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Show THE SALT LAKE TD1ES. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER J. lgv - . A SLEET-ES-S NIGHT IN VXNICC.-- , ' i Whon how) lias deid-s- b, when 'tta doti to Jv And wrocjs remembered make the heart, still M"xl Bftlor are sle'p's kind lies for life's blind need Than truth. If lies a little peace can give; A little peaiw! 'tis thy proroxatfre, O sleep! id lend it; thine to quell or feed ' This love tost starves this marrine soul's lonf greed And Mil n'Kret, the queen of hell, forgive. Yon moon tliat niocks me through the uncur-tilue- d class Recalls that other nijctat, thr other moon Two l",nglls)i Iovits on a gay lagoon-T- h" voiises from the lantern 'd gondolas, The kins, Iho brealli, tho flushing eyes, and soon The throbbing stillness; ali the heaven that was. Arthur ilugh Clough. ; THE RISE OF PETROLIUM Hot: tho Discovery of the Oil Fiolfl3 was Accomplished Its Eemarkable Growth. IT WAS A MODEST CONSIDERATION. JTany Hon Were Euined Before-Fortune- " Wore Made Names of Some ' Early Wells. .....-.- . " ' - irother, that dear, sweet, matchless tiame, a synonym for the tenderest, truest love man ever knows, has been eliminated from the fashionable vocabu-lary. In the revised edision of the gilt edged lexicon it is bracketed obsolete. Only a few years ago war was made on the common pronunciation of the word mam-m- and in spito of usage the French method was carried, that is, with the accent on the last syllable. Now mother, mam-m- a and old fashioned "ma" have been set, aside as common-place, and various terms of endearment " substituted. One of the wealthiest ladies in New York has tanght her two little sons to call her "precious." "Dear one" is tho favorite address in the home of a rich and distinguished politician, ami the scions of the largest estate in tho coun- -' try call the young mother "lovo of mine" and the proud father "Prince Charming." But the most common term of endearment among the children of the upper class is "sweetheart." Coming from the' little folks scarcely ablo to utter tho sounds of the letters, it is very pretty, especially at table or in tlie nursery, when tho small child has a grievance or a heartache. It is not, how-ever, a convenient or callable name at the foot .of tho stairs when tho imme-diate presence or audience of a gentle-woman is needed. Since the abrogation of "dearest," which had as long a mij. ni the Fauntlcroy r, "dearie"' has enjoyed considerable pop-ularity, but of lute intrenchmenls have , been made upon the lovers' territory and all their tender appellations appro-priated. "Sweet one," "my own," "lovely," "heart's ease," "dear heart," "queen," "darling" and "sweetness" are some of the pet names to which loving and lova-ble mothers respond. And after all thero is something very tender and very sweet in this love making of parents and chil-dren, albeit the dignity implied by plain "mother" may appear to bo lacking. It , is just possible that there is too much se-verity in our relations with the little ones, and that a better, truer, firmer friendship might accrun from this child worship. One thing is certain, that there can be no estrangement between the real lovers of homo. It is the sweet privilege of every mother to be the idol of her daughters and the sweetheart of her sons, and she has only herself to blame if the ohild lover tires of her and in the noonday of life forgets the glory that brightened his morning. "Mother" may do for the daughter and son that the marriago ties will bring to tho roof tree, but if a sweeter, dearer name can be invented by all means let us have it to use, to hear and to love. New York World.. ' HHE:-Bil- : MKET. ed. Tinmvmv. IfHfTLESALE and retail dealer In Choice Heef, Pork. Veal, l.amband Sausages of all kinds. All orders delivered from No. 31 S. West Temple. igreat bar ' A T. THE FAIR lr ; . THIS MONTH; ' .. . .' I J: lanotb - $ .75 wtl $1.25 I YoirHy son Tea, per 16 $ .50 wotl lu riammocKs 11 " 8.00 3 ut Ice Cream Freezers 1.25 y Mctel Japan Tea, per It . .44 " .15 4 jt, Ice Cream Freezers 1.50 Hacelerei Japan Tea, " .75 " 1.25 6 t. Ice Cream Freezers 2.00 " u Green Japan Tea " .30 " .50 Ice. Tonpes .10 " j; Goods '1re First Quality. Call and examine them, and xiicop numerous other Bargains we offer our customers. THE FAIR. 13 west First South St. SALT LAKE MEAT CO. Wlinlexalee Dealer in Dressed Beef Pork, Mutton, Veal, Smoked Meals and Swift's Hams, Bacon & Lard ROLAND k SAMPSON. Cor Third Snutli and Fifth West Streeti. KELLY & COMPANY Printers, Blank-Boo- h Makers and Stationers. No, 4fl W. Second Soutii Bt. Salt Lake, - Utali Our facilities for doing Klrst-Clas- Job Print-ing tire of the newest and best. Hooks Killed, Printed and Bound to Order. Samples of Railroad, Mining, Bank and Mer-cantile Work always on hand. Complete line of Office Supplies, embracing the must approved Labor-Havin- and Economical Inventions. Prices Low. Call on Us. i D. VAN BUSKIRK. OFFICIO OV T. C. STE33I.M 3 Man liiiirk Moid(k GENERAL REAL ESTA'lE BUSINESS TRANSACTED. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THS FORMING OF SYNDICATES. AGENTS FOR EASTERN CAPITAL We do not handle SNAPS, but GO OD BARGAJNSJ EXPEI1NCKD OI'EtATOKS and Members of the UEAt, Estate ExCHASGa 179 MAIN STREET, corner Second South. Pabst Brewing Coif " ; . (Formerly PHILIP BEST) - MILWATJKEE, WIS. Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Ribbon Keg and Bottled Beers shipped immediately upon order. THE FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED FREE DELIVERY! TELEPHONE 3651 B. K. BLOCHX'Co., ST. Agents. GEORGE A. LOWE, Dealer in All Kinds of First-Cla- s . Agricultural Implements, ECHUTTLER FAPM AND FEEIGII3 WAOON3, Goliliiis Bk Phaetons and Road Carts cf every description. --EXCLUSIVE DEALERS I-N-eiMmmmmwm imi itsitaiysMrMitiisweMMiri' miwrwmimi Sole Agents for Steam Engines, Leffel Wheels. ' - , , ; V WAREHOUSES 1TATE ROAD BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOXD SOUTH, James Mean B.j h Spencer & Kimball, 160 Main Street. - ; d. M. STULL & COMPANY, FIIB INSURANCE AGENTS First-Cla- ss Board Companies Represented. No. 22 Past First South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. E. SELLS, ' J. TUCKER. H. W. SELLS. Sells & Corripany, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 1 Lumber. First South street, opposite 14th Ward Assembly Rooms. P. 0. llox 1078. Old Tioncer Yard of Armstrong ABagley. f asUt(Jn ft. Mi f! 1 -::- -W. J. KINGk i Dealer In - ; TINWARE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, 879 Sonm Main Street, salt take City, Utah. eiEs- - to t"j PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH andSOl7m THE CITY TICKET OFFICE. Union - Pacific , SYSTEM. MOUNTAIN DIVX310M The Only Line oarryini; tlie Unitel Stt Overland Mail. Direct ConaeotioasoJ-twee-all Points North and Eu NEW TIME CARD UTRH CENTRAL DISTRlCf. THE mil ffOMV MACHINE C031V ANY Telephone 3U; : : 424 WEST FIRST SOUTH, : ; P. 0. fiox IS). Passenger Trains Arrive and Leafe at Salt Lake ClTylsloMois: j FiitJil 'IKE NOjiXH GOING JfORTH i Utah Nrth Local '" :m- Fast. Mail and IJtaa Northern Local ?:$ i artr-- 1 c Exi.rei; " :80a.m.-- local Express ni.Vts Portland and Butte Fast Mail' ........ 'SOp.m. Fast Atlantic and Portland & m Express t OOP fkom the Local Express. south. ' MIlfftTdfertKess GOING SOUTH. Juab. Pr.iro. LajM, Iiont'ann" v',,"' 9:45a ra. Jnab, Frovo. Lehi, Irontou and i." n.H rvkaKxoresi... - iMka Exnress iP-m- . M ord Exoruss. . . otalj. and ITsvaia Dlstsist. GOING V, EST For Garfield Beaca, daily I raojTTHB west. " .. .vlOa.m' From Garfleld Beaeh, daily , " " " l":ioa.ni " .'JtS3 " ! p.m ' " " v'sr ..' 3:ilp.m . " :! " p.m " ' " ; t- S' W'PiES' CR-RESSEG-UIE. , ' General MiI untjO? WaSatCh Buildinr. 201 Main S;.,a,d at Dpot. F' ill an. Moatana Macliinery Gompany C. P. MASON, Manager Headquarters for all Glasses of Machinery. Engines and Boilers from power ana upwards in. stoc diate delivery. Hearn Pumps Injectors, Horse Whims, Hoisting EnSael Kock Breakers, ball's Rolls, Ingersoll Air Compressors and Drill Luhri eating Oils, M,ne, Mill and Smeller Supplies Silver, Gold and Cra Ig Mills erected and delivered in running order. , Maine Office anft Warerooms 259 S. Main Street, Salt Late D. S. ' AGENCY. BUTTE, MONTANA.' : Halt Is Good. "Salt is good." It is tho language of inspiration, as well as of therapeutics. In all the range of the household materia medica there in no remedy half so valu-able as common salt, both because of its real curative properties and of its imme-diate availability. And moreover, it ha this advantage over more pretention remedies, that seldom in caeoef oraraea or mismanagement can it be made to do mischief. If it doesn't heal it won't kill, at any rate. Here are some of the things it is good for: Heated dry and applied to the outer surface over the seat of inflammation or congestion, it, will give almost instant relief, while applications of a strong, hot solution of salt, in water or vinegar, act liko magic upon toothacljo, earache, neuralgic headache and all that brood of distressing ills. For catarrhal affections and sore throat a spray of warm water and salt is almost a specific, and is one. of the standard prescriptions of tho "nose and throat" specialists. For hay fever and those) oilier slighter forms of nasal sensitive- - Hess- - that induce a constant sneezing thero is no remedy more quickly pallia-tive and often curative than the vapor of heatd salt, and alcohol. Put both in a tin vessel and heat over ' a flame. When there is a good showing of vapor place tho vessel underneath a covering that envelops the head as well nl inhale tho vapor through both nose and throat. For influenza and ordinary colds this treatment is also excellent. , New York Evening Sun. ' " TRAPPING MUGKRATS."""""'" How the Fur Hnnters In the Maryland Marshes Secure Their Prey. A visit to a mnskratting village, as the scattering cabins of the trappers along the bordora of Fishing bay, Mary-land, are called, will be a revelation to tho stranger. The cabins are rude and have barely a habitable appearance. The occupants are squatters, and the mate-rials of which their cabins are built have been appropriated from the nearest tract of timber land. The trappers and their families are a wild and tattered race of beings, but hardy and good natursd. One peculiarity of a muskratting village is the large number of children that be-long to each cabin. Another feature of the community is a species of razor back hog that swells tho population with its presence. This nondescript member of the porcine fam-ily has an important mission to perform in these settlements, and he performs it with a will. It is the making away with the hundreds of surplus muskrat car-casses that accumulate, althougn the flesh of the muslirat forms an important article of food with the trapper and his family. As for that, however, eaters of nniskrat meat are not confined to the trapping villages of Fishing bay, for it is considered a great delicacy by many an epicure in that land of terrapin and canvas backs. A remarkable thing about the razor back hogs of the muskrat region is that, though tliey devour untold pounds of muskrat meat every day, they never show t he richness of their keeping 'by adding a single pound of flesh to their carnivorous bodies. The muskrat builds its house so that, while it has a couple of stories high and dry on the ground, the entrance to it is always under water. This entrance is a long tunnel running from a point a foot or more below the water at low tide line to tho ground floor of the house, which is always flooded. The mtiskrat's reason for having this subterranean entrance to his dwelling place is that thereby he has an exit or an entrance in time of danger that will not betray him to his enemies, either in his flight from home or in seek-ing refuge within its walls. But his in-stinct does not warn him against the trap his most cunning and persistent enemy places at this hidden entrance to his house, changing it from a way to safe'y into an avenue of certain death. This trap is a wooden box, three feet long and six inches in width and depth. In each end is a wire door, hung on hinges at the top. These doors rise at the slightest push on the outside, but will not open from the inside. The trap is sunk in tho water to the mouth of the musk-rat'- s tunnel and anchored there, and whether the muskrat is going ont of his house or returning to it he is sure to walk into the trap. If he had time the captive rodent could gnaw his way out of the box, but before he can free himself he will drown. A whole family of musk-rat- s may be taken in a single night in one of these traps, and, as every trapper has ont as many traps as he can attend to, tho rat harvest which thev reap every night is a rich one. There aro other ways by which tho muskrat is pursncd. In the daytime the hunters steal over tho marshes and jab long handled spears with sharp, barbed tines down through the roofs of tho muskrat houses. Sometimes a spear will impale half a dozen rats as they lie cuddled together in their cozy nests. Hnnters with gntis skirt tho marshes at night looking for muskrats with the aid of jack lamps, but that method of hunt-ing is followed more toindulpe the sport-ing inclination of the hnnter than to reap profit. Times of extraordinary tides on the marshes are times always welcomed by tho muskratter, for the rats are then forced from their houses, in spito of tho infallible instinct they are alleged to possess in foreseeing such ca-lamitous happenings, and guarding against them by building their houses higher, They are compelled to flee to the open country and seek places of safe-ty, which they rarely find, for the trap-pers and hnutcrs have no difficulty in lo-cating them, and so they are given over to a wholesale slaughter. Clothier and Furnisher. Saved by a Hiillfrog. Thoro aro at least, four newspaper ro-- I porters in New York who are stanch friends of the bullfrog family. They are engaged on morning papers, and they were plowing their way at a tremendous pace through the sand and wire grass of the meadows skirting Newark bay back of Greenville, N. J., to investigate a story of a' yacht that had been missiug, with eleven men on board, for several days. The hour was late, tho story promised to be a long one and much val-- I liable time had been wasted in discov-ering the name of the place from which tho boat had sailed, so the young men were pushing on in the dark toward tho shore without stopping to search for footpaths. All at once, from just be-neath thejr feet, a voice that was almost human- croaked "B'loukkout," and as the travelers stopped short to take ad-vice a big frog jumped with a plunk into the canal. One more step would have taken the young men into its muddy depths, whore they would have certain-ly received a most unpleasant ducking, and possibly havo lost their lives, as it would have been no easy matter to have climbed up the yielding clay walls of the j waterway. Philadelphia Ledger. Frog Flesh ts. Human Flesh. An interesting operation of flesh graft-ing, which was one of the discoveries of M. Paul liert, has been performed at the great gun works in Paris by a surgeon named Dubousquet-Lalmrdicr- e. A work-man bad his foot badly burned by mol- - ton iron, destroying the skin over a sur-- i face of about eight inches by.four. The surgeon took four strips of flesh from the thigh of a young man and as many from four different frogs, transferring them to tho wounded man's foot. l)y great care the wound healed in eleven days. The cicatrice obtained by tho frogs' skin was soft, elastic and inodorous; that from the human tlswh was much harder, producing irritation at, many points. The result of the operation is of great importance, showing tho superiority of frogskin and flush for serious wounds where both skin and flesh have bean torn or burned away. St. Louis Repub-lic. Three Girls of Nerve, Pete Walters, a passenger engineer of the Bolaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, had a horrifying as well as thrilling experience. Ho was running his train at the rate of thirty-fiv- e miles an hour, and when he entered the stretch just before reaching Binghamten bridge he was horrified to see three blackberry; girls on the structure. Ho reversed his encrine and then fainted. The fireman took charge of the throt-tle, and when the engine was within thirty yards of the girls one of them, with remarkable presence of mind, jumped to tho side of the bridge, stretched forward flat on her face and swung her-self clear of tho truck, hanging on to tho end of the ties over tho rushing waters beneath. In a moment the other girls followed her example, and just as tha train swept by tho last of tho trio swung clear of the bridge, while, with amaze-ment and horror plainly stamped on their .countenances, the passengers and trainmen watched with nnxiety tho hu-man forms swaying to and fro in mid-air. As soon as the train could be stopped , the passengers and crew rushed back to tho sceno and rescued the brave girls from their terrible plight. Wilkesbarro Cor. Philadelphia Kecord. ltore Formosa Slumps. Philatelists will bo interested in a certain passage of tho last official report which i8 mado by the British consul at Tamsni, in Formosa. It is to the effect that the supply of the so called Formosa stamps has come to an end, and that ac-cordingly the value of current stamps must necessarily increase as time goes on. This Formosa stamp is so far a genuine stamp that it was originally produced for postal uses, but, as a matter of fact, tho intention was never carried ont, so it has been impossible to obtain specimens authenticated by a postmark. As philatelists would say, it has never been more than au "essay." However, these stamps were utilized" as railway tickets on tho Formosan govern- ment railway line, and as fast as used they were destroyed. The supply issued for this purpose has been exhausted.. When the stamp was first "essayed" it brought as high as sixpence in London, and of late collectors have been paying $3-5- fur single specimens, or mm almost any price can be demanded and will bo paid for ono of these stamps. Certain Mauritius stamps aro exceeding rare, and the stamps of the defunct Gorman principalities are rapidly be-coming scarce. Eugene Fictl in Chicago News. Women In Austria. A coiihus of Austria-Hungar- y takes place this year, and tho minister of pub-lic instruction has announced that girls and women, if they can prove them-selves competent, may apply for the place of enumerators. Tho emancipa-tion of women in Austria is well ad-vanced. One-thir- d of all tho post and telegraph clerks and all tho telephone clerks, as well as the teachers in girls' schools, are women. Lately a lady ocu-list, Fran Dr. Kerschbauiner, of Salz-burg, was allowed to open a hospital of her own. School teachers are well paid, their salaries ranging from 70 to '100. A largo proportion como from noble families and those of officers and govern-ment officials. Tho position of govern-ess, on tho contrary, is much disliked. London News. i :Marrled Aftrr Tnonly-thre- o Years. Twenty-thre- e years ago Mr. Joseph Hamilton and Miss Virginia Hickman, both of Bath county, wero engaged to be married, but they had a lovers' quar-rel, and Mr. Hamilton left for Califor-nia, where he settled in San Diego county. By hard work ho becamo a prosperous man. About a month nso ho returned to his old home near h Springs, nd in forty-eig- ht hours after liis arrival married Miss Hickman, who had remained faithful to her first and only love. The bride is a first cousin of the celebrated Bishop William Taylor, a native of Rockbridge, and for many years past bishop of Af-rica. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton will spend the neit few weeks visiting relatives, and in September will leavo tor their California homo. Staunton (Va.) Vindi-cator. ' Tmrntire of Snow. The temperature of snow at different depths has been investigated by Signer Christoni. Ho finds that the variations in temperature of the lowest layer, next tho ground, aro extremely small, while tho uppermost layer has often consider-ably higher temperature. Tho temper-ature minimum of the air layer next tho snow was always lower than that of the uppermost snow layer, while an air layer about twenty inches above the snow liad a higher temperature than the layer 1.3 inches above the snow. Chicago Herald Mrs. Arthur Stannard, better known as John Strange Winter, author of "Booties' Baby," is a pretty women, 80 years of age, a good cook, capital house-wife, and a very delightful hostess. Her famous Baby, which Ruskin declared to contain tho most fjiithful and finished rendering ever given the character of a British soldier, has given her an inde-pendent income. It was refused by six publishers and copied three times before reaching the public. Miss Bai-ur- Twonty-sl- j Camera. ' Hiss Katharine Weed Barnes goes into niatonr photography with wholesoiiled enthusiasm. Miss Barnes is a niece of Thurlow Weed, and having plenty of money she does not stint herself in the number or tho costly appliances of her cameras. If she wants to find out if she likes a thing she buys it and tries it. Thus it comes about that she owns twenty-si- x diffcreut photographic cam-eras and has fitted up a studio that wins exclamations of admiration and despair-ing envy from its visitors. New York Commercial Advertiser. More Money In Iu Tones What are you doing now? Billy Fast hoy I write for a living. "Do you write for tho newspapers?" "No; I write every week to the old man to send me some more money." Texas Sittings. Mrs. Phil Kearny, widow of the fight-ing Oen. Phil Kearny, is at Cape May, where she owns one of the handsomest cottages on the beach. Mrs. Kearny was the famous Kentucky beauty, Miss Diana Bullitt. She had two sisters nearly as beautiful as herself, and all married distinguished men. One mar-ried Count de Kanzo, of Sweden, and became tho wife of Gen. Atkinson. Dr. Flint is quoted as saying: "1 have never known a dyspeptic to recover vig- orous health who undertook to live after a strictly regulated diet, and I have never known an instance of a healthy person living according to a strictly dietetic system who did not become a dyspeptic," Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of kuth Jack-son, Mich., has been keeping tab on her family, and finds that during the year she has baked for them 2,308 cookies, J.US3 doughnuta, 217 cakes, 207 pies, 8t puddings and 793 loaves of bread. Her family i8 not large, either, except as to appetite. Lady Florence Pelhara Clinton and Lady Frances Travanion, the honorable treasurers of the Animals institute in Belgravia, were elected judges in the prize contest for the best essay on street surfaces in relation to horse traffic, with accompanying diagrams and sketches. The task of reading through the mass of manuscripts began in April and the dis-tinguishedJadies are still plowing. , llls J.slist Title. Wee Wife Love you? Of course I do. You dear, blessed old peach crop. Big Husband (loving but luckless) Great Scott! Why this new title? W. W. Because you are such a per-petual ;.failm-e- . Pittsburg Bulletin. Miss McAllister, niece of the organizer cf the "4()0," who assumes 'charge of Mrs. Reed's boarding school, will draw f Mlarjr of flO.OOO a year. |