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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-14

1890 p. m, Hazen at AIS a. M, Sparks
a. M, ana arriving at Reno al $40
o'clock. (Nfountain time changes 10
coast time and vice versa at Sparks.)
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-14

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-14
SIX BEST SELLING BOOKS
FOR MONTH OF JANUARY

According 10 reports from the lead
ing book sellers OF the country, the six
books which have sold best In the or
der OF demand during the month are;
/. The Doctor. Common. so
2. Jane cable McCutcheon..,,. l.bO
8. Conlston. Churchill ,,,-,........ 80
4. Half Rogue, MaoGrath-,.,... l,50
9. White Fang, London ,...,..,,,.. $50
In addition 70 the above we nave =
the day.
DEsERET NEWS BOOK STORE
Main street.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-14

Cecilia A. Wooten has been granted
a divorce by Judge Armstrong from
Wiley Wooten on the ground of deser-
ton
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-14

|, : 'VIOMoBILEs GO FREE.
- by Halaniski. relating TO
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
VALUE OF HEREDlTY.

A parliamentary candidate was be-
ing heckled. One of the questions
had reference to the rehgious denomi-
nation to which he belonged.
"Well," he said, "you asked me
an honest question and you shall have
a straightforward answer. My grand
mother was a Scotch woman-a rigid
Presbyterian"
Obvious disappointment was shown
in the faces of the audience, so the
candidate proceeded:
"My grandfather was English and
therefore member of the Church of
England"
Still no enthusiasm, but rather the
reverse.
"My father, on the other hand,
was a good Baptist" went on the des-
perate candidate, who was still unre-
warded by applause. He grew anx-
ious, SO hurridly added: "But my
dear old mother, long since dead,
was Methodist"
Instantly all faces were radiant, SO
he concluded:
And gentlemen, 1 follow the pre-
cepts of my dear old mother. I'm
a Methodist and I don't care who
knows il -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
LAST SIGH OF THE BACHELOR.

The Colonel smiled and shook his head, still
handsome in its wealth of gray.
my boy" he said, you're right, / know but
all of us can't think that way.
should have married years ago. in days wish
could recall,
But somehow could not decide-God bless the
girls love 'em all.
when was young knew girl whose hair was
soft and chestnut brown;
She was gentle little thing, and showed it when
she let me down;
And then there came tall brunette-a girl to
make hermit fond;
And next the widow was the one; changed
because she was blonde.
"How can a man be stapch and true, and his
affection firm and strong,
When every day he lives on earth a pretty wo-
man comes along2
No matter If their hair be black, or golden as the
summer sun,
Or auburn as the autumn woods-I'm bound to
love 'em, every one.
"But somehow through the maze of years my
thoughts go back and settle down
Upon gentle little girl whose eyes were soft
and tender brown,
Who thought loved her-fora a time-and whose
affection was not hid.
Ny boy, you're right. Ring for drink. didn't
know it. But did,
Dallas (Teras) News.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
A THOUGHTFUL WIFE.

81 was cured of an annoying pro-
pensity to sleep at the wrong time in
rather an original way" said Snoo-
Zer.
"Some time ago there were num-
Der of nights when could not sleep
until Just before it was time to rise
in the morning. Then, of course, it
was hard to wake me. My friends
advised all sorts of remedies, but my
wife set her wits to work and found
the right one. The pext night I fell
into light doze after I got into bed,
but in less than twenty minutes l was
as wide awake as ever, pitching and
tossing and unable to close my eyes.
Well, my wife got up, struck match
and pretended to look at her watch.
Then she said:
"'I wouldn't try to go to sleep,
dear, as it will soon be time for you
to get up now
"That settled it. In three minutes
1 was asleep and slept like log.
This was repeated once or twice, and
now I get my regular sleep every
night. The best of it was that I
didn't know for number of days the
little ruse that had been employed to
send me to sleep"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
MARRIAGE A FAILURE.

He did all the courting before mar
riage.
He never talked over his affairs
with his wife.
He thought of his wife only as a
cheap housekeeper.
He never dreamed that a wife de-
served praise or compliments.
He thought his wife had a very
easy time.
He married an ideal, and was dis
appointed to find it had flaws.
He paid no attention to his perso-
nal appearance after marriage, says
Home Chat.
He treated his wife as he would not
have dared to treat another woman.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
TOWSON, MD, SATURDAY AUGUST 81. 1907.

Pumping the hands is done to
perfection in London. The English
women are inclined to have lean
hands, and plumping them is a ne
cessity.
cit is done by heating the skin and
rubbing in warm oil while the flesh
is hot. 1t takes comparatively short
time to make the hands fat.
"Women with hands that will not
open wide, hands that are cramped or
twisted from any cause whatever,
should take the hand exercises, which
are immensely beneficial. Open and
close the hands vigorously and vio-
lently half dozen times day. This
will make the wrists slender and the
hands fatter and more symmetrical.
NERVOUS people havenervous look
ing hands. But the nervous look
can be taken off by fattening them.
"The hands begin to grow old at
80. The bones begin to come in sight
and the veins appear. Hands that
are going to stay young must be
treated. They require as much care
as the face. Hands that are neglect
ed soon grow old.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
SATURDAY MIGHT.

Placing the little hats all in q row,
Ready for church on the morrow. you know;
Washing wee faces and little black fists,
Getting them ready and fit to be kissed;
Putting them into clean garments and white,
That is what mothers are doing tonight.
Spying out rents in little worn hose;
Laying by shoes that are worn through the toes ;
Looking DER garments so faded and thin;
Who but mother knows where to begin?
Changing button to make it look right,
That is what mothers are doing tonight.
Calling her little ones all round her chair,
Hearing them lisp their evening prayer.
Telling them stories of Jesus of old,
The Shepherd who gathers the lambs to His fold ;
Watching them listen with childish delight
That is what mothers are doing tonight.
Creeping so softly to take last peep
Silence, the token of children asleep;
Anxious to know If the dear ones are warm;
Tucking the blanket round each little form;
Kissing each little face rosy and bright
That Is what mothers are doing tonight.
n. A. D0LV. in Catholic Standard and Times.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
UNCLE SAM HELPS FAT FOLKS AND
SLIM FOLKS.

There are too many fat people and
TOO many thin people in the country,
and the government, through the
Agricultural Department, is conduct.
ing experiments to show them how to
strike an average. -
c. F. Langworthy, chief of the di'
vision of nutrition investigation, is
conducting Investigations which in
clude dietary studies, digestive ex-
periments and various other things in
connection with food.
"How to get thin and how to get
fat" are being experimental with in
course of dietary studies at the Uni
versity Of Maine, at Orono, in that
State, under the supervision of Pro-
fessor c. D. Woods, and at the Uni
versity of Tennessee, at Knoxville,
by Professor E. c. Waite.
These experiments were in full
swing before Secretary Taft entered
the cabinet, and therefore it cannot
be charged even in a presidential CAM
paign that he used his influence to
get the governments experts believe.
With the approach of the summer
and its green vegetables the path Of
the fat man who wants to reduce is
made easier.
To fat ones the government says {:
"Eat little, sleep little and drink
less"
To the thin man it says: Drink
all you can, eat all you can and sleep
as much as you cam"
The thin man who wants to get fat
must eat and drink everything that
he can stomach. He must eat plenty
of potatoes, bananas and bread ; most
important, he must drink water be-
fore and after his meals.
The expert says it is principally
what person drinks and not what
he eats that makes him fat. Fat is
mostly water, it is asserted, and the
more water or other liquids person
slows away the more likely he is to
gain weight. Sweets of all kinds also
are urged as fat producers.
Above all, thin person who wants
to spread out must sleep ten or eleven
hours day. A nap after each meal
is offered as an excellent inducement
for fat to come and stay.
On the other hand, the man who is
trying to lose weight is advised that
he keep moving after meal to thwart
the dread adipose.
"This is the season of the year."
said an Agricultural Department Off
cial, when persons who are incon-
venienced by fat may easily get rid
of some of it. The heat of summer
naturally tends to reduce the weight,
for it causes perspiration and that
means the discharge of good deal of
the water under the skin. But the
principal inducement of summer is
that the season offers many fresh
vegetables, like tomatoes, onions, let
tuce, radishes and the like, which the
fat man may eat by the wholesale
with impunity."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31

The money counters in the United
States treasury were startled one day
by the appearance of remarkable
looking Fat man" who entered the
department and told a strange tale.
He said he was an Ohio farmer and
did not believe in banks and so had
buried his money in the ground for
safekeeping. He bad dug it up and
was horri6ed to find that it was slow
ly turning to dust, as notes will when
long buried.
Panic-stricken, he gathered the dis
integrated money into an old pillow
case, bound it around his waist be-
meath his clothes and started for
Washington.
He travelled part of the way on
horseback, part of the way on an Ohio
river steamboat and part of the way
by train. During the journey he never
once took off the pillowcase. He even
slept with it Oh. The officials of the
treasury department found it difficult
to make him part with it. He did not
want to go with clerk to a hotel for
fear the clerk might rob him, but as it
was manifestly impossible for him to
disrobe in the office he had finally to
submit.
They got the money at last, and
the condition of it was so bad that
Mrs. Leonard, an expert, had to be
called to decipher it. So great was
her skill that the farmer lost only
few hundred dollars out Of $Io, 900.
LANDLADY (to new boarder who Is
rather stout)-I am glad to hear that
one ofmy former boarders recommends
ed you to my house.
Boarder-Yes, he spoke very high
ly of it. After telling him that / had
tried all kinds of antifat without sue
cess he advised short stay here.
A DARKEY's instructions for put
ting on a coat First de right arm,
den de lef, and den glib one general
convulsum.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
J1NGLING JUBILEE SONG.

Jonah gone a-f1shin',
Lonesome ez mo'ner,
Thought he gwine ter ketch whale
, Whale, he swaller Jonah!
Moses in de bullrush-
Tide a-comin' in;
But fer Pharaoh's daughter
Whar would Moses been2
Lots wife, she so curious,
Punish fer de fault;
But fer Kunnel Lots wife,
Whar would we git salt2
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31

"I HEAR Mrs. Allalone is to marry
the doctor who attended her late hus-
band p $50 she'll get her husbands
property after all p
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31

COURT had been waiting fifteen
minutes for the stenographer to ar
rive. Then some one was sent to
the telephone to find out why.
"Do you mean to tell me" F" she de-
manded, ''that I have kept forty-one
men waiting fifteen minutes for me 7"
'"That's it."
"Well, I'll be right along. That
is a funny thing. I have been wait
ing all these years for just one man,
and now forty-one of them are wait
ing for me.''
"HAvE you sold your country viii
la YETI"
"No; I'm not going to sell it
now.'
"How's that :"
"Well, 1 gave instructions to an
agent to advertise it for sale, and the
description he wrote of it was so en-
chanting that couldn't make up my
mind to part with it."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
A PLACE FOB JEREMIAH.

A prosy preacher gave lengthy
discourse on the prophets. First he
dwelt at length on the minor prophets.
At last he finished them, and the con-
gregation gave sigh of relief. He
took long breath and continued,
"Now 1 shall proceed to the major
prophets"
After the major prophets had re-
ceived more than ample attention the
congregation gave another sighof re-
lief.
"Now that have finished with the
minor prophets and the major pro-
phets, what about jeremiah? Where
is Jeremiah's place ?"
A tall man arose in the back Of the
church. Jeremiah can have my
place." he said "I'm going home"
"I HEAR Mrs. Allalone is to marry
the doctor who attended her late hus-
Evening star., 1907-08-23

sentatives to the financial combinations
that absorb and direct the public service
corporations
The holding company" is a compara-
lively new device and has been subjected
TO considerable criticism as tending to
confusion of issues bearing upon the pub
lie comfort and the rights and limitations of
franchise holders. That the system of COM
bining a number OF small concerns under
a single direction sometimes permits a
more economical administration from the
viewpoint Of the stockholders in the larger
corporation Is undisputeL. But 1t is also
urged that it tends to a diffusion Of respon-
sibility and occasionally to delay in meet
ing public requirements.
Holding companies are usually formed
as a means to permit the combination Of
two more corporations, some OF the
stockholders of which are not willing to
pool their shares. When a few capitalists
gain control of certain corporate properties
for the purpose of merging the refusal of a
very few minority owners to sell their
shares or to join the combination compels
the organization of the larger company. It
has repeatedly happened that mergers thus
accomplished work to the public advantage.
as in the case Of street railways once COM
petitors but by this means brought into
harmonious relations with the public bene-
fitted by the issuance of transfers.
Whatever may be the incidental advan-
tages to the public. the theory that a hold
ing corporation Is immune from the laws
that apply to the subsidiary companies is
Enthusiastically at variance with the broad
doctrine of public supervision which Is now
in process of adoption and application
throughout the country. 1t is absurd TO
contend that a dominant, directing combi-
nation can defy laws that must be obeyed
by its subordinate corporations. The re-
fusal of the INSTRUMENTATION
Company in New York to open its books to
the public utilities commission may furnish
a means to settle this point
Evening star., 1907-08-23
Holding Companies.

For some time the new public utilities
commission of New York city has been at
WORK trying TO ascertain the exact rapid
transit situation In the big city and has
been asking pointed questions of the man
ayers OF the transportation systems. This
inquiry has now reached the stage at which
the commission is ready to call for the
books OF the companies comprising the In
terborough- Metropolitan combination in or
der to learn the financial basis and the abl-
fty OF the corporations to provide better
accommodations for the travelling public. 1t
is stated. however. that the representatives
of the Interborough-Metropo will re-
fuse TO comply with the requisit!on for the
books, on the ground that, being a holding
company. 1t is not subject to the jurisdiction
OF the commission. This point of course If
raised, will be resisted and an appeal to the
courts 10 likely to follow, TO determine the
exact relations of the public and its repre-
Evening star., 1907-08-23
The Disappointed Meat Packers.

Commenting upon the federal admins
tration's methods of securing anti-corpora-
tion legislation, Representative Mccall of
Massachusetts,, speaking the other day at a
fair in that state, used the following Ian
guage:
The practice in government of expend-
ing the maximum amount of noise and dis
turbance to secure the minimum of good
may be dive-ting, but ii is costly. 1t
obliterated a great foreign trade in packed
meats In order to get legislation which
every packer wanted. AS to the improve
ments In meat they are mainly seen in the
removal Of the defects existing in the
imaginations of some socologists and in
the consequent silence of those gentlemen
And then, too, we have with US the noble
army of well-paid federal inspectors"
There are two propositions in this state
ment which will Immediately interest the
public The first is that the packers all
wanted the legislation known as the meat
inspection law. The second is that this leg
islation resulted in only imaginary i'm
provement in the meat supply.
The cagerness of the meat packers for
The new federal inspection law manifested
itself in most remarkable manner Per-
haps there never before SO strenuous
an effort on the part of a special interest
to focus the scrutiny of the government
appeals of its partisans and its direct or
indirect representatives in Congress for
this legislation were moving In their
earnestness, The readiness with which
they assisted in the enactment Of the meas
ure aroused the whole country to a high
pitch of enthusiasm for their public spirit
and altTuistic devotion to the welfare of
the consumer.
As for the improvements in the nroducts
is 1t truly deplorable If they are nom
existent, or seen only in the imaginations
OF some sociOlogists'' after all the zeal of
the packers to secure them through this
much desired law. What a sad waste of
energy, What lamentable loss of time
and funds,
Surely, Mr.. Mccall might have left some
thing to the imaguations of other people
than sociologists who have really thought
until now that Packingtown had been given
bath against its will.
Evening star., 1907-08-23
MARYLAND.

Both parties in Maryland must note with
interest the appearance of Gov Warfield in
the senatorial field. He is a man of good
abilities of the highest personal character,
and his ambition is supported by the figure
he has cut III the affairs of the state. That
is 10 say. a man who has served Creditably
as governor has claims upon his partys at
tentIon when he announces for seat in the
Senate.
In this move Gov. Warfleld appeals from
the democratic politicians to the people.
The politicians denied him a denomination
for the Office he now holds. They had the
power by combining against him to put him
out of the running. Had they been able to
prevent it he would never have gone to
Annapolis in the first place. He defeated
them at that time. and they have defeated
him now. But he cannot be governor
again he picks his flint and will try for the
Senate.
He has not, however, shaken off the poll
tcians. He must meet them in this new
field as he did in the old. They will op-
pose him for the Senate they did for
governor. They will fight him in the open
with candidates of their own. and then
under cover by any means at hand. If he
secures the nomination it will be over a
powerful combination manipulated by men
who have inherited both the methods and
the prejudices of the old Gorman-Rasin ma
chine.
The republicans must note this announce
ment, for 1t makes necessary appeals on
their part in behalf of their best men,
They have some excellent material, and it
will be a powerful card in their play for the
legislature to give assurance of the sort of
men they have in mind for the Senate.
Thei- candidate for governor measures up
to so high a standard their appraisement
of the Senate should be of the same char
scter.
The campaign opens in a way to en-
courage the hope of good results. Again
the business men aroused. What is
known as the independent vote is expected
to figure largely in the equation. In the
past twelve years this vote has been grow
ing all over the state. but especially in
Baltimore, whose prosperity has been
marked. and whose citizens retain a lively
recollection of old machine days when the
city had to take in the way of both can
didates and policies just what the bosses
offered
BY the way, has Gov Warheld abandoned
the suggestion of second place on the pres-
Dental ticket next year with Mr. Bryan?
Evening star., 1907-08-23
Root.

Secretary Root taking lessons from the
Solid Muldoon gives the politicians some
thing to think about. Maybe he is not out
of the presidential race after all. Maybe
he is studying the art of making himself
solid with the voters. Maybe Billy Null
doons science can be applied in that way.
But, anyhow, it is a good thing to brace up
and keep braced A cabinet Office is exact
ing, and Mr.. Root has not shirked his
duties In the War Department he labored
early and late, and in the State Depart
ment he has been quite as Industrious. AS
an official he has won both the confidence
and the admiration of the country, and
the President has paid high tribute to his
worth.
Evening star., 1907-08-23
Assurance.

Kind O. get discouraged when the sun is
blazin' hot,
An you 'specks dat you's gwine to be
scorched as like as not.
An 1t isn't any comfort whatsomever foh
to meet
De folks dat says what ails you Is humid
ity, not heat.
But de robin keeps a tune a-goin jolly
es you please,
An de win keeps maxim music in de
branches O. de trees.
An purity soon we's jfnin' in de chorus of
de song
we'll git along"
De sun he come blazin' an scorchin'
In de sky;
We'd sho'ly like to lose him, but 1t ain no
to try.
An de flowers looks so wilted an dis
couraged, an de grass
Is gittin' brown an 1ifeless like it's clean
played out at las.
But when de dewdrop sparkles an dar
comes little rain,
Dey braces up an says, Mex year we'll
all be 'roun again.
Hard luck can't las forever, so jes keep
yoh courage strong
We has heap O. trouble-but guess We'll
git along
Evening star., 1907-08-23
Japan Desires Universal Peace.

Viscount 8. Aoki, in the Circle.
There are many reasons why there should
be peace between the United States and
Japan. My country shares with her sister
nations in the desire for universal peace.
1 have made the statement before, and I
repeat 1t here with even more emphasis,
The glory of successful war Is brilliant,
but the glory of peace Is greater. At the
reception given to Gen. Baron Kuroki in
New York city 1 was very much pleased
with the cordial welcome given to the sons
of Japan by the citizens Of that great me-
tropolis. l felt, however, still greater sat
isfaction when 1 stopped to think that the
resplendent martial uniforms Of the two
countries were. interminglng with each
other in a mission of peace without any
thought Of war, and that the brave men
who have been so hOnored at home and re-
spected abroad were singing in one chorus
the glory of peace. The same thoughts
came over me when l attended the bril-
liant and most hospitable reception rendered
by the same great city to Admiral Yama-
moto. l am also pleased that a society
the japanese Society Of New York-has
been formed to promote and increase the
friendly relations existing between my
country and the United States of America.