The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-10

In condemning intempeTance Mrs.
John 4. Logan recently said TO the Gin
cinnat Enquirer:
Alcohol so ViulateS the mind that the
degradation II imposes on its victims
hardly seems like degradation to them.
The woes of these men are changed TO
blessings in their besOtted brains.
For instance" said Mrs Logan,
smiling there used TO live in Ken
lucky an old man called Fawcett Jones
Fawcett drank to excess, and he used
To declare that whisky was meat and
drink to him. But one hot summer
night he drank so much that he fell
into a puddle on the way home and
IN the puddle he lay snoring until dawn.
A clergyman who had risen early
found him with his head i'm the mud
and his legs and body in the water, and
the good man woke him up.
All he said. so whisky is meat and
drink to you, is il. FawsettE
-Fawcett rose 10 his feet and began
10 wiring cut his clothes
1t certainly is he said. and wash
ing and lodging, too. sir.
With the odor of medieval musk
comes this one. now floating around as
sn experience Of. Burne-Joues-
ware you the man who painted that
'ere picture of Moses i'm the Bull
rushes2 " asked a cOuntTyman of Sir
Edward Burnc-Jones. Yes" replied
the artist ''Au right; then I want you
TO paint my father Certainly. il he
gives me a few sittings." Cant do it.
he's dead" Let me have a photo
graph Of him. cant do that nei-
Their. He never had his photograph
taken. I'm afraid then I must de-
cline" Decline What for2 Haven [
You painted Moses? You didn't have a
photograph of him. did you2 No; I
thought not Well my father haint
been dead nearly so long as Moses. II
YOU can paint Moses You ought TO know
enough TO paint my father Appreci-
ating the situation the artist went to
work and evolved such portrait as ne
thought he might satisfy so original a
son. -CriCkey.' exclaimed this art
patron on seeing the completed paint
ing. That almost beats that portrait
OF Moses; but. l say, how he has
changed"
The late Sir Edwin Arnold had d
ETeat many stories in Illustration of
Japanese traits. saws Golfers Weekly.
The Japanese gardeners" h. once
said. have carEied their art further
than we have carried ours a land
scape gardener in Japan is esteemed
highly. He is looked on quite as we
look on a poet or a painter
And these japanese gardeners are,
truly. remarkable men, 7 was riding
with one of them near KiotO on an
August afternoon and we came TO a
steep hillside
Tell me- [ said. now would you
hin?
The gardener smiled hUmorOusly.
90 ] think he said. that I would frs
.5urn some cows loose and see how they
Fsot W
senator Stone Of Missouri tells 4
story Illustrating the differences OF
pronunciation in different parts of the
country. 1T is related. says the SEN
stOr. that when the first tide of Ner-
England settlers began to drift to Kan
Sas. MissOurians tied COW al each
crossing of the Missouri river. If th-
cmigrant said cow he was permitted
70 cross. but If he pronounced il 'keow'
he was told to return 10 the east be
cause the natives We're satisfied that
he was an evil-minded abolitionist-
The Kansas people evened mp by tying
"a bear on their side Of the river. aud
il the emigrant said bear he was Civ
en- the right hand Of fellowship. but If
h pronounced II bar he was given an
hour TO get back 10 Missouri because
he was an advocate of slavery"
A lawyer of the good old southern
type says the New York Tribune had
argued for three court days without
pause His brief was a masteTful piece
Of classical learning and legal erudi-
ton but it was tiresome.
Major Sigsbee,' said the WeaTied
Judge at last. without wishing 90 in
innate in any way that the court would
not be delighted 10 listen To your whole
argument. I must suggest that the
docket Is somewhat crowded and that
Il YOU could condense a little it might
heia your clients cause"
The attorney smiled his acknowledg-
ment- FYo' hOnoh.- he exclaimed. the
thought was I'm my mind when I pre-
pared my argument sub. fob the
next 10 days my brief IS a perfect
n8ahval Of condensation
An indefatigable spinner of fishing
and hunting yarns lives in one OF the
villages in my district" says Repre-
sentative Smith Of Pennsylvania, who
himself learned TO spin some right good
ones when he was employed in the gov
eminent printing Office. One day this
gentleman. whom I viii call GrinneIl
boosted that he had a few days before
killed large buck by shooting aim
through the hOof OF his hind feet. the
ball passing out of his forehead. OF
course. some Of Grinnen's hearers
doubted this story. WhereupOn he called
npon al Old negro who had been il his