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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-16
CUBS WIN CHICAGO
CITY CHAMPIONSHIP

Chicago, Oct. l5.-The Chicago National
league club defeated the Chicago Amer
lean league team, 1 to @. here today and
won the series for the city championship,
the final count on the series standing
four games to one in favor of the Ma
tiOnals. Score: R. II, +.
Nationals 5000. ...... col 900 00@-1 0
Americans ...... ..... 600 600 600 /
Batteries-BrOWn and Moran: White
and Payne Base on balls-Off Browne, 1;
White. l. Struck out-By Brown, s; by
White. >. Umpires-O'Day and Sheridan.
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The Public Are Warned

That some INSCRIPTIONS dealers are re-
filling No. Monogram whisky bottles
with inferior goods for their own profit
See that you get the genuine. Take no
substitute.
ROSSKAM, GERSTLEY & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA DfstiIleTs.
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VANDERBILT WINS.

Paris, Oct 15-W. X. Vanderbilts Ripo-
lin won the priX Ain Trailes. which was
run at Maisons L<afitte today.
The prix Destrier was won By Mr.. Van
derbiltis ReinhaTt.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-16
FAMOUS STOCK FARM
GOES TO NEW OWNER

Lexington, Ky, Oct. 15.-Dixiana, for
years one of the most noted breeding
farms in Kentucky, has passed into the
hands of James B. Haggin. Major Car
son, owner of the noted stud establish
ment, traded II yesterday to James B.
Haggin for a tract of farm land Major
Carson wishes to take up the breeding
of bloOded cattle and go into active farm
ing, While the pastures and stabling Of
DiXiana were considered too valuable to
be disturbed. 1t is thought that this
prompted the sale.
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A For Sale ad. is a salesman
not an assistant to the junk man.
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HERALD-REPUBLlCAN FORM CHART

Dc fast
P
E2aAFRsT RACEsix Selling.
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Reading and answering want
ads. constitutes evidence of your
practical turn Of mind"
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At post 212 minutes. Off at 5;O4. Z
Benton SIS place, 3-5 show. GOss
Winner b. g. by His Highness-C
Scratched-Lucky Mate. Indictment
start good Won easily. Second
Benton took off the pace first p;
himself Gossiper ran a good race,
looked to be winner, but tired badly
some journey. Burning Bush quit
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At post minutes. Off at ABB. Time-:24 10, As
AICCurdy 81 place, 1 show. GalvaniC l place. l.
Winner. b. g. by IlawahO-The Mitten. Trained
ScTatched-Byron.
start good for all but Lady Powell. Won clev
easily.
r. A. McCurdy caught the pacemakers firing
and with something to spare. GalVanic haC
his best. but tired badly at end Reuben improving
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A p0st Za a =,
E.
f. KeniwOrth-Cora Trained o. F.
Scache
Starfa if Won cieve Second
the end outs race
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At post minutes. OFT at 4:Jo- Ilme-;23 20
Royal 1-2 place. out show. Eudora 10 place.
Winner b. g. by Prince of Monaco-Crowned
ford
Scratched-Liberto, Colonel White. Mabel Fou
Start good. Won in a hard drive of three
Rather Royal gamest horse at end. Went TO
eiIt-edeed ride lasted it out. EudOTa slightly in
pole came again. but could not overtake the lead
and was right there all the way.
rnna FIFTH RACF-Fiva furIongs Selling
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Jockey Mondon lid not appear in the
saddle yesterday for the very good reason
that he was given two days on the ground
by the judges Thursday for rOughing IL
with Gargan.
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At post 6lz minutes. OFT at 3.O6- IIme-:4 3-5, 40
Prometheus 3-5 place IA show. PretensiOn 80 pla
show
Winner b. c. by Prince of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 7
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Start good. Won easily. Second driving. Third ca
PrOmetheus off well today, went to the front
Pretension did his best. CobleskI had excuses.
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lect raw and finished material from d
hundred scattered hamlets.
Why, the good roads permitted the troll
ley to be laid, and indirectly brought
light and power to isolated farms at
cents the hectowatt
Good roads solved the agricultural prob
the trolley.
senger traffic. merchandise in less than
wagon loads and bulky freight travelling
more than thirty miles: but. threading
dozens of small towns that would not
pay trolley. there go automobile omnt-
buses. Thanks to good roads, the purely
country stagecoach never died out in
France; and today 1t has become a big
capacity auto of slow speed. with solid
rubber tires.
Before the development Ct the steam
railway France had a network of trunk
highways-the present national roads
connecting the great cites. over which
hauling by horse was cheap. Now that
there is a steam railway within thirty
miles of any given point, those magnifi
cent roads. seventeen feet wide in ma
cadam. not counting their dirt. Sides
and shaded with fruit, poplars elms. oaks
or acacias, have become the delight of
automobile scorchers: and far more
vast network of communal or 'neighbor-
hood roads unite the smallest hamlets
with trolley and rail.
Now the simple fact that these COM
munal roads are declared by the present
minister of public works to be 1.-The
greatest French work Of the past forty
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years" ought to open our eyes and en-
courage American road building.
mo one out Of France" he says, re
allies the profound sacrifices made by our
people to produce them. Their enormous
cost-above $2.OOOOOOOO-is. nevertheless,
the most productive of any item of our
peace budgets
Why? Because while the great trunk
steam railways, the newer cross roads
hunt out the elements of commerce and
industry up to the smallest local sources
The French countryside did not make
this wise sacrifice entirely of It's own idea.
those of the central government at Paris.
They hand over the communes Gown
ships) and departments (states) part OF
the annual taxes collected in them-and
sometimes. even out of them. Now, the
department legislature, while 1t can force
the communes to use only tWo-thirds OF
their improvement resources on roads
that connect principal towns of the big
department, can demand that the totality
be spent on local roads connecting little
communes.
In word, the influence Of the central
department of roads and bridges at Paris
passes-very much by the Par. s-apponted
projects presiding over department legis
latures-to that smallest local unity, the
community, to force 1t to patriotic road
building and repair.
One Of the chief services is that of pub
lie works. The highest school of vii
engineering, which gives two-year courses
in applied work after students have
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railways and shipping. it is not so of
the phenomenal increase-estimated by
Thery at $2O0,O0O.OOO per year. This is
enormously due to the private automobile
buying and touring of the rich hired
automohling of the well-to-do, and
tourist services of automobile brakes and
cars-not to mention the whole great
category of touring berlines and vic
torias drawn by horses in the auto wake.
1t is new gold. all increase, scattered
off the railway lines and benefiting the
remotest country districts. Indeed, the
amount spent in merely American auto
mobile touring is fabulous. Last year a
moderate estimate gave 1000 American
parties making private tours from Paris
Supposing only two in each party
(probably there were FOUR, and that
they spent only $1,000 apiece (probably
it was $4,000, we have $6.OOO,OOO Of
private American tours from Paris.
But what of all the autos hired by
Americans out of Paris? Dozens such
and the most expensive-meet each in
coming boat at Havre and Cherbourg
From Italy, where they land, they work
up to Paris via Austria. Switzerland and
Germany.
Who can estimate the American hiring
of public automobiles for two weeks apiece
around AK vichy, Biarritz. Trouville.
Vittel and dozens Of other resorts? They
do" the locality: pass. and do" an
other. The mere spring and autumn trips
to the chateaux of the Loire lasting
from two weeks to a month. give Paris
garages a specially. But who shall es-
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The HOTEL CLERK ON SOME RECENT PROPHECIES

after that my next mission is to wrap
a blanket or barrel or something around
you and take you in out of the chill air
of the evening before you ketch cold from
half to two-thirds Of the way up your
spinal colyum.'
"'But you don't understand said the
chap. I've had a revelation-Pm Holy
Chester from Staten Island
81 don't care II you're rolly coaster
from Coney Island. says Casey: You
have most scandalous ideas Of correct
evening dress for young men. Come along
now before 1 fan you
I've arisen and come forth to predict
the end Of the world. says the fellow
"'You don't say says Casey. 'When's
it due?'
This very night says the prophet
In the midst Of mighty tempest this
sinful world will be wiped out he says
Well. l wouldn't be surprised but
that you're right says casey. My corns
have been paining me all evening some
thing fierce. and that generally means a
change in the weather But you wouldn't
want to be caught ou- at the grand finish
wearing the undress uniform of an angel,
would your says Casey. If I'm any
judge of this town there'n be quite a
crowd out. And anyway, you'd better
come on down to the station first with
me and tell the cap about It, He's in
terested in knowing everything that goes
on in this precinct. Let's be cool, cam
and collected says Casey. You ought to
be cool. anyhow. In that striking costume,
hot T,vro
nothing for you to do but be CAM And
ne took him in and the next morning
the prophet thanked Casey very cordially
and borrowed pair of pants off of him
and went home. But Casey told me that
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tho st Reckless. Il recall no less than
forty-five or fifty times when some
prophet read it in the stars or the street
car ads or somewhere that the end OF the
world Has nigh. Yet l can count the
times when the world has been destroyed
on the fingers of one hand. Let's see.
Once when Noah brought the ark out
of the archives and took the first private
Yacht trip on record Once when Pom
peii and whatyoumaycallum were wiped
out Once the first time Kentucky went
republican, the cataclysm being more or
less local on that occasion. And once,
one morning wnen it froZe solid and
didn't know about it and came out of the
front door and slipped the top step
and sat down so hard it parted my hair
in the middle and made me bite myself
in the chest. l did SO. And for quite
a .pell l felt quite sure that ! was the
Only living survivor and not such very
god survivor at that. I was full of
crevasses. WITH those exceptions l can't
remember any more times when the world
was destroyed.
The end of the world has the best
any open-air entertainment l know any
thing about. It's one free show that
never comes up to the advance notices.
Every little while some inspired bug
energies from the cocoon and announces
that at 4:15 next Tuesday afternoon the
stuff will positively be off with this
planet. He has read the warning in the
heavens or a dream book. or he ate q
lobster Newburg and went to sleep and
had a revelation. He knows he has the day
and the date down right, and from that
position he cannot abate one jot or little.
Zine and shperfine. 1 think to myself that
thi.; arrangement is going to take a con-
siderable load off OF my mind. because 1t
saves my buying a new fall overcoat, and,
besides. a large number Of unpleasant
people are going to be permanently eradi-
Gated without any rubbish to clean up
af.erward. which would not be the case
II had to carry out my original intention
of numbering them one at time with
my bare hands. Let her come, I say to
myself. But next Tuesday comes. and
she looks and acts like any other Tues
day The usual number Of notes come
due in the bank. the usual number of
people mistake toadstools for mushrooms
and the usual number of hunters shoot
each other up in the Maine woods. About
4:1S the party who made the prediction
begins to throw off few of the jots and
by half-past he hasn't got little left to
his name. Wednesday morning, when I
wake up. the same sufficiency Of pests are
encumbering the earth and l realize that
I've either got to get that overcoat right
away, or else start in to popularize the
custom of wearing doormat across the
chest. Confidentially. as man to man.
don't mind telling you, Larry, that I'm
beginning to lose faith.
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SOME PRETTY GOOD BATHING AT ATLANTIC THESE DAYS

was. as l say. trying to learn how to
swim all by her poor. lonesome little self.
well. that meant me. Sure. How could
l let lovely maiden with blue-black hair
-slews of blue-black hair, toO--and soulful
Irish gray eyes try to learn how to swim
all by her poor little lonesome self? 1t
isn't in me to do anything like that Nix.
| should say not. And SO. gazing at her.
l soon established wireless connection.
She saw me gazing. and she sort o
dropped her soulful eyes. but not without
permitting a teenyweeny smile to flicker
around the corners of her pretty rosy
mouth.
And so O. course, me to bulge In.
Nudged over close and slid In some incon-
sequential observation about the maza-
rine blue of the sky and the azureness Of
the sea and the mellowness OF the sun
light and that stuff. 1t went all right.
She observed right back to me. and 1t
was all right. / taught her little bit
how to swim and how to float and all like
that, and we had one real lovely little
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Il never saw a man yet who could
bring himself to believe that the people
he didn't like would ever have a chance
of being socially recognized in the great
henceforth. Why. right now. l could give
you the names of at least fifty persons
that haven't an earthly chance to show
in the money in the same eternity where
l expect to settle. If thought they did
have, I'd change my plans. So. when [
hear of prophet doping out the grand
slam and stating at the same time that
the eleventh hour train to the other shore
will be run as a through limited, instead
Of an accommodation as heretofore. with
no stops at the way stations and no pas
sengers allowed on board except those
Eho've had their tickets properly coun-
tersigned by him personally. my hats OF
to him. 1 know he's figured out pro-
gram that's bound to draw trade. Yes. sir.
Larry. if you want to start a reform
movement or patent dry cleaning pro-
cess for renovating soiled souls or
brand-new plan Of salvation. just take
MY tip and make it narrow and tight and
hard enough, and chuck plenty of blue
laws and such things into the mixture
and you've got a combination that can't
lose. Remember that practically the en-
tire population Is strongly t. favor Of a
wide open hades. one that's deep enough
and wide enough and warm enough for
everybody We don't particularly care for.
but the heaven that gets our custom must
be very small and very hard for outsiders
to break into"
when do you look for the end Of the
world?" asked the House Detective.
when the government busts Q trust"
said the Hotel Clerk.
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Loved His Wife,. But

StCLYDE FITCH could have been a
great playwright" said a noted &C
tress. sadly. But he loved money more
than art. AS he once pointed out quaint
ly, he treated art as Hogan treated his
dead wife.
Hogan. he said. had beer saloon. A
boy with banjo entered the place one
night and began to pla. and sing. Hogan
went up to him and murmured:
Make 1t a bit quiet, sonny. I've Just
lost my wife and she's lying upstairs
$50 the boy made his music very solemn
and subdued. and the crowd that had
gathered. seeming to find the proceeding
rather slow, stopped ordering and began
to file out.
Hogan hurried round from the back Of
the bar and bent over the boy again.
Sing up. sonny he said. Put as
MICH ginger in 1t as you're a mind to-
After all, she can't hear"
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Now, you take that shepherd in the
frock coat and the white tie who did
the predicting for the recent group of true
believers up in Massachusetts. He didn't
have particle of doubt about 1t, not an
atom. 1 suppose he knows by now that
what he mistook for the end of the world
was merely the beginning Of his liver
complaint. But, at the same time, he
didn't have peradventure of doubt.
and so he passed the word along that the
official sightseeing car would be leaving
for On High punctually on the hour, and
go straight through without stops, and
those who desired to get aboard would do
well to put in their applications early.
and quite a number did. Did you read
the accounts of it? Well, you missed
something worth while.
The prophet announced that the world
would probably pass away in a great
tempest. and so all the members of the
congregation who were subject to colds
brought their umbrellas. He also said
the faithful few would be snatched up to
heaven just they were and the ladies
of the flock came all primped up in their
best frocks.
well. they gathered on the side of 4.
hill and took up collection and sang
a hymn two and waited a while, and
took up collection and then waited some
more. and the scoffers who'd been sitting
silent until then, with one eye on the
heavens. began to scott up a trifle, and
finally the pastor announced that, owing
to unavoidable delays In arriving, the end
of the world would be temporarily post
poned and took collection and issued
rain checks and they all went home, AMI
tried to beg back their worldly goods that
they'd given away beforehand
Think how foolish them poor deluded
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when thunder storm came I'D about
midnight he went and sat in the prophets
eel end held hands with him. He knew
1t was all blamed foolishness, of course,
but in case anything did come of, Casey
said he wanted to be in the right COM
pany. Casey's good. careful man. He'll
be sergeant some day"
''Wot l never could dope out is why
folks will keep right on fallin' fur them
dippy prophecies and the like said the
House Detective. Specially when we're
supposed to be goin ahead and gittin'
broader all the timer
Maybe we're being broadened and may
be we're only being ffattened," said tho
Hotel Clerk You'll notice this, Larry.
You can organize almost anything from
a new brand of religion to a farewell per-
formance Of the world II you only maks
it exclusive enough. When you scrape
the rind off you'll find most of us nurs-
i'm the notion that heaven is highly
restricted establishment that will be popu-
lated exclusively by our own immediate
set together with few specially invited
guests and carefully selected line OF
angel hired girls, who can bring good
references from their last places You
may have observed that everyone of the
parties engaged in predicting the abb
rupt finish of this world always figures
1t out that only his own particular little
crowd is going to be saved. everybody
else going into the discard. That's what
makes 1t so attractive. None Of us would
want to go to Paradise, as long as We
had the choice of another place, if We
thought for a minute there'd be mixed
Sunday excursions running in. and bring
ing all kinds Of socially impossible people
to turn our mansions in the skies into
bum two-famfly houses with clothes poles
out the back windows and to hang signs
for delicatessen stores and hat cleaning
Establishments out over the solid gold
sidewalks. Not at all; not in a millioa
years.
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for SO so per cubic yard. Cut, it Is worth
$40. and the Riouperou paper mills pay
$3.50 to $40. delivered at their works.
away down the valley.
Now. al the moment when competing
outsiders would do the hauling as low as
81 per cubic yard. he insists on doing it
himself and the mills, for local reasons,
make effort to buy the wood where
II falls.
Uriage wheat delivered by the trolley
at Its Grenoble terminus, costs $4.72 the
20 lbs Criage farmers will haul it the
twelve miles. delivered to any Grenoble
address. for s4.7:,. Buying from them as
trolley-oompeting carriers, you save all
carriage in Grenoble
1t is needless to multiply examples. In
general. up to twenty miles, it is con-
siderably cheaper to haul all kinds of
merchandise by horse than use trolley or
railway-even in this mountainous coun-
try Judge, then. the economy on the
plain. Also. the horse and wagon seldom
returns empty-an extra profit. Between
twenty and thirty miles the advantages
are considered equal
The secret Is coed highways; and, note
at once, they are not mere profit from
the past. In 1880 Uriage valley was
wild, torrent-swept ravine, roamed by
bears and wolves. The picturesque new
road-constructed while certain old Penn
sylvania pixies l have in mind were be-
ginning to run down-made possible a
f1ourishing watering place. a paper mill.
an acetyene works. two cement works.
an artificial telegraph-pole factory and
a hydro-electric light-and-power plant.
1t opened civilization to remote farmers
and gave them a local market. They
take turns sending down horses for high
paid summer resort uses. The same city
boarders buy their eggs. milk, fruit. vege-
tables and meat. The lone valley fac
tories give them steady profits And even
In winter the fine roads permit GrenOble
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taking the baths at Atlantic Citys lead
ing hotel-sanatorium. Nothing would do
but that l should take dinner with him
at this hotel-sanatorium that same even
ing.
well, that's about all.
II took dinner with him at the hotel
sanatorium. 1t was a beautiful large
dining room. Instead of male walters,
mattresses were employed: a smashing
lot of fine. outstanding. graceful. quiet
footed, agreeable-looking girls.
my West Virginia friend and l had
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on on account of the dazzling whiteness of
. . SKIN. And SO l glanced back to see
e Sn owner or the hand. Yep. it was She
Just smiling at the corners of her mouth.
ana then erased the smile. I admired
ner: L respected her. I do yet That's
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HIS one" said a
young Washington
ian who does his
vacationizing in the
autumn, rs on me.
Nothing very Sc
we're about it, of
course: but it's on
me all the same;
and there's a say
ing that confession
is good for the
soul.
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HE A m e r c a II
farmer pays so for
hauling where the
French f arr e L
pays 81.
| realize II here.
Up the crazy
winding little val
ley beyond Uriage
l knew a farmer
who is cutting
pine wood. Stand
ing. IL could sell
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The Party Of the First Part.

From SOurir.
General-Send my orderly to me at
once.
Aide-de-camp-Sorry, sir, he has just
been cut in two by q bullet.
General-Then order that part Of him.
to be found which contains my tobacco
pouch.
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By Irwin s. Cobb.

NOTICE where a
bunch of people up
in Massachusetts,
somewheres thought
the end of the world
wuz comm and
turned out fur it,"
said the House De-
tective. But they
wuZ disappointed"
They so fire.
quently are said
the Hotel Clerk of