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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
COL. HOLMES NEW PICTURE.

Months ago Colonel Edwin F. Holmes
bought a rarely beautiful picture in
New York, and in the present week has
had it displayed at the gallery of his
home in South Temple street. A num-
Der of friends have had the opportunity
Of viewing it.
It is d scene on the Grand canal, in
Venice, and is from the brush of G.
Vivien, a FlOrenune painter of the very
first rank. The picture is a notable ad-
dition to the art treasures now dis
played in Utah.
The scene is simply a view Of the
great waterway of Venice, colored from
the quaint buildings on either side, and
suffused with the sunlight of italian
skies Scarcely any life disturbs the
quiet of the scene. but the ripples from
the bows of a distant gondoIa accentu-
ate the general impression of silence
and rest.
Artists viii pronounce approval on
the magnificent canvas. The Iaity will
feel the influence of a beautiful crea-
ton, and be glad that the treasures OF
the state have been increased by its
presence here.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
WILSON WAS ATTENTIVE.

It need occasion no surprise that Sec
rotary Wilson. of the department of ag-
riculture. received with attention all
the addresses of Utah's people. OF
course he did. And, of course, to the
limit of his power, he viii comply with
the reasonable requests Of his visitors.
Secretary Wilson's position is pre-
cisely that of every other member of
the administration. All are working
for the good of the public. There is no
strife between Secretary BaIlinger and
Forester Pinchot that at all diverts
either from his chief duty to the people
of the United States. All either of them
require is to be shown what viii best
conserve the general cause. And they
stand side by side I'm the work of get
ting that thing effected.
Utah and the far west are especially
fortunate in this truth. Here is where
the development of natural resources
IS going forward. Here is where the
big interests will be found for the next
ten years. The attention Of rich men,
who also are wise men, has been direct
ed 10 Utah, and to Idaho, and to Mon
tana. They find there are opportunities
here that will pay big for big invest
ments. And they are going to help
these people while helping themselves.
They will reclaim the deserts. They
will help with irrigation, and with dry
farming, and with mining, and with
rutland with every activity which
means advancement and increasing
riches It will be one Of the effects of
the better era that the roads of the
state will be improved; that stock will
be finer, and buildings better, and the
whole life of Utah's people made pleas
anter and more remUnerative.
In this work, the attention Of the fed
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
TO A GRASsHOPPER.
Nev York Times.)

New York Vimes.)
Thou art cadaverOUs in the extreme,
And hungry looking, viewed from fore
to aft,
Yet in thy boiler thou hast wondrous
steam
To so propeI thy slim, Iong-Iegged craft.
Thy leaps are marvelsl Aimed due north
or east,
Thou Iandest westward where one think
est not
Dcst thou then eat self-raising flour or
yeast
That thou canst reach at once so far a
spot?
I watch thee daily skipping through the
grass,
Perched on a fence or hopping toward
the moon;
Yet thou raturnest to the ground, alasl
To squash thy person on my gown full
soon.
And as I marvel thy far-reaching gait
/ feel some pity through my senses
steal
To see a hen, with one guIp, end thy
fate,
And then to think how that poor her
must feel,
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
FIFTY THOUSAND ACRES MORE

If you will stop and calculate for a
moment, you will realize that it means
a good deal to add fifty thousand pro-
Guctive acres to the field of Utah. And
that is what the men of Weber and
Davis counties decided TO do when they
agreed to organize the new irrigation
district at the Tuesday meeting.
We regard it as the very perfection
of good fortune that the work can be
done so easily. If the people shall
unite, they can raise every dollar
needed for the bringing of ample water
to their acres. And the consequent in
crease in value returns them far more
money than has been invested.
Under such conditions, it should
be easy for other communities to
follow the excellent example. There
are other places where schemes as ex-
tensive as that decided on at Lagoon
wait the initiative of the land owners
They risk nothing, and they certainly
add to their holdings. Besides which is
the fact that they make wheat grow
where only sagebrush has grown in all
the vanishing eTas of the past.
Fifty thousand acres of good land
made productive in this one region OF
Weber and Davis counties will be a liv-
ing example to men in every other
county in Utah. And that way will be
| followed to the reclamation Of a limit
less tract of now idle soil, and its ad-
dition to the productive areas of the
/ state, and to the swiftly increasing
/ wealth of Utah's inhabitants.
That Tuesday meeting at Lagoon is
| a thing to remember with pride anc
! effect on land values everywhere.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
DREAM PEDLARY.

If there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy2
Some cost d passing bell,
Some a light sigh,
That shakes from LIES fresh crown
Only a roseleaf down.
If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung the bell,
What would you buy?
A cottage lone and still.
With bowers nigh,
ShadOwy, my woes to still,
Until l die.
Such pearl from LIES fresh crown
Fain would / shake me down.
Were dreams to have at will,
This would best heal my i'll,
This would I buy.
But there were dreams to sell
III didst thou buy;
Life is a dream. they tell,
Waking, to die.
Dreaming a dream to prize,
Is wishing ghosts to rise;
To call the buried well,
Which one would 1?
If there are ghosts to raise.
What shall I call
Out of the mUrky haze,
Heavens blue pail?
Raise my loved lOng-lost boy
To lead ME to his joy.
There are no ghosts to raise;
out of death lead no ways;
Vain is the call.
Knowest thou not ghosts to sue?
No love thou hast.
Else lie, as 1 viii do,
And breathe thy last.
SO out of Lies fresh crown
Fall like a rose leaf down.
Thus are the ghosts to WOO;
Thus are all dreams made true,
Ever to last.
Thomas L. Beddoes,
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
THEY CAN en- ALONG.

Assistant Secretary McHarg of the
department of commerce and labor
wanted to resign, but stated that he
would not leave the public service if
his chief should be unable to find any
one to take his place. And that is a
curious view for a public man to take.
OF course someone can be found to
take the place formerly filed by Mr..
McHarg. And the same may with
equal truth be said of every other Off
cial for that matter
Maybe Mr.. McHarg was extremely
useful Maybe he became perfectly
convinced that he had devised the only
true way to do the work. And maybe
he saw chaos and old night looming
in the pathway of the national govern
ment if he should for day lay down
the reins. Which is a bad state of mind
for a public officer. Some of the biggest
men in the world have stopped, and the
world has gone on. 1t is likely Mr..
Caesar held to the notion that he was
so important that his departure would
amount TO a breaking of the works.
But Rome went on, even after Caesar
was dead and turned to clay" And
he was but one of the many big men
who have doomed large, and then sub
sided. And never a one of them has
carried creation with them to the dem
milton bOw-wows.
Now and then a clerk in the store
gets that same notion. And then it is
worth all it costs to give him a practi-
cal demonstration of the ability of the
solar system to go on without him. Mr.
McHarg has not been missed.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

Scientific gentlemen tell US there is
no known reason to doubt that water
underlies every acre Of ground in Utah.
They see no reason to think wells can
not be successfully established in every
desert, and as many as people care to
dig.
Just now the state is having digged a
well at the experiment farm near Ne
phi. The contractor will go down 600
feet, and if he gets water, the value
of the land all about will be enhanced
in value. Private citizens viii sink
other wells. Also, the finding of water
there will so far to establish the fact
that water can be found Otherwhere, In
each attempt so far made by the state
water has been found. That amounts
TO a strong basis for hope.
Down in the very middle of the Esca-
lante desert there is a well. It is some
thing less than two hundred feet deep
and provides plenty of water. 1t isn't a
flowing well, and the water has to be
raised with a pump that has been in
stalled for years. But the water is
there, and sufficiently abundant for the
serving of countless hOcks Of sheep, and
such herds Of cattle as come that way
One of these times the desert will be
in private ownership. The Smoot Law
gives each citizen a half section of non
irrigible land. If there shall be watel
under ali the soil, that will mean the
establishment Of homes wherever fer
tile land is found. And that is through.
out all the borders Of the state.
1t will not be enough for irrigation
perhaps; but it will be enough for do
nestle purposes, and for stock, and fo
the quickening of the garden and or
chard grOwths. There is a good da!
ahead for Utah. and water waits tn
summoning of the citizen.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02

good results for the Americans, too. It
needs a much closer commercial rela-
ton between our people and the lands
to the south of US. Mexico could be
and should be a better customer for
American goods than she is now. And
the fault of it is moro our own than
theirs. That is true, too. Of the regions
south of Mexico. Mr.. Blaine knew the
value of a closer acquaintance, and
tried to lead his countrymen into a bet
ter trade relation with the Latin re-
publics generally. President Roosevelt
understood the value in the Blaine Cos
pei, and Mr.. Root made a personal
journey to their principal cities.
This meeting of the presidents is but
one incident in the general movement
of Americans toward better acquaint-
ance with their neighbors-an acquaint-
ance which cannot but be of decided
material benefit to all the parties con-
cerned,
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
VALUE OF A GOOD NAME.

One of the salt Lake mercantile firms
advertises its long continuance in bust
ness here. and the fact that the conf
dence of the people has been one, and
is counted one. of the most valuable as
sets of its house.
That isn't an entirely new thing, but
it is worth talking about. Many man
does precisely all he should do, and is
content with answering that fair de-
mand. He isn't hunting for anything
extra. But he is getting something ex-
ira. all the time. He is building up a
credit in the bank Of his neighbors
rating, which is actually worth money
10 him, if ever he shall need to coin il
into cash.
Every merchant in town, if he be
wise-and successful merchants always
are wise-knows that it is better to lose
money than to lose the confidence of the
public. The biggest firms in the coun-
try are big because their credit is good
with the people.
That is one of the things the boys car
learn-to their pro ting. It is worth
more to a boy to be known as abso-
lutely truthful than to be known as the
best accountant OF the best athlete il
the state of Utah.
If men know that he viii without fai
tell the exact truth. no matter what tht
inducement to prevaricate a little. thai
boy can get backing whenever he want!
it. Men will stake him because ht
doesn't lie. He doesn't deceive.
And the most worthless creature OF
the earth-worthIess to himself and t.
everyone else, including the state-i'
that one on whose statement no on,
relies.
A good name costs nothing but square
dealing. And it is worth more thar
many a man pays for a palace.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
THE HERALD REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. THURSDAY 1909

and was more than three times as much
as d decade ago.
Roller skating is popular in the far east.
In Calcutta, at a rink on the Maiden, as
many as 5000 rinkers and spectators, near
iy all foreigners, have been seen in one
day.
II has been discovered that the ancient
volume over which the student pores is
fun of germs; and some people say that
the danger should not be faced without
a silk and wire mask to fit over the mouth
and nose. The reading mask is used in
Paris.
Mrs II. c. Schneider is to walk from
ST. Louis to Boston, a distance of about
800 miles, for the sake of proving that
American women excel is walkers. She Is
to be accompanied by her husband, and
they expect to cover fifty miles a day.
A llama looks as innocent as an officer
man in the Salvation Army. He chews no
tobacco, but he can spit into a mans eye
twelve feet away and never touch an
eyelash, and oh, how it stinks and stings
Little boy, don't tease the llama in the
zoo.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
The opoRLEss DUNK.

Down in Tennessee the station houses
are filed every Saturday night, and all
day Sunday, with gentlemen bearing
all the evidences of a jag-save one.
Their breath is as clear as a NOW Of
new-mown hay. There is no teIltale
odor. Official Tennessee has come to
call it the OdOrless drunk"
The thing has its advantages. Many
a man in the north would be glad to
learn the secret of the Saturday victim
of the teetotal law. We are credibly in
formed that DRINKS up here in our cold
er chimes have an odor that laughs at
alibis and all excuses. Any man, as
we are advised, who goes home at 9
o'clock in the morning carries his own
convicting with him. No matter how
strong a story he tells of the sick friend
with whom he has been sitting up, one
Whit of that rebellious breath turns
states evidence on him, and the wife
of his sorrows condemns him to a bed
on the comfortless settee below stairs
He may bring proofs strong as holy
writ: but against that breath nothing
will avail.
/ Tennessee seems to have something
that all the rest of the world will want
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
WHEN The PRESIDENTS MEET.

That promised meeting Of the two
presidents, Taft and Diaz, will be an
interesting thing. It will not be the
first president Of the United States that
the Mexican chief executive has greet
ed at the border. He had the honor Of
there shaking hands with President
Mckinley. And was the better for it.
And both countries are nearer neigh
bors for this even brief conference of
their first citizens.
Back in the east there existed for
many years a rabid antipathy to Mex
leo and all things Mexican. For the
most part, it was the outgrowth of a
mistaken idea. Our people did not know
the Mexican situation. AS they learned
it, they found Mexico worth while.
Many Of them invested money there.
and found they were prOtected-very
much to the surprise of those who had
prophesied evil. They found the Mex
lean much like other people; warmed
by the same fire, chilled by the same
cold"; with passions and aspirations
not unlike the race of other men. And
in the past fifteen years many millions
of money have been invested in Mexico,
and no charge of a robber government
there has been raised.
They have made good neighbors,
those Mexicans. They have advanced
splendidly in the years since war di-
vided them from their neighbors across
the Rio Grande.
And the meeting viii be fruitful Of
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
AS EVER.
New York SUM
IN TIN WAY

We are moving to the country and OuI
brand-neW bUngalow;
We've finished with the packing and are
ready now TO go.
We've taken the canary and the parrot
and the cat
And we're all of us delighted to be done
with that old flat
We have left the city racket and the tur-
mOil and the heat,
And We're glad to say adieu TO both the
building and the street.
The van man gone before US and We're
speeding on our way;
Wen eat our humble supper at the bun
galOW today.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
LATER.

We have been here most a fortnight in
this Godforsaken spot!
The roads are something awful, and, my
eye, but amt it hot!
There's hardly any water and there isn't
any gas;
The door yards fun Of mortar, but there s
not a blade of grass.
We haven't any neirhbors and Were
bToiling I'm the glare,
And the silence is so awful that it's more
than we can bear.
The parrots most unhappy, and so like
wise is the cat,
And were all of us just pining for the
old, delightful flat!
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02

eral officials is helpful. Every visit
made by one of them renders easier the
general task of bringing the help that
outside men can render. The state has
plenty of sound promise for all. And
in the advance the men on the ground
will be the first to receive a profit.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
SCRAPS.
New York Press.)

New YORK Press.l
France has an aeronautical club for
women.
Four minutes, forty-five and a half sec
Onds is the underwater record.
Central park. New York, is to be light
ed by electricity. 1t will take l,40O arc
lamps TO light the park
The trade of the United States with its
non-contiguoUs territory in the fiscal year
1893 exceeded that Of any previous year,
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02

Salt Lake people will make a good
showing of exhibits at the Four-State
fair in ogden this week. And they viii
attend in such numbers as will con
vince the Weber people that they have
hosts of friends at the capital.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
AFRAID HE COULDN'T MAKE 1T.

tkansas CitY JOurnaL)
"HOw's your garden coming On?"
why do you ask that question %
demanded the subUrbanite suspiciOusly.
"Just out of pOliteneSs."
Glad to hear that. I thought maybe
I had promised you some vegetables -
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02

Next month Lehi begins a carnival at
Saratoga, and all the state is invited to
see that portion of Utah at its best.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02

Take the children to Wandamere Fri
Gay-FTee.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02

Bathing at saltair-stiu glorious.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-02
Meals at the "ship" Restaurant,

SaltaiT. Nothing finer. ASK for any
thing" City prices.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

No. ?9-.2.s0o acres land suitable 70
cattle ranch; somo of the enest gar
den land. small orange grove. howinl
wells Of pure water. fronting on 3;
Johns river with Florida East Coas:
railway running through the property
Ask the price.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

No. g. $500 acres, river Q sides, r..
n. one side. fence / mile. Would fSnce
II all Dor cattle ranch, couldn't be
beat Has million feet pine. ! IL
million cypress, 6 million feet Of ash
gum, hickory. maple. magnolia, etc
Good wharf, Groom house and farm
About 60 A. Under fence. The price.
IS. 90 an acre. II you mean business
come and see this.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11
All Kinds Of Florida Real Estate
Ii You Don't Find What You
Want. Write Us...~

No. 100. 2O.room house. Cost over
f3,500.00 TO build 35 acres land
peach trees, 200 young orange
trees. Barn. Nice location; shelled
street and sidewalk on front. Price
S4.5OO0O. A good opening for some
one TO make expenses by taklnp
boardsrs while fruit trees ere comm
into bearing. Easy terms. Photo.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

Cottage, two bed rooms, kitchen, din.
ing room and large living room, about
two acres land recently set out In OF.
anga trees. nicely situated in center
OF town. Cottage furnished. For rent
or sale. Photo.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

Stock Tor sale in a stock company
that Is growing oranges and grape.
fruit. Started business FIVE years
ago and from 2 per cent paid the LIST
year the stock paid 10 per cent the
4th year. Shares are 800 each. Send
for booklet.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

We have properties running from
a few hundred to $4,000. Write US
about price you would want TO pa!
for a place and we Will write you
about what we have around your fig
ure.
There are orange groves here thai
are paying from 800 to $1,000 pen
acre.
A Boston gentleman came down In
December for his health, bought 10
acres OF land for $500, had IL set out
to oranges and grapefruit; and before
he left in spring could have sold al
enough profit TO have paid all his OK.
Denses for the winter. He refused to
sell.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

4S-acre tract, one OF the best in San
Mateo for oranges or peaches, about
20 acres cleared, fences not in best of
shape, small house and packing house.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

No. IS. Pineapple lands In Dads
county. on railroad. acre lots. $50
per acre. II you want pineapple land
or a pinery already in bearing. write
W.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

No 2. About 40 acres, some u,B
Der, 10 A. fenced and cultivated. House
Of about rooms. barn. etc. witnin CLs
miles Of postofico and depo- a bai
gain At $500. 90. Terms Il dCsired.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

Al A pretty little grove with fine
location for house on river bank,
About Ave hundred boxes fruit this
season. Wharf on the property and
new packing house.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

Buy your ticket to San Mateo; see
what we have to offer. II costs less
than to go farther south and then come
back.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

DO you want an interest in bearing
grange grove? No better Investmen
IN Florida. Write for particulars, %
innate Of profits. expenses. etc.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11

Building lots In good location, 500
to $500; 1O0x200 feet TO S acres In
extent.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11
SOUTH BOUND.

J. H. TOWNSEND. ACT. Jacksonville. IL
MRS j. w. MILLER Gen Mgr. CIR
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-11
NORTH BOUND.

Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays.
Leave Crescent City 7:00am
Leave San Mateo s:00am
Leave Palatka 9:30am
Leave Green Cove Springs l:lbpm
Arrive Jacksonville 6:00pm
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-11-10
sleodshed Axartad.

Opie Read. the novelist once told of
hi; experiences as a journalist in Ken
lucky nany years ago.
There was good deal of news" he
said. such as shootings and knifngs,
but this news was not regarded as inn
ptrtant, and little attention was paid
to 1t. remember once, when local
teud broke out afresh, when members
OF the opposing sides met at the coun-
ty seat. There We're hot words. q
blow was struck, and weapons We're
drawn. when the sheriff interfered.
he loudly announced that he would
not tolerate any violence. ordered the
parties to separate, and when his Or
ders were not obeyed he began shoot
Ing. l forget whether he killed eight
or nine, but know that in describing
the incident in my paper commend
ed the sheriff for his prompt action
ard bravery and added the paragraph,
There is no doubt but for the prompt
action OF the sheriff there would have
been Dloodshed.'