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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27
A Joker sERIn1rs

Adversity and I are, or rather were,
great acquaintance. l met him about
ten years ago, and soon became on
most intimate terms with him. But.
as is the case with most acuuain-
tances, familiarity breeds contempt,
and it wasn't very long before [ did ali
l could to cut him. After a. time 7
succeeded and moved to Easy street.
and kept moving up that thoroughfare
until am now living about the mid
die Of the block But you cannot al
ways tell your neighbors, and there
fore my old-time acquaintance NAV
suddenly show up again at an unex-
pected moment.
But really an acquaintance with ad-
versity is the best thing in the world
for one. 1t makes a man of him, and
is a good thing all around With a.
young man it is especially so. Sun
pose he has a rich father The bow
will soon begin to imagine himself a.
little better than an ordinary mortal
He don't know how to appreciate his
good fortune in the right way, and will
worship Mammon altogether too much.
About three years ago I started a
book. The book was called "WAcn 1
Had It" 1t was the story of a young
man who was very wealthy-that is,
his father was. This young man
thought he was a little god amongst
his fellows. But adversely soon over
took him, brought about by his own
habits. and when he became poor he
kept referring to the time when he
had it" meaning his money Well.
to make a short story of it, adversity
made man of him. He got back his
fortune and his place before the world.
He learned how to appreciate the value
of dollar and the value of a friend.
We cannot tell what we are missing
without feeling adversely The old
saying that ignorance is bliss hardly
applies here, for it is a mighty good
thing to know what adversely is like
even if we are not in the midst of it.
If we knew the good luck we are tray
cling in we'd be apt to shake hands
with ourselves.
Every father should make his son
feel adversely. The latter will thank
him for it in after life. At school the
children will shun study all they can.
but the parents who compel their chill
dren to watch their books closely will
reap mountain of gratitude from
them in the end.
And it is the same with adversity.
Like measles and the mumps, it is a.
very disagreeable thing while we are
suffering with it, and it is pleasant 10
be over with But while the measles
only come once, adversely is liable to
come back again and often on long
visits
But, as have said, taken as a whole
it's good thing. In adversely you
make friends who, if rich, would cut
you, and vice versa Friends Won
make in adversely stand by YOU for
life. Merrily yours,
Marshall P Wilder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27
published 1894. by the Box Syndicate
Press, New York;

published 1894, by the Box Syndicate
Press. New York;
There are several ways for a man to
feel good in times of adversely; one
way is to look at those who are worse
off than he is; the other way is to join
CoXey's army. There are two other
ways to break adversity's ravages; one
is to commit suicide, and the other is to
cheerfully and courageously do the best
you can and not cry.
Suicide is cowardice, and a confession
Of ones inability to meet the situation.
Besides, you are not sure but you will
be worse off afterwards. The place
where you go after having committed
suicide, may be a place where no posi-
bic efforts on your part can relieve adj
versity.
Davy Crockett, the famous Kentucky
hunter. said when he missed a coon
that he always picked his flint and
tried it again. In that way he always
ultimately got his breakfast.
A man in adversely may not return
where he was before, but if he preserve
his cheerfulness. doesn't drink, doesn t
become a tramp, doesn't drop out, IS
but does the best he can to find a place
that will hold him and support him, he
will get there, and then it will depend
largely on himself how much his future
oVercomes his troubles in the past.
Chauncey NJ. DepeW.
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AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
a Colored Man Who Has Seen Very
Many Changes in That Place.

Colored Man Who Has Seen Very
Many Changes in That Place.
There is a colored man in the White
House who has been in the service for
nearly a quarter of century He is round
as a ball and happy as an angel. His
complexion is that of anthracite coal
black and shiny. His head is an i'm
mense t'ellipticaI billiard ball. but it's
symmetry is marred and beautified at the
same time by double rows of worries which
giimmer between osculant lips of dusky
red. Immense windows of the soul, white
and black, are seen winking and blinking
in most entertainingly comic manner at
visitors; and, take him all in all, Arthur
is an invaluable adjunct to the business
and adornment of the White House.
He was appointed by President L.Ncoln
and has acted as messenger to the private
secretaries of nine presidents. He says
he did not know of the assassination of
President Lincoln until the following day
when ne came to the White House for
duty. He liked President Johnson, who
was a drinking man, but Arthur never
saw him under the influence of liquor.
He adds: ct would do no harm to tell
you, now that he is gone, but it is not true
that President Johnson was habitually
drunk while he was here. He was never
the least bit intoxicated. If he had been
would have known it, He speaks very
highly Of Presidents Hayes and Cleve-
land.-Chicago Post.
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THE NOVELIST OF THE WEST.

There is one way to be contented in
adversely, which the comfortable fell
lows (who live off the poor are careful
to inculcate. This is in effect-compare
your poverty with the condition Of some
one worse off than yourself, and forget
that Nature is impartial in her gifts.
Think how badly off the common man
is in England, in Italy. in Holland, and
other monarchies and rent-racked
lands, and forget how badly off you
really are in a land OF millionaires and
land spectators.
l don't believe in this kind of con-
tent. 1t is ignoble; it allows injustice
to grow unchecked. I know poor men
who find their greatest happiness urg-
ing society toward a golden future,
when every man who works will be
rich and every man will own the home
his wife lives in. This is a noble dis
content yet it yields pleasure.
Hamlin Garland.
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THE EDITORS SAY

The appeal to thinkers and reform
ers" does not, to the best of my knowl-
edge and belief call upon me. I never
remember trying to think, and in order
TO be a professor of thoughtfulness
one should, and perhaps must, exert
himself or herself to be a, thinker.
am rather out of conceit of reformers-
they pose so-all but the real ones, and
they are so scarce 1 am not sure
ever saw one. "How to be Happy
Though Poor is a submitted question.
First, if you are poor, do not know it,
Take it for granted you are rich; but
do not spend more than your income
as rule. Work hard all the time you
can. The eight-hour-a-day theory of
labor is public misfortune and private
curse. He who goes to bed every night
weary with good work is probably viz
tuous and ought to be happy; and if he
lis thrifty, though he may have little
money, he will not be poor In the
midst of Tolstoi's insane dissipation of
strength and fame, he breaches with
violence unseemly one idea that may
be useful-the beauty and happiness of
the simplif1cation of life. Simple lives,
with avoidance of affectations and va
nities-lives of truth and labor-enrich
poverty, and there is happiness in
health. Liars in their lives, of course,
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
Murat HalStead
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A REFORMER's VIEWS
A GREAT REvIyALIsT.

My answer is to all who sincerely de-
sire happiness to become acquainted
with the worlds Redeemer, who,
though rich, became poor, and exalted
honest poverty beyond gold or place or
power. He has invited all of us who
are not happy because we are poor to
come to him. and he will teach us the
lesson so much needed. He has yoke.
He will put it on US and we will learn
of him how to wear it. Then we will
find rest from all the vexations of pow
erty and learn how to be rich though
poor, possessing all things. Learn to
find joy in practical self-denial, econo-
my, honesty, purity of heart and life,
without which there can be no happi-
ness and with which there is no pow
erty. Francis Murphy.
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a wALL sTREEr VOICE.

To those overtaken by adversity my
advice is, be temperate; keep in good
spirits, and do not, under any circum-
stances, despair. Be sure to go to bed
early, as person overtaken by mis-
fortune requires more rest than at any
other time. Be sure to eat solid food,
and plenty of it, as it is necessary to
keep up strength. Look forward, and
never look backward, and remember
the world was created for all human
beings alike, and that it is capable of
providing you good living, which
will surely be obtainable by working in
the right direction. The biggest for
tunes have grown from small begin
nings, as does the oak grow from a
small acorn. Industry, perseverance
and pluck will cause a man, however
great the misfortune which may have
overtaken him, to rise phoenix-like,
from the ashes, and snatch victory out
OF deteat Henry Clews.
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TOLD IN DETAIL.

Contentment depends so little upon
poverty or riches, that one might as
well ask how to be happy, though
blonde, or pale, or thin, or English, or
French, or any other accident of cir
cumstances. Among our own acquain-
lance 1 have known as many happy
poor people as rich people, and vice
versa.
OF course, one does not mean abject
poverty; if one were starving or free2-
ing and homeless and penniless, I grant
it would be hard to be absolutely hap
Ply; and yet did you ever see a more
perfectly happy, even joyous set of peo-
pie as the lower class of italians,
especially the Neapolitans, who, with a
handful of maccaroni or an onion and
piece of black bread, or a platter of
their potenta, which is our mush, or
even few olives and hard biscuit,
will make feast, and sing and laugh
and show their white teeth at some
Well-known jest. Are they not as hap
by as the scowling millionaire, or the
pallid and world-weary woman who
throws them aims and passes on
wondering how such poverty-stricken
creatures can laugh? But above this
class in the social scale, among the
people you know, are the richest the
manifest? Do we not sometimes, sit
ting alone and dull in our studies or
draWing-rooms. envy the merry laugh
ter and hum of eager voices that come
I'D from the kitchen? Are not the
lovers who mate with as little care for
the future as birds may have, as happy
as Mr.. Twenty Thousand, who declines
to see any charms in any maiden of his
acquaintance until he meets Miss NIL
lions, and then expends nearly all of his
fortune in the effort to compete WI.n
the style and pursuits of her circle
Or is not the little bride who first
earns and then makes her wedding
gown, as happy as Miss Millions, who
diSmally suspects she is being married
for her money, and that Mr. Twenty
Thousand is not altogether what he
seems?
I went over to call upon bride who
had been a seamstress in my family,
and 1 am free to confess that I enVied
her. She looked so cheerfully and Sc
renely happy, and so free from care,
and found it so difficult to refrain from
one perpetual crow over her neW-found
bliss as a wife and housekeeper. With
what delicious simplicity she in
sisted on taking me all over
me every saucepan and every cup
and saucer Happy! ! have never
seen any one happy, if that girl was
not; and yet her husbands income did
not exceed $500 a year, and sickness or
accident would have reduced it to
NOTHING A YEAR.
Just for the sake Of accenting that
interview, I went next day to call upon
another bride; a pale, tired-looking
society girl, just married to a man at
least twenty-five FEARS older than her
self, who had made a colossal fortune
in ell wells, but had not found the
well of English undefiled'' in his trav-
els, and was forever boasting of his
success in the oil direction, and uncon-
sciously betraying his non-success in
the other He was loud, r. noisy,
and very disagreeable, as much so to
his wife as to any one else. and I thor
ougllly pitied the poor girl, who had
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27
BE HAPPY, THOUGH POOR

know I could and would help you. Is
this reward 1 get for my kindness to
you aiways?''
She bundled him up. took him home,
and got him well very soon
Now. some of you who are in trouble
with adversely all around you, treat
God Just as that young man treated
his mother. When you get into a
financial perplexity, you call on your
banker. you cali on your broker, you
call on your creditors, you call on your
lawyer or legal counsel. you call upon
everybody, and when you cannot get
any help then you go to God. And you
say, 20, Lord, I come to Thee; help
me now out of my perplexityr' And
the Lord comes. though it is the
eleventh hour. He says: ''Why did
YOU not send for me before? AS one
whom his mother comforteth, so will
1 comfort YOU
1t is to throw us back upon an all
comforting God that we have this min
istry of tears.
T. De Witt Talmage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27
COSTLY HEADACHE.
A Rich Contract Lost Through
Temporary Affection.

A Rich Contract Lost Through a
Temporary Addiction.
1t cost prominent iron manufac-
turer several thousand dollars to OBJ
tanned relief from headache the
other afternoon, declares the Pittsburg
Dispatch. He had gotten out of bed
in the morning with dull headache,
which he knew from experience.
would increase in violence until even
ing, when he would be forced to go
to bed to get relief. On that day there
was a very important meeting on hand
at which a contract of large propor-
tons was to be awrded. Desiring to
have a clear head for the discussion of
the matter which was to come up in
the afternoon, he inquired of several
friends whom he met at luncheon if
they knew of a sure cure for the had
ache.
One of the number was subject to
severe pains in the head and told the
manufacturer of a patent medicine
which had never failed to give him re-
lief The manufacturer sent to a drug
store and obtained a box of the Won
drful cure. Then going to his private
office he read the directions carefully,
which stated that after the pills were
taken the patient shauld lie down and
close his eyes for thirty minutes The
sufferer followed the directions to the
letter and after taking a dose
stretched himself upon a couch in his
Office. This was about o'clock 1t
was not long before he fell into a deep
sleep. He awoke, feeling refreshed and
entirely free from headache. He was
congratulating himself upon the dis
covery of a medicine which could so
clear his head in SO short a time.
After he had put on his overcoat to
go out to keep his appointment, he
drew his watch, when, to his amaze
ment, he found it was a quarter of
o'clock. He had been asleep over five
hours. He hurried to the place where
the meeting was to have been held and
there he was informed that the con-
tract had bean let to another party.
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THE REASON WHY,

"Tis strange that it always is easy
For man when he is flirting, you know
To swear to a woman he loves her,
By all that's above and below
''But when he is truly in earnest,
Tell me the reason, l pray,
TITS awfully hard to utter
The words that he fam would say?''
She replied, as her dimples deepened.
The reason is simple, forsooth;
Ills because it is awfully hard, sir,
For a man to utter the truth
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evidently begun to pity herself very
much.
Now, so far as love and marriage go,
/ think the chances of happiness are
rather in favor of the poor candidates
than Of the wealthy ones. When poor
people marry, it is from a pure, per-
sonal preference each for the other; and
so long as each can keep this mutual
preference alive, the basis of happiness
remains-for the basis of happiness in
this world is love, and love does not
depend upon riches.
For my own part, have always felt,
that ideal content. so far as l am ca
pable of forming it, lies simply in a
condition of peaceful and assured union
with the one man of all the world
whom I could love with all the facul-
ties of my being. Perhaps no woman
ever meets a man who quite embodies
her ideal, for women's ideals are very
high, but just so far as she can in
vest an ordinary mortal with the high
attributes of her ideal, just so far is
she on the road to perfect happiness.
And what has money to do with this
condition? Nothing whatever; and
the ideal is just as likely to be destroy
ed by the revelation that her husband
I is sordid money-getter, q miser or a
spendthrift, purseproud boaster, or an
arrogant autocrat. as by the discovery
I lAle1I I1C pOOI dl4O Ids " OC4lS t4C4
many Of the pleasures and luxur1es
she has expected.
OF course, love and money are not
the sum total of human life and &C.
cupation, and there are other ways in
which poor people may be happy ex-
cept the way of love.
Books, for. instance; to a person who
lis really fond of reading, the hour or
two in the evening. when the day s
work is over nOSSeSeS a charm thai
brightens and sweetens the remainder
of the twenty-four hours. A poor per-
son may not posses many books, but
he can possess their contents, for in
all civilized lands, especially in ouI
own dear country, Libraries, free, choice
/ and ample, are thrown open to all ap-
picants, galleries Of art, also, and mu.
steal festivals, are open to the public
in every direction, and almost the poor
est of the poor may enjoy their treas
ures equally with the richest.
/ Mrs Frank eSIia
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THE CHAMPION TALKS.

Contentment in times of adversely
would best be attained by keeping up
as cheerful a spirit as possible; by
not envying those who may perhaps
be Of better fortune, and by doing
everything in order to be a little less
poor than you are. Idleness is the
greatest vice on earth; ambition the
greatest virtue. James j Corbett
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REcoNdILED IN ADVERSELY.


What are we to understand by the
word poverty? 1t really has almost as
many meanings as there are classe in
society. A person reduced from $4,000
a year to $4,000 would feel himself
and, indeed, find himself,-very poor;
another, raised by inheritance from no
income whatever to $500 a year would
find himself suddenly rich.
knew a family once, reduced by ill
health of its bread winner, to depend
.ence upon the kindness and bounty of
the benevolent for subsistence from day
to day, yet resigned and even happy be-
cause they believed their condition was
the will Of God, and, unreservedly,
they resigned themselves to it, accept
ing whatever came from it more than
willingly, because it was their firm con-
viction that it was the will of God.
If there's any other way Of being hap
py, and at the same time, very poor,
do not know what it is.
Neal Dow.
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THE WORLDS A STAGE.

Just a hammock; just a girl;
Just a naughty little boy
Younger brother, impish churl,
With a jack-knife for a toy.
Just a tumblel just a screech;
Just a merry, f1endish roar
AS the boy slides out of reach,
And the tragedy is DER.
Washington Star
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Hard Times, So Dreaded, Are
Only Comparatively Bad,
After All.
WORDS OF CHEER.
Some Well Known Men
and Women Express
Their Views.
Do THE BEST YOU CAN
MARSHALL p. WILDER SAYS AD-
VERSITY is GOOD IN THE
LONG RUN.

The Genial Chauncey NJ. Depew Re-
Iapses Into an Old Habit and
Tells a Little Story-Davy Crock
EFT and the Coon--Dr. TaImage
Says, Make God the First Re-
sOrt'-Hcnry CIews, the Great
Banker, neutrality-suspicious. JIM
Has Something to Say.
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ACcoRDING no pIcKENs.

Live within your means, has always
been my aim. Charles Dickens emplla-
sized this motto when he wrote: In
come, f20,10; expenditures, EGO Re
suit, happiness. Income, EGO; expendi-
lures. f2O-I0 Result, misery. Next to
being honest and industrious. I know
of no better way to get comfortably
through the world than to adopt this
plan. Robert Bonner.
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and hope may bring joy in sorrow. and
the bitter waters of Marah be sweet
ened by a faith in the love of the great
Father above, who meted out the days
of the children of men.
Mrs. A. NJ. Palmer.
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THE NIoNTH OF aIAY

am the weaver busy at the loom,
Weaving the worlds rich tapestries of
bloom
A radiant rug for every meadow floor,
A damask curtain for each garden door
youths Companion.
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A NOW YORK. wOnrAN

Adversely is the darkness that serves
to keep in mind the brightness past
and the glory yet to come Memory
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A GREAT PREACHERS WIFE.

know of but one sure answer to
this question; by doing cheerfully the
duty that lies nearest at hand, how
ever slight it may be, and by an ODE
dent trust in a God of love who will
bring out of what is dark and painful
now, final result of supreme good.
A F. H. Abbott.
(Irs. Lyman Abbott)
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The Oldest lighthouse in the world is at
Corunna, Spain. 1t was originally built
during the reign of the Emperor Trajan.
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Mr.. Editor:
You Too, Ma am:

knowledge this sort your
better of Improving nds than gossip,
fashion talk pink teas, parties Yes,
What would you with your rights
you o them9
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Mr.. Citizen:
Mr.. w ard Heeler:

Motion that you be suspended a4l
further participation proceedings of
ignorance.
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Mr.. Lawyer:
Mr.. Clergyman;

you subject? 1t would helpful wouldn't
knowledge in neat compact form, wit
pictures helping the story7
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-20
G. A. r. INSTALLATION.
The Old Soldiers Have Good Time and better
Supper.

The comrades of Hugh Wilson Post
No. 81 met Monday evening for the
purpose Of installing officers. The in
stallation was public, DR.. w. c. Maxey,
special mastering officer, officiating.
The following officers were installed
Francis Moore, Post Commander; w.
c. Farris, j. V. Commander; J. X.
Nichols, Quarter Master; J. g. Smith,
Chaplain; Geo. Little, Adjutant; Ed
mond Melvin, o. Guard.
After installation, tho members of the
post, together with their families and
a few invited friends repaired to the
supper room where an excellent repast
was served. Everybody seemed to en-
Joy it immensely, especially comrade
Carter. When the supper was disposed
of, the company gathered in the hall
and a couple of hours were spent in
speeches and "reminiscences. Alto
gether it was happy and entertaining
reunion, and will be remembered long
as one of the events of Hugh Wilson
Post. The affairs of the Post are in
good condition and it is hoped that
when another year rolls by the same
comrades will all meet again at as
jolly camp fire.