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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
RUNS BETTER THAN FATHER,
OOmaha World-fferaid. }

Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt was leaving
the Lincoln home the other day to visit
friend outside the state. She was a
little late in getting started. and when
she reached the depot the train was Just
pulling out
She yelled for the conductor TO stop.
and the crowd contributed their album
dance Of noise to attract the attention of
the train crew. Finally one succeeded and
the brake was applied, but not until Mrs.
Leavitt had publicly demonstrated that
she was quite fleet of foot. She reached
the rear Of the train with little breath
left
Well" spoke UP the conductor. Il am
glad you caught the train, after such a
hard run"
so am 7. quickly responded Mrs
Leavitt. "I am glad there is one member
Of the Bryan family who can set what
she runs after"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
oVERPLAYED HIS HAND.
Birmingham Age-Heraid.)

Sir" began the bumptUous applicant
for job. i have been told that you
are looking for a clerk.
SO Z am, answered the man at the
desk.
Il suppose you want a person who
HctIfer smokes, drinks nor SWears. and
never engages in games of chance? One
whose character is the best2 One who
is honest industrious and thoroughly ca
pable? One who will stop at nothing,
consistent with his principles. TO further
the interests of his employer In short,
a brisk. intelligent all-around man who
never be caught mapping? If so. I am
the individual you are looking for
You will pardon my diffidence,
hope" said the man at the desk IF
you are half as competent as you claim
to be I feel myself unworthy of becom-
ing your boss. Good morning"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
HORSE SHOES $4,000.

General St Clair Mulholland veteran
and historian Of the civil war. tells an
incident showing the utter woTthlessness
OF the war.
Shortly after Lees surrender, says
the general, Il was a short distance from
Richmond. The Confederate soldiers were
going home to become men of peace
again, and were thinking about their
farms.
''One had a lame. brolken-down horse
which he viewed with pride. Wish | had
him. Jim said the other. 'WhatH you
take for him Ill give you $4,000 for
him"
No said Jim.
g Give you s50,G1
No said jim
Give YOU Slo9O0O.' his friend said:
Not much. replied Jim. I just gave
$4,000 to have him shod.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
THE WAY OF AUTHORS.


James WhitcOmb Riley is evide ntlv nc
believer in the greatness or enduring quail
ity of modern literature Some time agc
a friend was talking to him about the
good times that novelists of today have
compared with those of the past
You modern writer's don't work Sc
hard he said. "and you are paid twenty
times as much as you ought to be-
Mr.. Riley gently shook his head You
labor under misrepresentation. my boy.
he replied The chief difference between
the old authors and those of today Is sim
ply this: They died and their works live.
our works die and we live-as best we
can
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
WAY OF A BOSTON WOMAN,

Former Attorney General Moody was
once riding on the platform of a Boston
street car. standing next to the gate that
protected passengers from cars coming
or the other track. A Boston lady came
TO the door of the car. and as ii stopped
started toward the gate. which was hid
den from her by the men standing be-
fore it.
other side please, lady said the
conductor.
He was ignored a 5 only born and bred
Bostonian can ignore a man. The lady
took another step toward the gate.
You must get off on this side" said
the conductor. II wish to get off on this
side" same the answer. in tones that cor
EesIed the official into momentary silence.
Before he could explain or exp0stulate
Mr.. Moody came to his assistance. stand
to one side. gentlemen" he remarked.
..The lady wishes to climb over the gate -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
eRITAlN's PROSPECTIVE RULER,

His royal highuess. Prince Edward Tt
bert, eldest son of the Prince Of Wales
who some day will ascend the throne Of
Great Britain as Edward VIII. is keenly
alive to the fact that he is a personags
Of consequence. Watchful efforts have
been made by his parents to keep the
young prince from gaining an exalted no
ton Of his own importance. but they
haven't succeeded to any serious extent
one day when the prince was about $
years old. he was looking over a maya
zine. and came across a picture Of him
self On the same page was the picture
of a man whom he didn't recognize.
lis that a kinE2' he asked his father
NO" was the answed. that Is Mir
Roosevelt. president of the United
States
ION. how pleased the American people
will be TO see their presidents picture
next TO mine" exclaimed EHglauds fu-
ture ruler.
When Queen Victoria died the prince
was inconsoIa Die. and also troubled. 't
am afraid" he declared. that she viii
not be happy in heaven
Pressed for his reason for so strange FL
belief, he explained; You see. here she
always insisted on walking ahead Of
everybody else. In heaven she will have
to follow the angels
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
THE LOYALTY OF keNTUckIANs
philadelphia Public Ledger)

II HIIdutiDIId T UDIIC LeuseT-l
That kentuckians have a very high re-
gard for their native state is illustrated
by this anecdote. told by one of them
Once q Kentuckian died. So a near rel
alive went to the local tombstone artist
to arrange IN inscription on the de-
Ceased's tombstone.
After due cogitation the near relative
said:
Carve on il: He's gone TO better
place
I'll carve he's gone to heaven IL you
want me to-" remarked the tombstone
artist. but as for that other inscription
there's no better place than Kentucky
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when the program for his visit was put
before him:
We'll. / think you have planned ev-
erything connected with this country
there is to see but, he added, laughing
there is one thing YOU cannot put on
your program, and that is an EARTH
quake
Hardly had he spoken. however. when
the rouse began to tremble violently, and
the servants standing at the door bowed
together as the host said:
Your highness, the honorable earth
quake
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
WHAT ELECTION TAUGHT HIM
Indianapolis Starr

VIII II. Hayes. who was chairman of
the Republican speakers bureau during
the recent campaign, dropped into town
the other day and was loafing about the
lobby of the Claypool hotel
Hello, Hayes. said an acquaintance
what's doing In politics.
Politics. politics. replied Hayes. what
do YOU mean By politics? I've forgotten
the meaning of the word. Fact is the
last election disclosed the fact to me
that am not politician. but Just a
plain. LAWYER. And you bet that I'm
working at it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
AN ACTORS READY REToRT.

When Barry Sullivan. the Irish TRACE
dian. was playing Richard III one night
and the actor came to the lines. "A horse.
horse, Ny kingdom for a horse!' some
merry wag in the pit called out:
And wouldn't jackass do as we'll for
your
Sure answered Sullivan. turning like
a f--sh at the sound OF the voice Come
arvsxsd 90 the stage door at once
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
RAILROAD MEN IN OREGON.
(Clatskame Chief

Conductor Boles. on the Salt Lake 4
Ogden railroad. near Delena, Ore, noticed
a person trying to flag his train one day
last week
When the train came to a standstill he
found. not a highwsyman. but his wife,
who rode from Mayer, three miles. TO
get him to come home and kill skunk
coop.
Mark knocked off and dispatched the
intruder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
Mexico and Return

Only slG2.65, good for nine months
Have you made the tour? It's a winter
trip worth considering. Itineraries and
sleeping cars. Ask Kenneth Kerr, D.
p A, Salt Lake Route.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
Total Copies of The Herald Printed

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Circulation in Salt Lake proved y
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
IN NICK OF TIME.

When. wiih the duchess. the Duke Of
Connaught was visiting Japan some years
ago, he remarked to his host at table,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
THE SOCIALIST VOTE.

To The Salt Lake Herald:
To oblige q subscriber. please answer
the following;
A bets that the Socialists polled more
votes in the last general election than N
snv previous election. r lets that they
did not FRANK ARCHER
Park City
The Socialist vote in the United Stat g
was In 1894 Eg2 i5e n 1893 1t was 44S. 4s3
The 1905 vote was the largest ever polled
by the partv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
THE METALS

Silver, 50ssc per ounce.
Upper tcathodesl. u 15-l6c per pound.
Lead 4.i0 per 100 pounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01

Diomand Coal. sold only by Citizens
Coal company. Both phones 10.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01

Rabbi Joseph KrauskOpf. our elo-
Iuent preacher" said q Philadelphia,
sees good rather than evil in the fire.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
DIR. HALE's LOVE OF FUN.
Boston Herald.)

An old friend of the late Dr. Edward
Everett Hale contributes several cbarac-
teristic stories Of the flood of reminIs-
cence which has followed the great
preachers death. One of them has to do
with a practical joke which he PLAYED
while still comparatively a youngster on
some girls who were members of the
party with whom he was summering on
the Massachusetts, coast.
All these girls were reading the same
exciting novel, and one day at dinner it
was a leading topic Knowing that none
of them had finished it, Hale. unknown
to them, carried it away with him the
next morning. when he went to the city
On the train he wrote an absurd conclu-
sion to the novel, laying the final scene
at the summer resort
Carrying this bogus conclusion to a pub
Usher. a friend of his, he had II put in
type and then carefully removing the bona
fide conclusion he pasted in his own. On
his return he placed the book on the
piazza and waited. The look which spread
over a girls face as she read the last
chapter was, DR.. Hale declared, worth
going far to see.
Or. Hale was pre-eminenly a man
who practiced what he preached" his
friend writes in the Woman's Home Com
panion. HE was constantly following the
last of his four famous admonitions and
lending a hand himself-his own hand
Once on a time his travels brought aim
to a town where friend of his was edit
ing a daily newspaper.
when he called on him this friend I'M
folded a tale of woe. His wife was seri-
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
ONE WAY TO PEACE IN UTAH.

Surely it is clear to the people that
the only way to peace in Utah is by the
defeat Of the American party in the
coming city election. Never before has
the perilously intolerant and de-
structive spirit OF that organization
been so signally displayed as in the past
week. Never has it been quite so clear
that victory by that party will not
alone be costly to every interest of the
city except the dividers Of graft; but
that the cult Of hatred and home de-
famation will be vastly encouraged.
Every friend of the city can help that
city by arraying himself now-RIGHT
NOW-with the Republican party for
the coming campaign. That party can
defeat the trouble makers. No other
party, Of course, can pretend to the
ability TO do so.
The question comes home to the heart
and the conscience of every citizen. If
he desires peace in Utah, he must help
secure it. And there is only one way
to that happy end. 1t lies in cordial and
united support of the Republican cause.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
GET BETTER ACQUAINTED.

Three men from Salt Lake were going
east on the same train, and a broken
bridge held them up for six hours. I'm
til the time Of their forced detention
they had not more than spoken to each
other, though each had known the
others for years.
But one broke the tedium Of vexa-
tious wait by fiinging a cordial saluta-
ton to one of the others, and presently
the three were packed into one section
of the sleeper. and all were getting &C
quainted. They talked first Of super
fetal things. One Of them surprised his
other, with a bit of quotation, showed
he had been thinking deeply. Then an
other, with a bit of quotation showed
his familiarity with authors whom it
is an honor to know And then the
third wisely directed the conversation
so that all three should get unaccus-
toned views of his neighbors.
And they came home three strong
friends, richer for having found quail
ties of value in both of the others.
That is exactly what would happen
in nine cases Of ten if men of the city
would meet each other and get ac-
quainted. Each would find he had held
a wrong estimate of his neighbor. Both
would be richer for treasures Of thought
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
FROM HELLAs TO COLUMBIA.

When President Taft and his party
passed up Second South street Friday
afternoon, the sidewalks and buildings
were massed with Greeks. Many Of
these were laborers; but all Of them
knew the courtesy due a great official
and every man Of them removed his hat
while the carriage Of the President
passed. The act was entirely instinct
i've, and without Encouragement or
command.
Aside from that sentiment Of cour-
tesy which they expressed, the Greeks
confessed in their salute a recognition
of the fact that they have been well
treated in America. They have paid
their way, they have saved their money,
and most Of them are home builders
and actual or prospective citizens.
And the salute as Mr.. Taft passed
them was the message from the sons
of an old republic to the President of
q new.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
AN INSPECTED INSPECTOR.

Chicago has just succeeded in con-
vincing a jury that an inspector Of pO-
lice who levied tribute on the disreput-
ables of his district is guilty Of a viola
ton of the law, and must be punished.
Inspector Mccain had a regular
agent, who collected money from every
home of vice in the Des PLANES street
district, and brought the money to the
Inspector. The business was boldly
done, because Mccain believed no one
would dare tell on him. He encouraged
his representative to have gambling
rooms opened, so that the payers of
tribute could be increased. And he grew
rich from the contributions he forced
from the disreputables. His income is
declared to have been more than a
thousand dollars a week, and that it
lasted through years.
But even Mccain never made a vic
tim Of robbery take a tenth Of his van
ished roll, and keep still. If a man
came to Mccain complaining that he
had been robbed of ten thousand dol
lars, even Mccain would never have
told the robbers to give back a thou
sand dollars and keep the rest.
They have caught Mccain cutting
up" the blood money with the Grim
inais. But they declare they will not
put him back in control of the police
They are more particular about these
things in Chicago than are the rulers
of Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
FIND THE IRRIGATION CHANCES.

FlND n 2 inhiOA lON CTRNCE D
Surely there are as good fish in the
sea as ever have been caught. Surely
there are as good irrigation opportuni-
ties in Utah as have been taken up.
Men who know of these opportunities
should publish the fact. They should be
sure every condition of water, land and
the law is right, and then they should
appeal for that money backing which
is necessary to bring the water to the
soil
There is plenty Of cash for that work.
Mr.. Mccormick has always said he re-
garded water as the best possible Sc
curity. Financiers IN the east know
now that is true; and they are inquir-
ing every day for new chances to
finance an irrigation project.
No man knows how many idle
streams are running unproductive to
the sea. But there are many. And
somewhere within reach of every one
Of them is as good land as lies outdoors,
waiting only for the vitalizing blessing
of the water.
Hundreds of thousands of acres can
be made immensely productive, because
the good Lord has provided the land
and the water-and because he has left
to his people only the exercise Of in
dustry and judgment to work the mira
Gle of a deserts transformation.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
BUSINESS MEN IN POLITICS.

Every citizen of the United States is
a shareholder in all the property of the
nation. If he doesn't get his just pro-
portion of benefits, maybe his own fail
ure TO take care of himself may &C
count for his deprivation.
The nation is one big concern, one ex-
tensive establishment, which must be
run on business principles, or it will
surely fail. Bad management continued
will have the same effect in a nation
as in a mercantile house. Good direc-
ton. sagacity and loyalty and energy
viii bring the same good results in the
nation that they do in business.
Every business man is a stakeholder
IN the corporation. Most business men
think they are too busy to take any
part In politics" Some of them have
an impression that the following of
politics, the active interest in it beyond
the act Of voting, is a lowering OF their
dignity. an invasion Of their self-re-
epect. To an amazingly large number
she thought OF politics is distasteful.
This is a very curious view TO take,
when one considers that the welfare of
the people can be conserved only by
fhe people themselves. Every business
man should be in politics at least to the
extent Of attending his party primaries,
and that with a definite preference of
candidates. Every business man should
know who is the chairman of the party
organization in his ward. He should
never permit any meeting of the voters
of his party TO pass without his attend
ing. If he attends to that, the often
condemned politician" will not slip
some Objectionable nominee into posi-
ton where the party will have to in
dorse him.
This is the doctrine preached by Mr..
John Hays Hammond, and it is the doc
trine by which the nation viii be made
better. And it is the only way. The
citizens have each personal interest in
the men who hold office; in the laws
that are enacted; in the officials who
execute those laws. Nothing is clearer.
And nothing is surer than this: If they
do not take an interest in politics-in
affairs of so great interest to them
they are never going to be well served.
Beyond a doubt, the business man
of all others-Ought to go into politics.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26

that condition which exists between
this country and the far east, because
the balance Of trade in that case is con-
stantly against the United States.
The people Of India and China use
silver in their business transactions.
They have done so for many centuries,
and they will for very many years to
come. If ever they abandon that rule,
it win be because of their closer com
merciaI intercourse with the western
nations.
And until they do abandon it, the bal
ance of trade now against the United
States may be IN some measure cor
rected by Americas concedfng some
thing to the Asiatic demand for silver
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
Paw Paw, Mich.
Another Operation Avoided.


Chicago, III. u want women to
know what that wonderful medicine.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said I would
die if did not have an operation, and
l never thought Of seeing a well day
again. I h2da small tUmor and female
troubles so that l suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me well woman. Mrs.
ALyENA Spelling, IL Langdon St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fibToid tumors. irregu,
laTities, periodic pains, backache, bear.
ing-down feeling, f1atulency, indiges-
ton, andneTvOus prostratiOn. ItcOsts
but tTifle to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
SUFFERING woren.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
WHAT KIND OF MEN ARE THEY?

A good many men in this town are
curious to know what sort Of men are
those followers of Joseph Lippman.
They went into the campaign for their
leader, and worked for him down to the
close Of the primaries. What little may
be done for him between now and the
definite action Of the convention, they
still intend doing. But they know, and
so do all the informed men of the city,
that 10 Lippman had that nomination
actually in hand.
Also. all men know that the club of
power was used TO drive Lippman sup
porters into the Bransford column.
Scores and scores Of henchmen in every
part Of the city received the mandate
of the bosses to beat Lippman. And
when Mr.. Bryan accused Roger SuIli-
van of political train robbery, he had
less warrant than the Lippman forces
have today for the same accusation
against the managers Of the mayors
campaign.
We wonder what they are going to
90 about It. We wonder If they have
the fear Of the inner circle so strong
upon them that they can be chased up
and down the political road like a lot
Of serfs, cursed and threatened. bought.
oajoled and bullied. They know the
tricks with which they were deluded;
the promises that were made and
broken, the open falsehoods that were
told them in every part Of town.
Now, viii they not only drink their
SPLITTER beer" but viii they tell the
triumphant bosses that they like it?
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ously i'll; she had gone into the country
believing that a change of air would do
her good. She was pinfng for her hus-
band and he was pining for her, but he
had no assistant, so If he took vaca-
ton the paper must stop. Hale listened
and returning to his hotel sat down at
his desk.
Before he got up he had written with
that ready pen Of his enough articles on
his friends editorial columns for a week.
Returning to the sanctum he threw his
copy on the EDITORS desk with the re
mark; There, now you can go and visit
your wife "
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
WHY HE TOOK DOWN THE SIGN
CNew York Times.)

There is at least one Englishman who
has concluded, after all, that he does not
like American ideas.
He is a London dry goods merchant who
returned from the United States with no
tiOns about procrastinatiOn being the thief
of time remarkably developed. He brought
with him a number Of cards bearing the
excellent printed maxim, DO 1t Now,
and hung these UP in his office and about
his store.
Within a fortnight OF the advent of
the cards the chief cashier departed with
the sum Of $1,000, three clerks and depu-
tatiOns from two departments waited on
the proprietor with requests for increased
salaries and his best lady typewriter
eloped with a very businessiike and goOd
looking shop walker.
The cards have now been removed
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26
BUYING MORE THAN WE SELL.

Any one who will carefully study the
statistical abstract of the United States
will discover that this nation is buying
more from India and China than the
United States is selling to them; and
that this state Of affairs has been going
on for the past twenty years.
Business men Of this country know
the nation is prosperous when it sells
more than It buys; and they prosper
when the balance Of trade is in Ameri-
cas- favor.
They must not look with pleasure on