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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17
A RAILROAD COMPARISON.

Representative Mann, chairman of
the house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, has just submitted
a report in which some interesting COM
PARSONS between American and Eng
lish railroads are instituted. 1t is a
quite generally accepted belief that
travel is much safer on the railroads
/ Of Great Britain than on American
roads The Mann report shows that
/ this theory is a delusion. Mr.. Mann
! compiled the statistics in connection
with a resolution directing the inter
state commerce commission to make
/ an investigation and report recon-
mendations for legislation to make rail-
way travel in this country safer.
While the fact that our railroads are
safer highways Of travel than the
English roads will not of itself reduce
the danger Of accidents or the num-
Der OF fatalities, it is comforting to
know that we are anead Of the older
country. Mr.. Mann found that by far
the greater number Of deaths and in
jUries from railroad accidents in the
United States are caused at crossings
and to trespassers on the rights Of
way. Actual travellers on the lines are
safe enough by comparison.
In the year that ended June 30, 1904,
1O,046 persons were killed and S4155
were injured in railway accidents. But
only 262 were killed and 4, 97S injured in
deraiIments and collisions. All of the
remainder were either railroad men
employed about yards or were, in the
technical sense, trespassers on the right
Of way. According to Mr.. Mann's fig
uTes the fatalities among passengers
were much fewer, in proportion to
mileage, than the same kind Of fataIi-
ties on British roads.
The showing is even better when sec
tons, or groups, Of states are compared
with the British lines. For example,
there are 1887 miles of railway in
the states Of Iowa, Illinois. Wisconsin.
Minnesota and parts of North and
South Dakota The United Kingdom
has less than half this mileage. In
the territory named sixty-four passen-
gers were killed and 1927 were injured
during the year covered by the Stats |
tics. This" says the Mann report, lis /
a far smaller number than were killed /
and injured in the United Kingdom.
The figures would have been more /
impressive If the comparisons had been !
based on the number of passengers
handled. There, after all, IS the real /
test. And nobody viii deny that too /
many people are killed and injured /
every year by American railways. If |
can be devised that will stop
the slaughter and the manning by
all means let it be devised and enacted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

Besides those CrisS-cTOSseS of purpose
with knives and pistols there is an In
dian to demand an additional paragraph
for "GOldfelds of Nevada" He is one
of those sOlemnly stalking chiefs upon
whose trail follows tOm-tom music by
the orchestra and who accounts for
his presence in impossible places by
throwing his blanket off his chest and
saying "UghI" This noble red man
loves the good white maiden and often
remarks Ugh concerning IT. IN some
way the audience cOmpTehendS that the
savage. having made up his mind that
he can't pull off a match with her
himself, is determined that the hero,
not the william, shall acquire her. There
fore. the Indian stands guard over her.
stoicalIy and attitudinally, as he would
ever cigar store if he were q wooden
brave.
Did I say that he was a silent saw
age? Well, not as to the villain and
the adventures. He is free in his
comments on them-free and profane-
very prOfane. Thus the author, Henry
Belmar, introduces a new character
a swearing Indian. But I doubt if Mr.
BeImar expected the fellow to become
the comic person of the play From
the time that the Indian says of the
villain grim and SLOW, Heap goddam
skunk" and of the adventures, with
gruff solemnity. Much godamighty
snake he is the funny man of the
outfit It is futile in the comic Jew
and an inevitable Miss that they strive
to hold their accustomed places. Even
the hero is put aside by the new ia
vorite. Before the play is half over.
the gallery grunts Ugh" with the In
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

The one II "In a WOman's Power"
was al enigma TO the audience which l
watched. She was tall, dark and de-
clamatOry. she wore gowns both red
and black so spangled that she shOne
under the calcium ike a diamond mine
in Darkest Africa; and she was in
cahOOts with the usual polished villain;
but the people waited in vain for her
to demand marriage of him. and send
him to prison because he refused to
take her the altar. She stayed bad
to the end Of the play. I looked in
the bill for the name of the IcOnOclas-
tic author. He had not dared to have
il printed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

My former husband is the soul Of
honor" said a New York woman after
she had secured a divorce from the
husband aforesaid. Probably he kept
his promise not to interfere in any way
to prevent the divorce.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

In the third and more unusual case
of being amused from both sides of
the fOotlights, George H. Conan, the
actor, and Dan Mcpherson. a doctor.
gave an Interpolation. Mcpherson had
more alcohol within than he could hold
down in an aisle seat. Conan let's
others do all the singing during the
first hour of The Governors Son." and
Mcpherson made impatient ejacuIa-
tons. At length, Cohan struck into a
song called Il Want Ny Ragtime. -
Mcpherson wGs pleased some. but lot
much, for the tune hadn't the vim or
swing of The Good Old Rag" or THE
Yankee Doodle Boy" with their twist
ing in Of patriotic airs. Mcpherson
arose slowly to a height Of six feet
four, balanced his bulk on his unsteady
legs and lurched down the centre aisle.
Now, George" he said, 81 want you
TO sing something for me-some- better
than that for me-just for me-"
Now, what was the right thing to do
with Mcpherson? Of course. as it was
in a first-class theatre, filed by polite
people. he should have been elected
when he first began to make of himself
nuisance. But now the play had
been stopped, and Cohan was manifest
ly in a qUandaTy.
please, George" the big but good
humOred loafer pleaded; please.
George dear-sing something that TIl
like
COhan's face was a study. sat in
a front seat and could see in his visage
the working of his mind. He was
angry, of course, but didn't like to
seem bad tempered. and so he grinned
while bearing it.
We'll, my friend" he said what
song shall it be? The Yankee Doodle
Boy?"
''ThatH be good enough for me-
said Mcpherson.
But he didn't get it, for the leader
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

James J. Hill has purchased resi-
dencc in New York and will live there
most Of the time. It is announced.
however, that Mr.. Hill will continue to
take some small interest in western
railroad matters.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

Blanche Ring began on the opening
night of His Honor the Mayor" to
coax the audience to join her in the
chorus of the new waltz song with
which she has regaiued much lost IA
vOT. Now the Darquet is as ready as
the gallery to let out Its voices, and
saw a bOxfuI of AstOrs and another
of VandeTbilts singing with the rest:
Waltz me around again, Willie,
Around. around, around:
The music is dreamy-its peaches and
creamy
Oh, don't let my feet touch the
ground"
You may not know that song, pub
fishers commonly send boys into the
gallery to whistle q new air. so as to
help the audience to catch it: but
Blanche is her own boomer, and her
audience responds to her Indictment
like q, congregation to a revivalist
When you come to 'Ship-ahOy,' she
says, shout it like sailors" Then she
leads on:
L feel like a ship on an ocean Of joy,
just want to boiler out loud, Ship
ahoy."
She stops before the final two words
and lets the people have it all to them
selves; and I wouldn't have been much
surprised if an Aston had hitched UP
his trousers like a mariner, or a Van
derbilt had pulled at his fOrelOck like
a jolly tar, before repeating the refrain:
Waltz me around again, Willie,
Around, around, a-TOundT'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

A contemporary bemOans the fact
that all Of the hemp being shipped out
Of the Philippines is going in vessels
Of foreign register and wants to know
when the Democrats viii be willing to
see the United States possess a de-
cent merchant marine. Why, the Dem
Ocrats are willing enough. They sim
ply DO not propose to dig into the
federal treasury for funds with which
to enrich shipbuilders who are already
wealthy. Those that want to build
merchant vessels on their honest merits
can so ahead as fast and as far as they
like The Democrats will offer no OBJ
jectiOns whatever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

Chancellor Day says the corporations
are the best friends of the working
man. And the corporations ought to
be Chancellor Days best friends, for
goodness knows he has made himself
ridiculous enough in his defense of
them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

No, Best Beloved, it is not at all like
" that Mr. Rockefeller viii visit the
great gambling house at Monte Carlo
while on his present trip to Europe.
Mr. Rockefeller never takes a chance
When he wants to increase his pile he
merely raises the price Of oil.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-24
METROPOLITAN METHODS.
Hot Admired by Rural Dealer Who
Doesn't Believe In sps-
cialties.

Mr.. Cutter had spent a week in
the city, and he came home with
much food for thought. For a
long time afterward, relates
Youths Companion, he had peri
DDS of meditation from which he
would rouse himself to enlighten
Mrs. Cutter, who had not shared
his visit.
zone of the most curious things
is about the way the storekeepers
down below make their money on
specialties," he said, n day,
after a long period of silence.
"Now they poke fun at a country
store that has everything in it,
but tell me how do they manage
things"
Mrs. Gutter knew better than to
attempt an answer where none
was desired, so she smiled and
looked intelligent.
"Well, I'll tell ye," SAID the re-
turned traveller. "a man keeps a
picture-shop. Sounds we'll and
looks we'll, but it's liable to dull
seasons; SO he gets his wife's sis
ter-in-law or an orphan cousin or
some such to tat a few O these
narrer strips for the neck, and
strings a number of colored beads
into chains, and puts 'em in one
corner O. the window with a card
saying orders must be given six
weeks in advance, and then his
business begins to look up.
"If he keeps a cutlery shop ne
sells a few hats from Manilly thai
come through a friend, and arc
high, as they are skurse. If his
business is stationery he has z
counter o. hand-sewed neckties
and pinquishins; if his trade is
supposed to be selling embroid
cred pillows and table-cloths, h
has a counter o. German silvel
goods; if his sign says 'jewelr,
and crockery,' you'll find a littl'
glass case that'll have painted
boxes of chocolate and peanu
candy in it; and if he gives GU
that he's selling drugs, you'll fin
the drawing card in his establish
ment is bed-slippers and bead
purses. Don't talk to me 'bou
specialties! I've seen 'em, and
knOVW
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-24
COMPARING SHOP GIRLS.
English Writer Places the American
Ahead of Those Of His Own
Country. ;

There seems to be little to
choose between the shopmen of
New York and London. The
American shop girl, however, is
far ahead of her English cousin.
She is not so ladylike and polite,
but she il a bundle of intelligent
vivacity. She is neither anaemic
nor languid. She treats Gus
toners with a familiarity that
would be met with rebuke in an
English shop, but she means no
impertinence or cheekiness. You
want to buy, she wants to sell, and
you are equal, writes John Foster
Fraser, in the Yorkshire Post.
There n $500 employees at
Wanamaker's place in Broadway.
In summer the hours are from
eight to five, with a half-holiday
on Saturday; in winter the hours
are from eight to six, with no half
holiday at all. The lowest wages
for a girl at the notions counter
needles, hairpins, studs, odds and
ends-is 28s. a week. A good
saleswoman of experience will
get f3. The men, the counter.
jumpers, average Sos. or f3 a
week. This is above the English
standard, but after working out
calculations based on the in.
creased cost Of living, l am con.
vinced that the American shop
worker is, in the end, no better of
financially than the English.
Where the Americans better of
is that he and she have more
wholesome food and plenty of it
The compeer of the girl whom
you will see in a London A. B. G
place making a lunch of a cup OF
tea and a piece of cake for four
pence, you will see in one OF
Child's many restaurants in New
York having a "quick lunch" Of
melon, soup, roast beef and an ice
cream for two shillings.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-24
NATIONAL FLORAL EMBLEMS
How Ireland's Shamrock and Scot
lands Thistle Were Chosen
Originally.

The flower of our country is pop
ularly supposed to be the golden
rod, says the New York Herald.
Some years ago when the choice of
a national flower was left for the
children in the public schools to
decide by vote, the choice fell to
the wild rose. But nine people out
Of every ten would tell you that
the goldenrod was the one decided
upon, and that flower is perhaps
best suited for the purpose, for it
abounds in all parts of the United
States and is rarely found in any
other country.
In England in the fourteenth
centurythe nationalfower was the
broom, or planta genista. 1t was.
not till the reign of Henry vi. that
the national emblem came to be
the rose.
The story of Ireland's shamrock
is a very pretty one. st. Patrick
was one day preaching at Tara try
ing to explain the doctrine of the
trinity. Plucking a shamrock
which was peeping upthrough the
turf at his feet, he said: "Do you
not see these three leaves on the
one stalk? Such is the doctrine of
the great three in one" From that
time the shamrock was the ma
tional emblem in Ireland.
The tale of the Scottish thistle
is a very different one. In the reign
of Malcolm, in the year 1910, the
Danes swooped down upon the
coast of Aberdeenshire by night,
intending to surround and storm
the great fortress of Staines. The
first installment crept up bare
footed and dropped into the moat,
but they found they were not in
water at all. The moat was dry
and covered with a great growth
of thistles, which stung their un-
protected feet and caused them to
cry out numerically. The sound
reused the sentinels and in a mo-
ment a volley was fired upon the
Danes, who broke and fled. From
this fact the thistle was given it's
high place in the esteem Of the
ScOtchmen.
France is the only country which
allows a flower to appear in it's ma.
tional heraldry. But the feur-de.
lis, or three lilies, is so different
from most flowers that it does not
seem out of place on the national
coat-Of-arms. Canada has adopt,
ed the scarlet maple leaf, which
makes miles of her woods blaze in
autumn. The Japanese have thu
chrysanthemum, and fittingly, too
for the island is the birthplace OF
this gorgeous flower. From EARL
est time Greece has had the fra
grant narcissus, and the pome
granate blossom has been the for
al emblem of Spain. Switzerland
claims that flower most difficult Of
all to pick, the edelweiss.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-24
Long Road.

In his many critical essays Mr..
Andrew Lang has frequently com
mented on the quality Of Ameri-
can humor, and tried to fathom it's
nature. Nothing could be more
Yankee than the way in which Mr..
Lang directed a friend to his
house.
"Go up Cromwell road" he said,
"till you drop, and then turn to
the right."-Youth's Companion.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-24
PA. UR E.

[ have leased the Ward ranch
on the Sheyenne River and am
prepared to pasture horses and
colts at $500 a head for season
and cattle at 5000 for season.
1900 acres with running water.
>2-3t Will Gilmore.
The Newtown bee., 1906-10-19
HUNTINGTON.
WHAT'S GOING ON,

Miss Gertrude Stearns left on Sat- urday for her home in Baltimore. Miss StearnS has been spending several months in Huntington and vicinity.
 Charles Perley has been entertain ing his brother and family from Brooklyn.
 MT and Mrs Claude Beeman have gone to Bridgeport to live.
 Anton Eberle and family were at Mrs Esther Hecox's over Sunday.
 Mrs Frank Wooster is in Shelton for few days attending the wedding of a relative.
 Mrs Edgar s. Wooster has been wis. iting in Watertown.
 A horse owned by James Nicolas lay down during the Grange fair and in getting him up Lewis Mum was kicked in the face. Dr NettletOn was summoned and found MT Munn's nose was broken.
 MT and Mrs Frank Wells have been entertaining friends from Hartford.
 A very enjoyable whist party was held at E. J. Buckingham Wednes- day evening. s. B. Brownson was elected president of the club. The next meeting will be held on Wednes- day evening, October "A.
 Harry Bowles is able to be out again.
 Royal Cutts has gone to Washing ton, D. o.
 Mrs Sarah Jane Greene returned to Bridgeport on Thursday after visiting White Hills, Derby and the Center.
 Miss Harriett Hall has returned to Trumbull after spending the summer with Miss Louise Nichols.
 Mrs John Beattie is caring for Mrs Fred ROfsford who is still vorv i11 to Wells Hollow for the winter. Mrs Mary Baldwin will reside with them.
The Newtown bee., 1906-10-19
BETHEL.
THE BOROUGH AND VICINITY.

The Mems club of the Congrega- tional church is planning to give a series of entertainments, this winter, including lectures, concerts, etc.
 MT and Mrs James Durant and daughter and Miss Viola Durant spent Sunday with friends in Bridge port.
 MT and Mrs Arthur Sherman of Salt Lake City, Utah, are visiting friends in town.
 MT and Mrs Edwin Short of Green wood avenue are entertaining as their guest, Mrs Utzinger of Astoria, Ore. Mrs Utzinger is on her way home from a trip to Switzerland.
 William Hickok of Elm street is spending few days in New Haven.
 Miss Bertha Benedict of Norwalk and Lloyd Benedict of Hopkins school, New Haven, spent Sunday with their parents on Grassy Plain street.
 Mrs George w. Griffith, formerly of this place, has been spending several days with friends in town.
 Mrs Theodore Smith of Milwaukee avenue has been visiting her daughter, Miss Pauline Smith, of the Northfield seminary, Northfield, Mass.
 Plans for a stone church editice, to be erected by St Thomas Episcopal parish of Bethel, are being made by c. J. Birdsall of New Rochelle, N. Y. The plans will soon be completed and it is expected that the construction of the church will be commenced this fall. The new church will stand upon the corner now occupied by the rec tory,
The Newtown bee., 1906-10-19

condensed milk, three cans for 25c. Cold weather will soon be here. We
 have coal hods, shovels and sieves. Best kerosene oil, 10c per gallon.-T wv. N. Hurd, the Grocer.
 Mrs Annie Walters, who has been
 at the Bridgeport hospital, has re- turned to Long Hill and is stopping with MT and Mrs M. J. Nc Donough. Nicholas Robb went to Bridgeport, Monday night, to hear campaign
 speech by Samuel GomperS. Arthur Lillis has new bird dog, purchased of Ezra Randall. 8 guest of MT and Mrs w. N. Hurd. George w. Cole is out with large
 new white milk wagon, purchased of
 George Eddy of Colorado avenue,
 Bridgeport.
 w. N. Hurd spent Wednesday in New Haven on business. Bridgeport parties held a private
 dance in Hadley's hall, last Saturday Miss Ruth Walters spent last We'd nesday with her aunt, Mrs James An Elijah Middlebrooks, who has worked for his brother, Charles Mid dlebrooks, has taken a position in Bridgeport.
 M. J. Nc Donough, station agent, who has been laid up with illness for 10 weeks, was able, Monday, to take up his work again. His many friends are glad to see him back again. George R. Reid, who has charge of Mrs M. k. Clark's farm in Tashua, has 8 fine crop of pumpkins, this year. He
 had 1866 large pumpkins which
 weighed l3 tons. Some of the largest
 weighed 40 pounds each.
The Newtown bee., 1906-10-19
LONG HILL.
NEIaHBORHOOD NOTES.

N1Aoa0OSoOOO NOx6Ss
 Miss Lillian Levitt spent Sunday in Easton the guest of her aunt, Mrs F. M. Garfield.
 The contract for the work on the turnpike north of w. N. Hurd's store, which was ordered to be done by the county commissioner, has been award ed to H. H. Wheeler of Monroe, who has begun the work.
 days m New York with her daughter, Mrs George Wolf.
 Mrs John Gabler and Miss Kate Lutzer of New York spent few days, last week, at Mrs Gabler's home here.
 Just unloaded, car of fancy mid dlings and bran. Get my prices be. fore you buy. Grain is advancing and now is the time to buy in stock be- fore 1t goes higher.-[John s. Hurd's Feed store.
 Mrs J. J. Radcliffe and daughter, Grace, who have been visiting friends in New Haven for few days, returned home, last Monday.
 Cards have been received by the many friends of Miss Edna L. French, daughter of Mrs Sarah E. French, and Herbert B. Walker, announcing their marriage, which took place several weeks ago in New York City.
 Levi Downes has moved from Sam uel Brooks house into Otto French s place.
 Miss Louise Krohmer of Bridgeport, who has been spending few days with her parents, MT and Mrs John Kroh- mer, near the Easton reservoir, has re- turned to her work in Bridgeport.
 Mrs David Levitt, Miss Sadie Belle Craft and Mrs Mary A. Peet spent Sunday in Easton, the guests of MT and Mrs E. M. Garfield.
 Miss Mabel Gabler, who has been quite i'll with rheumatism, Is improv- ing slowly.
 Our new stock of 1908 canned goods 10 arriving daily and these are fine goods. Fancy tomatoes, 1Oc per can;
The Newtown bee., 1906-10-19
HOTCHKIssVILLE NOTES.


 Mrs Lena Roswell and children are
 to move into Mir COwleS' double house
 opposite the store. William Clay is entertaining his mother of Southington. Mrs Thomas Lockwood was serious
 ly i'll with pneumonia, last week.
 ing her daughter, Mrs John Traverse. Charles Cameron, recently bound
 over for assaulting his wife, was found guilty and sentenced at Litchfeld to six months incarceration in the coun-
 ty jail.
 built on the rear of his residence. Olin B. Roswell is soon to enter the
 employ of Undertaken James D. Kim
 ball of North Woodbury. Arthur Burdick of ThOmaStOn spent
 two days with his sister, Mrs John Traverse, last week. Olin E. Roswell had telephone placed in his residence, last week. Mrs George Isbell entertained her aunt, Mrs William Ackley, and hus-
 band of Sandy Hook over Sunday. Fifty new books are to be added to the Union Sunday school library. Edward Crane has been entertain ing his aunt, Miss Anderson, and his sister, Mrs John Hammond, of Savan- nah, Ga.
 MT and Mrs George M. Allen have been entertaining their daughter, Mrs B. L. Smith of Waterbu y, and their sons, Horace of Waterbury and Gide- on of Massachusetts. Dr E. L. Smith of Waterbury also spent Sunday with them.