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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
a RErRAcrloM DEMANDED.


THE HERALD begs TO acknowledge
L receipt and enjoyment of the fol-
lowing communication from a distin-
guished legal firm of Coalville. this
state:
Gentlemen-In your issue Of Sunday.
Jan. Is, you, printed the following item
"A peculiar misfortune befell one of
Coalvilles fair maidens the other even
ing, or rather the other morning. she
and the conversation tagging. no doubt,
the fair one INDUCED in yawn. In per-
forming this usually simple but siSnifi-
cant feat the young woman dislOcated
her law. The embarrassed rivals in love
went posthaste for Dr. French, who
after delivering a fatherly lecture to the
young men on the evils of keeping late
hours. set the damseIs mouth IN work
ing order again.
fact. and it has caused the young woman
about whom il was written a great deal
OF embarrassment and humiliation We
write 10 request that you make retraction-
EVANS. TNGEBRETsEN & EVANS.
By FRANK EVANS.
Why, certainly, and to be sure. The
Herald will "retract" 1t is not easy
TO discern from the legal document pre-
scented herewith just what is to be re-
tracted. but that need not matter, so
here goes: No girl in Coalville had the
misfortune Of a call from the young
men of that beautiful town; no COa.s
vile girl on the date mentioned, or at
any other date. ever entertained any
young gentlemen. No girl in CoaIville
got so weary of her callers that she
yawned or dislocated her jaw; no
SWANS were ever embarrassed in the
presence Of a Coalville girl.
AS for causing any COaiville girl en-
barrassment and humiliation, the bare
thought desolates us. It occurs to us
that the young men in the case are
really the ones to be Inundated, but
that is merely a suggestion.
If this retraction is not sufficient
there is more on tap; all the lawyers
have to do is to ask for it. But if
they insist on legal proceedings The
Herald would ask as a favor due to
the defendant. that the suit be set for
hearing in the Salt Lake theatre, with
the usual charge for admission. II
properly billed and under efficient stage
management such a comedy ought t.
be the best show of the season.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
RocKEFELLER AND The SENATE
A VERY WISE Old politician once

A VERY WISE OLD politician once
Il said: Never write a message.
Just send word and then if any trou-
bic comes from it you can say the fool
messenger misunderstood you" John
d. Rockefeller has evidently not stud
led the gentle art of politics in this
school. Mr.. Rockefeller was so foolish
as to send kilograms. over his own sig
nature, to several United States SEN
ators. The kilograms declared the
sender's unalterable opposition to any
antitrust legislation and announced
that the attorney for the trust would
see the recipients.
Subsequent events have shown that,
fortunately for the country, Mr. Rookie
feller's hold on the senate of the United
States is not so powerful as he seemed
to imagine. The contents of his mes
sages have been made public and it is
now almost certain that the antitrust
legislation the Standard Oil magnate
seeks to suppress viii be enacted in
some form distasteful to him.
The rea! truth is that the senators
will be forced, against their will in
some cases, to vote in exact opposition
to Mr.. R0ckefel1er's desires. Those
who now vote against antitrust legis-
lation will thereby brand themselves
publicly as tools of Rockefeller and the
Standard Oil company. However will
ing the Republican members may be to
wear the Rockefeller collar privately.
none Of them cares to publicly adorn
himself with il.
So the Rockefeller purpose has ap-
parently been defeated by the Rookie
teller kilograms. The audaeity of the
proceeding is most amazing That even
50 wealthy and so powerful a man as
John d. Rockefeller should dare to at
tempt to dictate to the United States
senate what it shall or shall not do.
furnishes the most powerful argument
against trusts that has ever been pro-
duced.
Heretofore the trust magnates and
their agents have been working under
ground, as it were. They have gone
abroad at night only with their argu-
ments, weighty ones with a cIink to
them, sometimes. but they have never
had the effrontery to come out squarely
into the open and challenge the coun-
try Verify the time has come to en-
act repressive legislation.
The Standard Oil company doesn't
want the public to know about its bust
ness methods. AS a matter of fact the
country already knows a great deal
about the Standard OiPs methods and
it is entitled to a great deal more
knowledge on the subject. 1t is going
to acquire that knowledge, too. or there
is nothing in legislative signs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
WHY HE WENT INTO BUSINESS.
Unusual Experience of a Man Who
Set Out to Be a Literary Person.
New York SUM-

Il had hopes once myself of making
fame and fortune by my PEN said a
substantial, middle-aged citizen who is
now drawing $4,000 or $4,000 a year
out of prosperous business, but
somehow 1 couldn't make 'em come my
way.
Il wrote and wrote and wrote things,
and sent my pieces around in all direc-
tons, but it was no use. They all
came back. Everybody was overcrowd-
ed. or what l sent wasn't just what
they wanted. or something or other
every time. And so my prospects in
the literary line looked pretty dim, and
I was beginning TO think I'd have to
take up some other pursuit when out
came a new periodical that was TO
make a speciality of just the sort of
stuff that I felt 1 could turn out. Now,
I said to myself now, old sport. your
time has come at last. All this preVi-
Gus experience that you've been hav-
ing, sad as it may have seemed, you
can now utterly forget, for here is
where you get Your reward.
And / prepared a piece that 1
thought must hit these new folks, and
hit 'em hard, and sent it in. The time
had come when my light was TO shine
out on hill.
But the very next day, so prompt
was its return, I got from the new
C0nCcTn a lntCh EllNElOpG DdCh- L hIEW
well enough without opening it what 1t
was 1t was my manuscript back, and
so if proved TO be. Wasn't that a
crusher? 1t was, indeed. Here where
my hopes had really been highest, they
had been the quickest COMPOUNDED. The
details of it didn't interest me much
but still 1 looked at the printed slip
accompanying the manuscript, wonder
| ing a little if in making up the form
| of declination they had hit on anything
new, and looking so 1 got at glance
the shock of a happy surprise. Ny
manuscript had not been rejected, but
the new periodical had suspended pub
! LEGATION and my manuscript was re-
| turned, as 1 was politely informed,
without having been read at all.
$50 it might have been accepted after
all, and truly, that was great relief to
me. Honest Injun, I had thought when
/ I saw the new print that I could hit
| it. sure, and when that manuscript
came back TO me from it, don't believe
you know just how I felt nor do be-
/ lieve you could imagine what a great
relief and comfort il was to me TO find
what that printed slip really said
still, after that experience, I thought
that maybe I'd better try something
else for a while, anyway. And I did,
and gradually drifted into the business
am now in. And 1 suppose, really,
| that I have made more money, per-
| haps a good deal more, in the business
( than I ever could have made in the lit
erary line, but it is always very pleas
ant to me, nevertheless, to think that
| if the periodical I could have written
| for had not stopped publication,
might have succeeded in that line, too
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
Gentle words to Fish

Lewiston. Ne. JOurnaID
You know the camns," saws DR.. Dam
tree of Lewiston.
w nat, the camps az Bemis?'
me same Those are the only CAMPS
there are Tor me, says the doctor those
camps IN the Rangeley region
FOR the past eighteen years Dr. Dain-
tree mad spent three weeks in fishing on
tne ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. A part of the
time he stays at Bemis Then he goes
10 Ha1neS Landing for a few DAYS adtsi-
uonal. He is an ardent angler. and he is
uniformly successful. One day the little
steamer Cupsuptic plOwed by his boat
Just as he had made a lucky strike His
rod was bent double and as he PLAYED the
big fish the reel creaked and buzzed.
Come to your daddy now like a good
little fish" croOned the doctor. coaxingly.
as he peered into the water. Come out
Of there. now. as daddy wants his Iittle
fiSh-Wishyt''
A day or so later. as the doctor stood
on the wharf, lady approached him and
asked:
Are you the gentleman who was fish
ing out there as the Cupsuptic went by2''
I am, answered the doctor, r1ystified-
I'VE heard you addressing your strike -
she laughed It's the first time we
heard any one use just that tone of voice
to a fish. We've heard profanity by the
yard, but IL seems gentle methods are
best"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
MALADY

hundreds of thousands Of men-de-
pended on the decision. not to mention
expenditures OF millions upon millions
Of dollars. and the destinies of Spain
and the United States.
While the knowledge of that fnsidious
mental disease was fresh III the minds
of officers of the navy department, an
other important assignment was be
slowed upon Captain sampson VINO
was promoted temporarily to the grade
OF rear admiral and assigned TO the
command of the entire naval feet on
the Atlantic.
The Century dictionary gives the fol-
lowing definition of aphasia:
In pathology the impairment or aoo-
lition of the faculty of using and IN
Outstanding written and spoken Ian
guage. Independently OF any failure or
the intellectual processes or any dis
ease or paralysis of the vocal organs.
Ataxic aphasia, when uncompl1cated,
is inability to express ones ideas IN
spoken words, while the patient under
stands perfectly what is said 10 him,
and reads and writes The name am
nesic aphasia has been applied 10 cases
where the patient is unable 10 recali
the word which he wants. though able
to speak it when found
SenSory aphasia is where the patient
fails TO comprehend spoken or written
words; it comprises word deafness and
WOrQ Dl1nCneSS.
Aphasia. especially ataxic aphasia,
seems to depend in most cases on a
lesion of the interior frontal convo-
luton. almost always on the left side
of the brain.
Organic Brain Disease.
DR. A B. Richardson, the superin-
tendent at st. Eliza beth's, where there
are always q considerable number Of
patients suffering from aphasia, said
last evening that it was a serious or
ganic brain disease.
"Aphasia primarily impaiTs the IA
eilities for Speech added DR.. Richard
son.
Would two or three attacks of 1t
affect ones capacity for performing re-
sponsible duties2"
II have never seen a case yet he
replied, where aphasia in adults did
not affect the Judgment Patients are
also aware of their inability to speak
correctly and it irritates them. The
disease is almost invariably fatal, but
the time for which it runs varies with
different patients.
Physicians are agreed that among pa
tients past middle life aphasia is save
in exceedingly. rare instances, incura-
bic. and that the symptoms Increase,
eventually ending in death Aphasia
is almost always accompanied by
agraphia, a form of the disease in
which the patient IS unable to write
correctly
At the pension office the records of
Admiral Sampson's illness are most
carefully guarded, and no Information
about them is youchsafed. The details
Of the aphasia cannot be stated, as to
how acute or how mild it was in the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
A MODEST HERO.

# HERE IS CONSIDERABLE irony in
the fate that has crippled Joseph
P. Rankin of ogden. Mr.. Rankin's life
contains a story of thrilling border ex-
istence that would put the exploits of
most of the heroes OF romance to
shame. He has braved hostile Indians,
he has fought the battles of his coun-
try in the civil war, he has been a
leader among the scouts at a time
when such leadership meant some
thing. Today he lies crippled at home
on account of a collision between a
vehicle in which he was riding and a
heavy wagon.
Isn't there irony in this prank of
fate? The man who was a target for
bullets so often that he lost count, but
who escaped unframed from such
dangers. is at last laid low in a COM
mOnplace accident on a public street.
Still. unfortunate as the accident is or
Mr.. Rankin's account, it is not without
its compensation in that it serves to
call attention to the presence in Utah
of this modest hero.
Joseph p Rankin is one of the last
living opponents of type that has all
! but passed from the worlds stage.
When but boy he joined the hosts
| in blue and served with distinguished
gallantry throughout the war of the
| rebellion. Most men would have been
willing then to seek the paths of peace,
but Rankin's martial blood still ran
holly through his veins. He came
west, where he was destined to see
more fighting
| The story of how he saved three
| troops of cavalry under Captain Thorn
burg has not faded from the recolIec-
ton of older westerners and it should
] never fade from it. The occasion was
| the great Ute uprising, and Thorn
burgs men were surrounded by thou
sands of hostiles near Meeker, Colo.
For four days the little command
/ fought desperately, but the savages
outnumbered them so tremendously
that escape seemed impossible. Rankin
had gone out with the soldiers for a
hunting and fishing trip. When hope
was practically abandoned he volun-
teered to go to Rawlins for help.
And he did go. He threaded his way
| through the Indians, he overcame
heartbreaking difficulties and twenty
four hours after he started he was in
Rawlins, 165 miles away. Try to i'm
agine how you would like to ride I65
miles in twenty-four hours on horse
back over a paved street. Then you'll
have a faint idea of Rankin's feat. He
won. as he deserved TO win, and the
soldiers were saved.
Let US honor James P. Rankin and
the men of his class while they are
still with us; let us show them that we
don't have to wait until they are dead
before we appreciate their services.
The Herald trusts this veteran will
speedily recover from his recent injury
and that he may be spared for many
! years of usefulness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
REV. DR.. c. T. BROWN.

ALL SALT LAKERS who know the
a Rev. Or. Clarence T. Brown. pas
tor OF the First Congregational church,
will deeply regret his departure, which
is announced for the near future.
DR.. Brown rendered his resignation
yesterday, the reason therefor being
his acceptance of a call to a California
congregation. During the years of his
salt Lake pastorate Mr.. Brown has en-
deared himself, not only to members of
his own congregation, but to the public
generally.
DR.. Brown is a fighter Of the style
that everybody likes. When he thinks
a thing is wrong he does not hesitate
to say so. whether it be committed in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
A Plea For Harmony.

t1NeH 1OiR NO-iN-f
ZIP in Berks county, Pennsylvania,
said Colonel Harry Hall. the Duth resi-
dents are mostly Democrats. and they are
all politicians. They take great delight In
going TO political meetings and are very
roll up.
AT a meeting last fall, after there had
been 4 fractional fight. there was great
plea tor peace Orator after orator got Up
and said the thing for Berks county to
do was 10 forget that there were any off
ferences. and to get out and vote Tor Pat
farmers of the neighborhood was called
on. He arose and made an earnest speech,
closing with these words:
Ind now chentIemen. let US all git
togedder and Undo dat vich We half not
dit 80
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

It is evident from the senate debates
recently that several rods are being
placed in pickle for Utah's latest con-
tribution to that body. Some of those
senators can ask harder questions than
a 5-year-old boy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

a Springville city councilman was
caught in a recent gambling house raid
and there is talk OF compelling him to
resign. What prudes they must be
down in Springvillei They ought to
look over our city council just once;
then they would be satisfied to let well
enough alone.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

Bandit Cole Younger has been given
a full pardon on condition that he
stays away from the state of Mime
sofa. Few people would consider that
a very hard condition. If the forbid
den state was Kentucky, now, the par
don wouldn't be worth having.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

Now if some patriot win only Sc
cure the passage of q law abolishing
the legislature he viii receive the
thanks of the entire state, with the
possible exception of one R. Smoot of
Provo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
cnllers SLANG

Mr. Crawford-Deer must be plentiful
up around the college that Zeke goes To-
Mrs. Erawford-Why So Hiram!
Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he writes that
he paid twenty bucks for bis oyercoat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
Important Duty While Mentally
Failing.

Within a month after he had recov-
cred from the attack of aphasia. while
in command of the Iowa, Captain
Sampson was detailed as president of
the commission which examined the de-
stTuction of the Maine. For weeks the
country and congress awaited with ex-
pectancy the verdict of Captain Samp-
son and his colleagues, which, it was
fully realized. meant either war or
peace for two nations, and results that
were important to all the civilized
world. Lives of thousands of mentor
aught any one knew then the lives of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

"Gasman'' Addicks has retired
from the Delaware senatorial contest.
Just how long he viii stay retired
is a matter that time alone can de-
termine, but most Of US viii require
Mr.. Addicks to pass through a con-
siderable period of probation before we
can have faith in his declared fnten-
ton to keep out Of Delaware poll
tipS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

Indian Territory officers killed two
bandits who resisted arrest Saturday.
The example set by Patrolman Heath
must have inspired them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
A Good Listener

she-Do you know that lady in the far
corner2
Hem a way; I have a listening ac-
ouaintance with her.
= don't believe / understand you, sir
she is my wife
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09

To T. r., washington, d. c.: No, the
Heath who killed the robber in Salt
Lake q few days ago was not Purry-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-09
HIS "A TAI
ADMIRAL SAMPSON SUFFERED
FROM RSPHRSlR FOR YEARS

A PENSION of $50 a month was re-
"A Gently granted to the widow of Adj
miral W. T. Sampson of the navy,
says the Washington Post. That was
done under the law of congress gov
erning the commissioner Of pensions in
such cases. 1t is the same rate of
bounty allowed. according to rank, to
the widows of all military officers who
lose their lives from causes arising out
OF the performance of duty in the serv-
ice of their country
The medical record of the case, how
ever, is not without interest to all those
who have followed the stirring events
that began with the blowing up of the
Maine in Havana harbor and eulminat-
ed in the sea fight off Santiago.
For fully five years prior to his death
Admiral Sampson was afflicted with
aphasia, according to the medical rec
ords upon which the pension was
granted. This has been duly certified
to, and the facts were compiled from
official records made by surgeons of
the navy who attended the distin-
guished officer during various illnesses
OF that malady when it came upon him
in a form more or less acute
First Attacked in April, 1897.
The first record of such an illness OF
Admiral (then Captain) Sampson was
in April. 1897. when he was incapaci-
tated for some time and a patient at
the naval dispensary in Philadelphia.
The rigid rules of the service as to such
matters made ii imperative that infor-
nation about his illness should be for
warded to the navy department, where
it was undoubtedly known, because of
Admiral SIMPSONS prominence as an
officer not only to the surgeon general
but likewise to the secretary of the
navy and his several chiefs of bureaus,
who keep informed as to the personal
fitness of officers for various important
duties.
Some ten months later-in January,
1S98-while he was in command of the
battleship Iowa of the North Atlantic
squadron, Captain Sampson was again
incapacitated by the same malady
which seized him with sufficient viru-
lence to prevent his performance of du-
ties
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-18
WATERFOWL JOTTINGS

Time to Begin Work ON Watertown
Trolley Line Now That Strike is Off.
The regular meeting of New Cen
fury circle, No 635, G. of f., will take
place at Pythian hall this evening.
Thomas Fray has gone to Boston,
where he will spend a short vacation.
Since the strike has been settled To-
cal citizens seem to take but very lit
tie interest in the extension of the line
from Oakville to this place. Some
time ago it was thought that some ac-
ton would be taken on the matter, as
surveyors We're employed and ties
were distributed along the proposed
route. The declaration of the strike,
however, put all these ideas aside as
the company had it's hands full in
contending with the strike. Now,
however, if some action were taken
by local men there might be an OPP
portunity of once more getting the G.
r. & l.. Co interested in the project.
EN-. Zeidler is visiting friends in
Winsted. -+...E
The W. G. baseball team which de-
feated the Bethlehem team at that
place Saturday, will play the same
team at the golf links diamond next
Saturday Wilkerson and Dunn will
be the battery for the local team.
Mrs Henry L. Rowland and son
Henry have gone to Pine Orchard,
where they will spend a short vaca-
ton.
John Scott, who has been i'll for
some time, has fully recovered and
resumed his work.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-18
NATERvILLE TALK

Miss Walker of Winsted, who has
been the guest of Mr. and Mrs George
Truelove, has returned home.
Mrs r. F. Hargan of Holyoke has
been visiting in town.
Miss Daisy GoodseH of Winsted is
the guest of Mrs Pond on Main street.
Mr. and Mrs Samuel Butcher have
gone to visit the formers parents in
Lakeville.
Officer Chatfeld and family have
returned from their vacation spent at
Maple Beach.
The Misses Leamey have returned
from Maple Beach.
Mr. and Mrs James Burns have re-
turned from their vacation spent at
different points of interest.
David Sprague has returned from
his vacation spent at Savin Rock.
Louis Blackman has sold his lunch
room to Mrs Gilbert, who will open it
shortly. -~
Miss Mile Jackson has returned
from her vacation.
Miss Lulu Hoagtand has returned
from her vacation spent in Hartford
and vicinity.
William Barton of New Britain is
visiting in town.
The uniforms for the Uniform Rank,
K. of p, have arrived
Court Pine Hollow will meet to-
night.
j. Cliff will lead class meeting TO-
night at Grace NJ. e. church.
Thomas Hotchkiss moved from Wa
terbury to-day to Fort Hill park.
Lawrence Hamilton has returned
from his vacation.
John Jackson has resigned his posi-
ton on the railroad and accepted one
with Tracy Bros.
Miss Josie McMahon has returned
from her vacation spent in Bridge
sport, &c.,.
Rev J. ]. Moffitt and family are
spending a few days at Walnut Beach.