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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
PASSING OF VENEZUELAN CLOUD

M OST OF THE CITIZENS of the United States will
w hardly try their joyful emotions
the fact England has of the diminutive
end Of the Venezuelan megaphone. John Bull has cut
a sorry figure throughout the proceedings. Dragged
the disturbance by Germany he doubtless hoped
to substantial reward, but he gets just S21
500 against $4,000 for Germany.
SO the cloud passes away from the western hemis
phere settle and remain for time the
j. Bull The English diplomats have been out
generated and outplayed their own game of di-
plomaey, the game they have been studying since
childhood. Emperor William energies from the fray
with goodly sum of money and. although his repu-
tation fair fighter has been somewhat soed it
is TO be presumed that he is happy the
The question OF preferential treatment for the
claims of the allies Germany. England and Italy.
goes to The Hague, where it properly belongs And
this is victory for Castro or rather for Herbert
w. Bowen, the sturdy American who represented
Venezuela in the negotiations. Mr. Bowen has shown
himself i'm this business to be a pretty big man.
He doesn't make any pretenses at being a diplo-
mat his voice is not soft his language polished
but he knows what is right and fair and he doesn't
hesitate about saying Mr.. Bowen is not the kind
TO make proposal in the expectation of counter
proposal He told Germany and England exactly
what he wanted them to do and what Venezuela
would do in the first instance, he never changed
his mind
The allies didn't like his manner very well but
they came around TO his way Of thinking and the
rest is unmportant The Herald predicts that the
country hasn't heard the last about Herbert w.
If he doesn't appear in high places within the
next few years 1t will be because there is no such
thing recognition of real merit in the diplomatic
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
ENGINEERS LOSE THEIR NERVE.
The Most Trivial incidents Sometimes Affect Them at
Critical Moments.
New York SUM-

Many old locomotive engineers thought, before the
seese that e soud ean w5y ps rs Ss
snEineer ran past his signals. They attributed his
h.aThlis cones fims another
r1snee M; San explain it. and nobody can tell
nang signals os Of tse usual cond hqg 50 ssnt as
clear r nf to k p bos on a gnersy
overcome by the unusual occurrence that they
cold sweat Once When we had Been
Stop my engineer LOST his nerve
would have been in wreck if had not jumped up and
u have myself been badly ratified By unusual Oc-
fuTTeeeS Tne snghtest one that remember was when
/ had q clear track for five miles
sisnt down grade when saw light. In a Hash and
could see Iocomove coming al fuI speed toward me
nine leaning out e Of the esb WHOM ahd eoud fH Ses
c an i9Sf Ru 9u s to s 20 f f o5
could ne reach s the throttle Though my life and the
uOon it. bEscsd myself for the shock and past
told nobody about scare, Of course, two
ANY engineer can ten stories about momentary loss
sts speea2 runs sss e2 f@ss
until Ss s sss them at the END of ,dl The
under Us al the tune we aTs co3sfat o hs er
for any Obstruction on the track and our ears are
loose joint, bolt or nut
known driver to be- actually incapscitated 'f foT RsS
let off usual run because they didn't feel up
fIhere are engineers today who clubbing along
freights after serving long expresses
who would throw their jobs rather than
old places FLYERS They have their nerve.
thew know it, I have men, stili young cry
babies when they knew they longer fit to
d fastt
There is only one man in the business who has the
silIa who takes No on the Erie from Port Jervis to
Susnuehanna.
1T was his train that into big rock just above
Shehoia 1883 went tumbling down a
o edge river.
lost there ana Johns fireman pinned by the egs
his engine. before his Johns
foot was caught his shoes not buttoned
and he managed to wrigge his foot clear leaving the
shoe hehiud.
.sFIe stood by his fireman. talked with him the
flames creeping nearer gave him water took bis
last for his wife and him burn 10 death
Johns left foot little lame for long while after
that. showed the next dav cool
her and insisted taking hts usual He that
lost his instant altheJTeh he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
THE SUNDAY SALOON.

. r HIS WEEK A COMMITTEE. comprising Of
New York Cty's most prominent business men
and minister's will meet committee of the New York
legislature the purpose OF presenting arguments
in favor of District Attorney Jeromes BILL which pro-
vdes that saloons may be kept open on. Sunday for
q period Os not than ten hours. This means
practically the abolition of the law against the sun
day saloon in the state of New York.
One Of the arguments to be used is that all, or
none the saloons should be kept Open 1t is said
that the of the Sunday law is impossible
in York City Some saloon men are singled out,
even by the reform administration, seapegoats,
others molested. The result is that the
man whose saloon is closed loses his business. while
tis protected competitor acquires rushing trade.
The argument. coming it does from the law
abiding, awrespectng element of the metropolis, is
a sad confession of incompetency to deal with Sc
rious problem. effect, they say that if you
not able to prevent vice you should encourage IT.
Why shouldn't the same rule apply to all forms of
law breaking?
No law has ever been devised that will abso-
IuteIy prevent gambling Why not say to the gam
bers: You may your Illegal business during a
certain period of every day and more? Why not
say to the thief: may during certain hours,
but catch you working" before after hours
we will punish you And with every other criminal
class
If it is possible to keep the saloons of New York
closed during fourteen hours Sabbath day. why
possible keep them closed during the other
ten hours? These questions that do to
have occurred to the wise men who say conditions
will be improved in New York by modified Sunday
opening of saloons. As matter of fact. conditions
will not be bettered.
1t is true that men who are beset with appetite.
for drink will find of gratifying it. whether the
saloons open Some them viii buy
whisky in quantity Saturday night and take it
home with them for in a Sunday debauch. All
this freely admitted that doesn't the rigid
enforcement of the law against Sunday whisky selling
any the less important
Why? Because if the saloons not on
Sunday there will be less temptation young
and old men, too. to drink. If the doors not
standing invitngly open many will think
of entering. Men who might spend the greater part
of Sunday in a saloon viii home they win go
to outing place where intoxicants do not form
the chief attraction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
THOROUGHLY STERILIzED.
One Barber Shop That Was Modern and Up-to-date in
All its Appointments.
CTit-Bits.)


This towel" said the attendant in the Eerm-proor
and is Thoroughly sterized. We take every precau-
ton against exposing qatrons to infection
tagon.'
Good thing" comment ID the patron.
This attendant picking the
thereof has debacteralized, and the comb
and brush thoroughly antisepticized."
Great scheme" said the patron.
The chair in which you sit is given daily bath
bochlorde mercury while its cushions baked
an oven heated &7 degrees which is guaranteed
shrivel up any bacillus that happens along
Hot stuff" said the patron
The razor and lather brush are boiled before being
Used and the lather is dry-heated until there is
the slightest possibility of germs being con-
eealed in it, -
Fine said patron.
The hot water which the lather is mixed is
sprayed with germiclde. be-
being filtered and distilled. 1t is pure 1t can
be made
Excellent said the patron
Even the floor and the ceiling and the walls and
the furniture given antiseptic treatment day
all change handed out to customers Is first
wiped with antiseptic gauze.
Well look here" said the patron, who had been
sitting wrapped tho towel during all this, why don't
you go and shave me? Think In loaded With
some kind of germ that have to talk TO death?
mo, sir answered the attendant But am not
the barber.
You're not?- Where is hep
'They boiling him. sir?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
GERMS IN ICE CREAM.
Millions of Microbes in the Cheap Stuff That is
Sold the Street.
Chicago Tribune.1

Chicago dealers pure cream are daring Miss
Henrietta Thomas of Baltimore to Chicago
Miss Thomas is the original discoverer of the
ience of septococus lanceolatus in the hOky pOky
examining hOky poky discover If it contained
typhoid becilli, and, while she didn't gind many
these she did find in cubic centmeer of cheap
36 Steptococus
Dig killed IL almost instantly. She likewise found that
the cheap ice cream made of skim milk thickened
with various substances and instead of uavOrng
extracts contained various kinds of dopes and
unsanitary conditions
Chicago dealers in the pure article cream and
whose factories always to inspection that
IL Miss Thomas viii Chicago and inspect the
quality the cheap peddled about the city
in and sold in of the drug stores she viii
than 36O0V0 bacteria Stept0cOcuS l3nceOla
The Chicago dealers who trying public
sentiment against the cheap hawked about the
defiance deleterious effects the public
health that In 1000 gallons of this So
seems to law stop If there a
is enforced. Retail dealers from IS
gallon for IL and sell the stuff their
the article. 1t contains cream
conditions of the factories where it made
Unsantary the highest degree. The and other
receptacleS which the ice is seldom
cleaned The evil taste that this would give the ice
is overcome by plentiful of what dis
gusted MANUFACTURER Of the pure kind of cream calls
the worst kind of dope"
Mkren are fined for selling milk cream which
does contain stated percentage of butter fat and
of ice that ii is high
enforced to the manufacture of
and to provide for the sanitary in
of all ice factories Pure ice they
should contain only sweet testing not less
than 10 of butter fat eggs sugar pure fruit
extracts where fruit be used
The sanitary conditions should be perfect ice
of the readiest of substances to absorb impurities
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
JEFFERSON AND FLORENCE.
How They Criticised Each Other in The Rivals" at the
Garden Theatre.

(E. H. Sothern in Lesies Monthly for Febuary)
One night, years ago, a 1 entered DorlOn's
oyster West Twenty-third street saw Joseph
Jefferson W. j. sitting table the
door Jefferson talking earnestly TO Florence
looking much ashamed of himself with eyes
cast down and fddlng with his oyster fork Glancng
he and, if glad to escape Scoldng,
he cried, Come over here and sit down with us
moment am telling Billy about a point he spoiled
this evenng They were playing The Rivals at the
Wen. thinking of something else" said Flor
Ah. that's it, said jefferson, but YOU missed the
point. and let tell you that you would have
round of applause there'-nanling some other portion
the scene'if you had made the pause the right
place.
morseful expression. you killed your effect by
speaking quickly that line he instanced
of Bob Acres best moments
Jefferson's face fell. That's So Billy, that's so.
spoiled that line / thinking how well / play
ing, too and forgot my before I spoke
Florence became quite cheerful again. He's been
giving fits said he for the last ten minutes He
wasn't deviSh good himself tonight
To see those two veterans polishing their work, to
find them their hour recreation gliding refined
gold object lesson Of value.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
SUCH AS MOTHER USED TO MAKE.
(The January AtIantic.)

The things that mother used make still IN
the world Ear in the recesses of life you shall IND
them. the of the magic charm is pork Fresh
pOrk-CIean and and
Pork that perneates and taVors with no Indigestion IN
Bones IN its train Verify there Is
more poetry pigs Homer extracted from their
White hides-or Charles Lamb Oh, for
some modern bard sing the gories of the vanishing
know it? Not the cold, hard, iumpy mixture,
partco and other bean-but SuccOtash, the
real thing, such our Puritan ancestors knew and
Ioved-bean favored with melting bean.
and alive and palptatng to the gentle Influence Of
pork.
or cottolene or oleOmargarne other Just-asgoods
would this morning to meet respectable, a
worthy piece OF homerased pork Il is the things
that mother o passing away, but
things used make them with, the things that
the farmland all that they stand for
things that must back TO in spirit and in
actuaity II would taste again the true
flavor, not flavor pork alone but the flavor
of life itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
PLEASANT FEATURE OF THE FIRE

GNE OF THE FEATURES of the Atlas block ire
- which all of US will be glad to remember was
the unselhshness of the men who were asleep in
building when the blaze discovered Every one
OF them to have thought first about the Others
and that, too quite matter of course. The first
conscious idea of each took the form of worry
to the fate of the rest We find them running to
each others rooms. pounding the doors and cali
ing out the OF the FIRE
Not one of these men considers himself aRythiRg
like an example. The fact that each neglected his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
THE VALUE or DEEP BREATHING.
CHarner's Razar.l


Every added to the chest means more vitality.
One live days without food water: without
ali. one in a This shows the great
necessity of oxygen the system. Remember also
that oxygen burns away fat
Here is a breathing exercise that be prdctised
daily walk. Inhale. filling the lungs while
walking hold the breath during the next five
exhaie completely emptying the lungs. during
five Now nhale during six steps; hold
the the six; eXhale during six Con
tnue the exercise increasing the nuosr of steps eaeh
q few weeks fifteen steps
Try to breathe deeply all tmes-thst is make both
inhalations civilizations longer in time. Do not
the abdomen. fleshy people do.
this increases size Use the diaphragm lower
chest in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
a Bors PERTINENT QUESTION.
Boston Post-Express.)

Boston POst-Express)
Let us do our duty by 1903 and for the best and
visest of us Is not that enough2 mile time
OF that genial divine Norman Macleod of Glasgow it is
told going to place called Daffin he asked
the of lad he met
he had got his answer the doctor said TO the
bow. MOO, ladde. hoo do you get a hving? i split
Questioning he added And hoo dye get liy-
ing?' We'll that is fair, was the reply set nv
ing by telling young folk and little folk
like We the way heaven-' The boys laughter was
uncomfortable. When tumult merriment was
over he said That's good Hoo ye tell the
way L hivven when We dinna ken tn way t tn DAT
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
OPPORTUNITY.
lRY JoHN y INGAIIs

CBY JOHN J. INGALLS,.
Master OF human destinies r.
Fame. love and fortune on my footsteps wait
Cities and fields walk; l penetrate
Deserts and seas remote. and, passing by
Howell and mart and palace late
l knock unbdden once at every gate
III sleeping, wage IL feasting. rise before
turn away II Is the hour OF fate
And they who follow reach every state
Morals desire, and conquer every foe
save deatht but those who doubt hesitate,
Iondenned 20 failure. penury and woe.
seek me IL vain and useiessly fmpiore.
answer not and return nlore."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
MARK TWAIN BeoUEATHs HIS SKULL
QHarperss.)

Stirred by Gabrielle D Annunzio's good example.
Mark Twain announces tnat ne rs giving ms Skull 20
Ightennent OF future generations Z getting
prett said Clemens. speaking this sub
ect eand shall probably need the
Christmas, / dunno But if I should, 1 will pay rent"
uodestly declined state what rental he thought
skull like bring in the open literary
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
MSS DAskAN's nav OMAR

Josephine Dodge Daskam contributes another install
rnent OF her Omar Ladies' the Drawer OF the
February Harper's. Abiding to a popular fashion II
hair=dressing. she writes
sometimes think that lasts so long
as a bit too strong
That all the Pompadours the parterre boasts
Some Chorus-girl began. with Dance and sons.
And this Revival Of the Chignon low
That fills the most Of Us with helpless Woe
All criticize Il Softly, for who knows
What Iong-necked PeereSs had TO wear II So
An. my beloved, try each style you meet;
brooks loose ends must De neat
Tomorrow why. tomorrow may be
Wearing II down your back Ike Marguer1tsl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
A SIMPLE OF ENGLISH JOURNALISM.
lLondon Answers.)

Two new reporters were sent by the editor Of
newspaper suburb to write up the burning OF an
orphan ASYLUM
why no copy coming wire.
a telegraph messenger rushed in and handed him
He opened it and read:
s. I'VE here. What shall dO2
I was signed b. o the sent TO
writ up fire.
The news editor made few strong remarks. then
he vrot N a telegraph form this brief message;
'Find where the fire IS hottest and jump in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

1t is to be hoped that some method of brushing
away the cloud which hangs the incorporation
of the city of Murray will speedily be found. The
people down there voted for city life. city life
they should have regardless technical mistakes in
filing the articles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
RefLeeTlons OF a BACHELOR.
New York Press.l

New York Press.)
A pretty face for sweetheart, pure one for
wife.
BAGS of gold make steady ballast for theoretic phi
Ianthropy.
The longer a reflects over getting married the
surer he to go do something perfectly idiotic
when he finally does it.
sponsbility TO his achievement when not of the respon
itvs of feloW-men him.
There such curious twist to womans mind
believe of her fibs is the
truth when she cant make anybody else believe it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
BEGGING Tne QUESTION.
washington star.)

washington Starr
statesman.
my dear sir" answered the who is retarded
aPproachab4e. that question
individual thinks the trusts doesn't seri-
ousiy matter. Bet what trust thinks of him may
make a OF difference in his welfare
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

The Idaho legislature the Utah solons to
come up there and be socabIe. AS Utah was Idaho's
guest only two years ago, about the only thing this
legislature do is to ask Idaho come down here
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

The lower house of congress is determined not to
let the senate off all the honors. one of the
representatives called another liar during Fridays
proceedings the senate is at least one Ian ahead
from the fact that no fsticuffs resulted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

Salt Lake people have no right to complain about
the cold weather The thermometer stands at 6s de-
srees below zero In Dawson If the people up there
rad our weather they would be wearing linen
and using palm-leaf fans
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

Well Arizona can keep her little old strip if she
wants to- We didn't have very much use for it,
anyway And just to show that know how to heap
up the Goals of fire. wen go right ahead advocating
statehood for Arizona.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

If the Agricultural college authorities could only
have persuaded the members of the legislature to vote
Immediately after that luncheon Friday afternoon the
treasury.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15

The Herald is unable to verify the rumor that
Senator Kearns and senator-elect smoot exchanged
valentines this year. If they did, are constrained
to believe they We're of the comic variety.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
HIS SLIDING SCALE.

(Judge)
Trivvet 10
that?H
Its all in his wfe's name
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
THE GOOD AND BAD.
washington Star.

washington starr
There good trusts and bad trusts. said the
hopeful
Yes" answered the cheerless citizen: but the bad
are accommodating much profit and power. that
afraid won't long before tn good trusts
are led temptation
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
was WELL PLEASED.

(Judge)
rible2
lively stunning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
IDEAL WEATHER FOR GEORGIA COLONIES

ATLANTA Constitution)
What fine weather is the
to take sugar in therni
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-11-16
He Went 10 Jail.

Some time last winter Gilbert Pick
ems, a full-blood Choctaw Indian, and
Charley Burns. had a difficulty of some
kind and in the melee Pickens took
Burns gun away from him. As Burns
was leaving PicNens shot his (Burn's)
horse. Burns indicted him for disturb
ing the peace and the grand jury war
rant was given to Deputy Wilkinson
who arrested Pickens four miles south
of Mcmillan Friday afternoon Pick
ems was given until Saturday evening
to make bond. He showed up here
Saturday afternoon saying he had
been unable to make bond and was
ready to go to Jail Wilkinson started
with him to the jail when Pickens
thought that the had no tobacco and
the officer let him go back to some of
the stores to get his tobacco. unattend-
ed. when he returned and was put in
the big jail. How many men would
our officers have such confidence in?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-11-16
Had to Arrest Them.

Last night Deputy Norton brought
up A. Stice. white man SO years old,
and Elmer Holmes. colored, both
charged with introducing and selling
liquor. whom he had arrested on the
streets of Marietta yesterday Stice
had about a gallon of booze in a jug
and sat down on the streets and raised
such a fuss that he had to take him in.
The negro had about half gallon and
he was brought along also. Both are
now safely behind the bars.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-11-16
Our Baseball Future.

Arthur II. CAD Noyes has con.
cluded a deal with the Ardmore Park
and Fair Association for 1904, and
will provide this city with strong
baseball club capable of defending
Ardmore's interests against diamond
invaders from any point of Texas, Ok
lahoma or this territory. Manager
Noyes will handle the mask and pad
himself in all contests and expects to
have a club capable of making a good
record against all comers, and efforts
will be made for exhibition games
National American and Texas
league clubs in the early season,
while Dow, Tishomingo. Durant, Shaw
nee and Oklahoma City will also re-
ccivc the attention of the 1904 slug.
gers to be secured for the local con
tingcnt.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-11-16
An Invitation.

The members and friends of the
Broadway Methodist church are cor
daily invited and earnestly requested
to attend an informal reception to be
rendered our pastor, Rev. S. f. God
drd, and presiding elder, Rev. A. N.
Averyt, and families. to be given at
the new residence of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
F Jones, No. 9OS McLish avenue,
southwest, on Tuesday evening, Nov
ember II. from 8 to 10 o'clock.
COMMITTEE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-11-16
Bridae Needs Repairs.

We are told that there is little
little bridge between the six and seven
mile posts on the road west to Lone
Grove, that on account Of its bad CON
ditlon is quite a menace to travel.
Several persons, we learn, have car
ried their cotton to other markets In
order to avoid crossing this bridge,
II is only small matter and our
Commercial Club should see that 1t
is fixed.