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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

The "luck' that believe IN
ls that which comes with worn,
and no one ever auda Vt
Who's content TO wish ana shirk.
Tho men the world calls "lucky"
VIA tell you every one.
That success comes not ~ Wishing
hut by hard wofi urHyoIy uonc.
--Ebsu h. EeAford
"Old chap, Two been duck shooting,
| don't you know
"Dlcs ,hootngg Why. you don't
| know a tame duck from a wild one.h
"Oh, yes, { do--tbo wild onos got
away."-Chcugo Record.
Gilman suppose hero IN the coun.
| Try you 90 tn bed with Tho suns
suburb o., and iiso with IL TOO, and
! my WHO does tho same with the Other;
they're twins, you know.
"Woll, what IL your lucS7" asked the
High Chief Grand Master Workman.
II want To kick against tho N.ray
joke said tho leap year Joke. "Ihu
idea OF jumping ia aud nuatug mo Gus oil
my place, whom wouldn'. have another
chance to work for eight years. '-Clevo-
land Leader.
"Whnl were YOU on oarlh?" qucrlcd
81. Peter, MS tho whoclmau knocked at
tho gate.
~ wa. bicycle rldor."
"nld YOU ride fas,2" asked tho saint.
"tast9n repeated tho oyclist. ~ should
say did. No one could pass mo on tho
road"
"Nou were always riding like mad
aud colliding with other cyclists aud
running down podCa.flaus. weren't you9'
"lcs, wa, a scorchur," tho cycllst
admitted.
"a scorchor, ehfr 81. Peter repeated,
"Wcll, there's no scorching here. You
belong on lilo floor below. "-rmth.
"Why arc you following that Young
man nj tho Flow with horsowhipg'
Farmer ileysou -"sltaurrr, theps my
son. lilo ken bum irum college ~ 18th h,
hair parted 10 tn middle an a-smukln' a
Cigorrei. They sont mo "a whoopin' big
bill an sod he'd bin a.sowini OF his wild
oats. Pm maxim hun SOW sum tame
ones now, an, bgum, 81 he starts q run
III whop him.
Loft out Ia tho Cold. JACQUES, how Ia
y you never bring any good marks home
from Hohool7"
"Oh, papa, there arc such n lot OF Ms
that when nay turn comes there arc mono
lett La Famille.
"This IA 80 sudden" said Eve. 81 do
not want you 10 think mo mCrcenRry;
but what are your financial prospects,"
Adam drew himself up littlo and said,
with the quiOtness Of truo gfea' ness: "t
own tho tarth.n Tho rest Ii history
Cincinnati Enquirer
out of az, Hands -not Faihor-Ydu
ask my daughters hand In marriage.
Have you hzed tho date " tho mar
riagC3
Suitoi-G will leave that to your daugh.
ter, sir.
Her Faihcr-Do you wish a church or
private wedding?
suitor-llor mother can determine on
that, sir.
Her Fathor-Aud what isyour incomeg
Suilor- will leave that entirely to you,
slr.-puck.
Poetry Fod 80 She lsonlimentallyl-
What poetry thoro IL In lire!
lie lHadlyl-Hos, gfuat deal Of my
pretty poetry has gone thoro.-Ilarpor's
Bazaar.
go, sir!" exclaimed Mr. Mookton. 81
will not stand II any more. / have 70.
belled nj last"
whats the matter with you?" asked
mis- friend.
"My wife has gone too far. I'll stand
her wearing boomers and leaving mo a
h.HNaN - H3HNH al d.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

Cleanse your blood with Godbs Pitts
Compound SATsapaTilla. Has NO
equal.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

Tho vrvsis m .ais nt The principal U1'el', Nevs
Stands and on 90 pas'eugef ralus leaving me CIV
anQI 3, M daily.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

euiscritets changing thsir place N re'iiene'
ih1lid Avays give iormer ~ well ~ pfeaen' az
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

Al Communications should be- adlrorsod @,
Dnansr REus ruslIfnms 90
cslsphons IA
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

For he works ont what he wishes.
Ana that's whctu "iuck" cones In
The "luek' that believe In
ls that which ComCs with wott.
And uu one ever auds it
Who's content to- wish and shirk
1he men the world calls "iucky"
VIA tell you every one.
That success r1muA not ~ wishing,
Nut by hard wofi hrHYuiv zone.
-hbeu b., EeNford
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

"Woll, what is your iuck7" asked the
High Chief Grand Master Workman.
~ want To kick against tho N.ray
joke said tho leap year Joke. "Thu
idea Of jumping ia and uua.iug mo Out OF
my place, whom I wouldn'. have another
chance to work for eight years. '-Clevo-
land Leader.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

"So, sir!" exclaimed Mr. Mookton. 81
Will not stand II any more. have ro-
bellcd NJ LAST
Whats the matter with your" asked
mis- friend.
"My wife has gone too far. I'll stand
her wearing boomers and leaving mo q
homo 10 rock tho cradle. but when sho
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

Gilman I suppose hero IN the couu.
Try you 90 in bed with tho suu9
suburb o., and iiso with IL TOO, and
my vito does the same with the oihofi
they're twins, YOU know.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

Poetry Fod 80 She lsonlimenlally)-
What poetry there Ia In lire!
He lsadlyl-fes "a gfuat deal Of my
pretty poetry has gone ghoro.-Ilarpor'l
Bazaar.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09

"Old chap, Two been duck shooting,
don't you know"
"Dlck shoo,ingg Why. you don't
know tame duck from wild one.n
"Dh, yes, { do--tho wild onos got
Chicago Record.
The herald., 1896-12-22
ALL SORTS.

1t costs Great Britain over $4,000, 900
a year for military uniforms.
Mr. Mckinley will be 54 years of age
at the time of his Inauguration.
The granddaughter of the late Baron
Hirsch is heir to 500, ,000, 900, which yields
about $4,000 day of income.
The first insurance company to begin
business in this country opened its doors
in Philadelphia in the year 1894.
The first cargo of Hawaiian sugar
ever landed in Boston arrived there the
other day. The cargo consisted of 4S. .315
sacks.
Preaching to cyclist church parade
one Sunday, a Church of England pas
tor chose the text: Bodily exercise
profiteth little"
The mayor of Waltham, Mass, has
vetoed the aldermanic appropriation of
$500 to be expended in caring for the
grave of Gen. N. p. Banks.
The California board of health finds
that in San Jose the average duration
of life is about 43 years. which is longer
than that of any other city in the United
States.
1t is not proper to trim the hair that
grows in the ear of a horse. Nature in
tended it to protect the orifice from dust,
insects, etc., and sudden atmospheric
changes.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland having
attained her sixteenth year, has just
made her confession of faith as a MEM
ber of the Dutch Reformed church and
has been confirmed.
A Japanese journal says that the use
OF English Is gaining over all the Eu-
The herald., 1896-12-22

pany. a corporation of the state of Tex
as; the Texas and New Orleans Rail-
road company of 1874 Of Texas the
Louisiana Western Railroad company
Of the state of Louisiana, Morgan's
Louisiana and Texas Railroad and
Steamship company of the state of
Louisiana, the Mexican International
Railroad company, a corporation organ
ized and existing under and by virtue of
the laws of the state of Connecticut; the
Southern Pacific Railroad company, the
San Jose and Almaden Railroad COM
pany, the Pajara and Santa Cruz Rail-
road company the Monterey Railroad
company, the Monterey Extension Rail-
road company, the Southern Pacific
Branch Railroad company, the San
Pablo and Tulare Railroad company,
the San Pablo and Tulare Extension
Railroad company, the San Ramon Val
ley Railroad company, the Stockton and
Copperopolis Railroad company, the
Stockton and Tulare Railroad company,
the San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite
Railroad company, the Los Angeles and
San Diego Railroad company, the Los
Angeles and Independence Railroad
company, the Long Beach, Whittier
and Los Angeles County Railroad COM
pany, the Long Beach Railroad COM
pany, the Southern Pacific Railroad
Extension company, the Ramona and
San Bernardino Railroad company, the
California and Oregon Railroad COM
rany, the Oregon Central Railroad
company, the Pacific Mail Steamship
company, the Pacific Improvement
company.
To legalize this combination of rail-
roads. covering half the continent, will
force the people occupying that part Of
the United States to pay all the exactions
which may be required of them by the
Southern Pacific company. The power
to monopolize the commerce and charge
unlimited rates for transportation is
equivalent to the power of unlimited
taxation. All that the people in this
part of the country produce, in any man
ner whatsoever, will yearly pass into
the treasury Of the railroad combina-
ton. This is the same thing as saying
that the Southern Pacific company is
the owner of all the land and industries
covered by its system; for that company
could not realize more from the usufruct
if it carried on all the industries of this
part Of the country by slave labor
Those who comprehend the enormous
influence and power of the large cor
porations in controlling legislation will
understand upon what small hope we
can pin our faith in the perpetuity of re-
publican institutions IL such bills as the
funding bill are permitted to become
laws.
The herald., 1896-12-22

ropean languages in Japan; that Ger
man comes next in popularity, and that
French is falling behind.
Scar-Faced Charley is dead This is
we believe. the first time he has died
but celebrities have grown SO eccentric
in this particular of late that we canno,
be sure.-Chicago News.
1t is announced that the Tennessee
centennial exposition, which will be
opened at Nashville on May 1, 1897. will
cost about 81 100000 All the money nee
essary has been subscribed.
The Russian government has decided
upon the establishment of an imperial
mint in Moscow. Until now the major
part of the Russian coinage has been
executed abroad, mostly In France and
in England.
Elijah Rawson, a compositor of Mil
waukee. has worked steadily at the case
for siXty-eight years. He is, 1t is thought,
the oldest compositor in the country. nor
is his position one of honorary member
ship in the trade.
The herald., 1896-12-22
NO PROFIT IN COTTON.

The government estimates the cotton
crop this year at 7.15O, 900 bales. Up to
date 2,607 600 bales have been marketed
The price this year Is 6.6 cents. / cent
lower than the price last year. That
corresponds very closely with the fall OF
property generally, which was I'm per
cent. The World says that when cotton
reaches cents pound 1t cannot be
raised with any profit except on the best
lands, but thinks the country is doing
much better with the cotton crop this
year both in price and production than
was anticipated. 1t is the same thing
raising cotton or raising anything else
in the east; 1t is merely working for
bread and poor clothes. The men of the
south understood the business last sum-
mer. but the great north and east refus-
ed to read any of the signs of the times
Salt Lake Tribune
The herald., 1896-12-22
HONOR DE LEssEPE NAME.

The talk Is resumed Of rechristening
the Suez canal with the name Of its
great builder. Already Egypt has been
scribbled over by ambitious rulers. Said
Pasha has remembered himself in Port
Said; Ismail Pasha has written himself
down at Ismala, and Tewf1k Pasha
snatched at fame in Port Tewf1k The
glory of De Lesseps should put in eclipse
the ten-penny-dip suns of these proud
bashaws of the Nile. After a quarter Of
a century of delayed justice the memory
of the great Frenchman should be fit
tingly honored. His life went out amid
clouds and gathering darkness. but a
grateful posterity w!ll forget his Pana-
ma folly and pay tribute to his high
genius.-Minneapoli Times.
The herald., 1896-12-22
AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT

The preliminary report of the income
and expenditure of the railways of the
United States for the fiscal year ended
June 30 furnishes sufficient data to give
very good idea of the magnitude of the
country's system of rail transportation
facilities, and of the enormous sum of
money the people pay annually for their
use. The report covers the operation of
652 roads with an operated mileage of
172,369 miles, which is about 90 per cent
of the total miles Of railway in the United
States
The people paid to these 652 roads dur
ing the fiscal year named nearly s324,-
100000 in the way of passenger fares,
and over s772, 100000 for carrying their
freight, making a total of 81, ,123, 900, O0O
paid for railway service. A still fur
ther analysis of the report shows that
the average per mile for the privilege of
riding was $1s77 during the year covered
by the report, which was $113 more than
lHc PCOpic spent III lIldt way uuTlIlS Lne
previous year; and they also paid $349
more per mile for freight transportation
than in the year before.
OF the total earnings, 81 .123, 900, 900, the
roads disbursed about $755. 900, 900 in op-
Grafton, and nearly all of 1t was dis
bursed along the lines for wages and
supplies. The difference between total
receipts and operating expenses was
nearly s3SS, ,675, ,O47, out of which had to
be paid interest, rentals and losses by
damage to persons and property, leaving
not a very great deal for dividends But
the interesting thing the report reveals
is the large sum of money our people pay
every year for railroad tickets. We
certainly are an ION the go" kind of
folk and not only so, but s772, 900, 900
paid for freight car service shows that
we do an enormous intercommunity and
interstate commercial business every
year. Anyway, 81, ,123 OOO.O0 is a good
deal to pay for the privilege of riding
about and shipping goods and wares in
one year.
The herald., 1896-12-22

the working man would buy would be
manufactured in this country, and the
sum of the specific duties would go into
the manufactured pockets as additional
profits. The rights and liberties and
well-being of the industrial class would
be assailed by the adoption of specific
duties, but Hanna, Mckinley and COM
pany say duties shall be specific, which
means that the poor shall be made poor
er and the rich richer
The herald., 1896-12-22

A dayntie, delicate affaire,
OF sylke and beads and iayce;
A cunnynge openynge is there
To putte ye chynke in playce.
In her wee hande, soc lily whyte.
She carryes. bye ye tassefpynke,
Ye tynie purse. 1t is soc lyghte
1t cannot holde much lynne, thynke-
Dare we peepe in? She does not see
A scrap of sylke: bit of fayoe;
A sweetie pynke-nay, there are threes
A pennie and needel case;
A dollar-bille rolled uppe soc tyghte:
A piece of chewynge gumme;
A ribband verie fyne and whyte:
A rynge; a rote-butte she comme,-
A dayntie, delicate affaire
OF sylke and beades and layoe,
In her wee hande. soc liry-whyte,
She carryes it bye tassel pynke.
Marion Carr in Puck.
The herald., 1896-12-22
INSPIRATIONAL READINGS.

Aspiring statesmen aresseated at the
feet of rose-colored MahAtmas all over
the country, listening to their siren notes
as follows: II seem to see cabinet with
eight spacious portfolios. There is a
fine looking man with Napoleonic cast
of countenance approaching. He has in
his hand a name. He scrutinizes 1t
carefully and, then sticks 1t inside one
of his portfolios. More cannot divulge
but If you will address me, at my hotel
after March will then tell you wheth-
er it is your name" And the aforesaid
aspiring statNmen leave the presence
with their hearts expanding with hope
Portland, Ore, Tribune.
The herald., 1896-12-22
THE FUNDING BILL


1t is incomprehensible to the people of
the United States east Of the Mississippi
why there is such unanimity among the
people of the Pacific slope in opposition
10 the funding bill Oh. R.. s1ss). 1t has
been sought to create IN the east an er-
roneous impression. that the bulk OF the
people of the west do not oppose this bill,
but the fact is indisputable that ninety
nine out Of every ,one hundred people
on the Pacific Slope arenot'only opposed
10 the funding bill, but to all the meth
DDS of the Southern Pacific company.
One good and sufficient reason for
their opposition. and which alone is suf-
ficient to Influences the vote Of any rea-
sonable man in congress. consists In
the provision of section 10 of this BILL
which, although adroitly worded, has no
other effect than to forever legalize and
validate the, wrongful and unlawful
combination OF many railroads. held
under ninety-nine year leases by the
Southern Pacific company, and the legal
izing of which combination will perpet-
uate monopoly and force the people Of
half the continent under the yoke Of
the railroad trust aES
II the people Of the east were con-
fronted with proposition in the form of
q bill in congress to consolidate, under
q single combination and management,
all the railroads entering New York
city, Chicago, New Orleans, Boston
and Philadelphia they would partly un-
derstand the significance, and its bear
ing upon the, future destinies of the re-
public, of the railroad trust in the west
which it is now proposed to legalize.
OF the many rans-continental lines of
railroads. conetructed by authority of
congress 10 the Pacific coast at cost of
hundreds Of millions of dollars they
have now all fallen into the grasp of the
Southern Pacific combination.
The Southern Pacific company holds
al thelines of road leading out from the
bay of San Francisco to the north. to the
east and TO the south and all the lines
leading out from Los Angeles. 1t con-
trolls the trans-continental commerce
BY land through the United States; it
has seized control of the Panama rail-
road to cut off water carriage; it con-
tYols lines of steamships to oriental
points around the Horn, and by the
Panama railroad, and has lately Sc
cured control of the Mexican railroad,
running from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Pacific, and which the people of Califor-
MIA had hoped would afford them com
peting outlet to the east. Exercising
more power than congress itself dares
assert, it has ruthlessly seized half a
dozen competing lines of railroads built
with government aid and designed to
operate as competing railroads.
The following are some of the lines
of railroad and steamship lines leased
to the Southern Pacific company for
ninety-nine years, as shown by the pub
lie records, which will be legalized by
the provisions of the funding bill:
The Union Pacific railroad company.
the Southern Pacific railroad company
Of the state of California. the Southern
Pacific Railroad company of Arizona,
the Southern Pacific Railroad company
Of New Mexico. the Galveston, Harris
bgEgsand San Antonio=Railway COM
The herald., 1896-12-22
THE FIGHT is ON

Mr.. E. o. Corthell, an engineer of great
ability, did his level best to convince the
deep sea harbor commission yester-
day that long before the beginning
the Almighty decided to build a site for
a deep sea harbor, and knowing that
a world with seas would be necessary
to a harbor site ,he created Santa Monica
and the water and land approaches
thereto and then created this world and
all systems of worlds and adjusted them
as individual creations and as one grand
universal whole in sympathetic relation
to the harbor site at Santa Monica.
And SO marked and conspicuous is the
dependence of the universe for exist
ence upon the harbor site at Santa
Monica that no descendant of Adam,
though he should be way
farer and an idiot to boot,
could help recognizing that mighty
fact When one labors so hard
as Mr. Corthell did to prove that the
moon is made of green cheese, or the
equivalent of that, all fair-minded men
are constrained to admit that, as a
worthy of his hire.
Mr.. Corthell labored hard upon techni-
cal and scientific problems before the
commission, but it was far more ridic-
ulous than carrying Goals to Newcastle
to undertake to run a campaign of ed
ucation" with such men as comprise
the board of commissioners for pupils.
But of course Coils will see the learned
dissertation in the newspapers, and
when he does he will forthwith ok"
the voucher. II am paid to turn this
crank" said the organ grinder. "but
for more money will reverse the ma
chinery of the instrument and turn the
crank the other way"
OF course, what Mr. Corthell or Mr..
Hood, or any other hired men Of the
Southern Pacific Railway company may
testify before the commission will
carry no weight with the board, nor is
anything of the kind expected. 1t is
very clear that the Southern Pacific is
trying to create a public sentiment
in favor Of Santa Monica, hoping to in
fuence the board in that way, but that
is an insult to the commission. AS every
body hereabouts knows, the Southern
Pacific ard a certain ring of politicians
have large property interests at Santa
Monica, and if the harbor is located
there, values would enhance and large
profits would accrue. Hence it is to give
value to speculative enterprises rather
than the best interests of Southern Cali
fornia, that is moving certain men to
employ every means possible to have
Santa Monica selected
1t is a disgrace to the whole state of
California to have speculative schemes,
standing in the way Of the states legiti-
mate commercial expansion. Certainly
money will hire experts to twist false
hood into seeming fact, and men can
be hired who are cunning with figures,
and who can make it appear that they
are talking learnedly, but the people
now know that back of it all is the
cash box of the Southern Pacific rafG-
way monopoly
The herald., 1896-12-22

The Consolidated Electric Is careless
about its street repairs. One place on
Spring near Seventh was broken up six
weeks ago by the railroad and the re-
pairs are not yet made. This suggests
the Main street railroad paving methods
Both should be reformed. No street
pavement should be broken up without
the strictest checks and the repairing
should be done at once and fully up to
the specifications of the pavement bro
ken