent spirits?"-From "Neal Dow and
His Century" by Carlos Martyr.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
BOARD OF HEALTH
OF THE STATE CLEARLY DEFINE THE
DUTY OF THE LOCAL OFFICERS.
Quarantine Regulations Must Be Strictly
Enforced in Order to Prevent its Spread
Fortunately the people of Wellington
Have Nothing to Fear.

In as much as some Of our citizens are
disposed to criticise the action of our
Board Of Health and Health officer in
dealing with the case Of smallpox now
in our community. (and of which there
is no longer any question, we herewith
publish the rules adopted by the State
Board of Health for such cases, and by
which we are obliged to govern matters.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01

AS severe famine was prevailing, hearty sup
per of well-cooked food in several courses, finishing
up with California apricots and breakfast before
train time consisted of eggs, crackers and tea were
mentioned as comforting realities in foreign hos
pitality.
Mr.. Hurlburt expected to leave Zanzibar for
home by way of the French Mail, February 27th
stopping few days in England This prospecting
is part of the Students Volunteer Missionary
movement. M. H. H.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-01
In EAST AERICA.

CHARLES E. HURLBURT, president of the Pennsyl-
vania Bible Institute and director of the African
Inland Mission, for years past, state secretary of
the Y. M. c. A., of Pennsylvania, former Oberlin
boy, whose wife was Alta Houghton, is now on the
ground to establish mission stations along the route
of railroad being built in the interior of East Af-
RIGA. His letters speak of Mombasa, Freetown,
Kangunda and Simba, which in our ignorance of the
local geography of that part of the continent is not
especially enlightening He finds beautiful country
and more healthful than he had supposed; hot in
the direct rays of the sum- but invgorated by cool
breezes from the Indian ocean.
The confusion of Babel still reigns in the dialect
of different tribes. He speaks of nan-power
street car line from Mombasa to Kilindini, two
miles, and the railway speed steam trains was ten
miles an hour. Their lunch in a days journey con-
sisted of bread, jam, oranges mangoes and bananas.
Mr.. Patterson, mechanical engineer, building
large railroad bridge, was very hospitable, and
would have detained these white strangers, who
spoke his own tongue, for companionship. The
workmen were Coolies from India.
The Sepoys or soldiers were there guarding the
men, for the native lion was hungry for human
flesh, and watched every chance to secure such
prey, devouring these Hindoos within hundred
feet of shouting companions without retiring to
privacy to make his meal. The Coolies sleep in a
thorn fence enclosure, but the missionaries in
vited to share the security of corrugated iron
portable house along with the engineer. This
~ngineer had watched from tree top three long
nights in succession without avail, after barely es-
Gaping with his life from the same lion, who had a
family in the jungle to provide for and only at
tending to his duty from lions point of view
1t was gruesome incident of railway travel to
have brought to the train basket of bones, all
that was left of the father of poor family in
India, eaten by the lions two hours before. These
railroad builders lead lonely lives and glad to
get the news from anyone only six weeks out from
New York. The rhinoceros and hyena are other
neighbors of the African resident in the nearby
jungle.