The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

that which pleases the student and which
the mind easily assimilates Such things
as | have learned from books have come to
me easily and without effort. My reading
has been very varied and [ read according
to my moods. | can enjoy myself in almost
any of the fields of literature. l can spend
a pleasant, sober hour with Seneca, and |
can enjoy laugh the same evening over
the letters of my friend William or as he is
more commonly called, Bill Nye. | have
my fun with Puck, and become acquainted
with my soul with pleasure over the pages
of Emerson. 1 don't mean to say that l
read one the same as the other. I have
sometimes to read page of Emerson or
Browning over several times before 1 get
its meaning, and sometimes [ never get at
it. But the fault in this case is, [ am con
vinced with Joe Jefferson himself and not
with either Emerson or Browning"
CALVIN PRICE.
Mr.. Calvin Brice, the New York million
aire, who will take Henry B. Payne's place
as the next Senator from OHIO has been in
the city this week. He is clean-cut, red
whiskered blue-eyed young man with
hard smile and a western manner. / re
member him when he began his money
making career about ten years ago, by
pushing the Ohio Central railroad down
through the rich coal fields of that state.
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with his pants in his boots, SLOUGH hat on
his head and with by no means the best of
clothes covering his angular frame. Last
night at the Arlington, he wore a silk hat,
broadcloth coat and every sign of his
clothing denoted prosperity Ten years
ago he was worth nothing. Now he is sup
| posed to be worth millions. Ten years ago
he was in debt to Governor Foster and it
was Foster who lent him the money and
gave him the boost which enabled him to
climb the tree of fortune Now that he has
plucked the fruit however, he seems to
have little use for Foster, and l am told
that it was his money and his efforts that
caused Fosters defeat as a candidate
for Congress this year. How
ever this may be, if this is
true the future Senator has shown himself
to be the incarnation of ingratitute. Ex-
| Congressman Jameson, of Lima once told
me that Brice, when he was worth prac-
tically nothing, owed Foster S115, 200, and
it was only through additional money which
Foster put into the enterprises in which ne
gave Brice share that enabled him to pay
this debt. He did pay it finally and came
out S135,000 ahead. 1t was this money
that enabled him to organize his nickle-
plate scheme which enabled him to make
somewhere near 100000 to 100000 and
establish himself as a big financier. Brice
was asked by Mckinley during his visit
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piled: ga dollar in New York Is now as
big as the moon. 1t keeps growing bigger
every day and money is so tight that we
have nothing for Christmas" 81 wish it
had been so before the election replied
Mckinley, and there the two statesmen
laughed, and Brice laughed the louder.
Colonel Moses P. Handy has refused the
consul generalship to Cairo, and he is
happy in his newspaper duties in connec-
tion with the worlds fair. He tells me he
got the two appointments on the same day
and preferred the worlds fair position be-
cause it enabled him TO remain at home
Handy would have made good consul
general and he would have been a refresh
ing change to some of the men who have
occupied the Cairo consulate in times past
Schuyler was good man and Cardwel
who preceded him was above the average
of the country editor, the position which
he left to take the place under President
Cleveland. Wolf was accused of leaning
toward Arab Pasha and as for f. H. But
ler his mission was one long career of dis
grace to America. He was drunk during
the greater part of the time that he hello
the position and when he got out of funds
he would go to the Khedive and ask for
, loan or a present on the grounds that the
United States government did not give
i,im enough salary to live upon. America
J ought to have very good man at Cairo