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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

1T IS, think Mr.. AIDES instinct OF solidarity
and the courage Of his instinct which has bled
him TO stragher to the heart Of mystery than
any former hunorist He has lost time. he has
made 40 false moves from the beginning. far
one Knows his beginning. 1 myself knew 1t in his
Artie, which hailed with what noise / could, as u
masterpiece in a sort il captivating
In that very surprising study of the kind of common
young American who is never commonplace, there
was a touch absolute the material novel
Both touch and material authentic and genu-
Inc in Pink Marsh, the portrait of Chicago post
belium negro, western conditions have dferenced
him from the southern and earlier type; and again
felt the fresh air in face the untrodden
ground under ones feet in approaching the group at
the Alfalfa hotel. with that mastery figure Of Doc
Horne TO welcome with his courteous and friend
~ lies. or course. this is not saying the thing,
giving the sense character which richly abounGs
without stopping into caTcature these pictures
unerringly ascertained average of American life.
No cataloguing of the eXcellencies Of these books
would give notion of their people frankly.
boldly and yet delicately Defined unmistakably
shown, undeniably true.
THE level struck is low the level of the street,
which seems not depressed in the basement barber
shop where Pink Marsh pOlishes shoes, lifted in
the Office where Artie talks to his friend and evolves
in the entrance the Alfalfa. where Horne
sits with his fortuitous companions and harmlessly
romances. You not asked to be Interested any
because he is any way out of the common, but
because he is every way in the common. Mr.. AIDE
would think df explaining apologizing or at
all accounting for the company ne invites you keep
He knows too well how good it is and he cheerfully
takes the chance of your not yourself being better
1T is his wonderful directness which is in case
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09
BY HOWELLS

here, his perfect control in dealing with the Amer-
can as the American knows himself He does not pre-
pare his specimens. or arrange point of view for
YOU There the characters are, they have walked
IN and out of the sun and they could not imagine
your not being pleased to them. But YOU viii
make great mistake if fancy they are without
refinement of their own, their point of honor Artie
is essentially fine he is In the best thinss
of a gentleman he is gentleman He is "A fountain
of slang, but his thought is pure as any that
flows from wells of English undefiled
Doc Horne is z lovable type Of the older fash
Toned American with the elderly ideals of Doliteness
of chivalry of personal dignity not believe
even race suicide can obterate in nation and his
fellow dodgers at the Alfalfa worthy of his saVe
and gentle society: the insufrerable Freckled
Boy. even the wretched Hustler who sWindles Doc
Horne into a gutess completely in his swindIing
scheme But what dreadful things I saying? That
these frai fellow mortas o the great American
family in which all one. Pink Marsh is the
coored brother in this family love him like the
rest.
IF to the Fables in Slang as I am
coming, we have now four volumes several hun
dreds of them forming a splendid triumph terms
which might well have warranted defeat after the
drol. ridiculous American life is really inexhausti-
bic, and Mr.. AIDE who knows breadths and depths
as few others have known Them drops net into il
anywhere and pulls it full of queer which
abound IN IT. There seems doubht of a catch in
his mind, and far there has been no failure The
form of these fables helps itself with capital let
ters such the nouns and other words of the
old printings of AesOp used wear, and there is
mock moral tagged to each, but is really little
satire, expressing itself in richest freshest
slang. but of keenness which most polished satire
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MOVES that more intimately less intmatey-the
csst great interest OF life enters into The scheme
~ M <Aoes literature mean the financial ntclas
Mlel occupies us never indeed exclusively of the
sn Proposition but anteccdently ana subseouefiti,
s 80, eoH'urfentii We still spite of cur null
'lpcitN OF fnllhonaires almost unfvorsslIv COM
VefAeu IN getting on we are i'm getting married
OF unmarried and Mr.. AIDE knows This as he knows
80 aauch about us, without making any noise over
It would be interesting to know but uerbape We
never Shat knoN-Nonlen so retcent how r,,cf,
or little Mr. AIDES work peases the sex with which
lt most interests itself and perhaps most lIses 81
sell. but am Obliged to believe that he must post
pone an honest acceptance by the largest reading sex
10 the production of some unbushing romance whore
he shall paint woman the heroine She really knows
herself TO be even when she chews gum. and wears
corsets that give the fashionable shape, picture
hat that 1t is a pity should ever have escaped from
the picture
Nothing could be mistaken than criticism
that gave the notion of satire in AIDES mrth
as satire used to be He without any OF lit
erary pose II IS very caustic mirth; IL sarcasm
OF the fankest sort; but ] suspect he would not
count 1t gain if his laughter Issened the folly i'm the
world Folly,I fancy, he does not think such very
types OF folly that he deals with even when depict
ing those guiltlessly familiar and heIplessy fond
phases of the girl proposition which are more char
acterlstlc of our civilization than any other IL is
the note tthe word insists again IL had not al
ready had its mning) of much Of the PROPOSITION
as seen in the humber walks our life If any OF
our walks are humble that should be the sadder
II Mr. AIDES gayety with it should abash the inEeul-
BUSINESS Of so much American love-making''
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HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW.
Average Man of Fair Education Has
Vocabulary of so, 600 Words.
lNeW YorlE MOrld

!
! The indianapolis Journal tackles tho
! old legend that the vocabulary OF the av-
/ erage man is limited to a few hundred
/ words. and IL has no difficulty i'm prov
! Ing, with the help Of dictionary. that
| the words at the command of any per-
! son of fair intelligence run far up into
/ the thousands.
! This Is matter that anyone can easily
\ test for himself. Open a dictionary al
| random and see how many familiar
words You find on the first page you
strike. Here is a page with fifty-thrce
! words:
The majority Of them would be under
stood by any tolerably well read person,
and a reader Of the most ordinary intel
/ ligence would Understand at least these
ten: Barrel, barren. barricadc. barrier,
barrrister. barrow. barter. baritone. ba-
salt and base This excludes all proper
names. all compounds like "barroom' and
bartender and all derivatives such as
barrcnly' and 'barrenness."
Take another page. under the same re-
Stricuons, and we have 'jaundice. jaUnt.
launty, Javelin, jaw, jay, jealous, jean,
jeer and ielly'-ten again.
Take anOther-''snatch.. sneak sheer.
sneezc, smoker. sniff, snip. SWIVEL snOb''
al, and at ten words on each we should
have $3.50 words familiar to the man on
the street.
There is hardly a page on which more
thaa i've such words are not to be
found, but even an average of five would
give more than 5000 in all. Including
compounds and derivatives the number
would be much more than doubled
Shakespeare is said 10 have used Is 900
words and Milton 1900. The estimate Of
the Indianapolis Journal that the modern
Well-read person OF fair ability and edu-
cation understands about 5000 is not at
all excessive.
In the first two stanzas of that IA
mlllar classic. Mary Had Little
Lamp, out Of fOTty-One words exclud-
ing proper names. only six are repeated
IN any FORM Thirty are entirely dis
II inc average man had a voca bulsrv
OF only few hundred words no could
not read Mother Goose without a die
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has surpassed. and Of candid completely with the
thing satirzed-0ur common American civilization
namely-whch satire has never confessed before.
am trying to get round TO saying a thing diff
cult that is how the author pOsits his varying people
in their varying situations without "A word excuse
DaliatiOn for either in the full
FAR as you are truly American you viii know Them
and as Tar you truly honest You viii your
sell OF their breed and less their expert
ence viii not load this slight paper with any
statement analysis OF them; everybody has read
them and knows what they and how. while they
deal with any every phase of motley yet homo
geneous existence. they deal chiefly with its chief
terest as IT is or as it has been, which the author
calls The Girl Proposition.
He gives that name TO his latest volume of IA
bles. but IT is the nature of nearly all Somehow.
more or less they center in it. Sometimes il is the
old girl proposition, the relation husbands and
wives IN marriage divorce. mainly il is the
young girl proposition. it should be a republic
pastoral as ours, where the innocent love making
innocent however vulgar of youthful unmarried peo
pie IS the national romance. OWNED that this
was the great national concern else he has rec
ognized II as such without being the pains
previous inspiration, and he has IL the ever
fascinating theme Of his fables as he had made it
the theme of those earlier stories which one
osion is not the theme of his allegory so joy
givingly true to the circumstance and character
which no one can deny. that when the fable comes
with each successive Sunday paper, you down
TO It, you are of five minutes away all
uTesOme unreality and pretense the workaday
week, and experience something OF the bliss look
ing at your own photograph. either you were
or as you are now. SO far the girl proposition
involves the money propositon-and it nearly always
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

- HAT most enthusiastic literary man and militant
American patriot William Dean Hovells con
tributes to the North American Review for A1,s,,
paper upon Certain OF the Chicago school Of rio
hon, the greater part of the paper being devoted 10
George AIDE and Finley Peter Dunno The entire paIer
S in the authors most characteristic vein He finds
George AIDES work typically American. and his en-
ioynent Of Mr.. DUNES "Dooley Letters is AT once
real ana analytical 1t is when considering Mr.
DOoley that the critic writes:
When read fable beginning Once tbero ,,,s
gum chewer named Tessc ironed nm her white
dress ana bought seven yards Of ribbon nd Went IN
plcie gwen by the ladies' auxiliary OF the Horse
shoers union calmly glad i'm tho sori,rtt,, ~ a
fully foreseen passage of life. When / read q POOLE,
paper try to prepare myself for the delicious snr
prises which Mr.. Dooey has in store for Mr. Dune
but am not sure of any of them tin il comes Then
know that il is OF the last effect Of subtle ironS and
could not be better if it had been meant from The
first lam INN 'i1
The greater part OF the pages dealing with Mr.
Ade literary art IS reprinted here and those readers
interested i'm the world of today and its expression
IN the literature of today, will find worth While 10
turn to the article itself.
After several pages devoted to True Love" a ro-
nance by Edith Wyatt Mr.. Howels turns to- Mr.
AIDE:
In Mr. George Ado the American spirit arrives:
arrives, puts down its grip. looks around takes
chair makes itself at home II has no questions
TO ask and to There it is with it's hat
pushed back its hands in its pockets and at its ont
stretched feet that whole vast dro American world
essentially alike in Maine and Oregon and all the
hustling regions between; speaking slang
one life, meaning one thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

Marshall. = direct descendant Of the great
chief justice. Their canvass for the
contests in the political history OF Ken
lucky. Frequently they came 10 blows on
the stump and We're separated by friends
Just IN time to avert tragedy. Black
burr won by narrow margin. and al
though it IS more than thirty years since
ne felt called upon 20 defend the princi-
pies of his party by licking John ID.
White, he has been member of con-
gress ever since with a lapse into private
life of only four years as a result of the
fierce factiOnal warfare in the demo-
cratic party over the silver question.
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after half-hour Of the hardest sort
Of work and breaking my strongest for
cops. managed to pull the aching molar.
Another thing ! discovered was that the
Indians Wanted stoicism to pain is a
myth. This fellow behaved worse than
an infant OF years. and I was about
10 tell him to consult another dentist
when he piteOusly begged me to com
plete the job. as he had been refused by
many dentists TO do the work
''Of course I finished the job. though
before l got through I had turned the
edges OF fifteen or twenty drills. 1 have
often heard of the hardness Of the In
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09
Scientist.

church Of Christ, Scientist $50 East
hird south street-Sunday school at 10
a. m: church service n "a m s,biect
Soul. Each Wednesday evening AT &
. clock a meeting is held TO. listen To the
testimonials Of healing OF both sin and
sickness. All are welcome to these serv-
Ices. Free reading room. open daily from
10 a. m to y. m. In rooms SOS Scott
Strevsh building, 16S Main street Take
tho elevator
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German Evangelical

German Evangelical services at the
East Side Baptist church. corner Third
south and Seventh East-Preachine q;45
r. m; Sunday school D. m. Our Sum
day school picnic will be held Monday.
Aug. u. In the afternoon at Liberty mark
Al our German friends. strangers and
gnudren' are cordially invited. Rev. G. A.
thinner. pastor; residence. SOS East SsNc-
ond South.
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Have Hard Teeth.
CWashington Post.l

wv aSilnStOn PoSt.)
a remarkable thing-and one which
very few people KNOWS that the teeth
of an Indian are much harder and in
everE way stronger than the average
White mans teeth" remarked q down
town dentist. and i had ample occa-
sion, one morning last week, to test and
almost destroy every Instrument in my
shop.
"A red man came in and wanted me
to extract "A tooth and fix his mouth up in
general So proceeded to work and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09
Reorganized.

Rcorganized Church of Jesus Christ Of
Latter-day Saints. Services in mission
chapel. 22S East Second South street. as
follows: Sabbath school at 10 d. m.
preaching at II a. m: Scandinavian meet
ing AT y. m. Tho theme will be w by
We Do Not Believe I'm the Doctrines OF
Brigham Young" There will be preach
ing on the street at 7 D. m.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09
Christian.

Central Christian church. corner Third
East and Fourth South streets-Regular
communion service at n a. M followed
by the Sunday school at l1:ij a. M: Chris
tisn Endeavor at o. m: PRAYER service
Wednesday evening at S.1J d. m. All arc
cordially invited to attend these services.
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olan tooth, but never before did &C
tually experience the ordeal both for, hin,
and myself of working upon them. and
IN the future I'm of the opinion J. too.
VIII shirk the responsibility Of WORKING,
upon them with ordinary tools"
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congregational.

First Congregational church-Public
service at II o'clock. Sermon by Rev
occupy this pulpit during August sun
day school 1T 12;20;i Young Peoples meet
ng, 6:S0.
. The Rev Howard Briggs will preach at
inc first Congregational church This
morning. The choir will sing Teach Me-
- Lord, by Harry Lincoln Case aud
MISS DwYer viii render "A solo, Morning
Land. by Dudley Buck
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

Methodist.
First Methodist Episcopal % East
Third SOuth-S srviCcs at III a. m. and 5
y. M; morning service. a review OF the
work OF the past year; evening service,
brief sermon by the pastor with fine
musical programme; Sunday school, GAS
a m, class meeting, 12:20: EpWOrth
league, Z p. m; Monday evening at 8
clock, adjourned session Of the quar-
terly conference: Wednesday evcaing.
t;43, midweck prayer service; Thursday,
a. m, opening of annual conference.
with Bishop Earl Cranston, d. D., LID.
IN the chair. Cordial invitation 70 all
these services. Seats free
sunday morning Mr.. Larson will sing
Angels Serenade'' CBraga), with violin
obligatO by. Professor Nettleson: SUNDAY
evening. orchestra. 20 Give Thanks lint n
the Lord Mozart; flute and violin duett.
Scrcnadc.' Herbert, Mrs. Emma Multi
ner and Mr.. Nettleson; vocal solo. Ave
Maria Qrom Cavalcra Rusticanal Mas
Legend, Wieniamski Professor Claude
J. Nettleson; orchestra, Longing" Leon
ard orchestra, "Heimweh," JunCman.
Tiff n r. church. First South and
Ninth East; D. NJ. Belmick, pastor-Sun-
day school al Gas a. m; preaching at
II o'clock by the pastor: subject The
!Spworth league. Z p. m; prayer meeting,
Wednesday evening at Z o'clock. You are
invited TO these services.
scandinavian NJ T. Church.-EmiI L.
Mork. pastor 15S South Second East
street Services and communion i'm the
scandinavian language: Sunday school.
IN a. M: gospel services at s u. m All
Ices.
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First Baptist church. corner Second
South and Second West: Rev. ID. H.
Brown. pastor-PreachinE at II a. m and
; p m Rev. w. J. Binghamsaf PROVO Will
preach in the morning and the Re7s.5XYiil-
IAN q. Taylor. y. j.. ~ Indiau8pclis
mo, WI preach ia the evening sunday
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

East Side Baptist church. corner Third
South and Seventh East: +. Barnett. pas
tOr-Regular services at II n. m. and at 8
D. m, the pastor viii preach: Sunday
school at 1915 p. m: Young Peoples
meeting at 6:ij D m: general prayer
meeting of the church on Wednesday
evening at S o'clock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

Rio Grande chapel. Second South. be
tween Ninth and Tenth West-Sunday
school al $50 D. m., Miss Bertha +.
Moore, superintendent
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Presbvterian-

Westminster Presbyterian church. 139
South Fourth West street: SUNDAY. Arg
:. luz Rev; John Nicholson. pastor-l1
Of New York Presbyterian church. I2II5
y. m. sabbath school; 80 y. m. Endeav-
or sunday school; Z p. m. Young Peo-
pies Society Of Christian Endeav0r: no
evening service: Wednesday evening
prayer meeting at p. m.
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Episcopi

St Marks cathedral. Right Rev. Able
Leonard. $. II. D.. bishop: Very Rev
James 3. Eddie, =. D., dean: ninth sun
day after Trinity. Aug. . 1902-7:sO a. m
holy communion: 98J n. m. Sunday
school II "a. m. morning prayer and
sermon The public is cordially Invited
70 attend the services. Free seats.
st. Johns Episcopal mission. T,erlxir-s
addition; Rev r. H. Barnes, minister i'm
rhsrgc-Sunday school % 4. m: evening
PRAYER, p M; B. ". l.. Jennens, Law
reader.
st. Peters Episcopal mission. Fifth
North and Fifth West: Rev 4 n
Barnes. minister in charge-Sunday
Ichool. 3 p m; evening prayer. p. m
st. Pauls Church.-Main and Fourth
south streets. Rev. Charles l.. Parxins-
3. D., rector. Sunday school 9.f5 a. M. :
morning prayer and sermon. u, Strangers
md visitors arc cordially welcome All
seats free, Rev. John w Hyslop. for
meriy OF Salt Lake. viii officiate.
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Lutheran.

our Savior's Evangelical Lutheran
church. Fourth East. between Fourth
and Fifth SOUth-Divine services at 1880
a. m. every Sunday i'm the English Lam
guage You are cordially invited TO at
tend A. G.. II. Overn. pastor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09
Failed to Qualify.

Chicago News)
Are you good at figures?'' asked the
theatrical manager of the applicant for
job as stage manager.
Not very admitted the applicant.
Then you won't do replied the Z m.
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German Lutheran-EvanEelica Luther
an services I'm German every SUNDAY at
3 p m; sunday school at y. m at SVed-
lsh church. corner Second South and
Fourth East streets. You are most cor
daily invited to attend. J. r. Gracb-
ner. pastor, 953 South Second street.
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school at 12:15; f. ]. Lucas. superintend-
ent; r. Y. p. L. at p. m; subject les
sons from Paul. How We May Get his
Passion for Souls" leader. George Paul:
Tuesday evening at s o'clock the Darke
Young Mems club; regular midweek pray
er meeting Wednesday evening at s
O'Clock. a welcome to all.
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Burlington chapel, corner Indiana ave-
nue. and Navajo street-Sun6ay school at
S:15 p. m, G. J. Badertscher. superintend-
ent. Friday evening services at S.
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First Presbyterian church. corner Sec
ond East aud Second South streets: W
NJ. Paden, D. D. pastor: John G. Lincoln
assiStant-Morning service. II a. m The
Const raining Love OF Christi" Sunday
school. 1880 p. m: Christian Endeavor
society. $50; evening service 7:S
Foundations. The public is cordially
Invited to all services.
Southwest Mission. Second West and
Mead strects-Sunday school, q. m.
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CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS,

All notices for this column must be
handed in by noon Saturday.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-02-06

brilliant as Orator and Wit and q
Forceful Debater-Noted as n story
TeIler-His Experience as a Sol
dier-A Man of Many Moods.
Senator George Graham Vest Of Mis-
touri, who on March 8 next will retire
from the United States senate, in
which he has been force since 1879,
has been in public life since 1860 and
Is one OF the two surviving members
OF the Confederate senate that sat in
Richmond In 1868.
For many years Senator Vest was
regarded as the best equipped debater
on the Democratic side and one of the
best in the senate. For several years
Senator Vests health has been failing,
and his voice has been seldom heard.
On the rare occasions when he has spo-
ken the fire OF the senator's earlier
days has been lacking, and his physical
weakness and feeble voice make his
efforts seem a reminiscence.
Vest is not the oldest man In the SEN
ate, having been born in 1880. but be Is
near II. There have been few greater
orators in the senate than he and none
who was greater master of invective.
Vest has been one of the best story
tellers the senate has ever known. and
many good stories that have appeared
In print originated with him.
When Vest was a member of the
Confederate States congress, he became
aware that. sentiment In Missouri was
being aroused against him by the as
sertion that he preferred the life Of
legislator TO that of soldier. He
thereupon shouldered a musket and
went 10 the war.
The first battle In which he was en-
gagged the Confederates lost, and Vest
was retiring from the field when he
met a soldier from his own district
Jim" he said, you see what | am
doingT
"Yes," said the other.
"Now. JIM" said Vest, 81 want you
to go back TO Missouri and tell them
there that you saw me fighting for my
country Tell them, Jim, that you saw
me in battle yourself"
Jim said he would do as he was bid
and started on his way
"Oh, jim" Vest called after him. as
new thought flashed into his mind.