The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-12
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church vouches for the following little
story:
In the early days of Durango as a min
/ ing camp the Episcopal bishop of Colo
RADIO went there, riding all the way
I from Denver over the mountains and
plains in stage coaches and on horse
/ back. The Durango clergyman laid great
stress of this Self-saeriiice at the meet
/ ing that followed, and suggested that
/ the congregation show its appreciation
by liberal contribution, the money to
/ be used to help Christianize Colorado.
The man who came up to pass the hat
/ for the collection was an old miner the
/ congregation was made up of miners.
/ The first man to whom the hat was pre-
! scented dropped in a silver quarter. The
I collector looked at it, then very deliber-
I ately reached back TO his hip pocket and
/ pulled out his revolver. This he pointed
right at the mans eye, after cooking it
Take that thing right out Of there"
/ he said. This is no ordinary occasion;
nothing less than d dollar goes"
! The collection was good one
/ Here is one of Pratt's census-takers
/ who was too conscientious by far. 1t
was his first day and his fiKSt house The
( lady OF the house came to the door. He
stated his business in the little speech
! That he had committed to memory. Then
street.
/ You will find the name of the street
d
ner, said the LADY,
| The enumerator bit his lip. He knew
4 the name of the street well enough, but
I he considered it his sworn duty to ask
/ every question on the schedule
And the number of your house." he
! sai0 as he made the first entry on his
sheet.
! The culver in her voice was proof that
/ she was losing her patience. The num-
/ Der OF this house can be seen all the
4 way across the street, she said. Look
/ at the transom right over your head
MT Enumeration began to get warm,
/ but he had q very high conception of his
! duty TO his government. At the same
I time ne spoke in a very low tone when
/ ne asked the good woman as to her sex
/ Sir she said. and there was scoTn
and contempt in her voice now. Sir,
/ do you Thick that [ am a man mas
/ Querading in womanS clOthes?"
/ The censuS-taker stepped back and as
( he did so lost his roofing on the steps
/ and fell very awhwardly at the woman s
rect When he pulled himself together
/ again he found that the next question
/ he was expected to ask was as to the
color of the woman. He bowed as grace
I fully as he could and said he would call
and see her husband in the evening.
The recent flying trip of Coils p. Hunt
( Inston through the state reminded EdW.
/ w Duncan of the first business trans
action he ever had with the great rail
road magnate.
Il was a young fellow in the real es-
/ tate business in Dubuque. Ia" Dncan
said "One day 7 got a note from Hunt
lngton asking me to 60 over into Wis
consln and look at a farm he had there.
| didn't know Huntington then from
| Adam OFF OK, SO | wrote back that
Flt would cost Just s. for a livery rig to
| drive up to his farm, and if he would
send that amount I'd go By the next
/ mail draft for the s. came and [ went
/ out and looked at HuntingtOns farm ana
a darned poor farm it was | reported,
/ and after that did some business for the
old man. A little later / got notice that
/ the farm was sold and the papers were
sent TO me to see that they were all
/ properly recorded / was paralyzed when
1 saw that the selling price was $40. 000
the place was not worth $1,000 Soon
/ after the new owner sent me word that
! he was coming to look at his purchase
/ and asked me to meet him and drive
/ him out ] did SO and all the way out
/ 1 was plying him tor the way ne got
I soaked on that farm Finally he asked
me what / considered the place worth
/ and ! told him / thought 81 coo would be
/ We'll. he said, that is the way
/ these trades go. / had a ranch out in
\ California that cost me $4,000 and
/ turned 1t in TO Huntington on this deal
/ for SEQ, 0OO''
Duncan concluded: "The only regret 7
/ had in the whole business was that /
| did not charge Huntington SIS at least
/ for going out to look at his farm in the
! first place. There is where / was a
/ chumD and I have kicked myself ever
/ SINCE
/ Even school teachers have experiences
i Some time since, one teacher graphically
/ described the Eddystone lighthouse to
/ her class, dwelling particularly upon its
strength. To withstand the terrific
storms that visit that coast. she said.
/ the lighthouse was built of huge stones
dovetailed together. A few DAYS later
/ Lily was called upon to tell what she
/ knew about this wonderful piece of
work
The Eddystone lighthouse" she be-
gan. is built of big stones and dogs
tails"
/ Another pupil in this same school dem
I onstrated again that man is fearfully and
( wonderfully made. in describing thar
/ complicated piece of machinery, the
/ brain, she said:
The brain is composed of white and
] gray matter, arranged in folds or con-
Vulsions. 1t is divided into two heroi-
/ spheres, the eastern and the western -
I /