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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Mysterious Mar on Roller Skates.

Two or three mornings ago L had start
ed on my favOrite ramble when l heard
a whirTing noise. / looked behind me.
and beheld a man, hatless, coatless, vest
less, clad in a white shirt and trousers,
and waring black kid gloves-on roller
skates. He was WOefully thin and driven
looking. He had set expression in his
eyes. 1 stepped aside and heard him NUT
ter:
Il must do this before breakfast. 1t is
better than doctors bills and patent pills.
If | keep it up the color will come to my
cheek-and d new light in my eye
Then he rolled rapidly on, so that the
rest of his soliloquy was lost to me.
Why-this was like "Alice in Wonder
land" Overhearing the remark of the rab-
bit as he passed her: "Oh, my ears and
whiskers, / shall be later'
And if | continued to run across him in
the park, morning after morning, until
the color returned to his cheek and the
light to his eye, might ii not be that he
would whisk me into some strange land,
even as the rabbit had whisked Alice
There was no telling what this wild-eyed
creature would do, who, hatless and coat
less, but punctiliously gloved. found pas
time in skating through the peaceful park.
/ recalled a paragraph / had seen in
the newspapers: Owners of automo-
biles suffering from financial embarrass-
ment are going back to roller skates"
Could this be one of the money class
taking a skate instead of a spin as an
appetizer?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Didn't Fall Far Enough.

1.-THE other week 1 read in an upstate
newspaper of an acrobat who was killed,
as the evidence showed. because he fell
such a short distance" remarked a sur
geon attached to Bellvue hospital
This does not mean," the surgeon con-
tlnued. that the man died of profess
sional pique at making a paltry descent,
but that a fall from a greater height
would have given him time to adjust his
limbs and muscles to the shock This is
not so paradOXical as il may seem.
For instance, the accident of stepping
OF pavement into the road would less
often lead to fatal injury if the descent
were Few inches greater. The brain and
the muscles are very quick TO act, and
the instant the outstretched foot feels
no ground beneath it the news is tele-
graphed to the brain and the weight of
the body is thrown upon the other foot.
But that instant is Just half an in
slant too long when the step down is only
six inches or less. The advanced foot
strikes the ground with rigid muscles be-
fore the other leg has time to relieve it
of the weight of the body. A jar is con-
sequently communicated to the whole
spinal column, resulting sometimes in a
small piece of bone being Clipped off
the base of the skull, which later causes
death.
But if the descent were eight inches
or more the muscles of the body would
all be modified just in time to meet the
shock. and although falls and sprairs
might be more frequent, that particular
cause of fatal injury by Earring the base
of the skull would be averted."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Quaint Wedding Gift.

Driving over the Shinnecock Hills one
early autumn day we stopped at the
home of an old lady who manages TO
make a slender living by various expe-
dients-a summer boarder or two, baking
cake or making pickles and preserves for
members of the summer colony in the
HamptOns.
One of her expedients was charming
and Observation-Disclosures raising of laven-
der in her garden, the dried flowers of
which she sold to people who love the
old-time fragrance and appreciate the diff
ference between the scent of the flowers
themselves and the manufactured sachet
masquerading under the name of laven-
We had come to see how this years
crop had turned out, hoping that we
should secure a good supply. The old
lady came out and sadly told us she
would have to disappoint us this year.
She had had two boarders this summer,
and orders for jam and pickles had over
taken her at the moment when the Law
ender should have been picked.
And without Jane to help me 1 had to
let il 60" she finished.
Jane was her daughter, and instantly
We wondered what had become of Jane.
We were little shy of inquiring but
the old lady spared us any awkward
ness.
Jane is married." she announced.
Didn't you known"
No, we had not heard and were vastly
astonished. for we had never expected
this of Jane. To start with. she was no
longer young; she had never been good
looking, and for as many years as our
summer memories carried Jane had been
in a perpetual state of toothache and
swollen face-always tied up in an ag-
gressive bandage The idea of marriage
had not seemed to connect itself easily
with our mental picture of Jane
However. we voiced delight and con-
gratuiation-Our dear old lady was SO
obviously happy and proud of James IN
dreamed of success. She told us what
a good match it was-a young rural law
yer, who, she said, was making a fine
income.
"And what do you think he gave her as
a wedding gift she asked. THAT was
the best of all
We guessed all sorts Of things from
| houses 10 pianos and sewing machines
| and each guess was received with de.
| lighted shake of the head When we hac
/ quite exhausted our imaginations she
took pity.
"I guess I'll have to tell you" she said
/ ''Jane used to have toothaches some, per
4 hans you remember
/ We remembered.
] well. he hated TO see her suffer a:
| she did. so he took her down to RiverheaC
1 to a dentist and had all her teeth out
| every one. And the day they were mar
ried he gave her the handsomest falst
| teeth you ever saw. Both sets upper and
lower, and the plates were solid gold
! both of them"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
The Boy who Liked Nobody.

One Of the superintendent of schools
on the east side tells the following
story:
A janitor, meeting a number of his
annoying friends after their promotion
10 the class of Miss Jerins, the terror
Of the school. questioned them a bit.
Hello. Sam" said he. ''Were you
promoted"
"Yair. All of US 20 Miss Jerins'
class.
Which do you like the more. your
former teacher or Miss Jerins?"
Miss Gordon, of course"
And you, Harry2"
Sure, me old teacher"
Turning to a yOuEgster who was
standing in a corner, not knowing the
youth had been left back" and there
fore doomed to an extra term with the
uch-disliked Miss Jerins, the janitor
inquired:
And, son, whom do you like?"
Nobody! Nobody!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Wonder What Hem Do Next.

There's the LATEST man who ever
signed a hotel register" remarked Col
Peacock the veteran managing clerk of
the Hoffman house. indicating a large,
Tell-set-up stroller about the corridor.
He's a drummer for a big Philadelphia
silk house. and his name is Samuel Park
er Sedgewick Elliott. When / first knew
him, ten years ago, he used to sign his
fun name, in a very deliberate and careful
manner. using considerable flourish. \
couple of years after he began to abbre-
viate it slightly, like this;
Samuel p. q. Elliott
Then I noticed on the register 'Sam'l
p q. Elliott
''The following trip disclosed a further
slight elisiOn, s. P c. Elliott
Coming in one night rather late, he
took the proffered pen and wrote Sam.
Elliott
ION his arrival here last week I saw
he had the habit incurably. and there
was no hope for him whatever. Here is
what he scraWled: s. Eliot "
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

necessity, has been received at second
hand 1t was late in the evening of wash
day when she exclaimed:
- Deed. if l don't go on dat roof an
git dat line the debbil dun kOtch me sho.
De debbiI he dun love high places. He
dun took de Lord up on high roof an
said. All dis earth will / glib you if you
fall down and worship me, and he wanted
to turn stones in bread, cause de Lord
wuz starvin', but de Lord said, Man
shan't live by bread alone
At asked her if she knew what that
meant and to my horror, not unmixed
with amnement, she replied:
Deed 1 do, honey; it means we
oughter have chicken and watermeln an
SIGH things
oh, no. Julia I said hastily. That
we shall not live by bread alone means
that we should live more by our good
deeds than by our daily food
"A look of mystification came over
Juia's face. In an instant she frightened
up and said with sigh, Well, He knows
how. b'leve, an He's goin' to jedge me
dat way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Beer shOOtina extraordinary.

The most extraordinary deer shooting
] recall" said the man VINO had been in
the woods. was up in Aroostook county.
Maine, ore winter. l was new to the
business then. The guide posted me be
hind a cold rock, very cold rock. rear
a runway. with instructions to shoot TIE
deer that came my way. He was TO take
his post downstream a bit. and, if I
heard several quick shots, 1 was to leave
my lair and come 10 his.
IAN hour had passed. the coolest hour
] ever spent, with nothing to break the
monOtony OF white snow and black trees.
Then ] heard shot. ] waited. and then
there We're so many reports that I started
for the guides station. Just as | reached
him he fired three times I'm quick success
sion through a lane in the trees.
% Got anything / inquired excitedly
''.Rlast him, noP he answered. I've
fired thirteen times at the same old
buck, an every time I fire. he lodges and
comes up again like duck in a shoot
ing gallery
I'VE went down to see what was the
explanation of this curious maneuver OF
the deer, and-well. you won't believe NE,
anyway. But when we reached the spot
there were thirteen deer piled up as neatly
as a New York market man could have
done it, and every one shot in the right
fOreshOuIder
THAT lane in the trees opened on a
runway, and the deer happened to be
using 1t. That's all
WHAT You don't believe it? Well.
neither do I!''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

prominent place in Dutch history. On
its shores are the ancient towns of
Medenbilk, HOurn, HarderWyck, Nor
den and Enkhuizen. under whose walls
the Dutch fleet used to lie at anchor in
the days when Holland disputed with
England the supremacy Of the seas. 1t
seems peculiarly appropriate, now that
Holland has turned from the ways OF
war &c the paths of peace. that she
should win in a great fight with the
sea-a fight that has continued
throughout hundreds of years-attain-
ing victory only by ceaseless vigilance
and fierce endeavOr. And yet one can
not bCt experience a feeling of regret
that those ancient cities. which
though nations rose and fell made
good the circles of their battered ram
parts, defying alike the power Of the
sea ard the might of Spain, should be
come quaint inland towns, far removed
from the roar of the breakers against
the bikes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Ibsen 4 "PathoIoaieaI Writer"

A New York woman. not being content
with the reputation she enjoys of being
one of the most beautiful women in her
state has literary aspirations.
Recently she was a guest at q luncheon
when the conversation driftsd TO looks
and plays. Various discussions followed.
The beauty took part and expressed her
self freely.
But when she asked her listeners wheth-
er they considered Ibsen a psychological
and pathological writer she handed cut
a sumner.
4 graveyard silence reigned until one
girl who was boider than the rest, asked
what pathological meant.
Here is where the beauty lost literary
prestige.
I looked il up few days ago" she Te-
piled, but cannot remember just now
what it means"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
TO PUMP A SEA DRY.
CTechnical Worldl

Little Holland, with it's 100000 peo-
pie living safely behind the wave
washed bikes, is about to make new
conquest from its old enemy, the
ocean. Already Dutch engineers have
begun the tremendous task which will
result in turning the Zuyder Zee into
1,4OO square miles of dry land. Where
of old the great Dutch war fleets gath
cred, where now 1000 fishermen sink
their nets, there will rise happy viii
lagos, broad pastures, poplar-bordened
roads and sleepy canals-new farms
and homes for $4,000 Dutchmen.
The task to be undertaken is q ire
mendous one. 1t will cost nearly $780,
000, 900. In return the government eX-
poets to secure annual rentals of more
than $5.000,000 from those who occupy
and till the hard-wOn ground.
The Zuyder Zee has occupied a most
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Free Lunch for a Lion.

He was selling suspenders on the
street, but he declared that, in his palmy
days. he had been Professor Piccolomini
the lion tanner.
What made you give it up?" he was
asked.
We'll. YOU see it was this way. Once
l was engaged to tame lion called Fred.
erick BarbarOSsa. who was certainly q
wild proposition.
But I was equal 90 the task BY slow
and gradual steps / taught Frederick
good manners. I used to walk into his
cage, snap whip. make him DO stunts
and all that sort of thing. But I SGT into
trouble when j tried to teach Frederick
! TO eat out Of my hand
"HoW?"
why, he ate three fingers out of nv
hand. confound him. Have a pair Of Gem
suspenders? Tney work without hitch
ing. Twenty-Five cents
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Both Presbyterians.

In the Missouri state prison at jefferson
City are 1,761 prisoners. According TO an
article in the North American, S95 of them
are Baptists. 3O1 Methodists. Jews and
l Christian Scientist
This calls to mind story about the
late Rev. DR.. John Hall. The good doc
tor was once walking home from preach
ing at a Sunday night meeting out in the
country In the moonlight he saw man
lying drunk in the gutter. and going up
to him, gave him a shake.
Here he said. 1T is a shame for a
nice, resDectable-looking man like you to
be lying in the gutter"
The man opened his tipsy eyes and saw
the long, black coat.
Are you a miniShteT?' he asked.
Yes" said DIR. Hall; ''cOme, get up
Presbyterian" queried the inebriate.
Yes was the answer, somewhat i'm
patiently 4 am"
Then" said the other, "help me up,
I'm a Presbyterian myself"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Something New in TabiecIOths.

She had come into the store to buy ia
blecloths and she stated in the beginning
that she wanted something new"
The salesman was patient and showed
her everything in stock, but nothing
suited.
'Oh, dearr' she exclaimed. fussily,
haven't you anything different
The clerk brought out one OF the dis
carded tableclOths that he had put back
on the shelf, and said with an air OF in
tereSt:
Here Is one of the very newest de-
signs. madam. You see, the center is in
the middle and the border runs right
around the edge"
why. zee! Let me have that one. "
she said eagerly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
NOT THE ONLY ONE.
(Pick Me Up.)

Shortly after o'clock one bitter win
ter morning a physician drove fouI
miles in answer to a telephone call
On his arrival the man who had sum-
moned him said:
Doctor, 1 amt in any particular
pain. but somehow or other I've got q
feeling that death is nigh"
The doctor felt the mans pulse an6
listened to his heart.
Have you made your will?" hi
asked.
The man turned pale
why, no. doctor. At my age-oh
doctor. it amt true, is it? 1t can't be
true
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
who's your lawyer ?"

"H1gglnbOtham, but
Then you'd better send for him at
once"
The patient, white and trembling
went TO the phone.
"Who's your pastor?" continued the
doctor.
1.-THE Rev. Kellogg Brown" mum
bled the patient. But, doctor, do you
think
Send for him Immediately. Your
father, too, should be summoned; also
your
But, doctor, do you really think I'm
going to dep The man began to bluD-
Der softly.
The doctor looked at him hard.
mo, 1 don't" he replied grimly
"There's nothing at all the matter with
you. But I'd hate to be the only man
you've made a fool of on a night like
this"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
New LIaht on the scriptures.

'The other day I received a lesson in
simple faith" said the church woman.
MY colored servant halls from South
Carolina and can neither read nor write.
Her knowledge of the scriptures, of a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Silks up TO SIS, FOR 73c yard.
Assortment of 80 pieces. in plain and
novelties, all crisp, stylish silks, in all the
best cOlors. suitable for waists, drop
skirts or dress patterns. UP z7~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY DECEMBER 20, 1907
Pre-InVenf0Ty Clearing
OF and after Xmas Sales of Holiday Goods
MUST BE CLEARED OUT THIS WEEK.

TO MAKE 1T ECLIPSE THE SALES RECORD
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
Federal shortsightedness.

Under the heading Federal Pro
lection Needed" the monthly maya
zine System" says
Tho governments inefficiency
and shortsightedness were illustrated
by the recent floods In Pittsburg,
following those In Cincinnati, Louis
Vile and other cities
"The federal neglect Of rivers and
forests is scarcely short of criminal,
Estimates OF the cost OF the last flood
vary from S25,OOO,OOO to $4,000
900. Insuring the public against
floods would at the same time ad-
vance the transportation problem,
The government has not wisely ad-
ministcred its control over water
ways. Perhaps no means of equal
izing the flow of rivers would be
more fruitful than the reforesting
OF denuded mountains. No doubt
many streams that have ceased to
be naylgable at all might be made
to float vessels again through the
rejuvenation Of the forests"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
Robt. l.. Hall with Person Co.

The P l.. Person Larti Co. has
added a now member 10 the firm in
the person Of Mr., Robt l.. Ball OF
this city This will give additional
strength TO this already strong and
pushing firm Of real estate dealers,
MIR, Ball has resided in this por-
ton of the country for seven years,
and Is we'll and iayorably known,
He has been dealing in real estate
during this time, in a quiet way, and
has made quite success OF his deal.
ings, As member Of the firm OF
the Person Land Co., he will bring
large acquaintance and will greatly
strengthen this firm Of rustlcrs for
the settling up Of the Panhandle.
The firm, as now constituted,
opens business In It's new and Gle.
CANT quarters in the Thompson-Kil.
hourn building under most suspicious
circumstances,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15

Rev. J. P. Reynolds, president Of
Goodnight college, and Rev. j. N
Marshall, OF the college, are in town
today.
Mr. Chas Waco Smith, Of Waco,
and Mr.. Bob Nolan, of New York,
are in the city visiting friends. They
are both musicians of considerable
note, Mr.. Smith being tenor and
Mr.. Nolan being a pianist. Mr.. Smith
has been on the road In profess
sional way for seven years, and with
some of the best productions put on
during that Time.
Mr.. e. P. slsson, of Storm Lake,
Iowa, is in the city looking over the
Panhandle country. with a view OF
making investments, and possibly To-
eating. He Is greatly impressed with
Amarillo, and says she has much
better chance OF making large city,
in his estimation than Oklahoma City
had ten years ago, when he visited
that place. He Is an old boyhood
friend of the editor Of the Panhan.
die, in Effingham county, Ill.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
MISSES DEATH
UNDER TRUCK
Baby Falls in Path Of Fire
Wagon al Full Speed
But Escapes

Caught in the middle OF the street
by the powerful team Of grays and
run over by the ponderous hose truck
Of the fire department and vet, save
for a slight bruisc, wholly unin-
jured, the baby girl OF Mr.. and Mrs.
w. c. Barnhart had an experience
yesterday evening that Is beyond
probability and Is nothing short of
miraculous.
Yesterday Mrs. Barnhart and her
two and half year old daughter ar
rived on the noon train from Mus
kogec, !. r., TO join their husband
and father, W. c, Barnhart, and to
make their home in Amarillo. Pro-
vision had already been made for
them and they went Immediately to
1910 Pierce where the family has
taken rooms. The little girl spent
the afternoon getting acquainted
with her new surroundings and
shortly before o'clock while her
mother was engaged with supper
preparation, she wandered into the
front yard and through the gate
into the street
Then perhaps something caught
her eye on the other side of the
street. She ran out from the side
walk and dozens OF people who were
along the street turned at the clang
Of the gong OH the hose wagon to
see that the team OF big grays, with
the heavy wagon behind them going
at furious clip, almost upon the baby
girl. The driver caught sight of the
little figure and swung back hard
but no power could stop the rush and
the horses went straight on over the
baby. People on the street gasped
and turned their heads to escape
seeing the little body crushed and
mangled.
But in the turning Of their. heads
the wagon had passed and the little
girl was safe, Perhaps a knee of
one OF the horses struck her and
inflicted the slight brulse on her
forehead but not hoof Of the horses
touched her and she lay on the
ground in The path OF the wagon
while the wheels passed on each
side OF her
Today she Is up and playing and Is
not suffering as much from the acct
dent as her mother Is.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
Timber Famine Eminent.

In Leslie's Weekly" Mr.. Clifford
Pinchot, United states Forester, said.
"A great timber famine is not only
in sight; 1t is approaching with be-
wilderlng speed" He states that in
the early eos It began to appear
that few rich men were getting
control Of vast areas Of public timber
and we're preparing to. corner the
supply for private ends; but that
President Roosevelt proceeded, by
establishing national forests, To pro.
tect the public against this monopo-
lhing policy. It is very natural that
those who thus saw that the means
OF their gains were gone should pro-
test, even to the extent of calling
conventions to do So As usual In
such cases, the hardships which
would be inquired by the widow
and orphan" "the poor laboring
man" or other innocent third par
ties" through attempts TO curtail
private monopoly, were made prom.
inent Such tactics have served too
often to be abandoned now.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
Moving to New Quarters.

The p, h. Person Land company
today moved from its former quar-
ters in the Russell building on Fifth
street, TO an elegant new suite %
rooms in the second floor Of the new
acknowledgment building, Just
being completed, The offices are
elegantly fitted up, and make tho
firm most delightful quarters.
A large full page ad. in this issue,
calls attention to the move, to the
success Of the firm in the past some
changes in business, and its inten-
lions for the future. Read It.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
TEXAS BANKS
TAKE HIGH RANK
HpeciaI 10 Daily Panhandle.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 1.-THE
bank report OF the controller Of the
currency for the month Of July
shows that there are at present SS4
organized national banks In the state
OF Texas was an aggregate capital
of $17256,O0O.
OF that number $50 are banks OF
less than $4,000 capital, showing an
aggregate capital of $7956, 900, and
ia are institutions with a capital
OF $4,000 or more, which have an
aggregate capital Of $1O,O00,0O0,
Considering the number of or
ganized banks, Texas is first on the
list with 3s4, Pennsylvania second
with 345, and Illinois third with
2O2. In total aggregate capital
Pennsylvania ranks first with s25,-
$4,000; Texas second with s1I256,.
900. and New York third with s14,-
rt2,B00.