The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
WITH THE COFFEE.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

none of them in his own paper. Some
days ago Dave had a row with the
printer who sets his bright sayings in
type. In the melee which occurred the
printer put mouse" over the edi-
torial eye. For this the unhappy COM
position was arrested. When he was
safe behind the bars Felt went over
for the typos appearance and the
weekly went to press as usual.
The Payson Header announces in its
last weeks issue that just one year
has elapsed since it set sail on the
''serging'' sea of journalism, but it
proposes to have another try.
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The snow having melted and the
work of hauling wood from the can
yon having been completed, the
country correspondent is again in
evidence. Perusals of several of the
papers in which he flourishes develop
the condition that he is alert and alive
as ever. The following paragraphs
are taken from the report of Bully
Boy the able representative of the
Considerable diphtheria is in our
midst
Miss Evelyn Summerhays of Salt
Lake City is visitor in our midst"
There is great deal of sickness in
our midst
1T is rumored that grand wedding
will soon take place in our midst. The
contracting parties are trying to keep
it secret but ye scribe is on TO them.
All there, JOSH"
Uncle Dan Josselin departed from
our midst on Tuesday. He was so
years old and died of paralysis. Peace
to his ashes. He was an early settler
here and was known as a hard work
ing patient man. He leaves wife and
Is children TO mourn his loss
The new grist mill is nearly COM
pleted and will be in running order in
a few days 1t will be quite novelty
to have Hour produced right in our
midst. Hitherto we have shipped it
in from the outside"
Henry Wallace's old mare came
near waving a last farewell last week
She got into the granary and ate too
much bran. Better look out Henry
"a gang of boys disturbed the serv-
ices at meeting last Sunday evening
by hooting and yelling outside. If this
occurs again their names will be pub
lished. 1t is scandalous to have such
doings in our midst. Have a care
boys
I'VE wonder why Will johnson will
Persist in going over to Goosetown on
fine girls right here in our midst?
What's the matter with Ella, Will a?
Has she given you the shake?"
Now, to the average reader of the
morning daily with all its news from
the outside world. such items as these
may seem trivial and foolish, but really
they are the best the young man can
do. Be it remembered that it is onl-r
I,t1<
ent gets g chance at a big item and
when he does, some city reporter
swoops down on him and gobbles it be-
fore he has made up his mind just ex-
actly what has happened. And when
he comes to think it all over he con-
cludeS the best way will be to wait and |
see what the paper has to say the next |
day and then write it up, and he does /
so.
Pennsylvania Teacher-You will be /
perfectly safe in coming to this city to /
attend the convention of the National /
association. By selecting /
a hotel located on a car line you can
get to and from the hall where the j
will be held without being
annoyed. 1t is understood that should
vice and crime become too rampant
that the Moral Reformers will ask the
governor to call out the militia to pro-
-ect the city's guests. No, the meeting
Will not be held on Commercial street.
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]. w. B.-No, Mr.. Mccall did not at
empt to discover the man who wrote
him the letter at campaign time. invit-
ng him to come out here and have a
'romp'' on the silver question.
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He had always had a graphic and
to-. 80 ell
re took an office in one of the tall and
lnwieldy buildings where barristers
most do congregate. this grew into an
intense and transcendental hatred of
he double-barrellel barricade to exit
md entrance.
The doors of the office building opened
My one way. They swung out toward
he boulevard, and when a pedestrian
anne rushing hurriedly inward the
ound of the impact against those doors
as followed by an intense silence, eX-
ept for the crushing of a brilliantly
inted shirt front or the election into
he voiceless air of a few brief, con-
entrated syllables.
There WIS another tall building
cross the street from the one to which
lie had taken his law books, and this
vas likewise equipped with a pair of
ighly veneered and vanished doors
Vnlcn IOlOeQ. BenlnQ IneSe doors there
ould be heard the occasional clink of ]
lasses and an oleaginous mixologist
canned affably over the gaily furnished
ounter over which he passed the
loisteners. Those doors are for the
ccommodation of the man who enters
nd the man who makes his debut from
IS scintillant Examinations to the out
ide has to take his chances. He of the {
flee building was really getting quite
amiliar with those folding doors which,
7hen opened, led to the repository of
is law books, and in his entrances he
eldom now endangered his classic
or the arrangement of his ]
ew silk tile.
But he was no better than the other !
DOR barristers, his neighbors, and he
OCCASIONALLY took upon himself a large, J
urgling thirst which he was wont to
atiate behind those folding doors
here the glasses clinked- He was one !
ay Kidding the furnished counter with
skill of a tall and delect- ,
bic absinthe, when he saw an affiuent
lent passing along the pavement be-
de the multi-colored glory of the !
)lding doors.
Some of his friends still wonder, when
e INDUCES in terrific panegyrics on
1lding doors. But left optic, neatly
andaged, and decorated with trans {
glorious coloring, may have
1me relationship TO the fierce and We {
ement references to folding doors
hich occasionally echo and re-echo in [
lie little room where the law books
re.
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Her Upward Flight.