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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

II the ice plant belonged to us we would have big
sign painted the railroad side of it that all people
passing the would know that Canon City has an
ice plant.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03
every year.

We know a firm that spends considerable money in
keeping up elaborate system of books but they can't
tell for the life of them how much they made or
lost last year.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

What has the old fashioned boy who used to
have his neck washed only every Sunday morning?
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

The deals that H. Atwrter is engineering through
Just in New York much for Canon City. They
will result in he spending Of something like tl5oooo in
Canon City during the coming year.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

people in Canon today than ever before
in the history of the place. There few vacant
houses but many there three months ago
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

Canon City and South Canon have to be proud
of their schools They good there are in the
state schools bring several residents to Canon
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

The year 1904 will be leap year 1t is the first leap
yearwe in eight years. the last being in 1896
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

Don't worry. Work hard, do the best you can take
things they and be satisfied with the result
'tThere is crying over spilled milk
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

Canon man recently took home two small coal buck
cts He said those he had home too heavy for
his wife to carry
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

Real estate say there is a better demand for
houses than has been before for about year
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

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IT.. h.. thing .e bsve heard of Canon boy isl that
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What has become OF the Old fashioheo ooy VINO use "
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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03

The best thing have heard of Canon boy isI that
he supports a mother md little sister.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

( Just opposite our cafe a shop was
! having new face, and a boarding was
/ set up TO screen it from observation
( ~nlie this went on The first day bill
posters were busy at IL. but I was busy.
too, and I had no time to look at them
or their work In the evening. after
we had closed. ] was at the window
UPSTAIRS doing some darning lust as
am now. b. was cleaning the knives
with the two walters. As I glanced
down i saw young Mr. Puliar coming
along on the opposite side Of the way
: I was on the point of throwing up the
/ window and calling out to him. but /
: thought perhaps that wouldn't look
iady-Hke, 50 i didn't He stopped Just
/ out OF the light that the. gas lamp gave.
the lamp peeped out ora square hole
cut IN the boarding. He stopped as
say. and looked closely at one of the
posters.
If / live TO be a hundred and ten I
shall never forget what 7 saw then.
Battista running across the road
way. without his hat. without his
glasses Hurting himself on DOOR young
Pullar and throwing him aside. TAX
ing the knife he had half cleaned in
MS hand and striking at somebody with
II. Then, running cOnfusedIy back to
the cafe, upstairs into the room where
l was, and, once inside, boiling the
door like mad He went down limp
by the side of the bed. kissed my pill
low, and burst into tears, muttering all
sorts of penitent things and calling to
the police to come and take him I
let him go on for about ten minutes.
Then I spoke;
: Thought YOU only touched lemon
ade,' I said, quietly.
Such a scene thenI b declaring
that / was a ghost. that he had killed
me, and that I had returned to de-
nounce hinl-rne trying to persuade him
that 1 wasn't q ghost, and that I had
been sitting where I was for the last
half hour Not until I had consented
to 80 across the road with him and
find there one Of our best knives stuck
IN a new poster, signed by young Pull
lar, of a girl in a hat with a cup in
her hand, saying underneath. My
headaches better now did b realize
what he had done. And since that day
he's no more dared show signs Of jeal-
OUsy than
SignOr Battista comes into the cafe,
nOdding pleasantly. He takes off his
convex pince-neZ, bends, and kisses his
wife's hand. Madame rises at the
change of guard and goes off with her
work basket
Yer sensible woman" says BATHS
ia, eonhdentially. ''She worships me-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11
The Tragedy of the Cafe Manila

ret sure that If I agreed it would come
OUT all right So Mrs. =PuiIar made tea.
ana after I'd had some I had to stand
mere oldins cup in me hand like
lhls, 1or-weA without exaggeration,
nearly one hour When 7 got back to
the cafe Battista burst into tears. 1
telt a little sorry for him, but it was
necessary to cure him of his stupid
nonsense, so when he asked me where
/ d been L simply said that I had been
Gaining on some friends.
theml' % Is 'A''-
on, You run along and eat coke
sald, getting out of temper with him.
on re becoming a nuisance
on no longer love your Battista p
II ne can't leave off behaving like
4uhatlc. 1 said, 1T won't take me
many minutes to give an answer to
tnal question. Take my hat and coat
upstairs and bring my slippers and
men men uhlace my boots, and be quick
suppose I was rather hard on b,
out ne was so eXcitable about the least
est thing that unless YOU ruled him
Win a~rod of iron you might have been
ms slave all the rest of your life
OouIy enough, he had his worst out
9reaKs OF temper whenever young Mr..
Pullar came in. and to see 3. growing
with rage Ike a chained-uD dog. and
10 see young Mr.. Pullar. as shy as a
young Kitten, each on opposite sides
OF the counter, would have made me
laugh only that it wasn't the wav to
get the business on. Ne and b worked
hard at that time; we Were up early
IN the morning and we hustled about
TIL the last thing at night and l will
say this for him-he had his faults.
as / suppose all you gentlemen have
put he let nothing but his silly jealousy
interfere with efforts to make the cafe
a success. The place became more
popular, and one customer introduced
another There was a bit of a check
one evening, when, the place being full.
and B. worried with seeing that every
one was attended to at once. and me
BUSY upstairs in the kitchen. young
Mr.. Pullar entered and asked for me-
He wanted to tell me something. B.
must have suddenly gone off his head.
Tor he took 10 half a dozen hard ap-
pies that we kept to check people who
insisted on dessert to top off their
elShteenpenny dinner, and threw them
merely at him, one after the other. as
hard as he could One went through
the glass door, and when I hurried
down the whole place was in an up-
roar tell you I talked to B. that
night pretty straight.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11
Smart Man
philadelphia Ledger.l


In an Irish farming community lived a
certain son Of the Green Isle who was
particularly found Of sausage. He was
not always careful to observe Friday by
refraining from his fayorite form of
pork.
One Friday the good Father called un-
expectedIy while Michael was at dinner
and found his parishiOner enjoying his
sausage.
Michael said the priest, you must
not indulge in meat on this day
Sure, Father, its not meat I'm eating,
it's sausage" replied Michael
But, Michael, sausage is meat"
-Oh. no, your reverence; sausage is not
meat"
Well. Michael. I'll say no more. but I
am in need Of firewoOd, and YOU NAV
bring me load as penitence for this"
The next day Michael appeared at the
parochlal residence and unIoaded a big
wagonload of sawdzlst- The priest On
meeting his parishioner. said:
Michael. / didn't want any saud,,ct
1t was WOOD ] wanted
sure Father, it was wood I brought
replied Michael
No, it was not; il was sazvdust.u an
swered the Father, getting angry.
But Rather. IL sausage is rseat isn't
sawdust Wood2"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11
SERVANT PRosLEna IS SOLVED.

! John FARSON. a many-tiuass mil
III Honaire who lives in Chicago. is en-
titled to the thanks of a Iong-sufering
nation. Mr.. Farson has solved the
servant problem. solved it completely.
1ully, finally Others before Mr.. Fars0n
have been trying to figure out an an
swer to the question. but there is no
necessity for anybody losing sleep over
1t now For years the Chicagoan has
been troubled by poor servants. He
hasn't been able to get the kind of
! household help he wanted and when
he wanted it. One day recently, after
an hour or two spent in deep thought,
/ he announced his solution It is so easy
that we wonder, as we often wonder in
connection with simple little inventions,
why nobody thought of it before. Brief
~. Mr. FarsOn says he viii give to the
woman who measures up to his ideal
Of what a servant girl should be a
round million of dollars She is not to
1 draw the money Immediately. On the
contrary, she must serve Mr.. Farson
until his death, when. by the terms of
his viii, she win receive the million
from his estate. and here are Mr. Far
sons requirements. He says:
MY ideal servant girl never makes
an error in table service. She knows in
advance the likes and dislikes OF my
guest at the table whom she has never
seen before. She never suIks. She al
ways is dignifed. She is prudent and
knows her place. She is always neat.
She never discusses household affairs
with outsiders. She is a good nurse, a
good cook, and knows something about
dressmazing''
From this it IS apparent that Mr..
Farson doesn't expect much He mere
" wants an angel And he has had
tremendous number of applications.
Good girls, bad girls, white girls, black
sirls, girls Of every kind and character.
every shade and hue, have applied for
the position. We do not know whether
it has been filed or not. but if any Utah
girl wants to take a chance she had
better mail an application at once to
John Farson, Chicago. Ills.
But why go to Chicago? Let US keep
our girls at home by Offering them sim
liar inducements. A trife like a mil
lion dollars, or, rather, a promise to
pay million dollars at some indefinite
time, should not prevent US from Sc
curing the ideal servant girl. Any
housekeeper in Salt Lake can make it
not the million, but the promise-and
should, If necessary.
True, your estate might not yield
enough 20 cover the Iady's claim, but
then you wouldn't be where the matter
could worry you, so that contingency /
need not be taken into consideration /
at all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11
OsLITERATINe THE LINE"

ONE OF THE PRETTY INCIDENTS,
" the frequent recurrence of which
goes to show the complete obIiteration
of the hate and rancor that once divid-
ed the soldiers of the north from the
soldiers Of the south, is reported from
Georgia. The story is told in a spe-
eial telegram from Atlanta to the
Louisville Courier-JournaI.
A Union veteran was on trial on a
charge Of burglary. While hard pressed
by hunger he had entered room
and taken a watch which he pawned
for money with which to buy food.
The amount Of money involved in the
Offense was trifing, but il seemed like
" to go hard with the veteran when
the fact that he~'had fought for the
north developed. A number of confed-
crate veterans were on the jury and, in
returning a verdict of guilty, which
was inevitable under the circumstances,
they made strong plea for mercy
The judge, who had fought for the
south, sent out for a man he knew
could verify the statement Of the pris-
oner that he was a Union veteran. Not
only was the truth Of the story estab-
lished, but it developed that the pris-
oner was a member of the Union Vet
Grams union. which means that he
served at least four years in the fed
eral army The further proceedings
are described as follows:
''ThereupOn Judge Gary said to the
prisoner: I fine you 81 Postmaster
Smythe's hand went down into his
pocket, but Sheriff John W. Clark OF
the Confederate Veterans' association
was ahead of him, and. holding I'D a
dollar said: I have collected the fine.
your honor Then the prisoner is dis
charged announced the judge"
Is there any dividing line any more
when confederate veterans rally thus
to the relief of man who once bore
arms against them? Is there anv di-
viding line when Union veterans, as was
the case recently, contribute literally
and gladly to a fund for the establish
ment and maintenance Of q. home for
confederate veterans? We think not.
There is no line any longer.
And yet, in a sense, there is a line,
It is recognized and cherished for lust
such motives as those that actuated
the former cOnfederates in the story
just told and the Union soldiers in SINH
lar stories. II IS recognized in the con-
slant desire to obliterate it and so long
as IL is recognized in that way alone it !
may be well enough for all Of US TO
1t.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11
AN IRRIGATION KEYNOTE.

ANDLESS MEN for manless land is
l. the keynote of an article OF THE
Importance Of the National Irrigation
Act" by c. Z. Wantland in Gunton' s
Magazine for April. Mr. WantIand de
veloDs new thought in connection
with the irrigation movement. Speak
ing broadly, he says that the operation
Of the law VIII serve to have homes
ready for the homeless when the next
period of depression comes to the
United States, as come it will
Hard times come as regularly as
good times in this country. no matter
what the political complexion of the
administration may be. For some
years the country has been unpreee-
Gently prosperous. That is. more men
are beng employed and at better wages
than ever before. 1t may be said that
the cost Of the necessaries of life has
increased out of all proportions to the
earning power Of the average worker
ana that is true, but generally speak
lus' the country may be said to be
prosperous.
It IS prosperity, however, which
cannot last forever. The day Of de-
preston must come and when II does
lhe distress VIII be as keen as IT was
Fhen the last lean years. were en-
cured Mr.. Wantland's notion of pre-
pairing for this by making possible the
cultivation Of vast areas of land that
IS now practically desert, is thoroughlv
sound It would take men ont of the
cities where they are merely. consumers
and make them producers: it would
make them valuable to the community
and to themselves.
OF. course the irrigation act does not
contemplate the retaining of arid
land and presenting it to anyone who
cares to apply for it. What it does do
is TO make good land out of bad land
and give settlers an opportunity to
buy It on long time and easy payments,
the cost Of the irrigation works being
added 20 the original value Of the land
in installments so light that the out
lay is hardly noticeable
Mr. MAINLAND concludes: Possibly
sometime in the future a national ir-i
rigation day win be celebrated. When
the supplies needed in the new and the
old lands across the Pacific are
shipped from the valleys opened up by
Uncle Sans ditch builders: when the
new states are developed and the
worthy landless men of eastern cities
are transferred to the manless lands Of
the mountain states. possibly it viii
be said that Providence had something
to do with the national irrigation agi-
tation, which started in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

The reported killing Of another Re
publican n feud indicates that be-
fore long they VIII be making II unan-
imous IN The dark and bloody ground. p
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11
INoUIRERs WHO DrDN'TINourRE.

T HE REPORT of the NIoselev com
L mission sent from England to this
country to learn something about
American Industrial methods has been
filed. The most optimistic Amer
lean could not have expected the
British workmen to acknowledge that
they had learned anything over here.
and they didn't They failed to find
anything surprisingly good about our
workers or their products. notwith-
standing the fact that those same
workers and the goods they turn out
are driving English products out Of the
markets of the world.
Delegate Cummings view was most
interesting because it is so absurdIy
unfair. he said. in part: Gambling
and pleasure seeking seem to be char
acteristic of the Americans life These,
taken in conjunction with his ordinary
restless spirit, seem to shorten life,
make men DrematureIy old and in
crease insanity. Altogether I am Of
the opinion that a hating time win
have to take place in the States. The
rush for enjoyment, the disregard of
human life, the corruption of local
politics and other fmmOraIities. and the
almost continental Sunday, added TO
which IS the dissemination to walk or
make any exertion after business hours
if It can be avoided, all tend toward
the moral and physical deterioration
Of the people and must be arrested if
disaster is to be averted"
We don't know Just what class Of
people Delegate Cummings visited in
this country. but from the tenor Of his
report il is obvious that he didn't spend
much time among the workingmen. We
are free to admit that there is a great
deal of gambling and pleasure seeking
it the GATED States. but the working
classes. as a rule, are free from the
gambling curse, at least We cannot
lock upon pleasure seeking as a vice,
either. 1t can, Of course, be carried |
too far, but, along proper lines, there |
is no reason why workers should not /
like recreation as well as those who /
do not toll or spin
The Moseley commission missed the
real purpose Of its visit if it failed to 1
investigate real American methods. the
methods by which we have won COM |
mercial supremacy. Results are the
things that count and if the visitors
had confined their inquiries To the
causes that produce the results their
time would have been much better &C.
cupied- And it is pleasant 10 note that f
Mr. Moseley. the retired capitalist who
planned the commission and who ac-
companied it, differed very widely from
its members when he said.
THE American workman has a far
better education than the British work
man. he is infinitely better paid,
housed, fed, clothed and, moreover,
much more sober. Il we are to hold
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

All indications point to a tremendous
audience for the concert which is tn he
given in the tabernacle tonight for the
benefit Of the school fund. A tremen-
oous amount Of preparatory work has
Deen done for this event. Nearly all of
otah's most prominent musicians have
very generously rendered their services
and the concert will undoubtedly sur-
pass anything Of the kind ever given
here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

our own in the commerce OF the world.
the old methods must be dropped and
the old machinery abandoned"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

Now that the Declaration Of Ind
pendenee has been put into glass
case there viii be no further argument
about the advisability Of reading it to
the Filipinos.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

Mrs. Roosevelt at Home" saws a
headline. Doubtless the overworked
chairmen Of committees in the west
wish the same thing could Faithfully
be said about Mr.. Roosevelt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-11

Lincoln. Neb-. has been giving re-
eeption TO Representative Cannon. the
next speaker Of the house, but there ie
nothing in the reports to indicate thar
the opening gun Of the campaign was
fired on that occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

wuk. but young folks amt much on wuk
desc days
Dat they amt" exclaimed Aunt Luz
cinda. II amt got no chillen myself, but
my house is jes' overrun an fill up all de
day long wifi desc yere lazy young niggah-
folk, settin' aroun'. Theys niggahs, OATS
what dey is-desc lazy little black uns wot
won't wuk Der's quality black folk, same
as quality white folk, an Use quality black,
/ liz. An desc here lazy little black niggahs,
if dey evan gifts nickel Sey runs off and
dey buys desc yere oil trashy yaller news
papers-all bout murdahs an all kinds o.
low-down killin's. an dey sets an reads
dat OF yaller paper till de sun goes down
an come up agin. yassir
AN L seq wot y fool away yer good
nickels on dem oil people up in Chicager
fur. maxim dem rich, an dey wouldn look
at you all il you wuz so pore you wuz a
crawlin' in DE guttah; no sab, dey wouldn'."
An desc yere lazy young niggahs liz a
allus givin' pahties. continued Aunt Luz
cinda. ''Wenst dey can't git de money
fer ter live on, dey gives pahties. yes. dey
duz. Yes'day sum NV 'um comes to me.
an dey SEE, Aunt 'Cindy, dere's a pahty
TO your house a Chewsday night A
pahty?' 1 SEE; no dey amt; L amt a-givin'
no pahty; no, l amt l sea-
ives a-givin' de pahty,' dey seq. AN
you has to has it; de invites liz all ready
Civ out dey SEE.
Now amt dat cu'ous. Becky, amt it?
Dem lazy. no-count black boys an gals
a-gettin' up PATTY, an a-givin' dat PATTY
at my house, an not a-tellin me nuthin'
of de PATTY till de invites liz dun give out;
amt dat Gu Gus, amt it?"
Dat is sholy cu'ous.'' replied old Aunt
Becky. "Wot liz dey gwine ter have ter eat
at dat pahty?"
Oats wot L axes 'um," responded Aunt
Lucindy. Laws, Aunt 'Cindy,' day SEE,
'derell be a-plenty to eat. We'se a-goin'
to have 'lasses candy an catfish an rab-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
(17SO.l

Q1UD
We lurked with Shelby in the pines,
We supped land sulkedl on Marion's fare:
Through Santee fens. in Sumters lines,
We trailed when Tarleton took the air.
The timber Swamp Fox where was he?
Who last had heard the Game Cock crow?
Bawled in the barrens. high and low.
Twas Troopers here and Tories there
Avaied to lay ambush bare.
Or hold mountain camp afraid.
Jaunty the gibe. and grim the joke;
They guyed the slain with hideous "cha6;"
And staggering In a saber stroke,
That for your auarter!' capped laugh.
Aye! DEVILS doings!-but mans
A gruesome game.-but nobler stakes
Than forging balls from pewter pans,
OR msteh ss stra tSs, for
Bantered and Knocked, with impish fun;
And in the stubble. piping high.
One night the rain came down. a food;
At dawn the sun rolled up. ablaze.
A draggled scout all foam and mud,
Came Gathering through the startled haze.
To saddle. mates! Wake up and shout:
The Whole Keen mountain pack is OUT way
And Buckskn whacks the bush to-day?'
Twas Cleveland. tagged and saddle-sore:
Twas flesh and blood. two legs and four,
To go where flesh and blood could go.
Blanket and Buckskin, hide and hair,
Rifle and knife and tomahawk,
Lank loins. without a s-lred to spare,
And thews no hunt nor brunt could balk.
And so shared the royal game;
The Tory scent came down the wind.
Dear Lord! we felt hunters shame
To strike them, dazed and deaf and blind.
We that were one in blood and breed,
Had Jared as one for good or i'll.
In sport brawl to cry godspeed-
Met in pit TO curse and kill!
nl-met. ill-matched,-you know the rest.
IT'S not cheerful tale tell
Let some SNUG singer find his zest
In tuning happy rhymes TO hell.
For no braggart screed or song
No fools conceit of blatant cheers.
The glorious Dead can do wrong;
For them our silence and our tears.
John Williamson Palmer. in Yale Alum
Weekly.