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Show jft - 'f Ci r J ? PIUTE PION VOL. II. MAKVSVA1.E, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1898. observer was a Mr. Johnson, and he was accompanied in his call by Aaron Burr, the American exile, who afterHARD TO GET A LIKENESS OF ward is reported to have given Byron this valuable certificate, in talking HIM. with an English merchant at Gibraltar: I am no judge of his merits as One of the Latest Wat Drawn by Count a poet, but he is every way a gentleman. Blaquiere visited Byron at GeD'Orsay, and Hero Is a Copy of It Rattier Queer Among Today's Pic noa in April, 1S23, and also mentions his few white hairs, but adds: His tores. eyes retain all their penetrating brilliancy, and that voice, with which you 0RTRA1TS of Bywere so impressed at Venice, has lost ron are numerous, nothing of its impressive tone and writes Mr. F. B. flexible quality. Such was the memSanborn in Scri- orable Englishman who died for bners Magazine, but Greece. few of them seem to have been good FROM CLEAVER TO PULPIT. likenesses. One of latest was London' Hatcher Orator Aroused Enthe drawn by Count thusiasm In the East. So much success was won in New D'Orsay at Genoa and declared b y York by Henry Varley, one of Lonhim to be an exact likeness, a dons most noted evangelists, that which was engraved for the when the time came for him to return New Monthly Magazine not long after to his native land he was Induced to Eyrons death. Two accounts of his postpone his departure for a few days. personal appearance and conversation On his arrival in the east he was reat Genoa, shortly before he sailed for ceived with only a moderate degree Gieece, are curious and little known. of w'armth, but his first public appearOne of these, by an American tourist, ance showed clearly that no ordinary a Virginian, in the spring of 1823, is man was the After that quite exact, except that he understates every meeting was crowded to the Byrons height, which was five feet doors. It was hard to associate the He is about simple, earnest man in black a man eight inches. He says: five feet six inches high; his body is with a massive head and face and a small and his right leg shrunk, and resonant voice not unlike that of Dr. 8 bout two inches shorter than the Chauncey M. Depew with the white cl her; his head is beyond description apron and block of a butchers shop. fine; Wests likeness is pretty good; But Mr. Varley is not ashamed of his but ro other head I ever saw of him and boasts that when he cut Is in the least like him. His forehead trade, roasts and steaks and chops he cut Li high, and smaller at the top than them honestly and earned a competence through fair dealing. After his conversion Mr. Varley felt a call to preach, and finding himself successful in moving men, he built a handsome church, and since then he has been active in evangelistic work in England and Australia. Mr. Varleys charm as an orator is that of directness and simplicity. He possesses a fluency of speech quite like Spurgeon, with whom he worked for many years, and Gladstone and a few, very few, other English orators. His words come without the drawT which makes so many English speakers tedious. He indulges in no and wins men by the power of his logic, for to him religion is logic rather than sentiment. Here is a saraplebf Ills" talk: When I was in Liverpool, he said, a workingman said to me: Oh, sir, you put down the bread of life so that a workingman can easily pick it up again. And that is what I want to do tonight. "Steam was not an invention. It LORD BYRON. was a discovery. Steam was always (From a sketch made by Count DOrsay in the world, only our forefathers did at Genoa ) it. Take your railroad debelow; the likenesses are just the op- not know The carriages stand idly in the pots. posite. His hair, which had formerly hu-i- g in beautiful brown ringlets, is depot and they will stand there If magnificent engine is not backed begirning to turn gray, he being, as he your connection is made with the In and told us, thirty-fiv- e years old. His eyes between a light blue and gray, his nose oars. When that connection is made can entpr the car and go as far straight, but a little turned up; his you dehead perhaps too large for his body. as the engine. If men stay in the He flew from one subject to another, pot and do not identify themselves and during an hour and a half talked with the engine and the train they will never reach the place which they upon at least two hundred subjects are bound to. And they have sometimes with great humor, laughing say they to blame. 4od does themselves only at length, looking very heartily; not condemn you because are a around, he asked, with a quizzical air, sinner we are all sinners. you He does which of us was from Old Virginia. condemn you because you are an unbeI bowed assent; then followed a liever. Some people talk about their I which to catechism, occasionally edg- moral excellence. Think of a morHave you been in ed in an answer. ally excellent sinner. What nonsense! England? Is Jefferson alive? Do you If I am a sinner I cannot be morally deHe is know Washington Irving? excellent. God does not want a great cidedly the first English prose-write- r except Scott. Have you read Brace-bridNo. Hall? Well, if you ehoose, I'll lend it to you; here it is. Have you any American books to lend me? I am very desirous of reading the Spy. I intend to visit America as soon as I can arrange my affairs here. Your morals are much poorer than those of England; those of the higher (lasses of England are becoming very There are no old corrupt. Englishmen no yeomen. The English have lost everything good in their His manners are character." most charming and fascinating and if he is (as they say) a devil, he is certainly a merry one nothing gloomy. His voice is low, and at first sounds affected. The other account is by an English REV. HENRY VARLEY. clergyman, in the autumn of 1822, also at Genoa: The first impression made company of improved sinners in heavupon me was this that Byron bore en. They would begin to sin as soon the least possible resemblance to any as they got there. bust, portrait, or profile that I had ever seen. That of Mr. Murrays, from Death and Electricity, which most of the prints seem taken, A writer in an electrical magazine, is not one in which the original can in discussing the probabilities of death he recognized at first sight perhaps an electric current, said that he at by owing to the affected position and one time stood at the top of one of the studied air when he sat for it. I never in a storm and had lightsaw a countenance more composed and Alpine peaks his to an expass through ning still, or more sweet and prepossessing tent sufficient to make body a crackloud, beHis was his hair than appeared. and to noise blue produce ling long ginning to lose its glossiness, of which, streams of from the fingers, it is said, he was once so proud; and without any sparks effect upon the body other several gray hairs were seen in spite force him to descend without to than of his anxiety to remove them. A delay. crossed color his occasionally slight cheeks, and when I related an anecdote Economy of a lady (Caroline Lamb) who said, I Bobson Whats your object in have often been very foolish, but never wicked' at hearing this a blush blowing yourself so over Hamby, that stole over his face, and he said, I be- bum actor? You must have spent at least $10 just filling him with things lieve her.' There wls nothing eccentric in his manner; nothing beyond to eat and drink last night. Wimby the level of ordinary clever men In his Sh! This is on the dead quiet. Im remarks of style of conversation. This working him for a pass to the show. ABOUT LORD BYRON. full-lengt- h, v'l A GREAl ARTIST GONE JOHN SARTAIN FLOURISHED FOR HALF A CENTURY. Ill Eucravlng Known to All Lover of the Ueantlfnl Korn in London In ISOS noil Came Meat Production. Mere Ml In 1830 . SARTAIN, rf? OHN the famous artist, engraver and critic, died at the home of his daughter, Emily, in Philadelphia, the other day. Mr. Sartain was 89 years old, and he passed out of life pangless. The wonderful brain that accomplished and thought so much for the best part of a century simply came to a stop. News of his death has been cabled to Europe, where his works were almost as well known as they were in America. Mr. Sartains life compassed three generations of art, and saw fihe birth of a fourth. He was engraver par excellence, and some of the works of his bands are familiar to every one who has looked into the wia-doof picture stores and to many who hate never been off the farms they were born upon. He was born in London - in 1808. His boyhood's years were spent in the service of a London pyrotechnist, and in following that occupation he met and knew many of the actors that were famous seventy-five or eighty years ago in England and America. At 14 he began to learn engraving, and at the end of a year he was so proficient that he was intrusted with most important work. He became exceedingly adept in the practice of mezzo tinting, and brought that art to the United States in 1830, when he came hither with his bride. In 1843 Mr. Sartain bought out Camp- - SURCHARCED STAMPS. Irregular Irotit of 1nlilio Officer la Dealing with Collector. Three years ago the Times drew attention to Lie subject of surcharges stamps in a lengthy article, says Chambers Journal. Lord Ripon had caused a circular to be sent from the colonial office in order to put down the abuses connected with tho sale of surcharged stamps, which had proved a temptation to postmasters and treasurers and other public officers, by making irregular profits in dealing with stamp collectors and others. The remedy for this state of matters is to keep a sufficient number of stamps on hand, and then there would be no necessity to practice surcharging." It appears that when in certain cases it became known that a stamp was getting scarce agenis of the stamp dealer would at once buy The up the stock and ask for more. colonial postofflee, in order to get ov-the delay involved in procuring fresh supplies, would print on dearer stamps than those which were exhausted the price of those which were asked for. For instance, a three-penn- y stamp bey comes a one and a y one. A stamp stamp a thus altered in value is said to be surcharged, and a rush is made for this by the dealer. These find their way 'n-t- o collections at 50 or 100 per cent over their value. A Paris dealer is said to have kept a sum cf 1,000 placed at different postofflees with instructions to lecal postmasters to send on specimens of that value whenever a new stamp or fresh surcharge wan made. A London dealer one day received a remittance of 12s. 6d. in half penny postage stamps from some one in Fiji who was in debt to him for that Tho stamps, being all suramount. charged, were sold for about 15. It will be remembered that the republic of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, not having ready cash to pay the expenses of its delegate to the Chicago exhibition, gave )rim a supply of pcst- half-penn- y four-penn- two-penn- ge bells Foreign and turned editor. Magazine Meanwhile he continued his profession of engraving and established Sartain's Magazine in New York. His most noted plates are Christ Rejected, The Ironworker, Civil War in MisKing Solomon, Homestead of Henry Clay souri, and The Battle of Gettysburg. For sixty-seve- n years he lived in Philadelphia ,and was one of its most honored citizens. For twenty-thre- e years he was director of the Academy of Fine Arts and an officer of many institutes. He was chief of the bureau of art at the Centennial Exposition, and his decorations and medals number nearly thirty, all of them representing high honoro. His great knowledge of architecture caused him to be consulted upon many important enterprises. He Mr. 'Masonic degrees. had forty-si- x Sartains children inherit their fathers IDs eldest son Samuel is a genius. great engraver of portraits, and his next son, William, is a prominent New York painter and president of the Art Club of that city. His daughter Emily is an artist and art critic of note and was a member of the international jury of awards of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago . Semi-Month- ly Paper Underwear Tented. During the war between Japan and China the Chinese soldiers wore underclothing made of paper. Experiments made with these goods in the Prussian army proved unsatisfactory, as they were found to last only .two or three days. An my unprofitable apartment house tb considerd a flat failur. age stamps to sell to the best advantage. It appears that this negro republic depends largely on the sale of stamps for paying its way, and the stamps, beautifully engraved in London, are largely sold to stamp collectors. When the North Borneo company issued a finely engraved stamp in 1894, in six weeks the wholesale dealers turned over 2,000 worth of them. One dealer went in for 800 worth, another 400, and two for 1,200 between them. Rowlaoi In Manchuria. According to the latest advices the position of the Russian subjects who have gone to Manchuria in connection with the construction of the Chinese Eastern railioad, is seriously threatened, not only by the Hunghus brigands, but by a certain number of Chinese who are irreconciliable adversaries of all civilizing innovations, and who regard the Russians as enemies. The Russian military authorities have consequently sent a strong detachment composed of a battalion of 600 Cossacks with artillery to the station of Poltavkaya in order that this force may defend the entry into Siberian territory against all aggressors, and may even enter Manchuria if it becomes necessary to protect Russian subjects in that region. Hungry German Doctor. German doctors at the Moscow congress made themselves noticed and unpopular by getting together at receptions and making an organized rush for the buffet, where they stayed, not allowing any one else to get at th refreshments. , NUMBER 33. SLUFSKYON HIMSELF. HE CANNOT HELP MONEY. MAKING Tell How He Make It Th Uolitlolaa of st. Lout I a Versatile Man Ills -- Ftinoui tYouder-oul- y Various Enterprises. LITTLE gentle- a man, wearing soft felt hat well down over h 1 s brows, looking keenly out of half blue - gray dosed eyes, his hair for Thirl. Clarence Newcomb can tell you what I did there. I was doing secret service work for George Allen when he was mayor. I never worked for the police department, but I have been all over the country on that kind of work. I have done many big jobs in that line, and have always been well paid for them. Sometimes I risked my life and lived right with the people I was after. I am doing some work of my own now. I ani hunting my brother Samuel, who has not been heard of slneo we left England. I have tracked all the Slupskys I could find. I located one in Arizona the other day. He is a son of my fathers brother, and he told me he had met a Samuel Slupsky in Cape Town, where he runs a big transfer company. I have written to tho chief of police there, and expect to get a letter from him soon. We do not know if my brother is dead or alive, but I shall find that out. Slupsky is a republican and is on the payroll of the assessor and collector of water rates. Even there his work is detective work. It is his business to find out how many faucets there are in houses in his district or where leaks are allowed to waste city water. How do you make your money? was asked. "I make it every way. I made $1,309 the other night in a poker game In a certain hotel in this city. I can always make money playing poker. I can play poker, so I always win. I am too lucky for my own good. Some men won't play with me any more even if I guarantee to return ninety cents out ot every dollar I win from them. I make money doing secret service work. I make money selling you what you want. I see things every day and remember where I see them. Then I find a man who wants what I saw. I buy it and sell it to him. I cant help making money. I see my chance and I make it. Everybody has the same hance only they dont take it. That is the only difference. touched with gray and gesticulating with his hands almost to the level of bis Blioulders is Abe Slup-kdective, politician, poker player and broker of anything on earth that can be bought or sold, from a pair of old pants to a diamond ring. 11a is commonplace in most aspects, yet he is nationally famous, lie is short, slight of build, with a large head thickly covered with black hair showto curl. His ing a predisposition mouth is broad and expansive and nas about it a lurking smile, half cunning and halt good nature. His nose Is large, pear shaped and decidedly Jewish in mold. On each side of it are the closely set bluegray eyes, constantly on the alert. His short stature makes it necessary for him to look up at most men he talks to, so that he has acquired the trick of turning his head sideways and looking up through the corners of his eyes, which adds greatly o the shrewdness nd cunning of his demeanor. His face is seldom in repose except, it is said, in a poker game. Cive every man something for what he gives you in return and impress upon him that he has obtained just what he wants, is Abes rule of practice. Abe Slupsky talks about A MISTAKE THAT COUNTED. himself freely and unreservedly when satisfied he is not to be made game of. llow tlie loIlll ln Committed the Error I said to him: of Hi Lire. Tell me who you are and what Detroit Free Press: "I was From the your life has been, just as if you were sort of crowded out of politics, detelling me of some other man. clared tho man whose friends at one He squinted up his eyes, looked time quoted his stock as good for the steadily at me for awhile, and then I presidency of the United States. said: of the game all right had the theory I'm a Jew. My father was a Pole. i was the effort to practice His name was Slupsky.' My mnUier Is 1 enough, but it hr6uht about my down- that gradually English. She speaks no language but fall. I lived' in a" community whero English. I was born in London. So was a good deal of' wealth and were my two brothers and one sister. This meant social 1 am the youngest. I am 38 years old progressive culture. the popand never went to school in my life. pretensions and an adoption of 1 believed, as fads ular appeared. they My father is dead. My mother is still the successful living. She lives here in St. Louis. and still believe, that She is very well off. Her name is politician must be all things to all men. Rosenstein. She married a second For this reason I professed the most time. I came to America in 18G9. I profound interest in golf, statesmancame alone on a German line steamer. ship, yachting, diplomacy, base ball, I landed in New Orleans. I was a kid, music, bicycling, science, business, only ten years old, and I hunted work church matters, social functions, foot on the levee. I got a job as deck ball, good horses, belles, beaux, bores, sweeper on a towboat. They dont and everything else that any portion of the people might favor by adoption. The plain truth is that I knew something less than nothing about many of I couldnt clearly dethese subjects. fine the difference between a home run and a cat boat, or tell whether allegro was a term used in music or happened to he the name of some new sewing machine attachment. By looking wise and saying little I managed to gain favor as a good fellow and the patron of While everything worth patronizing. I was at this high tide of popularity there was a match game of football arranged between two of the schools, and, Just to add to the eclat of the occasion, I was chosen umpire. Instead of pleading illness or an Imperative engagement, I was fool enough to accept. I wore a mask, danced around like a harlequin, and proved about as amusing as one to everybody but the boys. They became dangerously mad at my meaningless mixing of links, courts, loves, wickets, wldes, hard aports.time ABE SLUPSKY. I was have deck sweepers on towboats ai r allowances and handicaps. fired at the end of the first to I learned but rule, pass the call and made myself useful. I changed my inning, and when the boys make their kick you have no place in politics. name. I was Tom Brooks. These river men would never have time to call me Abraham Slupsky. It was Tom or A Keir Gam. Jim in a hurry in those days. Passing People of Biddeford, Me., are of the the callyou know what that is? On opinion that a new game has been the towboat they generally have five worked among them. A man reprebarges, two on each side and one in senting himself as the agent of a New front. The man with the lead line York publishing house went there and calls 'fhe depth of the water, but it Is hired a youth of the place to go over too far to the pilot house, so some one the directory with him and point out stands half way and passes the call. tlie prosperous residents of Biddeford This is what I did. I was on the river and Alfred. Nothing has been heard until 1875 with Captain Davis of the since of the book agent, but the houses Valley Mississippi Transportation of several people who were pointed out Company. He remembers me well. I as being in good circumstances have saved a little money at the time, and been visited by thieves. furthen I opened the first niture store in St. Louis. I made monCostly Salt Over Trifle. ey out of that. I made money out of A hog out in Missouri caused a lit(everything I went into. I have always made money. Then I opened a second- igant a loss of $4,000 in costs. Now a hand clothing store. It was a little Nebraska man has had to pay $200 for shop. On the outside I had a sign, a $10 horse. Such cases are very old. This place is in no way connected Lady Anne Clifford used to assess her with the Famous. I sold clothes and tenants for contributions of chickens. bought clothes. I only had a little One tenant refused to send a hen and shop. At the back I had a hose pipe was sued. Lady Anne got the hen, but stuck in the wall. When I could not it cost her over $200. fit a customer I would go to the pipe and call, Hello, up there! Have you Britain Vast Empire a pair of pants 32 in the leg? What! The queen of England reigns over No? Ail right. Then I would tell the customer I was all out of that line. one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 proThe hose was a Muff, but it worked all montories, 1,000 lakes, 2,000 rivers and right. I worked in the secret service 10,000,000 islands. slightly y, 4 I. h V-- C'Si I V X - , ! "A red-fro- nt 7 |