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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-10

little tussles over the various nomina-
tions. Two ballots were necessary TO
decide the judgeships and the voting
in both was very close Nathouiab
Thomas and Morris Sommer won them
a ter a spirited contest.
For the treasurership Bishop o. F.
Whitney and Richard p. Norris had an
excl ing struggle, Mr.. Norris landing
the PLAIN by narrow margin Joseph
Bull, ir.. and Douglas A. Swan were
the entries in the authorship. and the
result was in doubt until the last dis
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MAY SAVE HER LIFE.
All Depends Upon the Generosity of
the American People.

Washington. Oct. 9.-The time al
lowed by Miss Stones kidnapers ex-
pired yesterday, yet she is stiu alive
and unframed. It is known now Of
ficially that her captors have granted
short extension of time-how much is
not stated-and the officials feel that
if the responses to the appeals of Miss
stones friends do not cease or dimin-
ish, there is yet reasonable hone for
getting the money in season to save
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her life. The danger I'm the situation
lies in the abbattement of popular inter
est, which WAS so generously manifest
ed during the first few days following
the issuance of the appeal.
This afternoon caDlegram was re-
ceived by the state department from
Consul General Dickinson at COnstan-
tinOple saying that Miss Stone had been
located in the mountains on the Turk
ish frontier and on Saturday last she
was alive and wei.
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Broker commits suicide.

New Orleans. oct. 9.-Louis Herr
man, prominent member of the cot
ton exchange. shot and killed himself
tonight because OF nl-health. Mr.
Herman was the senior mepiber OF
Louis Herman & Co, cotton brokers'
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Look For War in Afghanist.,n.

London, Oct. Sit is regarded here as
certain that there viii be an outbreak
OF civil war in Afghanstan SAYS dis
patch from St. Petersburg to the taily
Mail. arising from the claims q Z the
fourth son of the late Amer Moi; lnmed
Trmar Khan, who is favored by Russia.
kilograms We're sent to Eush today or
dcring large reinfOrcements of Russian
troops along the frontier to be III readi-
ness to seize Herat.
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To Meet at washington.

Louisville. Ky. oct. 9.-The Army oa
the Cumberland today decided to hold
its next annual reunion in Washing
ton on the occasion of the unveilIng
OF the statue of General sheridan The
Old officers of the society were re
elected
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Twentv Yearg i'm Prison.

Tacoma. Wash. oct 9-Charles An
drew Stewart. convicted of the murder
in the second degree Of J. c.. Gee of
Swanson at a wood camp in Olalla
last June. was today sentenced to
twenty years in the state prison, the
maximum penalty OF the law
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Berlin oct. 9.-Thc Berhner Tageblatt
saws there are renewed rumors by way of
London of the early resicua ton OF Unit
ed states Amba ssador ChOate. Nothing
is known here definitely. Mrs. White
processes to be uniformed and that in
the absence of official confirmation she
viii place no reliance upon the rumor.
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WI Ting Fang contributes.

New York. Oct 9.-Wu Ting Fang.
Chinese minister to the United States,
has sent 800 TO a depository here for
Miss Stones ransom fund.
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Injured in Automobile Accident.

Berkeley. Cal. oct. 9.-ETick LindbIuua
the millionaire Alaskan mine owner. was
badly injured in an automobile acciGent
this afternoon While traVeTSing an
emue near his home at a great rate
speed one of the rear aoCleS Sneut.
l.fndblom was thrown heavily 81
ground Surgeons who We're celIsd
ascertained that he sustained It BE-
shoulder. as we'll as interne fnfr
LindblOm suffered q simileg slczaoss|
a few months ago
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Nav Have Been Incendiarv.

Chicago. oct. believing that the fire
which last night wiped ont the Peabody
Coal cOmpanys yards at Kinzie street
and the river and did other serious dam
spector Conway today began an investi-
CATION.
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Stone Ransom Fund

Boston, oct. additions to the Stone
ransom fund have practically ceased.
Only two small checks were received up
to noon today The fund aggregates
nearly $4,000.
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settIine MeKinIev Estate.

Washincion. Oct 9.-Secretary cor
telyou LETT Tor Canton today to attend
20 soane business in connection with
the settlement of the estate of the late
President Mckinley. He viii be gone
several daNs
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SEEEEg END LEAD.

.s-iver. 57stc per ounce.
Copper. 154tc per pound.
Lead. a. S. & r. Co.'S price, $3.50, New
York exchange. SLS7ta-
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kIssIng musL so

kissing must 20.
Il has been decided to be q menace
70 public health, q that II Is the
commonest and most certain method
whereby diseases Of all kinds are
spread
Bacilli banded about from lip to
lip are so apt to cause an ep demo
that The authorities have az last been
aroused TO the sense Of the danger
Oscillation Is to be prohibited by
law. Henceforth husbands and wives,
parents and children, aunts, uncles,
nephews, nleces an cousins even
sWeetheart;, must be content TO ex-
press their affection by a pressure or
the fingers, Or as Beau Bfummel rec
ommenls: "A CLAN e O the eve,
Reginald, a glance OF the eye"
II was reported recently that Dr.
White OF the Health Board had de-
termined 3 incorporate In the sani-
Ia y code "a section fogbidding all per-
sons TO kiss during May June, July
and August, which are looked upon
as the most dangerous months Of tha
year from the standpoint Of public
safety.
The authorities, Of course, have
the over 10 make any rule 10 favor
OF the public health a pa Of the
municipal law. so that II they Go
enact such a measure 10 must be
obeyed.
Kiss ny must 20
This unwelcome news viii be read
to-day by tens OF thousand OF young
men and women with CONSERVATION.
What. No nore llnger .ng OF loving
lips. while each from t0ther nectar
sips, 10 more sweetness long drawn
out. the tender blush. the tempting
pOuty On, miserere.
And this in Lou sYille 10 the year
OF grace One Thousand Eight Hun
dred ana Ninety -four Louisville
Post.
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The British Board OF Trade has is-
sued it's report Of the railroad acci-
dents which occurred in the United
Kingdom ia 1893. One thousand aud
eleven persons we're killed and 4, l09
injured durng the year, a decrease
0f llg and $40 respectively as COM
pared with the figures Of 1892 or
those killed lO5 were passengerS but
only seventeen were the victims of
accidents 70 trains. rolling stock. or
permanent way, the remainder hay-
ing suecumbed 10 accidents from
other causes; $50 Of the victims were
railway servants and OF these only
ten suffered from mishaps to trains
or permanent way. No less than
iifty-fFe persons. apart from pas
sengers and servants, we're killed at
level crossings. and the frespasscrs
and suicid who perished on the
railways numbered 800. Other fatal
accidents not classified mum bered
thirty OF passengers injured in
va iOus ways there were ], 22l, while
OF companies or contractors servants
there we're no less than 2, Gal. The
complement Of the list o, injured Is
made up OF persons passing over level
crossings, trespasserS aud would-be
suicides This list Of fatal aud other
accidentS however, is By no means
complete for Ia addition eighty per-
sons we're killed and 1857 injured
upon the premises Of the various
companies, though not in connection
with the movement OF vehicles on
the railways. These accidents in
cluded kicks from horses, falls OF
bales or packages Of goods. falls ron
scaaolding, etc: thus the total num-
Der of personal accidents reported
during the year amounted TO 0Ql
persons killed and (, 7g6 lnjure0
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swss opNIoN O. AMEaloA. /,



Land q slran9s Ezfrsmsa, Nonasnaieal
Prids sna Hseklsss Aeney Getting.
A well known Swiss writer. who
visited the Worlds Fair and was then
forced K remain here FOR sometime
on account Of illness. has Joined the
long list or foreigners FOR whom
''America" has been a fav0rlte sub
ject for dissertations In q recent
issue Of the Neue Zuricher zeifung.
one Of the most famous Swiss jour
nails under the headline aWhat Is
American he wrote. America Is
Is a land compared with which Eu-
rope Is Only a peninsula; the United
States form a country compared with
which the European kingdom are
pygmies America IS the land Of IN
measured distances and dimensions;
the land OF dollars and electricity:
the land where the prairles are more
extensive, the rivers mightler The
waterfalls deeper. the bridges longer.
the lghtning expresses faster. the
catastF0phes more ter ibie than IN
any other country IN the world lt
Is the land where 10 a single railroad
aecident-and one occurs every few
da s-more people loss their lives
than ia Europe IN d whole year. Il
Is the land where the houses are
higher, the .allbifds' more numerous.
the rich richer the poor poorer. the
the millions greater, the thieves more
daring. the murdcrer3 more shame
less the educated fewer, the teeth
more generally false, the corsets mar
rover, the diseases teOre deadly cor
ruption more general,
the summers warmer, the winters
colder. the nres hotter, the ice thicker.
time more precious the men more
nervous, than in any country 10 cur
pastoral Europe. It's the land where
the old men are younger and the
young men older, toe nexrOs blacker.
the whites more yellow than 10 any
other place. II Is the land OF i'm
measurable natural wealth. Ia short.
IL Is the land OF extraordinary con
trasts. OF strange extremes. OF non
sensical pride, OF reckless money
hunting, OF senscless era eIor gain
the land 0f the colossal and the pyra-
midal-Of course 10 the opinion Of
Americans How many have gone
from our peaceful home 70 the land
Of false b pes 70 seek riches fortune,
aud better life. and have been lost
either ia the cutters or The great
cities or the sands of the prairiess
How many have been glad, when poor
and deserted and broken in heart and
soul. 70 sail ba 70 their native
lands2
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Rsd-Hzirsa Pupples Went Up ia ths
spring TO Eneoarage the Crops.


Red-Hzirsa Puppies Weut Up ia the
spriug TO Kneoarage the Crops.
We learn from Festns that the
Romans sacrificed red haired puppies
in spring ia the belief that the
crops would thus grow ripe and
ruddy; and there can be little doubt
that these puppies. ike the lamb
sacridee az H0lme and Kings Teign-
ton, were a substitute for an original
human victim Prof Ramsey the
great authority On Fhfygian custom,
believes that Attfs vas az fTst repEe-
sented by q human victim, who s'was
probably slain each year b a cruel
death. Just as the god himself died. 2
and MF. Fraser has shown that Attis
was essentially a god OF vegetation,
that one OF his epithets was ''yery
fruitful. that be was addressed as
the raaped yellow ear Of corn and
that the story Of his sunerings.
death and resurrect on was inter
preted as the i lipe grain wounded By
the reaper. buried in the granary
and coming 70 life again When soWn
ia the ground AdOnis, again, is
one Of these gods OF vegetation,
originally represented, no doubt. BY
human victim.
The famous Gardens Of AdOnis
were baskets or pots filed with earth
ia which wheat barley and flowers
were s0Wn at the time when the
women were mourning over the dead
Adonis To this dag 10 Sicily at
the approach Of Easter, the women
SON wheat lentils, and capary seed
ia plates, which are kept 10 the dark
and watered eVe-y two days When
the plants shoot up ''the plates con-
tanning them, says Mr. Fraser, 'are
placed on the sepulchres which, with
e1igies Of the dead Ch ist. are made
up in Roman Catholic and Greek
churches on Good Friday, just as the
Gardens Of Adonis we're placed on
the grave Of the dead Ad0nIs." Mr..
Fraser has also pointed out the marks
81 similar element 10 the worship
Of Osiris He was deity OF Yegeta-
tion, the first 10 teach men the use
Of corn, and his annual festival be-
gan with the ploughing Of the earth
In one OF the chapels dedicated 10
Osiris Ia the great temple Of Isis, at
Philae, the dead body OF Osiris IS
with stalks OF corn
spr nging from il. aud a priest Is
the stalks from a pitcher
Mr. Fraser suggests that the legend
Of the mangled remains OF the god
Icing scattered up and down the
land may be a renliniscenee Of the
custom of Staying human victim
and distributing bis
flesh or scattering his ashes over the
fields TO fertilize them Indeed.
Haneth0 tells us that the Egyptians I
Ised to burn their red-haifed men
md scatter their ashes with WinnOw-
ng fans. -fOrtnightly Review.
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n goose weighs ten pounds and
half its own weight. what Is The
weight Of the go)ses Who has not
been tempted 10 reply on the instant
fifteen pounds correct answer
being, Of course, twenty pounds. In
deed. IL is astonishing what a very
simple query will sometimes eaten a
wise man mapping. Even the follow
ing have been knowa to succeed.
How many days would il take TO
cut up a piece OF cloth hfty yards
long. one yard being cut Of every
day.
A snail climbing up post twenty
feet high ascends i've feet every day
and slips down four feet every night
How long will the snail take 70 reach
the top or the pOsts
A wise man having a window one
yard high and one yard wide, reQuir-
Ing more light, enlarged his window
to twice It's former size. yet the win
dow was still only Que yard high and
one yard vide How was this done2
This a catch question in geonetry.
as the preceding were catch questions
Ia arithmetic The window was dia-
mOnd-shaDed at nrst and was after
wards made square
As to the two former, perhaps It is
S arcely necessary seriously to point
out that the answer to the tirst is NOT
fifty daJs, but lOrty-nine; and 10 the
second, not twenty days. but sixteen
since the snail who gains one foot
each day for fifteen days, climbs on
the sixteenth day 10 the top Of the
pole and there remains
A man walks around a pole, On the
top or which is a monkey. As the
man moves. the monkey turns on the
TOP Of the pole 50 as still 70 keep face
tO face with the man. Query
When the man has gone around the
pole, has be. or has he not gone
around the monkey
The answer which viii occur at
first sight TO most persons is that the I
man has not gone around the monkey
since be has ncyf cen behind il.
The correct answer. however. as de-
cided bY knowledge 10 the pages or I
which this mOmcntOus question has Z
has been argued. Is that the man has
gone around the monkey ID going
around the pole.
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I sam At oncs and secure her This
hired girl bus. ness viii be the death
of ne"
Brother sam was sitting en- his
f0rch reading the newspaper. as Mr.
Norton came up
eyes said he. shes a smart
gal The best gal ever had
Thorough going New Englander
Faps F0u may Be able 70 get her
though 4 d0nbt II she'll come to yOn
for 80 a month
I'll make it eighteen gasped
Incle Peter, 'since gon say shes a
New EnRlander
Weil. you can tFT. said Brother
Sam Here she Is
He flung open the door Of the
kitchen, and there. making 4 black.
berry short-cake az the Whitley
secured table, stood his own niece,
Nancy \ Fton.
.Why-it's Nancy clied be.
Yes. D dded Brother Sam.
ssNancy Il is The best. smarIest
ereetur that ever stepped, worth her
weight ID gold
Uncle Peter swallowed something
like a lump In his throat
Nancy, said be. 'will Fou come
baekn-here be swallowed a second
lump-''tO me for sis a month";
For do verify b'lIeve you win earn
1T
Nancy went uD 10 him and kissed
him
yes Uncle Peter, " said she. "fn
come back"
For the old man had learned a les
son. and his teachers had been
Nancy Norton and Brother Sans
daughter-Chicag0 Ledger
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Paper can be manufactured out OF
almost anything that can be pounded
into pulp Over dfty kinds Of bark
are said 10 be used. and banana skins
bean stalks pea vines, cocoanut fibre.
clover, and timothy hay straw, sea
and fresh water weeds. and many
kinds Of grass are all apple bic. It
has also been made from hair. fur.
and wool. om asbestos. which fuF-
nishes an article indestructibie by
FIRE; from hop plants from busks 81
any and every kind Of grain Leaves
make a good, strong paper. while the
husks and stems OF Indian cUrn haze
also been tried. aud almost every
KIND Of moss can be made into paper
There are patents 10 making paper
from sawdust and shafings. iron
thistles and lhisticdoWn, from to
b1ccO stalks and tanbark II IS said
that there are over two thousand
patents n this country covering the
manufacture 81 paper
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The London newspapers used !.
make a distinction between q simple
notice Of a death. for which they
charged i've shlilings and brief
obituary. Tor which they demanded
seven aud slxfcncc. ne daY Df.
Thomas Hume called az tho once Of
a morning Journal aud silently placed
upon the counter the annonncement
of the death Df a lend. together
with hre shillings The clerk glanced
az the paper, tossed it one side, and
said. gruiiy, sevcn ana SKIS
II have frequently" answered
Hume, chad occasion 20 publish these
simple notl es. and I have never be.
fore been charged more than i've
shiliings
simple repeated the clerk, with
Out looking up. there's 40 added
line, universally beloved a0d deeply
fegrettedn isn't theref Seven and
six.
Hume produced the additional hair
crown and laid 70 deliberately bv
Others. observing In the most g.
tone, Congratulate yourself.
that this Is an expense which So
executors viii never he put 20
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Carpeanxs CHECK.

The sculptor Carpeaux was alwayI
q bohemian, aud generally absent.
minded. IuYited once 70 the Tut.
cries BY Emperor Napoleon the Third
and the Empress Eugeuie, he p.lied
out his pipe after dinner. nlled it,
and, discovering that be had no
matches took a scrap OF paper.
climbed on a chair and lighted the
pipe from the great chandel. .er above
the table "You don't mind smok.
ing, do you. ma'amy" he said 10 the
Empress He on c accepted from
rich patron 40 order TO make q sculp-
tured group representing the Cyclops
POlpyhemus crushing the youth Acis
under a rock Ca peaux bad no
sooner accepted the commission than
ne regretted it for the subject had
10 faslnatiOns whatever for him Tie
put the matter on aga and again,
but was urgently pressed 20 begin IL
by his patron At last one day,
Carpeaux took the inpatient patron 10
his studio and showed him a gleat.
rough block OF uniformed clay
There Is Jour group" said the
sculptor my groups Whereg"
why, this is the rock" !" That's
all very well. but where Is Aclsg"
Under the rOck-crushed quite out
OF sight, OF course 'sBut uha.c is
Polyphemuss" "Jh. hes Why. do
you think be would rema q anywhere
about after be had done a thing ike
thats" This Was as fzr az the classi.
cal group ever got
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-21

was standing before the stant
window al suburban postodice the
other day, waiting foT a woman TO
get through, that I might invest
half a dollar 10 carmine cbr0m0s OF
our CountrY's paternal The woman
who had the attention OF the CLERK.
had "A pacAage upon which two OF
the adhesive portraits mentioned
had Teen afiixed, and she desired to
learn If they were sufficient 70 carry
the package on its way The clerk
weighed the parcel and asked IL il
was a newspaper. "Yes, replied the
woman, "a newspaper with a pair OF
mittens inside. That makes it
merchandise said the clerk, ut
will require four cents more. "pll
not pay IT." she exclaimed. The
clerk simply smiled Meantime the
woman fished out four mo stamps
There Is 40 writing Ia II. is thcres"
asked the clerk s'Only a short
note. says the woman, as she gently
laid the stamps upon her tongue,
gum side down. 70. then it will be
letter postage, said the clerk. six
teen cents "I'll not pay Il, 4"
calculated the woman, grabbing the
parcel and starting for the door with
an air OF outraged innocence II
was case OF Ignorance merely No
wrong was intended and it was fool
ish, therefore. 70 get angry at her
self -Arkansaw Traveller
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Among the noteworthy features Of
recent lumber trade development i
the rapidly increasing demand Tor
maDle f0oriug Enforcement la the
method u manufacture has kept
pace with the growth ia demand Tor
2 Oduct; Or perhaps ID is more exact
70 say that the recognition Of maple
flooring has been forced % the aften-
ti0u of consumers by fhc enterprise
g manufacturers in turning ont s
perfected product and uwlng IL on
public attention A few years ago
al the maple flooring used Was
worked out on orders by a few plan
Ing mills The hardwood dealers
carried maple strips 10 their Yards
and had them dressed and matched
when they happened to receive an
order Tor flooring. Now great manu-
factories have been established for
the sole purpose u producing maplc
flooring. Exact strong. and swift
machinery has been invented to work
cut The stuff The boring machine
has rendered mailing easy aud now
comes the end matching invention
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Not the Modern style.

The young man had asked the old
man for his daughter In marriage.
"Um-er, responded the old one,
"a know you are Of good stock, and
are OF good disposition, with plenty
Of common sense and a fair educa-
tion; how your hcalths'
Excellent
'Got any bad habitsyr
~ take a drink. now and then,
and smoke: but l was never under
the inhuence OF II uor and 1 have
never touched a cigarette"
''DO you pay your debtss"
~ don't owe cent
"Are you Industrious"
eyes, sir"
"Leliables"
i have that reputation.
''All right, you may have her
This suden termination of the ia
terYleW was too much for the young
man
"But sir" he said. you haven't
asked me what / am W0. tn: what
prospects have. ?
That's immaterial, my boy.
Money doesn't make a good husband.
and ! want my daughter to have
good husband and you'll make one
as far as / can judge for she is a
sensible girl. who isn't marrying rs
an Investment Go on; she's wait
ing FOR you IN the next room: I'm
willing Il take the risk II she q,
aud the res 1t proved that the old
man had made no mistake
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Toe Reall.tlc.

visit0r-And how did my little pet
IKE the theatere
Little Girl-Not worry much. The
actors didn't act as II the was just
actin: they acted as II it was AL go
---an' that made me uncomfortable.
nWhys"
~ felt just as il / was peekin'
through a kerhole into somebody
e.se's house H--6ood News
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Mapls flooring has come 10 be re-
Rarded as the Ia ng indispensable Ia
most public buildings and is used
largely in private dwellings Such
an extent has the demand reached
that the larger dealers are obliged 70
make contracts Tor millions % feet
far ia advance OF requirement, the
same as Is dine with pine or any
other wood Of extensive sale any con
sumption 10 the building trades and
manufacturiag.