The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-13
STORIES oF THE NoTAsLEs.


This hot weather" said a Cleveland
Baptist, reminds me of an address
once heard John D. Rockefeller make.
Mr.. Rockefeller was speaking about
the value of little things-spare min
utes, spare pennies, and so on.
He told US how one of the littlest
things in the human line, that he had
ever seems. little new office boy-had
caused him, at the beginning of his
career, to distrust a bookkeeoer who
afterwards turned out to be a very I'M
reliable man.
This boy had come to work in Mr.
Rockefeiler's Office. He was a bright
little fellow, and the chief liked his
looks.
lone hot August afternoon. as Mr..
] Rockefeller was starting out to collect
a. bill, he said kindly to the little boy:
ct suppose the bookkeeper has told
you what to do this afternoon?
. Yes, sir the boy answered. Z am
TO wake him up when 1 see you coming
back. .
THE late John Hay" said a Chi
cagoan, had no belief in fads. He held
that we Americans. in our impetuosity.
We're given to fads overmuch. 1t was
this one trait in us alone that would
ever suffice to shake Mr. Hay out OF
his exquisite equanimity.
HE was walking with me one day in
London. At Hyde Park corner a vege-
tartan from Frisco Joined us, and, as we
strolled onward, this vegetarian talked
hotly about the evils of intoxicating.
trying, it seemed. to convert Mr.. Hay
and me to his fad.
MIR. Hay listened patiently for quite
half an hour. Then suddenly, he
stopped short. He thumped the pave
ment with his walking stick. He pointed
eastward.
There" he said, stands Piccadilly.
There it has been for hundreds of
years. And there it will be when you
and your potato beliefs are forgotten. +"
DR.. w. w. Kean, the noted surgeon
Of Philadelphia. was praising speed in
surgical operations. The best surgeons,
he declared, were always the swiftest
Speed was one of the great essentials
of fine operating, since, the bFiefer the
period passed by the patient under the
knife. the greater the chance for his
complete recovery.
''On this head DR.. Kean continued,
smiling. there is a story of a dis
tinguished English surgeon.
HE performed successfully a difficult
and delicate operation on a millionaire
bankers wife. and. naturally, the bill
that he rendered for this operation was
q large one 1t was not exorbitant, but
it was enOugh-a reasonable and just
bill.
1.-THE banker, though, thought other
clared the bill to baan outrage.
q Why he cried. 1.-THE operation only
took you ten minutes
1.-The surgeon laughed.
"'Oh,' he said, if that is your only
objection, the next time any of your
family needs an operation. I'll keen
them two or three hours unde- the
knife .
Alton IS. Parker, at a dinner in New
York, characterized as illogical the po-
sition of two prominent financiers.
These gentlemen remind me- he
said. "of two sailors who were found
one day, seated at table before a cafe.
"One sailor had a letter before him,
and was reading it aloud. while at the
same time the other, sailor held his
hands over the readers ears
cit made an odd picture-the two
sailors with their mild drink. one read
ing. and the other holding his ears while
he did so.
THE friendly waiter impelled by an
Irresistible curiosity, paused before the
| table.
=" Why he asked. do you hold your
hands over your friends ears while he
reads that letter out loud to YOU?
= Because was the dignifsed answer.
the letter is from my. sweetheart Jack
Is reading II TO me because I can't read