The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-02

times, especially when repairs and in
sta dations are in progress, as the case
IS at present, when, IN spite OF their
care. objects viii frequently remain
sans label for several days. Then IL is
that the unfeeling public drops around
to inquire why JEsse public servants
are not earning tim substance by rem
dering a just eQuivale Tor what they
receive from the cowntrodden taxpay-
ers. An amusing instance OF this sort
occurred the other day.
A venerable Irish couple We're taking
in the museum in Cpen-mouthed Won
der. In the course of their rounds the
old man arrived before d case contain
ing q beautiful green throne cloth, en-
broidered with gold lace. from India.
Perhaps it was the green that attracted
the old mans attention. At all events
he stopped. paused, took a good. long
look at the cloth, as though seeking for
the label. and then, calling his wife.
who was standing before an opposite
case, he said:
"Come'eer, Maggie. Here's something
fOine. Be COB. they don't know phwat
it is thimsilves.
1t so happened that one of the Gu
raters overheard this remark and made
ali haste to place a label on the throne
robe before the arrival of the next free
born sovereign.
There are some foxy members in
congress, but the three Smiths take the
cake" said d postoffice official the other
day. The rural free delivery service
is well established in Michigan. one of
the three Smiths will get several ap-
plications allowed, then one of the
other Smiths viii come in and set up
a great cry. He wants as much as
Smith No. 1. He would also be the
gamer by several favorable reports
Then in viii come the other. He can
not see why Smith No. l and Smith No.
2 are allowed so many favOrs, while
Smith No. cannot get a thing. These
tactics have been kept up for the past
two years. The rural free delivery
branch of the postoffice department is
now trying to fulfill its promises.
Chief Special Agent Clarke says Michi-
gan is among the most favored states
in the union. Asked why this was so.
he replied:
1.-The three Smiths did it."
The names of these enterprising gen
tlemen are II. G. Smith of Adrian. s.
w. Smith of Pontiac and ". A. Smith
of Grand Rapids.
8 g g
Senator Mason's boyhood days were
spent on a farm. Many and varied are
the stories told by his colleagues-who
are in a position to know-of the
pranks played by the senator from Illi-
nOis. One demonstrates the ingenuity
of the young mantle same ingenuity
that landed him in the senate. He had
been told not to go swimming. OF
course he wouldn't. That night, how
ever his mother, in putting the young
man to bed, discovered his undershirt
on wrongside out.
William have you been swimming?"
Perish the thought" QOuth the en-
bryo statesman.
How comes it that your shirt is
wrongside out?" questioned the mother.
William was not stumped. Tried TO
skin the cat on the backyard fence,
he replied, turning over to sleep.
SHINING the cat in the vernacular
of the boy. is hanging to the fence and
bringing the body through the arms.
How the shirt could be transposed in
the operation was a mystery to the
good mother, but the excuse was SO
ingenious that the young man escaped
punishment-for that night, at least.