The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-06

with the SHOWS of sixty years, and his |
talk OF birds and beasts has made her wish |
to see more of him, wish which her eX-
pectant husband shares. And as literary !
people laugh conventionality to scorn, why |
not. / think honeymoon could be spent
very pleasantly hearing John Burroughs
talk about squirrels in his own beloved
2RooKLYN MECENAs.
Joseph F. Knapp, whose fatal illness in
Paris has been announced, has been known
for years as self-made man, who was ex-
ceptional in retaining an interest in those
less fortunate or less persistent. Perhaps
he held in peculiarly kind regard artists Of
all kinds. His own business was lithogra
ply, the photographer painter, Sarony hav-
ing been at one time his partner. His
home in Brooklyn is, in spite of its plain
exterior, one of the most attractive in the
country. Pictures of merit line the walls,
and there is fine frescoing and detail work
everywhere. The browning glory of the
place is the music room, which was built
some dozen years ago, during Mrs. Knapp's
absence in Europe, and awaited her
as complete surprise upon her return.
The room is in the shape of an octagon,
with high ceiling and columned frescoed
Sides A fine pipe organ, grand piano
and all manner of smaller musical iustru-
ments are here gathered. Mrs. Knapp is
composer of merit and has taken the keenest
delightin the room. Here too, have come,
from time TO time, statesmen and soldiers
like Grant, Cleveland, Sheridan and Slo-
cum, singers like Emma Thursby, artists,
sculptors, musicians almost without nul<
| Der.
The shadow over this home darkens a
pretty wide area in Brooklyn and New
York.
NEWSPAPER BRIBEs.
J. G. Holland, in one of his novels, drew
a caricature of newspaper man who, al
ter interviewing a rich rascal, coolly
pocketed SO as the price of writing him up
favorably. AS a caricature such a man
might do very well, but too many might
be inclined to take him for a type. There
are such newspaper men; fewer now than
ten years ago, but they are very scarce.
There is folly as well as knayery in of
fering money to reporter. Even suppos-
ing him scamp-which he isn't-he hasn't
the power to alter the policy of the paper.
He hasn't even the power TO suppress news
without running the risk of dismissal for
getting beaten by other papers.
Yet the folly is committed. A physician
of some repute once endeavored TO slip 6
crisp bill into the hand of reporter whom
l knew.
Give my paper good show, cam
you!" he whispered. IL was at a medlca
convention.
The reporter held up his hand with the
bill upon it in the sight of all, then slowly
tilted it till the bill slid off to the floor
when he remarked with ChesterfeldiaI
air: 'Sir, my profession has code o
ethics, if yours has not"
l have known man, caught in some mast,
scrape, who tried to buy off the managing
editor of big daily to refrain from publish
ing the affair by the muniticent offer of 81
/ have known a deacon who always ofere
50 TO everybody who came TO report hi
minister's sermons.
Newspaper men expect to have som
I queer experiences.
WHY NOT NEW York;
It is said by politicians that both partie
will make strenuous effort to get the ma
tional conventions of 1892 called in NeV
York.
This city has in the past always bee
a handicapped by its lack of any hall suff
e GENTLY big to mold the noise of a polite;
J. convention. The lack has been filed. Mad
t son Square Garden is one of the most beal
tiful amusement buildings in the world an
!, the main hall is noble room where 100
delegates and spectators can roar to the
S hearts content when the "favorite sons
e are named.
The New York boom will be aided b
two or three powerful circumstance
S Chicago has had more than her share of b
: political conventions lately, and havir
:. the Worlds fair, will more gracefully r
e sign her claims to the conventions. b
n sides, talk as they will of Democratic gail
in the west and Republican gains in til
le south, shrewd observers still look up'
lie New York as a pivotal state. So it's n
t, unlikely the spell binders and windiame
l. will swarm in New York next year. Al
really, though its location isn't exact
r central, it is otherwise convenient enoug
ID BUFFER FOR KICKERs.
a l met man in life insurance compal
Il who looked tired. He told me he had gre
l. difficulty about sleeping at night and W
T. pretty nearly broken up. Wonder ceas
a when he went on.
= "You know what host of members 7
1t have. OF course fair proportion of the
It, kick occasionally about something. Eve
n. kick comes to me to be Strengthened out.
in dictate sixty letters a day to kickers.
D. must thoroughly understand every case
We order to consider it intelligently, There
IS no business in the world quite so comp
c. Gated as the life insurance business.
er mental strain of such tasksis somethi
he enormous"
ed ''Why do you stay THEREOF asked
it. ''My dear boy" the life insurance N
ng replied, 81 was never no near to lot
mlluOnS before IN my lie, anu IL Ii gong
70 stay right where am. Who knows wi
fix might happen! There's a big chance
promotion in such an Office"
ne AN AUGUST DISGUISE.
"a, Upon the elevated platform I saw Ia
he rather plainly clad in a brown sateen DIRE
az her features thickly yelled The vel
an unusual, worn SO as to partly conceal
no features, and l glanced at her perh,
,,s more curiousiy than l ought. Some pc
he liarty Of gesture, person or movem
o,t presently betrayed in her lady VIII
house on Fifth avenue is as elegant as i
llv costly, whose receptions rise to the dign
~ of a salon and whose costumes are
he adorable, in the language of Worth.
lot Now why should such woman as t
me be ashamed of beng IN town in Augu
Is il crime? OWEN LANGDoN
tba When you go to buy Hoods Sarsapar
+nn be sure to get it. Don't be put off with
~ inferior substitute. Insist upon Hoods.
ng.
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Labor Day, September Z, 1891.