The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-02
THERE AND BACK.
Number Two.

mean to do that. / mean TO Write as II
nearly every one who went came back
again-and the rest are coming.
We Americans have grown tremen-
dously critical. Every one who Is prop
erly escorted through the rotunda OF
the capitol at Washington sees that
DeSoto discovered the Mississippi river
from the western bank of the stream;
whereas. history makes him approach
the Father of Waters from the east
Also, the properly conducted visitor
notes that two little girls standing side
by side in another Of the great paint
ings have five hands, and the most
careful observer can't tell when |
maiden has so per cent more than she
is entitled to. And there are In other
pictures adjoining the walls or that
mighty circle, men with six fingers, ana
women with six toes-a thing which a |
chivalrous artist should have concealeu'
even if he did find 1t a fact.
1t is lust possible that some people |
remember the defects and forget the |
more essential points Of the picture.
For they really are worthy. As pictures
painted for states and nations CO. these
are close to the head Of the class. They |
may not compare with the great can
vases of the masters who painted for |
love and took chances on getting palu |
for it. But they are great pictures
nevertheless. They show illustrative |
incidents in American history. They |
mark the mileposts in a nations max |
ing. Mark Twain called it the de-
lirium tremens Of art" but Mark was
joking.
Also, you find the man who doesnh
think they compare with the frescoeS
of Raphael, or the canvases of Angelo
or the sacred suppers of Leonardl dc
Vanci, But you find that man and take
him out back of the barn and ask MIN
if he thinks any man born OF woman
ever looked like the creatures in those
venerated paintings, and he Will care
| fully close one eye and hand you
| cigar. 1t is CinCh.
The capitol as it now stands is a
| growth: a mighty, majestic, impressive,
| colossal. stupendous extensive, nlimlt-
| able succession of hurrying decades.
| Every year from those at the close OF
| the eighteenth century is expressed
! somewhere in the capitol. And now that
| the building is about as big as 1t can
get without stopping over into the 70
| tOmac river, they are quitting addltlons'
and devOting themselves to new build
| ings. There is the new senate office
building, a PLAIN but magnificent struc-
ture, and the work Of members of the
upper chamber is nightly assisted by
the new departure. Its committee
! rooms are so fine that accused trusts
and indicted public officials should be
glad to be tried there.
| Coming back, 1 met an interesting
man on the train. I regret it little,
in a way because the short acqualnt-
ance with him destroyed some OF the
traditions that have been agreeable.
For example, it was this man, resi-
. 4 In Va m l.
liam Allen White the inspiration for
that celebrated article about Whats
the Matter With Kansas" The Lima
man was in the Emporia office one day,
and White said to him: John, just
got to have another column article for
the paper, and I don't know what in
the world to write about" And John
told him 10 make an article about
: whats the Matter With Kansas
, lust that way. And the notion caught
Whites fancy, and he wrote the ar
ticle. 1t was, however, little thing
This same Lima man, discovered be-
e fore we reached Pittsburg, gave Eu-
gene Field the material for some of his
choicest poems. 1t was he who sug-
gested the Little Boy Blue, and the
Y baby slumberer who sailed the seas II
g a wooden shoe. He just happened into
the Chicago Tribune office one after
U noon. and asked James Keely, manag
s ing editor, why he didn't get up lanC
= and irrigation eXpOsitiOn-and KeelN
4 jumped at the proposition. We all know
. the show was held.
He did a good many other things, anC
It is a pleasure to have ridden with 81
wonderful a man-even if he did de
- stroy the notion I had entertained
g about the power Of originality in SOM
/ of the DpODle mentioned.
b. In Chicago I asked a cigar dealer
he could recommend a therefore,
quarter cigar, and he said he had al
h especially good one-Queen Anne Boy
e len" the wife of George the Third" a
= he solemnly assured me. And with
heart yelling with gratitude that
d could learn something of history eve
f in Chicago, I bought the cigars. The
- were about as bad as Anne, at that.
don't know whether you knew j
hut l served a ten-year sentence o
Chicago newspapers before the Lord al
lowed me to enter Utah; and it was
good deal interesting to poke about tina
old town for half a day. The Press clu
D. is different l used to be librarian {
Of that organization, and still recall wit
II pride the excellent work l did-or hav
= recalled it in the days that are past.
II will not again. for Billy Knox told n
he that Joe Henderson, the present Ibra
at rian, is the only one the club ever ha
no who seemed to know or care VIII
about books and the keeping of them
al The return of Mr.. KOhlsaat to contr
e, of the Record Herald was one of II
blessed things. 1 thought a good de-
- of him in the old days, and feel that Il
, DAYS of dreams come true are not el
L tirelv vanished Also, found that o
a. Charley Lederer, twenty years ago fl
"a nous as almost the only cartoOnist,
:. againg making pictures for the Sunda
III paper, and seems to make them qui
ct as entertainingly as ever.
ny The newspaper game grows faster,
ba guess. with the passing years, but Il
men who followed it then are among u
ps biggest I have ever known I'm all Il
he world. They are a little grayer, b
1T they are still the splendid fellows thu
-. were from the beginninG-and still g1
ing the world so much more than the
se is any possible paying for.
This side of Omaha a girl who HI
a. been teaching school in Iowa told Il
), she was going to Los Angeles for q
y winter and she thinks The Lift
III Shepherd of Kingdom Come" is one
he the best things Shakespeare has wri
on, ten. Maybe you think that is Jok
- but it actually happened.
One goes to sleep in the wearisOn
sss fields of Wyoming. the limitle
ter stretches of changeless country, whe
the Lord seems to have grown tired
creation, and done less than usui
And one wakes with the rugged mOu
icy taains of Utah lifting ones thoughts