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The grass Is starting on the fertile hills and valleys Of Lima
county the ade horses being rounded up and the gathering
OF 'Pe VIII soon begin Tho fine condition of the stock now and
the early growth Of feed owing to the bounu rains assures an
unusually good season for the socmen and for the entire comm
wv" we WISH TO publish oil The news that of interest we ask
ranch friends to send IN word Of anything which T. %
interest TO them poon aa Il happens NO that We co %
the benefit Of Tho community '''''' " 'o
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tinum eggs-eggs of every known kind of precious
metal until the day finally dawned, when instead
of going to the klOndike negotiating a note at n
national bank to get money to pay their bills, would
have merely to go the goose coop and get the
wherewithal. When I think of what OF today have
to suffer because what might have been has been
made impossible by that Get Rich Quick idiot of cen
turtles ago, want 70 die right away get
murderOus crime Think of all the evils that have
suited because that goose died without offsprngi IT
is TO get money its equivalent that most of the
great crimes of the day committed. Avar1ce per
sOnal and political has grown out of the desire for
greater possessions and the value of is
Ured by gold. If there had been goose with a gold
en- lay in evey family in ceration, all the misery,
crime, suffering and of poverty would been
eliminated from social system fOrever-and yet
with this fact before your eyes YOU ndict your
day as being inferior TO that One!''
I'VE still have geese even if get only base metal
from en- said Mr.. Brief, drily.
Right you are responded the Idiot And like
other birds of feather still putting up the
same boarding house. But there is a great deal in
what you say about people neglecting the every day
opportunities Mr.. Brief. We have every side of
neglected fields of human endeavor fields that If
who chose to avail thmselves of the opportunities they
offer"
Il believed it until you said it," said Mr. Brief ct
find myself becoming sceptcal however, after your
prOnOunCement"
well, suppose name a few" said the Idiot "and
upon a steady income that is twice large I
joy In the first place, take these Accident
Companies that confront every step There's
chance for heroic soul to make big living with
out getting out of bed more than month"
oh Tommy Rot" calculated the Lawyer. There
Companies Solicitors commissions never made an in
dependent fortune for anybody
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01
By John
KendriCk Bangs

get check for that amount by return mail OF
course $3.50 OF IL TO the lawyers. but il
$1,000 net that instead of
really doesn't cut much Of figure in my business AT
at all hours OF the day and night snug little fortune
OF $4,000 hidden away in his socks That's just for
himself alone. II he happens to be married man
with ten children he has under his control assets
amounting to $4,000 all there and negotiable every
time the bell rings. Some day when banks
trust companies realize the cash value OF a mans
anatomy, they won't be coy about lending money
to chap who can't put UP three times much he
needs as collateral securities"
Very interesting indeed" said the Lawyer. But
even If you negotiate all your toes $4,000 won't 20
very times like these. After your toes have been
squandered, then what happens?"
You are your uppers, of course" said the Idiot
"and then fortune begins to in more rap
idly. A leg is worth 5000, is ren your
ribs be negotiated singly by the dozen at $500
apiece, and as for your ears a good brings any
where from $1,000 to 500 tell you gentlemen every
in these days is regular Klondike so de-
nominated by the repeated verdicts Of the law
And your neck-I suppose that is the most vqlu-
able Of all?" asked the Bibiomaniac. What would
they pay you for that2"
Not cent" said the Idiot. Some necIcs have
brought S5OOOO but the money all goes owners
heirs and assigns That is of the inequalities Of
the law
Marys skirts as she passed the sIealnfng buckWheat
Here say" cried the Lawyer as the Idiot trans
ferred the whole doze to his own plate Don't take
'em all"
sir" replied the Idiot reaching for the syrup.
legitimate opportunities that confront us Do be
sistent. only avsiling myself Of one or mine
Copyright 1903 by John Russell Davidson.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01
THE GENIAL IDIOT.

who said anything about solicitors commissioner
asked the Idiot. I'm 1 never did
Then how you make this income you speak Of
in the Accident Insurance businessT" demanded the
Lawyer.
simplicity itself" said the Idiot "As one Of the
insured requires lot of nerve, but it be done
You take out Accident Insurance Policy that costs
about SO and if are hurt in accident the
company you $50 week until get well again.
All you've got is go the day you've
thing of that kind and there you You laid
for weeks and while lie there in ped reading
Tolstoi paper letting your leg knit itself
together again, in comes check for fifty solid simo
Icons every Monday morning regular clock work
Then when you are quite recovered, out you into
the public highway, step small boys slide and
bump, you 60, and back to the hospital with a
couple of busted ribs. Six weeks at fifty per.
Why, in the language of Brook Farm, it's regular
c:nch."
Mr.. Brief smiled.
you wouldn't md it very easy he observed.
I'D like TO know why not said the Idiot. ITO get
into smash-up these days is easier than not. What
with automobiles dashing by at the rate five a
minute, subway bitches yawning before your falter
ing feet electric booming along the highways like
DOwies Army Of Juggernauts let loose, signs being
blown Off Of houses by heavy winds. the who
claims that it isn't easy to mulct Accident Insur
Company with all these opportunities for break
ing his bones every side doesn't know what he is
talking about il only had the I'd go into it
tomorrow. Then there's the tariff schedule Of the
you know what the law says mans toe is worth if
a trolley cuts it off?"
Mr. Brief confessed that he had not looked into
matter.
Twelve hundred and fifty dollars" cried the Idiot
That's what the law says. If have my 1T
of last says treasurer of the com
panys Sir, that VIII cost $3.50. Pay and I
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7LQCKT bQLGAKIAN SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR Ills COnKADE

would not be so dangerous The of the band were
brave too. One by they had been dropping until
only FIVE and twenty left and nearly half of
wounded.
There there a Bulgarian. He had
been cOmrade of mine in the service before ne threw
il up and Joined the patriots to help beat the Turks
We do not speak of him openly, often drink
a silent health 20 his memory always We are proud
of him and revere his 1T wiz go
tory that name, the name of SugarOn He was always
IN the thick of the fighting, and his body torn
with wounds, yet was IN fatal place Courage,
courage, comrades his cry ali the time Don't
waste bullet Shoot straight, for the Turks are many
and the cartridges few. They die heart.
not even when the last cartridge fired. They had
fought side by side often be afraid to die to-
gether Half through the fight the brave General
Stojanom fen dead. his body pierced by many wounds
he, too, was Bulgarian, who did know
what fear was. They laid his body in the shadow of
rock closed his eyes and folded his hands across
his heart and left him. fighting for every foot of the
ground as they fell back. Co.'S rfe~- cogurade
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much about was anything more than great big gold
brick game after alp With pot of gilt furniture
polish touch length of lead pipe, and lOi to the
eye il viii turn to gold. and If 1 have the patience
off my hands at $40 per profit or that other chap
Jason getting up his expedition 70 go out after the
Golden Fleece. How do you know thar Jason didn't
get that enterprise financed at the expense Of the dear
public of his day. Can't you imagine the widows and
orphans Of Jasons time focking to the Office Of the
ground floor of that enterprise, Jason meanwhile sell
ing EN- shares at IS for the preferred and 45 for the
common with second mortgage bonds at par, and ac-
Crued INTEREST," 1t golden opportunity for
fleece all right and III wager the gold went to the
bond holders and the fleece to the stockholders In the
same merry old way that have now"
There were two enterprises Of ancient times that
you omitted" said the Bbliomanac satIrcally, with
a wink at the Lawyer. Robin Hood and MS Merry
Men and the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs" by
have recalled in defence of the present day
pOlst of Get Rich Quick schemes" rejOined Idiot
They were both Of them Get Rich Quick enterprises
of the first water. Perhaps you viii remember that
Robin Hood never robbed the poor. Did you stop
to think why? He could get rich quicker robbng the
Golden Eggs. if the owner of that KIondikean fowl
wasn't in hurry to Get Rich Quick, wnen not con-
tent with the interest he cut the bird open get
the principal, don't know mhO Would any
grasping modern do such fool thing that?
in this land of rapid money making you conceive
cious American owning bid Of that sort would
kept her alive in luxury, fed her the
Held clad her in purple and studied the breed until
he was in position to have of those eggs
Matched with fair prospect of continuing the spe-
cies. Instead Of killing her for pastry advance in
she and her children and her grandchildren would
have laid radium silver eggs copper eggs, pla-
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then my old time comrade, the gay, iight-headed
SugarOff the whose joyous jests had made our
camp fires ring with merriment, taught the cursed
tn1dels how a Bulgarian soldier die. They were
waiting for the rush Of the Turks. waiting with
barred steel for the onslaught. They had smiled
each others eyes like good comrades. and ready
for the worst. Then Sugaroh lying behind his rock.
spoke quickly; I wounded AID nearly spent. my
brothers but hear me- One must die; a little
later does not matter Seei have two bombs one
for each hand In moment the Turks viii have
crowded the pass. i shall leap among them and dash
the bombs TO earth and blow away q path for you.
Charge when the stroke comes and your way
freedom. Let those who like remember Sugaroff'
With that he sprang from a. though he had no
wound, sprang upright, and. rushing down the noun
tain pass, was right among the astOUnded Turks be-
fore they seemed to know he had moved hundred
rifles pointed at him then. A hundred bayonets
Steamed.
Turk pressed on Turk. to be in the Staying but
no bullet reached SugarOn, bayOnet touched him.
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dropped and died, yet man among the little band
spoke of surrender The MacedOnans meant to die
boldly their Bulgarian leaders. Young Mlef
who had only just passed through the Bulgarian milf
tary schools with distinction. dropped and died with
a smile Of defiance his bOysh face He might have
become great il he had lived, for nothing breathed
that could daunt him. He had laughed as the fight
waXed hotter, laughed defanty when the Turks had
hemmed them IN, and his face lived with laugh
ter even when the breath of his body and his
soul was with God. The cartridges began run out.
Those who had six gave three those. who had none
Those who had but two gave TO q neighbor whose
bandOler empty. Not shot was wasted. The
ann.
Closer and closer the hated enemy came until pa
trot and Oppressor could look easily into each others
eyes, The Turks kept firing steadily. but the
bandsmens rifles were silent. The last cartridge was
spent; all that they had 20 hope for minutes
OF fierce lighting hand to hand. mounlalneers knife
against soldiers bayonet and then nutila-
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then down again and the bombs crashed the rocks
in the midst of Turkish sOldiery A yell of 'Allah-
broke from the tyrant lips, great shout of wonder
from the insurgent bands. Flame that made the
look sickly leaped suddenly into being Men
ripped and though the lightning
storm had struck them. Rifles were benr and broken
Steel snapped like straw Human bodies were
vrenched asunder and limbs strevn around the
pass. A mighty gap was In the Turkish ranks.
Terror fell upon those that did fall. and before
they could rally from the shock the remnant of the
Macedonian band charged down and swept through
them, striking hercely TO the right and left thee
passed, sending the steel home the hIt their
onward rush for freedom The path that Sugaroff
marked with his life blood the path that led
safety and they took it boldly and swiftly"
"And SugarOd2' I asked What of hifn2'
The in the saddle Strengthened himself and
saluted. while his upper teeth bit hard the lower
lip "SugarOm.' he said great SugarOnl OF him
there was left much q limb burial He
shivered to thousand fragments when the first
bomb burst,-LondOn News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

Of the British Empire, held in Montreal Sir
William Holland, NJ. p, told the Canadians:
You must remember il is easier for Canada give
preference than for Great Britain give Can
only take off the coping, so to speak from
her tariff wall IN favor Great Britain But Great
Britain must first put up a wall before she take
anything off for Canada. To do this means revolu-
ton in her fiscal arrangements.
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just wei be enjoying a squur meal Its people are
not satisfied. They ambitious anyone to bet
ter their condition, and moving heaven and earth
to get England adopt the protective policy to help
them out. But they are barking up the wrong tree.
What has England done for them in return for
all their loyalty? What can England do compared
TO the United States2 Not very muchi
During the recent congress OF the chambers Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01
On Get Rich
Quick Schemes.

0eazv HE trouble with the world nowadays is
that everybody in it wants to get rich in
hurry" said Mr.. Brief From the highest
90 the lowest rung Of the LADDER Of finance,
the chief idea seems to be to fortune ready made.
a result legitimate opportunity is lost, all
energies of land directed toward speculation"
What's the matter with you this morning, Mr..
Brief2" asked the Idiot. Got your fingers burned
the street,"
''No, sir, Wall street possesses no aIUrements for
me Moreover there is nothing the matter with me-
have just been rejecting certain tendencies Of
the day I'm which I to scent danger pros
perity.' said the Lawyer
The world is too full of Get Rich Quick schemes.
Men no longer satisfied TO grow ricn slowly"
1T don't believe they were" said the Idiot
You can't point to period in history when those
who in the money making business didn't go at
81 right up the speed limit Ali Bahia and his board
OF forty directors old Midas touching everybody and
everything for gold John w. CrOesus the multi-miI
lonare ancient times. Jason looking for Golden
Fleece CrstO with his Island full of KOhinoors
Dick Turpin with his suburban franchises, Captain
Kidd with his shipping trust. and all the Of EN-.
every Captain of Industry that has stuck his head
above water from the beginning Of time has been a
Get-Rich- QuiXote IL I may use the expression"
There wasn't any bunCO about their business. how
ever said Mr.. Brief Not I'm that OF Dick TUr
pin and Captain Kidd. They sailed right for what
they wanted and made no bones about making a fat
aluring prOspectuses, designed 10 the money
of the stockings OF the farmers; they didn't float
themselves unsUspeCting market and sell quarts
Of preferred stock TO the dear public for times
value IL was plain stand and deliver those days"
"Ch. nonsense said the idiot What's of
tails of the business methods Of other days2 What
proof have you that that Midas touch they talk so
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

The Canadians claim they are getting along fast
enough to suit themselves, and are really doing as
well better than if they part Of the United
States 1t is said their trade would have been defect
ed to the American centers This is not sound argu
ment, because If it were So Chicago would have pre-
the growth Of Minneapolis and St. Paul; San
Francisco of Seattle. etc The truth in the matter is
that Canada is getting along lunch when it might
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

IS BROTHER was with the band" he said.
W haltng ia his English. THE Turks 70
the number OF 500. had them penned in in
a cleft in the mountains. The cleft was
like a slice out OF a cheese. At the top
81 TO nowhereno-hing at the higher end
OF rock running away upward smooth the walls of
a mosque; a goat could not have climbed there only
a bird penned up in IL could have escaped. See" ne
said. putting his hands together and extending his
fingers angewlse that the position. There were
only way out and the Turks blocked that. They
had driven the band in there by Of numbers.
They came creeping from rock 10 rock, crawl
ing on their bellies. rushing from
another. but always advancing. It when they
rushed that the band gave them something TO
ber Yard by yard The band fell back, and every bit
Of open ground marked by dead wounded
Turks. Eth, what 90 you say2 Brave2 Oh, yes, the
Turks brave Only fools who do know them
say they not. f they not brave fighters they
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-12-11

board. An easy way % create a sur
plus, 10 oe sure. The retiring board
cot only created a surplus. after the
manner referred 20. but while they were
in the creating business they created
a debt Of $780, 600. with the privilege of
more; the interest upon which will be
not less than $500 a year: a debt,
which, with its accommodating interest
will burden and tax children yet unborn
until they are hoary with age. And
;his same board created a number II
law suits, the cost Of which no man
can yet determine. And they created
a liability for accidents at the South
Main street uLderpass, which 10 man
can val1e. A busy old board this has
been. There was nearly always some
thing dong among them. And it will
keep this board, and boards long years
after them. busy to settle the law suits
and pay the liabilities and repair the
damages they have done to this town
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-12-11
THE PASSING OF The
CID C0UT HOUSE.

Lines suggested upon seeing the
N"remalus of the old Court House
laid out near my cottage door.
Dear old Court House. i behold
Your downfall. through binding
teas,
Like yours, my head will soon lie low,
Under the weight of many years.
When happy BRIDE / came to town,
This old debris WAS good and rev,
Ready to build up. instead of down,
/ Some eight ana fifty years ago.
The tiignt of years now swift and
sure
Time rules us all-Llfe is scarce
begun
Ere the downhlll slope comes into
view,
And-Our race is run,
IL power of speech were given each
room,
What wonderous story they could
tell;
OF many lives passed within their
walls,
OF duties done-both i'll and well.
NApsO pS vi tiC 1lUic Id1I,
Rendered verdict of Guilty or
noe,
Condemned a soul from virtue strayed
Or the Innocent victim of some deep
plot.
Dear old Court House-you and
Have grown old, and out of date;
To be removed put out of sight,
IT'S but the Irony of Fate .
You and the ola year are dying fast.
'Tis meet that you both fill one
grave,
In that curious old cemetery called the
Past,
Where insatiate Time buries the true
and brave
Goodbye, old court house, Goodbye!
Our youth and strength we will re
new;
Mine-in my mansion IN the sky;
Yours, here-where Iawlessness you
can subdue.
GRANDMOTHER,