The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-24
STRANGE MANNER OF
SATISFYING CONSCIENCE
Money Stolen by Banker and
Used Twenty Years Returned,
Without Interest.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-''I do
not understand - remarked caller at
the United States Treasury, distin-
guishod banker, versed in the art of
making money earn money, 80 do not
understand how q man can steal money
from the Government, and after enjoy
ing the use of it for twenty years, re-
turn the bare principle, without a cent
of interest, to the conscience fund III
an anonymous letter, and feel that his
conscience is thereby made clear
cit is hard to understand, replied
the Secretary, who is from Iowa, and
therefore feels called upon to say some
thing original, "but let us hope that
the Presidents spelling reform is not
going to make it any more difficult than
heretofore to tell principal from princi-
pie
The national capital is having laugh
over an occurrence at the reception
rendered Samuel Gompers by organized
labor on his return from the Maine cam
paign. While the function was in pro-
gress a delegate arose and made an
excited protest against some liquid re.
freshments in the hall, wh hich he claimed
did not come from union brewery, a
more or less lively debate followed, but
the objetcing delegate was not appessed
until general promise was solemnly
made not to drink the stuff
And, speaking of stuff to drink, there
is at the present time debate going
on in half the $50 newspaper Offices in
Washington as to whether Italian naval
officers have a sense of humor. The
the river here and is being diligently
written up, but the writers have no
ticed that every female reporter sent
to the vessel-and there have been a
number-was served with a stiff, raw,
burning Scotch whiskey, the same as
the males. If it wasn't intended for
an Italian joke, the parties afflicted
would like to know who told the officers
of that cruiser that Scotch whlskey was
the favorite beverage Of the American
newspaper woman.
Germany has been bracing up her
pure food inspection, and, according TO
the official reports received here, some
funny things have been found, espe-
cially in sausages, of which the Ger
mans consume q tremendous quantity.
All over the country IL has been discov-
cred that meal or bread is being used
to swell the quantity of filler in sausa-
ges. Some sausages were found that
had been artifcially dyed. One sample
revealed a glutinous substance to give
the sausage greater consistency, just as
a binder is used to make coal dust stay
pressed into the form of briquette.
Many samples showed water in milk,
and as for cheese it was found all over
the Empire that grated potatoes or
potato flour was used to adulterate 1t.
Pure olive oil was seldom found, the
stuff sold for it being usually a re-
minder of tho Texan who came to Wash
ingtou to secure an appropriation for
the Improvement of the harbor of his
town.
"But what do your imports consist
OFF, asked the chairman of the Rivers
and Harbors committee, who WINS in
doubt as TO the Importance of the
town
Cotton seed, was the reply.
And your e2ports?
'Olive oil.'
Substitute for Butter is the way
oleo must be marked in Germany, but
the pure food inspectors report that the
words "Substitute for' are always in
such small type that no German can
read them If he docs not happen to
have his specs with him. And many
other things have been found TO prove
that Connecticut need no longer claim
sole copyright on the wooden nutmeg
business.