The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-11
SPARKS.


Irrigation Ode and Owed.
When a poet writes a beautiful poem,
IN measure stately and slow.
OF water cool that from mountain heights
to peaceful valleys below,
Causing great crops 10 grow where all
was bare. through man-made chan
neis flowed,
We know right away that the poets song
as an irrigation ODE
When farmer uses ditch water and due
payment fails To make.
Or a bather sneaks By the ticket man and
takes a dip i'm the lake.
Or a rcunder asks the barkeepcr TO charge
the liquor that makes his load,
Such a thing as this. we know very well,
Is an irrigation owed.
Times have changed in Kansas. There
was a time when the great buga boo
there was drought but now when -
few drops of rain fan the people drop
all holds and run for the hilltops.
The theory that those desperate men
who broke out of the Butte jail were
unable to stand the climate Of the
Montana metropolis is discountenanced
by people in a position 10 know.
BY springing a new gun on Horn the
Jailor at Cheyenne undoubtedly saved
himself and probably others from get
ting badly hurt.
The public never hears of many
''Weli-knOwn- people until their Obitu-
aries appear in the papers.
If the baseball team loses FIVE games
this week, it win cause more grief in
salt Lake than the reverses OF las
week. because things we don see do
not hurt rs so much
A speaker in the Tabernacle con-
demned novel reading, but said he
would like to have the Bible, book OF
Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants
read in the public schools, which would
be novel reading FOR school children.
While willing to accept the statement
of the committee that the irrigation
ode which Won the prize has remark
able merit, there are about fOrty-ninc
other competitors who feel that there
was at least one ode entered which pos
sessed greater merit than the one Sc
lected.
Anarchists should improve their
workmanship or quit the business. The
man who made the attempt on the
French premier is in jail and has nOth
ing to show for his efforts.
The president of Baldwin university
has resigned because. he says, the trus-
tees tried to force him to go out and
solicit the funds necessary to pay him
self The learned man. il appears, OBJ
jected to working for his salary.
Peary is anxious to make another
stab at the pole. Everyone, we are
sure. appreciates Mr.. Peary's thSught
fUlness in bringing the north pole to
mind during the hot weather.
The dilemma by which the author
tiles at Cheyenne found themselves
confronted consists of one Horn and
one McCloud. and the officers succeeded
in grasping both of them.
If people about to be murdered can
arrange to have the deed conmiJteG in
another state, it will be much appre-
cidted by Utah. The maintenance of
convicted purderers is becoming quite
an item OF expense.
The Republican party has been in
existence less than fifty years. bur
there is a man in Indiana who claims
TO have voted the ticket FOR seventy
five consecutive years. which is not
in any way a remarkable sta tement,
considering the side of the political
fence 1t emanates from.
a Honolulu woman has been robbed
of $4,000 worth of Jewels. but strange
as it may seem, has as yet said moth
ing of going on the stage.
Great Britain acquired a land area
greater than that of France through
the Boer war, but would probably
trade il for France if Count BOni &c
Castellane were left out.