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Show T RU T H. 10 THE UTAH 8TATE GAZETEER New Order of Veterans. Half a dozen old 'soldiers were ex changing reminiscences the other day in Ottawa, Kan., and were telling each other just how the civil war should have been fought. Curley Harrison, a local joker, happened along and listened a while. Finally he became a trifle weary and said: I am going to found a new association of old soldiers, to be composed exclusively of those who admit that they did not one Her husband disappeared day. put down the rebellion and who furhas never seen her since. After a ther admit that they got scared and lengthy period of living in retirement ran repeatedly. There are only thirthe wife returned to her fathers ty of us in the state so far as I know. I expect to hold high office in the on home. der, for I outran every other man at Postcards Popular in England. Chickamauga." Postcards Increased more rapidly in Force and Velocity of Wind. England during the past year than Wind in a' great storm blowing at any other form of postal communica' tion! The number sent was nearly 60 to 70 miles an hour travels about 446 million, which is over 6 per cenl 6,000 feet a minute, and exerts a force increase on the year before. up to 24 pounds to the square foot. Last Phase 'of Sensation. Continuous Cooking Range. In the accompanying illustration is shown a cooking range for hotel or restaurant use, where a specially large capacity is necessary, built on continuous performance lines, to an endless round of cookery in keep the Ernest Schilling, the coachman who created a sensation years ago by elop1903-0ing with the daughter of Millionaire .Polks State Gazeteer and Business Moroslni, has returned to his old vocawill reveal the tion and is now coachman for a doctor Directory for 1903-0changes of the past three years, and in Astoria, N. Y. After their elopement the young couple went to live in represent the State as it is today. a poor quarter of New York city, the The names of all business and profes- husband becoming a car conductor. sional men of every city, town, vil- Seven months of this kind of life was lage and settlement, with full descrip- enough for Mrs. Schilling, who quietly 4. 4, i i s i tion of each place. Names of shippers, live stock dealers, breeders, grainmen, nurserymen, dairymen and others in the country surrounding the towns. Also complete classified lists of names under heading for each pursuit Above is a mere outline of the salient features of the work which will be replete with miscellaneous information concerning Utah. If you solicit trade in Utah, advertise in the Gazetteer. It w'lll pay you. If you are not in trade, order the Gazetteer as a progressive citizen. You can learn more about your state from the Gazetteer than you can from any other source. It is a business educator. It is a family educator. ' R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers, Salt Lake City. W. P. COOPER, Secy and Mgr. . . Carries an Endless Line of Cookery. oven. - Henry J. Mathias of Philadelphia, Pa., is the inventor. The usual fire chamber, with smoke outlet flues, are provided, and also a large oven chamber, in which hot gases are made to circulate freely by means of flues. Inside this oven' chamber is a rotary carrier, mounted on a horizontal shaft and supporting a series of swing shelves on which the stuff to be cooked is placed. The. carrier is rotated by a hand crank located in front of the oven, and each shelf comes before the opening the cook withdraws the cakes, pies, etc., which he has previously placed thereon, reloads ' the shelf - and gives the crank another turn, starting the fresh material on its journey through the hottest part of the oven and presenting the next shelf fn front of the opening .for like treatment.- Thus the work goes on as rapidly .as the cook can unload and reload the shelves, the contents, being .done by the time the complete rotation is made, except in the case of bread. For this purpose half of the shelf can be loaded at a time to give the loaves two revolutions or a short time may be allowed to elapse between each movement of the carrier. o Systems in Gambling. Labouchere, the London editor and wit, used to be a regular visitor to Monte Carlo, but that was a good many years ago. In the old days he used to follow a certain plan of play, which is- known there to this day as , - Not long le systeme Labouchere. someone asked him regarding this ago Ah, many system and he replied: millions have been won through it I mean by M. Blanc, owner of the gambling salon. - , - O - High Price for Shakespeare Volume. Three hundred and seven pounds was paid by Mr. Pickering for a third folio Shakespeare, printed for P. C. 1664," at a recent sale at Sothebys. It had the portrait of Droeshout, with Ben Johnsons verses. Courtesy in Sweden. The Swedes are a quiet, taciturn people. There is no jostling, even among the lower classes. When a train leaves a platform or a steamboat pier the lookers-o- n lift their hats to the departing passengers and bow to them, a compliment th:.t is returned by the passengers. You.-arexpected to lift your hat to the shabbiest person you meet in the street, and to enter a shop, office or bank with the hat on is considered a badbreach of good manners. In retiring from a restaurant you are expected to 'bow to the ocare so cupants. Bowing and common that the people' seem to move around more slowly than elsewhere in order to observe the courtesy. . This is a good picture of Daniel S. Spencer, but it is not any better looking than Mr. Spencer really is. It doesnt flatter him a ittle bit. Mr. Spencer is one of the best known and one of the ablest railroad men in the state. He is a Utah man by birth, education and residence. He was born a number of years ago in what is known as the Spencer house on State street, nearly opposite the Knutsford hotel. At that time it was one of the most pretentious residences in Salt Lake, but Father Time has not dealt as kindly with it as he has with the subject of this sketch. The house is old and delapidated now, while Mr. Spencer is in the prime of life and vigor. He began his career after his school days as telegraph messenger for the Deseret Telegraph company. In 1874 he entered the employ of what was then known as the Utah Central and Utah Southern Railroad company. WIRES J. A, He began at the bottom of the ladder M. P. as office boy, but soon began rising WEBER ft BRAFFET, and has kept at it ever since, and ATTORNKYQ Af MWr there is no telling when he will stop. Citt, Lin salt From office boy he became a tele UTAH. F. Walker Bldg, 827-3- 28 D. 4.k graph operator, then relief agent at local stations, - and afterwards traveling auditor. In 1877 he was appointed ticket agent at the Salt Lake station of his road, then train dispatcher and afterwards chief clerk e of the passenger department. When the Union Pacific absorbed the old Utah Central and Utah Southern he was appointed chief clerk in the passenger department of the Mountain division of the consolidation known as the Union Pacific system, and held that position under Francis Cope, J. V. Parker and S. W. Eccles. In March, 1897, when the Short Line was segregated: from the Union Pacific system, Mr. Spencer became chief clerk to General Passenger and Ticket Agent Burley of the Short Line and on March 4, 1901, he was appointed assistant general passenger and ticket agent, the position he now holds. Mr. Spencer has been a most valuable and faithful employe of the Short Line. He is the diplomat of the road and has been intrusted with and carried to. successful terminations many missions requiring judgment and tact. He is one of the most courteous and obliging railroad men and has the faculty of making friends and keeping them. He is well liked by his associates and popular with the public generally. .j hat-liftin- g Origin of Democratic Rooster. Samuel, Gruell of Wells county, Indiana, one of the oldest Democrats in that state, claims he originated the rooster as a party emblem by writing to an Indianapolis editor to cheer up and print a rooster in his paper. ; Grief Causes Sudden Death. At Valentine, Tex., while standing beside the grave into which the corpse of her baby was being lowered, Mrs. Tesusita dropped dead. - Kaisers Appreciation of Krupp. is To my best: the on words stated to have been the wreath which the' kaiser placed on . ... . Herr Krupps grave. friend.-r-William- ," . . - |