The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-18
SENATOR DROVE
LIKE HIRED MAN
Story Told at the Expense of a
Western Statesman.
WAR BEING WAGED ON FLIES
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM THE
NATIONAL. CAPITAL.
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III ASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. H.-Quite
w the most delightful story that has
trickled through the sieve of con-
gressionaI gossip circles is about one pa
triarchai western senator. Banker. legis-
lstor and philanthropist. he is accused
of a delicious escapade. Once upon a
time. in the senator's home city, a very
delightful Assembly was given. 10
which his two daughters were invited by
some of the employees Of his bank With
d humorous remembra of his own
younger days, of parties and carriage hire
and limited means, he gave his permits
sion on the condition that his own car
riage should be used But the night of
the assembly" the coachman appeared
with too many sails set for the proper
mana cement of the family turnout The
TO a constituency trifle warmer than his
present state. The coachman joined the
ranks of the unemployed Disappoint-
ment and dismay ragged in the hearts of
the crcStfallen damsels, but papa donned
the empty livery and assumed the rib
bons- The night was bitterly cold and
formed in his hJary beard, he played the
role to the scratch. When his friends
attempt to tease him a smile creeps out
from his white whiskers: Il learned an
awful lot that night, he says. and his
friends drop back TO a subject beyond
the ken OF even family coachman.
Commander McCrea.
Commander Henry McCrea of the Ma
Chias. who has represented the United
States so ably in South and Central
America, undoubtedly gets his common
sense. brisk methods OF diplomacy from
his former western experiences Nc
Crea was a Colorado mining prospector
once and Is still an owner of some Colo
RADIO mining interests. Comma ndeT Nc
Crea is a versatile sort of man. He has
made A most excellent record as an able
representative of the United States in
the troubled seas of the south, and with
promptDess which is refreshing. has pro-
teCtcd the lives and property of American
citizens. no matter who was stirring up
revolution.
In Washington McCrea was in charge
of the big guumaking factory and was
noted for his mechanical skill On shore
he Is an ardent sportsman and athlete.
Several years ago he invented what is
called croquet-golf- game which is
played with CToquet halls and modifiCs-
tion OF golf sticks. so that lovers of golf
who have restricted grounds can play
the game. The big sporting goods firm of
Spalding & Co. patented the game. and
it is played extensively in the east
Good natured brawny Mark Smith, del
egate from Arizona, has been in a guam
dairy Whenever Mark runs for congress
IN Arizona he is elected. This year his
party wanted him to be a candidate, but
with the certainty that. if the territory
should go Democratic. its chances for ad-
mission as a state would doubtless go
glimmering next winter, Mark didn't
know what to do. Success for his party
meaning defeat for his Arizona, he finally
decided to cut out his own personality
and will not be a candidate. In place of
a campaign, Mr.. Smith will make a tour
of Europe. and he is now in Washington
arranging to depart aud saying ''good-by'
to his hundreds of friends at the cap
itaL
War on the House Fly.
Methinks 1 do behold. in a future age,
a goggle-eyed descendant gazing in wrapt
contemplation upon thing of crumpled,
gauzy wings and threadlike legs, depos-
TIED in the national museum, d specimen
of an extinct insect. against which was
waged the fiercest of q great republic $
wars Meanwhile, l watch with interest
the determination of his pesky flyship.
The division of entomology of the de-
partment of agriculture has begun the
campaign. The American fly will. in all
prOba bility, put up a very pretty fight
the government has fired the first broad
side. and thousands of pamphlets contain
ing information regarding methods for the
NY : eNtef minatOn have been distributed
under the supervision of the division CHIEF
DR. .. l.. Howard. II will dispel the illu-
sion that the common house fly bites,
but 1t will call attention to the fact that
this insect. the musca domestica, is a
dangerous creature. DIR. Howard. com
mandeT-in-chief of the army of exter-
minators has vehementiv denounced this
destroyer of human peace
1T has been known for some time that
flies may carry bacili and bacteria on
their feet. That WAS experimentaty
proved by allowing flies to walk over cul-
ture. For. later. when they walked over
sterilized media. the bacteria developed.
The spread Of typhoid fever through the
army during the late war is attributed 10
tha slv-"
And how is the war to be carried out ?
In the usual method. of course. The di-
vision of entomology viii send out litera-
Of d s-fa hi.
published. to help boards and committees
and individuals all over the United States
directing them as TO the means and ma
terisls to be used in killing off flies and
spread and transmission of disease germs
by these insects.
We are rather well acquainted with
this method. There is in every ranch
house OF the west little stack of publ
cations labeled Division of Entomology
I. 5. Department of Agriculture. Bulletin
No. -. all pertaining to the destruction
OF green tobacco-spitting' creature,
but still
Tho grasshopper sits on the railroad
track,
Picking his teeth with a carpet tack
Government Print Shop.
With each succeeding year the rules
governing the appointment OF government
employees grow more stringent, and in
prOportiOnate ratio does the rush for
these appointments Increase The hey
To be distant relative of a general,
statesman. politician, etc, is no longer an
entree to the pay roll OF the departments.
Even in what has been considered the
camping ground of the man with the
'tlue. the government printing office,
rules and regulations have cropped M
Ike mushrooms This is, in a way, the
most cumbersome and least progressive
of the government offices The new
building. which is 10 house Uncle Sam :
print shop, is the largest brick structure
IN the world, and il is being filled Wit
old-fashioned typesetting parapbernalia.
designed Tor hand work Possibly our
sturdy Uncle has a wholesome dislike
for the rumpus which the introduction of
more modern typesettinE machines might
provoke among the unions IL is hardly
possible to pass down the long lines OF
typesetters without being shocked by the
apparent extravaganza In the employment
be done much more rapidly and quite as
correctly with the new machine typeSet-
tiers. Many of the employees count their
term OF office by sdministra lions rather
than by years. One among them no
longer able TO do the work OF the Ordi-
a great armchair at the end of the big
corridor. and his principal business is 10
pass down between the workmen once or
twice day and gather up the loose ends
Of string and paper. For this ardu0us
duty he receives the modest sum OF S1z5
ing. for the man Is an old soldier and
might just we'll draw pension
through the g F. O as through the bu-
resu of pensions.
Many Called, Few Chosen.
But neither rules nor reguia tons deter
the office seeker Late in July a rumor
SOTpad the effect than a Farfair, dix-i-