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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
NO ESCAPE

Don't let 1908 get away from you
without being i'm your own home.
There are a lot of people taking ad-
vantage of our offer TO let them move
into one of the new houses we have
built on Ninth avenue, paying for ii
on longtime payments.
There are several of the houses re-
naming unsold, and the beauty about
securing them now is that you can get
them for a great deal less than they
will cost you in the spring.
There are three reasons for this In
the first place, the natural increase of
all Salt Lake real estate values: Sec
ondly, the next extension of the street
car lire will be along Ninth avenue:
and, thirdly. our plans are now matur-
ing for the building of another hun
dred thousand dollars worth of houses
in the same vicinity.
1t is easy to see why the houses will
cost more later on. If you, haven't
seen these beautiful modern names, ask
for the key at ass c street, and then
satisfy yourself of their excellence in
every respect.
Salt Lake Security & Trust Company,
1924 Main Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
An UNNECESSARY MurILArIoN.

The mutilation of the body of How
ard j. Hunt, the telephone comnanv
cable splicer who was electrocuted Mon
day afternoon, under the guise of an
autopsy, is absolutely indefensihIa
There was no possibility of doubt as TO
the cause of the mans death. That
was clearly established by credible wit
nesses. Hunt. after finishing some work
on cable. attempted to rise from his
seat on the pole. He slipped and IN
save himself from falling, crashed a
live wire. Something like $500 volts of
electricity passed through his body.
killing him instantly.
The acting coroner did not Of his own
Vohton order an autopsy He never
thought an autopsy was necessary until
one was suggested to him by the physi-
clan who performed it. His suggestion
that the company objected to the dis
section on the ground that 1t might at
some future time desire TO set up the
plea that Hunt died of "apoplexy or
heart failure" according to a published
interview, is simply silly. There could
be no more reason for such a plea in
this case than there would be for a
similar plea in the case of man run
down and cut to pieces by a locomotive
In assuming full responsibility for the
performance of the autopsy the acting
coroner does the square thing by the
doctors, and for its part The Herald is
perfectly willing to let him have the
responsibility. On the point as to
whether he exceeded his authority or
not The Herald does not desire TO COM
ment. We venture to suggest, however.
that he might have made some in
quiries from the company that had or
dered the embalming OF the body with
view to sending it 10 the dead mans
relatives.
Also we may suggest that if Hunt
had had any relatives in this part of
the country. or if anyone here had been
legally authorized TO speak for him
that autopsy would never have been
performed For certainly under such
conditions the acting coroner would
have had the courtesy TO make inqui-
ries We do not believe the law gives
any acting coroner the right to permit
the mutilation of a body under the pre-
text OF an autopsy when the cause OF
death is as apparent as it was in this
instance. If this were true, under a
conplaisant acting coroner. the body of
almost any victim of a fatal accident
might be hacked TO pieces.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
A LITTLE CHILD.

Such a little lad, and he went alone.
With no one to hold his dimpled hand
Across the river, thro' the valley of death
In search of the shining land.
So dark was the night and wild and cold
And the wind went sobbing by,
No angel could light the signal lamps
OF stars in that stormy sky.
He climbed on my knee when his prayers
were said,
His woolly lamb Rugged to his breast
But when l tucked him away in his crib
He whispered, Il love you the best
And so at the dawn when the storm was
spent,
And the mist light flashed on the hill.
l found him there. a smile on his lips
But the joyous heart was still.
Scattered about are his childish TOYS:
The battered horn that he used to blow;
his soldiers and drum and woolly lamb
He misses them all, / know.
And the ache in my heart and the lone.
Dear God, l can scarcely bear.
why did you give me my little child
Then take him so far from my care?
All thro' the dark nights, weeping,
| sit in the Swallowed hall
And watch and listen with aching heart.
10 answer my baby's call.
He was so little. his stumbling feet
Couldn't travel so very far
Perhaps an angel came down the track
And lighted the way with a star.
-Elanore Nicol
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
CURLY LOCKS WRECKS HIS
DRUM,

Detroit Free Press)
There is sorrow in the household.
There's a grief too hard to bear:
There's a little cheek that's tear-staine,
There's a sobbing baby there.
And try how we will to comfort
Still the tiny tear drops come
For, to solve a vexing problem
Curly Locks has wrecked his drum
1t has puzzled him and worried
How the drum created sound;
For he couldn't understand IT;
1t was not enough to pound
With his tiny hands and drum sticks,
And at last the day has come,
When another hope is shattered
Now in ruins lies the drum.
Wth his metal bank he broke it,
Tore the frightened skin aside;
Gazed on vacant space and nothing,
Then he broke right down and cried !;
For the bursting bubble shocked him
And the baby tears must come;
For a joy has gone forever.
Curly Locks has wrecked his drum.
While his mother tries to soothe him.
| am sitting here alone.
In the life that lies behind me.
Many shocks like that I've known.
And the boy wno's upstairs weeping,
In the years that are 10 come
Will learn that many pleasures
Are as empty as his drum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
OLD DAYS IN THE ARMY.
Picturesque Things That Have Gone
By The Company Garden.
army and Navy Journall

There is one thing about army life
nowadays and since the Spanish war.
said an old officer recently, that seems
to be more pathetic than funny. When
went into the army there used to be
company gardens at every post. There
are none now. l haven't seen one
since I came home from Cuba. 1t is
barely possible that somewhere remote
from the more convenient posts. some
company having a prospect of remain
ing for two or three seasons has had
the courage to keep up the old custom,
and planted and hoed it's garden. But
If there is 1 don't know where that
happy company is. This is one of the
things that go to explain the some
thing wrong with the army. The en-
listed man in the old times was fond
of fresh vegetables. Sensible captains
and wise first sergeants got their heads
together and laid out a good garden.
Men were detailed to plant IL and then
to hoe it. Company feeling ran high
on he garden question and there were
healthful rivalries in garden making
and tiling. The fine potatoes, big
juicy ears of sweet corn, red ripe to-
matoes, reverberant onions, toothsome
peas and beans, and even 'watermil-
lions and cantaloupes that the boys
used &c raise were fit for the gods on
Olympus to taste.
"All this is gone, and with the COM
pany garden also has gone the cOmpa-
ny COW and the officers COW, too. There
used to be time when the verieSt
shavetail who dared TO get married
kept a good COW. Out on the plains
there was grass galore. In some west
ern posts you could keep a COW out on
public grass nearly every month in the
round year When the word came TO
pull up and move station there was
little trouble in selling a good COW,
either to the troops who were coming
in or to some nearby settler. In those
days we could live better and cheaper
and there was solid satisfaction in pro
ducing that part of the table supplies
Now with the increase of the army
since the Spanish war, there are too
many officers who came from city life
and are as helpless as quartermasters
and cCmmissaries as babes in swad-
ding clothes.
THE old sergeants are now fewer
and farther between. Flush times and
low relative pay give us a rather lower
class OF men in the ranks, and the old
time zeal in garden work is gone. Be
sides, the prospect of going to Cuba
or the Philippines on a weeks notice
in midseason brushes out all desire 10
garden. Then, too. the posts are grow
ing bigger and there is not so rnucb
ground available. A good acre of rich
western land used TO provide fresh veg
etaoles for company. l remember a
remarkably fine garden my COMPANY
had once at Leavenworth Now her,
would have to be forty gardens there.
Our men in the Philippines do not try
to garden. Our vegetables are a dau-
sion there. They start and grow. b t
do not produce. 1t looks as if the dis
couragement had driven away all ue-
sire to get for the company mess the
good things that we used TO have.
Army conditions and fare would i,e
bettered If we could get back to the
old way of doing things"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27

officers lack of knowledge Of seaman
captain and crew. And that is the only
point Of difference. Admiral Brownson
believes the hospital ship should be in
command of a regular naval officer,
subject at all times to his orders.
We are inclined to agree with DR..
Rixey. He suggests that naval officers
of the line would not care to be as
signed, in times of war, to the command
of a hospital ship. If they have the
true fighting spirit they want to be
where the shells are flying, where they
can fire some shots themselves into the
hostile feet. A hospital ship carries no
armament and it flies the Red Cross
flag. Its mission is purely one of mer-
cy. the purpose of its being is to re-
lieve distress. to alleviate suffering, not
to cause anything of that sort. Hospital
ships are sacred. The enemy may not
fire upon them.
But it is a nice question, the question
as to whether or not a hospital ship
manned by fighting men. even though
they are not armed, can claim immu-
nifty. Other nations place their hos
pital ships in charge of medical officers
and so evade the issue that DR.. Rixey
has raised. It would seem to be the
part of wisdom for the United States
to adopt a similar course. 1t is difficult
to see how any harm could come from it
and it might be productive of a great
deal of good.
Perhaps the most unfortunate thing
about the whole controversy is the fact
that because of 1t the fleet has sailed,
with its $4,000 officers and men. for the
Pacific without a hospital ship. The
need for such a vessel is so apparent
that it is strange that somebody in au-
thority did not settle the trouble be-
tween Brownson and Rixey prior to the
sailing of the fleet. Already two of the
battleships have been obliged to devil
ate from their course long enough to
take men to shore hospitals because of
illness.
Should there be an explosion or other
serious accident when the feet is miles
out at sea the absence of the hospital
ship will be severely felt And it will
form a just cause for unsparing crit
icism of those who are responsible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
MEXICO'S HARDWOODS.
Material for the Woodworker oil
Which Little Use is Made.
New York Sun

4 was amazed at the almost in
finite variety Of woods of value tc
woodworkers that are growing in the
forests of tropical Mexico" said a tim
Der expert who recently made a tour
of that part of Mexico. There are
several varieties of mahogany. cedar
oak, rosewood, ebony, dyewoods and
endless other hardwoOds with Spanish
names, but corresponding to our hick-
DRY. cherry and other fine American
woods that are now extremely scarce
and costly.
MANY of these tropical woods are
as strong as iron. While the mahogany,
cedar, rosewood and dyewOOd are we'll
known to us through importations from
there, the unknown varieties of woods
that are just as valuable are quite as
plentiful.
Among these is one called zapote.
which grows to a great size. Although
the wood of this tree has peculiar val
liable qualities for lumber. it is seldom
used in that way, the tree being valued
merely as the producer of chicle, the
sap which forms the basis for most
chewing gum.
THE wood of the zapote tree is
dark red, and is easily worked until
finest edged tools will have any effect
on it, and a sharp-pointed nail is driv-
en- into it with difficulty. The fiber of
the wood is so dense that the wood
sinks in water like iron.
I'm the prehistoric ruins that abound
in these Mexican tropics are timbers
and door frames that are as perfect
today as when they were first placed
in position. The wood takes magnifi-
cent finish, as do nearly all of these
Mexican hardwoods, and would be a
rare article for the cabinetmaker.
There is an odd wood among these
forests known as the gran tree, which
when tapped yields a black sap, which
is sent in large quantities to Germany.
where it is used in the making of ink
and eye. Another tree yields a sap
that is a deep red, and Germany also
takes largely of it for the manufacture
of dyes
Besides these that abound in that
part of Mexico, there are vast areas
of pine, a timber that resembles our
poplar and different kinds of oak.
Much to my surprise, more than 5000
feet above the sea, l found a big saw
mill IL active operation. with a Yankee
from Maine at the head of it.
And he wasn't bOthering with such
commonplace logs as mahogany, ebony.
cedar. rosewood or such as that, but
was cutting away at the white pine
and oak. for those are the woods that
the native buyers and users of lumber
demand. AS a matter of fact. a Mex
lean lumber dealer would be willing to
trade you mahogany for our yellow
pine, log for Jog
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
LINcoLN's LAST DAY.

CDR. A. S. Draper in Harper's WeekIy.)
81 got to the White House before 9
o'clock, not with the expectation of see
ing Mr.. Lincoln so early, but with the
hope that l might get place at the
head of the line and be the first to see
him. To my. surprise I was told that
he would see me at once.
i found him alone. As | entered the
door he got up quickly and strobe
across the room toward me, saying as
he came: Hello, CressweIl The war
is over? He grasped my hand with the
enthusiasm of a schoolboy and repeated
the exclamation, The war is oVerr
adding: Look at that telegram from
sherman The message assured the
president of the elimination in the
Carolinas Indeed, it was glorious
news. Many times with a spirit that
was delightful to see, Mr.. Lincoln ex-
claimed: The war is overt Then he
would stop, grow serious and add: But
II has been an awful war, Cresswell, it
has been an awful war; But it's overt
When he could leave the theme that
was first in his mind and heart, he ex-
claimed; But what are you after?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
THE NAVY DISPUTE.

A conflict between the bureau of
navigation and the bureau of medicine
in the navy department has resulted in
the resignation of Rear Admiral Brown
son. head of the first named bureau In
a statement published in yesterday 5
Herald, Surgeon General Rixey gives
his side of the controversy. The YER
sion of the admiral has not been pre-
scented. With only an ex parte state
ment on which to base an opinion as
10 the merits of the dispute. it may be
hardly at this time to comment
But it does seem as if DR.. Rixey's
premises are sound enough and mis-
reasoning logical. He believes a med
icaI officer should be in command of a
hospital ship of the navy. Just as a
medical officer is always in command of
an army hospital. The naval medical
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
RABBIT SCALPS IN TRADE.
In Western Kansas They Are EK-
changed for Groceries.
CKansas City Star.)

Did you ever hear OF rabbit scalps
being rated as an article of commerce
or as a medium of exchange in tie
same manner as eggs and butter? Out
in TTego county, Kas., the county seat
of which is Wakeeney, the merchants
pay five cents each for rabbit scalps,
no matter whether the unfOrtuna te
bunny" was full grown or not. w. j.
Williams, who is the proprietor Of a
grocery store in Wakeeney. bought
2,S4G scalps during the months of
March, April and May this year John
Keraus, another merchant of the same
place, bought 2,760 scalps, while no
merchant in the little town paid for
less than 500 scalps.
The farmers and Tanchmen bring
rabbit scalps to the country stores
along with eggs and butter. The grocer
accepts and counts them with no more
ado than if they were so many egg
A few years ago Trego county, in
the hope Of discriminating the trouble
some jaCkrabbits, decided to pay a
bounty of five cents for rabbit scalps.
the money TO be paid whenever the
scalps were presented to the county
treasurer's office. Soon after men who
had never before been seen in Wa
keeney came TO the courthouse with
sacks of scalps- Finally the county
eventually developed that certain resi-
dents of neighboring counties were
taking advantage of Trego's bounty
law and were bringing scalps from as
far away as fifty miles.
To discourage this practice the
county decided to allow payment for
scalps not more often than every three
months. Three months was a long
time to wait The hunters became i'm
patient at the long delay. 1t remained
for the merchants to solve the diff
Guilty. Accordingly it was announced
through the columns of the weekly
papers that rabbit scalps would be
taken at the grocery stores in eX-
change for merchandise, provided the
owner of the scalps would give his
word that they were taken from rab-
bits killed in Trego county.
The plan proved a success. Instead
of the farmers making a weekly trip
to the courthouse the merchants re
ported every three months at the COM
missiOners' office and the bills were a.
lowed.
During the months Of March, Apr
and May the total amount Of bills a.
lowed by the commissioners for rabbit
scalps was $685. In other words Treer
county killed 1880 rabbits during the
three months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
GAMBLING ON MARGINS.

An effort is to be made in New York
! to do something that the operators in
Wall street declare to be impossible OF
accomplishment. This is the proven
ton of gambling on margins. That ii
is gambling, pure and simple, for a
man to purchase a stock that he never
receives or to sell stock that he never
expects to deliver. is not denied. The
man who buys CANDLES that the price
of the stock will go up. The man who
sells wagers his money against the
money of somebody else that the stock
will go down.
In many brokerage offices, when a
customer trades on margins, the broker
does actually buy the stock. He ap-
plies the money given him by his Gus
toner to the purchase and requires the
customer to give him note for the bal
ance, with the stock as security. If the
stock goes down the broker calls for
more margins. If they are not forth
coming he closes the account out and
the customer loses all he has put in.
In selling stocks short the customer
deposits his margin and the broker
agrees to deliver those stocks within a
certain time at a certain price.
The broker does not see the stock until
the time comes to cover" Even then
he sees it only rarely. For, the broker
TO whom the delivery is to be made may
settle, if the stocks have gone down.
by paying the selling broker the differ
ence between the prices at which the
stocks were sold and the prices prevail
ing on the day of delivery. So here is
another form of gambling. The little
ball may drop into a red pocket and it
may drop into a black pocket. And the
broker, if he does what is known as
legitimate commission business, is the
only party who is absolutely sure of
profiting by the transactions. He oc-
cupies the position of the man who
owns the game in any gambling house.
Why should it not be possible to pre-
vent gambling on margins? The brok-
ers in New York will tell you that
trading on margins is not very different
from buying furniture on the instalment
plan. You pay little now and little
now and then, as the saying goes. If
YOU don't keep UP the instruments on
your furniture, the van will be backed
up before your door and the furniture
will be carted back to the store. II
you don't keep up the instruments on
your stock the broker sells 1t and reim-
burses himself. 1t isn't such bad ar
gument. but il has one fatal defect.
In the purchase of furniture or other
property on instruments, the buyer at
least gets some value from his pay
ments. He has the use of the furniture;
he has something tangible. 1t is just
as fair to call a grocer a gambler be-
cause he buys stock of goods in the
hope of selling it at a profit. If he is
an honest grocer he gives full value
for the money he receives. The man
who CANDLES on margins gets nothing
of the sort.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27

You fellows don't come to see me I'M
less you want something. 1t must be
something big, or you wouldn't be 50
early. / told him my errand and
handed him my affidavit He said
That's not so hard. You did right to
put it in writing. | don't care to read
the statement. / know you know how
to make affidavits.'
Then said General Cresswell, "he
took my affidavit and wrote a brief
word upon it, something like Do this,
A. L. and gave 1t to me. | carried it
over TO the war office and after the
usual fuss got the order issued. Then
! went out into Maryland to attend to
some business through the day, and
got back into the city late at night to
find everything in an uproar over the
assassination"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27

1t is understood that Mr.. Roosevelt
is going to South Africa after big
game soon after his present term ex-
pires He may change his mind when
he learns that newspapers and the
general public are not nearly as much
interested in the doings of an ex-presi-
dent as they are in a gentleman who
has no occasion to use the prefix. A
hunting trip without photographers and
correspondents wouldn't seem bit like
a hunting trip to Mr.. Roosevelt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Bradley b. Metcalf. Gold Springs.
Ada L. Seifried. Denver, Colo.
Edmond II. Maher Twin Falls, Ida
Esther Twrain. Silver City.
Henry Davis, Park City.
Fannie HoWarth, Park City.
Willard S. Kedzie, Idaho Falls, Ida.
Doratha Oswald, Idaho Falls, Ida.
James A Carlston. Fairview.
Eta Hamilton. Fairview.
Hardy K Downing. San Jose, Gala
Bessie L. Price, Salt Lake.
Frank D. Miller. New York.
Josephine Aveil New York, n. Y.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
NEW MOVEMENT REACHES
IDAHO.
PncateIln Trihnnel

PocatellO Tribune)
The Optimists' club, an organization
composed of the better class of colored
people in Pocatello, has arranged for a
ball at the L. ID. S amusement hall on
the night of Thursday. Dec. &c The club
will furnish its own music
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