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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-10

book. But tn polls don't asst amy
questions. Says they. They'll be less
money I'm tn, Job but we need some
recrea ton an that night a big copper
comes down tn sthreet. sees me settin'
out on tn front stOop with ne cOun-
tenance dhraped with tin pail, fans
me with his club an runs me in. TIL
woman mex dure Is locked UP FIR
sthringin' d clothes line on tn roof.
Hannigan's boy Tim gets tin days FIR
keepin' a goat. tn polls reserves are
called out to PROTECT tn vested rights
iv property against tn haynyous push
cart man, tn stations is crowded with
felons charged with maintainin' hose
contrary to tn stachoos made an pro-
vided, an tn tindherline is all over
town. A rayformer don't think amy
thing has been accomplished if they'se
a vacant bedroom in tn pinitinchry-
His motto is. Arrest that man
"Whin a rayformer is ilicted he
promises We a business administhra-
ton. Some people want that. but /
don't. The American business man is too
fly. He's all right, dye mind. I don't
say anything again him. He is what
Hogan calls tn booiwarks iv pro- gress,
an we cudden't get on without him
even il his scales are little too quick
on tn dhrop. But he ought to be left
TO dale with his akels. 'Tis a shame
TO give him a place where he can put
tn comether on millions Nv people that
has had no business tllrainin' beyond
occasionally handin a piece Nv debased
money to car conductor on a cold
day. A reg'Iar pollytician can't give
away an alley without bIushin'. but
business man who is in pOllyticS JUS
to see that tn civil Sarvice law gets
thurly ENFORCED. will give lincoln park
an tn public libry to tn beef thrust,
Il.
front an make il felony FIR annywan
to buy stove polish outside iv his store,
an have it all put down to public i'm
provemiDts with a pitcher iv him in tn
corner stone
"Forchnitely, Hinnissy, a rayformer
is seldom q business man. He thinks
he is but business men know different
| They know what he is. He thinks
business an honesty is tn same thing
He does, indeed He's got thin mixed
because they dhress alike. His idee is
that all ne has to do to make a bust
ness administration is to have honest
men ar-round him. Wrong. I'm not
sayin', mind ye that man can't do
good work an be honest at tn same
time But whin I'm hirin' d la-ad I
| find out first whether he is onto his
| job. an afther a few years I begin to
suspect that he is honest too. Nanny
a dishonest man can lay brick straight
an NANNY a man that wudden't steal
ye'er spoons will break ye'er furniture
/ 1 don't want Father Kelly to hear me-
/ but I'd rather have a competint man
who wud steal if 1 give him a chanst.
but | won't-do me plumbin'. thin a
/ person that wud Scorn to help himsilf
| but didn't know how to wipe joint.
Ivry man ought to be honest to start
/ with, but to give a man ati Office JUS
/ because he's honest is like ilictin him
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to congress because he's a pathrite,
because he don't bate his wife, or be-
cause he always wears a right boot on
tn right foot. A man ought to be
honest to start with, an afther that
he ought to be crafty A pollytician
who's on'y honest Is jus tn same as
bein' out in a winther storm without
amy clothes on.
Another thing about rayform ad-
ministhrations is they always think tn
on'y man that ought to hold job is
lawyer. TIL raisou is that in tn coorse
iv his thrainin' A lawyer larns enough
about ivrything TO make good front
on amy subject TO anybody who
doesn't know about it. So whfn tn
rayform administration comes in tn
mayor says: Who'll we make chief iy
polls in place iv tn misguided ruffyan
who has held tn job FIR twinty years?'
TIL man FIR tn place says tn may
or's adviser, is Arthur Lightout,' he
says He is an ixcillent lawyer, Yale
50, an is well up on polls matthers.
Las year he read paper on 9TH Fine
Polls Force iv London befure tn an
nyal meetin' iv tn S'ciety FIR Ladin tn
Mulligan FANNY to Bother an
Harder Life. Besides he says, hes
been in tn millishy an tn foorce needs
man who'll be afraid not to shoot in
case iv public disturbance s. Arthur
takes hold iv tn constabulary an in
year tn polls can all read Emerson an
tn burglars begin putin up iaddhers
an block an tackles befure s a. m. An
so II is on ivry side. A lawyer has
charge iv tn city horseshoein', another
wan is clanin' tn sthreets. tn author
iy 'Gasamagoo on Torts' is thryin' to
dispose Nv tn ashes be throwin' thin
in tn air on a windy day, an tn
bright boy that took tn silverware FIR
tn essay on Ne Exeats an Their Re-
lation to Life is plannin' a uniform
that will be sarviceable an constit-
choochinal FIR tn brave men that
wurruk on tn city dumps. An wan
| day tn main rayformer goes out ex-
pictin' to rayceivs tn thanks if tn
| community, an tn public that has jus
got out iY jail fr lettin' tn wather run
| too long in tn bath tub rises up an
/ cries: Back to tn university bettle-
/ mint TIL man with tn dimon' in his
/ shirt front comes back an pushes tn
| honest lawyers down tn steps an a
| dishonest horseshoer shoes tn city's
| horses well an a crooked plumber does
| tn city's plumbin' securely, an ras-
cally polisman that may not be avarse
| 10 pickin' up a bet but will always
] find out whin Pathrolnan Seaman slept
/ on his beat. takes hold iV tn polls
] foorce, an we raysune our nachral
condition Nv Illegal merrimint. An tn
rayformer spinds tn rest iv his life
tellin' lis where we are wrong. He's
! good at that. Ony he don't undher-
stand that people wud rather be wrong
an comfortable thin right in jail
II don't like a rayformer." said MI.
! HenneSsy.
"Or amy other Republican" said
| Mr. Dooley.
Copyright. 1902. by Robert Howard
/ Russell.)
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FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETER.
Origin Of g. Scientific Instrument in
Every Day Use.
(New Orleans Times-Democrat)

New Orleans Times-Democrat)
Sir Samuel Wilks, writing to Knowl-
edge, gives the history of the origin of
Fahrenheit's thermometer, which is
generally used in this country. 1t was
really invented by Sir Isaac Newton,
and the starting point of his scale was
the heat of the human body New
toms paper is 10 be found in the "PhiI-
Osophical Transactions for the year
17O1. He describes his instrument as a
glass tube filled with linseed oil, and to
1t he attached a scale to measure the
degree of heat of the liquid into which
he plunged it. His lowest point was
that of freezing, as his highest was
that of boiling water. He chose for
the starting point on his scale the heat
of the human body, and this he called
by the round number IL. the duodecimal
system being then in use-that is, he
divided the space between the freezing
point and the temperature of the body
into twelve parts. He further stated
that the boiling point would be about
30, as il was nearly three times that
of the human body.
A few years afterward. when Fab
renheit was working at the subject of
heat. he took Newton's Instruments
for his experiments, but finding the
scale not minute enough, he divided
each degree into two parts, and so
made it measure "a instead of 70 He
also did more, for, finding he could OBJ
tain lower temperatures than freezing,
and notably that of ice and salt mixed
together. he took this for his starting
point. 1t was from this point he began
TO count "a degrees up to body heat.
This made, by his measurements, the
point for freezing. Boiling point he
made 90. 1t then became zero. freezing
| s, body heat "a and boiling water S.
only the scale started lower and SSe
numbers were doubled Later on. find
| ing that he could measure increments
of heat more infinitely, Fahrenheit di-
vided each degree into four parts. 1t
] will now be seen that il the numbers
| just mentioned are multiplied by four
1 in use.
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AMERICANS LIKE FROGS.
They Now Eat Twice as Many as the
Fre0ch
New York Tribune.)

lNtW 0Th 1FlounS-t
The eating Of frogs legs is consid-
cred Ia Franchise" said an uptown
reStaurdteur. the other day, TO one of
ms guests, but as a matter of fact,
more frogs at the present time are
Killed for the table in this country than
IN France. 1 have no means of esti-
mating how great the business of kill
ing frogs for the market has grown in
lnls country, but ] am warranted when
! say that twice as many are served
TOT the American palate every day as
'n the tables Of the French.
In France the frogs are raised for
me most part in what have been
termed troggeries. Here they grow in
'ur creeks and ponds. and are caught
ly the nook or speared. BY the way.
ala you ever undertake TO catch a
frog
Never did" answered the guest.
IL IS great sport replied the pro-
Hetor Of the cafe You think that
you have got a whale on the end OF
your line. A fly or 4 piece of an old
rag WI, do for bait. and for that MAJ
ga, me bulifrog will grab at anything
.tl with more avidity than an animate
.1Jr'L He Is like his namesake in his
"tlhai'ns toward this particular
color. But when you have him on the
Hl'H cont let him drop into the water
'sain or the chances are that he will
81 foothOld and it will be impcssi-
Se 10 eNtriCate him. I have often
-a1le1 IN bullfrog,. which had in his
mouth the broken ends of old hooks
all other similar reminders OF past
buempts on his life.
al. Much of the old-tiue aversion to
we ouutrOg has been overcome by a
tIeler knowledge of the little animal.
,,lleeo, he is not half as bad as he
uaS oeen made out 30 be II has been
- az That he lives on flies and insects.
me same thing can be said Of chickens
- an kinds of birds. I am sure his
.aolts are not as indiscriminate and
conventional as that of the hog, and
~, nc Americans have become famous for
u5 raising and eating of pork.
- nave often admired how frog
souq jump, said the guest, who after
aIa proved to be a city officia! con-
.7S'ed with the park department.
Ven now. in my middle age. I like 10
sarLe frog who thinks that he has
.ouhd secluded spot in the shade. and
.aAe MIN jump. Why. I've seen lit
fellow who didn't weigh more than
1 ~ pound jump eight or more feet.
q We men could only have such powers
-. proportion to our weight man
,I-ud stand on the sidewalk in front OF
sue postothce and jump into the tor
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EARLY CIGAR ToNGs.
Relics of the Days When Matches
Were Unknown.
New york Evening Post.)

New York Evening PoSt)
Some customs seem to have as many
lives as the proverbial cat. In the good
old days of Queen Bess every smoker
had in his OUTFIT a pair of tobacco
tongs. IL he were a gallant of the
substantial merchant. of brass. but if
nottingham. of cheap iron ware. They
were a necessary implement to the
smoker. Matches were unknown, and
the only available fire in the daytime
was the blazing log upon the hearth.
With the poker a small piece of glow
ing eInber was broken off. which with
the tongs was applied TO the freshly
charged pipe. Hundreds of these
tongs arr to be found in the collec-
lions of antiQuarians. Most of them
are clumsy objects, but few are so
graceful in outline and artistic in
Workmanship that they seem to be of
French and Flemish rather than Eng
fish origin.
These tongs were revived on small
scale some twenty years ago, when
they were employed for holding cigar
cites. The cigarette tOngs were from
two to four inches in length, connected
at the upper end by smart spring,
which kept the ends together when in
positioD to rest When used the
smoker opened them and caught the
cigarette between the tips close up
tn the mouth end The continuance en-
abled the user TO burn the cigarette
down TO the last Whit and protected
the fingers from the discoloring vapor
that produces the brown stain upon
the fore and middle fingers The new
tongs shown nowadays hold cigars as
we'll as to reach a coal from the fire
place 70 a pipe. They are made of iron,
steel and gun metal, and many OF the
latter are said to be manufactured
f,.or,, varships. cannon and other tro-
1biss of the late war with Spain
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~ Why is IT," asked Mr..
etEA Hennessy. that a
w rayform administhra-
ton always goes to tn
niy
I'm tell ye," said Mr.. Dooley, Il
,.rrs iyrything an I'll tell We this. In
Il, first place It's a gr-reat mistake to
think that annywan ra-aly wants to
,,vforu. Ye niver heerd ~ a man ray
nrmin himsilf. He'll rayform other
,aople gladly. He likes to do it. But
healthy man'n niver rayform while
10 has tn strength. A man doesn't ray
form till his will has been impaired so
bs hasn't power to resist what tn
ra.apers calls tn Establishments iv tn
Hnpter. An that's thruer in politics
thin anywhere else.
But a rayformer don't see it. A ray
former thinks he was ilicted because he
vas rayformer. whin tn thruth "
m matther is he was ilicted because
10 wan knew him Ye can always flict
nan IN this country on that plat
form II I was runnin' f'r Office. I'd
change me name, an have printed on
ne cards, Give him a chanel; he can't
be worse. He's ilicted because tn peo-
Die don't know him an do know tn
other la-ad. because Mrs. Casey's old
est boy was dubbed be a polisman, be
cause we cudden't get wather above tn
third story wan day, because tn sthreet
car didn't stop f'r US, because tn Elan
Hgans bought a plano, because we was
near run over be a mail wagon, because
n saloons are open Sundah night, be-
cause they're not open all day, an be-
cause we're tired seem tn same face
AZ IN window whin we go down 10 pay
tn wather taxes. TIL raysormer don't
know this. He thinks YOU an me, Hin
Missy. has been watchin' his spotless
career IT twinty years, that we've read
an he had to say on tn evils iv poplar
suffrage befure tn S'ciety f'r tn Be
Wlldermint iv tn Poor, an that we're
achin' in ivry joint to have him dhrag
MS be tn hair iv tn head firm tn flow
in bowl an tn short card game, make
good citizens iv US an sind us to tn
pinitinchry. So tn minyit he gets into
m job he begins a furyOus attimpt
10 cOnvart us into what we've been
thryin' not to be liver since we come
into tn wurruld.
In tn Coorse tv tn twinty years
mat he spint attimptin' to get ONCE, he
managed to poke a few warrum laws
conthrollin' III pleasures " tn poor
into IN stachoo book, because no wan
cared about thin or because they made
business betther f'r tn polls. an whin
he's in Office he calls up tn cap'n w
III polls an says he; If these laws
ARE bad laws tn way TO end thin is
to enfoorce Thin Somebody told him
that Hi0OisSV II isn't thrl1e dye
mind. ! don't care who said it. not IL
twas Wiilum Shakespeare. 1t isn't
jbrge. Laws ARE made to throuble
people an tn more throuble they make,
n longer they stay on the stachoo
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you,'' The watchman pleaded for his
life, explaining that he was now IN
armed, but French. LAYING down his
Winchester. drew his big .45 pistol. As
he was raising the gun to aim. in
deliberate. tantaiizins way, the wound
ed mana ger raised himself with one
arm. pulled a big revolver from under
the pillow and fred twice in rapid sue
cesSTop. Both bullets went through
French's neck. Just below the ears The
desperate staggered, but did not fall
He dropped his gun and, running from
the store, boIted madly for the shelter
of the Spunkey creek woods A pur-
suing posse found him dying IN an In
dian cabin, and the Waterman was
allowed to hasten the death with
charge from the murderer's shotgun
In following the histories of the bad
men, among the various causes mat
lead them into a life of crime-the love
OF whisky, jealousy. a weak will-stares
out startlingly plain the maxim; spare
the rod and spoil the child" Parental
observation-disclosures. a fathers careless
oversight of a ouick-tempered, 1mperf-
Gus boy. the half-criminal pride OF
some in the precociouS welcomes OF
their sons-these start the youngsters
to hell at the double quick The case
IL
While he was still a boy Johnnie
Pointer was credited with writing these
verses:
while boldly I rove and wander,
What's the old mans money to rneE
He'll give me all / can squander.
And sim I'm his Johnnie, you see
1T NAV be I'll some time be arrested
But we're all of US working Tor 1aInes
What care I how that is accomplished
For the end of all men IS the same
.sI'u kill. IN rob. and IN plumber.
And come out the best way 1 can;
Should I have to 20 On the gano,,"s
RI die like the braveSt OF men,
At the age Of Il he attempted to burn
a little boy. a companion at play WIN
him in the woods; for this, like the boy
i'm the sarcastic Englishman's verses
he was roundly reprimanded- httle
later he stabbed a boy with pocket
knife. and a Missouri judge fined him
$50. His father paid the fine, ana
Johnnie, on going home. proudly
hoa sted. Il knew the old man would
paw up before he'd let me go 10
jail
From horse stealing. TO escape the
consequences of which he fled TO Texas
on money furnished by his rather
Johnnie Pointer passed TO murder. he
was captured tried before Judge PARK
er of Fort Smith and sentenced 10 De
hanged. 1t was a chance TO redeem
his brave pledge early made in the
verses quoted He was given the PRIV
| ilege of naming the hour Of his exeeu-
ton: he said 800 in the afternoon,
When the minute came he weakened
and begged for half an hou$ longer,
He was granted fifteen minutes Al
/ the last he went tottering and num-
/ bling cravenly TO his death.
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NEE there was a Steady who over
1 played his Standing and came
within an Ace of losing his
Home.
II happened thuswise. He was Day
light Performer and loved to parade ms
Attractions. If he had Duchess on MS
Staff he would lead her along the main
travelled Streets and show her of But
he held her by the Arm Just the same
for fear that someone would run out OF
an Alley and grab her
When he had Beant wearing his
Photo in her Watch he wanted al the
World to know about IT.
Furthermore. he was the KIND thaI
would take a Friend with him when ne
Friend TO see for himself that the Girl
though the World of Papa 1t was Fine
Business for the Friend to SIT over on tne
Far Side of the Room and watch them
hold Hands. now and then steaHng
little Old Hug The Friend must nave
enjoyed every Minute OF IL.
Once in a While the busy Lover would
Wink, as If to say. "Oh, suppose this
little Party fairly hates me
But one Evening when he went out
Hand-Holding and carried MS own Ga az
lery with him be ran into lunches OF
Trouble The Friend belonged to the But
insky Family and refused TO stay on the
Far Side of the Room He was a clever
two-handed Boy and had rracticed few
Holds of his Own. He pulled his cnalr
over and made it a Threesome- In ABOUT
s Minutes he had the Regular Fellow
stvrnied and Hazel was leaning against
him so as to make his Conversation
Short Carry.
Before he left that Evening he had
himself all dated up for a Return EngaaEge
ment. 1t looked as though the other
Young Gentleman had the Casters under
him.
They took all of her Open Time in one
Chunk and divided up between them
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REMARKS ABOUT $4,000 CASH.
To See 1t Lying in Window Losing
Interest Grieves a Practical Man.

tNGW 1OTh SUM-
The Italian bankers Of Eliza beth and
Mulberry streets are filing their show
windows with greenbacks in an effort 10
attract trade and convince the public that
one has more money than the other In
the window Of one banker, PATHS place
in Eliza beth street $4,000 was on exili-
bition yesterday. Bills of all denomina-
tons were strewn careleSsly around the
window attracting crowds
Them amt real money" remarked one
woman, '-them's imitation"
Yes" replied a man in the crowd.
that's the genuine long green We all
struggle for
- never fought deTe was dat much
money in de world" chined in a ragged
boy.
Two Italian laboreTs got into an argu-
ment as to the amount of cash in the
window. One thought there must have
been at least 81 ,e00.010-
About noon two men with long whisk-
ers stopped their vending wagon in front
OF the place They had come over from
the east side Of town
''Vat2 Tirty tousand dollar IN dot vim
dow all der tine exclaimed one
Dot is it." replied the other. TT amt
too much for a bank, vhat2
No. but look at der interest yich II IS
losing every minute What shameful
neSsi INTEREST," Lost interest twelve
hundred dollar a year,"
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FICTION STRANGER rHAN FACT
Yarn About an Estate Betrays Eng
lishnan Into Actual Bankruptcy.
New York Times.)

HShp1an Into AcIC2l BANKRUPTCY.
New York Times)
Disclosures Of & remarkable eharac-
ter have been made in the course OF
the bankruptcy proceedings against
James Albert Marson, described as a
gentleman of Bramber street, Sheffield.
whose public examination has been
adjourned sine die. Marson, whose
deficiency amounts to S5.311, had
visions of an estate in Canada, and
on the strength of being heir TO i'm
mense property he borrowed large sums
of money, debts of this character form
ing the major portion of his liabilities
Up TO the middle of 1897 Marson was a
mercantile clerk. Then he heard from
a cousin. so he states. that he was heir
TO an estate in Canada After this in
timation he did not long continue to
sit at his desk Shortly afterwards
communications began 20 arrive from
across the water from various
agents w Williamson" writing
from Rrockville, Canada, the site Of
the supposed estate. put the value of
the property at e., 800. 900. and little
later came a telegram from "Ingleby,"
another agent, who reported that in a.
safe in the strong room at the hall 100
IS bags Of gold dust. 100 Is bars and
one case of diamonds, etc. had been
discovered. The value of that find was
Further Investigations of this strong
room at intervals of about a week re-
suited in the finding of larger case Of
diamonds and fifty small ingots Of
gold. besides interesting papers show
ing how this colossal fortune had been
amassed." In March, 1898, one of the
/ agents communicated information that
! the entrance to an underground mine
had been found. but the door could not
/ be fOrcibly opened. as there was a
warning attached to il. Later the key
/ was procured. Then the door was
/ opened and a death trap disclosed
! ''Thedoor slid back on an invisible slide.
and revealed an immense drop into
an almost bOttomless depth" Pur-
/ chases of horses were of common &C
/ currence to Marson during this period.
rifles and guns also came under his no.
/ tice, and he entered into negotiations
/ for the purchase of a yacht.
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nrsine Joker.

From appearances no one would suspect
the Siberian bear at Bronx park OF ma
lieious humor. Yet one Of the chief De
lights of the long-haired urslne Is 70 ted -
+6e bie grizzly IN the next cage The 81
berian bear does not eat all the nedS
given him for dinner. He saves bit ana
bushes il Jr1 close to the bars separatlns
him from the grizzly. The grizzly tries 70
push his paw through. but can't: Then;
the Siberian bear moves the meat Ior|s4 800
ana backward. to one side and the other.
with the plain intention of tanta1izing the
grizzly. -
In this he succeeds admirably. After
many attempts the grizzly retires IN
wrath to a corner of his cage As ne
goes he let's out growl winch PLAINLY
says ~.
IF 1 could get through those bars It 5
more than the piece of meat that WoolG
be earen There would be one less bad
Siberian in the world.
When the other bears in the cage with
the big grizzly hear that gro~l they are
careful TO keep out of his way until ms
bad humor vanishes-
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The Great Takers.

Yes said the proud father as he But
tonhoIed the hurryinE citizen, young as
nv little Willie Is he has actually begun
to talk already. Just think of it. siri I
am beginning to wonder what viii make
out of him7"s
Barber. CONGRESSMAN or pugilist" sug-
EeSted his friend. as he broke away and
lodged down d side street.