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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
A CONTRACTOR WANTED.

IN = recent letter to his paper Walter
Weuman of the Chicago RecOrd-Herald
says the powers that rule in Washing
ton are seriously contemplating the
turning over Of the Panama canal work
20 private contractors. The difficulty
viii be in finding contractors who are
willing to face the tremendous OBJ
stacles. The president is said to be
convinced that in the private contractor
lies the solution OF the problem. He
believes the men can be found.
"One OF our diplomatic officers
abroad" says Mr.. Wellman, has writ
ten letter TO Washington asserting
that engineers are laughing in their
sleeves at what they call the inaptitude
Of the Americans in their management
OF the canal JOB. The foreigners are
amazed that the Americans, with all
their great reputation for practicality
and efficiency OF management, are maxi
ing such slow progress with the ditch.
They are the more amazed that the
washington government has not ere
now arranged to turn the actual work
of construction over to the biggest and
most enterprising contractors in the
world"
Certainly the administration has not
been as successful with the Panama
JOB thus far as its well wishers had
hoped. When the matter was placed
entirely IN the hands of the president
those who thought Mr. Roosevelt could
do anything in the world proclaimed
that he would finish the canal without
scandal and in the briefest possible
time well. he has been working at it
for many months and, as Mr.. McCutch-
con pointed out in an admirable car
tOon in the Chicago Tribune, very much
more ground has been -excavated for
graves than for the canal.
Nor is there any immediate prospect
of a betterment of conditions The ad-
ministratfon has tried, and it begins
TO look as if the administration had
failed. The salvation OF the Panama
canal seems to lie now in the private
contractor The only question, as has
been stated, is as to whether or not he
can be found
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

TO show his hand At the trial the
city's attorney neglected 10 have
stenographic report of the evidence
taken when 1 left the gambler ap-
pealed. They now have no evidence
against him and cannot convict him
unless I go back Now. what do you
think Of that2 1 cant go back. Can
send a proxy. The play is ended and
the gambler wins
The American paused and looked az
his companions
4 say asked the Englishman, did
you play only three hands
Just so. Yes. three hands. an
swered the American.
And you dealt the cards on the third
hand?"
sure. II was my deal. But"
And you dealt yourself three aces
and two jacks, and the gentleman op-
pOsite four sevens2'
The very hands. But how did YOU
guess?''
1--WE were sn Salt Lake City last
week. calmly answered, the English
man.
Shake" cried the American. extend
ing his hand. How much?"
Three seventy-hve. was the answer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
PROGRESS VS.. OBSTRUCTION.


people generally
What good thing steal"
The calendar To be
come it doesn't suit the bioekaders " ~
snow the real situation the following comparison is offered set
the hope the Light and Power refuse
the 9b agreement T f which was passed and accepted -
OLD OLD July
Both franchises extend time for laying wires underground one year
same
per hour; 81
pay IL per
at schedule.
engineers not shown in the
franchise which win the
required company to build the Lake Breeze le
S n eGged the company to furnish compel
ing the
The
in
ho o0ud get sun favorable 6a
he had we'll 'iD O'' -O'9 years Kun "Ou' ''"'A
have onesd no criticism of the rates. the car
quoted single business man of npor-
anything that might possibly boost Salt Lake and
IN 'ne position It's advantages ene it ocoed mule
personal
curing and completing tel
So there
the itself
win calling With wall
t the
OF having
in
What Salt Lake is determined
all
of
he the
be is
Herald to
it still
a water and
ha in it's in
to OF
of
in
Cottonwood
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
Beef Considered AthIetioalIy.
CSan Antonio Expressly

tSan Antonio EXpFeSS-J
Richard Harding Davis, when he was
a reporter in Philadelphia, delighted to
disguise himself as a tough" young
man and to mingle with the odd char
asters of the Ninth street district of the
Quaker CITY.
MIR. Davis got to know this district
with peculiar intimacy. Its prize-f1ght-
ers he knew especially well. Not sell
dom, in the gathering of some odd news
item. he would accompany a third rate
pugiIist TO his cheap boarding house
and dine with him on the most unpal-
atable fare.
II used to know one fighter said
Mr. Davis recently, "who was a char
acter, u wit, a man of no mean intel
lect.
lone day 7 dined with him at his
boarding house, a typical boarding
house-one of those where the land
lady sits at the head Of the table and
serves the dishes to the submissive
pensioners ranged in two lines below
her.
MY friend got a piece of steak that
was full OF grtstle. Finding the steak
intolerably tough, he began to amuse
us all with burlesque attempts at carv-
carved. Then he held his knife like a
chisel and pretended to hammer the
handle with a biscuit.
1.-The landlady up to this moment
had been too busy serving to notice the
pugilists antics. Now she spoke up.
rs there anything the matter with
your steak?' she said in stern voice.
THE pugilist smiled politely and an
swered:
8 1t is q trifie overturned, perhaps
madam; but really 1 never saw a hard
err muscle"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
THE EASY PUBLIC.

Thomas W. Lawson was talking
about sharp practice
Sharp practice is the rule" he SAID,
but is not the public in a way 70
blame? Why should the public be so
willing TO be delUded? What is the
matter with the public. anyway? Upon
my word have seen men and women
hug and nurse worthless stocks as
Washington White nursed his watch
Washington White2 Oh, ne is
Boston cOlOred man.
zone day Z friend met him on an IN
derground train. The friend sat down
beside him. Washington was rocking
himself to and fro in curious way
something like man with the collie
How do, Washington said the
friend.
- How do. Calhoun said washing
ton, and he still rocked to and fro
The friend regarded him curiOusly-
" You hain't sick, Washington, be
your ne asked.
=" No, indeed. Calhoun was the reply
q" Then why in the name o common
sense. NAH friend, am you roclSin'
self TO and fro this-a-way, all the
tinle2'
Washington White made no pause
in his regular oscillations as he said:
" 'Calhound, you know Jerome Nc
Wade? Well, he done sold me a silver
watch for free dollars. and If stops a
movin' like dis yere de watch don't go
no mo-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
MUST LIVE cLEANLY.

To many people who don't know, the
green room Of n circus In the last
place on earth in which they would
care to have one near and dear to
them. There is a common notion that
IN such places dissipation and debauch-
cry run riot, that the atmosphere is
unclean, that no man can go into it
without being contaminated. We are
not advising young men TO enter the
circus as a profession, but a talk with
one Of the athletes who appeared in
the circus that exhibited here last week
has convinced US that there are worse
places.
Said this man:
I'VE must live clean lives. In this
business it is necessary for us to have
our wits about US. Every day we daily
with disaster; every day we are in
positions where a misstep of a fraction
of an inch would mean death or seri-
Gus injury We cannot afford 60 jeop-
ardize our lives or our positions by
indulging in dissipation of any charac-
ter. We cannot afford TO drink intOxi-
eating liquors, we must keep regular
hours; we must as 1 said, lead clean
Iives'
There is a good deal in that. Il
doesn't stand to reason that a man
who sits up until three or four o'clock
in the morning ana goes TO bed drunk
can have a clear head the next after
noon and evening. The athlete must
keep regular hours, he must lead an
abstemious, a careful life The loss
for single moment of his keenest
intelligence may result in death. And,
if the rule of clean living works well
with the circus athlete why should it
not work well with the ordinary citi-
zen?
1t is true that those who dissipate
are not in immediate danger of losing
their lives. But they are in danger
of losing that which is as dear as life,
reputation, standing, honor. The fact
that you do not stand on a trapeze
bar forty feet in the air twice a day
does not justify you in taking chances
with dissipation. You cannot go to bed
drunk and wake up the next morning
feeling like doing business. The man
YOU are doing business with was not
drunk the night before. He has his
wits about him and, sooner or later,
he viii get the better OF the bargain.
Clean living is profitable to all Of
US. No man can afford not to live
Cicauly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
AGRICULTURAL GRAFrERs.

The announcement that. DR.. Salmon,
head Of the bureau of animal industry
Of the agricultural department, has
been engaged in the gelatine label bust
ness and was interested in contracts
with the department of which he is
the head, has just been made. DR..
Salmon has renowned his "side line"
but that does not alter the fact that
it was not legitimate. We wonder
where the uncovering of graft in the
agricultural department win come to
an end.
One chief after another has erred. to
put the case-as mildly as possible.
There was DR.. George II. Moore, for
example. DR.. Moore was one Of the
scientists of the department.. We have
always been led to believe that scien-
lists care very much more for their
work, because it is their work, than
for any monetary rewards. AS physi-
ologist and algologist OF the agricul-
tural department DR.. Moore had
achieved high standing. he took up
the question of nitro-culture, or vac
cination OF the soil with nitrogen.
A company was formed to promote
the scheme and DR.. Moore allowed part
Of the stock TO be placed in the name
of his wife. It is true that Dr. Moore
told his superior officers of this fact
and declared that unless his salary
was raised he would resign and devote
his time exclusively to the affairs of
! the company. His salary was raised
and then, according to his account,
he returned the stock given TO his
wife. However, there is no denying
the fact that DR.. Moore used his posi-
( ton with the government for the pur-
pose Of furthering his Standardization
| experiments.
Any discoveries he made were the
property of the government and should
have been turned over TO it for free
use by the people, for the people. after
all, did the paying. 1t is not charged
| that DIR. Moore was guilty of any I'M
/ lawful act His error was moral and
| ethical. And other heads Of depart
ments appear to have sinned- The cot
/ ton report leak is recent history. In
deed, there is hardly au agricultural
| bureau that is not tainted.
Where will it all end? Is it possible
| that If Diogenes should return to
earth he would be unable to find one
honest man in the government service
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
A Tip That Stunned the Waiter
CPhiIadelphfa Record.)

Melville Z. ingalls,, former president
of the Big -Four railroad system, tells
this story of a waters tip. He was
lunching alone in a Cincinnati cafe.
Near by sat a dignified gentleman who
casually asked his waiter: How is
business The man said he was doing
We'll upon which the dignified individ-
ual expressed regret, saying: 'Person-
ally. I have always treated your craft
in this house generously" The waiter
was assiduous in his attentions and
helped the guest on with his coat. The
dignified man laid his hand on the
walters arm and said: Young man,
you seem to be disconnected with your
lot and I am going 30 give you the best
tip you ever received. Get into some
other business" And he strolled away,
leaving the waiter speechless.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
A FAMILY MAN.
Chicago Newsl

The pleasant looking young conduc-
tor jumped off the car with alacrity
and helped the matronly woman with
the baby and folding go-cart to a seat.
The woman thanked him with effu-
sion. I'm afraid that carts going
to be IN your way" she said
Not at ALL marin" replied the con-
ductor, cycling the cart with some in
terest. '@Them's mighty handy" he
remarked.
L should say they was" said the
woman, adjusting her infants hood
and removing some traces OF recent
cOokey from It's mouth with her hand
kerchief. My landi 1 don't know how
I'd get along without this"
I'm family man myself" said the
conductor with some pride.
Then you ought to know how a
womans tied TO a baby. Wherever
she goes the baby's got to go"
That's what said the conductor,
touching the baby under the chin
But they're great comfort as well
as a care. I've raised four OF EN- and
ia be kinder lost without a baby"
Il would myself" said the conduc-
tor. 1T sounds good to hear 'em a
yellin' out. Seems like home, don't it :
you're different from most of the
men If you like it, said the woman.
MY husband likes his children, but he
can't stand for IL to hear 'em bawlin'- :,
This fellow don't talk yet, does he?''
asked the conductor presently.
My land no, He amt but fourteen
months old yet. Oh, he says some
things, but not real plain, as you may
say, to talk His sister. she talked at
fourteen months, though gels gener-
ally talk sooner'n boys, they say"
Mines a little girl" said the con-
ductor.
"Tve got three boys an a -geH,' - said
| the woman
i've sure got to get one o. them lit
I tie carts.'' the conductor declared
| Pick 'em up and take 'em anywhere
| can't you? I've seen lots of 'em, but
! I never paid no particular attention to
/ 'em before Put 'em on street cal
! anywhere"
! TT amt so easy as # might be-" said
| the woman. All o the conductors
amt as clever an accommodatin' as
you are. There's a many Of 'em won't
never offer to help"
at know how II is myself, you see
/ being a family man."
"Have you got many?"
Jest the one, but she's corher."
How old is she?"
! The conductor pulled out his water
and consulted it carefully. We'll h
| said. she's just eight hours an thirty
six minutes cid right now"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
A Lesson For Husbands.
(BuffaIo Enquirer.N

The late Mary A Livermore liked to tell
a story OF young friend of hers in Mel
rose. for she believed in this story lay a
lesson for husbands.
Mrs. LiVermOre'S friend was passing a
month alone her mate having been sum
moned 70 Europe on a business trip.
And you are very lonely without your
husband now? the elder said to the
younger woman one morning.
"A little lonely was the Qualified an
SWer.
But surely" said Mrs. Livermore you
aWay7
The other laughed rather bitterly
"Oh. no" she said "At breakfast /
Just stand his newspaper up in front OF
his plate spd hair the time 7 forgef he
ASnt there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

A man who secured divorce from
his wife on the ground of insanity is
going to Paris with a divorced woman
70 have DR.. Wagner of the simple life
marry them. It's about time they were
beginning the simple life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
says he viii explain all about those
81 900 fraudulent votes in Philadelphia.
II he starts to doing that sort of thing
he viii be kept busy for the rest Of
his natural life, and then for a while.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
Her Speciality.

Chicago Daily News.)
Bleeker-Nour wife Is something of 8
wit. She tried to make game of me at
the reception last night.
Meeker-Huhi That's nothing She oft
en- makes me quail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

Twenty-Five dozen Young turkeys
have been shipped from Kentucky to
Portsmouth for the peace ENJOYS. If
that's ali they get from Kentucky the
deliberations ought TO be characterized
By harmony
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

j. Pierpout Morgan has returned
from London with III new suits of
clothes, according to a dispatch. Mr..
Morgan is in hard lines when he has
TO break into the news through the
chappie route.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

A Chicago man says he has acquired
all the money he wants. First thing
ne knows his relatives viii be shutting
him up ia some nice, quiet asylum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
II Is To Laugh.
(Chicago Record-Herald)

NLnIcaBO Record-HeraId.)
DepSw says ne paid a fancy price for
'FRds and Fancies," not because he was
cOerced, but because he really wanted
the book This is the first genuinely
funny story that DeDew has told for
years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
May Drop a WAGON Load More.

milwaukee SentineL)
Says Lawson Of RockefeIier's $4,000 600
gift; He merely let go OF twenty-five
tons of gold when he heard the dogs
barking" Mr.. Lawson should keep on
berkin=.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
Besides, He Wasn't HOMEGROWN.
CMashington Post-

Having listened to the preachings Of
Mary Ellen Lease. Webb Davis and
Bryan Kansas does not like Tom Law
son, because he is too radical.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
Maybe rs Something He Ate.
0C,hicago JournaI.O

Chicago Journal)
Brother Rockefeller is represented as
bowed with grief and longing for "A gen
tie word. It may be 50, but it doesn't
sound like John.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
WITH THE PARAGRAP HERS
Just So He Doesn't Say 1t Aloud.

CNew York Telegram.)
Secretary Root has taken the oath. and
he viii probably repeat the ceremony
under his breath many times during his
term OF office as Fostering problems
arise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
And the Going Is Very Heavy.
New Yorl

ANGW 4OTk w OrlO-J
Hon. Tom L. Johnson has entered the
presidential race early; but Mr.. John
son knows that he has a long way to go
and needs q good start.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
Fails to See the Joke.

An Ohio man who is los years old SAYS
that he reached this age by always work
ing hard. This should convince any one
that IL isn't worth it to live 70 be 100
years Old
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

Raltin1ore SIN

II the grafters ever manage to start a
Panama canal pension list the government
might as well make an assignment at
once.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06
Is a Pretty Good Mixer.

Mr.. Bryan says the woods are full of
wide-awake Democrats. Are these the
same ones who took to the woods last
November?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

Schmidt: An Apology ro-. the Country"
By Arthur Cotton, have all the readable
ness of stories.
THE WORLD ToDay-Evep casua1
reader must be impressed by the up
to-date and live character of the con-
tents Of The World To-Day for Az
Illustrations and the articles are of
remarkably high standard The sever
ance OF the union between Norway and
Sweden makes particularly timely the
article by /. 4. BoyeSen. entitled Nor
ways Past and Future" and the eight
tractive- countries. The recent action OF
Russia in regard to the schools of Fin
S. Reinseh. depicting the arbitrary and
oppressive Character. OF the Russian con-
and the Recent Strikes in Italy, BY \.
Dwight Harris is another historical
sketch of current value.
The -Four Track News-The August. or
midsummer Four Track News opens with
a deli@htfully written y article. entitled
The Call of the Wilderness" by Richard
~ Haste; The Remuneration of Jones. -
py Z. X .HerVey- is ar admirable de-
scr1Rtlon OF canoe trip on the tennessee;
of local atmosphere. tells the story of
The Tip End of Cape cod:, Below the
Grand Canyon" is one Of George Whar-
ton James interesting articles on the
land with which he is so familiar; With
Dean. tells the important story Of Wash
ington's life there during the most ex-
citing period of the revolutions; Ocean
Grove by Allen Day, THE Hall of
Fame" by Isabel r. Wallach; Our New
Empire (Alaska), By William c. Fitz-
Gerald: After Moose in Maine by l. F.
Brown; 'WiSd Cave" South Dakota).
by Mary X. Maule. and Harold Frederic,
Novelist - by John Davis Anderson. are
articles whose titles are self-eXPlaraa-
tory.
The Pilgrim-The Pilgrim for August is
a midsummer fiction number. and. as
such. promises TO be the most success
full issce, of this interesting magazine
ever published The great success Of the
Pilgrim seems to give the lie direct to
those wary publishers who have, for so
many years. contended that magazine
of general interest and of the higher
class can not be published west OF Phila-
delphia and New York Even in the mat
ter OF short tales. reading of the Phi
grim for August shows that these elusive
bits os literature MAJ well be gatnered
in the middle vest. The stories in the
Pilgrim. for August are not only the best
! stories this magazine has ever published,
but are among the best in the summer 5
entire crop OF fiction. Authors well and
little known are reDreSented but the
tales of every one are vastly superior In
interest and in the manner Of the telling
to the majority of short stories
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

The Atlantic Monthly-The August num-
Der OF the Atlantic has been carefully
planned 10 be a summer fiction number
OF the first interest The editors hope
that the suggestion of such titles as ''The
Clammer." In Swimming AN Apology
for the Country above the Clouds at
Metequi," may be found cooling and sea-
sOnable.
The fiction of the number. The Clam
mer 1.-The Pilgrim Chamber" The
Bart one and the Office Boy" and I'VE, =
Mr.. c. d. Stewards clever parody Of
Rudyard KiplingSs much discussed
They" will be especially attractive TO
lovers of stories, while the essays of the
number. THE Romance of the Milky
Way" by Lafcadio Hearn: I'm Swim
ming by Arthur StanWOOd Pier. The
Breaking in of a Yachtsman's Wife" by
Mary Heaton Worse: TN Congo sans
Cioches' by Agnes Repplier; Above the
Clouds al Metequi, by Anna Seaton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

Smiths Magazine-Lovers of good fic-
ton should be interested in the August
number of Smiths Magazine There are
stories by Charles Garvice, Vincent Har-
per, Sir William Magnay. Cyrus Towns
end Brady and a number of other we'll
known authors The magazine is remark
ably well illustrated, and opens with a
series of art studies of well-knoWn ac-
tFesseS- The article on insurance. under
the title of Safeguarding the Home,
will prove Of service to good many
people who want to know just what
chance their money has In an insurance
company and the big fashion department
should win a great many women readers
to the magazine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-06

Snggestion-There Is q growing interest
among thinkers and progressive people in
such subjects as drugless healing, nature
cure, psychic research, practical every
day psychology, auto suggestion, viii
power, memory culture, brain building and
allied subjects Those topics are dis
cUssed in the August issue of Suggestion,
a Journal of the new psychology for
health happiness and success. The prfn-
cipal articles discuss stability Doise and
determination I'm character building; by
giene; the cause and cure of old age, etc.