The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-20

u NDA V APRIL 20, Is
charge was substantially correct it ought
to be explained little. The lady her
self was the drummer.
The man with the tremolo in his voice
then paid his bill out of the landlords
money, took several deep draughts at the
bar at the landlords expense and hurried
down to the depot to pay his excess bag
gage bill, also with the landlords money.
believe that there are three women act
ing as travelling men now, and this was
one of them.
The coast is beginning to feel an in
terest in the Worlds fair and will do its
share handsomely in the way of a dis
play. general hope is expressed that
America will not sacrifice beauty and
worth to blow and advertising. Art be-
comes no longer art when it is obscured
by the price mark, and literature suffers
when it becomes 4 reading notice. In a
certain city few years ago beautiful
monument was built to the memory of
the boys who lost their lives in the war
for the Union. The inscription read:
........--...--.-----..- .---.-----.-...---...-.-
Erected in memory of the Brave Men who
laid down their lives for the Union, as o
mark of love and lasting esteem, by their
fellow patriots and loving friends, at
cost of S150000.
Observation-Disclosures.
After long, severe argument. how
ever, wiser counsels prevailed. and the
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Missouri country will enthusiastically
so in for a good showing, and will also
attend the fair prepared to figuratively
knock out the eye and gather in the
Etruscan pelts of the great nations of
the earth.
ures, is the proud possessor of what is
called an average rainfall. Every child
even knows what it is now, what it was
in 10 and as far back as history extends
Fourteen to sixteen inches will do the
business in agricultural districts very
well, but this year it has been from 40 to
10 inches. according to the locality The
Santa Clara valley has wetness enough
to last for four years, and yet only in
low parts of the country will crops be
delayed or injured by the great rainfall
asked q well known railroad man the
other day what he thought would be the
general effect on business if the govern
ment should take charge of the railroads
and telegraphs. He said he thought it
| would be anything but soothing. SIN
such an event." said he, business would
be subverted to politics, think. On
election day trains would be delayed and
voted in the doubtful states. Washouts
would give large party gains to the rul-
| ing powers. kilograms would be affected
more or less in the rapidity of their
| flight by their political tenor, and the
administration organ would be able to
get Sunday trains for its mammoth edi-
tions, while the opposition paper would
run off the track or be held for orders
We can get all the corruption we need,
think, without extending it's scope or
possibilities. l would hate to see Hes
ter street heller rewarded by being made
a government train dispatcher on my
road. You can educate postmaster
pretty well in four years, but you take a
green politician and try to make train
dispatcher or division superintendent
out of him and you are liable to be bit
terly disappointed in him."
We had last week on the train style of
passenger common to this free country.
He was Russian by birth and had made
some money in this country by happy
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den advance in old clothes. Doubtless
in his old home across the ocean he had
slept at night on a heap of straw and
eaten the brunette bread of the plain peo-
pie. Here he had made money under
the fostering care of our free institu-
lions and rode in a sleeping car. Vul-
garity had early marked him for its own,
and SO, even with silk hat and ar over
coat with afur collar on it, one could see
that he would be more at home sleeping
in the loft of livery stable with his
whiskers full of barley straw.
He found fault with everything, and
in half an hour had won his way to the
hearty and cordial hatred of every one in
the car. He asked me what I paid for
my berth to San Francisco. told him,
but told him two dollars less than the
price because he was well calculated to
call forth that kind of an answer. He
was wild. He wanted to jump off the
train and go back to the Office to get his
two dollars back. then posted the other
passengers, and they came and pitied him
till he frothed at the mouth.
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