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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-06
EXTRA SESSION OF THE
UNITED STATES SENATE
Continued from Page -

qry. had saved the country millions Of
dollars.
Mr. Cannon had objected 90 the matter,
said Mr. Illlmau, simply because he
called il legislation on am appropriation
nih. Mr. llllman drew picture OF the
scene IN the conference room while the
committee was discussing his item ana
SAID; The watchdog of the treasury
came I'm and shut his massive Jaws down
on this claim and said: Whenever yod
all set ready to rub that ont wake me
up He said De was only speaking
metaphOricany."
Mr.. TillmaH then spoke of the de-
termination arrived at by him. II simply
shut my jaws on this proposition" said
he that ] would have that money or
have an extra session. and i was I'm "A POI
force il
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-06

Bank OF Commerce
Now located al 16o Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-06

scorT a BowAE clsai.i. - P-a s. NY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

In fuel. 10 per cent; in food. IL per cent: in
clothing, 10 per cent; in rent, So per cent.
Those are not luxuries; they are life's ne
cessities, and they show an average in
crease in the cost of living OF p per cent.
The figures were obtained by an inquiry
into the expenses of 104 workingmen's fami-
lies living under normal conditions. The in
comes Of the families were ascertained and
an effort made TO determine whether the
families were better worse of than they
were five years before Economically they
were not better off; socially they were, in
that more of the men, fathers and grown
sons, were employed, and fewer of the moth
ers and children were contributing to the
family support.
1t is figured that at least 100000 work.
men will receive higher wages this year
than they did last But one has figured
how much more these 100000 are likely to
have to pay TO live. Coal miners are de-
handing an increase of from Is 10 % per
cent in their wages, and the great corpora
tons from whom the increase has been un-
willingly wrung are feeling virtuous and
pointing to the fact that the men demanded
and got an increase of 10 per cent In 1900
But President John Mitchell who seems to
have way of dealing with the facts, which
are stubborn things" says that because
of the 30 or 40 per cent. increase in the cost
of living in the mining districts 1.-The pur-
chasing power Of a miners wages is less
than before the strike of 1900"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

Harper's Bazaar

f1arperS Bazaar.
With the best will in the world, I have
discovered little about the classical kitchen.
except that II existed, that ii probably stood
apart from the house, and that sometimes
IL was provided with chimney When one
remembers the banQuets of Athenaeus and
Lucullus, or, for that matter, the Sabine
fare Of Horace, this chimney might be TAX
en- for granted. But, as a matter of fact, IL
must have been long the luxury of the few
for the chimneyless kitchen survived until
such recent time that to-day there is still
near Oxford. as cooks in the university will
tell you with archaeological pride, an an
cient kitchen where circle of holes around
the roof took the place of our chimney. But
the old classical cooks had such a rever-
ence for their art-the 'godlike art of cook
ing" some of them called it--that no doubt
they understood how to control the holes we
think so barbarous. Cooks who would quote
Homer and knew Plato by heart, and who
thought the mastery OF all the arts and
sciences q mere preparatory course TO the
study OF cookery. never could have been
willing to work in kitchen reeling with
smoke like a crofter's cottage. Indeed, one
among them went so far as 10 declare an
architectural training necessary TO the cook
so that he might build his kitchen to suit
himself, and secure the right amount of
light and avoid being exposed TO all the
winds that blow, for smoke, he wisely OBJ
served, according 10 which way il goes
makes q great difference when you dress
a dinner. And / fancy there are times when
the chef to-day would be ready to give up
his chimney for the chance OF playing his
own architect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
PRECIOUS STONES GROW SICK.

lew York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
Jewels. like lovely woman who wears
them may be '.indisposed." According TO A.
J. Linde New York expert in precious
stores. the sickness OF gems Is no uncom-
mon thing
Diamonds" said he. "are free from
maladies because OF their great hardness,
but other gems, such as rubies. sapphires
and pearls, all have their ailments. Now.
here Is sick turquoise which 1 am trying
% cure. You can see IL Is set in a ring with
two other stones. Just note the dull. faded
color compared with the healthy turquoise,
and you Will see the difference at once.
THE effect is due 10 atmosphere and sur
rounding conditions. AS man Is affected by
the weather. so was this stone You see, the
Iparticles OF which IL Is composed were soft
ened by the elements; a change in its color
! took place, and the stone is what we call
sick Whether IL can be cured remains TO
kbe seen.
I'VE usually put such stone through an
. acid course 20 harden II. Sometimes IL re-
gains its original color and health but X II
has long been affected cure may be i'm
POSSIBLE.
Pearls usually suffer more than other
precious stones. Through the ravages OF
lime and other causes they lose the beau
1iful reflections which constitute all their
veIiowis In both cases we jewelers. usual
" call them dead pearls. In this condition
they are not worth much, and a hundred
md one means have been resorted TO in or
Esr 20 restore their luster. In some cases
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
TO ExTERMINATE BEAVERS.
Brooklyn Eagle.

bTOOklyH EdSlc.
Beavers are becoming so numerous In
Maine that lumbermen are forming a con-
spiracy to compass their determination.
The increase in the number of beavers is
remarkable, considering the activity of
poachers and the destruction of the for
ests. OF late years they have been remark
ably busy in the construction of dams and
snug winter quarters, the work in some
places being of such magnitude and so clev-
erly done that people have Travelled miles to
see and admire Ii.
At Caribou a colony of beavers built a fine
large dam. and were just completing their
houses when some miscreant destroyed the
entire work and killed many of the animals
by the explosion of heavy charge of dyna-
mite in the stream. The beavers that sur
vived were neither alarmed nor discour-
aged, however, but set Immediately TO work
rebuilding the dam and the cute little
houses. so that in few weeks the colony
was better prepared than before for the
long siege of winter. The townspeople were
enraged at the destruction of the dam, and
have offered rewards for the detection of
the man who exploded the dynamite, while
several citizens have gone so far as to
juring or interfering In any way with the
furry homebulders, which are regarded
with affection by all the people there.
An Aroostook county man who has spent
his life in the woods and knows all about
beavers. speaks thus interestingly of the
little animals:
''I am told that a movement is now under
way by the landowners in Maine 10 have
growing timber, but their dams obstruct
the streams and brooks down which the
logs driven. have helped to cut away
the dams and clear away the houses that
obstructed some streams. and. returning
houses rebuilt and the streams again full Of
brush.
THE dams and houses are built Of mud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
Philadelphia Telegraph.

Philadelphia Telegraph.
During a recent church conference in the
South, a clergyman said the other day, one
of the lay brethren threw a tableful Of peo-
pie into confusion by getting his secular
amusements mixed up with Bible texts. The
hotels In town where the conference was
held proved inadequate for the crowd of
delegates, and they were received guests
at the dwelling of the church members. Our
friend, the lay brother-whom 1 shall call
local Clergyman. e When he he came down to
breakfast the next morning the family,
consisting of dozen people, had already
some to the dining room.
I'VE do not ask blessing here, the host
whispered. Instead, each of us in success
sion, repeats a verse from the Bible"
Mr.. Jones was seated on the hosts left
hand, and he thought he would be the first
called on for a verse. This flustered him.
Rack his brains he would, he could not
think of quotation, chiefly because 1t was
expected of him on short notice. The host
began by repeating one of the Proverbs.
Then came monetary silence. Mr.. Jones,
tongue-tied. broke into a cold sweat. The
woman on his hosts right repeated her
realized that the verses were being spoken
around the table the other way, and that
he would be called on the last, instead Of
the first.
This gave him time to get his wits to-
gether and he hit on the Scriptural quota
ton, Blessed are the pure in heart. for
they shall see God"
Nearer and nearer came the moment for
Mr.. Jones to speak The woman three seats
away was repeating her selection
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God" whispered Mr.. Jones.
The man two seats away was speaking.
Again Mr.. Jones repeated his text, resolved
not to blunder.
Then the woman next to Mr.. Jones said:
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God"
She had repeated Mr.. Jones's text. His
backbone melted to the consistency of his
oatmeal. He coughed, he fumbled he
forestalled him.
mr. Jones, your turn" whispered his
host.
IT? My turn? o certainly" gasped Mr.
Jones. ''Well, pass.''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
COST OF LIVING INCREASES,
According to Statistics, Faster Than
Wages.
Brooklyn Eagle.

DTOOhlyH EdSie
Just now. with the memories of last sum-
mer's great coal strike fresh in the public
mind. the country seems to be plunging
head foremost into a perfect sea OF strikes.
Yet capital leans back in it's easy chair and
says, Wages never were so high" and
virtuously quote statistics to prove the
statement.
And statistics do prove it, all right, but
there are other statistics which capital
carefully refrains from quoting, that prove
equally and even more convincingly that the
cost of living never was anything like SO
perities of plenty of work and good pay
won't bear examination, il one turns on il
the searchlight of the cost of living. For
while wages have been slowly crawling up
ward The cost of living has been climbing
by leaps and bounds; and while IL Is perfect
ly true perhaps, that man now earns per-
haps $11 where he used to earn $40, he
spends $12 where he used to spend 50. And
the price Of human necessities Is still In
creasing much more rapidly than the price
OF human labor.
United States Labor Commissioner Carroll
d. Wright says 1.-The wages paid now in the
United States are higher than ever before In
the history Of the country" which may be
literally true. but practically untrue In view
OF the purchasing power OF said wages. Ac-
cording TO the thirty-second annual report
of the Massachusetts, Bureau OF Statistics OF
Labor the cost of living In Massachusetts,
has increased from 10 TO 80 per cent. between
1897 and 4S02. And what Is true OF Massachu-
sets II not far from being true In New
York where conditions are approximately
the same. THAT Il, the increase has been:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

the operation succeeds; in others, it is
failure.
There are many pearl DOCTORS and all
have some secret recipe which they claim
will restore the luster; but they are only
Quacks. Their remedies are very mysterious,
many as eighty-three ingredients. One rec
ipe have heard of Is dew taken from the
leaves of certain plants. My experience has
best.
when you take into consideration the
constitution of the pearl. and how readily it
quickly see that stone submerged in this
liquor will be attacked, and, as result, its
exterior layer will disappear. If the pearl Is
only trifle yellow and dim, the removal
of the topmost layer will leave exposed the
normal layers and the stone will recover its
luster. II, however, all the layers are
dimmed and opaque to the center, nothing
can restore the pearls health"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
H A CURIO SHOP.
Strange Recovery of a Family Relic
After Fffty-Three Years.

New Orleans Times Democrat
Truth is stranger than fiction. to revert TO
the time honored and worn phrase. and IL
a Chicago woman in New Orleans recently
does so to a satisfying extent. Like many
who come down from East and West, she
she made a happy, fanaticaI tour of the
curio and secondhand shops and pawn
shops for souvenirs She thought she wanted
pearls and corals and Jeweled daggers, and
one afternoon about week ago, with
these Turing her along the quaint sunny
length of the quarter" where others be-
sides Gene Field have blown in $40 before
10 a. m, but proved mute, inglorious Mil
tons on the subject, she entered a shop
dingy, dusty and Of delightful promise. In
the process OF "nosing" about with yelled
eye for finds" she came upon a broken
plate filed with old-fashioned seals and
began, half idly. picking them over. Pres
emily she CHANGED upon one for fob Pc
its heavy carved gold ring. ''Iii let YOU
have that very cheap IL you wanner take
it, it, tbs the man said. It's a locket as well.
ny sort Of hair. gold and brown, an al
ways seems to me like it's alive. can sell
II and that hair in it. Most people dom wan
keep hair, and won take it out because it's
bad luck. The ring. because it's got them
"R. W.. W." exclaimed the lady, my
brothers initials; how strange"
well, you are the first person I've ever
been able 10 find that had 'em in any part
or the family. Nobody wants to buy f. I'll
let you get bargain on IT, I'd have melted
the ring for gold long ago, but never could
git up the courage to take out that there
hair. Somehow IL wouldn't let me-"
The Chicago woman opened the locket and
there was the little shining curl seeming
still TO vibrate with beautiful fresh life
that must have crumbled to dust many
years since.
We'll. I'll come in before I go and see"
she said. and went on her search for pearls
But the thing haunted her. and finally i'm
PEELED her, so she says, to write 10 her
brother describing IL. IF you want the
thing I'll bring IL TO you" she wrote He
sent her immediate reply. Get the ring
at all costs. Mother says IL Is fathers and
the hair that OF his mother. 1t was given to
him with her blessing when he was a boy
and he had treasured IL dearly
IL later transpired that fifty-three years
ago the father had come South TO Mobile,
and the seal fob with it's locket had been
stolen by a superstitious black, who. dis
covering the hair. was afraid OF the I'll luck
and possible hoodoo and left IL in a bundle
on the doorstep OF that same old curio shop
So fifty-three years afterwards the grand
daughter found, by accident the precious
little relic, preserved for her. until now by
the intangible protection Of the glintilg
curl OF hair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

The raisin wine OF ceremonies holy,
Wherein-to fete old Pharaoh's overthrow
We dipped unleavened bread; the East moves
slowly.
Twas only some three thousand years ago.
o witchlng night when earth was near 10 heaven
q blessedness 10 be little jew.
Where lay the magic in not eating leaven.
And how Noah aped on raisin brew.
know not. but by Asti recreated.
All dewy-fresh the young entertainments rise.
And forget that am old and sated
Lonely. and stained Of soul. and worldly wise.
Israel Zangwill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
Literary Digest.

Some three or four years ago a we'll
known Russian painter. Riepin. painted
Tolstoy minues shoes and stockings IL Is
said that the famous author ironically
thanked him In private letter for leaving
him his trousers. Now another painter,
hitherto unknown 10 fame. by name Bou-
min, has gone Riepin one better. and evil
IDENTIFY 10 achieve notoriety. IL not fame. has
depicted both Tolstoy and Riepin with
Tchekhoff and Gorky. the novelists as not
only barefooted. but barelegged as we'll
The picture Is exhibited at ST. Petersburg
under the auspices OF the Society OF Art
and is called Catching Fish" The friends
OF the artist justify the painting under the
very thin pretext OF allegory. IL expresses
they say. the power OF great men over their
disciples. The picture has provoked a pro-
test from the great novelists son. and may
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

Az wide with fringed ends, like a lady 8
stock. Indeed, 1t is very feminine looking
object indeed. The basic color is always
either scarlet or indigo, but this is crossed
at intervals of 31a inches by bands 21z
inches deep in variegated variety of lurid
but beautiful colors. The stripes in my
examples are white, red, yellow. black and
green, repeated in various orders and
widths; and there are double width bars
near the ends. This contraption, which is
more like a girls sash than a mans tie,
is worn only with double collar, and am
thus particular in my description of it be-
cause, with your habit of casting off waist
coats in summer this thing might easily
catch on in America
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-11-20
RUN A CROOKED LAUNDRY.
Handsome Profits Are Also Made bv
Dlsposing Of Unclaimed Iinen

Handsome Profits Are Also Made bv
DisposIns Of Unclaimed Linen.
t'hlladelphia Ledger: You would be
surprised at the handsome profits that
are made on the side in the laundry
business by the disposing of unclaimed
ililen' SAID a mar who has been for
twenty years the proprietor of a large
laundry establishment to a reporter tha
o1her day. From the first year / start
ed IN to starch collars and shirts nm ~
a few months before [ retired iast
April have figured out that 7 made
exactly $500 by selling the ,nc,a med
llnen of my business. Just imagine tha
number of shirts, collars, cuffs ana
otner pieces OF linen which a laundry
lla[dles one could purchase for $500
anu you nave an lde of the pile of stuff
that was left on my hands. Rut n,os+
make money by such means
the sun varying according to the size
OF the business and the forgetfnIness
of the customers.
Il used to know a man who ran ono
or the biggest laundry establishments
seven years ago. The business had
neen estapllshed by him fifteen years
previous to its dissolution. I can't ne
course, give o the mans name hnt
anyway, he was a crook, and is az
present serving out a long term in sine
sing for forgery. During the Years he
was In the laundry business he fold me-
himself shortly after he failed thar he
NAG made close to $4,000 by deliberately
differing his customers' %linen-.anS5
that's not Includes mind YOU. aha
value Of the unclaIs@sh s 81 he hads
right to dispose of. 9&TMScu'i. kN.5eriHsd
from that source itself, money n 49,
ers We're of the averaso = ms custoIRs.
would amount to few IVA ss.iuineSs,
1t was no wonder. of >oI,,ea ntnuteds.
mans business COLLAPSED. 'a me
His manner of ~
was to take a shirt cuf Of ona of fu !
customers packagesss collar on. = : n iis
OF cuffs out of anotier, a piece Of Sill
underwear out Of another. and 50 on
His wife assisted him in the tbievinn
which was always done after the enc.
ployes had left for the day. Az the
stun was ken from the ths
pills were made out So as to tally with
the remaining contents of the bundle
Naturally enough, of course, after a
While complaints We're made bv crs-
omers thus robbed, and as the thievine
continued at intervals the laundry be-.
gan to get a bad reputation, with the
result tina its patronage gradually
dropped off to the extent that the blsi.
ness would no longer paw"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-11-20
He Wanted K cha.aaa

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The slow mar
customer had just asked the bright young
son OF the grocer for q water bucket.
u hang that II, he remarked in Tho
for his purchase.
Il WILL" said the boy as ho
snatched back the pail and hung If on
the first nail he could: reach, -
III Kick to your father about this y
growled the bafied buyer.
Don't kick the bucket. sneered the how
as ne turned to the little girl who wanted
d thent's wuth of lickrish.
Whlch shows that a wilful misappre-
nehsion OF a slangy mans meaning NAV
count. Ne' as-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-11-20
UMBRELLA SALADS.
Gardens IN Vary Queer PIaoss-DispIay
~ renanLa Garden.

CarIere i, Vary Queer Places-Display
--s,,,t, G,rI.,
-. - - n,7 ,,r,Lrall,
Noh'o' -,
and open IL. "et s24A 1Ae 1"pElc wan
water, and SPRINKLE o.er il mustard ana
cress saed pIr the umbrella anywhere
.o,.,. ro+ ~,,f an. IL, a,v nosftiau
90 =" 49,,
Where IL catl scr R'allS@ u y ..+' ~
it well two on three times QalLy. IN d
week or two a crop OF excellent small
-o1,av NAV. ne ont
-" - c.,.,.o-,
Ihe garden O" "'e oo- u
police station was brought INTO pFoHr'
hence last summer, but there is one III
an even more ra'narkaoie position "ishin
a stones throw OF answers ounce. Inns
has been made on q stone edge OIL ths
Thames embankTncnt on the west soc OF
Blackfriars bridge. 1t is the work of the
men OF the fire float which Is stationed
there, and every atom OF sou mas had 10
be carried, basketful by basketlui' TO the
spot. 1t can only be reached from dry
land by means OF q LADDER, so mat us
position is unique. 1t is very tastefully
laid out and carefully tended.
One would hardly expect to ind a gar
den on a fishing smack. yet such a thlns
is III existence. The smack is one OF the
Exon fleet, and the garden" is tucked
away by the bowSp.it ana WindlaSs.. 1t is
in pots and small boxes, and consists
chiefly of scarlet Geraninms. The skipper
of the smack admits that 1t gives MIN a
good deal of trouble, as a sudden squat
or q dip wipes away ali traces 0i hofti-
culture at once, and the flowers nave to
be renewed occasionally.
Canal boats. which work under mora
favorable conditions than fishing sillacks,
are frequently improved by small gar
dens, usually in boxes, on their crantped
cabin roofs, and when carefully tended
they give the curtous!E shaped craft a
very picturesque appearance.
Gardens are a feature Of several OF The
South Wales coal u.nog. II is true tho
crops are generally limited to mushrooms,
but they are, none the less, gardens. Tho
earth is taken down IN Bags by the
miners, mixed with manure from the pin
ponies stables, and a mushroom bed
formed, into which broken bricks OF
spawn are put.
AS the level temperature is favorable to
MUSHROOM culture, it is not long before
good results are obtained. THIS system
of underground gardening has prevailed
for some time in Paris, for most of the
"champignons," or button mushrooms
used in that country, as well as a good
many of the ordinary kind. are grown in
the disused subterranean stone a]uarries
on the left banll of the Seine.
1t is natural to expect TO see gardens at
q flower show, but hardly a greenhouse
containing Il collection of plants which.
house and all, could be packed up and
carried away in an ordinary hat box. Yet
such an exhibit was one of the features
of Royal horticultural society,s eyhibi-