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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

WHILE TIME may be money, the flight
Of time lacks much Of being the same
thing as making the money fly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

1T WOULD be more appropriate to
speak of the Turkish mis-government.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

TIE WoMANs Bible will take the
atheistic laurels from his brow if Bob
1ngerson is not careful.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

No MATTER what becomes Of Ar
raenia, turkeys fate will be settled to-
Gay.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

ut didn't seem to me the audience was
very enthusiastic"
1T didn't? How little you know Of
Wagnerian enthusiasm Didn't you no.
tice how they talked at the end of each
act?'-Chicago Tribune
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

day will have their Thanksgiving to-
morrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

THE MORE sinews of war a man in
politics has, the stronger his pull.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

On THIS Thanksgiving day the school
boy longs for the ice age.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

'.kodecke is a lazy scamp"
THAT so?''
Yes; Mrs. Kodecke takes in the wash.
Courier
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Fond Mother, as her son starts for the
football field)-"Now, Willy, promise me
not to get hurt today
vb9 of fodzb Pf f5pg s Sc w mGhe
This is a practice game. There will be no
audience there.''-Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

There goes young Van Doodle over
there. Did you hear that he tried to
blow out his brains when the heiress re-
fused him.
mo; did he succeed"
'They don't know brooklyn Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Nothing So Small: Mr.. Gilman dining
at country restaurant-"NoW you car
bring me a demitasse.'
Waiter puzzled)-.'What's that?"
Mr.. Citiman-"Why. a small cup of
coffee-about half the regular size"
Waiter-'Say, we don't have less than
a five-cent cup here."-Puck
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Stout Beggar-"Gimme quarter, will
yer?'
Old Gentleman (nervously)-"That
sounds more hke-er-a demand than
era request
Stout Beggar-'Is dat so? Well, all
you've got ter do is ter see dat de sup
ply is equal to de demand. See?-Harlem
Life
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

A Theory-It was in the Louvre. She
had been gazing at and enthusing over
a gasp of envy, She cried: "oiiii dear!
Why is it that we have so few old mas
ters and so many old maids in America 2"
Il guess it's because the old maids
spend all their time in painting them
selves" said her companion, ungallantly.
-Harpers Drawer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Cholly (who has reached the end of
his rope)-"AW-Miss Oletimer-I hawve
finally DECIDED to-aw-mawwy you, so
to speak,
Miss Oletimer (who, it is needless to
say, has tine spud")-"You mean that
you have decided to propose to me, 1
presume"
Cholly (off hand)-"Aw-its all tn same
thing y know''-Judge.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

well" said the man who was reading
the paper. there's one woman who
doesn't get the last word when she ar
CUES with her husband
is it possible?"
Yes. She married a professional pugil-
ist."-Washington Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Ur. Prices Crears. Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

The happiest people in the world
are the workers who are in love with
their profe ession. The next best thing
is to do we'll whatever you undertake.
Am doing my work well, is it the
best that l can do? is question we
should ask of ourselves.
1t may be sweeping rooms or wash
ing dishes; it may be carrying hod or
a scepter; it may be tending baby or
writing a book-the question is just as
applicable. "Am Idoing better work?'
Not criticising somebody else, not
longing for better chance, not wait
ing for something to turn up; but do.
ing my work as we'll I know how to do
it. If one can answer in the affirma.
tive, he has answered one of the great
est questions that he is ever called
upon to face. To be in ones place and
doing ones work, is supremely salts
flying; to be out of ones proper place,
at least will be agony, because it will
take one away from God. If a man is
meant to be physician he is miser.
able as lawyer. If useful and pros
porous farmer is sometimes spoiled to
make an unhappy and second-rate pro-
fessioDal man, what will be the agony
of living for an eternity out of ones
element, or, in other words, away
from ones God? To be something
may be the hign ambition of every
child of God. and he may be sure that
at tast he will certainly reach the very
summit of his ambition.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05
B1-MetdliSm.

There is not one man out of SO, 900 in
the state of Mississippi, who is not in
favor of bi-metalism, gold and silver,
as money, as well as ''greenbacks,' as
all these are Eeeded and in a sufficient
quantity to do the business of the
country, but when it comes to flooding
the country with anything called mon
ey which requires the stamp of the
government to make it good money,
! the best fnanciers of our state and our
nation are opposed to it. for they are
convinced that silver coined in unlim-
, tied quantities, or at least only limited
i by its production from the mines,
would bring about great financial dis
aster to the business interests of the
country, as would the issuance of
green backs.
Now we ask, who are most likely to
be the best judges of the matter; the
men of the nation who have been en-
gagged in transacting the great finan-
cial interests of the country; men who
have made trade and commerce a study
all their lives, or the professional poll
ticians. generally unsuccessful busi-
ness men and loafers, followed by an
ignorant rabble, ever ready "to throw
their hats high in air." and cry ''give
US more money" The craze will
doubtless have It's run, but it is to be
hoped that the better sense of the peo-
pie will prevail ere any great damage
is brought on the land.-West Point
Leader.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

and legal tender paper currency at par
with each other"
We are unable to see that we are
commanded in either of the foregoing
platforms to favor so cent silver dol
lars at the expense of the taxpayers
of this country, and we shall continue
to advocate bi-metalism, as these plat
forms declare for, until change of
party law by a majority of the organ
lied democracy. With us there is no
higher political command than our
party law. and we shall take pleasure
in bearing allegiance to it, for while.
at least.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

The Greenville Democrat asserts pos
itively that the prices of cotton and
wheat are ruled by the price of silver
AS the latter advances or recedes 80
does the price of these commodities,
and that the rule has had no variation
for hundred years. Our confrere
may have at hand authentic statistics
for its assertion. but certainly there
was an exception to the rule in 1s43
when silver was 103 and cotton was
only cents per pound, corn 1871 cents
per bushel, mules $50. per head and
good horses $50. What was the mat
ter then?-Ex.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

"Let the watchword of the present
campaign be, industrial development
and let the people induct into office
only those who are capable of manag-
ing a great industrial movement; and
yet they must be men whose private
as we'll as public life is clean; one
whose private life is impure or immor-
al should not be permitted to fill any
Office from the highest to the lowest.
Index Democrat,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

There is a class of indolent, thrift
less, ne'er-do-well people in this coun-
try, who actually believe that the
president of the United States is per-
sonally responsible for their poverty,
while there are others who attribute
their misfortunes to the manner in
which our national government is
managed. d.-Starkville Times.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

Though not generally known it is q
fact that the mathematical and geo.
graphical center of the United States
is indicated by monument set up by
the government near Fort Riley, Kan
sas, at the junction of two small
streams which form the Kansas riv-
er.-Ex,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-24

Halls catarrh curs
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-24

entity, and for the first time that morn ing I was anxious to see one. Any thing would be better than driving that yelling demon of woman, and having mob gather round me. The thing went on for perhaps ten minutes long CT, when a policeman arrived and the woman gave me in charge for attempt ed murder and general assortment of miscellaneous offenses.
 That policeman was an intelligent man. He saw at once that the woman was crazy, and he was evidently ready to accept my version of the affair; but when he asked me for my number, and saw that 1 hadn't any, he changed his mind. It certainly was suspicious circumstance, from his point of view, that l didn't have any number; and after he had asked me few questions which i answered in a way not to give him much information, for didn't want to explain things before the crowd-he got into the cab, so as to keep the woman quiet, and told me to drive to the station house.
 "Of course when l saw the officer in charge 1 told him the whole story. 1t did sound rather improbable, as [ couldn't help feeling while 1 told it; and 1 could see that he didn't believe a word 1 said, but was of the opinion that 1 was some desperate sort of Eil- lain who had been caught in the act of trying to llidnap an inoffensive woman. SU they locked me up. What they did with the woman 1 don't know.
 Il sent off messengers for my land- ford, and my banker, and half dozen other people, and the upshot of it all was that the next morning I was taken before a magistrate, who, after examin- ing into my case, gave me to under stand that l wasn't guilty of the great majority of the crimes that had been charged against me, but that as sort of warning to me never to commit any of them he should fine me. paid the fine-l needn't mention just how much it was-and went home ill cab that had real cabman on the box.
 Pye considerably more sympathy for cabmen than 1 used to have; and I don't much wonder that as a class they are men who look on the rest of mankind as their natural enemies, whom they have a perfect right to inn pose upon, now that have been a cab man myself and know a little of the troubles that an honest cabman may have to endure."
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of good work, not many hours go by before it meets recognition.

Of good work, not many hours go by before it meets recognition.
 Men who can plan, men who have the nerves of steel to carry 10 success great newspaper enterprises are as one in millions; and when they arise the fruit of their genius is too often turned to ashes by the refusal of the body to carry the strain; by physical collapse, breakdown. It takes a sane man and a strong, wholesome man to endure the tension of the most exacting of professions, a profession which makes men old, while they love it, and brings the line1 of care while they cannot escape the fascination of the rattle of its machinery. But Mr Lawson Is as vigorous, as even of tenn per, as steady of hand as if he were not one of the great generals of newspaper dom, going into fight twice every day. He has seen long sieges and hard bat ties, but you would never guess it from that smooth forehead and those smil- ing blue gray eyes.
 MT. Lawson was born in Chicago 46 years ago. He was educated at liar yard, but did not finish his course; his health would not allow graduation. It was just before the fire that he returned to Chicago and began work as clerk in the post office. In no long time his father died and left as part of his es- tate silent interest in small Scandi- navian newspaper, published at 123 Fifth avenue, in the old building to which has now been added the new home of the Chicago News MT. Law son, Sr., was Scandinavian, and per- haps that is how Victor Lawson comes by the pluck of the Northmen, their steadfastness, their courage in putting cut to unknown seas.
 To see what could be saved of the property MT. Lawson went into the office of the Scandinavian paper. The plant did general printing business. and at the end of December, 1875, there came to him young Englishman who had a little money-Percy R. Meggy- and two men who had newspaper ex- perience, Melville E. Stone and William E. Dougherty. These three wanted of flee room and printing facilities; they started the Daily News.
 Everybody who has tried it knows that next to the fastest way yet devised to get rid of money is 10 buy steam yacht, and the fastest way is to found a newspaper. It didn't take very long to speEd Meggy's money.
 "There is story" said Mir. Lawson. "that he sold his third interest to Stone for $40."
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Might Have Given Them Away.

A traveller just returning from Mex ico tells an amusing tale of the attempts of peddler to sell precious stones at an exorbitant price, who in the end con- sented to dispose of his wares for a mere song. 1t was at Querstaro, an important city on the line of the Mex ican Central railroad.
 When the train pulled in at the de- pot" said he, it was immediately sur rounded by score or more of peons trying to sell opals to the passengers. One tall, rather fine-loolxing Indian ex- tended towards me his hand containing ten or more glittering stones.
 ".How much?' 1 asked.
 "'Twelve dollars, replied he. Cheap, very cheap; only SIP
 "sNo, mo- l replied, in an emphatic way. .'Muy caro, (yery dear).
 ".Fire dollars then quoted the ven der, turning tEe stones over in his hand, that 1 might see they were all there.
 ".No. one dollar, said 1.
 '"Yes, yes cried the vender, eagerly. One dollar; yes. yes, you can have them for one dollar. Take them. '"-N. Y. Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-24

could stop me. It wasn't very long be- fore I was back again in the Finsbury quarter, but it wasn't a pleasant drives for the woman kept yelling to me out ,f the window. When I got to Fins bury I selected good quiet street, and then got down and told my passen- ger that she must get out. Of course, she said she wouldn't do anything of the kind, and when she saw that 1 meant business she set up a yell that promised to wake the whole street. About 50 windows went up, and more than 50 men and women put their heads out and remarked: 'Fire!' and 'Murder!' at the top of their lungs. It was clear that this sort of thing would never do; so I jumped upon my perch again and drove away, feeling more sympathy for cabmen than 1 had ever felt before.
 Having started to scream the wom- m kept it up. Moreover, she man. aged to pull the iron window open and set to work to jab me in the ribs with her umbrella. The street filled up with people, though where they came from I couldn't imagine, and some of them cried: .Shamel and Stop himi' Boys seemed to spring up out of the ground and followed me, running alongside the cab, and all the time that dreadful wom- an kept screaming murder and thieves and making other unpleasant personal remarks of the same general character.
 Ut would have been useless for me to abandon the cab and run away, for I would have been caught before I could have fairly got off my box. knew that policeman would turn up pres,
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Dougherty also dropped out of the enterprise early, and Stone came to Law son and asked him to buy.
 q didn't want to do it, said this western newspaper giant, flor wan in poor health, and anxious to close up what other business was engaged in. But asked him what would happen II I said mo- I'll put up the shutters reDlied Stone. eWe owe the printers T weeks bills and are running into the second week; that far enough to go.'
 "In this emergency" said Mir. Law son, refectively, looking round at the big, plain, but rich room, T bought, with the understanding that MT Stone was to remain as editor, and tough struggle we had of it for time.
 "The News was the first penny paper to make a success in the west, and there were tremendous prejudices to be overcome. People were ashamed to be seen reading a one-cent daily in the horse cars. 1t looked cheap; noth- ing short of nickel journalism was re- spectable. And there were no pennies. Our little five-column sheet couldn't get itself bought, because there was no way of making change. We had to pro vide cents as we'll as the one-eent paper. More than once sent to the mint at Philadelphia for 100000 pennies. We paid our help with them. We hatched all sorts of schemes to get them in circulation. We had to naturalize cop pers before the News stood any show of living in Chicago as a citizen.
 "But we got the cents and Chicago got the News. It wasn't very long before it was plain enough that the paper was going to succeed. Mr. Stone bought in again on the basis of what I had actual ly put into the paper, but in 1888, he sold out finally. His share cost me then $350 ,0o0." This was said as quietly as if one were to remark that it is one block trom State street to Wabash avenue; but it meant success, spelled all the way through with capitals. From the beginning of his connection with the News, Mir Lawson was the business manager, and since Mir. Stone went out he has been sole owner, sole director, chief in every department. The whole west has felt the influence of his in- domitable push and energy, and yet so quietly, so simply is his directive spirit exercised that there is q legend, not better youehed for than legends are
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-24

apt to be, that once janitor put him out of the News building as stranger, the face of the chief being wholly unfamiliar to him.
 The Record is the Morning News, started five years after the afternoon paper, but now going under a more in- dependent name. Its success has been almost as phenomenal. In 1887 the aver age daily circulation of the morning and afternoon editions was 32,000. In 1890 it had jumped to 213,87o. At present, as already set down, the Morn ing Record and Daily News circulate S50,0o0 copies. This is like Chicago, where gigantic enterprises spring up full grown in an hour; it is also like that keen-eyed, shrewd, business giant, Victor F. Lawson.
 MT. Lawson believes in newspapers and he believes in Chicago. q used to have other interests" he said. "I was devoted to music, but the Record and the News have absorbed me. As to the city, ii live out my days l shall see it the grandest on the continent. Of course, we have outgrown our jackets and brooches now. We have built miles upon miles of streets. too fast to keep them cleaned and paved. But that is in cldental to our unprecedented growth. Everything is coming our way.
 Has Chicago gotten over the fair 9"
 There never was anything to get over. A good many lines of business were better the year before the fair than while it was in operation. The only drop since the exposition not di- rectly attributable to hard times has been in the rents of medium-price6 tenements. Out around the fair groundsthe enormous number of board- ing houses that were run up have been turned into apartment houses, and they have brought down rents for houses of the same grade all over the city. But that IS not an unmixed evil. except to landlords. No, the east is mistaken When it thinks we have had a gap to bridge"
 MT. Lawson has no childaen and part y perhaps because of that, Mrs. Lawson IS almost as much devoted to the News as IS her husband. There are casts from Greek shields, busts and bits of statnary-her gifts-that make the art room of the establishmentvery different rom what the art room of a newspaper office is apt to be. When a good cut ap- pears In the paper Mrs. Lawson sends In request for the pen and ink draw. ing and she has unique portfolio col iectlons of these sketches of everyday happenings. ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
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"I have always wanted to see Lon don fog" remarked the colonel, "and at last I've seen one. saw all the fog l ever want to see last night
 Ut was thick" l observed, land it seems to have left you feeling rather tired"
 q am tired" said the colonel. Tt wasn't the fog that tired me so much as the after effects. Do you know that ] spent this morning at the police sta tion, and paid fine, all on account of that beastly fog? I'll tell you about it if you've nothing better to do than to listen.
 Hast night 1 went to the Lyceum theater, and when came out 1 found that the fog was so thick that couldn't even see lamp post until 1 had walked into it. l enjoyed it at first, for it was a new experience, and started to walk home, thinking that 1 could find my way without difficulty. A man who has found his way down from the tenth story of Chicago hotel when the building was burning and the corri- dors were black with smoke, ought, l thought, to be able to get the better of any British monarchical fog that was ever yet made. But l found be- fore long that 1 had made mistake. l lost my way, and after wandering for an hour or so 1 was mighty glad to walk into cabman who was leading his horse, and, as l supposed, knew the London streets as well in fog as in clear weather. So l just climbed into the cab and told the man where to take me; and then pulled up the win dows to keep the choke-damp out, and started cigar, and felt pretty comfort able. The cabman didn't dare to get on the box and drive, though there didn't seem to be any traffic in the street. However 1 didn't concern my self with the cabman, for there is no