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Show BRIGHT, warm days bring out the automobiles and the long pent up spell has been conduclvo to a de-slro de-slro on tho part of the drivers to do an amount of scorching that 13 Inimical Ini-mical to public safc- The Rights of the u ia al1 very nice Tj-.f",,, to own an auto and Highways. l0 ahow oft ltu mcr. ' Its as a roadster but the fellow that attempts to monopolizo the streets, or who swears at pedestrians who do not clear tho crossings as speedily speed-ily as tho chauffer would dtslia bcjl4 be pointed out to tho police. It Is difficult for Bomo perron"' ' "S cede that tho footman has tm f i. -of-way to tho crossings. This uupcrlor right, however, does not warrant anyone In loitering on the street crossings. The "glvo and take" prlnclplo ought to be the spirit with everyone. It Is tho policy of all ladles and a',1 gentlemen. Only last Sunday, Sun-day, at tho crossing of Main street, south of tho monument, an automobllo monopolist mono-polist camo very near running over an old man who. belated, was hastening to the Tabernacle. The very close call was a surprise to both the chauffeur and to the pedestrian. The old man vented his feelings by a startled exclamation "Goodness!" The chauffeur yelled, as ho swopt by "Why don't you keep out of the way, you blanked old fool?" Speaking of reckless running of automobiles, auto-mobiles, thero Is one man that bellovos his luckiest day was the ono that ho was run down by an autocar. Tho victim of a chauffeur's carelessness picked himself up. after the lndlKnllvI Just In tlmo to tnko tho number of the car. Npt for the purpose of reporting to tho police, but to gamblo on. Ho played tho number at rouletto at Monte Carlo and won M0OQ. I wouldn't advlso Salt Lakers to throw themselves In front of an automobllo In order to bo knocked down by their lucky number, however. "Yes. that Is a very nice stono." remarked re-marked Dan Polrco of Chicago, when a friend was admiring hla 2U-caret stick pin. "It ought to bo a much nicer one for It cost me $750. Yes, that Is Just what It cost and It Is not the highest grade, cither. It was this way I paid $-130 for It originally. It Is a hlgh-grado stone, I am told, and has been a comfort to me many a tlmo when the Volvos were howling howl-ing around, and I havo come to think about as much of It as of my wife. Whllo In Frisco two years ago some ono fingered fin-gered It out of my tie whllo I was getting get-ting a shavo In a barber shop. I reported to pollco headquarters and offered a reward re-ward of two hundred plunks for Its return. re-turn. I got It back from a pawn shop after a struggle. Then again last year It was stolon during a 'shove' at a depot entrance at Kansas City and I offered $10") for Its return- I waited for three months and finally Increased the reward to W0 and addressed tho proprietor of ovcry fence and loan shop In tho town, besides putting an advertisement In a want column. About the time I had come to feel that, my luck had changed I was riding with a number of commorclal travelers tra-velers between Omaha and St. Jo when a stono In a K. T. ring attracted my attention. atten-tion. Being a Templar myself I soon learned that my lodge friend had bought my diamond from a news butcher and had had It reset. He said ho know that tho pin hail been stolen, but the price at which It was offered waa too tempting tempt-ing to pass up. I had little trouble proving prov-ing my property and when I had the stono back in a setting of my own I had about $70 tied up la it. But I do no.t regard my luck as bad, as some have remarked. On the contrary I havo boen very lucky." "Noodles" Is no longer the "champcen" or ino newsboys, so far as paper sales go. He went to Chicago a fow days ago and when boasting of his sales in New York and In several Western cities. Salt Lako In particular, a llttlo Chicago newsboy challenged "Noodles" to match sales with him. It was the ev- "Noodles" Is No eill boforo tho car Longer Ohnmm'rm bandlts wore to be j-iouer unampion. swuns orr and lho . ... , , two experts were to o pitted against each other In two of tho best districts in the city. Tho Chicago Chi-cago lad gavo the Now Yorker the pick and the salo period was to bo for two hours following the first appearance of the execution extras. The contest was a fierce one and attracted much attention Each news seller was closely checked and when the report was made tho Chicago boy ,na'L tne 1?atl f tho "champeen" bv nearly 200, The new champion had sold almost 00 codIjs, inh i has a eompulsory educational law, crbi the number of boys seen on tho streets of the school age, aro an evidence of the fact that tho law In Salt Lake Is a.,(l0'l(1"cU.er- T,, truant officer probably prob-ably has that tired feeling. . By tho best of luck an automobile mav not run over a man but that Is no sign that It did not run over his feelings. 9 . r.llorc was a fatalism In the name of Tho Hole In tho Ground Bank" which recently failed at Chicago. Most anv one would expect an Institution encumbered with such a name to get Into the hole with Its doposltors sooner or later. "The Methodists aro coming." At least that is what the press dispatches are saying. Several hundred of them mostly preachers aro expected to spend Sunday " in this city. It Is General Confer- possible that ono of ence Delecrates to i!12 ,nPro eloquent of cnD,i f"c visitors may be Spend Sunday invited to speak In Here. the Tabernacle. And i ... .. rroicssor JlcC el an doubtless will entertain tho General Conference Con-ference delegates In the afternoon with another of his popular organ recitals. If tho Professor will Include in his numbers VMhK0? !?. hyns- dear to the Methodist heart, it's safe to say that those who may hear the grand orcan speak the. sacred notes, will leave tho Tabornaclo feeling that tho Latter-day balnts accomplished at least ono great thing, when they built and made It pos-nlno pos-nlno orcan publlc t0 C"JJ' tho ffreat It is reported that all of tho Protestant churches of tho city will Invite tho visiting visit-ing ministers to occupy their pulpits Sunday morning. 1 bnSS' rtlme a,yu"S mart is shot or hanged for a crime or Is given a harsh .sentence to prison, or some young woman koos wrong, thero are some soulless reformers re-formers ready to add poison to tho wounds of a heart-broken mother by Insinuating In-sinuating that If mothers would rIvo ir.oro attention to the brlnElntr im f their children, and less to solilfcd Society Soci-ety and church functions, that tho ro-sults ro-sults would have been different. Such criticism Is a base slander on womankind. woman-kind. Tho most careful mothers aro very often cursed with tho vilest of children. Frank Rose, who gave his life as his only rccompcn30 for his outrago njralnst tho law. was a son to a Christian raothor. His home training. It is said, was good Ho drifted away from a mother's home and the gracious Influences of that home. Ho became a hardened criminal, a degenerate degen-erate of a loveless class. Tho folons In their cells spurned him, and tho fo"" officers of-ficers that bid the doomed man good-bye an lnotant before tho crack of the fatal rilles wcro heard, were moved by a sort of prison decorum nioro than a dcslro to express sympathy or oven respect. Yet. 1-rank Rose's head for years was nestled on an honest bosom. Tho beat of men have sometimes sprunir from godless parents, and fiends In llesh ssue from the purest of homos. Were this not true thero would bo no effort to reform the conditions that exist boyond the reach of the home, and tho attention of thoso ihat would make tho world better bet-ter would be directed to tho early environments en-vironments of tho child, J n |