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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
A HOT CHASE.
An Engineer Tries to Run Down 6
Squirrel.

An Engineer Tries to Run Down
Squirrel.
Des Moines Qa.) Leader.)
did 1 ever tell you the hot chase I
had once after a squirrel on the track?''
asked Harry Bentley, who holds the reins
behind engine No. CAS- one day last week
Never did, Ell? Well, I've got you cor
nered, and as nobody else would ever
stand still long enough to let me finish
that yarn, I'm going to hold you TO the
finish. II was down on the middle division
between Des Moines and Davenport 1t
was a rainy night and ] was pulling No.
6. She was an hour late, but you know
her time is pretty soon, anyhow. No.
6 doesn't stop only at county seats when
it can be helped, and I gave No. 948 a free
rein that night. l was hittin EN- up
pretty lively around the curve east of
the big hotel near ColfaX when on pokin'
my head out the side of the cab to get a
glimpse ahead, l saw something that ap-
peared to be a squirrel Swimming along
the track about twenty feet ahead of
the pilot.
'If we were movin' a mile a week, we
were runnin' mile minute and when
that squirrel hit EN- up so fast that he
kept at about the same distance ahead of
the nose of the pilot, / says, Mister,
you're a bird, but just keep right where
you are bit and Ill trim your sails.
I gave the sand rod shake and, grab
bling the lever, I dropped ii for ard an
other notch. I could feel the impulse
given TO the engine and, takin' my hand,
/ wiped off the Inside of the front window
! to see where Mr.. Squirrel vas at.
''Well. there he was. Johnny on the
spot. He had let himself out another
notch and was hikin out TO beat the band.
! Pretty soon we came to a long trestle and
! a bridge. Here's where get your meat
house. said l to myself, but blame my
lamps If the varmint didn't skip across the
| trestle and ties without a hitch or b. eak,
beating No 94S to solid ground about
/ twenty feet. Well, then I thought ] had
'em. sure, but. never havin' used liquor
! crazy So calls the fireman over. and
pointin' to the track ahead. 1 asked him
! if he could see anything. Yes, he could
/ He was sure 1t was a squirrel
( I'VE were running on down grade with
! the air Just on enough to pull out the
| slack and, mister. but we were dancing
| The engine was rocking from side to side
| the side rods were ODscured in the mist Of
revolving steel, and the big drivers STRUCK
fire from the track as they passed the
! MANY tons of resistance against the out.
/ side rails When / saw that squire
keepin' straight ahead and never losin
nor gainin. / says TO myself, Harry, yoJ
and the firemen are both gone daffy.
! icause no squirrel on eayth could keep ouf
of the way. Then IL struck me It NIGH
be a warning omen of danger. and easeC
4 off SOS to light as easy as possible If VIZ
did go in the ditch.
4 Il poked along to Newton, and when W,
stopped for water, / looked over ahead
and there was that COMPOUNDED varmia
in the middle OF the track about twent,
feet away, waitin' for. the race to b
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

And the girl knows we'll that at the end
of the rosary every night, the whole
household join the mother in ''One
Pater- and-Ave for little Mary, who is
amongst the black q. e., the utter)
stranger; that God and the Virgin may
watch over, guard, guide and protect
her, and fetch her hack safe in soul to
cur hungry hearts"
Amusements OF the Irish Girl.
Our girls amusements are-must be
mostly combined with her work. But
occasionally she enjoys pleasure with
relaxation from duty. She attends a
dance, or other spree, in the next town
hand, and enjoys herself to her heart 3
content enjoyment tilst never has a
heartache next morning overshadow-
ing it. The dance house is always
denSely packed, so, even for purposes
fof economy the reyelers sit one upon
anOther's kneos-evem then a limited
space is left vacaTIt in the center Of the
floor, only for dancing: often only
enough for one couple at a time to go
through the Tnazes Of the reel, or to hop
in the jig-whiclh are the two favorite
forms of dance
On bright and sunny Sundays the
boys and girls gather on some beauti-
full hill top, or in picturesque glen, SIT
IN couples and in groups, gaily chat
teTing, laughing, counting And, on the
very summit of one OF our most difficult
mountains, boys and girls within a
radius Of ten miles come together on
the first Sunday of June in each year;
there the youth Of one glen meet those
Of distant one whom they have not
seen since that day tWelvemOnth before,
and not infrequently little romances en-
sue.
Sad to say, the greater portion Of our
girls have to leave the country in their
budding wOmanhood, for ''the states -
Some of them return with money, mar
rs and settle down again for life. Many
never return-althoush, when they set
out, all are firmly bent on coming back
in five years But if they have not
earned a little pile Of money, $500 or
mere, they are ashamed to return.
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on the surface of the water. They at
tractad some attention because of their
number, but for no other reason, since
1t was not then noticed that they were
all within the influence of the mystic
current. Later it was sent through a
portion CT the river further down. and
again large numbers OF floating fish
were seen This time il was noticed
that as they foated down stream and
out OF the electric influence they re-
vived and swan away, apparently as
lively as ever. This led to a series Of
experiments
in the course Of the experiments the
electrical current was applied and then
cut off repeatedly, the seemingly dead
fish appearing at the surface of the
water when the electrical current was
conducted through the stream. and only
at such times. Some of the fish were
gathered, and being taken out Of
the electrified water, they revived al
most instantly. Some were made cap
tivea in small pools and kept. to see
II the effect Of the electricity was last
ing; at the end of a months captivity
they seemed TO be as healthy and act
i've as ever. II was IS If the current
had temporarily paralyZed them, with
out in any way affecting them perma-
nently
All Water Denizens Affected.
At the power house Of the Inter-Ur-
ban Traction company Of Minneapo-
lis, two large iron plates, each nleasur-
ing about six feet square, were sub
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
SALUTATI0Es IN CUBA.
Shall Man Or Woman Make First
Recognition9
New York Sun.


The conflict in Havana between the
Anglo-Saxon and the Latin civilizations,
or. more definitely speaking, between the
American and the Spanish Civilizations is
Just as noticeable in the little things
which go TO make up the every day life
of the people as il is in the broader fields
of justice, religion and politics
For instance there is the custom of
Saluting acquaintance Wnen met upon
the street or in the drawing room. In
Cuba it is the rule of social life that the
man snail bow or speak TO the woman
first. 1t is considered dreadfully forward
of young woman If she takes the liberty
of recognizing a young man and bowling
In the United States IL Is quite the re-
verse It is customary for the woman
first TO salute the man, so that the fair
sex have the right OF selecting to whom
In view of the close guardianship
which Cuban and Spanish mothers keep
over their daughters and the jealousy
with which men guard their wives It
seems a little strange to us that here any
man who chooses may bow to woman on
the street. The natural supposition of the
woman is that If she cannot remember the
face of her saluter she must have met
him and forgot him;
However, in all fairness, it should he
said that the custom among those ac-
custoned TO 1t works as well practically
as ours does among us There are al
ways fathers and husbands and brothers
to hold responsible personally those who
overstep the lines of propriety, so that it
is only theoretically that objection could
be made and this objection depends in all
probability solely on our foreign point of
view.
But il is when you try to mix these
two customs in a society composed of
persons part of whom are accustomed
TO the one and part 10 the other, that the
confusion begins.
An American man newly arrived meets
Cuban woman at a reception. The next
day they pass each other on the street
He naturally expects her to speak first
She expects him to speak first. They
stare at each other with mutual eXpecta-
ton and embarrassment and pass-a dead
cut on both sides.
This same young man after a stay OF
some length finds out something about
the customs of society. He is introduced
to another young woman. Later he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

chanel is from the place, and
(as her employer is generally
Presbyterian insists ON being
allowed to attend mass every
Sunday-or. in some rare cases, every
alternate Sunday All this arranged,
she mounts the car with the farmer and
his wife. slows her little bundle in the
"weH' of the car, and is driven off TO
her new home. And in this new home,
though she is all alone amongst a
strange people of a strange faith, she
is strong and self-reliant and unfeariTsS.
She has been taught how TO lean upon
Gods aid, and in spirit, night and
morning, she joins her prayers with the
NAV reT-s5 Of ths. poor mother who, at
home. is pleading fervently for her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

work all day (Which means till 10
oslock al night could earn from 20 to
n cents. and occasionally even 50
asrtI but is to % cents a day is con-
s6sred a big earning now.
ONLY a small percentage Of our wo-
men follow sprigging for a living in
rrsent conditions: only those who
have no land and no other way Of
earning. and even they keep half a
score Of laying hens to help them.
Most Of eur girls (fOr they all sprig)
aks il up in the inteuims between
household duties. and after the days
work is ever. The few shiliings a week
they earn keeps them in dress, and fur
Msh the household with tea and sugar.
A skilled sprigger may often be recOg-
mad at the fair. and at mass by a
r,i dress and tasteful turnout. This
Eagger travels everywhere from three
% seven Irish miles to the village to
"a. 50 cents worth Of work, and the
same dhglnCe 20 return the finished
pieces The greater portion of the en-
broi5ery consists Of handkerchiefs, but
Cd dIen's robes, bedroom linens, table
cloths. cushion covers, etc, are also
wrought
Sprigging Camps.
Throughout the winter sprigging
camps" are in order As night falls,
and the days work has concluded, all
The sprggers Of one hillside, or one lit
lie valley bringing with them each
her work and her stool. gather al the
hola Of one, and night after night
ley visit the houses Of one another in
rotation. The girl in whose house the
camp gathers supplies the light. In the
Middle Of the floor the spriggers form
circle, with the light (Which used
% De candle but is Oftener now OLD in
NE center. The boys Of the district
follow The camp from house to house.
I1ey sit around the walls and pass the
Tine meTily for themselves and the
siiS IN jest and joke and in telling
Iu1L" stories.
Inc iun IS always great in the camp
lols7' and the greater. part Of it con-
SSa IN witty badinage "sconcing, -
we can IT,. As they rapidly ply their
myers and keep their eyes steadfastIy
u. lheir work, the girls can cast over
c c.E shoulders d Roland for every
gNe; given them by the boys. And
we oeIlde the boy. who having had
Wy 'eme;Ity 10 cross weapons with
Ge OF the noted wits in the feminine
-ues come off second best. The boys
a s.- Ill lhese cases IS necessarily play
.s- leI gets home some effective little
--' D''S' ou, the girls THE noted wits
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

fairly well, despite the lapse of years.
Though not given 70 playing TICKS
that produce serious embarrassment
MT. Allen is a practical joker of the
su1htle,st sort, and naturally those who
know him we'll are delighted when they
can turn the tables on him Stories
that show him coming off second best
are rare, however. for. like most prac-
ticaa jokers, ne is constantly on the
lookout, but one such story was told TO
the writer the other day. It dates back
To the Harrison administration.
Among those who were brought mere
as government officials under uhat an-
rninistratton was James b GARRISON
before then editor of the Iowa stare
Register. ldr Garrison was appointed
foiyTih assistant postmaster general,
end as such official it was his duty to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

Tupefo. He said ft was all part Of the
game" and jeered his Democratic con-
freres who made objection. To him, he
like a pretty good fellow who was doing
his duty ais he saw it-as Mr.. Allen
would himself were he in his place, with
the difference that then it would be
Republicans and not Democrats that
wouk be beheaded. Meeting David
Brenner Henderson, the present speak
er. then, as now, an intimate friend of
his; one day. Mr.. Allen expressed him
self upon the subject at some length.
winding Up with the expressed wish
that ne might make the acquaintance
Of so valiant a party man and so ex-
peditiOus an official as Garrison
Nothing WAS easier, fer Henderson
and C1arkspn were from the same state
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
An April Fool Joke.
Life.)

(Lite.)
A faded purse upon the pavement lay
To tempt my greed, but 1 was not be-
guiled.
1 passed it by, for this was All Fools
Day.
I passed it by and noted. as I smiled.
That Jones' my stupid neighbor, followed
me.
1 fingered near and was again a child.
1 saw him stooD and, from behind nv
I SHOUTED April Fool.' and felt the
thrills
Which, years ago. had marked my boyish
glee,
All, how the dimmed eye with moisture
fills
As memory brings back that ApriI dav,
The purse was full of twenty-dollar bills.
And neighbor Jones went smiling on his
way. ~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

happens to meet her in the street. He
knows that by the usages to which she
is accustomed he should speak first and
yet he knows that she knows that he is
an American and may wait for her to
speak first.
On the other hand. she knows that he
is accustomed to having the woman
speak first. but she also knows that he
having lived in Cuba some time, knows
that it's the mans place here to speak
first and so it is they stare and stare
and look away and stare again IL they
succeed in bowling at all it's generally in
a jerky. scared, trying-tO-get-there-
sort of way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

merged in the stream. To one was fast
ened the positive wire Of a circuit, and
TO the other the negative wire. The
plates were stationed about fifteen feet
apart. A current Of 500 volts was al
lowed to pass between them through
the intervening water, and, as befoSe,
numerous fish came to the surface.
Moreover, frogs, muskrats and all sorts
Of living water denizens made their APP
pearance on the surface in a paralyzed
condition, but all revived, as the fish
had done, as soon as they fiOated away
from the electrical influence.
A later experiment on larger scale
brought to the surface a thirty pound
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

Size l5 r-.O.ar) has always a rasping
16oIoci,. Il. Is certain to tell. At about
tys s6o,,,-55e camp breaks I'D. and the
Gts homee' 1eTIng the tools, convoy the
gotes and and INDUSTRY. knitting-hosiery.
!.aportanca eHoeTwear-has grown in
& nor my, ne as sprigging declined -
g srriooia.lIIy so trying an occnna+ion
r les S.lIs' and girls can MAR ,s,tI'-
,eole for .'-1 ne at it. The KNITTING 10
bus, 0a the local agents Of T 1S,,.S =
lairy Of C sas1-y A girl will knit two
hs 5s, seeks or two PAIRS Of elot,oa sH ~
=. Great hon. \, very far from being
0a aso. when t.rue e5llS,. it was a gen
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
Che Girl Wbo d.. Ellis in Donegal
~ MacanuS Describes the EmbrOs
KntS SpinShSh Emigrant Grl-COurhp Marage-The
"Spriggmg Camp IS Characteristic Winter Institution.

a. 100. by seumas MacManus.)
lCop.iiLIss,ro Tor embroidering on fine
- sgr5 and linep and knitting are
n'Sl- .a-fetfc home industries in
caal. - Girls employ their nimble
ghich 'T The sDrgging is done for the
fingers, houses which export the
big Bei Ben -,.or fbe world. Since Amer
goIf bs ga imposing a heavy iaT I'M. on
ic5 uyy5faactured imports, this INDUSTRY
ranl1, .9ien off 80 per cent, and the re-
as l-l,li,l has fallen at least 80 l-S
nuneI- -''Ft Formerly a skillful girl, vino
ler . I'll for O. living and sat at her
Hrigged l'l
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
HOW MEMBER FROM TUPELO
WAS FOOLED BY GARRISON

look after the appointment of postmas-
tiers below a certain grade Being
thOrough-going Republican, he pro-
ceeded to decapitate Democratic post
masters with all possible speed, ecips-
ing the records Of his predecessors to
such an extent that such playful nick
names as the ''AXenFan," the Heads
man" the Executioner," and the like
were soon applied to him. Partisan
Republicans everywhere naturally ap-
plauded his activity, while many par
tisan Democrats denounced it.
Not so Private John NJ. Allen OF
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
Fishing uItb Mystic Current.
Revolution Vast Fishing Discovery Of Eeccs
Not Killed; Stunned
Experiments First Made With the Trolley Road

Copyright, 1900, by R. L. Jones.)
The use Of short section of the big
river as the path of the return current
by those who laid out trolley line
on the upper Mississippi produced Ger
tain unexpected results that may lead
to the regular employment of electricity
in commercial fishing. It seems pos
sible, even, that it may yet
be used in deep sea fishing, thus
revClutfonizing vast industries. Soon
after the return current was first sent
through the river, large numbers of
supposedly dead fish were seen floating
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

task of flax to do daily, over and
above her household duties. and, after
completing her task, had for her own
benefit all she spun beyond. Those
We're the days when the linen trade
lourished-befOre the Introduction e
free trade ruined the irish linen indus
try. The girls had then their spinning
camps. and carried their wheels (rather,
their boys carried them TO the camp
house nightly.
In the busy days of Ware (the shrine
time) the girls do their shares in the
planting of the crops-being always
asked to perform the tasks that are not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
All Water Denizens Affected.

Washington, April 25.-It is admitted
by REPRESENTATIVE john NJ. Alien of Tu-
pelo. Miss, himself that there are
greater statesmen than he in the lower
house of congress-, but it is doubtful
whether that branch of the legislature
has another member of such general
popularity 1t is doubtful, also, whether
1t has another member with so wide
spread a reputation as a humorist. He
has not been quite so much in evidence
in this direction of late as formerly,
perhaps, especially in the newspapers,
but dtill he manages to mold his own
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
Ready to Edit
CWashington Star. /,

where's that music Dolly was play
ing this morning?" asked Mr. Cumrox
ION the piano." answered his wife.
what do you want with it?''
I'm going TO fix it up. got Dolly
TO show me the marks that mean he
peat and I'm going to take this
eraser and rub EN- out"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

resumed I gets the coal pick and a
club. and the fireman grabs the crate
bar and the scoop. and We goes over It
didn't move and when We get close enough
we both took a swipe at the varmint We
never touched him, and l felt the pim-
pies breakin out all over me when the
fireman, seeing 1t was a shadow and not
q squirrel, looked up, and there, pasted
on the headlight. was a wet leaf The
squirrel was the shadow of the leaf"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
The value az a windmiIl.

We take the following from the
Farming World, as it tells what many
would like TO know: The Wisconsin
Experiment station thus sums up the
value of wind mill: To test the econ
omic value of the pumping done by the
mill a 2l2-horse power gas engine was
put to running the same pumps, and 1t
was found that It 1st 90 cents to run
the engine ten hours, and In that time 1t
pumped 1922 cubic feet of water,
while the average for the mill was g.
e3S cubic feet In ten hours Hence, it
with the engine as the mill pumped in
ten hours. As the mill had an average
of I4la hours per day, It would have
cost 43 cents to pump as much water
with the engine as the mill pumped
each day. or $lJ695 for one year of 1865
days. Tests made in grinding corn with
the power furnished by this windmill
showed that when the wind had We
locity of nine miles an hour, 1t would
grind about 100 pounds an hour: We
loclty of twenty five miles per hour
groundf over SOC pounds per hour, and
a velocity Of thirty five miles per hour
ground over 1000 pounds per hour.
The 25-niile wind enabled tie min to
develop about % horse power The
work done shows that in a whole year
the min would grind 1850 bushels.
The 2la horse power engine was able to
grind on the same grinding min as
much in l3G days a. the windmill would
grind IN $50 a w. it costing % cents Il
day to ran the engine Hcnro. when
applied 10 the corn mill ,sa power Of
the windmill was worth l36x99 cents.
or S13IGi per year"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

as the South Is already doing. about
$500, 100000 worth of foreign exports
year, shipped almost exclusively In
vessels that fly the British, German ind
other foreign flags, the South may veil
be deeply Concerned In the upbuild
Of merchant marine because If tne
magnitude of its present export trade"
This trade he expected would rapidly
multiply, and he predicted a cotton
crop In the not distant future of 1O0,-
100000 bales.
1t is not surprising to find that both
Of the great political parties are now
wing with each other in their espousal
of an American Merchant Marine.
That the representative men in both
parties have formally and finally re-
jected the suggestion of free ships
which means the purchase Of British
instead Of America n built ships for our
maritime needs-n may be taken as an
indication of both the conservatism
and progressiveness which augurs Wen
for early effective and permanent leg
islatlon in behalf of our too long neg
lected shipping upon the seas. 1t is
this unanimity of sentiment that is
conyerging upon a demand for such
legislation that win have become so
insistent and Imperative as to compel
such legislation at the next session of
Congress.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
4 Coming In.esticide.

Prof. L. H. Bailey saws: Arsenic of
lime has the threefold advantage of
being cheap. the amount Of arsenic is
under perfect control and 1t does not
burn the foliage. 1t is made by boiling
together for forty-dve minutes one
pound white arsenic. two pounds fresh
lime, one gallon water This may be
kept in tight vessel and used as de
sired. Thoroughly stir the material be
fore using. For most insects one quart
OF the above per barrel viii be sufii-
cient. Arsenite of lime is insoluble In
water and viii not injure the foliage of
any orchard fruit at this strength. This
insecticide Is growing in popularity.
Some green dyestuff should be mixed
with 1t to prevent the ever present
danger OF mlstaking 1t for some other
material