The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-18

your pardon. If you ran into me, don
And then he tore away at redoubIed
speed
Senator Hosr Of Massachusetts told the
following while at the Fifth Avenue the
other da-.
"a friend Of mine is the father. Of an
unusually precocious yOungSter, a 5-year-
an afternoon party, and before going he
was warned by his mother not TO take a
second helping Of cake.
If they offer il say YOU have had
enough cautioned the mother
When the kid got home, mamma in
CUired how he had Jared.
They asked me IL ! would have
second piece, and told them ! had had
enough but ] did not know what TO say
when they asked me again You never
told me.
And what did you say. dear2'
" said what I've heard pop say when
he's cross with ne for eating too much
cake: Take the damn ting away
There are in the world many tricks col
lcquiaIIv called wrinkles some OF
which are common enough and some more
known only to few
The other dav at the Gravesend track a
horseman invited a friend. formerly or
the sea. to inspect some horses in charge
Of A fellow hOrseman- They found MIN
doubled uD in an earnest eudeavor to get
a big jack knife open. and using language
sufficient for any purpose except getting
the knife open.
If youILiet me have that knife a min
ute" said The ex-seafarer, III show you
q sailors trick"
The horseman passed it over. His Wis
itor took out a handkerchief. laid one end
Of X on the side Of the Knife, put his
thumb or it and held it there firmly /;
then went on winding the handkerchief
around the knife in q fold about three
inches wide. When he came to the other
end he passed the knife 10 the hand
which had done the folding. and then
g
end of the handkerchief. which unWound
and remained IN his hand. When the
horseman picked up the, knife every blade
was open.
I don't care how badly stuck a knife
is said the exponent. that will fetch It
every time New York sun
On one of the papers that deal largely
in sensations there is a star reporter.
who is at last even with his night city
editor. The latter had assigned him to
look Up report that a ghost in Prospect
park had terrified and attacked the po-
lice. The star reporter was sent with an
artist, who was TO take picture Of the
ghost.
The police denied al knowledge Of the
specter. hut the reporter. noted for his
strength and courage. insisted on the
on a search for the dreaded dead that
had returned to earth once or twice
they thought they saw the ghost as.
shfvering they noted the moving shadows
At last they gave it up and started home
ward.
both felt ike school boys who had been
enticed into "snipe hunting" they hold
ing the bag. The reporter believed that
~ could play at practical joking. and
telephoned TO a friend in the art depart
ment to meet him in a Park Row drug
store, explaining what he wanted MIN
TO do.
It did not take the artist long to paint
the left eye of the athletic reporter q
beautiful black and TO have a trickling
wad Of paper made a great swelling on
the left side Of the face. and the right
hand was painted so that il seemed TO be
fresh from combat The reported ap-
peared before the night city editor in a
very excited condition.
I've got the greatest beat ever he
But. old man. you seem dreadfully
Don't mind that. I've got the story
Of the day. Need 4 stenographer. Hand
broke. Caught ghost. Proved to De
burglar in sheet. soaring off police so he
could rob nearby houses Was expire
fighter Nearly got the best of me Soaked
him good Bill, the artist, and I took MIN
to station house. Nobody else has the
story"
'All YOU can dictate. old man"
The reporter began a wonderful story
OF the capture. when he suddenly seemed
to faint He toppled over. II was get
ting near to time for going to press. The
night CITY editor was in a wild state Of
excitement as he saw the beat of the
year vanishing before his eyes.
He iuTaped to the ice cooler. In sec
ond he was bathing the reporters face.
The paint came off.
''Stung," said the reporter.-New York
Times