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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY DECEMBER 90 1907

simply that We must not spend today
in gloomy foreboding. in black fear of
what the morrow may bring forth. 1t
means that we must. throw every ounce
of our ability into the work that lies
under our hands; that we must do that
work as faithfully and as we'll as
though it was TO be the closing work
of our lives, as if we were to leave it
as our monument for posterits
Many people are looking forward
with dread TO 1908 They are assuming
that it will be a year of depression,
perhaps of financial disaster. We are
told that times must be bad next year
because a presidential campaign is to
be waged, a national chief executive
elected and that the inevitable turmoil
will be bad for business There is a
very common theory that presidential
years are always bad years. Just why
this feeling should have grown until
it amounts to a settled conviction is
not exactly apparent
Not since 1892 has there been a presi-
Dental year in which the times were
distressingly bad. In that year oc-
CURED the great strikes and .rioting
around Homestead, in Pennsylvania.
and there. were other widespread labor
troubles. There was no depression
worthy of the name in 1886. in 1900 or
in 1904. Nor were there any in presi-
Dental years prior to 1892 And there
should not be any in 1908. A nation
can think itself into panic just as an
individual can think himself into a
spell of sickness.
If we go into 1908 determined to do
business as usual, with a proper faith
in the greatness of our country and
in the goodness of the Supreme Being
who guides its destinies, the year will
be all any reasonable citizen could
wish it to be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
THE COMING YEAR.

At midnight on Tuesday the old year
dies and the new year is born Let US
put away 1907 without useless regrets
and welcome 1908 for the opportunities
it will surely afford every one of US
to work more effectively. to become
better citizens. All Of us made mis-
takes during the year that is so nearly
gone. All of US will make mistakes
during the year that is about to open.
But we may profit in 1908 by the mis-
takes Of 1907. at least in the sense that
we viii not repeat them.
None of us can foretell with accura.
cy what is 10 come in the future The
veil that hides it is impenerable. We
cannot even say with certainty that
the sun win rise and set throughout
the coming year or that the earth will
revolve about its axis as ii has been
revolving these hundreds of thousands
of years. We have been told by very
excellent authority that we should
take no thought for the morrow, be-
cause sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof.
This must not be understood TO mean
that it is foolish 10 plan for the flu.
ture. to build for the future. 1t means
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Colder.
THE METALS,

Silver, 52izc per ounce.
Copper (casting), 1880 per pound.
Copper Ccathodes). L 11-16c per pound.
Lead, $3.50 per 100 pounds
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Almost the whole of the address, aside
from tributes to Kentucky as a state
and to the distinguished men it had
given TO the nation. was devoted to a
discussion of the doctrine that the fed
eral government has no right, constitu-
tionai or moral. to interfere with the
sovereign states in the exercise of their
proper functions.
Justice Harlan took no stock in the
declarations of some leaders that there
is danger of over-eentralizing the gov
eminent. The pessimist, he said, per
suades himself to believe that the trend
in public affairs today is toward the
Capitalization of all governmental
power in the nation and the destruc-
ton of the rights of the state. If this
were really the case. the duty of every
American would be to resist such a
tendency by every means in his power.
A national government for national af-
fairs and state governments for state
affairs, is the foundation rock upon
which our Institutions rest. Any Sc
rious departure from that principle
would bring disaster. upon the Amer
lean system of free government"
A little further along he said:
The American people are more de-
termined than at any time in their his
tory to maintain both national and
state rights. as those rights exist un-
der the union ordained by the consti-
tuition. 1 say the people of the United
States, for although the constitution
was accepted by the separate action of
the people in their respective states,
they moved together in their collective
capacity, as one people, in creating
nation for certain specified objects of
general concern. They will not pa
tiently consider any suggestion or de-
vice that looks to a union upon any
other basis. They will maintain. at
whatever cost and in all their integrity.
both national and state rights.
And in concluding:
Let US not give our approval to any
Interpretation of the constitution that
will either cripple the nations power
and PROSTATE the nation at the feet of
the states, or that will deprive the
states of their just powers. Let us hold
fast to the broad and liberal yet safe.
rules of the constitutional construction
approved by the fathers and estab-
lished by judicial decisions. In so
doing we will sustain our dual system.
under which the government of the
Union is forbidden TO exercise any
power not granted to it, expressly or
by necessary implication, while the
states will not be hindered or fettered
in the exercise of powers which have
not been surrendered to the Union, and
are not inconsistent with the consti-
tuition" i
Because of the position he occupies
the talk of Justice Harlan is of par
ticular interest It is not surprising,
however, for he has always stood out
stoutly, in his decisions and in his pub
lie addresses. for the rights of the
states to govern themselves The in
terests of the states as far as their
internal relations are concerned. will
always be safe in the hands of Justice
Harlan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
MOL DEFINITE

StuI timbers mine props and mine
ties Chalk Creek Timber Co., Coal
Vile. Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
EoR STATES RIGHTS.

Justice John Maynard Harlan of the
supreme court OF the United States
the other night delivered an address at
the annual banquet of the Kentcky
club OF New York. Kentuckian him
self, Justice Harlan felt that at. this
banquet he was among his friends and
he spoke his mind freely. His text was
the motto on the zeal of Kentucky,
United, We stand; divided we fall =
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Still, we should be able to get some
consolation out of the recollection that
whenever our navy has been tried in
battle the other fellow has come off
second best. This is a rule that Is alb
solutely without exceptions, as far as
important engagements are concerned.
Our fighting ships may be death traps,
but they are death traps for the other
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

The German coal trust has raised
prices 10 cents a ton. And the con-
sumers are screaming Justify over it.
They don't know when they are we'll
off. Well trade our coal trust for
theirs and give them something to
boot Yes. to boot literally, if they have
any SUNK about them
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"All laws are not made to be en-
forced" says the mayor of St Paul
Does he mean that all laws are not en-
forced or that all laws are not enacted
with the view of enforcing them? If
the latter, then that mayor ought to
be impeached.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

in the pockets of her husband, and
promptly accused him of maintaining
another wife. The husband filed suit
for divorce and got it. which doubt
less makes the hasty wife feel like the
sum she found in her husbands pock-
cts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

1t was hardly fair for the doctors to
start their talk about heart disease
among Americans at this season of the
year Around Christmas. you know
the hearts of all true Americans are
considerably enlarged
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Manufacture OF the material with
which a widely known resort is said
to be paved-and it isn't the stuff Pat
Moran uses, either-is due to begin
very shortly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Tom Lawson of Boston proposed to
organize a new political party, with
Roosevelt as its candidate for president
and Governor Johnson of Minnesota
for vice president. 1t really is a bit
terIy cold day when that man Lawson
cannot think up some new scheme for
advertising himself
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

fellow when he tries to investigate
them.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
DRAGGED ON cows HORN.
Woman Has Thrilling Experience In q
Pasture Field.

Burlington, N. J.-Dragged about a
pasture after a cow had hooked a
horn through her hair, Mrs. Fred H.
Wetteroth had a narrow escape from
horrible death. For nearly five min
utes she wrestled with the animal,
seeking to disentangle the strands, and
after the COW had bowled her over and
was dragging her about thess field she
had the presence of mind to punch the
animal in the eyes to prevent it from
goring her:
Mrs. Wetteroth had been Il In the
habit of walking through the pasture,
at Broad street and Washington. ave.
nue., and petting the cow that, 'browsed
there. The other. day the COW, in q
playful mood, Unexpectedly tossed her
head and her horn caught in the WON.
ans tresses. Infatuated at discovering
she could not tear away, the COW start.
ed to race across the lot. The young
woman had been badly trampled and
her clothes were torn to shreds when
James Gallagher, neighbor. replied
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
LEARN WHAT TO EAT.
important Subject That Is Given Too
Little Attention.

In our ignorance of what the vari-
GUS tissues of the body require for do
ing their work, we crowd the system
with great mass Of unnecessary food,
only an inflnitestmal part of which can
possibly be of use in Strengthening US
for our occupation.
There are about a dozen different
kinds of tissue cells in the body, each
one requiring special food, and those
which are especially active in our line
Of work require much larger amount
Of food particularly adapted to their
use than the other tissues, which are
almost wholly inactive in our voca'
ton. sT r.. ..:t~"~ = ~.at:.
Thousands of men are forcing their
brains to do work by stimulants which
only exhaust and do1not ,nourish, and
then they wonder that they have nerv'
GUS breakdown or, paresis.. Other
thousands, in their ignorance OF scien.
tnc feeding, force their brains to do
work every bit Of which Is abnormal,
because they do not have sufficient
nourishment
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
TO PUMP A GREAT SEA DRY.
Dutch Engineers Begin Work Of Drain.
ing the Zuyder Zee.

Little Holland, with its 5000, 900 peo-
pie living safely behind their wave
washed dykes, is about to make new
conquest from its old enemy, the
ocean. Already Dutch engineers have
begun the tremendous task which will
result in turning the Zuyder Zee into
1,400 square miles of dry land. Where
Of old the great Dutch war fleets
gathered, where now 1000 fishermen
sink their nets, there will rise happy
villages, broad pastures, poplar-bor-
dered roads and sleepy .canals7-new
farms and homes for $4,000 Dutch
men. -..A.,~.
The task to be undertaken is q ire
mendous one. It will cost nearly $76,.
100000. In return the government ex.
poets to secure annual rentals OF more
thar, 81, 000, 900 from those who occupy
and till the hard won ground. !:
n The Zuyder Zee has occupied q most
prominent place in Dutch history. On
its shores are the ancient towns Of
sMedemblik, Hoorn, Harderwyck, Nor
den and Enkhuizen, under whose walls
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
To Keep the Course.

~ s\SNH SuV SV0s
It is the working out of a-system of
retaining banks that will not affect the
wealth of the Mississippi valley coun-
try and at the same time regulate to
a certainty the all the year round
channel depth of the river that pre-,
sents the greatest problem in the
working out of the 14-foot channel
proposition. OF course, a maintained
depth Of II feet will demand less
width in the river in the vicinity of
the bottom and will probably produce
changes in slopes requiring great
corrective work.
Mr.. Cooley estimates that a Is per
cent. increment to the Mississippi
flow is possible by using the entire
volume of water that can come
through the Chicago canal. He esti-
mates like increment by the es-
tablishment of comprehensive reser.
voirs on the upper Mississippi. This
would make 12-foot minimum chan.
mel during the period of low water
and give the waterway a depth of
from 18 to 10 feet under normal con-
ditions. From the Red river to the
mouth of the Mississippi, distance
of 800 miles, the Gulf level is main
tanned. It is between the Red river
and the Ohio, at Cairo, that the great
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
JUST HIS CASE.

A man who was famous for never
paying his bills owed considerable
sum to his tailor Sending bills had
had no effect upon the debtor, so the
tailor decided to make a personal at
tempt to collect the amount. He called
several times upon the delinquent, but
was never able to catch him. Finally
he succeeded, just as he was going out
and accosted him with the modest in
quiry:
will you pay me this bill, sir?''
The man looked at it for moment,
and then said, innocently:
did you ever owe anybody any
thing?"
mo, SIR replied the tailor.
Then you can afford to wait" said
the waggish debtor, and off he walked.
The tailor again made several at
tempts, and at last was successful in
cornering the man a second time.
The debtor looked very solemn, and
said Are you in debt to anyone?"
Not to be caught this time, the tailor
replied:
Eyes, sir; am sorry l am"
"And why don't you pay?"
because I haven't got the money!
said the tailor, with a significant look
That's just my case exactly, my
dear SIR replied the debtor. II am
glad that you can appreciate my pc.
sition Good-morning!"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
SWISS MAIDEN PRODUCES FINE
OIL PAINTINGS UNDER HYP-
MOTTO INFLUENCE.
GIRL IS MARVEL OF THE ACE
She Is Color Blind, But True Blend
ing Of Tints Is Considered Won
derful-can Do Nothing in
Normal State.

Geneva.-1n hamlet close to
Geneva there dwells the hypnotic
phenomenon of the age. 1t is Johan-
ma Smitch, girl of Is. She is the
daughter of ordinary cultivators of
the soil. She is and always has been
in perfect health. Although educated
at the convent schools, she knows
nothing, .nominally, of drawing or art
in any form. Yet when in an hyp
motto trance Fraulein smitch paints
tie most ravishing pictures. Con
noisseurs pronounce many of these
to be masterpieces.
Some months ago doctor in
Geneva, wishing to make some hyp
motto experiments, desired some sub
jects. In particular, he wanted a
healthy and robust country maid, one
with the simple, unlearned mind OF
the peasant And in this way 10.
hanna Smitch became one of his sub
jects.
He questioned the girl about he1
knowledge of things and found he1
greatest ignorance lay along the
lines Of art. The girl had never re
ceived drawing lessons, she had never
seen any real paintings except the
few that adorned the walls of hel
village church or the whitewashed
walls of the convent. And, moreover
she was color blind. She could not
distinguish clearly between blue and
green and violet, or place any of the
shades of red.
AS far as being hypnotic subject
was concerned, the doctor speedily
found she was an excellent one. He
put her under the influence and com
manded her to draw a picture, one OF
those in her village church. Quickly
and almost perfectly she drew head
of the Madonna. The doctor provided
her with box of water colors, and
ordered her to color the drawing
This she did most excellently and cor
rectly.
Several artists were present at the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

An active brain worker requires a
great deal of a1buminous foods, foods
which contain phosphorus-like fish,
oysters and other kinds of shell fish
and eggs. Meat is distinctly muscle
food. It is suitable only for those who
do physical work.
The locomotive engineer studies
fuels. He does not throw all sorts Of
combustible things into his .frebox,
just because they are combustible.
He finds out the best kind of fuel for
his engine, that which will give him
the greatest possible amount of COM
bustion with the least waste. He
makes profession Of his business and
studies the requirements Of his engine.
But most people seem to think that
they can run the most complicated ma
chinerys in the world-the great hui.
man engine-without any special
study. The result is that we use, all
sorts Of fuel without reference to
the particular work we are doing.-O.
s. Marden In Success. ~ = - e..~.~: z.,-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Ghost Play Causes Death.

Ashland, Ky.-Frightened by her
sister, who was wrapped in a sheet
and playing ghost, Clara Osgood
leaped from a second story window
at her home near Reedville and was
instantly killed, her neck being brok-
en- by the fall.
The girls had had an argument
about ghosts, and Clara stoutly main
tanned that no apparition could fright
en- her. She offered to bet her sister
a new silk petticoat to that effect.
Waiting till Clara apparently had for.
gotten about the incident, the elder
sister wrapped sheet about her and
entered Clara's sleeping room late the
other night, uttering weird means,
Clara suddenly awoke, and, rushing to
the window leaped headlong through
to the ground below. The sister, An.
ME Osgood, is Frustrated with grief.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

all corners in a tournament. The
stakes in the tournament we're a half
dozen fine pullets.
A few days later Charley Gesrote
drove into the village on his way to
Montclair with load of produce In
a box strapped underneath his wagon
were two dozen chickens he was TAX
ing to market. When Gesrote drew up
at Wallace's corner to water his
horses he was told of Henry Hollands
skill as a quot pitcher.
Tell you what I'll do" said Ges-
rote, "1'll stake my chickens against
those you won, and we'll not only
pitch for them, but We'll pitch at
them"
Gesrote explained that the chickens
were to be buried to their necks in
the soft soil near the roadway and
were to serve in place of the iron
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

the Dutch fleets used to lie at ancho,
in the days when Holland DISPUTED
with England the supremacy of the
seas. It seems peculiarly appropriate.
now that Holland has turned from tho
ways Of war to the paths of peace.
that she should win in a great fight
with the sea-a fight that has con.
tfnued throughout hundreds Of years
attaining victory only by ceaselesy
vigilance and fierce endeavor. And vet
one cannot but experience a feeling of
regret that those ancient cities which.
though, nations rose and fell. made
good the circles of their battered ram.
parts, defying alike the power of tho
sea and the might Of Spain, should be.
come quiet inland towns. far removed
from the roar of the breakers against
the dykes -Technical World.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

she had left off, and in less than a
week the painting was finished. 1t
was excellent in detail, coloring, and
technique. The artists marveled;
so did the doctor.
The experiments have been. going
on regularly since. F'raulein Smitch
has painted some score of pictures,
mostly sacred subjects. She has tried
in her normal condition to draw and
paint, and although offered large Pc
cuniary rewards, cannot do anything
at all.
So remarkable is her case that
medical experts interested in hyp-
notism have been invited from sew
eral countries to make a special
study of it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
is GREAT ARTIST
WHILE IN TRANCE

next experiment. and so interested
were they that they furnished all the
requisite materials for an oil pain:
ing, and also sent copies of feN
noted paintings to the doctors cham
bers.
Under the hypnotic influence Frau
lein Smitch was ordered to paint a
large picture, which included many
figures. She handled the palette ani
mixed the colors as if to the name.
born. First she sketched in on thu
canvas the skeletons of the figures
and then applied her brushes.
She worked with marvellous rapid
1ty and tirelessly for couple OF
hours. Next day she continued where
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

maintained In that stretch engineers
declare that the sesboard will no
longer terminate at he Mississippi
delta, but will actually stretch 1000
miles inland to the shore of Lake
Michigan.
Unreasonable good. it is confident
ly asserted by champions of the Mis-
sissippi valley ocean highway, will
come from the establishment of q
14-foot channel between Chicago and
the Gulf of Mexico. The annual value
Of the internal commerce of the United
States is $22,00O,000. This - the
amount fixed by statisticians of the
yearly value of the International COM
MERGE of the world. It is confidently
asserted that with the 14.foot water
highway through the length of the
Mississippi valley the internal COM
MERGE Of the United States would be
immensely increased. Hundreds OF
millions Of dollars worth of materials,
it is declared, now go to waste in the
great middle west because Of the ina
bility of the railway systems of the
country to transport them. The con-
gestion, it is pointed out, On the au-
thority of such experts as James J.
Hill and E. H. Hartman, is becoming
greater every year without proepect
of increasing railroad facilities to any
considerable extent.