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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

"Whew! Thirty thousand dollars IN one
contract, - said Charlie wstfully.
''Cheer up said the bookkeepor kindly.
- You re doing good work. and when Flint
comes home | II speak that word for You
go, thank you" said the invoice clerk,
over joyed,
Tuesday and Wednesday passed, and no
Abercromhie came. Thursday and Friday
likewise effaced themselves from the calendar,
and still no secretary of the International
Chair COMPANY The bookkceper was puzzled,
hut there was nothing to do but wait on Mr.,
Ahercromhic s pleasure. Saturday was half
holiday in the summer months, and this par
ticnar Saturday came two days before the
Fourth of July. which fell on Monday, Good
sell gave the matter up when the gentleman
had not arrived by half-past II Saturday
morning.
~ m going to take my family out Of town
over the Fourth Peterson, - he said to the in
voicc clerk as he put on bis coat, ' Aber-
crombie won't bother lis now until after the
holiday-7if he bothers us at all m afraid
tho Unexcellod people have gobbcd him
again. I" The going Of Goodsell was the signal
to depopuaie the Offices, the clerks all having
their private holiday business to attend to,
Quit with A clean desk, was alone in his glory.
q How | WISH began Charlie HIS
wish dealt with the recalcitrant Abercrombe,
hut got no farther for the door banged open
and well dressed man of middle age came in
breeziy.
"All hands gomez demanded the stranger.
pulling out his watch ''Wheres Goodscll
Or
Charlie fought tendency to faint away
and jumped down from his stool
"'Come right in. Mr.. Abcrcrombe, Inc said
pleasantly. "we We been looking for YOU all
week, and Mr.. Goodsell gave YOU up ten min
utcs ago and went away.
$'Eh, wbat?' said Tie stranger. looking
queery 80, yes, | expected TO get here be-
fore this. but was detained, Who are youl'
81 m Mr.. Charles Peterson. said the in.
voice clerk. = Don Z lei tho fact that Mr..
Flint and Mr.. GoodselI are away bother you,
for | am vcrsant with the situation and
prepared to discuss matters rgDt to the DOT
tom.
30. yon ares said Mr.. Abercrombic. He
spoke GROSSLY and Charlie reflected that the
hour of noon not the time TO plunge Tor
a $40. 600 contract. He mentally figured the
amonnt Of money in his pocket and bis say
S6S.
II was lust about going 10 lunch. Mr..
Abercrombic = he said cordially, Won
YOU JON mc'
The secretary of the international Chair
company gazcd doubtfully at the tall young
man before him
81 guess Il he began, but charnc
had his hat and coat and was banging the
safe doors to after extracting his wealth.
Never take no for an answer, y he SAID
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

Il can stick some-if | m teased, - be nut.
tered
There were opportunities for selling var
nsh and making Fat contracts in the Brilliant
office, and Mr. GoodselI. the bookkeeper was
an able ofiice salesman. Many of the custom.
nrs of the house had the oldfashioned habit
of iourneying TO the works to make their
dickers expecting and never failing to he
taken around and shown the rsrnsh IN The
making-enjoying first class time at the eX.
pense Of the Brilliant people. Occasionally
strangers came in, and their method Of treat
men+ had to be modified. Once Cioodsell knew
the stranger S house it's size and varnish buy
ing ability, its mercantile standing, and ITS
reputation for paying he hooked 10 the
stranger, talked grades and Puccs. brought
forth samples by the dozen, and did business
on its merits until he landed his fish, Every
visitor was handled according to his pcculiari-
ties, and there ouly one unNarying
rule>-not to let him escape without buying
record was kept of every man who came
in OH a varnisb quest, and there had to be
explanations 10 Mr.. Flint if good possible
customer slipped away. When representa-
tive Of some concern which had formerly
hought Brilliant varnsh but had gone over
IN competitor came in things whirled until
thc man renewed his allegiance to Brilliant
and time and money were nothing
The tall young man making out bulls looked
at all this With sharp eyes and listened WIN
long ears in his career of a few months nc
saw plenty Of examples of grit ana
stick - for Goodsell had been heaVcn-born
salesman himself until sickness had incapacl
tated him for the road, In his noon hours
and other moments Of leisure Chnrne hdoica
around outside in the works. poking his nose
into huge kettles and asking endless questions
of primy varpsh boilers and mixers. with All
of whom he was prime favorite The chem
lists liked Charlie and guided hun IN making
practical tests of varnish at ms boarding
bonse. much to the landlady s discomfort,
vim occasionally acquired unwlshed Tor
o,oss from messcs of varnish left carelessly
around.
go, for an opportunity sighed Charlie,
filed with all this lore. IF could ohiy &c.
Goodscll out some time and make one good
CAPTURE maybe" Charlie dldn 7 Kno" IT,
hut his chance was coming
ssTherc's going to be something doing this
week - said the bookkeeper casually one
Monday morning as he opened the mail
.sDayid Abercrombe, the secretary OF the
international Chair company writes that he
oYnects TO call on Mr.. Flint in relation TO Il
contract for year g supply Oh Varn,en
IIneYrellod people got the international away
cran, ns last time-500 barrels Of filters Dup
INC yarnish and rubbing varnish-apout
GOO o0o worth / wish Mr.. Flint was mere
but-David S got to place that contract WIN
tIIe Brilliant this time, or II break les'
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No. l said that the great Army
Of the Employed who did not
seem to be arriving anywhere In
particular simply asked the Priv
ilege OF running over the Deck
and counting the Spots on the
Dice and then searching the other
Players for False Pockets and
Hold-Outs.
They didn t dislike ii man simp-
~ because he mad many Chips in
front Of him, but when he raised
them out and then gave them the
l1a-lJa, they could moi be expected
TO arise in their Places and start
"He's Jolly Good Fellow
According to No. l, the Main
Handlers of the Sudden Money
had allowed their Work to become
q little Coarse and now the Rank
and File was about 10 issue a gen
tie Reminder that Human Rights
are about as sacred as Property
Rights.
After No / had dealt these
heroic Swipes across the bloated
Carcass Of Predatory Wealth, he
inquired, "WiIl you be at the
Convention in Chicago?"
Sir exclaimed No > brist-
ling, am Democrat.
But YOU arc somewhat Of
Stand-Patter and you are opposed
ITO Fireworks and have nothing in
common with W J. b.
My Parents lived for years
near Culpepper Court House and
that makes me a Democrat the
same IS You.
Sri said No / trembling
with Indignation. | am a Repuh-
llcan no matter how I Talk My
uncle stndied Law in the same Of
flee with Lincoln -
| A Prohibtionist. who has been
absorbing d Fizz al the adjoining
Table, arose and left the Car in
Disgust.
MORAL: In order to tell One
from the Other this year. you will
have 10 go hunt for the Birth
Marks
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10
The New Fable of
the Shake Up;
\ or Who's Which
IN the Grand
Parties.

-WO Travellers with much
Conversation that never
J had been used found them
elves Face TO Face at d diuky
Table in Dining Car and fell 10
jawing about Politics.
No. | spoke harshly of the
Nn,ts assembled in Washington
because they had failed to go
after Tariff Rates with Broad
Axe aud Pruning Hook,
When he mentioned the Vino
ma Speech, he frothed slightly at
|ns Mouth,
He ruared about the Wool
|Shedule Just as if he knew what
|itmeant.
According TO him, the Plain
People were tied to the Stake
Nth the Money Power sprinhling
|ihs Kerosche and the Trust Mag
hates getting ready TO strike a
/ |lalch,
No, > put his emphatic Nixey
|n the whole Lime Of Talk. He
|sld the Tariff Law was no Ger
inlum. but he would rather keep
/ / than let go of everything and
|ssrl off Aeroplaniug for two OF
|hree Years.
| He said there were TOO many
|Aghators raging up and down
ths Side Streets trying TO WOO the
IOiers away from the Nickel
Shows and get them all het up
usr Politics.
10 long as there was Uncer-
'amly over Tariff Legislation, cv-
'ir poor Geczcr with a Stock of
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usually found himself represent
ed at the Nation IS Capitol by a
Trusted Employee of some Billion
Dollar Combination. They had
been Double Crossed once too Of
len and now they were out dane
ing in the Moonlight and getting
ready to nail a few Scalps on ev-
cry Trolley Pole from Providence
Il. J., 10 Seattle. Wash.
No . said the Country could
never get back to real Prosperity
while all the Money -Gettcrs were
being advertised in the Penny
Shriekers and the Muck -Raking
Ten Centers as the Lineal Dcscen-
Giants of Capt. Kidd.
lie said it had got TO be crime
for Man to have More than 81 7
in his Clothes at one Time, I'm
every Cartoon. the Hero is broke
The designing Villain who
erects Building covering an en-
tire Block and puts 1900 helpless
Square Heads on the Pay Roll is
denounced by the Union. investi-
gated by the Woman's Club and
sandbagged by the farmers in the
State Legislature.
When - Railway President
walks down the street, the little
Daughters Of the Magazine Writ
crs runs home to the $30 flat and
hides under the Bed
Lawyers representing large
Corporations G have TO travel in
cog, and If it can be shown that q
Beef Packer has not Blown Up,
he has 10 stand Trial for if.
In the old-time Books circu-
lated by The. Sunday School LII,
/ brary, the Good Little Boy who
never used Bad Language or
kicked his Sister on the Ankle
grew up TO be a Successful Busl-
ness Man with Side Whiskers who
carried gold headed Cane and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10
BY Edgar Dayton Price.

llT T.lGH.HO.' yswncd Charley Peter
son. sitting up on his high stool
Ill in the Office of the Brilliant Var
nish works and stretching his
|sahped arms.
lhls is tough, he sighed, addressing no
|f1y IN Particular, "a tall young man like
|'s made for the ont of doors and hustle
|'Fe'''' condemned TO sit on high stool and
4se out unending bills for varnish.
iosre arc hundreds Of young fellows who
,'~d Jump for that high stool Of yours if it
pun chance to become vacapt,' said the
''seeper, eyeing the young fellow severely
~ bis spectacIes.
"s all rCht-any excuse for getting
- with the Brilliant said Charley
'oV- II suppose YOU We got TO creep be-
y YOU can walk, but my burning ambition
se' out and sell yarnish-lots Of it, Say,
s00dsell - coa1ingIy. "I'vc been here
months and ] IN saturated with Bril-
= vanish I've got Brilliant varnish on
uonsers and Brilliant varnish in my
= ano I've even eaten a little Brilliant
cah t You speak good word for
.'a nave me sent on the road on trialq"
ss nooskeeper sighed.
....'~ sell auything7' he asked.
'vo' haven I, ;" admitted Charlie, But
hos-',
s' all know, said the bookkeeper, 81
fS en dozens of men start out to sell var
H.. 'n'y convinced that they had 1t IN
thn tra IL hA
,nl. out when they found themselves up
'oe men from about a hundred COM
H. oO"ses, lnst as good as the Brilliant,
IA Nvn lost heart, began to sag, and then
r went their heads. ,,
ha w 'a'k as if varnsh salesmen were born
..rs Nv made, y said Charlie doubtingly.
h..- something born in them that
aod '"em salesmen.' admitted GoodseIl
,tnb.' a' 's-srit, The varnisb business is
fh;. s'u can get working knowledge
@d h.. month sufficient to start out on the
h mo- uoiess you've got never dying grit
at. H.. @now your goods, be affable and al
rilp"as you II fail. -
''Yope prayed football said Charlie
booEba,it 90 at folks that way laughed
aks youeeIpsr' your I you Just stick till yol
fenmsnd Saie' a Talking about stickers,
Nern-bo, Flint, our president, as 9
sh' ne the best salesman in tile busi
alIc ,tL.ainiy gets fine contracts sale
sts cont, saw the shipments on the presi
se psnnacts psras and handsomely billed them
7sir f seen Mr., Flint. Where is hi
sNr. 20 .sy yyWaeation, / guess said the book
Et~hc's w." "e don t see much Of him aroun'
~, TT que Of your kind, made for out o
spse rler,,s subject wns dropped and the tai
u2htencd turned to his desk somcwha
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

100000, dies of Apoplexy while
undergoing a Congressional In
ycstigation.
No. . said il was Fine Business.
Any Country that would knock a
Hustler and try to sew him up in
a Sack was due for Il long spell Of
Soup Kitchens and Free Employ
ment Bureaus.
No retortcd with Great
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

American People were not seek
ing the Immediate Maz,ma. They
wanted TO settle for all time the
vexed Question as TO whether the
Sovereign Voter shall be a Human
Being or a Messenger Boy. He
said the poor Dub who stood i'm
Line Tor an Hour and then wore
out his Intellect trying TO get the
right Marks on the Official Ballot
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

mite Objection TO being the Per
petual Goat.
When he went cut with new
ST bill and came back with a doz.
en- Eggs, pound OF Butter and
the Evening Paper, he would nat.
urslly be stricken with an added
Wonder as TO where so many peo
pie of Ordinary Intelligence got
their Automobiles.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

SpaSmS, no Merchants would dare
to order more than two Bolts of
Calico at a Time, and every morn
ing he would have to take new
Pencil and begin re-marking cv-
erything Oh The Shelves. Since the
Merchant had frightened up. the
Manufacturer was playing safe,
Therefore lhe Children Of the
Artisan were living on Cereals
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10
Pictures by Albert Levering

and All-Day Suckers, the latter
being a durable Candy Of Granite
Formation.
No. moved back The Dishes
and began to lay down few
Eternal Principles. He said the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

went about rebuking Evil and
spilling Sunshine,
In the revised Version, the
Good Little Boy grows up to be a
refined Pauper and the wicked
Urchin, after accumulating $30,-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

Goods or little Manufacturing
Plant would be lying across the
Ropes with his Eyes rolled up,
glassy-lil1e.
With Congress getting ready 20
have one of the regular EpiIeptio
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

Warmth that the Average Man
was fair minded and did not be-
grudge his PortIy Neighbor the
G-cylinder Car, and the Blonde
Wife and The Pomeranian. But
lie was beginning to have a def
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29

According to a recent report Of the
geological survey mines in America
have produced SO far over 15.250.000,-
600 pounds of copper. OF this magni-
tudinous quantity 100000 pounds,
or BATS per cent, came from the Butte.
Mont, district, 4,756,0O0.000 from Lake
Superior, Mich, and 1885, 100000 from
Bisbee, Ariz. Especially interesting is
the fact that not single one OF the
principal producing properties yet
shows signs of nearing exhaustion, al.
though some of them have been in op.
Grafton for thirty years.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
lanes Wilson, Secretary Of Agricul.
ture, Who Recently Visited Colo
RADIO, Delivered an Address
at the State Agricultural
College at Fort
Collins.
Railway Commission Is Legal

Observation-Disclosures a ruling q
Judge Cavender. sitting at Brecken-
ridge in the case of the Colorado Rail
road Commission against the Colorado
& Southern railroad, the legality Of
the railroad commission and its right
to make regulations which must be
obeyed by the railroads, within reason.
is established. Judge Lavender over
ruled the demurrer Of the Colorado 4
Southern railroad, which protested tho
order of the commission seeking to
service between Como and Brecken.
ridfe, declaring that the commission
was without authority of law.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
Pueblo to Aid Farmers.

Pu.tlo.-Pueblo has decided, through
the Commerce Club, to go to the re-
lief OF Kiowa county farmers whose
resources have been exhausted by the
unprecedented severity OF the winter.
County. Commissioners Woolver and
Baldwin Of Kiowa county placed the
situation before Pueblo business men
and large fund will be raised at once
to purchase feed and seed, which will
be distributed among the settlers. The
money will not be used as charity but
as loans.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
WASHINGTON.

Senator Cummins of Iowa has intro.
duced in the Senate a nationwide
presis entail primary bill, the national
primaries to be July 8.
Supervising Architect ]. Knox Tay-
lor has informed Gen. George w. Cook
that he would positively complete the
new federal building in Denver by July
/. 1912 ready to be occupied.
DR.. A. S. Mitchell, chief of the st.
Paul laboratory of the bureau of chem
istry, has assumed office as tempo
rary member of the pure food board
in Washington to fill vacancy caused
by resignation of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
Qualified or probationary independ,
ence for eight years, from July 4. 1918.
until July 4. 1921 after that, full in.
dependence for the Filipinos. This is
.the plan of the leaders of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives with
respect to the solution of the phillip
pine problem"
The waste of millions of dollars
worth of natural gas which is going
on each year in the petroleum wells
Of the country may be stopped soon
by plan that has just been made
public by the federal bureau of mines.
Briefly, the plan as outlined by oil ex-
perts Of the bureau is to take the So
called "wet gas" found in all the oil
fields and obtain from it a liquefied
gas that can be used for Illuminating
purposes. This liquefied gas, which is
by.product of the natural gas. is
held under high pressue in steel con-
tainera and can be shipped to locali-
ties that do not have gas system.
In this way small towns, hotels and
country estates may have the advan-
tage of gas illumination at fair cost.
This gas, it is thought, will also prove
an excellent illuminant for light
houses, lightships and other public
works of similar nature that must be
located at distance from q CONNER
cial supply Of gas.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
santa Fe Plans Improvement

Denver.-One million dollars ont OF
an appropriation of $22.700,OOQ has
been set aside this year by the Santa
Fe railroad for improvements of III
terminals in Colorado. The appropria-
ton, it is understood, is made By the
railroad to meet it's share of the ex-
pense in improving the Denver Union
depot trackage facilities. During 1915
the Santa Fe proposes to continue ths
reballasting Of Its tracks between. Den.
yer and Colorado Springs and ths -
largement OF switches. E->.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
Young Farmers Club Growing.

Meeker.-Growing much more rapidly
even than the proverbial sapling is tho
Young Peoples Agricultural Club. re-
Gently organized in the government
road district, seventeen miles west Of
here. The organization, composed en-
tirely of the younger boys and girls Of
that section, boasts OF thirty-seyen
members, taking in about every young.
ster living on the road.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
Will Plant 1000 Acres Of Flax.

Grover.-To the fact that woman,
Mrs. Mary Martin, successfully expert
mented with twenty acres of flax in
the vicinity of Grover is due the con-
tract just made by which 1000 acres
of land in the Greeley-Poudre frriga-
ton district will be planted to nag
next month.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
Muller shortage over $4,000.

Denver The filing of a claim for
$65,743 by the National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptives against the es-
tate of the late Alfred Muller in the
County Court disclosed the fact that
Mullor's defalcations amounted to
more than 100000. or $4,000 more
than was shown in the last reports.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
Schools Have Good Roads Day.

Denver.-Colorado school children
will this year be given instruction on
the value of good roads in the state.
This is the result of the adoption by
the last Legislature of an act which
sets aside the second Friday in May OF
each year as Good Roads Day in the
schools.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
Women Hold Good Roads Meeting

Gu1nison.--March 23 there was
woman's good roads meeting here held
by the first woman's good roads or.
ganization in Colorado. At that time
full list of officers was chosen and
the Woman's Good Roads Association
went on record.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
FOREIGN.

The Paris dressmakers' most start
ling contribution to milady's ward
robe this year is to be a new skirt,
very narrow, with slit at the side
extending we'll above the knee. y
Ambassador Wilson, City of Mexico,
received an appeal for protection for
Americans in Tampico, who are in
danger of violence at the hands of a
mob which has already attacked the
offices of the Tampicc Navigation
Company.
The Mexican rebels after three days
of fighting claim victory at Jimenez.
There are many dead on both sides.
Gen. Gonzales Salas, the federal leader,
and late Mexican minister of war, Is
among the wounded. He resigned his
portfolio to take the field.
Conditions in Mexico seem to be
steadily becoming worse, according to
state department reports. Movements
Of rebel troops and bands in that vi
cinity have put the populace in more
pessimistic mood. In Puebla more fed
eral garrisons have revolted.
Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
April 29.-Democratic State Convention,
Colorado Springs.
May 6-11.-state Y. NJ. c. A. Convention.
Pueblo.
June 18-20.-State Sunday School Con-
=. vention. Colorado Springs.
June 11-July 19.-Summer Term, State
Teachers College. Greeley.
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very pleasant "rlumberless" party to
a number of his boy friends to watch
the old year out and the new year
in. Games of various kinds and a
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Nh, who have been visiting Mrs
Charles f. Noble, left for their home
yesterday.
Miss Ida Chamberlain, who Is at
home from Belmont college for the
holidays, will entertain Thursday af-
tornoon in honor of her roommate.
Miss India Ferrell Of Danvile Va.
Mrs c. Il. Rogers has issued invi-
tations for bridge party tomorrow
afternoon.
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I'm SOCIETY

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