Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-17

II EVENING NEWS, \
over. an It Is known that no foreign
troops are 10 reach of clavh between
themselves caused By the schemlng OF
belllgerent diplomats,
President Kruger Is coming TO Europe
FOR hls health" Doubtlgss he Is, since
for man Of his years the status Of a
British prisoner would not be looked on
as an exceedingly active health pro-
moter.
The mountebank who has been mas
Queradlng IN the name Of religion has To-
fold his tent and seek other fields for
his trade. II Is gratifying 20 learn that
the speculation here has not been a
paying venture.
The British parliament Is TO dissolve
IN about a week In this movement
Lord Salisbury and his co-workers
show themselves astute politicians. to
capture a new parliament while their
victory Is certain.
Notwithstanding the strictcst Of sani-
tafy measures, today reports four new
cases Of bubonlo plague IN Glasgow.
Yet The fact that less than a score Of
persons have taken It in o city Of 100000
inhabitants shows well Cor the precau-
tons adopted
At last III Hung Chang haa started for
Pekln. ana having arrived al Tien Tsln,
he win be Ia the capital soon. Then,
whether or not the European powers
withdraw, It viii be but a short time
before the United States may hope TO
be free from the muss
The story about the entry In a Chinese
viceroy's book, telling Of a reward given
for killing Americans engaged in "the
relief OF Ten Tslu" Is faulty in that Il
Is worded wrong. II written boy Chi
nese az all under the alleged circum-
stances that sentence would not have
been used The Internal evidence In the
alleged entry shows h 10 be a fake.
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When Ohioans use tobacco guilds, APP
pies and other missiles as ar.
guments against religious doc
trine they dislike, as IN the
case Of the Dowlelte prosecutions,
It il well for other folks to remember
that the ohioans thus engaged are do
ing against Dowies followers thar
which Chinese Boxers did against
Christians.
The great strike is on In the East,
and more than 100000 men are deter
mined To see the correction OF abuses
Of which they complain Some Of the
mine operators say the strike must coll
lapse in a few days, but the public win
recal now that these same men were
mistaken when they said that only a
small percentage Of the miners would
come out. The aspect OF the struggle
Is ominous OF H.
Our sectarlan friends CD in this city
who contemplate carrying their re-
ligious anlmositles into politics, had
better don't" IT Is a poor rule that
won't work two ways They should
remember that they are not in the ma
jority Of numbers In this State and al
so that "the things done in secret will
be revealed on the housetops" and fur
Their. "the measure ye mete TO others
shall be measured to you again"
Artificial milk Is the latest OF the
fraudulent food preparations. 1t can be
manufactured for three cents a gallon;
IL Will keep, even II uniced. for at least
FIVE days IN the warmest weather and
for ten days In the winter time. and II
cannot be told from real milk save by
chemical test This test reveals the abb
senoe OF ash, which is a constituent Of
milk that the manufacturer have been
unable as yet to work In.
The benefit at the Theater onWednes-
day evening will be for a double good.
John S. Lindsay has generously offered
TO divide the net proceeds with the Cal
weston sufferers. Damon and Pythias Is
the play 10 be rendered and all who
attend will be well paid for their mon
ey, and at the same time win aid a vet
eran Salt Lake actor and do some-
thing towards helping the unfortunate
at Galveston. Fill up the house!
II is gratifying to Americans 20 learn
that Spain Is recovering from her hnan-
cial distress, and on the road to pros
perlty. And she is trading with the
United States on a larger scale than
ever. our exports to Spain for the year
ending June 80, 1900 We're over $1,000
00O while 30 1897, the year Immediately
preceding the war, they were about Sl1.-
600 600. our imports for 1900 were near
ly S60Oo,OOo, as compared with 100000
Tor 1897 The wounds OF the war are
rapidly healing.
Col Rooseyelts letter Of acceptance
Of his nomination on a presidential
ticket came today and Col Byan's