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EshMERIcAN" LITERATURE.

A circular letter sent out by the
American" party TO the citizens of
Salt Lake assumes 10 show what the
party has done for the city. Like much
of the party's campaign literature, il
IS interesting, as Josh Billings would
have said, because so much of what il
contains Is not Crne. Too long 10 be
reviewed In day, It's first paragraphs
indicate its general Tenor TO quote
g few:
II has instilled confluence in the minds
OF all who are believers in progress and
advancement in all municipal affairs
1t has given local and foreign invest
ors confidence I'm the future Of Salt Lake
and has led them to believe that as long
as present policies are continued the
material interests of the city and its peo-
pie and property owners will oe advanced
and safeguarded
IL is made up of the substantial intelli-
gent, progressive men and women Of Salt
Lake These demand and will see to IL
that public moneys are properly expended
and that the affairs of the city are right
fully administered Americans pay over
20 per cent of the taxes of Salt Lake
They are personally interested in good
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commercial life is rotten to the core.
its whole life tainted with financial
crime, its corporations unfit to be
trusted and its business enterprises
unworthy of credit. Whether he so in
tended it or not is beyond the ques-
ton; the result shows for itself, and
the United States stands today dis
credited with its own people and in the
eyes of the European investors who
have been it's heaviest creditors.
1t is no palliation of his indiscre-
ton, his temperamental inability TO
follow a conservative course, to say
that he has been bent only on the ac-
complishment of good ends. His in
ton. doubtless; his method was as
incendiary as if he had meant only TO
ruin one of the great mainstays of
national commerce. His attitude
toward the railroads in the rate legis-
lation was probably well-meant, but
his message, his speeches, his whole
course was calculated TO impair the
credit of every railroad in the cOun-
try good or bad. and the result shows
how thoroughly the work was done.
Nothing could be more characteristic
of the man than his reckless disregard
of conditions yesterday when he made
his Nashville speech With a crisis in
financial centers impending, with the
not what; with Europe watching Gag
erly the course of affairs here; with
every factor calling for words of re-
assurance-what had Roosevelt to
say?
Bent on maintaining his reputation
for infiexibility of purpose, determined
to show the stuff of which he was
made, he reiterated in megaphone
tones his intention of following up his
policies during the remaining sixteen
months of his term. He does not de-
fine these policies except in vague
terms, and the yankers of this country
and Europe are left to confront the
possibilities of his uncertain temper
ament with such cold comfort as his
Nashville speech affords
A wiser president, one less devoted
to his own ends, would have waived
his anxiety for personal aggrandize-
ment in such an emergency 1t would
have been easy for him to have spoken
the word of reinsurance without sac
rificing one whit of his known posi-
ton; to have declared his confidence in
the strength of the nation and prom
ised to use that strength for the sal
walton of grave situation But he
wasn't big enough or broad enough to
meet the emergency. His personal
reputation for courage, his fear that
some one would accuse him of waver-
ing overmastered him-and he missed
one of the opportunities of his life to
show real craftsmanship.
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GAIT LAKES CONSERVATISM.

In view of the furry in New York
and the general readjustment of the
money market following the pressure
there, it is a cause for deep satisfac-
ton to know that the banking insti-
buttons of this city and the state gem
orally are absolutely safe from dis
turbance. Always noted for their con-
servatism, the bankers here have been
contracting their loans and increasing
their reserves until today the average
of reserves is 80 per cent or more-a
percentage largely in excess of the ma
tionar bank requirements and extraOT-
dinarily large for any business needs.
IEis safe to say that no city in the
country is quite so eonserVa tive in its
management of finance. Indeed, if
there has been any criticism of Salt
Lake, ii has been on the ground that
il is too conservative. that the security
demanded on loans is excessive and
that reserves are kept so high as to
limit the business and real estate op-
erations of the community In this
respect Salt Lake has been in the
same category as Portland. Ore, which
has been classed with the "old-fogy''
cities because its bankers would not
encourage the use of borrowed money
in speculation, even in real estate. in
building operations or similar boom
undertakings which usually take pos
session of a city in times of great pros
perity.
Happily, the accusation of ultra con-
servatism is greatly to be desired when
financial difficulties arise as they have
within the week; and Salt Lake is to
be congratulated on belonging to the
ultra conservative class. Business men
such banking accommodations as they
need men with sound securities of any
kind will find no difficulty in securing
money for substantial business enter
prises. and the everyday merchant or
manufacturer or wholesaler knows
that he need have no apprehension as
TO the financial conditions here. While
mining operations in some of the camps
will be checked by the low price of
metal, the resources of the state. par
ticularly in agriculture and horticul-
ture, are so big and profitable as TO
give assurance of stability in general
business conditions.
The conservatism which makes
progress slowly was never more to be
appreciated than it is here in Utah to-
day.
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ROOSEVELT AND FINANCE.

The president in his Nashville speech
showed his sensitiveness to the charge
that his policies have been responsible
for the financial difficulties of the past
few months, but he disclaimed the re-
sponsibility and declared anew his
purpose of pursuing the criticised poll
cies to the end of his term.
AS he has repeatedly said before. the
president asserted that the trouble is
due. not to his policy but to the wick
edness of criminals in finance. In his
own words "All / did was TO turn on
the light | am responsible for turn
ing on the light, but l am not RESPONSE
BILE for what the light showed.
Possibly the president mistakes the
point of criticism which has been di-
rected against him. There has been
no widespread objection to his turn
ing on the light" but i'm the manner
of its lighting and the differences
which he and his political followers
have drawn from the illumination. Ju-
dicial investigation OF financial crimes
- bHC SpCSteSCdidi OuNUuISt Ol
fireworks accompanied by dramatic
denunciation of all the greatest bust
ness interests of the country is quite
another. Calm consideration of grave
problems and deliberate reform of evils
exposed is desirable; the exploitation
Of national wickedness used as a po-
litical asset. the press agents methods
in national administration are disas-
trous. as the events of the past six
months show.
The truth is that in his determine
way. the president has given the whole
world the impression that American
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studied voice with one of the celebrated
teachers of that city.
Mrs. J. B. Risque enteratins this
afternoon at a tea to meet her aunt,
Mrs. lesson, who leaves shortly for
the east.
Mrs. Purviance has returned after a
stay of some time in the east, and is
again at home at Fort Douglas.
X X
The P. E. o. society will have a So
cial evening Saturday of this week at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Mar
shall, "a X street. The husbands Of the
members have been invited.
Mrs NJ. X Parsons, who is at st.
Marks hospital, is recovering satisfac-
tOrily from the effects of an operation,
and will shortly be taken home.
X
Mrs Emanuel Kahn and sister, Miss
Cohen, left for New York last Sunday
for d brief visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Rollo Grant are at
the Wilson for a few days on their way
from their home in Reno TO visit Mr..
Grants parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. M.
Grant, formerly of this city.
DR.. and Mrs. Alexander c. Ewing are
now settled in their new home at 1854
East Brigham.
Miss Glen Douglas of Ogden is in
town, Spending a few days with her
aunt Mrs Snow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-24
INDIA'S AWFUL PESTS.
One Species Known to Have Bored
Through Sheet Iron.


India has insect pests which make any
| thing of the kind in this country appear
| trifling
The tea bush has no less than four de-
structive enemies from which no means
or escape has yet been devised by man
These are the bark ating borer, the sand
witch caterpillar, the mosquito and the
white ant. all of which attack the bush
and do immense damage.
The worst and the most inVincibIe of
these plaques is the white ant, the mos
quito merely attacking the leaves and
causing a blight. The ants however, be-
gin at the roots and eat upward. reduc-
ing the wood to powder and leaving only
the bark to support the top, which soon
topples over by reason of its own weight.
There Is no wood that resists its attack
except sandal. 1t delights in reducing pine
and white wood to powder. 1t cannot
work in the light, but must get at the
wood from some dark recess and work
within shell
1t will in some mysterious way get into
veneered or lacquered picture frame,
and IN short time nothing will remain
but the veneer or lacquer, nothing else
being left but small portion of the pow
der, the rest being consumed or removed.
The method of attack is by emitting a
kind of acid, which destroys the wood,
and this ant has been known to bore holes
through the sheet iron bottoms of trunks
Several long supporting joists in the Of
flee of United States Consul w. ii. Mich
ael. Of Calcutta. were eaten out so COM
pletely that they had to be replaced with
steel ones.
While they do not seem TO possess great
literary taste they sometimes attack books
and destroy them, as I'm the case of d
book owned by Mr.: Michael, which had
hole bored through leaves and cover. from
side to side.
An acquaintance had a fine set of up-
hOlstered furniture, which he protected
by some coverings as well as he could be-
fore he went away He was absent some
months on business and when he returned
he sat down in chair which collapsed
under him like a framework of cardboard
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the first steamer to vanish this year,
either, for ii was only recently that
hope was abandoned of the fine steam
er Dulverton.
Naturally, the musings" tend to
decrease in number among steamers.
owing to improved methods of con-
struction and increase in Individual
tonnage, but sailing vessels have the
same tendency as ever to become mys-
teries.
There is every year among the
| musings" a number of ancient Sean
dinavian craft, and the west country
schoOners which take salt to New
fOundland and come back with fish, to
swell the grim total.
A board of trade inquiry is always
held, to look for more or less probable
reasons for a mysterious disappear
ance. But obviously it is seldom that
any definite verdict is arrived at.
Though" added the underwater, 1.-The
reason for the disappearance is often
obvious enough to a plain man, only
some people are so sensitive that one
has to be careful of ones words. And,
you see, in such cases one can hardly
get proof positive of negligence"
Though absolute proof can never be
got, it is morally certain that some
vessels have vanished because a light
loadline is not insisted on, as is the
Plimsoll mark to prevent overlooking.
That reason accounts for a host of
missing sailing vessels. They were I'M
derballasted and turned bottom up.
Then there is no doubt that excess
i've (but not illegaD deckloads of tim
Der have caused many steamers to dis
appear in the winter in the Atlantic.
But in a large number of cases the
missing vessel will always remain a
mystery. 1t is hard to account for the
loss of such a fine liner as the White
Star Naronic. in February, 1898. She
was of the company's cargo fleet. a
steel screw steamer of $500 tons, near
~ new. well equipped and well
manned. No ceptionally bad wealth
er in the Atlantic was reported that
February; no icebergs were reported
on the usual route, and there does not
appear to have been any collision with
another vessel; yet she vanished, all
that remained for evidence being two
lifeboats floating bottom up.
In 1902 the Allan line Huronian,
equally well found. on a voyage from
Glasgow to st. Johns, vanished like
wise.
The cargo which the missing liner
Nicaraguan was carrying was one of
phosphate. 1t is now thought prob
able, though it is not known definitely,
that she had passengers on board. In
quiries have been made by Liverpool
gentleman for a brother whom he be-
lieved to be on the steamer as a pas
senger. Her accommodation was for
thirty pa ssensers.
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SOCIETY

Miss Claire Young. the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Young, and Jo-
seph NJ. Howell. a son of Congressman
| Howell. were married yesterday morn
ing in the Salt Lake temple, and later
an informal reception was given at the
! home of the brides parents. Only the
| relatives and few very close friends
were present to extend good wishes to
the young people. Mr.. and Mrs How
ell left on the afternoon train for New
| York, and will spend month in sight
seeing in the east before going to
Washington for the winter.
A dance VIII be given next SATURDAY.
evening by the associated students of
the university in honor of the football
team from the Colorado School of
Mines, which will meet the Utah team
on that afternoon. Owing to the late
ness in arranging the game no formal
invitations for the dance will be is
| sued An effort will be made to hold
this event In the assembly hall as the
gymnasium has proved unfit for small
dances. The colors of the contesting
teams will be carried out i'm the deco
rations.
Mrs. F. ]. McGanney entertained
yesterday afternoon at cards, when six
tables were filled with her friends. The
game played was 500. and prizes were
won by Miss Tram Rivers, Miss Mar
jory Mulvey and Mrs. Cook. The home
was bright with ferns and nasturtiums
and the hostess was assisted by Miss
jeanette Luman, Miss Mulvey and Miss
Rivers.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Elizabeth Eichelberger of Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, and Edward jackson
Harness of Roy. Utah. The marriage
will take place at the home of the bride
on the morning of Wednesday. Nov. s.
Mr.. Harness is a member of the Davis
county nursery firm.
X * x
The members of the Elks' club viii
give the first of a series of dancing
parties to the members and their
friends this evening in their club
rooms. Next Thursday evening the af-
fair Will be phantom party for Hal
loween, when the members will wear
masks. .
Mrs. Frank Knox has issued cards
for an afternoon bridge affair, to be
given next Thursday at her home.
X
Mrs. Charles Read entertains the
Pan-Hellenic society this afternoon at
her home on o street in compliment to
Mrs. ]. c. E. King. formerly a mem
Der of the society.
x x x
Mrs. King will be the guest of honor
also at a breakfast to be given at the
University club today by Mrs A. J.
Hosmer. and at a meeting of the Col
lege club with Miss Lena Hague i'm the
evening.
f. W. Packard returned last evening
from the east after an absence of a
few weeks in New York and i'm ROch-
ester
Mrs. Sol Siegel entertained yesterday
afternoon when three tables of bridge
were played. The affair was the sec
ond I'm a series of small affairs which
Mrs Siegel will give during the winter
X X X
The Readers club met yesterday aft
eTnoOn with Mrs. Elmer B. Jones, when
Mrs. J. c. E. King was an especial
guest of honor.
Mrs. John c. Daily entertained the
members of the Sewing club yesterday
afternoon at her home on F street.
x x x
Miss Lillian Branning. one of Salt
Lakes sweet singers. has returned aft
er pleasant tour. visiting many of the
large cities in Europe. In Berlin she
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-24
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

5253@Samuel L. Gain, Salt Lake.
Cora Belle Moses. Salt Lake.
5254-Julius Nelson, Salt Lake.
Laura o. Yensen, Salt Lake.
5255-J. Earl Richards, Union.
Myrtle FOrbush, Union.
5256-John A Pressler, Salt Lake.
Eliza C. Barker, Salt Lake.
5257-Roy ]. German, Salt Lake.
Essie NJ Lowry, Salt Lake.
525S-Walter f. Nelson, Salt Lake.
Mary e. Stuart, Salt Lake.
5259-Hyrum Homer, Wanship.
Mary E Kelsey. Boston, Mass.
5250-John 5. Burgess. Brant. Canada.
Mary c. Hatch, Brant, Canada
526i-MaX f. Morr. Salt Lake.
Lena j. Seifert, Salt Lake.
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SHIPS THAT PASS.
Mysteries of the Sea That Are Never
Solved.
London Leader.)

The tolling of the Lutine's bell at
Lloyd's for a missing vessel as large
as the steamship NicaTaguan is fortu-
nately "a rare event; but the legion of
the lost ones" is probably a much larg-
er one than the public know, an under
writer said yesterday.
| Last year, for Instance, seventeen
British and fourteen foreign vessels
were posted as missing, the passengers
and crews totaling 1000. The year 1882
was a record year, 147 sailing vessels
and twenty-five steamers being posted /;
1000 passengers and crew went with
that huge fleet. The Nicaraguan is not
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Coal is coming in so fast that we
don't know what to do with IT, Do
you want some? Preference to our
stockholders. Consumers Coal Mining
Co, 262 Commercial Club building. Bell
phone 1890; Ind. 7le
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WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
THE M ETAlS,

Silver, 6l5sc per ounce.
Copper (casting). 12ssc per pound.
Copper tcasting), 1850 per pound.
Lead, s475 per 100 pounds
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Total Copies of The Herald
Printed September, 1907.
THEATRES TODAY.

Salt Lake-'The Merry Wives of Wind
sor.'
Orpheum-Matnee and night-Vaude-
vile.
Grand-"Why Girls Leave Home
Lyric-Matinee and night-Vaudeville.
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IN THE TOLLS.

philadelphia Press
He wrote the girl a letter,
Oh, most unlucky day,
Her lawyer has that letter
It's marked Exhibit A."
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For the best printing call on the Cen
fury Printing Co, Salt Lakes printers.
ls5-ls7 South West Temple ST. Both
phones. 604-
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government. 1t is a business matter
which the stronger members of the party
give personal attention to. And this is
why capital is invested here more liberal
ly than ever before
1t is not only jealous of the welfare of
the property holders, but it has constant
~ kept in mind the fact that the laborer
is worthy of his hire. 1t has increased
the wage scale of the city in face of
savage criticism of the opposition, and
this increase has amounted in less than
two years to more than $50 000
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-07-01
RRoTHERLY LOVE.

This is the day when the sure
enough ball game between the
printers will be pulled off at Ben
son Park. There will be moth
ing Of the hippodrome about the
contest and the pace will be fast
and furious from the time his
jumps says "play BALI to his
last "yure oot. Slab artists
who have fought the stick for
years will battle with makeup
men made famous by their err
rors, and for this occasion (only)
the "devil'' will be permitted to
freely and honestly express his
private opinion of the foreman
in his own language, and that
alone will be worth double the
price of admission. 1t win be
a battle royal between the con
tending forces that go to make
the Tee.Dee great and the Phoe
nix famous, and no lover of the
national game SHOULD miss it,
Phoenix.
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County officers.

Representative Craig County, E. J.
Hobby.
Judge Of the County Court, Theo D.
b. Frear
County Attorney, f. H, Brady.
Clerk of the District Court d. b.
Stutsman.
County Clerk r. f. Nix.
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
II. w. G. Shelton.
Sheriff H. f Ridenhour
County Treasurer, Il. d. Ficklin.
Register OF Deeds, E. n. Williamson.
County Surveyor, George Ashby.
County Commissioner First District,
Pete Coyne.
County Commissioner Second District,
A. A. Barker,
County Commissioner Third District,
Yves Harris.
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WHAT OF ITl

A Bowie county, Texas, court
gave fellow twenty years ia
the penitentiary for snatchlng a
lady's purse, and the purse con
tanned only a little pin money.
A couple Of Abilene bankers
were given FIVE years the same
week for wrecking bank in
which there was $4,000 Of 9th
peoples money. -Pittsburg TEX
as) Gazette.
Well, what of it? The Bowie
county thief was only an ornery
cuss and perhaps lived in Texar-
kaua. If so, he should have
been hung. But those Abilene
bank wreckers we're real nice
men, lived in nice homes, were
splendid politicians, and leaders
in church work in western Tex
as. True, they made way with
800, 900 of other peoples money,
but they didit in such nice way
that it's a question among Texas,
lawyers whether they ought to.
have been presented with bo-
quets or pention for life, Peni-
tentiaries were made poor white
trash and negroes, not for fine
like the Abilene
bank-wreckers, life insurance
swindlers, ct cetera, Telequah
Arrow.