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Show THE FREE LANCE. Now many people road a president's message? Well, not many perhaps read it in its entirely, for very few people peo-ple are interested in every phase and department of the public service, but a largo percentage of the people is interested in-terested iu some special thine; and peruses that parVconceruing it with tho keenest interest. And that part cannot be too elaborate for them. Still these same peoplo . will complain of the length of tho aveia:e execulivo message mess-age as if I hey w ero the only ones tho president had a right to consider. The avir.igo sovereign citizen is a hog. Dr. Eliot while here was much an-noved an-noved by tho constant reference made to his illustrious father. Tho young divine di-vine insists ou standing or failing on his own merits, lie doesn't caro to s'nine untler a reilected light or with a borrowed lustre. Jf they teach that kind ot principle at Harvard the college deserves credit for more things than its proficiency in foot ball. Xick Treweek has made another rich mining strike, this time in Bradford, Idaho. Xick has a wonderful faculty for making rich strikes. In fact it would be difiicult for himtoevado them. Everything ho touches Meems to turn to gold. Ten years ago ho was poor; today to-day he counts his fortune by s'x figures with a formidable beginning. Iiut he deserves good luck if enterprise ever does. Treweek is a Cornishtnan and a miner, it was he who built, tho A1H-ii A1H-ii nee tunnel at 1'urk City, and it is he who is interested in everything that comes along, be it stocks, real estate or what not. A self-made man of nerve and enterprise, ho is a good citizen to have around three hundred and sixty-five sixty-five days each year. Tho Free Laneo is preparing an elaborate elab-orate treatise on 1'rofauity. It is training train-ing fur it by holding communion with the central telephone ollieo whenever this is possible. The degree of possibility, possi-bility, however, depends entirely on the other end. When "Central" is not asieep, or chewing gum, or discussing the latest autumn styles, it may condescend conde-scend to respond to the hello with some degree of celerity, but such intervals are very rare. A9 a rule tho caller must exhaust his full vocabulary of cuss words before ho can evoke a' e sponsive echo. The telephone sen 'co in Salt Lake City would take the ) ie-niium ie-niium for wretchedness at the World's fair. Hello, Central? |
