The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-23
/ HOTEL. AND CORRIDOR.

IN one of the several rings in front
of the Knutsford last evening was one
of special mention. Their converse
ton was notable, in as much as they
were wool men, commercial men, the
railroad push, and their subject was
religion.
~ on don't believe that there is a
Cod do you, Dave? I've often heard
you express your views in that way"
We'll, 1 do and l don't. am thor
oughly in earnest when say that it
helps a man to pray. If ne is in
trouble, and can go 20 some quiet srct
and pray it will hep him. Call what
he prays to a God nonsense If you viii,
perhaps that's what it is, but L know
that there is some invisible. power"
I've often reasoned with myself,
especially when l was young" said a
third man, and L think that I'm be-
ginning to reDudiate what was taught
me when | was a boy. Look here-two
farmers live next to each other On
one farm there is a crop which viii
be ruined if rain does not come, while
on the other the coming of rain would
destroy everything. Say these two
men have always been the best OF
Christians. Before one goes 10 sleep
each night he prayS to heaven that
rain Will not come, while the other
asks in his prayer that rain will come.
Now, 1 never could see which one
would have his prayer granted
I've been reading a good deal Of
Ingerson lately, and I'm in sympathy
with YOU. AS he says, it isn't the
pieaSantest feeling in the world to
wake UP to find yourself in bed with
a rogue"
That's true enough, too. If you
gentlemen will excuse me, I'll leave.
and write some letters, but 1 want to
say in parting Thank God I'm an
atheist"
''The gentleman who gave an inter
view to the Tribune this morning who
was so POLITICALLY inclined as to use
some quotations got slightly mixed if
you noticed" said an authority in the
Templeton last evening. 1T was only
a mistake of a few miles, but 1 think
it must have caused many a smile in
the Woman's Literary club, if any
! should have CHANGED to read it.
THE gentleman spoke of "a locker
! ON in Venice but he evidently con-
! fused balmy Italy with little place
! further north called Austria. for wher
l went to school it ran "a locker on In
! Vienna
Politics, the principal subject of con-
versation in the Hobbies. held forth for
a couple of hours among some of the
Knutsford stars on the veranda last
| evening. THE funniest thing TO me-
/ said a prominent Republican lis that
! these fasteners have the nerve .tC
say that silver will only benefit the
mine owners. when for years and years
we have been voting for protection
and never did we howl that the bene-
| fit was only to the manufacturer.
The tariff is dwindling in import.
ance in my opinion. That is the ques-
ton of tariff as a great question be
tween parties. There is very little
change in it when one party or an
other comes into power. and | think
that it can take care of itself.
You people who are crying for sill
yer pain me-" broke in Davis.
THE country was prosperous five
years ago-prosperous enough for MT
anyway. L once heard a little Saying
that when jackass gets too mucl
| feed, he wants to go and jump on thu
ice. It's the same way with the Ameri
can people, they aren't satisfied will
a good thing when they've got it
Oh, they want a change anyway
and they really don't know what the,
want, old man. So why not experiment
at least with this silver business. The.
don't understand the thing east of tn
river and all they need is one expert
ment to convert them forever
A large number of delegates VIII
have just been to the convention of tn
Junior Order of American Mechanics a