The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
DRIFTWOOD.

Sweet little face. 50 fun Of slum5eu
now
Sweet lips upiffted now with any kiss
sweet dImpied cheek and chin, and
snowy brow
What qufetude is this?
How gladly you came running to tbs
To meet US in the old familiar way.
so 1oyous-so elate-
So filed with widest g1ee yet so serena
With innocence of song and childish
With all the dear caresses in between
Have you forgotten that?
Have you forgotten, knowing sent1erl
The ,5oisterous love of one you ran to
greet
When you last met. who caught you tu
And kissed you. in the street?
Not very many days have passed slnca
And yet between that kiss and hing
there lies
No pathway Of return-unless again, )
In streets of Paradise.
Your cage, feet come twlnkling down
OF some bright thoroughfare ethereal.
To meet and greet him there just as ofA
old
TILL then, farewell-farewelL.
james Whitcomb Riley.
Here are some of the old-fashioned SUI
perstitions about lucky and unlucky vege4
tables: A pea pod with nine peas in it
is equal 10 wiShbOne when placed
above the door. 1t is accounted gener-
ally lucky to find nine peas in a. pod,
In Germany it is believed that peas
Thursday. or the birds will carry Them
off If they are fed to hens, 1T is said
the fowls will lay well. They must not,
however, be eaten during the Christmas
The Romans used beans in religious
ceremonies. They were used IN Gtreese as
ciples not to ''love beans''-that is. not to
interfere with politics. The phrase.
You don't know BEANS" means you are
no politician. Lunacy is supposed to be
particularly prevalent during the -four
fishing of the bean plant. 1t rs i'll luck
to grow parsley. "a parsley field will
bring a man to. his saddle and a woman
to her grave" Another saying iss
where parsley's grown in the garden,
there will be death before the years
out"
The Scots Charitable Society of Boston. /
is said to be the oldest charitable organ4
| izaItion in the world. 1t was founded In.
( 1851 and the other evening celebrated its
about 400 members. and is in a most
prosperous condition During the past
/ year, 1,U0U persons ana IdHtI1LeS were
aided, and 500 lodgings and 1902 meals
given to the needy Scotchmen, at a cost
to the society of S2,ol0.75. Many scotch
/ men were also assisted to return TO their
native country, and number provides
with employment.
/ The governor of Georgia has a military
| staff that is calculated to give a green
! and yellow tinge to the few though fit
martiaIists on the staff Of the governOr
of Massachusetts. remarks the Frrepres-
/ sibIe Joker of the New York sun. Gov
| ernor Atkinson has on his staff six gen.
erals, military secretary and thirty
/ seven lieutenant-coloneIs, 1ncIudlnS such
/ Snollygoster, II. w. ]. Ham, the Hon.
Sam Tate and the Hon. Terry Towns.
/ Governor Atkinson must have strong
| eyes to be able 10 endure the fiercs
brilliance OF this CORPS OF BeiVlaeres.
There was unveiled in Boston a few
DAYS ago, a memorial tablet to Wendell
| Phillips, placed on the old house on
The marble slab is by feet, with
large raised letters. and the inscription
Here Wendell Phillips resided during
forty years, devoted by him to efforts
to secure the abolition of African slavery
/ in this country.
''I'he charms of home the enjoyment
of wealth and learning, even the kindly
recognition of his fellow citizens, were
/ by him accounted as nausht compared
s'He lived TO see Justice triumphant.
| freedom universal. and to receive th5
tardy praises of his former opponents
I The blessings of the Door. the friendless
and the oppressed enriched him.
sIn Boston he was born, % November.
! 1911. and died February, 1884.
s.T7his tablet was erected in 1894, by o.
der of the City Council of Boston.