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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
DOGS AND THEIR DAYS.

London, Aug. 1O.-Nothing is more
mysterious than the sudden develop
ment Of popular taste. There is no
accounting for it: and one of the most
remarkable things about a boom" is
that there seems as little reason for ii
10 begin as 10 end. And il is in the
fashion in dogs that this popularity is
most manifest. Anyone whose figure
has been on the pulse of dogdOm for
the past dozen years can speak TO the
truth of this.
There was the collie; few years ago
he was at his zenith. He was led in
the ring by a princess; titled owners
competed for him. cups and trophies
were offered at mis- shrine: and his
prices touched $1,000 and even $4,000
Now he is a drug in fashions dog
market; and like other drugs, is taken
only in homeopathic doses. Look at
the pug. Once he sat in everyOne's lap
and snored on everyones sofa. Now
rot even the discovery OF the charms
of the black variety has stayed the
downward course of his thermometer.
So with toy spaniels. So with borZOis
which once could boast two duchesses
leading their dogs simultaneously at
one show. They all hold their own in
numbers; they are even very impor-
tant sections of the cog world. but
Then came Pomeranians: there il
Was felt the last word had been said
Tor daintier, more charming and more
adoraDly decorative adjuncts to a tot
iette could not be desired. They were
Just the tiny size 10 tuck in a tiny
arm; they nestled 50 becomingly in
fuTs; they bore themselves with such
apiomb at a restaurant, or in a car
rage, that they We're the most ripandu
Of little dogs. They became sable or
beaver or orange or blue or black or
chocolate or white; not of course all
a once with chameleon adaptabilitv
but i'm sufficient variety that one could
be taken with any dress. His latest
development Is the parti-colored which
does not imply mixture of the above
hues. but an exceedingly beautiful ar
Tangement of well distributed black
and white or blue and white. And
there Is no doubt he is a strong run
ner-up for the place of favOrite.
But the dog of the moment on For
tunes cap-the very button is The
Peklngese. Not TO own one is to be
demodee, which is not TO be conten-
plated calmly And 10 be able to
speak with assurances Of the imperial
strain, OF the doWager empress prefer
ences, OF that lOOting of the summer
palace of Picking apparently Daved
with Pekingese dogs which founded its
breed in England of the treasure NET
or her majesty, Queen Alexandra of
the GienwOOd kennel. founded bv the
Duchess of Richmond and Gordon. and
maintained by Lady Gordon Lennon is
the dernier cri. Never in the annals of
dogdom has conquest been so com
plete. They simply rule society with
capital S-head the lists of ali entries |
10 shows with amazing totals. and
nave apparently adopted as an inte-
grail part Of their importance thaf Nc
human being able to judge them alone /
but they must always be judged bv q /
brace of experts and those exnerte /
must be ladies.
At the Ladies Kennel association /
show they were the hub of the mi |
verse and her majesty, the queen. gave
a cup TO them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
THE GREEK PLAT.

Not even in the days of wigs when
no pretense of wearing the natural
sale of hair than there is now. wo-
man prefers to buy her crown of glory
rather than be content with Natures
niggardly bestowal upon her, and even
if her transformation is not all-cover-
ing she has clusters of Empire curls
TO pin in, the Greek plat to festoon
half way round her head, or the beau
tifully FURNISHED coil to augment her
own resources. The new arrangement
saves time. and time is a very precious
commodity in these days of express
speed and multitudinous engagements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
Fate of Modern Love Letters.

Does the woman of the twentieth
century keep her love letters tied up
with ribbons in a casket apart from
all her other treasures, themselves the
greatest she possesses? Does she store
away faded flowers, sacred relics of
sunny hours? Does the man keep in
the fnnermost recesses of his escroi-
toire little soiled glove or a tiny slip
per2
He would answer that he doesn't
for the multitude of these he might
amass he could not possibly find har-
borage-and besides, of what use is
soiled glove or a tiny slipper? She
would reply that. alas. flats are not
sufficiently roomy to make the preser-
walton of letters. however dear and
sweet, possibility. So they go their
way into the fire or the waste-paper
basket, rs well as the faded flowers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
PLEASE YOURSELF.
(MilMaukee Sentinel.


As years roll on tbs evident
1t doesn't pay to try to please
The masses that you meet for they
Do not accord with your idees
And SO / think it's bout the best,
If you want harmony. TO do
The things you know will please yourself
How Goes the plan appeal to you?
A man may do his very best
To win foOthold in the race:
If ne succeeds he gains applause
And envy from the populace
But if he fails. and doesn't please.
The critics raise a cry and hue.
So do the things to please yourself
How does the plan appeal to you?
The thro1g is hard to satisfy
It's whimsical to a degree:
1t seems to want the thing that's Just
Beyond the Visions boundary.
And so | say l think it's best.
I've summed it up all through and
through.
To just do things to please yourself
How does the plan appeal to you?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
Glover Cushions for insomnia.

For some little time sufferers from
insomnia have been advised to try hop
pillows in place of the ordinary mass
of feathers
Glover cushions are to be in vogue
shortly for the same good cause. The
blossoms are broken off the stalk.
dried AMI used as filling for the cushion
or pillow of the weary ''mondine' or
man of business
Yet another specific of pleasing and
soothing properties is a cushion stuffed
with new mOwn hay. This will of
course, be stunned by those subject TO
cata1rh or hay fever but others are
likely to derive benefit from it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
MARINE ORNAM ENTS.

Marine flowers and weeds and the sea
serpent are being used this year as the
motive of many a lovely piece of jew
elry- One OF the most attractive looking
bracelets seen for a long time shows the
sea serpent wrought in gold Of three
shades and exquisite enamel wound
round the arm, with a delicately CHS
elled necklace OF Seaweed reared almost
upright.
The exquisite forms and colorings of
the sea anenone are often employed to
make beautiful buckles ana cloak
claSps
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
T0RCH0N LACES AT DC YD

A sale value to eclipse all previous
lace offers, torchOn lace edgings,
insertions and headings in widths
up to 312-inch, ranging in value
up to 1212c a yard; on sale
Monday only, at.........f &c
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
CORRECT THING IN LIGHT.
New York Globe.)

F.NtW lOTh UIODe-J
"A light should never be above your
eyes, said the man who deals in cleo
tries. 1T should always be below them
around the globe should shade the ewes
The only real light for the eyes though
is the candle light. l know man who
won't have any other light in his room
when he is reading. He has dozens of
candles. His room is as we'll lighted as
if he had gas or electric light, but it is
very soft and mellow light, the light from
candles. Our ancestors were not so poorly
off as you would think, after all, with
their light from candles"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11

which find a very meager numbering
of devotees among the utilitarians of
this day.
Sweethearts write less and telephone
more 10 one another than those OF a
generation ago did. and while the tele-
phone can hardly be called the friend
OF sentiment it frequently figures in
that caDacfty
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.

lbfOokIyn Life.)
Jaeger-Bibber says he's on the cart for
keeps now Oi
Tippler-HoW's that2
Jagger-Couldn't stand seeing two ~
his wife when he came home late nights
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11

Choice of our line of $500 and S2.25
fine silk embroidered white skirt
ing fiannels, in cut-out edges,
hemstitched and scalloped de-
signs, "A patterns to Sc CT 90
lect from, at, yard. 49,. pA'OC
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
kIPLINe'S ONLY LIMERICK.
(Tit-Bitsl

There was small boy OF Quebec.
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
men asked, Are you friz?'
He replied. Yes. / is;
But We don't call this cold in Quebec. -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
NOT A NOVELTY.

philadelphia LEDGER
What instrument do Won stnpose Testa
talks through in addressing Mars?"
Same old thing
What dye mean?"
His hat"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
|PoPuleG 5ience.
~~~N~~~~~0

The life of the mercury arc lamp in
more. The conducting material of the
anode is either mercury alone, graphite
and iron, or nickel.
A bill Is before the New York Leg
islature to make the existing laws gov
erning telephone and telegraph compan-
les organized for the distribution of
music by electrical means.
At mild red heat good steel can be
drawn out under the hammer to fine
point; at bright red heat it will crum-
Bile under the hammer, and at a white
heat it will fall to pieces.
American tunnel projects have at
tracted attention abroad. The French
government will build a tunnel for rail-
road purposes under the Seine from
Havre to Rouen and has retained the
| services Of Charles NJ. Jacobs, designer
of the Pennsylvania railroad tunnels
under the North and East rivers at
New York.
NAAASS 40 olAll ACddo III Ilc uuul-
Der of her cokemaking plants She has
112, and their product in 1905 was 70
per cent Of the country's total output
of coke. Fifteen years before the per-
centage was over 81 The capital rep
resented in the establishments Of this
country is S9O,712,S77, and the total
number of wage earners is 10000
In human history a great river has
sometimes formed a dividing line be-
tween peoples possessing quite different
characteristics. DR.. w. NJ. Lyon, Jr..
has discovered a similar phenomenon
affecting squirrels in Borneo. He found
eight different forms of squirrels inhab-
iting the northern and western parts of
that great island, and observed that q
large river proved an effectual barrier
in separating two distinct races
Engineers are Harvesting many of the
waters of the world to the use of man.
A great project is under way to catch
the foods which rush down the West
ern Chats, near Bombay, and to use
the water-power in cotton mills and
other factories. The valleys are Of
rocky formation, and with dams at the
lower ends can be made into tight res
ervoirs. Three valleys will be closed
In by dams respectively half a mile,
mile, and a mile and a half long.
One of the reasons why pneumatic tires
gradually become exhausted, even when
unpunctured, is that the compressed air
within slowly escapes through the rub
Der, and this process is FASTENED by the
oxidation of the rubber, which causes
it to crack. As at least a partial rem
edy for this, it as been proposed to in
fate tires not with ordinary air, but
with nitrogen, an inert gas which does
not affect the rubber. Tests of nitrogen
inflated tires for automobiles have been
made In France, and the results are
said to be encouraging.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
WAITING.

Come to the hills, the woods are green
The heart is high when love is sweet
There is brook that flows between
Two messy trees where we can meet;
Where we can meet and speak unseen.
Z hear you laughing in the lane.
The heart is high when love is sweet
The clover smells of sun and rain,
And spreads carpet for our feet
Where we can sit and dream again.
Come to the woods; the dusk is here
The heart is high when love is sweet
A bird upon the branches near
Sets music TO our hearts glad beat
Our hearts that beat with something dear
I hear your step; the lane is past
The heart is high when love is sweet
The little stars come bright and fast,
Like happy eyes tc see us greet;
To see us greet and kiss at last.
-Leslie's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
"Do Won Know who 7 am ?,
Worn Away by Handling.

The touch of thousands of human
hands for more than a score of years
every week day In the year has worn
away a portion of one of the exhibits
of wood at the Smithsonian institu-
ton. The exhibit in question Is a car
reta or OK wagon and stands in the east
wing of the institution. The part of
the axle that has been worn away sim
ply by the admlring touch of thousands
of visitors protrudes several feet and
is easily reached. The wonderful
smoothness of the wood which has
slowly but surely been worn away is
the result.
The old OK wagon is made entirely
of cottonwood and is without a single
piece of metal 1t was built by Pueblo
Indians and is the style used in New
Mexico and Arizona. The design IS that
introduced in this country by the Span
iards many years ago. It is a clumsy
affair. with two wheels that are far
from being round For many genera
lions, however, this sort Of cart has
answered the purpose Of transportation
for the Pueblo Indians as well as other
tribes.
The axle that has been worn away
is directly under the sign giving an ac-
count of the origin and history OF the
OK wagon. While reading nearly every
sightseer rests his hand upon the wood.
perhaps does a little knocking for good
tuck, and perchance picks a splinter.
Anyway, the axle end has been worn
away and to-day is as smooth and as
shiny as a billiard Washington
Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
Harvest Mite, or Cb,puer,.

The pests commonly known as ''chig-
gers" are the larvaI forms of harvest
mites and are found on bushes, trees
and grass from which they infest man.
burrowing in the skin and causing more
or less serious inflammation, says a
bulletin by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture Bureau of Ento-
mology. The remedies suggested by
the author are hot baths with salt and
strong soap within few hours after
exposure, or the sprinkling of sulphur
In the underclothes before going into
localities where chiggers prevail Va
rious other local treatments may be ap-
piled such as soda, iodine, or alcohol,
but the effects are usually temporary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
REALTY BOOM IN OLD EGYPT.
Cairo Land Market Brisk Enough

Cairo Land Market Brisk Enough
for Any Occidental Town.
Egypt has a first-class real estate
boom in full swing. 1t could not have
been livelier in the days when Rameses
the Great was bulling the statuary mar
ket that posterity might never lack for
reproductions of his unlovely counte-
nance. The riches which the conquer
ing armies of the legendary Sesostris
brought home from Asia could not have
fabricated business in the Nile valley
better than British irrigation works
and the pax Britannica'-that peace
of Britain which still lands disturbed
for ages.
Look at Cairo, a city which was old
before London was founded A year
ago last October the house used as the
American agency was sold for $125,o00.
The seller made $4,000 profit The
next month the house was sold again
for S1S0,000. In the fall of 1906 the
owner refused $25O,000 for the same
property. That Is a rise of 100 per
cent in single year. which is quite
enough for the most enthusiastic boom
town of the newest country where any
one will give quarter of a million
dollars for house and lot.
Land in the business district of Cairo
which sold for about 81 a square foot
year ago is worth SIS now. Other
property more desirable has risen form
$s square foot to S25, which means
$500 foot for frontage 40 feet deep.
And the sphinx looks across the desert
at this scene of speculation such as
Seattle might boast of times of real
estate excitement. The pyramids are
in plain sight from Cairo house tops.
It's all something like getting a full
fiedged American boom in action on the
banks of the Styx. One would be as
likely to think of starring Buddha In
vaudeville.
Egyptian freshness is not confined
to Cairo by any means. 1t extends up
and down and across the delta
Of the Nile. Everywhere the shops
of the goldsmiths are crowded
with customers who want orna-
ments made out of the coin they
have received for their cotton and other
crops. The whole country Is riding
a food tide of prosperity.
In the light of such conditions In the
land of the Pharoahs 1t Is not surpris-
ing that great things are predicted
for Bagdad or that Peking shows signs
of following Tokyo out Of the sleepy
past into the much-alive present of
modern vilizatlon.-Cleveland Leader.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
HIS gx1N LIKE AN ARMoR.
Herr Schwartz One of the Many Gen.
uine Freaks of Nature.

Herr SCnWaEtz One OF inc many GGn-
uine Freaks of Nature.
When she is in a freakish mood ma
ture seems to revel In making human
beings who are a constant mystery to
their fellow creatures. Such man Is
Herr Schwarz, the "armor-plated man"
who is such puzzle to the doctors OF
Europe.
Herr Schwarz has for some years
been undergoing an Justification or the
whole of his body and is rapidly de-
veloping into the hardness and immo-
bility Of a statue. His back has now
become rigid, the muscles standing out
hard and immovable; in fact, he seems
to be enveloped in kind Of arlnor
plating, consisting of surface bone as
hard as stone. He is no longer able
to move his jaws and is compelled to
take food in a liquid form through
tube, some of his teeth having been
removed for the purpose. And yet this
osseeus man enjoys excellent health
and not long ago was married to a
charming young Berlin woman.
A curious contrast to this indurated
man Is Herr Stahl, whose bones are so
brittle that he can scarcely move with
out fracturing one of them. BY SIM
ply stepping off a pavement he has
broken leg more than once; a hearty
handshake has broken his arm and a
slap on the back not long ago laid him
up for weeks with a fractured shout
der. Herr Stahl has numbered only "a
years, yet he counts two fractures for
every year he has lived; In fact, as he
humorously says, the only safe place
for him is a glass case"
Captain Vetrio, an American. Is a
''freak" of another order, for he can
make a hearty meal off poisons which
would provide work for quite large
number of undertakers II others were
to partake Of it. Not long ago In
Berlin he sat down to a dinner which
consisted of a plate of yerdigris, a
compete" of sulphur and borax, fol-
lowed by a dessert of white sulphur.
These edibles were washed down by a
bottle of patent rat killer. made. Of
powdered glass, arsenic and atrophine.
This meal he devoured with evident en-
joyment, to the amazement Of the gov
eminent officials and doctors who look
ed on.
William Fl. Mack Is perhaps the only
man living who can defy the law Of
gravitation. Although he weighs but
125 pounds, dozen strong men can
not raise him an inch from the ground
and an entire football team has failed
to push him of the edge of a plat
form.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30

during the growing season. The cause
OF the injury was apparent, as shown
by the occurrence of numerous black
ened stems from which a thick juice
was oozing, plainly indicating that the
plants were suffering from a bacterial
blight Subsequent examination showed
that this was the probable cause of
the disease.
The first evidence of disease to be
noticed is a short, weak, light-colored
growth of the first crop, the stems sell
dom averaging more than foot in
height at the time the first cutting is
made. close examination shows that
the majority of these stems are discol-
ored and are very brittle. The disease
apparently does not kill many plants
the first year, but in course of time so
many plants die that the fields become
useless.
Almost nothing is known of the
blight as yet, and the horticultural sec
ton of the station solicits correspond
ence regarding its occurrence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
How to Detect "Doped. Hor.

HOW to Detect "OOped' Horse.
mo one is likely to be caught in the
act of doping a race horse" said a
prominent veterinarian the other day,
because the dose given is so small
that it can be administered under the
very nose of the officials with little If
any danger of detection, and, besides,
it is given so long before the race that
the horses are not then likely to be
under surveillance. If a horse is to
race at 3 o'clock he gets a two-grain
powder on his tongue in a darkened
stall at l o'clock. The drug takes eff
feet in about thirty minutes and the
animal breaks out into a sweat. He is
rubbed down, cooled out and done up
as If he had come in from morning
work. Every effort is made to keep
him quiet until post time, but he very
often breaks out again and is again
cooled out. The doped horse never
takes any warming up work, and this
fact affords the best means | know of
for finding him out. He is moved slow
ly to the starting point great care be-
ing taken to prevent him from becom-
ing excited until the flag is dropped.
Then kick and dig do the work, and
in an instant the full force of The dope
Is felt, stimulating the animal to run
the race of his life.
After the race an antidote is usu-
ally given but IL Is sometimes walI
along in the night before the excited
horse regains his normal condition.
The strain on the nervous system Is
terrific For this reason dope horses
have short careers as a rule and are of
little value for breeding purposes"