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Show MANY persons wonder whvro tho good comes from setting tho death watoh on a condemned man. Moat ovoryono understands that tho chief reason for this custom 1b to pro-vent pro-vent tlio prisoner doing vlolonco to hlm-solf. hlm-solf. But somn argue that nine Uio condemned con-demned man can only glvo his life, that there Is no good reanon to provont him from takinsr hiB own life if ho ohooo to spato tho court's ofllclalB from doing s6. MoraJlato Inslat that to permit a criminal crim-inal doomed to death to destroy himself would bo to compound the crlroo. At loast, thoy urgue, It would bo lawk-KS. Hven tho law errs, howover. and thero I no one that can say that Jio Giver of life approves the taking of a Hfo even under tho sanction of tho courts. If a mun doomed to bo hanged by -tho nock until dead, dead, dead, or shot full of holes In expiation for crime, choo&es lo ond hla own existence rather than faco tho tragic scenes of tho excoutlon hour, there are many that InslBt that thwo siiould be- no lnterforence. ' "Is there no law against gambling in Salt I-ako?" O. yes; tho sttttutos of Utah and tho ordinances of tho city aro oxplldt on this point, but whon tho city needs money, aa Is tho case now, and It has tho machinery of tho law in Its control, gambling houses and gambling paraphornalla, under a license li-cense system, aro considered as "revenue measure." It la not unlawful to gamble In Salt Lake If you give to tho City Collector a fair share of tho rake-onV'- But If you do not como up at tho profioribod hour tha Judge of the Police court wUI get u look at vou. It is a beautiful system no long as the "protection" fee Is paid promptly. Tho gambling law was not mode to bo enforced, anyway. It Is merely Intended to shut out tho little robbers nnd glvo tho big onos a clear fluid. i j a If tho Commorclal club can find a means of raising J50.0CO or such a sum, to be usd to encourage tho location of sov-ornl sov-ornl good factories In Salt Lako every jear, by tho tlmo tho next conaue Is takon the city would havo a population exceeding exceed-ing Kw.OOO. It may havo that number anyway, any-way, but several factories would not only bo tho means of developing tho city, but Would bring In a sufficient wealth that tlio tax ralo would soon return to a normal nor-mal ilguro. Salt .Lake ought to bo a great olty. It will beoome groat If tho 3ame mothou3 are employed to boom tho city that aru employed by every other growing city in tho country. C 4 Ono of tho MothodlHt preachers who stopped over in Salt Lako City Sunday aald: "Tjho Gentllo element of the country coun-try Is receiving all the revelations these days." I havo been uncertain whether this was Intended as a pun or was a straight tip. t m m Slnco It has been decided by a professor who lias mado many tests of blood, following fol-lowing various forms of oxerclso, that swimming Is the most healthful. It Is tough to remember what It costs to take a plunge in Salt Lake. "When somcono will come forward with an explanation why a public speaker is excused for the ubc of language that would bo tabooed by polite society, then some of us will attompt to explain why a pretty girl will permit most any nice young man to put his arms around hor, under tho glare of the light of a ballroom, ball-room, when she would not consider It at all proper If ho were to do so In the dark corner of tho balcony when nobody Is looking. Salt Lake atenographern have organlz-Hl. They are doubtlessly preparing to dictate a few things to theii' omployers If the patrons of the Tooolo Transcript do the square thing by the editor of that sometimes Interesting newspaper, they will pay their subscription and give him an opportunity to attend tho "World's fair He tells them that ne has received tickets to the exposition and that thero Is no limit to the tlmo they must be used. For thlB tho management Is heartily thanked. But he says: "It will all depend on our subscribers whe-Jur wo will be ablo to got there or not; but wo believe they will be willing to assist us In paying up (heir delinquent subscriptions.' Ask tho nowsboys which of the Salt Lako papers they sell the greatest number num-ber and eight out of ton will say "Tho Trlb." Tlio business men of tho city ucom to understand this very well, for The Tribune carries the greutest line of advertising. adver-tising. Everyone has heard of the person who was "hoist by his' own petard." Russia's recent cxporlenco with her own mines furnishes fur-nishes fine opportunities for tho revival of that grim and ancient quotation. Street Commissioner Seddon Is notifying' notify-ing' tho male population of Salt Lako City "over twenty-one and under fifty years of age" to appear at some part of tho city with shovel and work a couplo of days on the streets. The alternative is to go to tho office of the Commissioner and plank down three good dollars. Now. the question is: "Do all men re-spondrV re-spondrV If thoy do, "What have they got to show for the labor or tho money?" . Salt Lake's tax lists, it Is claimed, show, many blooded horses that aro worth but $25. and no end to the $500 pianos tliat are listed so low that a junk buyer would not condescend to make a bid on them "sight unseen." One o the, tax assessors say that wealthy men, as a rule, aro the ones who are tho hiflt to fllo their schedules. They aro probably having trouble figuring out how poor they should bo one day each year. Getting a tip that tlio- police were going to investigate lUm, a bookmaker put tho evidence of his, bookings In an envelope, addressed It to himself to a foreign office, directed that the package be forwarded to several remote points and finally held until un-til callod for. Then ho warned tho officers, offi-cers, after he had deposited th letter In a nearby lettor box, to beware of tampering tamper-ing with United States mall. V flavor Morris and the police cannot bo expected to suppress gambling until they sec something of tho kind. And they aro too -busy looking Into important matters to be diverted for a year or so. At least until tho treasury Is stocked up a little. Some one has said that a married woman wo-man who loves a pet .dog and makes him her companion, has found marriage to bo a failure. On tho eoutVieast corner of Main and First South la a poor bid man who was rendered a cripplo and was blinded by a dynamlto explosion many years ago. Ho was once a well-known prospector. Now ho braves all kinds of weather, soiling newspapers for a living. He says ho would be tho happiest roan in town if he had Just ono good eye. If Mr. Carnegie wants to spend romo of hla money on thoso who are making heroic J struggles In this world, ho should not p:uH by the bllDd lwwuman at Main and Second South. e Treasurer Dixon's report of tho finances of Utah does not berjr out tho olalms made bv somo that tho State la In hard linen. Tho cash balance. 1385.124.70, la a very comfortallo sura, thank you. A recent visitor to Colorado tolls a frightful story of tho effect of tho climate jof tliat Stata on tho complexion- Sh should have come a ffw leagues further and located In Utah. Horo every one from a street-paddy to a ping-pong girl has a complexion tliat u; something beautiful to .lK-hold. Complexions are so common that ovory man, woman and baby In tho State has onr. It would bo hard lo find a person per-son in tho Stato that has not some thine of tho kind somewboro undor his haL It la llkewl.u) difficult to undenrtnnd tlio Colorado "knockr" when she says "the-re la not a oomploxion In tho Stato." Here nro a few thlng3 this disgusted woman had to say: "There ought lo bo a sign up on tlio cauloro boundary, 'Abandon all hope of complexion, yo who enter here.' Complexions' Com-plexions' "Why. tbero Isn't one In tlie Stato. You can't put on skin food fast enough to keep from b..dng driod to tlio bono Tho dazzle of light makes you r.qulnt till your face looks like a railway map. for wrluklcrt. The climate braces you up till, in your larlent moments, you work like a staam engine. It stimulates you till your nerves aro stretohed to the highest tension You walk on air, you talk fast, you fairly bubble with onergy, and you think Colorado la tho moat magnificent mag-nificent climate on earth. Oil one day a friend cornea out from somo dull llttlo old town In Now England, and after oho looks at vou. she says: 'My dear, how you aro aging.' Peoplo don't rust out In Colorado, but thov wear out, and tho complexion Is tho first thing that goe. They do thlngo In a year in Colorado that It would take ton to do In tho Raet, nnd they show It In their faces. No Colorado for roe, thank you. I dou't want to grow up Rnd old with the country. I want to tay where things stand still aivl T can keep my complexion com-plexion and my hair and my nerves. ' |