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SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
A Leaping Sword.


"Of all the cities / have visited in Eu-
rope" said R. A StinsOn Of Boston, re-
Gently. 4 found Madrid one Of the most
interesting. 1t has a number of Out-Of-
the-way features that appeal 10 one
While 1 was in Madrid / tried to pur-
chase one Of The famous TO.edO blades.
The old-fashioned twO-handled sword was
what / wanted To get, one Of those that
were built 10 cut through armOr. and
which fulfilled their mission completely,
as many a bloody battlefield in We ancient
DAYS bore testimony. / had to give il up
on account Of the expense. They cost
from $50 up but while / was looking for
one a shop-keeper showed me a most
scientific trick. His store was very lofty,
running up two or three stories. and he
was descanting on the beauties of this
particular sword. when. in order TO prove
the perfect temper of the metal, he drove
the point into the floor and then bent the
blade until the hilt and point met. He
then suddenly released the hiit. and that
six feet Of cleaning sword sprang up into
the air like a thing alive. Up and up il
went. almost to the lofty ceiling ITSELF
when II lost its impetus and began its de-
scent, hiit first. It returned almost TO the
place whence it started. the shOp-keepeT
catching il by the hilt with practiced ease
and returning it to It's case. ] was crazy
10 try Il mysef, but the owner refused to
allow me. as he said / would probably
not only wreck the store. but perhaps In
Jure myself as well. He told me that if I
wanted to learn the trick | had better
pracuce II IN large open lot and that a
suit or armOr wouldn't be a bad thing to
wear until / got the hang of it.
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These three plays naturally fail to-
esther in the character Of the matter
involved. Moreover, they are ali three
tragedia5 After reading the Roman
historical plays the student viii find it
interesting to compare the motives Of
the three. and in doing so the marked
individuality Of "COriOlanus" comes out
even more strongly than in the first
readin=.
1t is well in taking up a play 20 no
tice the first impression given US Of the
chief character. If it is Of such a ma
tUre an TO excite in US opposition, the
impression may be so strong as to pre-
vent that sympathy with the leading
characters which is so necessary TO the
force Of tragedy. In 'COTiolanus. un-
less the reader h5 forewarned, such an
impression might be nTade-in this
country, at any rate. In tho-beginning
of the first scene Caius Marcus, later
Coriolanus, is spoken of by discomfort
ed citizens ais a ''chief enemy to the
people" he's a very dog to the com
mOnalty," lets kill him, and Wen have
corn at any price" Marcus, when he
appears before the citizens in the same
scene cline 16T leaves no doubt in our
minds regarding his opinion of the
peCple-nOt az individuals. II should be
observed. but as a crowd. a mob. Read
also carefully lines 172-1S4. From these
and the rest Of the scene it Is evident
that Marcus is not on the side Of the
gossips or the dena gogues. His Opp0-
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OVERsTREET's ANALYSIS.

Representative Overstreet has an
alyzed the currency bill now pending
in congress, and issued his synopsis
and explanation in pamphlet form for
distribution over the United States.
His chief fear is that silver men
viii not appreciate the brutality with
which whatever hopes were raised by
the ambiguous terms of the St. Louis
platform have been dashed aside, and
his chief anxiety is TO impress upon
American voters everywhere that a
fulhllment OF the pledges Of that plat
form is the adoption, by congressional
action, of the single gold standard.
The international agreement subter-
fuge. having se-yed its purpose, has
been cast aside and the Republican
party no longer has a place reserved
for believers in any sort Of bimetal-
lism, Independent or International, by
the natural or by any other ratio 1t
is a gold standard party. owned and
controlled by Wall street influences,
determined to win with a corruption
fund what it may lose by the aban-
donment of its international agreement
mask
Three years and a half ago it prac-
ticed deception on silver men; now it
proposes. as far as possible. to sub
sidize alleged champions of the white
metal and to buy, hire or enslave the
loudest mouthed of the boastful erst-
while advocates Of bimetallism.
"The first and most important fea-
ture of the proposed BILL" says Mr..
Overstreet, sis the establishment of
the gold standard IN law"
For twenty years a local authority
on financial questions asserted that
suGh a measure would mean the en-
slavement Of the American people;
when it comes to an actual, instead of
a threatened danger, this local author
ity closes up like a clam and preserves
a most suggestive silence, and when
pressed for an explanation, declares
that it is more solicitous concerning
the welfare of the south sea islanders
than it is of the welfare of the west
and the American people.
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OTIS POSTPONED THE WAR.

General Otis knew that President
McKinley's message in December, 1898.
would provoke the Fnipinos to war,
knew that they would eonstrue it as a
declaration of hostile intent, and so he
took his blue pencil and tried to soften
its harsh terms, and let it ap-
pear to be a friendly document. As
amended the natives were not aroused
the blue pencil saved the day, and the
people waited for an assurance of that
independence. upon the promise Of
which their services had been secured
in the war with Spain.
Before long a true and full copy of
the message was sent TO them, and
then the trouble began. Had that cen
sorship been in working order then, or
had the postmaster general only ex-
cluded President AIcKinley's message
from the mails, all this warfare, this
bitterness and bloodshed might have
been avoided.
And TO think that the administration
has tried to make a scapegoat of poor
old Edward Atkinson, one Of the
staunchest advocates of McKinleys
election in the whole country!
1t is not only an idiotic but an un-
grateful thing to do.
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TAXATION FoR PRIVATE USES

We are still paying war taxes. The
country is being drained by an enor-
nous internal revenue. The highest
protective tariff the country has ever
endured is SIN in operation. The dis
tribution Of money among the volun-
teers, the purchase Of provisions for the
army last year. the phenomenal foreign
demand for American goods and pro-
duce during the past two years placed
a great deal of money in circulation be-
tween the first of May, 1898, and the
last Of December, 1899. We have had
good crops and mining booms in al
most every mineral section of the cOun-
try. The people have prospered N spite
Of adverse legislation and a narrow
financial policy. But this prosperity is
gradually finding its way back 20 the
money centers of the east
Trusts are thriving upon tariff pro-
tection-exacting larger prices from
their American customers than from
those they find abroad. Bankers are
gathering up the wealth Of the country.
Laws are being enacted extending to
them greater privileges than they have
ever enjoyed in the past. War taxes
are filling the national treasury, and
this. it appears. is for the benefit of the
Standard Oil banks, rather than for
the use of the government. The impost
duties indirectly fill the Golfers of pri-
vate corporations, and internal reven-
ues are Indirectly flowing into Der
banks of the national metropolis.
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claims his patriotism while he involves
the nation in endless complications. is
q demasogue of the mast dangerous
gpe. The man who speaks his mind
N order TO prevent what he regards
as disaster to his people. who sounds
the note Of warning when he fears his
government is straying from the path
of rectitude and forgetting the prin-
ciple Of eternal Justice in a moment of
greed or reseDment, as Burke did in
revolutionary days, as Lincoln did in
the time of the Mexican war. as Har-
court and Morley have in this Trans
vaal matter. and as Bryan is doing in
The case Of foreible Philippine reten-
Tonne is a patriot whether ba agrees
with the Georges. the Polks. the Sails
burys CT the Haunas in power II not.
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-HE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Those who advocate the purchase Of
the Danish West Indies. in addition to
all our numerous insular elephants,
base their clamor upon the necessity
Of preventing Germany from getting
them, in violation Of the Monroe doc
trine.
When the Declaration Of Independ-
ence was repudiated by the admins
tration, and the constitution was push
ed aside with the assurance that t was
out Of date and wholly inadequate to
demands Of our manifest destiny" the
general impression was that the Mon
roe doctrine had met the common fate
of the traditions, principles and insti-
buttons of this republic and the wisdom
and the warnings Of it's founders and
defenders.
No Republican. newspaper Of any
prominence ever refers to the Declara-
ton of Independence any more. Every
administration organ Of any conse-
quence has long since said farewell to
the doctrine of Monroe. We cannot
expect Europe to keep off the American
grass while we are stalking out claims
in the eastern hemisphere" remarked
the Republican Mail ard Express
some time ago.
Is there q more radical administra-
ton organ. a more rabid goldbug- trust
expansion journal in this country than
the New York Press? Here is what it
said a year ago, and Republican news
papers have copied and commended the
sentiments expressed by the Press ever
since:
Only the expected has come to pass in
the general sounding abroad Of the fu-
neral knen of the Monroe doctrine. When
the retention of the Philippines was first
discussed last summer the Press pointed
out the logic Of the situation. At the
moment that we assume territorial pos
session and political influence in the Old
World we renOunce the right TO prohibit
other nations from following the same
D0licy IN the New World. We shall Of
course. as long as the republic endures
have the chief say as to the political af-
fairs of the western hemisphere MIR
Olneys nat VIII always be pretty near
par But To attempt 10 prohibit Ger
many for instance from doing in South
America what we have done in the East
Indies would be 10 assume a universal
over-lordship TO which no modern. en-
nire has pretended Moreover when We
20 abroad 70 seek neighh0rs il would he
ridiculous still to insist that we wanted no
neighbors at home.
What imperialist has ever disputed
that? What can any imperialist say in
refutatlon Of the logic Of the Press?
seP1tor stephen B. Elkins Of West
Virginia is about az close to President
! Mckinley as any man in official life ex-
cept Mark Hanna. lie says the Monroe
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VIEWS OF AN "ANTT."

To the Editor Of The Herald.
Salt Lake City. Jan T.
After listening to many arguments f--
and against vaccination. / am forced q,
the conclusion that the practise Is Wr1nE
If vaccination IS good and beneficial 10
the community. II must nave some PROOF
Of its virtue and the medical men VIII,
advocate its adoption should be PREPARED
to give some demonstration chat it Is
proper II this cannot be done then ID ia
doubtful And when "a doubt exists an
men should be free TO accept or reject 4s
they think proper.
1t seems to me that many of OUT Dir.
Siciaus have made a hobby of VaCCira-in-
1 am interested in this question and Z
there is a physician in this city or state
yes. / viii say in this nation. who can
Tefute tins article TO be found In the ninth
edition Of the Encyclopedia Britaui-ra Der
him 10 do so. that we may be euIghtsra5
upon the subject Of vaccination. BUJ u-
tn this can be done. the argument in
favor OF it is a total failure,
/ wish 10 bring another question before
the people in congestion with this subject
According to the decision Of the board o.
health, cOucurred in by the board uf -fu.
cation. anyone entering the public schools
next Monday, teacher or pupil must pre-
duce certificate of successful vaccira-
ton Now. does tire physician issue The
certificate at the time Of the operation.
If he does, suppose the vaccination fails
The holder Of the certificate presents him
or herself for admittance. Inc princip.
Of the school is compelled 10 admit the
person on the face Of the certificate
Thus. about four out Of twelve thar hold
certificates have not received successful
vaccination. because about On6-fouTl
fail the first time
The more / investigate the subject the
more I become disguised with the urae-
tf5a / have four children who attend
the public school, Tor which pay.
through taxation. I voted TO elect Jhs
present board. and they are the servants
Of the people, and when the servant oe-
gins to order the master. common sense
warrants the master in dispOsing with ua
services Of the servant.
have rot been VacCinGted- Tor any
Of my children. and / do not intend tna'
any Of them shall be. I further pr1poS.
that they shall attend the public school
to receive instruction. and who will ddT-
to say nay But 10 vaccination
desire TO bring TO the notice or ID.
public the intention of the board Of ell
tstlOn TO borrow Sz1.00-if the people VII
sanction it. Now. why ask the people
The board seemingly is all pOwertl.
Hence by the same law vaccination d
made compulsory. they could consistent
borrow the money. What q farce % 81.
a. citizen to vote money. and then b. t1.
your children cannot receive any benel
from the money YOU voted unless tl4I
ara vaccinated. The board of education
will learn that an American citizen can
not be coerced into doing anything uule=
il can he clearly shown to be morally
right. Gentlemen Of the board YOU
stand is wrong. and II you cannot or Wi
not see it. then the courts must be Gale
upon to decide the matter.
20S West Fifth North
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=. THE HERALD'S =.
Home Study Circle.
= BY ymour
directed by Seymour

mar Of modern English. Words that
seemed obsolescent 70 the editor Of the
second folio were changed to commoneT
forms. The fifteen plays. moreover,
that had already appeared in quarto
form, had been 50 altered in various
editions az to add to the confusion OF
the text. It is net surprising that Ma
lore. enc Of the greatest editors Of
Shakespeare, in his variorum edition,
aimed to do little mere than establish
the text. In his preface Malone says
that the two great duties Of an editor
are to exhibit the genuine text Of his
suthcr. and to explain his obscurities.
To Malone and his interchangeable follow
ers we are indebted fer the clear text
that may now be had almost for the
asking.
On opening "Corlolanus' one sees thai
the characters are Roman; one recall Is
other Roman characters In Julius Cae-
sar" and in Antony and Cleopatra.
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i5 mentioned for the consulshin
capitol and before the senators e,
lanUs is prat1ed for his vaior a,,, o. .
tl70tism. The second act ENDS --- D .
movement OF the citizens in o1a9,
10 COriOlanus' election as coT5,,r
the third act, lines 65-74 are urts----
as showing the issue between r-..-e
lanuS and the people to be S7----t
drawn. In his REASONS Gfnes ra--t
and in his impdtuous spes-7 -57-.
lows, COTiO1aUus forces thu fgs.--- -- -.'
the tr.bunes. No longaT ad5-r5z.5 q
CoriolanUs. he is ordered safza5 q
cast from the Tarpeian rock. M. G--
tragic fate of Punishment h1----5s
saves CCriolanus for the req- NJ -
play. In spite Of family ami fr.s-5
CCTiOlanus, in his banishmert ro,r----
his old enemy We are prerar.7 T..
Ccriolanus' change Of front I'm gra-. --
line1 1925. BY the interCds>ion ar -L-
Wcnsn in act Y, COriOlauus' mia. ~
broken; he-and Auhdius-sDare Pm.
But his mercy is his Undo.ng. ana e
finally fans victim to the cid ba-r-
and jealousy of AufldiUs
Toe Chiaf difficulty in the stu5v -
"CoriOlanUs" lies in the mixed m5-f--
Of the chief actors. Only I'M tho S-
of the two tribunes, Sicfr.rs 81
Brutus. and of the father and Vifs 4
CoriOlanus. do we find simp.f-rr y
motive consistently expressed ana .
Volumnia-to be contrasted with IT,
gilia-it is true there is much of n
nO-called fenininely variable On
lanlu and Aufiidius snow their -s
characters only after several vasdf7g
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ticaIly cleared away. The text, at that
tine more or less uncertain, has been
fairly well fixed: not that the text Of
today is the same as that printed in
ShakeapeaTe's tine-abs0lute faithful
ness in this respect would be intoler-
able 10 the average reader-but that
the reading Of the lines has been sen
orally decided upon. The text of Cor
ioIanus' is perhaps leas satisfactory
than that Of other plays originally IL
the quarto editions; 'C0riOlanus" was
not printed until 1923 in the first folio,
while we may fairly assume that the
pay was written some fourteen years
earlier. The unsatisfactory character
of the text is doubtless due to imper-
feet copy from which the play was
printed in the first folio. The editor Of
the second folio Q632) made many
Oranges in the teXt-deuble negatives
and double cOmDaTatives. common in
Flizabeth's time. were changed to mt
the more logical. If less historical gram
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The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser is of the opinion that the censor
ship is one of the minor mistakes made
by General Otis. IF he has made. a
mistake in this respect" says our New
York contemporary, 1t is not a grave
matter. however, unless it corresponds
to mistakes in relation to other mat
ters which are really serious. That
IS thing the president must be sup
posed to know more about than anyone
else, since it concerns him most close
~ He is really the person responsible
for the conduct of the campaign in the
Philippines He viii be the chief suf-
ferer if it ends in disaster or costs ex-
trsvagantly in money and life. General
Otis risks nothing but loss Of his COM
rnand. since nobody believes him ca
pable of acts that would forfeit his
commission"
Ten months ago the Commercial Ad-
vertiser made an appeal to the presi-
dent to rid himself Of Otis. employing
almost the same terms Of beseechment
But in vain.
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sitiOn to the people, as a crowd. a mob
is quite evident in his invectives. Yet
the very intensity of his opposition
challenges our interest: we wonder
what his point of view can be, and the
reasons for il.
In striking contrast TO the relations
between Marcus and the people ap-
pear the relations between Marcus and
the senate When war with the Vols
clans is announced, almost the first in
quiry is for Marcus. We are made
better friends with Marcus by his an
swer to Comlnius. who is to lead the
Roman forces against the Volscians.
Cont is your former promise"
Mar.--'SlT. il is, and am constant -
As they go off Cominius adds: Noble
Narcius.'
BY faithfulness to his friends and in
spite Of his opposition To the pp0DIe.
Marcus now starts cur sympathy. and
the play is fairly begun. Upon the re-
turn CT CUTiOsanus to Rome. his name
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Mr. Pickwick's Inn Safe
(Birmingham POst.)

AE1ltlillll 5ltetllA ISL 80
With regard 20 the Old Bull h2tel,
hartford. we are glad to hear that the
report of its demolition is quite mis-
take. What has happened is that
new wing has been added TO the old
hosiery for the accommodation of the
yearly increasing number OF visitors.
There is, therefore, an addition to the
frontage, but no alteration of the ola
coaching house. which We are assured
is to remain without interference, ana
will preserve the aspect it has main
tanned for the last 800 years. The
charm of the old place. with its Pick
wickian associations. will thus be COM
bined with the increased modern COM
forts Of the new extension, which we
learn includes q banqueting hall DIG
enough for a PickwiCk club of 500 mem
bers IL occasion demanded.
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II boards CT health have no right to
take such precautionary measures as
the majority CT medical experts deem
essential to the prevention Of the spread
OF eUsltags0us diseases then boards CT
health may as wei be abolished, and
every individual allowed to 60 his own
way and follow his own prescriptions.
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vices were secured and accented on
promises Of national Independence. OTIS
knew the message would bring on a
eoniilt;- OTIS, therefore, knows that
Mckinney did bring on the conflict. Does
any, Dolly wonder now why Mr.. McKin-
ley doesn't dare remove otis from COM
nlaT'a in the Philippines?
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x coRIoLANUs.
HOW to STUDY the Play.

Somewhere in his Table Talk" Haz-
lit said that literary criticism changes
as much in its methods as in bhe na-
ture of the results sought for. Shake
spearean criticism, since Hazlitt's time,
bears out the general truth Of Hazlitt's
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee Of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City. Utah. Jan. IA, 1900
Maximum temperature. = degrees; min
imum temperature, A degr, es. mean tenn
perature IS degrees, which IS q degrees
: s0Ee the normal; accumulated excess
OF temperature since 1st of month. I29 de-
grees. Total precipitation from 6 D. m
70 8 p. m. trace; accumIs.- ed deficiency
inch.
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Spreading Happiness.

iIHIcdEO IImes-IieTdlI.I
Il have but one rule that / follow abso-
iutely tn this life, and that is to make
other people as happy as possible
We'll she replied. you ought to be
gratihedr then. al what [ heard q young
lady say the other day
What was that?"
She said that whenever she saw you
dancing she had 70 laugh.
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Does anybody imagine that a real
friend Of silver could support a party
which IS trying to fasten the gold
standard forever upon the country. or
refuse TO condemn a measure Ike the
currency bin now pending in eongress?
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POPULAR STUDIES IN
SHAKESPEARE.

Contributors to this course: DR.. Ed
ward Dowden. DR.. William J. Rolfe. Dr.
Hamilton w Mabie. DR.. Albert S. Cook,
Dr. Hiram C0rson, DR.. Isaac y. Dem
mon, DR.. Vida D. Scudder and 9TH
ers-
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The fine Italian hand of Utah's arch
politician is being seen in recent politi-
cal developments in Utah. Get into line
with the administration and the crusade
will be called off. Is the whisper going
ever The state. This was the original
object of. the storm starters. They over
looked the beam in their own party's
eye to reach for the mote in the eye
OF the opposition. It was a game Of in
limitation. Beware of the cardinal"