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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

ful recollection of the errors of their
own lives. they approach the grave
with serenity, aspiring only in their
last days 10 make the lot of those about
them better and brighter and happier.
John Gordon of Marion was not of
hard-hearted, hard-fsted, dour man. He
He didn't like to see people happy, and
consequently he never did anything to
increase the happiness of anybody. The
on his deathbed. A little time before
the breath left his body he drew from
under his pillow $4,000 in currency,
to which he had chung throughout his
illness. Carefully placing the bills in
pile he touched a match to them and
watched them burn until the last one
was reduced to ashes.
Then he died, presumably happy in
the thought that no one would receive
any benefit from that money. Now, if
there is real justice in the hereafter. it
would seem that the only proper pun
ishment for John Gordon would be
brought about by placing him over a
nice, hot fire, made of currency. and let
him toast for a while. The currency
should be of the clearing house check
variety, for presumably that will be
current in the realm that is supposed
to be kept piping hot.
And wasn't the burning of that money
by John Gordon just about the mean
est thing you ever heard of? Do you
not think he is entitled to a place in
your recollection as the champion
mean man? Think of the good that
$4,000 might have done. With $4,000
it would have been possible to give at
least 1000 deserving families the best
kind of a Christmas dinner, with
enough left over for a few simple
presents for the children. 1t would have
been possible to endow "a bed in
hospital. a bed TO which the injured,
the i'll, the suffering, might have been
taken and healed without cost to them.
John Gordon preferred to reduce the
money TO ashes. He wanted TO be quite
certain that it would never be used by
anybody. The old eurmudgeon certain
ly deserves some punishment in the
place TO which his spirit has departed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

Alice Rowe, Miss Ella Dukes and Pro-
lessor George A. Eaton. The big new
gymnasium, where the affair was
given, " as decorated lavishly with the
red and black of the school. remnants
and flags being used effectively
Christmas green's, both holly and
mistletoe, frightened the hall.
II
Miss Charlotte Holmes will leave
either Sunday or Monday to spend the
holidays with her mother in Los An
geles.
Mrs. Wallace Bransford was the
hostess for the Cup and Saucer club
yesterday afternoon.
X X X
Mrs. Walter S. Scott has gone out
to Fort Douglas to join Colonel Scott,
and they will shortly be settled in the
commanding officers quarters.
X X
The P. Z. o. society will meet today
with Mrs. Sherwood at SIS South State
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flax Harris, formerly
of this city. but now of New York, who
have been spending a few weeks with
the Lichtenstein family, will return to
New York the first of the year.
x X \
Mr. and Mrs. Edward c. Parsons of
Denver arrived last evening and will
spend some time in the city.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Anderson will
leave Monday for Oakland to spend
Christmas with the Anderson family.
X X
Mrs Baker of Everett. Wash. is in
town visiting Mr and Mrs. Edward S
Ferry for the holidays.
X X
Thomas Homer left last evening for
Los Angeles to spend the holidays
with his wife and little daughter.
X X X
Miss Linda Jessup and Miss Mar
guerite left last evening for Pasa-
dena to spend Christmas.
Mrs. w A Nelden left yesterday for
RedIands to visit Mrs. George R. Han.
cock.
DR.. Edie will be here within a day
or SO from Grand Rapids to spend
Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
S. Ferry.
Mrs. John .McVicker has gone to Los
Angeles to spend the remainder Of the
winter.
Miss Emma Wunderli OF Portland
spent two days the first of the week
with Mr. and Mrs. NJ. H. Kriebel on
her way home from the east.
Miss Elizabeth Smith of Logan and
her sister, Miss Smith of Madison,
Wis, left last evening for Pasadena to
spend the holidays.
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WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
THE METALS.

Clear and cold.
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The MEANEsT MAN.

All the men who have aspired to the
doubtful honor of the title, the mean
est man in the world" viii doubtless
desire TO undertake a pilgrimage to the
nnhonored tomb of John Gordon of
Marion. Ohio Gordon died the other
day at the age of more than so years
Old age softens most men. They
are more charitable with the faults
OF others. Meliowed by time and with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

Miss Charlotte Holmes will leave
either Sunday or Monday to spend the
holidays with her mother in Los An
geles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21
SOCIETY

The annual Red and Black dance
of the High school last evening was
one Of the most enjoyable affairs ever
given by the school. The dance was
managed by the members Of the senior
class, but IL was not a class affair 1t
was offended by number of the
friends of the institution as we'll as by
the pupils. and was under the patron
age Of Colonel and Mrs. z. A. Wedg-
wood, DR.. and Mrs. e. 5. Wright, Miss
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

gan yesterday is fine for the kids, all
right all right, but their mothers will
be nervous wrecks before it is over,
unless we have made some error in our
calculations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

1t has been decided by Brooklyn
magistrate that a wife does not possess
the right 10 compel her husband TO
scrub floors. Still, it's a pretty scrubby
sort of husband who would complain
about a little thing like that.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

In Paris, We are told. veal outlets
Dreaded with sawdust are being served
in the restaurants. LuckyeParisl We
couldn' {. do that in this country on ac-
count OF the lumber trust.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

not know what
it was so went
10 q doctor who
treated him for
three months.
Then he was so
bad that his face
and head we're
nothing but one
sore and his ears
looked as if they
were going to fall
of, so we tried
another doctor.
He said he could
l..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21

Silver, 53C per ounce.
copper (casting). 125kc per pound.
copper tcathOdes), 127sc per pound
Lead. S3.0 per 100 pounds.
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Total Copies of The Herald
Printed November. 1907.
THEATRES TODAY.

Vile
- Grand-Matinee and night, AT the Old
Lyrie-Matinee and night, THE Gold
King"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-21
BABY TORTURED
FOR 6 MONTHS
BY Terrible Itching Eczema-Facs
and Head a Solid Sore-Spread
to His Hand and Legs-Wouid
Scratch Until He BIed-Tiny Suf-
ferer Immediately Relieved and
ENTIRELY CURED IN 2
MONTHS BY CUTICURA

"When my son Walter was three weeks
old, eczema appeared on his face. We did
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-17

HAWAIIAN TRIBE NO. /, I. o. r. NJ.
Meets every first and third Thursday of each
month. in K. of P. Hall. corner of Fort and
Beretania 'reets. Visiting brothers cordially
invited to attend
A D. CASTRO, Sachem.
4. E. MURPHY c. of R.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-17

HONOLULU LODGE GIG, B. P. O. E.
Honolulu LGdge No 6I6, B. P. o. E., will
meet in their hall. King street near Fort, every
Friday evening. BY order of the E. R.
FRANK E. RICHARDSON, E. R.
HARRY A. WILDER. Secy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-17
CHILLINGWORTH GIVES
HIS EXPLANAT TON

Charles F. Chillingworth yesterday
corrected the statement made that q
steamer has been especially chartered
to make monthly calls at Honolulu for
the purpose of carrying Japanese Ia
borers to Canada. The steamer upon
which it is expected to send the labor
ers away, and due to arrive here on
January 2S is the first of a line of
Royal Mail steamers plying between
New Zealand, Australia and Canada,
making calls at this port.
Morayama. Chillingworth's japanese
factotum, has secured the right to
handle all the Japanese steerage bus
mess from this port. probably about
sixty. to seventy passengers a steam
er. and this is the whole foundation
for the reports of specially chartered
steamers TO carry out three hundred
or more monthly.
According to ChilIingw0rth, the Brit
ish mail contract has been taken from
the Canadian-Australian line and
transferred TO the Alley line, upon
which ships the japanese are to be
sent out On the Canadian-Australia
line an arrangement has been in force
whereby certain of the japanese hotel
keepers of Honolulu divided up a
fbonus of five dollars a ticket on all
sold to Japanese, whereas under the
Morayama arrangement he viii get
the whole rakeoff for himself.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-17
Els own SENTENCED.

Deputy Attorney General w. L.
Whitney entered nol1e prosequi,
which was allowed by Judge Lindsay,
for Loo Poi who had appealed from a
fine of $25 on each of two counts for
selling opium without license. The
sentence was imposed by Mr.. Whitney
himself about eighteen months ago,
when he was District Magistrate of
TJonnI11lr1
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-17
LAND CoURT. Orders.

Judge Weaver made an order in the
Court of Land Registration, that an
assignment by C. s. Desky of an inter
est in Highland Park tract to Morris
Rosenbledt for $4,000, be made part Of
the agreement whereby W. E. Wall
and H. Focke turned the land over to
Deslky to place on the market.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17

IN the morning Of the 9Th Of jan
uary, 1916 full six thousand ex-
pert sharpshooters, mostly from
Tennessee under Coffee and Carroll, and
from Kentucky under General Adair, lay
behind Jackson's entertainments almost
wholly concealed from the enemy en-
camped on the plain that stretched away
to the southwark. Pakenham, who had
twelve thousand effective men. had re-
solved to carry this line by storm, sat
isfied that his overwhelming numbers OF
regulars might easily crush the American
MALTA gathered on both sides of the
Mississippi With about nine thousand
troops he pressed forward for the pur-
pose as soon as a heavy fog was dis
persed, leaving the remainder as re-
serve under General lambert. An omin-
Gus silence prevailed along the American
line until the enemy approached within
a short cannon range of Jackson's bat
terles. These were opened with terrible
effect. cutting fearful lanes through the
ranks of the British. Yet the invaders
continued to advance steadily until they
came within range of the American rifles.
when volley after volley poured deadly
storm of lead Upon the British. Whole
platoons were mown down as with a
scythe, but the gallant army continued
to press forward until officer after Of
ficer was killed; and Pakenham himself
fell, bleeding and dying, into the arms
of the late Sir Duncan McDougall, his
favorite aid, who performed similar
service for General Ross, when he was
MORALLY wounded, near Baltimore few
months before. Very soon afterward the
whole of the assailants broke and fed
back across the plain of Chalmette in
great confusion. Lambert, with the re-
serve, covered the retreat. On the west
side Of the Mississippi the assaiiants had
also retreated. The slaughter and MAIN
ing before Jacksons lines had been fear
field, and suffered a further loss by hav-
full The fugitives left seven hundred dead
and fourteen hundred wounded on the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
THE BATTLE OF NE ORLEANS

Jackson and his staff passed on foot
through the square between rows of
soldiers. and he stepped upon tho
slightly raised platform of the arch the
two little girls on tho pedestaIs leaned
gently forward and placed the laurel
crown upon his head. At the same mo-
ment charming Creole girl-Miss Kerr
AS the representative of Louisiana,
stepped forward and with great modesty
IN voice and manner spoke few words
10 the honored chief, In which she ex-
pressed the profound gratitude OF her
people. TO this address Jackson made
brief reply, and then passed on to the
church with his pathway strewn with
flowers. Therein he was seated near tho
great altar and after the apostolic pre-
feet delivered a patriotic discourse the
TIE Deum Laudamus was chanted by the
choir and the people. When the cere-
monies were ended, Jackson returned
to tho stern duties of soldier
The General was vigilant as well as
brave, and he exercised martial law until
official tidings OF peace reached him
Martial and civil law clashed An irats
Judge whom the general had caused to
be arrested and banished beyond the
military Jurisdiction, summoned Jackson
before him to show cause why the gem
eral should not be punished for contempt
of court. The hero obeyed. The court
room was crowded with citizens indig-
nant at such treatment OF the man who
had saved their state from invasion and
their city from plumber. The Judge was
alarmed in the presence OF the public
wrath
Go on; 1 will protect you in your
duty" said the brave general to tho
trembling judge.
The latter fined the hero a thousand
dollars. for which amount the general
, drew a check before leaving the room.
The populace bore him on their shoulders
| to carriage in the street. and the citi-
| zens soon made up the amount of the
| fine and rendered it to Jackson. He or
| dered 1t to be distributed among the
| families OF the soldiers who had fallen
| in the battle. Thirteen years atterward
| the people OF the United States elected
Andrew Jackson President OF the r.
puhlIo
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still while his neighbor races a new au-
tomobile and often admires the modern
tangled means of destruction. He ex-
erts himself, and crosses the track,
just as the car turns the corner And
still, his tune is none the less merry.
He passes and even stands beneath,
while chatting to a friend, complete
network of interlacing wires. Should
one fall-but he never thinks of thisi
He steps aside to let wagon pass,
and perhaps mumbles a curse that the
reckless driver does not pursue the
right side of the course. Perhaps a
poorly constructed brick wall gives
way, pinning poor struggling laborer
to death. He runs across, is excited,
but does not think that his own es-
cape was great. Had he not stopped
to talk with his friend-but he doesn't
think of that, He mounts trolley car,
and is guided into the very jaws Of
death by a one-armed and purblind
Waterman. The painting train narrow
ly grazes the rear end Of the car, but
he hardly looks behind; and il he does
he simply remarks to neighbor about
watchman." He does not think that a
Waterman. He does not think that a
stray bullet, one of those he hears
shrieking throughout the day, will ever
strike him. He sees no harm In the
fumes of sewer gas that greets him
returning home. unless 1t be the mo-
mentarily unpleasantness. He goes all
the fatal paths, but whistles all the
time. He values his life highly, he
will tell you, but still he doesn't worry.
| Danger is so common that he forgets
| that It exists. He Is a man Of the
world, a business man, with no time
to think of little matters. To the in
stinctive self-protection that exists in
every breast, he entrusts himself, and
! never thinks to thank that spirit which
saves him. When finger comes In
contact with red hot stove, 1t Is in
stantly removed. 1t Is not necessary
| for the man to look at the finger, feel
| the pain. communicate to the brain in
! struction to order the contraction of
/ that muscle which will remove the
member. The mind acts Of its own ac-
cord. In the same thoughtless man
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
BY BENSON J. LOSING.

ing five hundred of their companions
made prisoners-a loss Of twenty-sx hun
bred The Americans lost only eight killed
and thirteen wounded. They were thor
oughly protected by breastworks, while
the invaders were exposed on an open
plain. The bodies of the slain British
officers were taken to Where's plantation.
where they were buried that night by
torchlight, excepting those OF Pakenham
and three or four general officers, which
were sent to England In casks or rum.
The British troops under General Lam
bert stole noiselessly away on tho night
of the 18th across Lake Borgne In small
transports and escaped to the fleet. They
then besieged Fort Bowyer for two days,
when Major Lawrence was compelled to
surrender and the victors were about to
push on to Mobile. when they were ar
rested by tidings of peace. General Jack
sd with the main body OF his army,
en- red New Orleans on the list OF jan
ua.,, where the population, OF all ages,
greeted them as saviors.
Two days later that city was the the
afro OF an imposing spectacle at the
front OF the old cathedral In what Is
now Jackson square. That day had been
appointed by the apostolic project OF
Louisiana for the public Offering, In the
cathedral. of thanks to the Almighty for
the great deliveranoe, and jackson, with
his staff, was TO be In attendance. Prepa-
rations were made for the reception or
the hero. In the public square was
erected a triumphal arch supported by
six Cornithiau columns and festooned
with evergreens and flowers. Beneath the
arch stood two beautiful little girls. each
upon a pedestal and holding in her hand
a civic crown OF laurel. Near them stood
two damsels. one personifying Liberty
the other, Justice. From the arch to the
cathedral, arranged in two rows. stood
beautiful young maidens dressed In white,
each covered with blue gauze veil and
having a silver star on her forehead.
These personified the several states and
territories Of the union. Each carried a
basket filed with flowers, and behind
each was a lance stuck In the ground
and bearing a shield with the name of
the state she represented inscribed up-
on It.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
- ECAUSE the entire circumfer-
< ence of things unknown will
never be trod, the highest point

ECAUSE the entire circumfer-
* ence of things unknown will
~ never be trod the highest point
of civilization will never be reached.
In other words, for ages after the
child has at its fingers end the accu-
rate and truthful definition of electric
fly, agents with an existence now I'M
suspected will be discovered and
bridled to do the bidding of the in
ventor.
And as higher civilization and death
go hand in hand, as, in other words,
every new invention is modern Shy
lock demanding it's several pounds of
flesh; and, as in each year, in return
for ease and comfort, nature outraged
demands the sacrifice of thousands of
lives, the modern philosopher, which
Is another term for the chronic
'1xnocker," has asked the question, is
1t worth while, in return for this ounce
of progress?"
The eloquence of school boys
through countless ages has not made
the subject stale. The one man con-
tends that the benefit derived is
doubly worth the sacrifice; another,
that the life of father and the hap
piness of a single home is worth a
thousand automobiles. The one will
contend that modern invention is as
necessary as war, pestilence, plague
and accident to prevent the area of the
world becoming overtaXed and a pet
spot for senility; the other, that when
man was as nature intended, and less
luxl1riously surrounded with comforts
and conveniences, he was stronger,
more warlike, more manlike, health
fer and happier, that science has made
us slaves and puppets and wiser fools.
But the several decisions of the sew
eral Judges who have listened to this
debate are immaterial, for the world
will exist, and forever the discoverer
and the inventor will be seeking other
comforts and other agents of de-
struction. And whether or not 1t IS
worth the price, this ounce OF progress,
the horrible remuneration will be con-
tinued from day to day, from month
to month, always.
In a city a step is never taken, a
corner never turned, but that death
threatens. So common is death, in
fact, that man grown used is reckless
ly and wisely Indifferent. How often
during day the average business
man, by a quick turn, or an instantan-
eous pause, or by the hand of fate de-
layed, is saved from death, cannot be
reckoned The number that escapes,
in spite of this fact, is so much
greater than the horrible list of the
slain and injured, the retribution for
the sacrilege of the elements, is what
nAnasA the ona who stops and thinks.